skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A perfect example of Poe’s law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

I completely missed the /s and thought it was a serious comment, since there are plenty of people that actually believe that line of reasoning.
Federal agency tells SF workers to work from home due to unsafe conditions
Federal Agency Tells SF Workers to Work From Home Due to Unsafe Conditions Outside Federal Building
That's what I get for reading HN before going to sleep...
Uhh, that is a fantastic idea. Where do I sign up?
Pretty sure you can do this. Diffusion models by default start with noise, but you can start with any data, including an existing image. For instance, you could import a photo of yourself, mask the eyes and then ask the model to make them green.
It’s the Spear of Longinus
Code is literature. It's just that most of us are writing the equivalent of the Complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir rather than Gilgamesh.
Something weird is going on. This site [1] suggests the MOID was about 0.02 AU.

[1] https://www.projectpluto.com/neocp2/mpecs/ZTm0038.htm
That's just hosting though iirc. Docker hub is very important, but it's not really part of Docker the software. As in, you could deploy your own container registry with 0 licensing issues. They just didn't want to pay the bandwidth costs anymore, though I think they walked back on that for open source images.
I’ve always wondered this. How is there not even one single billionaire who wants to just stick it to an entire industry?
Show HN: Code-vault, Developers handbook – recipes for BASH, Docker and more
My favorite example in this space is college tuition/room/board. This seems to be the only example of a service in which you have to share all your financial details with the vendor and then they will tell you how much it is going to cost.
Confusing and visually unpleasing (assuming that's what you meant by "pixel vomit") are two very distinct things. And it looka nothing like anything from 1993 or something you would describe using the word "pixel".
You can still do this on Switch, I played local Mario Kart co-op with my friend on a camping trip a couple years back.

Though there's no Download Play any more. Though I can't say I really miss it all that much. It was practically an upselling/demo feature. I recall playing Mario Kart DS local co-op, and if you didn't have the game you had to play as a Shy Guy. It's not really going to be a fun competition with friends if the host has an advantage.
SV rich kids would rather cloud-enable everything to the point printers are obsolete, because:

- Margins for selling collected consumer data may be higher than than margins for ink. Ink has materials, production, and inventory cost that data storage does not, though this assumes cloud storage remains cheap.

- Renting storage space for consumer documents is recurring revenue versus the non-recurring revenue of selling ink (HP is trying to get people on ink subscription plans, maybe it'll work).

- Unique value-adds: E.g. Get people to store their personal documents online and they'll be sticky recurring revenue, because moving them is hard. Extra revenue opportunities by offering integration with other services for extra $$$. E.g. store your personal documents and use our integrated DocuSign like service.

- Abolish paper to save the forests. Printed matter soon becomes a hipster fad, then disappears. Though you do have to keep some around for faxes, which are never going away.
Shocking scenes in Los Angeles as homeless smoke drugs on the streets, tents litter the downtown area and hawkers sell stolen goods
I agree that complexity and quality can be unrelated. I think that quality is often misinterpreted as beauty, or brevity, or cleverness — and those are not the same as quality, in my opinion. Often a long function with a bunch of error and edge case handling is seen as ugly, and thus low quality, and what I’m getting at is that an ugly function can also be quite high quality.

And heh yeah it was on my mind because I just spent a few years at a FinTech too — and a lot of that code is incredibly sensitive, and must contain all kinds of “ugly” condition handling that I don’t think is really low quality, it’s just a complicated problem space that requires a ton of attention to detail. And details can be less fun to read, I think we all can get seduced by code golfing and making things prettier, which is again not the same thing as better.

(Which is I think the point of the article — readability and prose is perhaps key in literature, but not always in software.)
If you like the pretty static background look with light text, checkout https://carrd.co/

It’s a website builder with lots of themes similar in design.
Other source[1] says 0.0002 AU, still very close (about 40,000 km).

[1]: https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/scout/object/ZTm0038
To add on, CBSD may also provide of these functions. So there are options.

[1] https://github.com/cbsd/cbsd
When digital cameras were new, you could spot when they had been used to shoot some TV segment. The generally white sky gave it away. Nowadays their dynamic range probably is a lot better than analog video or film.
MOID being minimum orbit intersection distance, for anyone else wondering. Sounded like someID (identifier) to me, was wondering why that value was given in AU
If it hit land anywhere other than Siberia or the Sahara, it would be pretty bad!
Also, is it possible to quantify the risk of unseen companion asteroids, which someone else mentioned in the comments.
An organization trying to maintain an ISO certification will have drastically different policies and controls than a small shop, or even a hobbyist group.

