skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We give domain registration away at cost. The only reason that makes sense for us is if some of the people who register use our services. Key to using our services is using our name servers. So someone who uses our registrar but not our name servers is a complete loss to us — we literally lose money on the payment processing and anticipated support fees. There are lots of other registrars and we make it easy to transfer away if you need to use other name servers for some reason. But if our registrar business weren’t lead generation for our other services then it wouldn’t make sense for us to have a registrar business at all.
It's Crucible not just ZFS BTW.
I've given up on simply walking into an Apple store to just buy something for the past few years. The closest you can get to this is by ordering online ahead of time, then walking into the store an hour later and picking it up.

I've walked into an Apple Store and told the person triaging people walking in, "I know EXACTLY what iPhone I want". They send me to the iPhone area where I have to wait in a queue behind 5 other people who need to be sold the damn iPhone. The customers I'm waiting for are either deliberating between a few different models or have no idea what they should get, so the people working in the store are busy talking to them for much longer than I care to wait.

I wish Apple would add a step to their triage to handle people who walk into the store and say, "I know EXACTLY what I want, _________"
Goldman says India will overtake US to become the 2nd largest economy by 2075
Should be flagged as 2020. Rust is currently on v1.70!
> I think this is a vital part of any English education

I wouldn't say "vital". There are plenty of examples everywhere since language is like air. Fiction may be great art, but that's not representative of what most people write. I agree there should be a better balance. When I was growing up we didn't even analyze famous speeches until high school which is far too late.
And it doesn't help that it really sells itself as the end-all guide to Docker in the first sentence..

> This is the most comprehensive guide on Docker online.
The more companies talk about values and missions, the more likely they are to turn frauds.

No, I do not have stats for that. It is an observation.
Realistically how long would it take to modernize the software while keeping the old hardware?
Wait, you're telling me you don't use a complete VR/AR display for all of your writing and reading?
Actually no- downloading copyright infringing material is legal as far as I can tell but uploading it isn’t. The illegal part of torrenting copyrighted material is the uploading that the protocol requires you to do. Your ISP will send you an infringement notice because they want you to stop doing illegal things on their network
which, for anybody following along at home, is related to something that happened back in 2015.

Google was trying to digitize the world's books and got sued for it.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/10/16/449172748...
Because they care about their users and don't work for those companies?
Because if a company has 20000 engineers which one is the one that gets the vendors email? Answer is usually none and the email to that address goes to /dev/null.

Or suppose an employee did have the email on file and left the company.

Or suppose people assume vendor email are spam because they’re almost always spam.
So true, the number of people who enter analytics forums asking "Should I learn Snowflake or Databricks" when the answer isn't even "learn SQL" (it's "learn set theory via SQL") is bewildering.

Asking about tool comparisons is the technical equivalent of "The mere fact that you call making love "pop pop" tells me you're not ready."

And a sign of why most amateurs fail - they're fad driven rather than purpose driven.
To throw my 2 cents in - big companies suck. Startups are fun and you'll still be paid pretty well.
> Well now I'm curious...any theories (wild and speculative is fine by me) on some candidate causes?

Maybe we are an experiment by higher beings to see how well sparks of rationality can develop into an enlightened being or whatever. I wonder how they'd rate us so far.

> But it seems there's something about this problem that's different, almost like it doesn't allow itself to be analyzed, or even noticed. "Some day" humanity will reach the oft-discussed but never pursued world of widespread critical thinking seems to be the plan, without having even taken the first step towards it.

Put all elementary/middle children on Hacker News for fifteen minutes a day until they can demonstrate critical thinking in live debates. /s

Seriously though, I think fostering curiosity and critical thinking, as abstract as they are, is important to improving society as a whole. Parents probably need to be involved in this kind of education, and schools too. I think Hacker News has good examples of both great discussions with critical thinking and...suboptimal discussions. A lot easier said than done though.
Life doesn't care how I feel, but _I_ do; and I want to live life in a way that makes me (and the people I care about) feel good. Empathy, imagination, and innovation are important for that - and fiction helps feed those.
Texas and New Mexico have been in a fight over water from the Rio Grande for a decade[1]. Seven western states have been trying to fix the flawed Colorado River Compact[2]. That's just for the US.

1 https://www.hcn.org/articles/south-water-the-history-behind-...

2 https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/02/colorado-rive...
Oh, man. I had my TI-85 programmed to the moon. Built my own serial link cable.

