skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Forget editing /etc/hosts!"

Right.

Why would you edit a local file (or create a record on your own local DNS), generate your own self-signed certificate, and immediately get a website that can be tested on your machine, on your local network or on your VPN, when you can pay someone $19 per device (MacOS only) for something less powerful?

I understand that everybody needs to make money for a living, but this seems like the digital equivalent of bottling tap water and asking people to pay for it.
Postgres has supported both binary and logical replication for many years now. In fact, in v16 (now in beta) it supports bidirectional replication (aka multi-master) out of the box [0].

Beyond that, the feature disparity between MySQL and Postgres is still massive even with the recent improvements in MySQL 8.x [1]. (Uncheck all the engines except PG and MySQL for a stark picture.) MySQL is to lighttpd as Postgres is to Nginx or Apache: far fewer features and not necessarily faster depending on the use cases.

[0]: https://postgrespro.com/blog/pgsql/5969859#commit_36628396

[1]: https://www.sql-workbench.eu/dbms_comparison.html
Thank you for the link! Unfortunately the code in spell.c and spelcore.c seems to call out to an external DLL, whose source doesn't seem to be included here. Later versions of MS Word did the same thing, e.g., msspell3.dll.
Digital roots were known to Pythagoras. According to https://medium.com/@beeezy/pythagoras-hacked-your-password-8... they're also mentioned in "Indian Vedic math". Seems like prior art for a numeric hash.
You're correct, I updated my comment. I'm having trouble keeping track of all the videos of floating specks of junk. At any rate, there are currently no "successful replications" of the superconductivity result.
Oh wow, that is really bad. Like 10 different technologies and at least 2 programming languages for a soldering iron firmware.
In case you, like me, were wondering what mpox is:

https://www.who.int/news/item/28-11-2022-who-recommends-new-...
Ask HN: Anyone from CISA on Here?
In both the email and the view as web page, web page, the formatting is somewhat difficult to read:

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDHSCISA/bulletins/3685941

Checked in Chrome and Firefox on Ubuntu Linux.
Depends on what you expect. I've got an almost launch day original Switch and have played dozens of games on it and feel I'm still getting my money's worth.
The Lite and OLED models are just slight variations on the same machine so why would you expect groundbreaking advancements?

A Switch won't play 100Gb+ AAA titles, but everytime I see video's from 'next gen' games I still see 'uncanny valley' effects and about the same gameplay. While it could look better, Mario Kart with realistic water reflections and raytraced shadows still would be Mario Kart (and probably no longer run on a portable console).
I did something similar once with a high power lowish voltage battery array - my soldering iron's shroud literally vaporized with a deafening bang before even triggering the fuse.
I'm sorry, when did I ask you for tone-policing? You seem to be taking any criticism of SO as overblown, and your comments are dismissive of how many user's post of how they felt they were treated on SO.
Fortunately, I visit random websites in a disposable VM on Qubes OS, which does not have any browsing history.
What’s in Euclid’s First Light Images?
It could be that. Or it could just be the noxious tribal-flavour-of-the-month thing that has been there ever since I got into this industry in the late 90s. I've seen several waves of it, and had plenty of people roll their eyes about suggested technology choices in ways that basically came down to but that isn't cool.

It's in large part because the industry is top-heavy with younger people who get senior titles and decision making powers after only a handful of years of work, and they're by nature excitement and novelty seekers. I definitely went through that phase.

Do I want to work in cool tech? Yes. But there's always a trade-off.
I've just started looking into this, and since this seems to be doing a few automatic rebases under the hood, I wonder how this behave if commits get randomly pushed to origin. For git is always obvious when you are about to amend/overwrite a pushed HEAD and you can push forcefully only explicitly.

Edit: anonymous branches are destined to be pushed remotely (to be reviewed and merged) and there is no local merge as far as I can tell, you can name these branches but no "merge back to development branch once done". Completely different workflow, having the ability to merge or "collapse" the anonymous branch to its parent would be nice, when you don't really need to push your feature branches anywhere.
I also remember having read about "jiko bukken" properties in Japan. Might this also play a role?
Just to be clear, we have deckhands in the pipeline to become captains now. We understand the need to invest for the future. That does not make it any less of a shortage today.
Oh, I'd expect an LLM to fail to imitate the higher order humour

(I'd probably answer the question with a troll failing to count on his fingers, an Igor offering to lend a hand and a pocket device containing a very annoying imp or a room-sized magical calculating device from Unseen University yielding the answer in the form of a very argumentative chatbot, possibly called something that rhymes with Bing.)

But the tone ChatGPT uses is just odd like it's unable to pattern match Pratchett's prose at all so it just goes for a non-standard conversational tone it associates with "style", and throws in vague references to Discworld and dragons and multiverses rather than references to characters because the only thing in its "Terry Pratchett" data is a handful of words scraped from book blurbs which suggests it has a high conceptual overlap with "fantasy".