Everyone (theoretically) would be complying to statues in its broadest sense, but jurisdiction, regulations, industry best practices, reporting requirements, and appetite for risk is going to be different from organization to organization. It’s not one-size-fits-all.

So some of these things are eliminated because the people hosting those are not put under the same kind of scrutiny as say, a Twitter.
I have 10+ year old sites on PHP 5 and Laravel 4.x that the client doesn't want to pay to upgrade.
If you want to optimize for student ROI, then you end up with vocational schools, and a population of zombie workers educated in the absolute bare minimum necessary for them to do their jobs. There is substantial value in having a broadly educated populace, especially if you're going to let everyone have a say in governance.
Nginx is FreeBSD License, The Docker Engine is licensed under the Apache License 2.0
> There's no good-for-society reason behind throttling video download speeds.

Google certainly would disagree. Their argument (I assume) would go something like: if people don't pay for content up front and also don't watch the ads then these services can't exist, therefore if these services existing is better for society than them not existing, then it follows that <DRM, etc., fill in the blank> is good for society.

You might not like it but a great deal of our economy is built on that premise, so a lot of people and companies have a stake in holding onto such arguments.

Such an argument is a serious and honest one, and should be responded to with some care. Outright dismissal is not interesting.

> That's because there was a very good reason for that Covid "nonsense" as you put it: reducing infection rates and keeping healthcare systems from collapsing.

That definitely turns out to have been false. The models were vastly wrong. We definitely have differential handling of the pandemic, from Sweden, Africa, and some states in the U.S. for example, and those that went all out did not do better than those that didn't.

Many people warned that this was overblown, but also many people greatly enjoyed exercising authority, and others greatly enjoyed a sense of moral virtue ("saving grandma") that was unjustified.
Ask HN: ChatGPT’s Impact on Headcount – What’s Your Experience?
I’ve found it interesting that ChatGPT sparked fresh concern about AI’s impact on jobs and yet many months later we have historically low unemployment in the US.

Obviously, such impact wouldn’t be instantaneous, but I’ve wondered how companies are thinking about this in terms of headcount planning.

From conversations with friends it seems that a common approach is attrition with non-replacement. Companies are using ChatGPT and similar tools to increase productivity, but don’t want to fire a lot of people due to the negative impact on morale on those that remain—and the fact, I assume, it’s not yet clear how much of a productivity gain will occur where, so they don’t even know exactly who to fire yet.

I was wondering what others on HN are seeing. How are your companies approaching this? Is attrition with non-replacement a common strategy? If so, what might that mean for the future job market and unemployment rate?
> The huff and bluster I encountered was in Ehrman's video appearances. I would never have guessed that he had actual arguments he just preferred never to mention in his presentations.

Haha, yeah that's fair. IMHO he's a great public speaker and I enjoy watching him, but he has been really bad at laying out his arguments against Carrier in videos. I think partly because he is a super classy (and incredibly nice) guy who hates personal insults and such, and a lot of interviewers try to juice the beef (because let's face it, it's entertaining :-) ). I think he's also just deeply uncomfortable with the whole topic because of past friction and tends to try to avoid diving into it.

> Carrier has been very abrasive in the past, but not as I have seen lately. He might be said to have mellowed with age.

That would be great! IMHO Carrier is one of the most interesting atheists nowadays, and he's very much inline stylistically with the new atheist movement from the 00s (which I kind of like actually), but I don't know if it's cultural change or what but that approach really turns a lot of lay people off now, leaving just people like us. I'd love to see his appeal broaden, and I'm excited to see the next generation of thought leaders (and partially afraid that there may not be any).

Regardless, thanks for the discussion! I've found your comments very interesting
New x86 8U servers with 32TB RAM, 480 physical cores, 15 PCIe x16 slots, 400GbE
There are also similar products being introduced by HPE, Dell, Supermicro, etc...

Posted here since it's pretty surprising how far commodity x86 servers have come.

For example, there are very few scenarios I can think of where even large startups would need more then 32TB of DDR5-4800 RAM or more then a few 400G Ethernet links on a single system.
Horse armor was Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, I pirated it :) I did, however, pay for the Shivering Isles expansion.
The housed have been smoking drugs on the streets for a long time. Fencing stolen stuff, that's dark underbelly come right up to the top.
Lovely. I've wondered about this for years but never knew quite how to frame a query to learn more.
'Oumuamua was closer to 8:1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBOumuamua
In a typical architecture, the DB stores data, and the backend calls the DB to make updates and compile views.

Here, the "views" are defined formally (the P-states), and incrementally, automatically updated when the underlying data changes.

Example problem:

Get a list of accounts that follow account 1306

"Classic architecture":

- Naive approach. Search through all accounts follow lists for "1306". Super slow, scales terribly with # of accounts.

