skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry for the very late reply, but Aurora PostgreSQL isn't just wire protocol compatible like CockRoachDB. It actually is PostgreSQL modified for their service. It includes all your favorite PG extensions and even large object functionality.
Agreed - components typically exist in various states of feature-richness, and invariably you end up finding an almost-perfect one, if you do.

They also sometimes sit abandoned and unmaintained.

Some catalogs use ratings/votes but they aren't a good heuristic to factor in these two details.
Same. I have some plastic containers left, but I make sure only cold food goes in there. Otherwise, SS/Glass cups, SS mixing and salad bowls, glass storage containers, SS sieves, ceramic coated pans.
This is why you should use ids that combine both a time component and a sequence.

Eg UUIDv7 has a milliseconds time component and then a field that increments for each event in the same millisecond, and then enough random bits to make collisions between ids generated on different machines astronomically unlikely.

Of course there are only so many bits so you might generate too many events in the same time slice so the sequence overflows, and you might actually get collisions between machines, and you are limiting your event generation speed by forcing your cpu to sync on the increment etc.

But in practice UUIDv7 works great at scale.
Stampino is an experimental system to do just that: https://github.com/justinfagnani/stampino

It utilizes lit-html's compiled template support to transform HTML templates into lit-html templates and reuse the underlying efficient rendering / updating machinery.
Only complaint with Hetzner is they don't have some kind of OAuth setup for machines or scoped API tokens, just read/write. I'd like to use the former for doing Vault authentication from instances, and the latter for writing a dynamic Vault secret provider.
This is brilliant :-) thank you for this. I'd never come up with telling a LLM to "quietly think"... Now I'll be testing this with all my OS models.
From the GP:

"Netflix is part of the RFP Work Group. So presumably they are interested in offering consumers the ability to pay for Netflix using FedNow instead of a credit card. Instead of Netflix paying ~$0.50 in credit card processing fees per U.S. subscription they'll probably be able to find a bank willing to charge them < $0.25. It also gives consumers more control as they have to authorize each charge."

NB that last sentense. FedNow does NOT support recurring.
Scalingo is a good drop-in replacement for Heroku. They even use Heorku build packs. They've got good support and are an EU company with hosting in EU (if that's important to you).
> This is an excuse for exceptions, not patterns.

Love this
I'm not arguing it's a solution for the poor, the absolute opposite - because I have sufficient income to pay my bills in full it just comes out cheaper than paying them with cash. It's a terrible solution _if you actually need credit_ because it typically comes with really bad interest rates.

You come out ahead because the card issuers expect to make money from you because you'll stay with them a long time so offer substantial sign up bonuses (I don't) and that you'll pay interest (I don't). There are generally annual fees, but if you ask they'll often waive them (if you spend enough, again not accessible if you're living pay to pay).

It's ~effortless (bills paid automatically in full from a mortgage offset account) and saves money even without rewards and other perks (0% loans via interest free "balance transfers").
When you hear the relay click at 5.15am and the espresso machine starts warming up, it’s truely glorious.

It’s been doing it for about 10 years and it still makes me happy every time I hear it.
We are not talking about the red scare farce (which really was political opposition to his "candor" policies and H-bomb program/genocidal opposition), but we they/are talking why he didn't win the Nobel, even when he did brilliant and ground breaking work.

He was considered the most brilliant theoreticist behind Dirac, Schroedinger, Bohr, Pauli and Heisenberg in Goettingen and early Berkeley years. But then he didn't push out that many papers as before, so he didn't win the Nobel as all his other colleagues, below him. He should have won it for the black hole paper at least, but that was too advanced and too theoretical for those folks then. Instead he was an extremely good teacher, manager and later politician, which was more important than advancing physics. E.g. Bethe and many of his students surpassed him in physics, and he was happy with delegation. This article mentions most of it, the book goes far deeper.
Calling out a xenophobic movement for what it is is not a bad thing per se. Don't want to be called a racist or fascist? Easy, don't be one.

At the very least, if you are one, don't be offended by being called one...
One benefit of UUID is that you don't need coordination. In coordinated systems, unique IDs are a non-issue.
the new UUIDv6, 7 and 8 work the way you deacribe.
Can't find much info about it but is this UUID v7?
someone else in the thread mentioned UUIDv7
Not very active, it seems. Otherwise it looks great.
Pfizer wanted a license to sell their COVID vaccine in India.

The Indian government asked them for local clinical trials first.

This should have been an easy win, prove the vaccine is safe and effective in a controlled trial and you can sell it into a market of 1.38 billion people.

Pfizer declined. Why do you think that is?

