skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mini PCs, not Mini Computers. TFA is not talking about vaxen.
You may never convince someone to be rational but you may convince the interlocutors.

Otherwise you're creating martyrs. Everyone has a valid point, even flat earthers.

https://youtu.be/f8DQSM-b2cc
> Generating humanlike speech requires the model to act as though it thinks while speaking, while making use of filler words to make the speech sound extremely realistic.

This is impressive from a "generating humanlike conversation" standpoint, but its application in terms of a support call seems rather boneheaded to me.

I accept filler words when speaking to a human because many humans need time to think. An AI generated response does not. The filler words are extra tokens that waste time and energy.

I'd feel somewhat miffed if I found out I was speaking to an AI that was intentionally wasting my time in an effort to sound more human. I only need a TTS voice to sound more human so that I can better understand what it's saying, not so that I feel convinced that I'm talking to a real human.
Final report was 11 Aug 2023.
> I have soil moisture sensors in my garden connected to stm32 boards, I just need to setup the receiving side and I can control my drip lines (they're using opensprinkler) with soil moisture information along with weather info.

This is a use case close to my interests. I want a network of environmental things monitoring and doing some detection stuff.
As indeed a traditional HN remark, you are giving advice for applications that almost no one will ever need to build because you will never, ever see the type of traffic/users for it.

Also, doing these things ; dejoining, UUIDs and indexing all columns (really unsure about this one; why?), might be better later on, but at the start it will be a lot heavier.

Modern hardware and databases can take an incredible amount of traffic if you use them in the right and natural way without artificial tricks.
> Nothing has stopped lab-leak theorists from publically stating their case, both in general media and in scientific contexts.

The “misinformation” policies of major social media companies did exactly that.
Ahh my employer does this. The founding CEO had his desk over by the front door, and back in those days we all sat in the same big room.

We have multiple big rooms now but the current CEO still has his desk out in the open. Last time I was in the office we talked about anime lol.
The web's stagnation was not monocausal. IE6 was bad, but W3C wasn't doing anything to help beyond fixating on XML work that never went anywhere.

I agree we shouldn't let a single web browser dominate. I'm just saying that the W3C doesn't have any power to do so nor have they shown themselves capable of pulling it off.
(2022) c'mon

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33782241

Anything newer since then?
Truth Social tipped off authorities on Utah man killed by the FBI
The other thing worth noting is a server can read from 2 datastores - which as a sibling comment says, they ended up doing with a read replica. There's nothing preventing you from reading from Postgres and Redis in the same process!
Intelligence is unrelated to integrity, at least by common wisdom.

A common Warren Buffet quote passed around :
"We look for three things when we hire people. We look for intelligence, we look for initiative or energy, and we look for integrity. And if they don't have the latter, the first two will kill you, because if you're going to get someone without integrity, you want them lazy and dumb"
Probably a joke, but publicly admitting to market manipulation seems like a pretty bad idea either way.
Listening to the Qualcomm management they seemed more interested in selling licenses to technology than actual physical products.

But Qualcomm is selling more than just performance. Cost, quality, schedule, delivery of products. Qualcomm has shown they can make an SoC good enough satisfy a lot of phone manufacturers and there are thousands of Android developers and applications.

Would the Qualcomm / Google / Android ecosystem be better if they opened up more of the hardware specs to tinkerers? Maybe but I don't think they care or they don't see the business case. Apple's ecosystem is even more closed and their performance seems to be better in general.

I sat in a lot of all hands meetings when I was there listening to revenue and profit breakdown. The QTL licensing division was far more profitable than the QCT hardware division. These numbers are publicly available.
Wow, thanks! I had to search the page for 2023 to even find the text in the middle of things. Maybe it is late at night and I was skimming too quickly.
Perfect is the enemy of the good. I had the same reflex as you: carbon credits are just a modern form of indulgences but they also finance carbon reduction projects that wouldn’t get built / researched. So it’s still a positive contribution. If you click the link in their article there’s a blog post with some more info about their carbon credit purchase strategy. And it seems reasonable. Not perfect. But a step in the right direction.
There are cases on the market today with more than 7 slots next to each other like the Fractal Design Define 7 XL and the Fractal Design Meshify 2 XL.
These could fit three 3-slot cards with the right mainboard.

