skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the idea would be that you have an account with AWS (or realistically a more consumer friendly service that's Amazon branded) where all your data lives. Then when you use say Dropbox you can pick "Use my own storage" and grant Dropbox via OAuth the ability to write to /dropbox in your bucket and all your files would live there instead of Dropbox's servers. Lots of the data sovereignty solutions also include a database like interface you can grant apps the ability to use but I can't imagine that catching on initially.

Apple actually already does this with iCloud storage but hides it really well so it feels seamless.
The first sentence already raises a big red flag. "This paper examines the way of thinking and limitations of physicists regarding the phenomenon of superconductivity". Stop these ridiculous presumptuous claims about "limitations of physicists" before the work is actually verified and proven.
Right, but the way that females judge "the ability to create sexually attractive offspring" is the sexual attractiveness of their partner. So it's completely tautological.
This seems off. A few billion seconds to have a 50:50 chance? Why wouldn't it be a billion seconds at a billion per second (2^60 total requests) would give a 1 in 2^68 chance (or 1 in 2^62 if its really only 122 bits)?
>Could we stop celebrating how tech is going to steal everyone's copyrighted works

Copyright has a fair-use exception for transformative works. It is difficult to look at the LLM's of the day and think "No, they have not taken the copywritten works and transformed them into something completely new."

There is no hate of artists. I don't know how you get from "It's not copyright violation" to "I hate artists". This is a matter of existing law. It is of course unsettled, the fair-use interpretation not yet tested in courts. But the same goes for affirming it's a violation of copyright.

These questions will have their day in court, and until then there is no need to make arguments in an inflammatory tone that that borders on personal attack. In the meantime, maybe engage in a conversation about how copyright law would need to be changed to account for this new technology, not condemn people who see a reasonable interpretation of existing law the differs from your own.
https://manuelkehl.com is where I maintain an overview of the apps I’m working on as well as my blog.

Instead of running individual landing pages for my apps, I just set up redirects that point to the corresponding page on my website for each app.

For example: https://zenitizer.app and https://latermator.app
SvelteKit for the past month, I'll never start a new project using React again. Unfortunately consulting for frontend is almost always consulting now but I can see the migration from React to Svelte starting to be profitable for business
I think there's a good call-out about ownership here. Ownership and autonomy go hand in hand (you can't force someone to own something)
Congratulations on the launch! Looks really exciting.
many usecases that arent code, + people can finetune llama2 with code. its a great start for a free model.
Val: A New Language Alternative to C++, Rust
Weaker => more freedom to reorder => issue loads sooner => higher IPC/perf.

Really that simple. You can get some of this with speculation and later checking, but that has its own costs and limitation.

People feel _very_ strongly about these topics. RISC-V eventually compromised and allows both TSO (~ x86) and a weak model (~ Arm). As far as I know, all commercial silicon supports the weak model and I suspect they only support that.
What a benevolent god, he won't take away the opportunity to comment on hacker news from people, how would they live otherwise

I don't really like to be cheeky/sarcastic, but I don't really like people telling me how to behave, I do me, you do you, especially if you are an admin

It’s either people are compatible with a community or they are not, asking to change means people have no personality and you can just shape their behaviour at will, i guess that’s true for tech people, but not the rest of the world
There was some DNA testing done of Subway meat in Canada years ago that found (unsurprisingly) their "meat" contained little of it's namesake. So the premise of this lawsuit shouldn't be surprising.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/marketplace-chicken-fast-fo...
https://archive.ph/eyaRj
One cool feature that Twitter briefly had, way back when, was the ability to see the feed of another user. Like, construct a feed of all the accounts this person is following, since it's all public information anyway.

