skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not irrelevant to the parent and grandparent comment, which (having experienced the recent buyouts at Reddit and others) are rightly wary of a similar outcome, and regard the mere fact of being funded by VCs as a ticking time bomb. So what is the alternative?

Don’t build your app on someone else’s platform. Whether it’s Twitter and Periscope, or Apple vs mamy developers (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/05/how-app...) … build on a permissionless platform that isn’t owned by any gatekeepers. Like the Web. Or Ethereum. Or Polygon.

Utility tokens and micropayments via trustlines are exactly done for that purpose.
> #2 and #3 in your post don't apply; we're not talking about browsers or end users at all here.

Y'all don't have internal tools implemented as webapps? Self-hosted version control servers? Nexus? SonarQube?

Oh, I'll agree that you can outsource all that stuff if you want to - but any business with that philosophy would surely also outsource their certificate provisioning. Especially considering how easy and cheap AWS make it.

> although I'm confused about the mention of network printers and Slack

Do you not want graceful handling of internal URLs when mentioned in slack? Such as previews, image unrolling etc? Do you not need a certificate for the internal file server your scans upload to, and so on?
Regarding software support - the situation is definitely improving. I remember being pleasantly surprised that various Arch package management tools support it out of the box and I didn't even bother installing sudo on Debian.
This is everywhere. Quickbooks Online just changed significant portions of their UI such that there are noticeable delays when typing in many input fields. Its hideous and a big slowdown when trying to get work done.

I don't think many of these programs are used by the people who write them.
> In contrast, OpenBSD doas

That's my point, sudo survived 43 years, had to support a myriad of different platforms and configurations, doas was started in 2015.

incidentally OpenDoas is written in C too.

We'll see in 35 years how doas is doing.
The exact opposite: we're a fullstack platform, so our target audience is largely people who don't just host static Javascript.
I strongly suggest getting into weight lifting. There is a growing body of evidence that it helps your brain repair itself. My personal experience is that I'm much smarter after I started lifting than before. As a bonus, people are less inclined to fight you.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/well/move/how-weight-trai...

https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/archive/2020/06/lifting...

https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/weight-training...
I think the biggest issue is that back around 2011/2012 ish, when Facebook devs went to git core devs and asked how they could get git to scale to the size of their predicted monorepo, the response was roughly "no, shard it".

git falls over and dies really, really badly when the repo gets stupidly large.

There's an article alluding to the discussion here: https://engineering.fb.com/2014/01/07/core-data/scaling-merc..., but I can't find the original thread on the git mailing list.
My question is, if we all know now by now how privacy invasive these hardware/software vendors are, why do we still buy and support their products?

Is it really so hard for open source hardware to become a thing?

I'd trade in my iPhone for something built using RISC-V or MIPS ISA with all software written in Rust any day.

Lastly, why aren't open hardware satellites built so that people can pay for internet that doesn't route through U.S. Datacenters?

Very lastly, why not not build completely decentralized web apps were all your data is encrypted and distributed so that censorship isn't possible?

"Ohhhh no but then all the bad guys will use it." Yeah well you can't censor and monitor an entire planet just because of a couple bad seeds. The bad guys also use language as a form of communication. Will we also make words illegal in the future?
It would be neat to have a fundamental "money" primitive alongside int, float, string, etc.

It might not be simple to implement, though. Off the top of my head,

* Can you confidently say that $100>¥10 in an offline environment?

* You'd need to support different bases for splitting units to deal with eldritch values such as farthings.

* Where is the line drawn? Is a Bitcoin a valid currency? A gold Krugerrand? A bundle of stock shares? A bushel of apples?

All of that said, I would love to see a world where I could write code like:

money balance = money.lumber.grade.kilograms(8);
Hope you can implement a dark mode for your blog/site now that you are big.

Or at least make it friendly to Dark Reader (a well known browser extension for sites that don't implement a dark mode). Currently all your code blocks are black rectangles under it (easy to turn the offending style off using dev tools).
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> But Proton Pass will also enable you to create a hide-my-email alias. An email alias is a randomly generated email address that sits between a third party (like Amazon, Facebook, or Netflix) and your real email account

