skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm no good at completing games that have different paths based on "good" or "evil" choices. Fortunately, sentiment, redemption, and mercy have been designed into what I've played in the past.

Although, in retrospect, our (dialogue) choices always evoke the predictable path to our goal. Maybe it's still manipulative, even if it's for the "lawful good" track.

Even if it's "just" an LLM, reading the replies trigger hesitation.
Wasn't that always the point of vc funded big tech apps? Lure in users while burning through enough cash to power a steam locomotive, kill most competition and then take their money? At least in India I am seeing alternatives emerge already in the form of indrive, which I have been using a lot more
With all the recent “the government has alien spacecraft news” and the bizarre circumstances of this material’s creation, the (I know to be ridiculous) conspiratorial part of my mind is going “I guess climate change is finally forcing them to take stuff out of the extraterrestrial vaults.”
React brings some complexity but at the benefit of better state management and DX. If you have ever worked on large projects where each button has a click handler to do 20 different things, you will find that it's easy to miss some edge cases and have state drift.
I live in the city center and so by choice. My office is a 12 minute drive away with rarely any traffic. I'm in a medium COL city not known for its tech scene. I don't live "next door" to my office, though that would be awesome if I could.

> Understand that your current preference is a result of being in an advantageous living accommodation next to the office building your company is leasing.

I prefer to go to the beach or the park in my free time, but my preference would certainly change if there was hurricane outside. In that case I'd rather stay indoors.

Obviously my experience would differ if I had a 30+ minute hellish commute. The only teammates that have a commute this long choose to do so as a tradeoff (e.g. more house).

I guess this response and tone surprise me because it seems obvious. There are clearly tradeoffs made when we choose where to live and where we work (including WFH or in-office policy).
For me, it's the portability/size.

I don't have a benchtop I can use just for soldering, so my soldering toolkit lives in a box with all it needs. When I wanna do some work, I pick up the box, open it, and most of the stuff gets used directly out of it.

I put a silicone mat on a table, pull out the copper scrub and iron holder, and work on whatever pcb. When it's done, I can pack it all in the box and store it.

A TS80 is portable enough to fit in the box. A full on station would be a bit harder.
Ahem. Ahem.

Contact info?
That's why I mentioned intel deprecating SGX, because newer desktop CPU's don't support that, so it'd be impractical for websites to discriminate based on that.

Also note that servers running in the cloud can naturally be clients. It's only bad if this is meant to restrict the power of the consumer over their own (non-rented) devices.
Your words could be misinterpreted as meaning that the journey with you talking to the driver is what makes them racist, and so I made a joke referring to that.
here's the original video, i assume the twitter user didn't know how to download or deeplink to it so they screen recorded it.

https://vdn3.vzuu.com/HD/7d42236a-3065-11ee-a787-7e9db7aa394...
(indrive is an alternative to uber the ride hailing service, not uberEats, which never really took off in India)
Horizontal vs. Vertical Scaling: Analyzing Efficiency
And the EU is the only thing that consistently fights countries that try to spy on their citizens. I'm in Denmark and the government flat out refuse to stop tracking people via the cell phone network. The EU is pretty much the only organization that cares and tries to stop it (hard to actually stop it when the local government just ignores every ruling from the EU on the subject).
Client side load balancing across a universe of 20+ disparate nodes sounds unnecessary. Why is 20+ better than just giving out 5 random members of the universe for your use-case?

Is this HTTP/S? SNMP? Something bespoke? Why doesn't the client already know where all the servers are? How far away are the servers from the client? Can you put code that lives in the client, or is this existing client software you're trying to trick into supporting client-side load balancing?

Also, and only slightly related: Do you have a different definition of "use-case" than me that involves being as vague as you possibly can?
Show HN: Magic Loops – Combine LLMs and code to create simple automations
Howdy! We built this as an experiment in personal-programming, combining the best of LLMs and code to help automate tasks around you. I personally use it to track the tides and get notified when certain conditions are met, something that pure LLMs had trouble dealing with and pure code was often too brittle for.

We created it after getting frustrated with the inability of LLMs to deal with numbers and the various hoops we had to jump through to make ChatGPT output repeatable.

At the core, Magic Loops are just a series of "blocks" (JSON) that can be triggered with different inputs (email, time, webhook), then operate on those inputs using a combination of LLMs and code, and then output those results (email, text, webhook). Under the hood, the LLM calls are using GPT-4 via OpenAI and the code is run in sandboxed (no internet) Docker containers in AWS.

