skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have to anticipate that AI, VR/AR, and brain-computer interfaces will continue to improve over the next 5, 10, and 20 years.

So the dynamics will evolve. Structures like government, money, and corporations may need to evolve also.
I think intuition is underrated too.
We are seeing suspicious changes across populations though in that timeframe... earlier onset of puberty for example, lower fertility as a whole and higher rates of infertility due to poor sperm quality, obesity rates, cancer rates and others.

Of course there is no single cause behind this, and many have been suggested - microplastics, hormonal agents in plastics, more food, higher amounts of processed food, overusage of medication. It may even be the cause that progress from other unrelated changes (like the lead bans) "mask" bad effects getting worse.

The problem is, some of the effects take decades to show up in general population, and because microplastics are everywhere on the planet there isn't even a control group any more.
There's still no replacement (must be at least as cheap), so it will keep going for quite a while. Maybe plant or mushroom fibers can eventually take over some of the market.
I think he's probably more of an author in the way that the leader of a research team is always credited on any paper by the team, even if he didn't personally do any actual work on it?

Anyway, TIL that Hejlsberg is also involved with TypeScript...
I'm enjoying the DO App Platform (Heroku alternative). Do you know if Hetzner has a similar service that I could compare?
What a shame im not romantic at all.
IMHO it is their approach. I use Hetzner and OVH (and their other variants for lower budget clients) for our EU clients. They do not use buzz words like "deploy app server", "cloud clusters", "turbo charge this app". They are simply providing VPS and similarly configured droplets. They are also established and don't want to mess around with very modern experimental infrastructures.

Same goes for Digital Ocean. No buzz words. Just hosting with droplets. They simply say "here pick a linux distro, configure whatever and don't ask us much about app support". I use their Linux distros for my own apps and if want anything extra I just install it and suffer my own actions' consequences. Not theirs.
> when you can guarantee a valid JSON syntax by only sampling tokens that are valid? Instead of greedily picking the highest-scoring token every time, you select the highest-scoring token that conforms to the requested format.

Yes, you can guarantee a syntactically correct JSON that way, but will it be a semantically correct? If the model really really really wanted to put another token there, but you are forcing it to put a {, maybe the following generated text won't be as good.

I'm not sure, I'm just wondering out loud.
>Petroleum jelly [...] most of us regularly use it on our skin.

I think I've used it maybe a handful of times in my whole life; once a year at the very most. Do you mind expanding on your statement here?
I visualize the whole process quickly but forget that it needs to happen in real time. I often underestimate how long things will take because of that, I have to be mindful to properly consider how long it takes to eg, turn the screws, collect the materials, set the glue etc.
I was trying to find a connection between this outfit and the gaming company Psygnosis and I learned that this artist straddled the two: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Dean_(artist)
I just want to read the paper, can someone with a institution access liberate it?

I commented about a month ago in a related thread and would like to know if the study measured a thought I had: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36534508

To reiterate, is there a difference between adding boiling or near boiling water or other liquid from a kettle to a plastic container vs putting a container full of water in microwave oven? Is there local heating that happens in the plastic that causes it to shed more than just heated water alone?
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Avoid excess microwaving plastic containers. And don't keep old plastic wares for too long. Change them periodically (annual for permanent wares, 2 months for disposable wares).

I only microwave 30 sec, frown on microwaving more than a minute. My wife microwaves for 2 minutes or more! The latter is a problem because I know (some of) the food gets unevenly hot (while the other parts are still cold) that it melts the plastic.
very interesting.

sounds simple as well as deep at the same time if that's how it works.

I also wonder if there is a way for instructions to dynamically alter settings like temperature and verbosity.

for example when generating syntactic output like json or code ...don't be too creative with syntax at line level but at conceptual or approach level, go ahead and be wild.
Out of curiosity I actually looked up the details on this scene a while back. There is some actual real model of circuit breaker this scene was based on; I think someone dug up the model number, but I can't remember it now.

It turns out a lot of high-power circuit breakers need the energy from a clockwork mechanism in order to open in the event of a fault. So the thing where you have to pump the handle is actually to charge a clockwork mechanism to ensure there's enough mechanical energy to open in the event of a fault - AIUI. Presumably, the breaker is designed with safety in mind and won't let you push-to-close until you've done this.
> Not useful was the image orientation displaying differently in different browsers.

There are bugs in SW emgineering which whitstand the test of time. This is one of them.

From Android to Windows to linux every program will have its own idea about orientation. I just gave up and just rotate the picture when possible and needed.
I contracted for a telco who held a national emergency number contract, and after they fired all the old engineers and the inevitable outages started happening, had to budget a significant amount per month for flowers for families of the deceased who weren’t able to reach anybody during heart attacks etc.