I want someone to train an LLM on Discworld now...
Ugh... see - they didn't "get it".

The point of SharePoint was to allow end-users to cobble things together themselves. One of the original design philosophies was "Excel on the web", hence the reliance on it's Lists as a core data structure (as inappropriate as it would of course become, when users started treating them like giant RDMS stores). My anecdata is from talking to some of the original design team members, from when Microsoft acquired it from VTI.

It was originally not intended for developers, it was for power-users. The fact that it was built on .NET technologies made it extensible though, and boom - quickly enough there was a huge market.
Have you considered offering non-monetary perks to tip the scale ?

One example : Software engineers often get the "Work From Home" perk. Not sure if the industry offers software to remotely operate a tugboat, similar to a drone operator ? If it didn't exist, what if you developed such software ?
Nvidia’s CEO Is the Uncle of AMD’s CEO
So does Safari
Amazon rolls out its virtual health clinic nationwide
I'd be more interested in elmu's meeting schedules and minutes

why is he so opaque about his business dealings?
Thank you for answer! Yep, I'm moving to ovh because you pay for channel, not for consumed traffic. Ovh has a load balancer, but for 0.5pb per month it will cost you 15k. Data is mostly outbound. Haproxy will help until the channel is not saturated.
EDIT
I've checked linode pricing, their lb has a flat fee because it includes 2tb of traffic :)
> It clearly doesn't need to be like us to be useful, because it's useful and definitely not like us.

For many people, the question is not—and has never been—"is it useful?", but "is it conscious?", or "when will it bring the singularity?"

Yes, it is useful as it is. But it is not conscious, and if it is a step closer to the still-very-hypothetical singularity, then it is not a particularly large one, because of these very real fundamental limitations.

But engaging with people who are clearly talking about whether AI is conscious by responding as if they're talking about whether it is useful could very easily be seen as engaging in bad faith.
Why would someone do an experiment without a theory to test? How would they know that a particular result was interesting without a theory about the expected result?
Most languages have an idiomatic way of writing them, Java certainly does, Python, ruby, etc. C++ doesn’t simply because it’s a giant mess of hodge podge. Simply being able to compile something doesn’t mean you’re using the language idiomatically, and when you innovate your style off the idiomatic path sooner or later you’ll end up in a world of hurt with everyone you turn to for help telling you you did it wrong. You’ll have trouble finding collaborators, retaining talent, etc. Eventually you’ll rewrite as an idiomatic version. The fact languages have gotten tighter over time with their idiomatic style being verified up front is, IMO, a feature not a flaw. over the 40 or so years I’ve been programming I’ve come to appreciate more and more being able to learn the idiomatic way toll free when learning the language. I think rusts limitations are more to do with immaturity than opinionation - for instance lack of async closures, async traits, compile time reflection, generators, etc, are all point in time flaws that with time will make the language much easier to make expressive and flexible implantations.

Yeah I get they’re not interested in learning Rust - but again that’s not rusts fault or a flaw, or in any way supportive of less opinionated languages. It’s a rookie mistake. When you’ve only learned one or two languages learning a new one is a chore and disheartening and it’s always someone else’s fault you feel like a loser. As you mature as an engineer first it gets easier and more rewarding to learn new ways of doing things, but you also realize that feeling of being a loser is just the brain resisting and the feeling of learning.
I love comments like the one above yours "just do this eyesore/expensive/impractical thing instead!"

Good enough is good enough. There is no one size fits all, and we really need to start leveraging everything we can to tackle energy storage. Each thing used doesn't need to be perfect for energy density, it just has to be good enough.

> assume you build a tower 120 meters tall.

vs sticking a concrete block in the ground like this paper is proposing.

As long as the durability is there, and it scales up like they say, this concrete block thing has interesting practical potential, because concrete is so ubiquitous. It's in foundations, it's in walls, it's in floors, it's under the road, sidewalk etc.

Heck, where I live we could turn our whole street in to one big battery to service the neighbourhood, while we couldn't possibly stick a whopping great big tower with concrete blocks in it, or a suitable size water tower.
In my experience it is partially true.

Topics punctuated with surprise will help people learn the material presented.
Sort of - the older custom hardware was smaller and simpler, so it could be done by a smaller team with simpler tools (or by hand with rubylith like the 6502!), and chips had comparatively cheaper processes with fewer layers. So the break-even point for "custom vs adapt non-custom" was at a smaller number of units. It could also be a source of real competitive advantage.
Connect buyer and seller of taxi services and take a fraction off the top of the transaction.

Who knew that this could actually be profitable, other than everyone?
It’s amazing that people accept we live under capitalism and accept that MIT physics graduates will work 80+ hours a week at a quant trading firm just to make money, but we somehow believe that people who have no other options won’t resort to crime.