I think there is a market for it and i hope these products will arrive soon.
This kind of tall-centered advice, justified with "FAANG is doing it so you should too" and "but what about when you have a billion users?" is poisoning the minds of people

The world runs on success stories, not on technology. I wish “wide” thinking was default, for both un-delusion and better development in this area. But everyone is amazed with facebook (not the site, just money), so they have to imitate it, like those tribes who build jets out of wood.
I wonder how they did their selections. Some of the choices surprise me, such as reduction of staff on comp sci, software eng, electrical eng. I presume those departments would be where people want to go because of the big paying jobs.
Joins are not inherently expensive, but they can lead to expensive queries. For example, say I want to find the 10 most recent users with a phone number as their primary contact method:

SELECT …

FROM User

JOIN ContactMethod on ContactMethod.userId = User.id

WHERE ContactMethod.priority = ‘primary’ AND ContactMethod.type = ‘phoneNumber’

ORDER BY User.createdAt DESC

LIMIT 10

If there are a very large number of users, and a very large number of phone number primary contacts, you cannot make this query fast/efficient (on most RDBMSes). You CAN make this query fast/efficient by denormalizing, ensuring the user creation date and primary contact method are on the same table, and then creating a compound index. But if they’re in separate tables, and you have to join, you can’t make it efficient, because you can’t create cross-table compound indeces.

This pattern of join, filter by something in table A, sort by something in table B, and query out one page of data, is something that comes up a lot. It’s why ppl thing joins are generally expensive, but it’s more like they’re expensive in specific cases.
I am optimistic for all those professions you listed, because those are all knowledge workers.

I like that term because the vagueness is actually helpful. Ultimately these people work to become experts in various knowledge systems.

And the other thing that’s happening while AI is advancing, is that the educational system is borderline collapsing.

So what that means is that, even if AI automates a ton more coding, even if it’s capabilities keep improving, the net effect of that will still be to add more complexity: and that means the jobs of people who are doing that type of job now, are going to get more complex.

Someone has to make sure the AI data lake processor is feeding data into the chat room that displays daily metrics, for example. Now take that example and multiply it by 100, for all the new capabilities AI will create.

So maybe you don’t write the app necessarily, because AI does, but because of the fragmented nature of various vendors and services, someone still has to make sure the app talks to the DB, which talks to the AI chat bot, which does a new kind of real time metrics analysis made possible by AI. I really don’t think the demand for the type of well educated worker it takes to manage all that is being met, and won’t be for a long time to come. If you can do that work, your job will be safe.
How it's going as of a few weeks ago

US rejects Australia’s calls to end pursuit of WikiLeaks

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36919286
Pretty concerned about GDPR compliance...
Well that'll teach me
I think prices are still rising. That said, the market is split. The agencies are businesses and hence pay taxes, the direct tutors usually do not declare income and operate in a black market/cash in hand fashion. Most STEM students are financially naive. To them the prices already feel high and they seem reluctant to go truly maximaly price seeking. This in turn limits the agency market as the gap would grow to wide.

While in theory there are great alternatives in online materials etc for math remediation, the truth is most of the students using these tutor services don't lack potential but motivation. The parents send them to tutoring, the student does not want to be there and so wiuld also not fi d or consult alternatives.
> and that there were two separate lineages of the virus found in humans

The "two lineages" are two mutations (SNPs) apart, and SARS-CoV-2 averages something around a third of an SNP per human-to-human transmission. So intuitively, it would seem near-impossible to distinguish two spillovers from a mutation during early, unsampled human spread. Pekar et al. built a complicated numerical model that purports to; but it's filled with arbitrary parameter choices, and no model of that form has ever demonstrated significant predictive value. See the criticisms at

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.10.511625v1

https://nitter.net/nizzaneela/status/1677583662836056065#m

> The scientists working on this have always acknowledged that uncertainty and have never said the probability of a lab leak was zero.

I've linked here to a Lancet correspondence where top scientists "strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin". I guess that's not quite the same thing as "probability zero"; but isn't it even worse?
That assumes you're in a browser context.

I think overall the complaint is every type of experience. Including native apps. You can't simply dev tools inside of a native app. Even with Charles proxy or something you'd be grasping at straws trying to figure out what may be the actual issue (and at that point you probably can't work around it anyway)
> environmental impact of shipping electronics from China (or between any two points on earth near a major harbor) on a cargo vessel is zero

How does that work? Or are you just referring to electronic components only and it being zero relatively speaking?
American here. The DMV (sometimes the BMV) is a state-based agency, where state is a regional authority, as opposed to federal, which is a national authority. California’s rules and requirements on when you need to visit the DMV are different than Ohio’s rules for its BMV.

Still, you generally never visit for vehicle inspections. Third parties take care of that.

You visit the state agency office for licensing issues. Want to drive a vehicle? Want your vehicle to be properly registered in your state? Go to the DMV.

For these essential functions, you should make an appointment. But truthfully, the appointment doesn’t really matter. There are too few offices for the demand, so most space in the agency is dedicated to the waiting room. I’ve waited nearly a day one unlucky time. And there are different functions per line. Your form may need to be processed by multiple functions. So you need to wait in multiple lines. It is a few minutes if no one is there, but hours otherwise.

The only reason why you’re there is because you have a relatively simple thing to accomplish. And you’ll only need to do this a few times while you live in that state, since renewals are usually done via post.