Is there some software I can install on my webserver to generate per service emails like Proton Pass here (amazon.44ot65@passmail.com, netflix.56ax12@passmail.com, ...)? And which forwards the mails to my main Gmail and allows replying to them.
What more were you hoping to hear? We were really blunt about it. We wrote this post in attempt to sign Alcoa as a customer.
How about the case where the network is slow, so the save operation hasn't failed yet, but it will be interrupted before completing if the user closes the webpage?
Roughly this, yes. It's easy to run boring apps close to your users. Thus, people buy computer time from us instead of a place that runs in one city.
Plus for all of the MANY years of hand-wringing and doomsaying, the slippery slope never seems to appear.
Shipping faster should not be the only metric, the amount of SEVs should be given much higher weight. The attitude of most engineers is to show impact and if there is a SEV, it is better as it will show even more impact. This slows other people down and causes a gradual decline is actually shipping things that matter - quality over quantity.
Oh, damn, I didn't even notice that the job is listed alongside a "no positions"
Apple Watch knows when I wash my hands Does it also know when I'm jerking off?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder! Gary is home to some beautiful flora and fauna, we have miles and miles of beautiful Lake Michigan shoreline, the 61st National Park. I'm at 990~ miles of biking in/around Gary and I've took some really beautiful photos, which I'm hoping to compile into something like blog post "1000 miles in/around Gary" or something.

Everything else is just like everywhere else. Poverty.
Hello, I'm a consultant. In practice it's just a fancy word for temps. Company hsa money and needs some engineers but don't want to hire or take up the burden of employment, and / or needs some fresh bodies to wake up their in-house developers / make them fear for their own jobs because they've stagnated, they call us.

But we're a relatively small consultancy (think hundreds instead of tens of thousands like the bigger players), so it's a bit more refined. We do have decent developers, but the issue with consultancy on that level is they're too smart for their own good, they will suggest an over-engineered solution that can't be maintained by anyone BUT these consultants and / or hired self-employed people. It's a weird fallacy, a weird rotating door of consultants and cycles of development where every 10 or so years they do a full rearchitecture / rebuild of their back-ends, while meanwhile some people just sit and maintain the existing - and working - core systems.

It's massively wasteful. But it usually pays better than a regular in-house developer, and it's lower risk than going self-employed because you still work for an employer who pays you per month. I'm just salty that said employer creams off 2/3rds of my hourly rate.
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What is the state of pot in summer 2023? Is it ready for production?
That’d be a great subplot for a movie. The antagonist sets up an elaborate money laundering operation that leverages conflicting definitions of the taxable year and moves off shore profits that are “lost” between the systems. Could call it “Black Ink to the Future.
Honestly, I'm a little curious why VFX work has so much allure. It's a decent wage, but I don't see why that job specifically is worth it. Surely there are other jobs demanding less work while paying more money. Is it just because it's art? I feel like that sort of corporate "spend two weeks making a realistic fire which will be on screen for 3 seconds" can't be that fulfilling as art in itself, when you have essentially zero creative control.
> I don't think you can build an interesting public cloud without raising money

Only if your condition is that you want to do it in the next 3 years.

Given 15, I imagine quite a lot is possible.
Well yes, and now you can do it using open protocols, without relying on centralized platforms for the money part.

Utility tokens need a decentralized network so there is no single point of failure. Just like the Web itself (1.0) disrupted gatekeepers at newspapers, TV and Radio stations, etc. that you used to have to pay (“payola”) to get the word out. VOIP lowered the cost of long distance phonecalls to pretty much zero by eliminating middlemen, too. The infrastructure providers shouldn’t ALSO control your app layer, that’s the point!
On KDE my computer slides all the old windows and background away, and the new ones into the screen. Yes, it's a great thing that makes my brain know what I'm seeing.

It is also long finished by the time my finger is away from the switching key. And that is very relevant. I have no idea what Apple users experience, and "desktop switching animations" aren't all the same thing.
But god forbid we reimport drugs from Canada, they might be unsafe you see. Get them from this safe factory in India.
Can't use the Firefox extension, FF 102 ESR is apparently too old :/
I agree with true scenario you describe.

Story time: I was a contractor a few decades ago and I got a “new pc.” Theoretically it was imaged with a developer setup. Reality is the local user accounts were removed and a new account created for me.

The previous user was an HR analyst who kept all their data in c:\employee_salary and didn’t get wiped. So it had layoff analysis of every employee, their salary, their layoff priority. Comically, sadly, the HR analyst was layed off despite being listed as high priority.

I tried reporting the data and my contractor manager squashed it for fear that I would be rolled off the project.