You have full control over each step of the loop, but you can also create (or attempt to create) a Magic Loop by simply describing what you want. We use GPT-4 to break that request into feasible steps, and then create a Magic Loop scaffold. Of course, you should still validate the loop before publishing it!

We've seen some neat use cases already:

- "Text me when the tide is less than 1ft between 7am and 7pm at Fort Funston"

- "Summarize an email using this format and forward it to this address"

- "Text me every time our store does more than $1000/day in volume on Shopify"

- "Take specific data from Cloudflare, format it, and send it to Mixpanel every hour"

We hope you enjoy what's essentially an experiment at this point. If folks like the concept, we're thinking about open sourcing it so you can run the loops locally with the code runtimes you wish (rather than in our code runners).

Let us know what you think, and more importantly, what you wish to build or automate!

Cheers,
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I'm a full-stack software developer with over 3 years of professional experience, I specialize in creating fully responsive, efficient and scalable user-centric web solutions, as well as developing APIs for applications.

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> This is just as true without systemd. Auto-restarting services without monitoring will always hide problems, regardless of what’s doing the restarting.

And we should be thankful. We don't have to be aware of every single hiccup a service experiences. Even if (and specially if) you are the one responsible for keeping it up. Modern distributed systems are far too complex for us to care about every minutia.

If something failed over, and nobody noticed, is it a problem? The answer is _maybe_. How often does that happen? Is there a pattern? Is it getting more frequent? Is that happening more often than predicted?

At work, we blow up entire VMs if they fail their health checks. They can fail for many reasons, mostly uninteresting ones. And the customers don't even notice and SRE doesn't usually care. They only become relevant once there are anomalies. When you are managing thousands of instances, self-healing is required.

Error rate may not even be impacted in a significant way when those systems restart, it is often a tiny increase in a deluge of requests. So you also need observability on self-healing events to catch trends. When self-healing fails, it tends to do so pretty catastrophically.

> and alerting on set thresholds that seem aberrant.

I wish we would remove 'thresholds' from our alerting vocabulary. Very often we end up setting simple and completely arbitrary thresholds that don't actually mean much - unless it's based on SLOs and SLAs. Generally we don't know what those thresholds are supposed to be and just guess, unless it's capacity. But even for capacity: 0% disk space free is obviously bad; what people will do is set some threshold like ("alert when 80% disk is used"). Then you get page once that threshold is crossed. Is that an emergency? I don't know, maybe it took 5 years to get there. However, if you set an alert that says "Alert me if the disk will fill up in <X> days at the current rate", you can then tell if it is an emergency or not.

I suspect that you would agree with this given the use of the word "aberrant", which to me implies anomalies. But in many contexts, people think that "alert every single time CPU utilization crosses 90%" is what we are talking about.
I can't imagine essentially "moving" to a new place 3 times a year.

I have pets and would need to take at least 3-4 days off to pack and move everything, so unless this dude owns 3 properties, it seems like a massive time expenditure to do this. Not to mention being incredibly stressful (which would make me less productive).

Unless they are a digital nomad with a laptop and a pair of flip-flops.

I make no assumptions about their actual work day. Maybe they are incredibly productive.
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Unfortunately, he doesn't know how to quickly scroll backwards and forwards and jump to sections in Word Star to review his old stories, and so he is unable to tie up all the story lines and bring the work to a conclusion. Hence, he is forced to always keep writing more and more new story lines.
"Forever" is understood to be an exaggeration. And even if we are finding new artificial ways to break it down, the fact remains that there's a lot of it out in nature now and natural processes take a long time to break them down.
They are also very good energy storage media. Combine that with zero transmission losses - you can now highly efficient EV powertrains that are significantly more compact. 1000 mile EVs become actually viable.

Secondly, superconductors are one of the most promising platforms for qubits. Big boost for quantum computing - and these are just two applications off the top off my head.
Is it even scientifically possible to get over this issue? Have we hit a huge roadblock in Medicine?
I mostly agree, and usually feel like a grouchy old man for it. Been doing FE for a long while, jQuery into stuff like Meteor, then early Angular and Ember... There were a lot of frustrations but I found that they were more easily overcome, and past a certain point I've felt like we aren't getting any more technologically superior with reimagined frameworks, but rather just finding a new flavour of the month.