Is it the worst thing we have to do? Nope. But it’s highly disruptive because you don’t know how long it will take, despite being relatively straightforward. It’s an example of poor customer service’s power to shape opinion.
Even priests! When's the last time Neil Degrassi Tyson did any science? No he just preaches the good word for speaking fees that would embarrass you.
Ross Ulbricht - the infamous Silk Road guy:
1. Arrested in 2013.
2. Sentenced in 2015.
3. First unsuccessful appeal in 2017.
4. The case reached the Supreme Court and was denied in 2018.

So - 5 years. Fewer than Assange spent in the embassy.
City map prints – Maps and art
Downloads & prints - cities & art
Paris - London - New York - Hong Kong - Manhattan - Chicago - Vancouvers...
Full-body kegels
mDNS Primer
How is the other machine family slow when it has the same resources? How do you identify such machine families?
There are people who have experienced problems.

https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-...
The Big Myth About “Free” Markets That Justified History’s Greatest Heist
Surprised by the elimination of all those language programs. Surely, there has to be demand for Chinese and Spanish, at the very least?
This isn't new and there are numerous posts about this and discussions.
I don't agree with Sabine. What I do agree with are the scientists near the end of the flat earth documentary (the one where the flat earthers' own experiments fail, but they can't take it in) who say that we should be trying to harness and (gently) direct the clear scientific curiosity that flat earthers have.

That is, they have no point at all, but they do have curiosity, and we should welcome and nurture that.
> They absolutely do.

No, they absolutely do not. Pulumi - as in the actual tool, not its developers' equivalent to Terraform Cloud - would still exist and would have used those providers regardless of whether or not there's some Pulumi equivalent to Terraform Cloud. Pulumi also would've existed (and resulted in indirect profits via Pulumi Cloud) had that provider ecosystem not yet existed; it just would've been Pulumi starting it instead of Hashicorp/Terraform.

> The providers determine whether I can even use the tool to do what I want in the first place. The providers are 99% of the value!

And you can use 100% of that value without paying a fraction of a penny to Pulumi, just as you can without paying a fraction of a penny to Hashicorp. It's a completely different offering from their respective paid products altogether.

> I absolutely believe they indirectly profit off of that.

You say this as if it's a one-way street, but it ain't. Pulumi and Hashicorp profit from there being an ecosystem of providers compatible with both and therefore useful to both sets of customers. That's one of the main sales pitches for open source, after all: to collaborate on something that benefits everyone instead of wasting a bunch of effort on independent silos.

That is: Hashicorp indirectly profits off Pulumi's own contributions to that same ecosystem. They could profit even more by making Terraform compatible with Pulumi's provider interface (even still! I'm pretty sure Apache 2.0 code can be included in non-FOSS codebases, BUSL included).

Like, the relationship between Hashicorp and Pulumi is not just to the letter but to the spirit of free and open source software. If Pulumi's existence and success (despite being nowhere near that of Terraform, and despite also being open source - even more permissively so, in fact) is indeed what motivated Hashicorp to switch Terraform from MPL 2.0 to BUSL, then that's toxic as all hell and completely nullifies any of Hashicorp's lip service to "open source".
> think that religion/philosophy is purely subjective, merely a word game, or not something "serious" people study.

When you turn the cultural relativism up to eleven.
Also firing a second request would break restful behavior and could wind up really messing stuff up worse. Maybe it places an order twice? Who knows. Not a good idea.
So how is that a majority of Americans believe the lab-leak theory?
They still have not presented a lie or an irrational thought by pointing out these risks.

I don't think it's productive to assume someone is irrational and stupid by association.

Lottery tickets are an accepted fact of life despite being just as stupid.
The problem with pijul is that the command line interface is not really better than what git has. I tried pijul several times over the years and last month I couldn't even figure out how to make a commit and push it. I think it should be far more intuitive.
I totally agree!

There are a few more boards with 4 x16 slots at 2 slot spacing:

GIGABYTE MU92-TU0

ASRock Rack SPC621D8 (3 variants)

ASRock C621A WS

Supermicro X12SPA-TF
Based on what? Russia is absolutely a record holder of abuse of diplomatic passports
Science is different from religion in that it could be wrong and the basis is empirical tests.

Religion is never wrong, faith is believing without evidence, and religion doesn't test it claims
World languages majors in some respects seem like an anachronism in an age of globalization and machine translation. For low-end work, Google translate will do it for free, and for the high-end market, why not just hire someone with native fluency of both languages? It's hard for a four-year college degree to compete with immersion learning.
Hey!

Definitely, we have more details on the cryptography in our documentation here: https://infisical.com/docs/security/overview.