- Normal approach. Create a "followed by" table, update it whenever an account follows / unfollows / is deleted / is blocked.

Normal sounds good, but add 10x features, or 1000x users, and it gets trickier. You need to make a new table for each feature, and add conditions to the update calls, and they start overlapping... Or you have to split the database up so it scales, but then you have to pay attention to consistency, and watch which order stuff gets updated in.

Their solution is separating the "true" data tables from the "view" tables, formally defining the relationship between the two, and creating the "view" tables magically behind the scenes.
I can run Chrome and Firefox on my Debian laptop and on my Android devices. How do I benchmark Safari there? I can't, so Safari is barely relevant to me. Nice to know that it's faster than the other two browsers on Macs, but I'm not very surprised. Apple should be able to integrate it with their hardware and OS more than Google and Mozilla.
It is though. It's how every major company validates new customers without captcha.
I am confused.

This is meant to be hyped to sell your Rama platform/product/framework?
That you have spent 10 years building in secret?
During that time you have built a datastore and a Kafke competitor and ?

Should not those 10 years be factored into the time it took to develop this
technical demo?

Is it 100x less code including every LOC in all of Rama?

I mean I am sure you picked a use cast that is well suited to creating a
Twitterish architecture implementation.

If I went off and wrote a ThinkBeat platform for creating Twitterish systems
and then created a Twitterish implementation on top if it, its real easy to
reach low LOCs.
Right,my case is light (I've always had a job, at least between major burnouts), and the injections were way too big for my weight. It was efficient as I was calm at that moment, I started reading books again, but I lost all my passion for things, my brain was like mostly turned off, that's why I preferred returning to the previous state and finding other solutions
Wow, you’re right, thank you so much!
A similar example, one that I think no longer exists but did for a long time:

Tennessee is legally divided into Western, Middle, and Eastern Tennessee. There are a lot of rules in the state constitution that respect these Grand Divisions; IIRC an equal number of TN Supreme Court justices must be from each division, etc.

Anyway, the University of Tennessee is in Knoxville, which is in the Eastern Division (and a long way from Memphis). The University of Mississippi, in Oxford, is only about an hour and a half away from Memphis. For many years, students living in at least metro Memphis (and possibly most of Western Tennessee) could attend Ole Miss and pay in-state tuition - which is why in The Blind Side, the family were Ole Miss supporters. Memphis is the cultural capital of the Delta region, which covers parts of Mississippi, Tennessee, and Arkansas, and Ole Miss (though not in the Delta) was the natural flagship university for the area.

Tennessee just paid Mississippi for its students. It was cheaper than building another university that would only have attracted students from a relatively small portion of the state.
Highest key number + 1
People should probably close the TikTok and pick up a book instead to increase their attention spans then :-D
It is hard to find people fixing race-to-the-bottom markets.

I do like craigslist.org
Ah! A robot that can drive a vehicle in all weather conditions and deliver a package of any size and shape through a snowy sidewalk up three flights of stairs and open any style of gate with a key or code and read and understand signs like “deliveries out back” and communicate with shipping and receiving departments for the same or lower cost and speed as a human driver.

I bet UPS is kicking themselves for not thinking of this sooner! I’m thinking 8 story points, maybe we can get a pizza ordered and get an MVP out the door this weekend.
he's a developer and curious about the subject. Since it's a blog post, not a scientific paper, the fact that he did not understand could be a communication failure. I think he's being helpful
actually, i don't care that much about a list of all the fees. they just need to include them in the listed price. in some countries it's even required by law to do it that way.
4chan maintains an up to date brief snapshot of internet consensus on represented topics. If I'm not interested in reading walls of text, watching 20 minute youtube essays, trying to discern genuine review from blog spam or infomercial, or doing 3 pass statistical analysis on rating aggregator as it's being brigaded by 3 different parties, and just want to find out what's good/bad/current - I don't really know any other place to go.
I'm sorry but I don't think your reasoning holds up. It does not make sense to say that it is physically unavoidable to exponentially scale pollution.

Pollution is having unwanted substances in our environment. If we ever get to the point that we can actually construct a Dyson sphere, it seems likely that we could also dispose of unwanted substances, and place them outside of our environment, i.e. the outside of the sphere.

As a more realistic example, wind and solar power do not seem to increase pollution (at least not in the most obvious way), but they do increase our access to more energy.

Also, Freeman Dyson is no longer with us, so he will probably not be able to change his mind anymore. He was a skeptic, and I dare not say that I agree or disagree with him, but I must say that you're portraying him very poorly, and the linked article is much more nuanced than that.
Previous discussions:

240 points|10 years ago|83 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7091495

112 points|6 years ago|65 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13855185

66 points|4 years ago|13 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20667467
>> Here's an example jsonschema (a bit handwritten so maybe some errors but it should be clear enough).