Still remember my chemistry teacher let me use a stoichiometry app I coded during exams and welcomed any other students to do the same if they felt it was unfair. There wasn’t an App Store to download it from.

Really taught me the concept of mastering first principles.

No matter how much experience one gets it’s always great to get to be a beginner at something
Not an iphone, Lg G8s thinQ
was suprisingly easy to remove the battery cover, just need a blade and a hair dryer. The replacement battery is not original, could not actually find genuine part on sale. But it is a new battery, and they don't need to cost $50

So it was £15 for battery and £5 for adhesive
For real-estate, assuming you are the seller: Let's say you bought a house with $500K and now looking to sell it. The real-estate agent finds a buyer for $550K. That's a $50K profit for you. The real-estate agent could work a little bit harder and find you are $600K buyer. That's a 100% gain for you. However, the agent is getting paid a fixed percentage of the total sale. For him, it's only a 9% increase; and that does not justify the extra-work.

The incentives are highly not aligned.

If you do not understand that, you'd be disappointed. If you do understand that, you'll see where your agent is coming from.
We’re seeing other thin&lights get double that nowadays.
I was 34 when I started Cloudflare and had had every random job from bartender to LSAT test prep instructor to adjunct law professor. Eric, incidentally, is one of the kindest, most curious people I’ve had a pleasure to get to know on this journey. Feel lucky to call him a friend. Truly great guy.
I'm hoping that the OP and others don't take the parent comment too much to heart. I lived in the bay area before I got into tech, working in its restaurants and grocery stores for about a decade before teaching myself software engineering and computer science and changing my circumstances dramatically.

I've also had friends swallowed up by the bay area, also to violence and drugs. They all had in common that they were scraping by on a little over minimum wage or engaging in sex work to survive or homeless or almost homeless

By and large, the bay area is not dangerous for salaried tech folks receiving benefits that, yearly, amount to more than double what most service class folks earn in cash in 5 years. The bay area is dangerous for the homeless and the mentally ill and the folks with vastly fewer resources, working as dishwashers but classed as 1099 contractors or totally under the table.

The bay area is an extremely cruel place to most of the people who aren't on tech or finance salaries. Most of my friends not in tech are constantly having to move because their buildings are getting sold to companies that flip properties into luxury housing.

Anyway, if this isn't you, the bay is your oyster. There's constantly technical talks and dev oriented events and conventions and hackathons and meetups and spaces like noisebridge and sudo room in the east bay. There's great food, excellent excellent healthcare and probably the best mental healthcare in the world in terms of quality of care and accessibility. There are phenomenal libraries and bookstores (see Moe's in Berkeley and SFPL and alleycat books). Lots of great companies, lots of opportunities for mentorship.
Ooh, forgot about Logo too. Definitely. Reminds me of using Apple basic too.
The HackRF looks really cool, but I'm more excited about the next gen one they are working on.

No idea if that will be years from now or what, but full duplex is really cool, maybe we can start doing more with EPC Gen2 tags, assuming they are still relevant for DIYers by then and we don't have battery free Bluetooth instead.

I have one of the cheap SDR tv dongles, you can hear a lot of interesting stuff on those.
I think you upset a lot of people on HN who maybe don't like the idea that some small part of how homeless people are excluded from society could be applied to them.
They will be able to live a normal life out and about instead of sitting in their tiny room with a headset on dreaming of being in said normal life.
FTA: "This similarity lies not only in the large amplitudes of the two signals, but also in the similarity of the two rise times; namely, a slow one lasting for about 0.8 seconds followed by a faster one that rises to a maximum in less than a half a second. Are we to believe that two drivers of different sexes and in two entirely different driving situations could press the accelerator pedal inadvertently at · almost exactly the same rates of movement with a slow depression first followed by a faster· occurring at almost the same time later?"

This seems easily explainable by someone pressing on the "brake" (actually accelerator) slowly, then panicked slamming on the "brake". Not sure what'd be strange about that at all.

Not saying there isn't any there there, but seems like it could be explained pretty easily.
You can search the NSF.org certifications here, specifically NSF/ANSI 53 and NSF/ANSI 58:

https://info.nsf.org/Certified/DWTU/Listings.asp?ProductFunc...

https://www.nsf.org/news/pfoa-pfos-reduction-claims-requirem...

P.S. Note the "facility" where these products are manufactured are also listed. One might also want to note that [replacement] filters may also have different country origins.
See my other reply for more details.