It was a great way to find new people to follow. I'm sure that's easily doable with a custom Mastodon/ActivityPub client, dunno about Bluesky.
"As a really senior engineer in the company, of course I have strong opinions and I absolutely have a technical agenda. But If I interact with engineers by just trying to dispense ideas, it’s really hard for any of us to be successful. It’s a lot harder to get invested in an idea that you don’t own. So, when I work with teams, I’ve kind of taken the strategy that my best ideas are the ones that other people have instead of me. I consciously spend a lot more time trying to develop problems, and to do a really good job of articulating them, rather than trying to pitch solutions. There are often multiple ways to solve a problem, and picking the right one is letting someone own the solution."

"I learned that to really be successful in my own role, I needed to focus on articulating the problems and not the solutions, and to find ways to support strong engineering teams in really owning those solutions."

I love this. Reminds me of the Ikea effect to an extent. Based on this, to get someone to be enthusiastic about what they do, you have to encourage ownership. And a great way is to have it be 'their idea'.
I grew up in a part of the Eastern US, where most land is private, but state and federal parks are reasonably frequent. BUT, then I moved to Arizona, which has enormous amounts of federal land that is easily accessible. Quite delightful.

Unfortunately, the lawsuit happy nature of the US means that you can easily be held liable for anything happening on your land, so it is best to fence it off and post no trespassing signs.
Same here! I don’t get it. It’s much more lightweight, fully FOSS and their custodian company (Synadia) is very friendly and open to self-hosting. Basically, they run a global super-cluster of Nats which is pretty much vanilla afaik.

My main gripe is lack of “best practices”. You’re pretty much on your own when it comes to important decisions like subject namespacing and some operational stuff can be a bit tricky, like changing options and migrating. They had “nats by example” but that seems to be quite out of date and not super helpful. They have started doing more videos which are great but not that much content overall.

Their auth story is very sophisticated but perhaps a bit over-engineered. Some use cases like having anonymous “self-signed” client keys are tricky to work with.

Other than that, it’s an amazing piece of tech. One that is scalable in a way that just makes sense and gets out of the way when multiple machines are involved.
Tesla exaggerated EV range so much that drivers thought cars were broken
I’m sympathetic I’m just saying they’re not totally ignoring the problem. There was a battery related class action too https://www.subarubatterysettlement.com/
Rust does it well, too. For such a crunchy language, there are a surprising number of macros, but my experience using them has always been fantastic.
> effects where people think it's not economically worth their time to work

This is only possible with generous social benefits given to those who aren't working. In the top 8 most generous states, transfer payments given to those not working exceed the median income[0].

> it's not corrected for demographic (aging) effects

You're right. The prime working-age group (25-54) reversed the same downward trend after the 90-00 peak sometime in 2015, and recovered relatively quickly post-Covid[1]. But the picture isn't as rosy for young (20-24) entrants to the employment marketplace[2], which is worrisome.

> The marginal benefit of the factor (e.g. per-hour productivity) tends to go up, too

I understand, but aggregate production will go down, would it not?

[0]: https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/the_work_...

[1]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300060

[2]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300036
> And as a bonus, an explanation about transistors from 1953

And here is a 1959 video from the same source about wave behavior [1].

It covers reflection from open and closed ends, superposition, standing waves and resonance, impedance mismatching, and tapered-section transformers all in a way that makes it really easy to understand.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DovunOxlY1k
HAHA. This is true.

My 10 laws of email:

0. 5 sentence rule.

1. Use excessive paragraph breaks.

2. Bold+italic important details.

3. Call extra attention if you're asking a question, and make it easy to respond to.

Example:

>>>> Q: About the latest quote from the vendor, do you think we should

A) Negotiate and close it as-is. (We'll need to open another one immediately.)

OR

B) Batch it with the new customer requirements that just came in.

4. Keep each email to 1 purpose. Many emails > 1 email.

5. If you feel the urge to write a lengthy email, don't. Have a meeting instead.

6. Pretend you're writing an X (formerly known as a tweet) or an HN title. Keep removing words until the message cannot be made simpler. Adjectives, adverbs, and articles are the enemies of clarity.