Let me give you a hint, here is the CEO of Pfizer admitting that he never took his own COVID vaccine. Isn’t that odd? [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/wolsned/status/1678719867975761920?s=46&...
> the Soviet Union frankly ran out of money

To be perfectly fair, this was at least partly the result of the immeasurably expensive clean up of Chernobyl.

Estimates vary but the most recent numbers put it at about $700 Billion.
I believe the proposed UUIDv7 standard uses this.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-peabody-dispatch...

It's a draft but there's a lot of implementations out there.
you can get away with DigitalOcean, Linode, scaleway, etc for raw compute and you can indeed use MRSK if you're using rails.
ULID (and I think UUIDv7 draft) has millisecond timestamp + 80b randomness.
This is why it scares me a bit to use a raw timestamp as a sort key in DynamoDB. I append a (random) unique ID to the timestamp text to avoid it. Better safe than sorry, I figure.
All of my ZigBee lighting. My house has been entirely ZigBee for over a decade. If by third party service you mean cloud then I'd suggest Hue, but I actually run mine locally.
They also build their own servers in their own datacenters
> and blown away that people actually see sheep when counting sheep

hahahaha... yeah, I 100% relate to the feeling. When I learned about aphantasia as an adult, so much of what I've heard people say throughout my life suddenly made so much more sense from the perspective of, "oh, wow, people really mean something so different than what I experience when they say that."

> Or that reading a book means literally seeing the action.

Yeah. People say things like "I don't like the movie because it's not what I pictured in my mind" or "the character doesn't look like what I pictured while reading the book." I always assumed they just meant what I would mean if I said something like that... based on the literal description on the page, the character in the movie doesn't match the described hair color, height, etc. But no... I have more recently realized they mean they literally have an almost photographic picture in their mind of the character as they imagine it when they are reading the book. So wild.

As for the VVIQ test, there was never any doubt in my mind -- I'm 1's across all questions without hesitation.

But yeah, that first night I really started looking into it a few years ago... wild. But so much all of a sudden made sense.
If you read "Confessions of an Economic Hitman", you'll see it's straight from the US playbook.

Sure, Putin started the war, and that was the whole point, poke and prod until they start a war. Lend money until they can't repay. Keep a country rubbelized so they won't unite against resource extraction. Replace democratically elected leaders with religious nutcases so you can have your way. It's the way of the empire. Ask Iranians, ask Panamanians, ask the people of East Timor.
Yea, and Hilbert was just operating mathematically once he new the setup, as far as I understand. Einstein's special sauce with general relativity was the whole curved space-time thing. I mean, very few even really valued the theory once he released it until decades later. A century later, it's effectively unchanged, with a lot of extensions of course. It is probably the achievement in physics.
Yes, other distributed databases like MongoDB, CockroachDB, probably a few others. Or even multi-master DB setups. As with Cassandra, you don't want to use them unless you really need that availability and can suffer the downsides. It seems pretty rare to actually need those availability guarantees, rather than say a robust fast failover setup which might cancel some in flight transactions. It is probably when you start looking at two phase commit that you look for alternatives with better availability stories.
Dont we already all have this?
Not just the children, my girlfriend and I visited it a month ago and now we proudly display our customized cup noodles :D
Barcelona Superblock
Is there any other benefit? That's the raison d'être - Universally.
1. I agree with your point that Prompt Injection can still affect the consumer of a third party LLM
2. I prefer to categorize it as a supply chain security issue, since the vulnerability is with a software provider that you are consuming.
Don't register your idea as a company
I worked outdoors in Saudi Arabia and we just worked 24 hours/day (sometimes I'd go 70 hours without sleep while wiring detonators to hundreds of feet of explosives). I'm American btw, just worked on oil rigs there for a couple years as a "Wireline Engineer".

In both USA and Saudi, it seemed to be more based on company rules, rather than state/federal rules.
I have no idea what they have built. Hope they talk about it though :)
If you do that, just take some redis server and increment an integer every time you need a new number?
I think it's because it turns out that taming a generative language model is really difficult. It's what we need to support more than some hardcoded simple questions, but companies like Google who are known for search want to keep their image of "use us to find what you're looking for". In the current state, their models (especially Bard in my experience) simply return bullshit and want to sound confident. They need to get beyond that stage.

But I feel you. My Google Assistant doesn't even seem to look for answers to questions anymore. All I get, even for simple queries, is a "sorry, I don't understand".
My experience in this industry is that it is not very kind to it's employees and contractors

It's very boom and bust, between the big companies and contractors they employ they hire and fire thousands on yearly time scales. Long hours and mindless dedication to put in a lot of hours despite big misses by management leading to lots of cancelled half finished projects. Lots of work double time and weekends for 3 months and then they just shut it down anyway and expect you to find another job.