My lesson is that unless I destroy the data, assume others will see it.
I wish strictly INSERT-only tables were a standard SQL feature. It would be so very useful.
"We present Position Interpolation (PI) that extends the context window sizes of RoPE-based pretrained LLMs such as LLaMA models to up to 32768 with minimal fine-tuning (within 1000 steps), while demonstrating strong empirical results on various tasks that require long context, including passkey retrieval, language modeling, and long document summarization from LLaMA 7B to 65B. Meanwhile, the extended model by Position Interpolation preserve quality relatively well on tasks within its original context window. To achieve this goal, Position Interpolation linearly down-scales the input position indices to match the original context window size, rather than extrapolating beyond the trained context length which may lead to catastrophically high attention scores that completely ruin the self-attention mechanism. Our theoretical study shows that the upper bound of interpolation is at least ∼600× smaller than that of extrapolation, further demonstrating its stability. Models extended via Position Interpolation retain its original architecture and can reuse most pre-existing optimization and infrastructure."

This is a pretty wild result. Almost all of the open source models folks have been using from HF etc can suddenly easily be extended to have an enormous context window for little to no effort. You can already see these models being distributed in the most popular formats for inference, like GGML, on The Bloke's HuggingFace profile!
Wasn't there a news recently that Tesla have been hiding lots of autopilot crashes? The number of crashes that turn up in news like this is a tiny fraction of what Tesla knows from customer complaints.
I think what Pixar was originally was a tech company with groundbreaking tech enabling them to make 3d movies in ways nobody else could.

But writers and directors aren't perfect. And it is important to note that there will be flops.

The main "problem" is that the tech is so commoditized now, that pretty much every studio has excellent 3d animation tech and basically can do everything Pixar can do. So now it comes down to artists, writers, and the director to make the substance, and basically Pixar is just another company now... no longer are they groundbreaking.

IMO this is fine. It just sneaks up on you, subtly, and then before you know it Pixar is just another company making animated movies of reasonably decent quality.

Edit: To be honest, I think all of Pixar's movies (except maybe Cars) were above average in terms of quality.
FAA tells you to report UFOs to BAASS a private company.
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> Over the last decade, fintechs using RDBMS databases to record transactions have built features onto their databases like a journal of all changes to all data and clever ways of making sure the data hasn’t been modified by storing checksums of data as transactions are added. (under “Updating transactions”)

It is worth noting that many of these methods don't prevent tampering, they only make it visible when you look for it at which point the fact you are explicitly looking for it (rather than having been alerted to a potential issue) might imply it is too late.
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Generative AI will just make it easier for directors to ask for even more ludicrous tasks.

What are you basing this on and why would this be the case?
You can still use sapling with existing Git repos
I guess I'm the only one who found the museum to be lackluster.
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I somewhat blame the internet. Before the internet it was unheard of to wait for an application or dialogue to load. The internet normalized this deviance, and here we are.
What’s encrypted and safe now may not be in 20 years.

I have an original iPhone in my drawer. It was decent 15 years ago, but not safe now.
Having also written Android code at Meta, I 100% agree.
> it does not follow that we should accept

Just to point that all the GP said is that we do accept. There's nothing there about what we should do.
DDL is like code. DML is not. Tools like Sqitch are quite adept at testing DDL.

DML is declarative. Like HTML. SQL is a DSL for set theory. Do you test your HTML like the rest of your code too?

But to be clear, Sqitch and pg_tap (off the top of my head) are both effective testing tools for Postgres databases. MS SQL and Oracle both have extensive testing frameworks available.
normal glass goes into dishwasher after every use. Those water bottles are more of a hassle to clean properly
This. In the long term, in a venture funded business, there is no outcome that is good for users.

"Growth" is the focus now, until the business dies (by acquisition, IPO or bankrupcy, all of which are bad for users).
Seeing the wetlands in Iowa disappear over my life has been horrible. Marsh areas I used to go as a kid are nearly dried up. Nearly everyone regards farming as more important than our natural biodiversity, and it's very disheartening.
Detail-wise 3d printed reproductions have been decent enough for a while I think. The trickier part is mimicking the texture of complexly layered and blended oil-paint with filaments.
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Except when you get something like YouTube or the American telcos that have a monopoly/oligopoly and suck all potential for competition out of the space.
Perhaps ad-spam upvoted by bots to increase visibility. Fake engagement, which a conspiracy theorist could attribute to new revenue opportunities for Reddit.
You might be surprised to learn that it was not and still is not a solved problem for companies like Meta. Here is an earlier write-up about this topic from Meta: https://engineering.fb.com/2014/01/07/core-data/scaling-merc...
This is me. I'm a clutz and I use mason jars in a little cloth sleeve. I drop like 2 a year and I end up with a wet bag of glass. That sucks but I just buy another $2 jar from a thrift store and I'm back in business.
I think you are asked about whether you want to use Siri/Safari suggestion at phone set-up time, but I may be wrong on that.
Given US has around 4% of the worlds population, this is not possible.
Applications tend to stay open on Mac even with no windows open. As a KDE on Linux user, I tend to open and close apps as I use them. Very few applications take more than a second to load on a modern machine with an SSD, anyway.