7. If the message is succinct, put it all in the subject line followed by "<EOM>".

8. Don't have non-factual discussions over email. Have a meeting instead.

9. Email is subject to discovery. Never send anything that can be used against the company or you.
I don't think that is it. I'm in my 50s and have multiple kids. I've been woken up many times.
Is that actually a commonly held position? I've seen IP abolishonosts here, and I've seen people argue the merits of proprietary software, but I don't get the impression that those are generally the same people.
This is super cool! I've been thinking about starting a blog with very few bells and whistles. However, I want a couple of quality of life things so I can, say, write posts in markdown instead of HTML. So this is quite attractive. Still evaluating static site generators. The list that works with this just got sweeter looking. Nice work!
Whether or not it's sensible is not quite the point. It's surprising and noteworthy to understand. And by understanding helps understand the internals of this aspect of linux networking.

I ran into exactly this problem a few months ago. But it was a lab scenario rather than a real production one.

In my lab at work I had only a single VLAN (and couldn't get a new one added fast enough for the tight 2 day timeline of the case I was working on, though I have since done so). So I had "MAAS" (Metal As a Service) which PXE boot installs the servers plus OpenStack Virtual Machines connected to the same VLAN. Both run a DHCP service.

MAAS (using ISC DHCP Server currently) responds to any DHCP requests while OpenStack only responds to IP/MAC combinations it knows from it's configuration database and ignores others. So OpenStack wasn't impacting MAAS but sometimes MAAS was responding faster than OpenStack giving the wrong IP to VMs. As a temporary workaround I (tried) to add a firewall rule to the MAAS server to block DHCP from the specific MAC addresses of the test VMs but it didn't work.

Investigating that is when I learnt about this surprise behaviour, which was particularly surprising as I am far more knowledgable than average of many aspects of linux networking including some (but by no means extensive) kernel/netfilter internals and can write most iptables rules in my sleep from memory... despite all of that, this one was new to me :)

(As a side note, when using ovn/ovs networking, Openstack will filter external DHCP requests to VMs, which also solves this, but in this case I was specifically testing SR-IOV where the VMs are directly attached to a virtual function on the physical network card, where such filtering is not configured and may or may not be possible depending on the card)
It's not a test. You won't be graded. It's OK to be inane or banal.
Still under construction and migration, as I loath writing about myself or my work and been procrastinating it but will get there!

https://tamim.io
Birthday paradox. The number of opportunities to collide is the number of items squared. (Divided by two and a smidge)
He started the article with:
"When building a new thing, a good first step is to build a thing that does nothing."

and later he adds:
"Too often, I see relatively inexperienced developers dive in and start writing a big complex thing"

He is advicing to before start building something, make sure that the context is rightly settled.
So was recirculating ball a halfway point between worm and sector and rack and pinion then?

We have a 1947 Willys CJ-2A, which I believe is worm and sector, though we haven't gotten into the steering yet because there are so many other things wrong with it. Including, it seems, the formerly working brakes. I discovered they had crapped out as I was backing up near a bunch of formerly neatly stacked cinder blocks.
hugged to death: https://archive.is/eX21w
I believe LLMs should be allowed to read/view/consume content and learn from it even if that content has a copyright.

We phrase it like somehow the material is being copied into the LLM, but that’s not what it’s doing. It’s building a neural graph from the experience of consuming that content.

What would the world be like if humans couldn’t learn, train the weights of the interconnects of their neural tissue, from any material with a copyright?
I have stuff like that on a hard drive in my home, on a persistent storage volume from Linode, and on Dropbox.
Research shows Meta algorithm isn’t to blame for political polarization
haha oh snap! Ah well not being American I don't really follow the US news cycle. That isn't a good look for sure though.
You can see this in the movie Fat Man and Little Boy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ0P7R9CfCY
The only recent example I'm aware of is the Ineos Grenadier, and it's quite controversial as it means the steering is a) slow, and b) has very low self-centering (also a function of caster).
For the SQUID? Now that brings back even more memories. We got ours from the dining halls.
I have a nice stiff leather sleeve I bought when I had a Surface Pro 3, which now fits my M1 MacBook Air perfectly and does a more than adequate job of protecting it in my backpack. I eat around it all the time (but keep liquids well away.) I love this machine, but it's meant to be used, and by golly I don't baby it.
Excellent point. I didn't think about video calls needing good upload bandwidth. Many broadband options have terrible upload bandwidth, so you need to buy a ridiculous plan (like 1Gbps) to get reasonable upload bandwidth.
Thanks for this recommendation!
"Better" depends on your metric. It is obviously easier to make a wide OoO superscalar implementation based on the Alpha ISA, but the archaic 32-bit x86 probably had slightly better code density.

