skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The monthly payment is important one. Not the price... So either the wages have to go up or the property prices go down. Or mortages extend an other 10 or 20 years.
Yes, initially we want to hire a bit closer to our base (the Netherlands). Eventually that might change.
Korean academic body invalidates LK-99 superconductor research results
Nuclear war, maybe. WWIII would require two global superpowers, not a global superpowers and a country with the GDP of Greece that's struggling to remain a regional power.
Show HN: Making Don Quijote accessible to Spanish learners
I love simple english wikipedia and I wanted to use that style of writing to make spanish books accessible to me.

First I simplified the spanish[0] but simplification can't remove every word I don't know. This led me to adding the definition for words I probably wouldn't know[1].

Second simplifying the spanish ruined the magic of Don Quijote so I tried just adding definitions to the original[2].

The definitions aren't perfect but they let me stay in the flow of the text. I'm tempted to make a firefox extension to annotate any website so I can spend more time reading spanish.

Let me know what you think!

[0] https://spanish-xz56.s3.amazonaws.com/2000_simple.epub

[1] https://spanish-xz56.s3.amazonaws.com/2000_simple_B1.epub

[2] https://spanish-xz56.s3.amazonaws.com/2000_B1.epub
Because sites, advertising networks, and advertisers do care about it and they are part of the web too.
If you don’t classify content that should be filtered out you quickly end up with a Microsoft Tay-like fiasco.
ChromeOS bundles its own browser and goes even further in preventing people from installing their own than Windows. Imagine if on the first boot of ChromeOS it asks if you want to use Chrome, Edge, Safari, or Firefox.
Disagree.

If you were in Manhattan the first week after 9/11 you witnessed tremendous solidarity and cooperation.

It was, in some small way, life changing to witness.
I used to use a firefox extension that showed the number of open tabs in the corner, as I found firefox would sometimes go wrong and loose everything I had open when I got to about four thousand open tabs.

I didn't get around to reinstalling it after a fresh install.
> Solving cultural problems with technology generally doesn't work.

That's a ridiculous statement! Technology is the prime driver of culture! If you want to effect lasting change, the last thing you should do is try to convince people you are right. Set up the technical infrastructure to support the culture you want!

In fact, it's the reverse — culture has practically no impact on technology once deployed.
My attitude is that even if all the enthusiasts switched, its too small of a marketshare to matter, and its clear nobody wants to build on the Firefox platform - not even Brendan Eich.

Our best hope is for a fork of Chromium to be maintained by the Linux Foundation and for other vendors (and Electron) to use that fork instead. Just moving Electron over would provide significant momentum.
It doesn't. The LXD team does make and support the snap, but LXD itself doesn't depend on it at all.

The majority of LXD users are actually on ChromeOS which is Gentoo based and uses a LXD ebuild package. Debian has a native .deb package too, so does ArchLinux, Alpine, OpenSUSE and a few others.

LXD however does need some special code to handle being run as a snap, that part can become a bit annoying to account for and test at times.
The other nice thing about primarily cloud infrastructures is, as an infra/ops guy I can build tooling and abstractions over it to allow developer and BI teams to go much faster without my help at all. An on-prem solution can allow this, but the fact that so much of the complexity is managed by the cloud provider makes it a lot faster and easier. A feature that could take months to roll out is usually offered by AWS for a price tag that's easy for the business to understand.

My one irritation with stuff like AWS is that a lot of it is needlessly esoteric, to the point where I think they make their docs bad on purpose to get you to buy their enterprise support packages.
> Safari's is unlimited(?)

Safari content blocker rules are limited. Formerly 50k, increased to 150k: https://adguard.com/en/blog/adguard-for-safari-1-11.html
Exactly the same things now happen in your cloud provider. Now you just don't see them.
Is this any more useful: https://research.ibm.com/blog/nasa-hugging-face-ibm
Google Meet reported errors for Firefox users which no other service had problems with.

Google Cloud’s login page frequently broke for Firefox users.

YouTube was famously slower for a long period of time where they used a proprietary API which only Chrome supported instead of the standard API which Firefox and Safari implemented.

I suspect that all of those weren’t malice as much as neglect but for such a large company it’s definitely not a lack of resources if they choose not to test on browsers they don’t make.

The real damage, however, was not things actually breaking but the constant push to use Chrome. If you used Firefox you would be prompted to do that frequently visiting Google search, mail, YouTube, etc. with various allegations of better performance which didn’t hold up in testing.
This shit's not worth it.
> Solving cultural problems with technology generally doesn't work.