It would have been better if it was really big SLA breach fines however.
We didn't work with an ODM: the ODMs were unwilling to contemplate some of the most basic things we needed (e.g., replacing the BMC with a much lighter weight service processor, having a true root-of-trust, etc.) -- let alone the more things we wanted to do (e.g., our own switch). The compute sled and the switch are both of our own design and look nothing like what you'll find from an ODM; if you're curious in the details, we have discussed them quite a bit in our Oxide and Friends podcast.[0][1][2]

[0] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/tales-from-...

[1] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-sidecar...

[2] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/bringup-lab...
Possibly dumb question: how is an "SQL query DSL" different from an ORM?
What makes you think it's unsafe? The amount of people using it without obvious problems indicates it's not obviously unsafe, and presumably most people just go with the flow (as I do - I'd assume that if there were problems it would have been found over the preceding decades of use)
It's still loginwalled/paywalled from there. Not all of us have institution access.
Did you ever do academic research in one of the softer disciplines? Because it sounds like you didn't.

I'm pretty critical of psychology (worked in neuro/cogsci for about 18 years). I reckon 95% of its output is wrong. But that's not because of pseudo-science. All theories in psychology are wrong. We've got no idea how the brain/mind works. All we can do is try to make sense of the experimental data that's available, come up with an idea that appears slightly better or has a different angle, contrast it with competing ideas in the same area, and keep defending it until it's utterly destroyed. If you would follow your rather rigid process, theorizing, and consequently experimenting, would stop overnight. It's not the way out of the swamp.

That also means that we should not use psychological theory as evidence for anything, and certainly not for policy making. Some of the applied research can be used though, if it's been established properly and repeatedly (another weakness in much of the social sciences).
An RTX 3090 hits the current sweetspot of price/performance for me. Half the throughput of the 4090, but at 1/3rd the cost. (I needed the 24GB VRAM for other LLM projects).
You haven't established a contradiction until you've filled in the missing term; how much Russia has left.
> Oh no; less office culture. I might have to partake in local community culture!

Office culture sometimes doesn't exist beyond convoluted PR stunts from HR. Fake smiling while congregating in front of the company's corporate logo is not culture.
> No but adding attribution and licensing to an image would be very useful.

Why ? They are all © Getty Images anyway. /s
What do people get out of using special services like Fly.io instead of standard VMs like the ones you can get from $5/month these days?

Can anybody who uses Fly.io explain their rationale? Why do the additional integration with Fly.io, trust and install their special software on your machines and tie your project into their ecosystem?

What type of application are you running? How many users are using it?
Can you describe those differences? Specifically in terms of personality traits that I would associate as masculine or feminine?
Fly is in my “try later book” from a year or two ago. I remember it was hard to deploy anything due to downtime so gave up. Sad that stuff like this still happens.

You shouldn’t need to multi region a postgres yourself - they should have at least 2 data centre redundancy for the region and it just works.

Hope they get some magic sauce to become better at this.
These aren't really suitable HN submissions; they're not new, or news. Sometimes such articles make the front page, but usually exploring undocumented behavior. Also, don't make multiple submissions on essentially the same topic.
I have astigmatism and loathe dark mode. I find low contrast and soft colours easiest.
An’it?

I have designed and spun-up a new ICAP server just to deal with malicious JavaScript by certain web servers used by dubious advertising companies for protecting my home and businesses.

Works better than uBlock Origin and NoJS.

So, the old cat-and-mouse game is now on a briskier pace.
Yeah - can you provide some more info about this? i use silcon trays - and i always thought they were too good to be true tbh
You realise you can do this over bank account?

At least in the EU, a recurring billing over bank transfer is totally a thing...
Personally I just install Dokku onto the machine, it replaced all my Heroku (and competitors) uses.

Additionally, you still keep the full ssh access to the machine if you ever need it.
What's wrong with microwaves? Aside from their mechanism of heating, what do they do differently to food to anything else? Arguably they get the outsides of some foods much hotter than otherwise, but I'm not sure how true that might really be - we regularly cook loads of other foods at very high temperatures in ovens or pans.
On 21 April 2023 Google blocked usage of Stable Diffusion with a free account on colab. You need a paid plan to use it.

Apparently there are ways around it, but I just switched to runpod.io. It's very cheap (around $0.80/h for a 4090 including storage) and having a real terminal is worth it.
For us with anxiety problems the past is very often a lie. Imagining the worst possible outcome for everything tends to make things stick in the brain that are fundamentally not true.
You're forgetting general relativity. Special relativity, yeah, someone else was going to do that one the same decade as Einstein.
They have Status page and don’t reflect host issues there. I’m sure, they didn’t understand what Status page was created for. And don’t respect users. Go away from Fly, if you respect yourself.
I disagree that movies should get a pass here, but I do agree that influencers are a very different beast. Young kids especially are at risk since they can't tell the difference between advertising and content even when it's in the form of television commercial breaks now confuse influencers and youtubers for actual friends.
Yeah agreed.