I'd love to know the assumptions behind the claim that a low-power Alpha couldn't be made. Maybe it was as simple as comparing a 32-bit CPU with 16 registers to a 64-bit CPU with 32 registers (4X the leakage for RF alone and > 2X the data path cost). Aarch64 is a bigger ISA than Alpha so I guess we crossed that bridge.
Inconel is a name here in the US
Before QL, you looked at the .asd and searched cliki for each name. You can still do that if you like (and can use Google as well). Sometimes the readme had better instructions, but often they didn't work.

In fact, each project in the QL repository includes a link to upstream, so you can use that to find your sources if you like

I literally once rewrote the 20% of a library that I personally needed because it was faster than tracking down all the dependencies.

Your original comment reads like there used to be all these awesome package managers, and QL came around and squashed them, but there was rather a giant vacuum that QL quickly filled.
..isn’t entirely to blame, says the headline.

"The research found that while political polarization is rampant on Facebook, it’s not simply the result of the company’s algorithm."
I agree that some of their tactics were questionable, but they were up against IE, and Microsoft's bundling of it.

Would you rather everyone still be using IE? Because that's exactly what would have happened otherwise.
That's true, but there are conflicting rules here because HN also considers "your" in titles to be clickbait:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Well, malaria tends to be far worse.
I see what you were getting at now

I've not personally observed that, fwiw.
I was curious myself, this link is a bit of an introduction to the mess:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct2d/com...

"GDI is hardware accelerated on Windows XP, and accelerated on Windows 7 when the Desktop Window Manager is running and a WDDM 1.1 driver is in use. Direct2D is hardware accelerated on almost any WDDM driver and whether or not DWM is in use. On Vista, GDI will always render on the CPU."
If it encapsulated withing ECMAscript string literal, it ain't HTML.
Do Octopuses Dream of Elusive Crabs?
I don't doubt that it is fast but please don't name your thing <claim><thing>.
It’s a form of lossy compression. Can I strip the copyright off an image by JPEG compressing it?

At the very least I think LLMs trained on data that the trainer does not own or have rights to use in that manner should not be copyrightable.
> All in, S3 today is composed of hundreds of microservices

wow
I haven't gotten a chance to try it yet! definitely looking forward to it after we figure out the whole keyword arguments nightmare :)
Lol. I must be brain dead. Yes.
Hahha I love it!
Again: do you equally call for the removal of your Muslim co-workers, based on their believes, which on this matter are on average far more..."restrictive"?

You cannot participate in (or plainly accept..."tough luck") the criticism on Brendan if you're not also willing to apply the same criticism to pretty much every muslim worldwide.

So, do you measure by one standard, or two?
Hahaha this is so spot on that I would take a bet against anyone who thinks this will NOT happen. Of course it will. I see no reason to believe AI will change the fundamental power structures, incentives and disrespect for human beings. New tech often has a little honeymoon phase where you get a few breadcrumbs more in order to try the new thing.

Anyway, it’s not like the different actors desperately trying to steal your attention today will go away because the UI is different. So if the issue with todays tech is ads, upselling, cookie forms etc then hoping that it will “go away” with LLMs is hilariously hopeful.
It just strikes me as a completely inanely self-evident observation. If evolution is an ongoing optimization for fitness and survival, success in procreation is a blindingly obvious component of that equation.