Solving cultural problems is indeed difficult but most of us are not going to be at a company long enough to give a shit. The name of they game is taking money off the table and the best way to do that is to deliver value quickly and then move to the next table.
The a-ha moment when you grok "Elixir is actually a Lisp" is very exciting indeed. It's a beautiful language that fits all of its elements together so nicely.
For me, it's usually trying to rapidly justify the existence of whatever Rube Goldberg machine I'm having to explain. There's always reasons behind the madness, even if they're not particularly good ones.
Rlhf has a human labeling component: given two outputs to the same prompt, which one is better?
Most small businesses should be focused on their business, and not their IT.
Perhaps these rapid advancements are an indication that we've been visited by, or are currently under the guidance of, a significantly more advanced civilization. /s
You need people to evaluate the answers to improve the output and adjust the weights, there is a lot of manual labor involved at training every single one of these models, it’s not just magic.
Everything is ratcheting down a notch and the 'premium consumers' are driving all of the economy right now. We don't see contraction in overall spending because when someone suddenly is too poor to afford stuff the richer people above them are also getting poorer and changing their spending habits to pick up the slack. Walmart has noticed this and called it out in their earnings reports IIRC--they see richer people are frequenting their stores and spending more money which is making up for the poorer people that can't afford to shop at even Walmart anymore.

So you have the incredibly wealthy people that have actually gained massively as they've been able to gamble on the market in the short term--they aren't changing any habits. But the folks just below them who previously might have bought his and her matching Teslas without a second thought are now looking at their slightly diminished wealth and deciding maybe we settle for just one new Chevy Volt for now. They're pulling up the slack for the former Volt buyers who are now looking at their shrinking savings and deciding, no new Volt this year we're going to get a 3 year old used car. You can follow this ratcheting down all the way to the very bottom level where unfortunately the poorest/lowest levels are just being completely written out and dropped from the economy entirely. The big picture looks like nothing is wrong but the composition of who is spending is changing a lot.
That is the idea yes. Over the long term everything converges to monthly payment. If someone has $1000 to spend on a house - they ultimately don't care if its a $300,000 house with a 2% APR loan, or a $200,000 house with a 10% APR loan (math made up and not exactly correct).

The problem is people are very very happy when they can make some cash off a move. People are very very sad when they are underwater. To all the people that paid $250-$275k for the house above? They are going to delay for a very long time before they sell for 200k. Likely long enough that inflation will slowly bring up the value.

People are very emotional about this and do not make wise economic decisions. For example - the finances of the time may mean that the house they are both selling and buying are 30% down. But it's a real feel bad, and losing money in a house is enough to stop many people from moving. a 30% gain where the seller both makes money on their sale AND ends up paying way more in total? It feels good and people jump on that instantly. (And the way down payments work, its generally easier for someone with limited liquid assets to to the sell + buy when the market is up 30%, vs when the market is down 30%).
People that dont like the cloud are generally engineers who were left behind by the paradigm shift. They want development to go back to what they spent a decade learning. And so they complain about complexity or out of control cost. The truth is, they arent effective engineers with the cloud because they havent learned it in depth. It is clearly 100x better than on premise, and the boom in tech is partially from productivity gains from cloud. Infrastructure as Code is a major technological improvement.
>> What prevents the existence of such an ecosystem?

It's in the OP and in my post: "anticompetitive DRM lock-in". Lack of interoperability.
> I can literally right now, sitting here in my underwear, spin up 4 clustered servers in 3 different continents with a globally replicated object storage and a master + 2 slaves setup of SQL databases on each location.

Hey I can do that too in our on-prem environment because it's well managed. Hell, I can do that in my fricken homelab if you'll accept postgress.

Cloud is neat and the major vendors know how to manage it. That doesn't mean you need to pay them to use a well managed platform, but you do need to pay _somebody_.
> Most probability measures 𝒫 (and all measures that are continuous on their parameters) give zero probability to H0.

And some don't.

> So (in Bayesian terms) H0 is a priori wrong w.p. 1.

Or not.

> And in non-Bayesian terms, you’re calculating the likelihood of your measurements under two competing hypotheses, one of which is correct w.p. 0 even conditioned on one of the two hypotheses being correct.

If one of the two (H0 or H1) is correct and you don't know which one then it could be either... Of course is you knew a priori which one is correct you wouldn't be considering the other at all.
I don't get it. Surely there was a middle ground where prices weren't so low customers didn't think you were running a scam, but weren't so high they became "too expensive for what we offered"?