People who are not good with tech with certainly use Google especially if they grew up with it.

Yes, search results are bad, but are you using duckduckgo instead? No, you are still using a Google search to get somewhere even if it's just to use it to find a another site with better pages. Maybe you are using Bing though I know some folks were liked Bing...

Now if you want to argue people are using TikTok as a main search engine now that's a bit different (that's of course not accurate as it has terrible search just like reddit)

But yeah even Google knows people are only using it to find Reddit pages now (which is Reddit started the whole API issue) and why Google and Reddit are fighting a little.
> We strongly recommend running multiple instances to mitigate the impact of single-host failures like this.

Make it impossible not to do so,
and make it frictionless then.
When I’ve run into this in the past Cloudflare Warp has been a bit of a saviour. It’s a hassle free way to flick a switch and follow a different path over the network.
Thanks for this. An open source solution is so necessary in this space. There is a need for some common trusted party who hosts that thing, as self-hosting doens't make sense I think.
But thats exactly good code. Code that is clear (well-formatted/readable), works and can be easily proven that is really working.
Making payments with ISO 20022: pain.001
With FedNow seemingly using a 'a bespoke flavor of the ISO 20022 specification' (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36805571), I wanted to put up a breakdown of my experience with it. I think that it's a pretty handy format to be familiar with, and is quite simple to work with too.

If the Fed or participating banks decide to open up the system like European banks have done so, it can be handy to get familiar with it for us financial hackers out there!
monitoring means you might get called-in on your night-out

who wants that?
Correct. These are not mutually exclusive positions, and furthermore, this isn't so much to do with languages necessarily, it can be written in brainfuck or use some obscure compiler for all I care.

The issue is fragmenting tools between multiple package managers. That's a pain, and the source of my opposition to this concept here. Doubly so if they're language specific package managers (fine for development/in isolation, not for system wide user facing tools though).
This has also been a huge problem with hardware reviewers since very few people can afford to buy a new top of the line video card or laptop every week. If the reviewers want to keep getting free goodies to pull ad impressions they can't say anything too mean about the companies giving them free stuff.
My point is rather, if she had invested all her money back then and if she never used any of it she would have a similar amount of money now without insider trading.

Most people don't lump sum in the market like that, it probably ignores the taxes she would have to pay if she took the money out now, and most people use some of the money in the meantime.

I'm just saying if you lived a good lifestyle, the money is already mostly taxed, and you didn't invest everything all-at-once, and you still have the amount of money you would get with lump-sum and never touch S&P, you're doing far far better than the market.
If you're talking about the comment you're replying to, tbh I found it was way more relatable than a more "professional" PR-speak response. Maybe you were talking about something else
It was for me until they "forgot" I had a backup card on my payment account and cancelled it when my card expired. The bastards. It's now cheaper to switch to a family plan... But I would have kept that forever.
good call out - please as an internet mob let us not ascribe to malice what can be attributed to sheer unintentional impacts of complex software
What a great year for render.com.

That boring paas must have gotten a lot of growth from their competitors fucking up

Heroku is going to shit. GitHub integration was down for weeks last year

Fly.io can't get it together. Database being offline for days is just ridiculous.
Unless your philosophy is "I will put anything in my mouth that isn't proven to be unsafe", I don't think that's the right way to look at it? It's not that I see it as "unsafe" (at least not obviously so), but rather that I don't see it as "safe", either. "An [obviously] unnecessary risk" is probably a better phrasing, because it seems like its safety isn't really well-understood at this time. Why take the risk when you can just spend a few seconds transferring food onto a plate or something?
May we should just require all IOT devices to use SNMP. I always wanted to be able to monitor my home using Nagios anyway.
Those most eloquent on our problems are often those who feel them most acutely.
To clarify, the state didn't override those specific ordinances. They passed a law severely limiting the ability of cities to make ordinances in general; my understanding is that these specific ordinances seem to simply be the ones the news media has latched onto to create a narrative.
Out of curiosity, is it possible to define lit-html templates outside of JavaScript, such as in an accompanying HTML file?
Does anyone know how Hetzner pricing is half of DO yet is profitable, while DO is loss making with 6% operating margin?
Me too, wouldn't have thought it's about SDF font rendering. The blog posts subtitle would make more sense as HN title:

High quality font rendering for WebGPU

(but then it's not really about WebGPU either but about solving general problems with SDF font generation and rendering)
This is great, thanks Jure. For whatever reason I find it difficult to read documentation, I work much better with code examples, they speak to me much more clearly than a text explanation.
Your view is ridiculously myopic.