The more interesting question would be why ornamentation independently emerges as a trait in evolution. Is it that partners favor certain functional traits that become more and more exaggerated, until they're no longer functional? Is it that ornamentation itself is intrinsically interesting to animals with eyes? Or is it that ornamentation is a stand-in for genetic quality of some kind?

Any of those would be less vapid than "females prefer attractive and promiscuous males because they want their offspring to also attract mates and procreate."
There's a practical way to do that right now in CL; in most implementations it's cl-user:quit, but UIOP defines a portable wrapper for it
Because we're talking about collisions, as opposed to comparing 2^64 independent pairs. With 2^128 possible values, if you've picked 2^63 distinct ones, the chance that a randomly selected value collides with one of those is 1 in 2^65. If none of your second batch of 2^63 collide with each other, that gives a 2^63/2^65 = 1/4 chance of one of them colliding with the first batch. Considering the possibility of collisions within each batch of 2^63 brings it closer to 1 in 2.
Product Manager vs Product Operations Manager: What's the Difference?
I've been seeing more and more roles for 'Product Operations Manager' popping up lately. It got me thinking - what's the real difference between a Product Manager and a Product Operations Manager?

From my understanding, a Product Manager is typically responsible for guiding the success of a product and leading the cross-functional team that's responsible for improving it. They set the strategy, prioritize features, and coordinate with other teams to deliver a complete product.

On the other hand, a Product Operations Manager seems to focus more on the operational aspects of bringing a product to market, like coordinating between different teams, managing resources, and ensuring that everything runs smoothly.

But I'm curious - for those of you who have worked with or as a Product Operations Manager, what's been your experience? How do you see the role differing from that of a traditional Product Manager?
In accordance with the 'scuttle the ship' philosophy, Austral programs abort immediately when trapping arithmetic overflows, with the message "Overflow in trappingOpname (TypeName)".
"I can't say I've _ever_ heard of a startup deciding to voluntarily shut-down because of negative feedback from co-working peers. It would be ridiculous." -

You're right, but the danger is when the self-censorship happens in the subconscious part of mind, such that you don't even realize it has happened.
Hey HN, Matt from AssemblyAI here. If you want to test out LeMUR one of the fastest ways is with our Google Colab: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1xX-YeAgW5aFQfoquJPX...

I'm happy to answer questions about the API as well
I remember that episode of X Files…wait a minute!
Era of Global Boiling Has Arrived, UN Chief Says
The manufacturer should be responsible for providing the recycling service in the first place.

Once the disposal/recycling costs are part of the initial purchase, consumers will make better choices.

Include a core charge to encourage the consumer to get it back to the right place, as well.
> All of his work is fantastic.

Even that is an understatement, I love those videos
I remember watching this studying for my Extra license and it really helped!
In Alaska, I was told to never camp near where blueberry bushes were widespread. "It's like camping near a watering hole," I was told. "Every damn animal in the area likes blueberries, including bears and wolves."
Re: battery life, completely agree. it’s one of the few devices I don’t have to worry about charging every day, battery lasts forever
wire dates to ancient sumeria i think; it was used for money before coins (because it's easy to measure out any desired amount of gold or silver)
> I doubt UIs where you click on shit are going to exist at all in a couple of decades

I'm not sure what kind of UI you imagine for, say, PowerPoint, or Blender, or Excel.
The infamous Demon Core[1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core
Not to be confused with DirectStorage, which is a DirectX API that lets the video card load textures from NVME SSD local storage more efficiently.
I'm looking at the graphs for 'Global Warming by Month' and 'Earth's Average Temerature'.

The colored lines are sometimes 30 years and sometimes 20 years. I wonder why they're not equally spaced?
I don’t want to talk to your customer service either, just do the job
I don't see the point of such extreme pedantry. Even the State Department uses 'visa' as a generic term. There are also other countries besides the US, and whichever one you come from probably also uses 'visa' as a generic term on their English-language websites.