What you're describing doesn't seem to be anything unique to cloud; it's something every business deals with. Figuring out the right market segmentation to deliver cheaper prices to those who are more price-conscious, and more functionality to those who can pay.
Don't forget aliens!
Effective Haskell is a practical hands-on introduction for working developers
Author here. I wanted to share that Effective Haskell is now out of beta and available as both a DRM-free eBook and available in print. Since I've finished writing the book, I've been working on putting up some extra content at https://effective-haskell.com. The site is still quite a work in progress, but there are solutions to the exercises in the first half of the book so far, plus detailed descriptions of each exercise and chapter.
in theory yes, but if you own a home with a lower mortgage rate, are you really gonna lower the price of your house, so that you can then buy another home with a higher rate? you may just stay with your lower rate
At least with on-prem, you can talk to the infrstructure team's management to negotiate adding currently non-supported features.

I was hired at Amazon 8 years ago to implement a couple of features. One of them was difficult because it required communication / buy-in from multiple two pizza teams. By the time I left it was stalled. Three years ago I randomly started at an AWS customer who needed that feature as they had followed the AWS conventional wisdom for setting things up and architected themselves into a corner. I was able to craft some workarounds but they're hacky.

AWS has been promising us this feature "next quarter" for the last 3 years.

If you look around, you can find a number of weird corner-cases where AWS does not make it easy to do the simple thing you want to do, but you can hack around it.

We went looking at GCP and Azure and there are similar issues, though in different parts of the infrastructure.

Not to mention each of them change their interface frequently enough to be annoying. Thankfully, reverse incompatible changes are not at all the norm.

My cloud infrastructure is replete with architectural warts to avoid quirks we didn't know existed until after we deployed. My on-prim components, though managed by a different team, do what we want them to do because the team who built them asked us what we wanted before building it.

AWS weirdness accounts for about 85% of my time. On prim weirdness for 5%. But yes, local-first is obviously a non-starter.
You have to be able to beat the cloud locally to make doing so make sense. AWS et al. set the bar and it’s difficult to beat them with your local infrastructure.
No one pays for web browsers, I doubt Chrome would be a viable separate company.
Walter Rudin's real analysis slaughtered me in school. I can't imagine getting to measure spaces and Lebesgue integrals. Respect to people who get this.
why would you respond to the question with an unrelated question instead of answering directly?
Valve enables illegal gambling through Counter Strike [video]
.app Support too! Made the switch already, fast and cheaper than what I was paying at Google. Can't really complain about that but I wonder what delays they ran into if they were hoping for a July release.
:(1) was also an external program at least in v2 unix
>In summary, this is fundamentally different because it takes away your control of your own device.

No, it allows a business to deny to you if you can't attest to the security of your device. You are still free to do whatever you want on your own device.

If a business had an office that required you to unlock a door, but it also had a pickable lock that wouldn't be great security. It allows people to lie about having a badge by letting them pick the lock to get in. If a business increased security by making the lock no longer printable that seems like a good thing to me.

>LineageOS is a good example of this; they have their own Safetynet implementation which has very little buy-in.

Have they actually approached apps and offered compensation for them to implemented it? Or are they hoping apps just randomly decide to adopt it?
Extras worry they'll be replaced by AI. Hollywood is already doing body scans
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On windows you can do this with RESERVE, e.g. MEM_RESERVE from https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/memoryap... - For example when you have a callstack (on Windows), it can reserve (say) 1MB of contigous space, but then only "commit" some parts of it, and the tail (head?) be sort of guard page, in order to "commit" more from the reserve.

Now getting commit from reserve might fail, as you've mentioned because Windows does not overcommit, but it's possible to a degree.

I guess same with really large vector can be done.
Hitting the height barrier is likely to be less harmful to the driver and other people than hitting the bridge itself, so that seems to be taking due care (and again, killing the driver is extremely unlikely in either scenario).

The purpose of a height barrier is to act as a sacrificial component and I would consider that it improves the safety of the structure as well as being cheaper. It's a very common design to see metal or concrete poles (bollards) used to prevent drivers from causing harm to other road users, features or shop fronts. They're safe and effective.
They have 10000 engineers working 50 hours a week to keep their cloud running. The thing works on the back of very hard work from very smart people.
Fluff

So they haven't really tested it but belive it isn't a superconductor and the article doesn't say the reason why they belive that
Congratulations! I use Polars to process my banking csvs into a monthly report. Speed isn't a priority, but ergonomics is- I love Polars consistent and readable Python API!
I just joined Polars as a fresh hire, I'm excited to help make it easier to use and faster :)
I work for USGS EROS Data Center and this is basically our life. Taking remote sensing data and generating various models to determine all sorts of things. Yes, I agree with much of what people are saying. This means very little to the public except when it matters. Some of the projects I work on determine famine early warning systems across the globe so that governments can make sure they have enough food for their populations. Others depend upon the health of crops. How people are using the land (land cover). How much cheatgrass and other things are there that affects rangelands (it cuts the tongues of cows for instance). We use super computers (Cray HPCs with GPUs) and deep learning (PyTorch/Keras/TF). But, given all of the above, I'm not sure how this would help me to do my job.
Probably because it doesn't actually package the Python interpreter into the executable and relies on a hashbang (ie. `#!/bin/python`) to actually run the bundled source files. Pex [0] does the same thing.