I find that many desktop GUI programs are slightly misbehaved for whatever reason, and consume some small but real amount of resources when idle in the background. When a dozen are open response time will be poor.
Basically, LiteFS: https://github.com/superfly/litefs

And then some load balancer cleverness that reroutes writes to a specific VM: https://fly.io/blog/globally-distributed-postgres/
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The cost increase is the same, on a % basis, regardless if it's per chip or per wafer.

Size Cost/Wafer % Difference
==== ========== ============
5nm $16,988
2nm $25,000 47%

It's a 47% increase in Cost/Wafer from 5nm to 2nm

Size Cost/Chip % Difference
==== ========== ============
5nm $238
2nm $350 47%

It's the same 47% increase in Cost/Chip (as it is for Cost/Wafer).
Our skin is a (bio)plastic. It is indeed a completely useless term. Distinguishing between "synthetic" and "non-synthetic" isn't very useful either; all these compounds have in common is that they are toxic carbon-based polymers. It's the fact that they're toxic that is important, not that it's a carbon-based polymer.
Memory safety is just the tip of the iceberg of issues with sudo. Repeat after me - sudo is not a security tool. Maybe if you stick with a tiny subset of it then yes. But that subset would be better off being its own program (doas).
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Not a significant benefit to me. I put that labor toward more productive things to better help with scarcity of resources.
Plastics are incredibly useful and enable modern society as you correctly point out. In an ideal world, governments would at least phase out single use plastics.
I’m not the person you’re replying to but I’d say so.

Under $5/month you pay nothing at the moment.

https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/

You need to look at the following for pricing:

- Compute

- Volumes (attached SSD, one per compute instance) - $0.15/GB/month.

- Bandwidth - if you go over 160GB you have to pay per GB.

Gut feel, ~$5/month should be fine for a small project as long as you’re not storing loads of data or doing something that requires lots of bandwidth.

If your project is used irregularly and HTTP based, you can also scale compute down to 0 machines. It’ll boot up again when you get a HTTP request. In my experience it took ~3s or so to boot up a NestJS app on a small VM, totally acceptable for a dev environment.
Back when the F-22 was in production, I was in the building in Seattle where the carbon fiber wing skins were being laid up using an automated tape placement machine. The machine head would come down to a precise 3D location on a complex contoured mold, contact it with a precise pressure, lay out a tow of CFRP tape prepreg for a precise length, then trim it to a specific geometry. Before the machine started the next tow, it extruded an inch of tape, trimmed it for the start of the next tow. At this point, a mechanic would reach over with a spatula taped to a length of steel electrical conduit to collect the little piece of scrap and throw it away. I asked a manufacturing engineer why they did not just add a little vacuum hose to collect the trim - Apparently the mechanic's union contract required each machine to have a full-time operator, and they had to invent a task for the operator to do to keep them engaged.
I know what you mean, but it is only a small part of my mementos from her life. I also have photo albums from her (actual, physical photos) that are treasures to me and represent the majority of her life. But I can't deny the last decade or so of her life that was online. The phone became her camera, her letters....
I backup my photos to my desktop computer. I would have never experienced the scanning.
It sounds like a motto for people who want those outcomes, even if technology somehow let us have more electricity, more people, more meat, and more travel.

There's only one bottom line, CO2 and methane in the atmosphere must decrease. That means real carbon storage that outweighs the oil that's pumped. Preferably with less human and animal suffering.
I think they were saying that the argument "fruit doesn't belong on pizza, thus pineapples don't belong on pizza" is invalid because most people agree that tomatoes go on pizza, and tomatoes are biologically fruits.
> No, we are awash in labels already and I am sick of everything having a legal treatise attached to it. Labels just throw the problem back in the laps of consumers, an approach which clearly does not work.

Some labels are good and informative. Some labels are just a way for corporations to blame consumers for what consumers cannot do anything about.

Falsehood:
- "Consumers are purchasing toxic products, so that is what we make."

Reality:
- "Consumers buy what is available and they can afford."
The thing that bothers me is they supposedly have 12 or more craft that have crashed.

Aliens have super sophisticated tech that is hardy enough to travel millions of light years through space but it crashes so easy on earth? What caused them to crash?

I'd like to believe, and I think 1 or 2 might be reasonable but the claim is 12, which doesn't account for ships obtained by other nations as Grusch said I'd happening.

I still believe it's possible, and hope it is, however something feels staged about this, maybe to get more money for certain agencies, or some other motive.
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