Conversely, React Native (and other similar solutions, even Electron which I love to hate) are AMAZING and I feel like it's such a breath of fresh air compared to pure native app development. They have their ups and their downs, and they're not always the best solution for a given problem, but they've brought so much opportunity for dev efficiencies within companies and allowed solutions to be built that would've otherwise been cost-ineffective in the past.
I am curious, how does this material react to lightning? Does it overcharge and burn up or just stop storing power? One can test this with a long enamel coated wire and a model rocket on a stormy day to induce a lightning strike.
I'm at the point where I question whether almost all tools that we use for the web need to be revised. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript have served us well... but I think all of them are showing their age, and everything built above them is a hack at this point. But they are all so engrained that nobody can imagine how things might be done better...

JavaScript was obviously never intended, or designed, for 90% of the things it's used for. Also, as a language, it's so flawed that we have stuff like `left-pad` and `is-odd` on npm which is just atrocious...

CSS, and styling pages in general, has always been a mess. Either have a disaster trying to name all your classes, or abuse HTML by using a billion utility classes a la Tailwind.

HTML was obviously never made for utility classes, encourages bad practices like inline styles, was never designed for DOMs of such massive size, and the number of strange new HTML tags that don't quite do the job is quite large.
This is true of most IDEs, but you should really give IntelliJ's plugin a shot. It's far better at merge conflict resolution than using the CLI, which in turn makes even very complicated rebases easy. And it's more than capable of performing the most complicated git workflows I can imagine actually using in a real project (squash, cherry pick, rename, reorder, drop, apply patch, etc.).

The only time I ever reach for the CLI when I'm using IntelliJ is for `git bisect`.
I agree. It is not the case that "most things ... won't check for updates to a tag," which is what GP claimed and I responded to. Most things do check for updates! Without checking, they could not warn you about / reject updates.
This is why OpenBSD’s rc doesn’t have restarts. A crashing application has a bug that needs fixed. A crashing application probably has a security vuln if nothing else it has denial of service.
And what EXACTLY do you object to in the link You've pasted?
All right, now assume making a 120m deep hole is cheaper than building a 120m tower. BTW, how many 120m deep holes have you seen in your life? You seem to be expert at them.

I have seen a few 120m towers. They call them skyscrappers.

Anyway, all this for 20Kwh. I can get a Nissan Leaf with a 40/60Kwh battery for way less than a skyscrapper. Most likely for way less than what it costs to make a 120m deep hole.

Long story short: cranes and concrete don't make a practical battery, but they make for many articles and publications.

Before you say "but lithium is hard to find, and concrete isn't": you can also make lead batteries, and ni/cd batteries, and liquid air batteries too. I don't expect the Earth to run out of air in the next decades.
I am sure materials nerds (said affectionately, I am a computer nerd) at materials labs at top corporations, like SpaceX are working on this.

Picture this. You're a material's person. You have a collection of each of the elements in the table of elements. You've got a successful career in your field. You've got your dream job working in a materials lab as a scientist or engineer. Along comes this paper, describing a pretty easy process, with things you already have on hand, to create a revolutionary new material that will change the world, if the paper is true.

That person, at SpaceX, Apple, BASF, Google, GE, Samsung, DuPont, everywhere where there are passionate materials people in a lab who just want to believe, is going to do it over the weekend and after hours, just for the fun of it, nevermind Elon. They might not have the showmanship for a Twitter account with millions of followers but they have the lab and the materials and the drive to make it.

Musk doesn't need to setup competing teams, and if he had, would he be forced to tell the general public about it?
Im saying attention spans are changing and in the TikTok demographic they are used to short form content. Heck even youTube added stupid short form content videos which now I watch on there. YouTube and TikTok are the two top streaming apps and they are free. They are more used then Netflix and all the others. Thus all the others will start competing with YouTube and Tiktok by merging .. like Disney Plus merging with HBO Max. They will offer more free alternatives to compete with Youtube and Tiktok too. Hollywood will still make money of course, but not as much as they have use to been making when they are competing against the top two streaming apps (YouTube and Tiktok) that are free.