An optimized memcpy/memset using normal instructions is much faster than "rep movsb"/"rep stosb" only in certain ranges of the copy/fill size (on all modern Intel/AMD CPUs).

Using normal instructions for memcpy can have around a double speed for copy sizes under 1 kB, but it is always slower for very big copies.

For an optimized memcpy/memset, one must choose between normal instructions and "rep movsb"/"rep stosb" for each copy/fill, depending on the CPU model and on the copy/fill size.
Generalizations suck, too. Big companies are made of small teams. Some are nice, some aren’t. A lot comes down to the immediate manager.
A very cool demo but most of the output has no value as it is calculating the shadows on the top of the tree canopy rather than the "ground" (hence why you get sunlight even at dawn in a dense forest)

But this would be very useful for many applications at the edges of forests and for urban vegetation, in that use case the map tiles can be much smaller and maybe the Lidar data can be fetched and converted on demand.
Why Big Software Projects Become Disasters, Part One
We don't do on call or really any formal after hours support of our application (we are in a fortunate (weird?) spot where our application's users are mostly using it during business hours so there is no huge requirement to maintain it after hours).

Of course, stuff does go wrong, so we do fix a few things after hours if something happens & people are around - we currently just give the team time off in lieu of any hours worked. It's not perfect but most people are OK with it at the moment as it's very infrequent.

Not planning on instituting formal on call until we can ensure people are paid for it but using this period to automate & alarm as must stuff as possible to reduce it to as close to zero as we can.
It has had different phone numbers before, but we always ended up having some issue with some app where the it (correctly) thought the number was invalid, wouldn't allow you to reply etc.

So I settled with two easy to remember numbers: +22 33 44 55 66 77 for normal user<-->modem communication and +22 33 44 55 66 78 for Cell Broadcast message relays
Yeah I never know where memory goes exactly in langchain, it's not exactly clear all the time. But sure, the main insight I remember is this, take a look at their MULTI_PROMPT_ROUTER_TEMPLATE: https://github.com/hwchase17/langchain/blob/560c4dfc98287da1...

It's a lot of instructions for an LLM, they seem to forget an LLM is an auto-completion machine, and which data it is trained on. Using <<>> for sections is not a normal thing, it's not markdown, which probably the thing read way more often on the internet, instead of open json comments, why not type signatures, instead of so many rules, why not give it examples? It is an autocomplete machine!

They are relying too much on the LLM being smart because they probably only test stuff in GPT-4 and 3.5, but with GPT4All models this prompt was not working at all, so I had to rewrite it, for simple routing, we don't even need json, carying the `next_inputs` here is weird if you don't need it.

So this is my version of it: https://gist.github.com/rogeriochaves/b67676977eebb1936b9b5c...

It's so basic it's dumb, yet it is more powerful, as it does not rely on GPT-4 level intelligence, it's just what I needed
Awesome thanks. I don’t know what I’d do without HN to discover all these GitHub repos with some amount of curation.
Bullshit dogs aren’t chosen.
My wife very carefully chooses each pup she keeps, and they’re often “culled” from her program as young adults when they don’t meet her standards.

Anyone doing working/sport dog stuff 100% chooses the dog.

For instance, a friend of ours (has a pup from us) went through 4-5 litters where she was told “I have the perfect pup for you!” Only to have it not be anywhere even close. She eventually came to us, and we did have the right pup. And now he gets to sniff out dead bodies, ride I’m helos, and find lost people in the nm woods.
It looks like the whole thing with pc pack goes for about 100 on ebay
SF has some of the best burritos in the US, they just taste different there.
I've set up several models on Runpod and played around with them.

I generated my side projects logo with Stable Diffusion with an "anime art" style model and it got pretty good results. I generated about 20 logos from that then picked the best one.
Two Chinas
I once worked for a company that after a merger had a bank account running just to pay services it didn't know what they were for.

If you grow, have a merger, people moving, it is easy for email addresses to no longer be read. Yes there are best practices to prevent this, but most companies I have seen don't do that.

In one company important emails went to the email address (private!) of the founder, who left after M&A.
Definitely a subjective opinion.
It's a matter of funding. X11 development is not funded anymore whereas Wayland is heavily funded through proxies like Collabora or Igalia. It is unclear who are the originators of that money since those proxy orgs don't disclose who funds them.

Since Wayland is a horribly complicated protocol that makes doing even the simplest tasks a major chore I would consider it sabotage. There are multiple billion+ dollar corps out there with a severe interest in a non fuctional FOSS ecosystem.
Amazed not to see Biorisk in the comments.