In my experience other tech industries, particularly in the bay area, things like big tech, med tech, etc. are much better fields for technical professionals to get into
Post Butlerian Mentat GPU v0.1
Cloud connected smart homes are a terrible idea. Why anyone would pay to install surveillance devices in their homes is utterly beyond me.
Next time something like this gets done, add a box about estimated time to compute and amount of people computing to the submission form, so that data will more closely describe the amount of work hours used.

Heuristically we can still get an estimate: Group names to individuals and groups. Guess average group size. Take difference between claim and submission for time it took to compute.
That makes sense, but Tupac himself wasn't involved in political activism as his parents were. He wasn't more of a threat to the establishment than any socially conscious artist of the time. He was involved in some minor legal issues and misdemeanors, but nothing out of place considering his fame and the circles he ran in.

So, sure, his presence would've been a nuisance to the authorities, but the lack of details surrounding his murder points to racial discrimination at best, or direct involvement from government agencies at worst. Biggie's case is even more blatant in this sense.

One would think that the government would want to investigate and close these cases just to clear up their reputation, so it's puzzling nothing has been done after all these years.
I'm on DO and on Fly, planning to try out Hetzner.

Fly gave me plenty of downtime. "Network connectivity issues".

I'm with them only because of laziness.

The setup was more complicated than a standard setup because of the abstractions and corner cases and lack of examples in my language.

Logging is bad,you can't easily SSH in the machine and inspect things.

Next time I'll setup a more powerful server I'll move all my apps there.
Online scammers are turning analog to steal users' money
Maybe if GTK4 is so bent on GPU rendering and all about edge cases like slightly rotated text, it should be using this technique so that fonts are not blurry shite by default?
>And thank whatever higher power is out there he did.

This. I am so glad Americans killed ~200k mostly Japanese civilians when Japan was already militarily crippled and Germany capitulated three months prior.
The another element that's missing is control of output sampling. LLM models don't actually produce text. They produce a word probability map. Essentially a huge table of every single word(token) they know and the probability value of it being next. You run the model again and again to get each next word. You don't have to pick up the most probable word. Doing that is called greedy decoding. You can randomise a bit. Pick up one of less likely words if they have similar probabilities. This makes the output "more creative" sometimes. There are also more advanced ways of "steering the model" by maintaining a list of possible sentences and switching from one to another if it is considered better. You can run a smaller model on the output so far to judge if this answer is not becoming inappropriate etc.

Output decoding is a huge way to control the answers. Most users aren't even aware it exists. It's one of the reasons why comparing "naked" open source models to chatgpt is unfair. Chatgpt has all these extras on top.
For me the threshold is in the name: a cheat sheet must fit on 1-2 sheets of paper that you can stick to a wall or keep on desk without forming a pile. If it doesn't fit on paper it isn't a cheat sheet it is a reference. You can roughly apply the same guideline even digital format a chat sheet must fit 1-2 screens without scrolling.

I have nothing against references or this website as a reference those are useful as well. There is a value in having a good reference which strikes a balance of being exhaustive while avoiding the trap of unreadable verbosity that specifications and standards often have.
I too have met many developers who have developed the mindset that good code is impossible. That is really sad.

Imagine a carpenter that says straight cuts aren't possible, just because they never maintained their tools and the last 10 cuts came out wrong.

Of course good code is possible. But not every person is going to write it and it is not going to happen under all possible circumstances and in all given project structures.

Our job as professional software people is to be able to judge how to create the circumstances and the time frames under which good code can be written — and to say No to projects that cannot be written by us and our team.
Lots of interesting comments reminding me not to side 100% with something just because it was said by someone whose work I love.

I have a degree in Applied Psychology so I have some idea about how stuff works, although perhaps not as much as someone who's done a PhD.

Mastroianni didn't specify exactly what you should be investigating. Anything that involves hurting others is out of the question, be it medical research or psychological.

But I guess there is literally no harm in observing the growth of the plants in your garden, the behaviour of the pigeons that visit your balcony every day, in conducting online surveys to guage attitudes and opinions (as long as the surveys are well-designed, a skill that can be learned online), putting a dead butterfly under a microscope and then sharing what you learned with the world.

We can share such "findings" and observations without claiming that our research is on par with those done by professionals. As long as the ones sharing these notes and the ones reading them understand that amateur exploration of an idea isn't a replacement for rigourous research, I see no harm in more people taking notice of the world around them and bringing other people's attention to it. Perhaps one of these amateur observations might be read by a professional, inspiring them to investigate it properly.

As for me, I'm thinking of publishing the findings from my dissertation on my blog. I'm not interested in conducting research, but I do enjoy reading research papers and explaining their findings. I guess that counts too.
Interesting. I find I visualize concepts more than often irrelevant details, so when asked to visualize a person knocking off a ball from a table, I might emphasize the visual details of the ball rather than the person. E.g. White with black pentagons.