The crime people are mad about in SF is petty theft of consumer packaged goods and food, with some opportunistic car robberies. That is the crime this org would try to fight. If your implication is that these criminals are just morally bankrupt people, I find that thesis much more demeaning and implausible.

EDIT: Don’t forget that the guy called himself “poor” and claims he isn’t now. The problem isn’t lack of money now, it’s lack of opportunity. That guy didn’t steal because he knew it would limit future opportunities.

Being poor doesn’t cause crime, being impoverished with not hope for a better life following the law is.
I'm not saying that the account should be banned, or that self-promotion should never be allowed. Nonetheless, the account creation date and lack of other comments clearly shows that it was created for the purpose of selling the submitter's product. I think it's fair to flag this submission dead and then see what else the person does with their account, if anything.
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> If I do, then I may as well write my own encoder at that point.

I've actually done this with jpeg & mpeg1. I spent maybe a hundred hours trying to get existing libraries to play by my rules. When you completely own the implementation everything gets out of the way.

I don't like that I had to do this, but it was the only way to wrap my head around the problem and bend it to my will.
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Exactly - as long as the delivered data is of "expected" quality, I don't (want to) care.
thank you! so generally good enough to _almost_ go through the entire day.
I stopped using Uber since they started ramping up prices.
Do you know how LENR works? Basically, deuterium is dissolved in palladium or nickel (the lattice), until metal starts to crack, to create high concentration of deuterium. Then muons are used[0] to start some fusion. Higher concentration of deuterium means that single muon can accelerate more nuclear fusions, so yield is better. However, artificial muons are expensive to produce, while cosmic muons are rare, so reactor may run fine on one day and fail on other just because of bad or good cosmic weather. If we will have cheap source of muons, then LENR will be practical.

My idea is to try to accelerate fusion by banging Uranium in the lattice, instead of bombarding it with muons. It's just an idea with little chance that it will actually work as-is. Many iterations of research and fine tuning are required to make it work.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon-catalyzed_fusion
In case you were wondering (as I was) about the qualifications of the author to write about AI, here is what I found on the "New Atlantis" website:

Ari Schulman is editor of The New Atlantis, as well as editor of TheNewAtlantis.com and of the New Atlantis Books series.

His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Hedgehog Review, Commentary, First Things, and Slate. He has previously been a research assistant in the Opinion department at the New York Times, an ontological engineer at Cycorp, and has degrees in computer science and English from the University of Texas at Austin.

I'm still not certain. I have a degree in computer science, but it had no AI focus, and even if it had, it was so long ago as to be mostly irrelevant to what is currently called AI if I had not been keeping up independently in the field.
at least here in India, Uber's service has become downright hostile. Drivers will cancel if the destination isn't to their liking. At airports, they refuse to even arrive if you don't pay them extra in cash. The only people who still use Uber are the ones who have no options or don't know about the options available.

The worst part is that they've driven out all the existing private cab operators from many airports through their earlier aggressive pricing. So now you literally have no option but to take an Uber from some airports, except that the Uber driver will be hostile and charge extra in cash.

I really want this company to crash and burn. From drivers to customers, no one has a good thing to say about them here.
All mainstream console controllers experience more or less stick drift.
Nintendo still replaces Joy-cons (even out of warranty) for free in the EU.
>Practically all e-bikes are limited to 20-25mph, so practically I don't understand what the difference would be between the two.

20-25 MPH is really fast for a human-powered bike. A reasonably fit person can hit those speeds, but generally only in short bursts and/or favorable terrain. I ride into work everyday through mildly uphill paths, and I only average 13 MPH on a good day (closer to 12 on most). The practical difference is that a throttle-equipped e-bike allows someone to sustain high speeds, regardless of fitness level or terrain. An e-bike rider can (and do) mindlessly go at max speed when human-powered bikes naturally can't.
Nice, thanks for sharing this. I use sslip.io but they do not provide TLS certificates, so acme v1 validation is required using a wan IP address and ensuring router port forwarding or cloudflare tunnel etc is running. This magic domain is so much easier.
Depends on if you look at intelligence as what you have been taught versus the potential to learn anything. They would have the same potential to learn anything given enough exposure.
$19 would be a business expense so I don’t think buying my partner flowers with it would go down well.

In a professional context time is money. Setting up everything you’re discussing takes time and would need tweaking every time my network changes (not to mention require router access). $19 a year is a rounding error in terms of developer expenses. It’s entirely legitimate to pay for a tool to just do it for you.
Many foresters will warn you that if you have an over grown lot, harvesters will come in and harvest the big ones, leaving you the crap trees.

Or at least the was the case in rural Wa ca 15 years ago.
As others have pointed out, you can get these in F# or OCaml, or Scala as well. Or at least variants of them. And for F# and Scala you will have the advantage of an ecosystem of integrated libraries for .NET and the JVM respectively as well.