Put simply, Infisical operates E2EE by default which means the platform itself can’t decrypt secrets. This is unless you opt out of E2EE (secrets remain encrypted at rest) to use select features like native integrations - this is, however, not necessary to use the platform. In your case, you might wish to run Infisical in E2EE mode for maximum security.

That said, it’s always important for you to keep your instance of Infisical secure that is ideally to not allow bad actors to gain root access to the machine.
Is the solo part non-negotiable or would you consider working as a duo? I started multiple businesses alone for the past 10 years with a few successes and even more failures. While I wouldn't want to grow too large as a team, it can be quite depressing at times and that one time I worked with someone else has been immensely rewarding (and the business was a success!). If you were both aligned on your goals, your partner could hold you accountable right now and propose ideas to work on.

> How do I get an idea to start?

I usually check marketplaces where businesses are sold. Not to acquire one, but to get an idea of what makes money. Then start assessing each business from your point of view: Is it easy to build a similar product? Do you have ideas for a improvement? Do you have a strategic advantage through your network or knowledge?
Nice, I like that there isn't a plugin or anything else needed.

Will be useful as a reference when building some components later.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35963093

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36791895
Two things: To review the changes piece by piece before commit (git add -p) in case there's something temporary in there I forgot, and to easily exclude any such thing I never intended to commit (usually todo-style comments, sometimes hardcoding a value to trigger a bug or a popup, etc)

I remember a decade ago trying mercurial and git at the same time when subversion was all I knew, and that there was something about mercurial that I found really confusing. It's long enough ago I don't remember what it was, and it may be better now, but git clicked immediately. I wouldn't be surprised if it was the way they handle commits instead of having a staging area.

Also compared to subversion, the staging area is an explicit form of something that half-exists in how it tracks files for committing.
Why can’t Boeing do software? What is going on? I feel like these FCS issues simply weren’t happening pre-2010.
WVU is a public land grant university no? If trends hold, we might see regional instead of “state” public schools.
Would be a government which is bound to work in the in the interests and to the will of the people, and one where bureaucrats, politicians, judges, police, and other officials receive hash punishments if they are found to have lied or profited from office or been negligent or corrupt in carrying out their duty.

I notice a lot of dirty corrupt western politicians have started a lot of unpopular wars and "interventions" that have killed countless thousands of people and stolen trillions of dollars from their citizens since WWII, and all have escaped justice for it. Worse yet, they have the gall to blame victims of their crimes and force them to bear the consequences, "we meddled and caused wars and destabilization, and therefore we (read: you) need to shoulder burden of the consequences and 'help' more". That's not winning. Avenues of hanged war criminals would be winning.
I did not have any real money when investment platform they used launched, but I watched enough videos and would have noped right out of it...

48% negative return on money put in. Not exactly great.
> 6-8 hours worth of work is insane. I can do it in a few hours

So what is “a few hours”?
The image is produced by sampling the model, which is the most computationally intensive process in the pipeline. Stable Diffusion XL consists of several parts which have to be sampled separately, losing the context in the process. This samples both parts in a way that no context is lost, improving the result.
I'm happy you enjoy it. I think I should add a high score tab too
Larian’s Unfair Advantage? I have no knowledge of this spell, from which tome was it found?
Those are robots... By any reasonable definition.
Hi folks, I wrote a blog post the other day on how I built my MVP in 3 months whilst having a day job, using Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView. Hopefully it's somewhat useful or entertaining for some readers. :)
Who is "They"? Science is a practice not an organization. There's no pope or single church that has rules.

It's crazy your criticizing people for changing if new information comes out. That's the basis of science and why it's not like religon
What does one do with a DEGREE in Chinese? As opposed to not getting a degree in Chinese but spending 4 years learning it while getting a degree in, I dunno, materials science or something.
I'm not saying you are wrong. Just theorising. All the things you mention seem unrelated to the Airbnb. You are clearly a forcefull figure in the local community. This might influence how thruthfull open people would be to you when it comes to crossing your plans.

Maybe it's just that I can not imagine how a forever changing stream of occupants with zero longer term local interests can be a positive or even neutral compared to long term invested neighbours for anyone but the host.
1 Mbps would barely give you a low quality stream to a single user, never mind multiple users.

My point wasn't against self hosting your own content either, but rather that this is absolutely not an alternative to YouTube in any way because scaling to YouTube's level is extremely expensive.

The draw of YouTube is also the user made content, not stuff you can buy off the shelf, rip and then host. This means those users would never use a decentralized platform because discoverability is nearly impossible.

The fight you are fighting is a nobel one, but reality means it's always going to be a niche solution that nerds use.
A contributing factor is also that they are a Communist State with a lot of people that need jobs!

You could argue that Full Employment is tenet of Communism.

I'll leave debate about what Communism is and what the CCCP is and isn't to the rest of the internet. I'm sure there are people out there who would love to have a conversation about it... LOL ;-)