This is simply because the person's characteristics are not described, and a person is more complex to visualize than a simple shape like a ball. After all, why waste mental energy picturing a non-existent person knocking of a ball? It has no relevance to anything you need to do in life. But, the ball is easy to visualize given you can have a generic picture of a ball, and the object might be more important than the person interacting with it.
I came here to say this. The bombs worked, so I'd say he's a pretty darn good physicist... did it really need saying?
No, we don't, this is awesome.
Chimneys cut it down from “catastrophic” to “tolerable”. That pollution sensor will still be at red.
> If you think the moon landing money comes back to the government, the defense money does the same, with the added benefit of providing security!

Did it provide security? I remember 2 towers collapsing...
What if i ask you to visualize the road from your residence to the first stop you usually make? Kinda like using google street, but in your mind...Do you visualize nothing of the streets, the buildings, the crossroads, trees and the like? Do you orient yourself just by "instructions"?
Thanks
With Dynamo it seems to depend a lot exactly what you're doing. If you're careful about your queries, it's pretty cheap.
Not OP, but I would recommend on this subject a podcast I've talked about in a previous comment [1], about the life or Hoover and the red scare in light of declassified knowledge of soviet spies in the US.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36257604
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:What_if_it%27s_a_big_hoax...
I didn't realize there are two ways of looking at it until your comment. It didn't occur to me that if you randomly have Oxide on a list of 40 other companies to apply to, and you expect to talk to them about compensation as you would with most others, you're going to have a weird time because they have an uncommon policy.

But on the other hand, Oxide is very up-front about it, and their CTO is happy to go on HN and chat about it. So not knowing about it makes you look like you didn't do your research before the interview, or knowing about it and trying to force the issue anyways makes you look kind of arrogant (if you don't agree with it, you can just not apply).
At some point doesn’t this come down to the ISA? A CPU running at 3GHz gets 3 clock cycles per nanosecond.

I bet there is a fair amount of optimization in the compiler that leads to back to back assembly calls of reading the clock register. If subsequent time.Now() calls happen within 3 clock cycles of each other, can you really fairly expect unique nanosecond precision…
Nike was analog. (I've seen the ground-based analog computers at Site SF-51 in Marin). Atlas was digital, but in the early models the guidance computer was on the ground, with the ground sending commands to the booster during boost phase. [1] Navajo seems to have been the first missile with onboard digital computing. Polaris was self-contained and digital; it had to be, since the sub had no uplink. Missiles showed steady forward progress.

Apollo had to solve many technical problems, but often specialized ones, such as how to handle liquid hydrogen in bulk and how to get stable combustion in a big engine.
A major criticism of Apollo is that it produced too much specialized technology that was never used again.

The Space Shuttle had a different set of problems. It was supposed to be a practical space transport, but only the orbiter was re-usable and it needed a months-long major overhaul after each flight. Not until the Falcon 9 did something cost-effective finally get built.

[1] https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_402577
OpenSSH 9.3p2 Release Notes
> Well, C sucks at code re-use.

My entire system is built on a staggering amount of C libraries.

Until recently, literally the only way to have your code reused from different applications in different languages was to use C, or use C++ with the interface butchered to be C compatible.

Other languages code reuse is "well, first you have to go all in into our platform", which is great from the POV of someone already on that platform, but not so great if you just want to reuse a small bit of code from that other language.
Lots of experience with Fly's paid support here. tl;dr Absurdly good.

FAR better wrt both response times and technical expertise than you'll get with any large public cloud provider.

I was dealing with some annoying cert + app migration stuff (migrating most of an app from AWS to Fly), and Kurt (CEO) was personally sending me haproxy configs bc I'm not smart enough to know how to configure low-level tcp stuff in haproxy. Not to put him on the spot here -- I doubt he'll have time to do that level of support going forward -- but that's my experience of the company's dedication to support and technical expertise.
I don't get it, why people not using glassware ... glass has some small convenience problems though but it's save.
The biggest problem is convenience IMHO.
> Regarding the ZKPP, it is implemented

I'm not sure how that squares with the

// TODO: Insert cryptography here

comment in the source code of your demo app's login endpoint -- which doesn't appear to make use of the user's password at all? Surely that can't be right.
I wonder if they understand that they're basically firing half of their US audience, according to the people who they back politically.

(Disclaimer: Not from US; popcorn grabbed)
Panasonic plant will require so much power, Evergy will seek rate hike in Kansas
sounds lowkey, but making the dish with plenty of fresh vegetables as soup moves the needle (noodle, heh) back to the healthy end of the gradient?

I'm sorry for the packaging waste though.