It's a half solution at best, but if you control the infrastructure it does dramatically simplify things like Dockerfiles and other deployment stuff. Not super useful for general distribution IMO.

[0]: https://pex.readthedocs.io/en/v2.1.140/
No, it doesn't really matter. You personally don't need everyone in your neighborhood to walk. Buy a home that is close and you have a walkable home. There are plenty to choose from. Someone lives close to the stores.
Make a .desktop file that uses --ProfileManager and --no-remote , and then just open it per profile
I'd imagine somewhere well under 50, probably with plenty of CPUs
Show HN: Vim plugin that removes API keys from your code
Turkey investigates reported cancellation of Disney Plus series on Ataturk
The entire structure is not value oriented.

The technical people want to solve technical problems and don't give a fuck about the company mission. The immediate management wants to improve the measurable recurrent tasks and don't even think about supporting anything different. The top management wants to cut jobs, minimize the need for competency, cut costs, minimize flexibility and lean time to think about non-recurrent tasks because IT is a cost center.

The result is that all of those problems you point get solved. That's not the issue. But nothing of value is allowed to exist.
AWS is running a 96-core, 192-thread, custom Xeon server
I would expect other factors to play in a little more, but I can't say they will. (Size, location, etc.)

That is, I don't think moving is usually driven just by prices. Is it? Investing largely is, but investment firms buying up neighborhoods is its own problem.
Based on the information in the article these complaints were raised after the contract was ended. Why not refuse the work or raise the complaint at the time? The article also mentions the work was worse than they thought, but indicates they were told what the work entailed before starting it. Also the primary person being quoted lost his wife and family, and blames this work on why he lost his wife. Anyone who has been in a relationship knows singular reasons are an oversimplification of a complicated relationship.
If you don't release a censored model for the casual observer to tinker with, you could end up with a model that says something embarrassing or problematic. Then the news media hype cycle would be all about how you're not a responsible AI company, etc. So releasing a censored AI model seems like it should mitigate those criticisms. Anyone technical enough to need an uncensored version will be technical enough to access the uncensored version.

Besides, censoring a model is probably also a useful industry skill which can be practiced and improved, and best methods published. Some of these censorship regimes appear to have gone to far, at least in some folks' minds, so clearly there's a wrong way to do it, too. By practicing the censorship we can probably arrive at a spot almost everyone is comfortable with.
Calculations reveal high-resolution view of quarks inside protons
Regarding the example at the start of the article I haven't found that new design engineers are less capable than ones in the past. Hiring interested and capable of learning junior designers isn't a problem at all. If anything, with the availability of inexpensive 3D printers, more students actually build stuff in their free time since it is more accessible than needing to have access to machine tools. In the past you would have mostly been looking at the few who had joined a design team like Formula SAE.

I still do think it would be beneficial to any aspiring mechanical designer to spend some time working in a machine shop and learning how things are actually made. It is definitely one of the most beneficial experiences that I had during my schooling and made me stand out from the rest of my fellow graduates when finding a first job.
The break-even point for the Megamillions lottery is 600M. Current Jackpot-1.2B
Probably a lot less. One can effectively use a small aquarium blowing pump by connecting the sucking tube to the air intake instead of the output, and they're cheap, like 10 bucks each. The electronics would be trivial, and the switch could either act on a solenoid valve (less than 10 quid) or be a small hole in the side of the tube so that closing it with a finger would let all air in through the end of the tube.
For reference opentrackr.org runs on a single machine[1] and handles ~200k connections pr. second[2]

[1]: https://twitter.com/opentrackr/status/1383937485403693062

[2]: http://opentrackr.org/
Selecting an ERP solution should be as strongly considered as marriage. It doesn't surprise me that providers want to go cloud only. It is successful because customers have highlighted their narrow vision of cost development in many cases.
I think the point of the author was that as a young - implied: inexperienced - developer he was blinded by the power of being able to describe the world in code; and inadvertently got stuck in the rabbit hole.

Learning to take a step back and discern the best fitting abstractions that allow modeling the business domain is a learned skill. There's a difference between learning about object inheritance in school, and actually applying it in big projects where the effects only become apparent over the course of months.
Nuitka deals pretty well with those in general: https://nuitka.net/
what's the prize for the contest?
I actually prefer programs to have their own configuration files with well-intentioned format choices. Where Linux has adopted these registry-style configurations accessible only through GUI or arcane CLI commands nobody is supposed to actually utilize, it becomes far less accessible and goes against the *nix spirit, IMHO.