The point is not about who strictly has access to the information, it's about whose job it is to deal with it. If you started dealing with other departments asking for information and perspectives, you'd have much less time left to actually do your tasks, and you'd run into cases where they will be very reluctant or slow to give you the information because compiling it takes time and they'd rather focus on their own tasks. Or simply because they don't like you - "people problems" are also something managers have to deal with.

And it's not about "if you're planning to do something at some point, inform us now" - if the plans are concrete enough to tell you, you'll be told, and if your input is needed you will be asked, but it makes no sense if the plans still need input from 3 other departments and may change according to that or be cancelled entirely.

It's a division of labor, plain and simple. Managers have to deal with a huge amount of small tasks that involve waiting for responses from other people and acting on incomplete information. It's not easy, and you'd probably hate it if you actually tried to do it, but it's necessary for an organization to actually achieve things.
There is quite a bit of domestic fabrication in the US but Intel is really the only cutting edge player anymore. Many of these other fabs are not really interested in changing their processes (in fact, they are heavily disincentivized to!) because their margins are not particularly high and so being low cost and high reliability are their only goals. This can be extremely frustrating to people knew to the field since, after toiling away for years and years on your PhD, everyone is telling you not to change anything and to just keep things working as they are. If you get into Intel, you might get to do some really cool work, but that's quite a risk to bank your entire career on IMO (especially given that nobody pays that well either).

So, yes and no. Fab is neat but realistically if you like chips I'd really encourage you to go for VLSI and/or some other EE specialty since the US does have plenty of high paying demand from many companies for these positions.
I only use one assistant but yes, being able to send a command to do a bunch of things at once is pretty awesome. Some things in this genre that I do on a daily basis:

"turn the outside lights on" -- I have two different structures with lights hung around the underside of the roofs. It's very dark where I live. Walking between buildings at night is really easy now because everything is illuminated between both places without installing a really long three-way switch.

"turn the outside lights off" -- Maybe I'm already outside looking at the sky and want a little more clarity. Now I don't need to go find all the light switches for everything that is on.

"turn all the lights off" -- I'm laying in bed, about to go to sleep. Did I forget to turn anything off?

"time for bed" -- It's time to dim the lights and start cooling my brain down. This sets the scene nicely from wherever I happen to be.

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I don't trust it for things like locks/garage door openers/etc. Compromising my network shouldn't compromise my physical security.
> despite it leading nowhere worth visiting

Really? Every major technological (and cultural) advance since the steam engine has been from the US. Atomic bomb, Hollywood, internet, social media, AI, (wokeness?).

Granted, just like on an individual level, success != happiness, Americans are extremely unhappy and messed up IMO on average. But in terms of performance, they are friggin amazing, and have changed the world multiple times for the better.
But do they all support all of ISOBMFF?
He might opt for solar panels to power his ac. I hear that it’s usually sunny in Italy when it’s hot. The power company too might opt for solar panels instead of gas. With a dividend he might come out richer than before if he manages to reduce his carbon output sufficiently.
will suscribe in a couple of months for my new startup
Thank you so much for trying to be a voice of reason!
Don't believe everything people say. It is very hard for people to report their inner processes correctly.
Thanks! A Docker image is sorely missed.
I used to think this way but I have become frustrated at my inability to intentionally convey interesting thoughts. I now strive to minimize ambiguity.
check out @microsoft/fast-foundation. It’s UI primitive web components and works really well with lit.
Try filing a bug with any of the big three cloud vendors when you're on their free plan. It's really not different, the thing that is going to get you fired is not realizing you're not paying a couple hundred bucks per month for premium service on the infrastructure that is mission critical to your company.
That would presumably cost more money which is not a trade off every user would want to make.
How about "people don't like foreigners and strangers"? Most societies in human history have been that way. Even chimpanzees kill members of other groups by default when they find them alone.
In my experience demand for senior people is very high right now, at least in web dev. There’s a huge amount of people in the industry but seems like at the senior level there’s a shortage. By senior I mean people who can manage a project and deliver it, end-to-end.
CDK – Like a fish needs a bicycle
DO, OVH, and Hetzner are more stable because they don't use buzzwords?
Which is another weird thing. US declared the space race "won" when they got to the moon, despite being behind in all other milestones like sattelite and manned space flight.

If SU got to the moon first US would've ignored it too and said Mars was the real target...
C/++ programs are atrocious for this. On any other language you just run "___ install" and it grabs everything you need to make it run. While C devs expect you to first spend an hour searching for the packages they are too lazy to list. Which all have different names on each distro, and probably at least one of them doesn't have the version needed.