A pandemic brought a ton of global infrastructure to it's knees, and it could have been so much worse.

What if that happened again?
Unfortunately the Medium platform blocked me from reading this article.
not all phones have that feature. enabling that for more people, globally, especially those less economically advantaged should be seen as a good thing, though whether the cost of that is worth it is the current discussion we're having.
No one is going to remember this comment 30 seconds after they click away, and this thread will be absorbed into an AI
Welcome to California, one thing to checkout is there are a bunch of tech meetups here. I'm a co-organizer of a generative AI meetup in the south bay if you're interested: https://www.meetup.com/gen-ai/
No worries! I gave up on stressing about the spelling years ago :-)
Because their reputation is the most important asset a cloud provider has. You're asking customers to run their business on your computers, after all.

Deleting their data first and then complaining that your customers don't run a serious enough operation is not the way to keep the best reputation.
Well... Looks like a time to upgrade https://www.coderelay.io/fontemon.html?
The EU is, typically, doing a far better job of researching this than the FDA. The latter of which seems almost entirely driven by corporate interests at this point. There's a paper from the EU here [1] which is far too verbose, but offers some interesting data:

- For PFOS and PFOA, ‘Fish and other seafood’ was the most important contributor to the mean exposure, followed by ‘Eggs and egg products’, ‘Meat and meat products’, and ‘Fruit and fruit products’. For PFOA, ‘Vegetables and vegetable products’ and ‘Drinking water’ were also important contributors. For several of the other PFASs, ‘Fish and other seafood’, ‘Fruit and fruit products, ‘Vegetables and vegetable products’, ‘Drinking water’, as well as ‘Starchy roots and tubers’ were the most important food groups.

- Diet is the major source of PFAS exposure for most of the population, but other routes such as dust ingestion and indoor air inhalation may also contribute substantially

- PFASs are transferred from soil to plants. In general, transfer rates are higher for the short chain PFASs and decrease from roots to leaves to fruits.

- In food producing animals, PFASs transfer from feed to animal derived food like milk, eggs and meat, with clear differences between species and the type of PFAS. This is also relevant for soil ingestion by foraging farm animals

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I think the conclusion is that everything is potentially exposed, so the individual source is more important than the type of medium. Another somewhat interesting article [2] showed how a sampled chocolate cake ended up with extremely high levels. It (probably) wasn't even from the cake itself, but from a chemical used to greaseproof paper at some point in its production. So my take from that would be, as always, to consume foods which have gone through minimal processing before getting to you.

[1] - https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.2903/j.efsa...

[2] - https://blogs.edf.org/health/2019/06/03/fda-high-levels-pfas...
I've been organizing my python projects starting with package folders.

Say I name my package "foo", foo is the top level folder for the source code. Inside foo there is a "main.py" file as the project's start point, and other various modules, let's have one called "module1.py". Now, add another package under "foo", the obvious example name here would be "bar", and add another module under "bar" called "module2.py".

The project structure looks like this:

- foo/
|- main.py
|- module1.py
|- bar/
|- module2.py

To reference "module1.py" in "module2.py", just write

import foo.module1

To reference "module2.py" in "main.py", do as follows

import foo.bar.module2

There is no problem importing from any level.

To start the program from command line, enter:

python -m foo.main
No one is advocating for looking at CSAM (well, except you). In fact there wasn’t even the suggestion of that.

They have a right to enjoy the content they choose, as long as is it law-abiding. Regardless of if that upsets your sensibilities or not. Frankly, aside from trying to pull the age old “think of the children” routine, do you even have a point? You are arguing that harboring (legal) disturbing content is tantamount to CSAM and should be censored because it “will not scale”, meaning you are focusing on a for-profit lens. Despite the fact that the conversation topic, the Fediverse, is not for-profit.

Why does someone enjoying their time in a legal way bother you to the point of indirectly accusing them of viewing CSAM?
Be sure to turn on closed captions!
90s webdev starter pack:

- WS_FTP LE

- notepad

- htmlgoodies.com https://web.archive.org/web/19991008040849/http://www.htmlgo...
> probably would have gotten there anyway

I don't think we would have make the gps satellite constellation if we didn't think it would work in the first place though, at which point we wouldn't have gotten there.
I guess the public image of fleeing to Europe from Silicon Valley.

Most of the leading software companies are in the US.
I just tried it, and I know my side project's new landing page will be done with this