TLDR summary Hollywood's biggest competition isn't between themselves but YouTube and Tiktok and how they are shaping and changing media consumption habits and thus the media landscape. To me the data I pointed out already shows this including 2023 lackluster box office results compared to 2022.
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Nexus, Artifactory, Packages (deb, rpm, nix), Cache, GitHub Releases... There are so many places you can grab a signed binary from that are just outright better for the health of your repo, and will respect your developers time.
In a similar position. With human brains, we know some parts are generative and some are restrictive/filtering. The filters seem to be how we align thoughts with reality. Lots of people have taken those filters out and (unfortunately for them) seem to be unable to function or (unfortunately to us) become cult leaders.
Correction: Only if you prompt them baa-dly.
I'm building an online tool to help folks applying for jobs manage their applications, interview stages, communications, etc. It's pretty common nowadays to apply for many positions, so the goal is to reduce some of the mental overhead and help you focus on what matters - getting that job!

https://rolepad.com
It's the rate of change if you draw the variable in a monolog paper. That is, a constant value there leads to an exponential growth (or reduction) of the real value.

It's common to draw economic indicators this way.

Basically, if one year had +3 and the next -3, you would be back at the original value.

The largest ever 4.6 at the peak of WFH in 2020 and the fall to a normal 2.2 in 2021 both represent fast growth in productivity. The only "bad" point there is the -1.7 at the peak of RTO in 2022. So the GP's analysis is indeed bullshit.

(But anyway, there are some much more compelling explanations for 2022 than RTO, do not take it as evidence against mandating office work, it's not strong enough for that.)
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I've been a PhD student in Machine Learning for the past 3.5 years, but due to personal circumstances am having to leave the programme, so am looking for alternative opportunities that I can go on to. I also have a BSc in Mathematics and an MSc in Computer Science, and 3 years work experience in software development, doing a mix of fullstack JS/React and Ruby on Rails. I'm open to any ML or software dev roles.
A search for "traveling construction jobs" will get you at least part of the story, but advertised salaries usually don't include the unplanned-but-essentially-guaranteed overtime. There's also Per Diem rates that aren't technically part of salary/base pay - e.g., $250 per day to cover your travel/hotel/meals.

The demurrage clauses in contracts are generally more expensive than paying overtime, even 2x rates, so it happens as the project falls behind, which it almost inevitably does, due to weather, failed drug tests, people walking/getting kicked off the job, etc.

Things like large concrete pours or topping off a wind turbine need to be done in one go, which can quickly result in 16, 18, or 20-hour days and/or 7-day work weeks.

So, the job might advertise $20-40/hr, but many of these guys are making well over $100k annually.
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Senior full stack engineer with 10+ years experience, 7+ YoE with Node.js & React. Work experience ranges from working on complex web apps with millions of users, to building greenfield projects as a founding engineer for early & late stage startups. I'm open to all kind of work, especially AI related

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Typescript, Node.js, React.js, Next.js, TailwindCSS, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud, Cloudflare, Docker, GraphQL

Some professional work experience

• 2nd hire at https://lido.app and Outerbase (YC '23)

• Tech Lead at vroom.com ($1b+ revenue) where I rebuilt their website

• Full stack engineer at https://www.iheart.com (120m+ registered users)

Recent side projects:

• https://zsync.xyz HN / Reddit alternative with live updating and other UI/UX improvements. Was on the front page of HN

• https://mindgarden.app/ Notion clone + publishing tool + headless CMS
I've used that file before but... it always felt sort of hacky. And every time I want to use it, I need to figure out where it is. It really feels like there should be a more obvious, straight forward way to do it. Admittedly, "user friendly" is not git's strong suit.
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Yes, I've used both. Personally, I like Nano because it's just so simple. There's something about tools that are scaled down in complexity, but not being so simple that they're unusable, that I enjoy a lot. I can see Vim being the better choice for a thesis, especially considering the history tree. Did you edit it in a word processor after?
You missed the "The joke was" at the start of the quote.
There's a lot of space between a ban and "just don't use it everywhere".
It was dropped because it made users more susceptible to be tracked.

Requiring the opt-in to happen on the side creates an avenue to critique and dispute whether the website does the thing they say they do.
Looks very nice.

Side note: I released https://tabserve.dev a few months ago.

It uses a browser tab and web workers as a reverse proxy to get a https url to localhost.
Life in the Slow Lane (2015)
Have you tried using Lexical? I found it to be very buggy and ended up replacing it with Quill.
NATO launches a €1B venture capital fund
Spherical harmonics are used all over the place in climate science.
But two big examples are Global oscillations like NAO&ENSO (so ocean currents and atmospheric pressure mostly), and analyzing wind-patterns on the globe/sphere.