And honestly, TypeScript's union & intersection types are pretty nice and that language is nice and expressive.

Actually I actually routinely run up against expressiveness limits in Rust's enums in places where e.g. Scala would actually allow for a more static-declarative model (for better or for worse). I haven't worked in Scala in 15 years, but it was actually quite compelling.
What is that percentage exactly?

There are no particular education requirements for writing software. Some of the best developers have no formal education in the field.
The new kid on the block
To use your phonetic spelling juujutsu would be more like jew-jew-tsue, with the first jew being stretched out a little. That is, both ju syllables would be pronounced the same way. The tsu on the end is its own syllable.

Unless we're talking about the English word, which I'm not sure how to pronounce. If we're talking about the American word then it's really just like a lot of other murkin words: butcher it any way you like.
No, the point is, you host it for your own needs, so you are not using their service. Your implementation is for YOUR needs. You can make it public or not and advertise it or not at your discretion. What we do is make it public, but don't advertise it at all. Our software just uses it when needed.

If your use case calls for 400k/reqs a second on what your IP is and you haven't yet figured out how to build out your infrastructure(or pay someone to do it for you), you have bigger problems than figuring our what your public IP is.
Ah, I can see it. I feel like it's more a criticism specifically of US civics (a direct shot at the supreme court for example) and US anti-intellectualism (some of the passengers believe the boat isn't sinking at all), but pulling back from that context and I see how it could be seen as apologia for various forms of nonrepresentative government.
Why is that bad? It's possible that it's sloppy or lazy, but it's also possible that the author has carefully considered their options and is using the best tools (or their preferred tools) for the job. As described elsewhere in the thread, a soldering iron does more than just get hot, and as described in the readme, the project has accumulated a lot of functionality.
have you considered the possibility that you yourself are biased and censorious, and exist just to disrupt and remove speech you don't like, e.g. the speech of this group?

after all, nobody here is disrupting andy's right to free speech, but since he's doing more harm than good to society, it's totally okay to not propagate his speech and to encourage others not to
Ask HN: What is/was your biggest pain point with integrating PayPal with Stripe?
[1] Need for paypal: Do you think you do not need paypal if you have stripe

[2] Integration effort: is this a blocker for adding paypal?

[3] Checkout experience: how much do you care about the UX of your checkout given you have to render the paypal button separately

[4] Analytics / ops: How would you manage stripe and paypal dashboards separately for analytics, chargebacks, refunds etc

[5] Pricing: Paypal's pricing might work out to be cheaper for businesses of certain scale, would this be a decision driver?

In addition, a second processor would de-risk your payments by preventing a lock in with any one processor. Is this an important consideration for you?

Note: We are not affiliated with Stripe / Paypal, we are building an open source payment switch which comes pre integrated with stripe, paypal, other processors. Also we are not referring to integration on e-commerce platforms like shopify
i know what async/await is. the GIL is the only (technical) thing preventing async/await from being concurrent-by-default. nearly every other language that has async/await (or promises) is concurrent-by-default. people will want to run their async python code concurrently, but most async code will not "just work".
Previously in my career, I worked on forest growth simulations where we looked at dozens of different harvesting strategies, distributed over the timber stands of a property over the course of 100+ years. 20 harvest strategies x 1000s of stands x 100 annual plans is too big to brute force (the underlying tree growth model was not fast) but we used simulated annealing to optimize for multiple objectives - wildlife habitat, water quality, harvest cost, and timber volume.

We found a very interesting conclusion: there appears to be a combination of strategies that improves biological outcomes AND increases timber harvest volumes over the long term. The debate seems to always center on wilderness (no management) vs industrial timber farming (monoculture). But our models clearly showed a third path - it required a spatially-explicit, long-term plan with lots of labor-intensive interventions but it was absolutely possible to manage a forest for multiple purposes - timber, wildlife and human recreation - and do so without compromising any of the objectives. That these practices closely mirror the forest management of native people is not at all surprising.
it’s not like it connects to internet or anything, having a digital display to set power/temperature is pretty convenient
I saw the presentation, its about having cloud ready or cloud native scm, i dont think this is a great idea

git is about working locally
github (or similar solutions) is the cloud part

cloud native scm sound like a bad idea
Sun 'umbrella' tethered to asteroid might help mitigate climate change
> Do the factories they made 20 years ago for what was then cutting-edge tech still exist

They're phasing out gradually. I work for an IC company and we're retooling some mostly-analogue parts from 10+ years ago onto modern processes because the right sort of fab is increasingly hard to find.

I suspect that even if you dig an old GDSII file out from the nineties for one of those chips it may be hard to find somewhere to make it without requiring tweaks.
Uber will have to post profits like this every quarter for 20 years to just break even on the investment they've received.

At least in my country, the business is dead already.