That'd be nice, but it's not how this tool works. If you look at the repo, there's an example of following a json schema or pydantic model. It's clear that if you wanted a "carrot dagger" in your json, you'd need to define it beforehand:

class Weapon(str, Enum):
sword = "sword"
axe = "axe"
mace = "mace"
spear = "spear"
bow = "bow"
crossbow = "crossbow"

But perhaps I'm underestimating the tool's capabilities. If so, hopefully remilouf can correct me (and give an example of how the tool can be made to work as you want it).

>> I really do not think this is the case. Parsing and understanding arbitrary requests about something like this?

Not arbitrary. See my casting-to-type analogy. The point I'm trying really hard to get across is that generating free-form text is all nice and cool, but if you want to give it structure, you need to have the entire structure defined before-hand, otherwise the text that can't be made to conform to it simply won't.

So if you haven't got anthropomorphic vegetables in your json schema, your LLM may generate them, they'll never end up in your json.
Maybe that comparison is wrong, i.e. different kinds of energy compared for humans and earthworms? For the later, if I understand correctly, the linked paper measures an equivalent of "how much energy one gets by burning the stuff from which an earthworm is made". For the former, it's something else: "total stored charge in all mitochondria membranes".

I'd expect that comparing the same kinds of energy the ratio would be more similar to a ratio of weights of the two organisms.
> That's because you didn't install Linux to save time. You entered the world of Linux (or WordPress, Node, Python etc.) because you got the sense that something is happening over there. People who are as annoying as they are clever never seem to shut up about it.

I use Linux because it is just better than the alternatives, not because it is a super special secret club for the smart. It isn't. Using it doesn't make you special. Going on about it constantly doesn't attract people, it turns them off, especially when framed like this.

> It used to be that you had to use Twitter because of its network power and consequent reach.

No, you didn't. Most people have never had an account and have never even been to it. Facebook is something that was nearly universal. Twitter has always been that weird esoteric platform for journalists and celebrities and their (pretty pathetic) groupies. It is certainly not necessary for open source software developers to have an account.

> You'll also be sharing the space with an increasing amount of far-right influencers and a diminishing number of reputable scientists.

Where "far right" presumably means you aren't a communist and don't believe in gender ideology.

>I will argue that the 10+ million people already on the fediverse are actually the exact group of nerdy open culture enthusiasts you wanna be reaching out to.

I cannot imagine a group of people I would want to "reach out to" LESS than the people I see on Mastodon when I look at it. Yes I really want to go to a social network where I will get verbally abused for not putting alt text on images. Yes I really want to share a social network with people that will ban me for using the "wrong" pronouns. No.

>Diverse leadership and community.

>Tech-leaning but open to all.

>Highly safety-minded, as most recently evidenced by their Federation Safety Enhancement Project.

Reminder: when these people say "safety" they mean safety from ideas and sentiments that challenge them. They do not mean "safety from pedophiles" (fediverse is full of them, including people advocating for children to go to burlesque and drag performances). They do not mean "safety to express ideas without fear of censorship". They mean "safety from anything that might challenge leftist orthodoxy".
it's not war

hashicorp has decided they don't want to contribute to open source any more

they're totally within their rights to do so, and it doesn't harm anybody; it's not the equivalent of going around blowing up buildings, raping women, and napalming children. at most we can wish they had continued doing the beneficial things they were previously doing

maybe they'll change their minds, as you say, but that's no reason for the community to sit around twiddling its thumbs hoping for such a change. what's important now is that the people who are still willing to cooperate can do so successfully, and that's what opentf is about

that's even more obviously not the equivalent of going around blowing up buildings, raping women, and napalming children. it's very much the opposite, in fact

it's unclear to me which of the parties you intend to accuse of doing the moral equivalent of burning innocent people alive en masse, but either way, maybe you should think about walking back that rhetoric a bit
These are all Aurelia 1 concerns which have been fixed in Aurelia 2.

- There is no dirty-checking in Aurelia 2. The observation system now uses proxies and other sensible fall-back strategies. The computed decorator for getters is also gone in v2, meaning no accidental vectors for dirty-checking.

- Observation system was rebuilt to use many of the same strategies detailed in point one. No dirty checking and proxy-first. Similarly, your next point about mutations, also has been addressed by the new binding system.

- Many of the templating bugs people encountered were spec implementation issues due to how the browser interprets template tags and content inside them. There were a few repeater bugs, but the ones outside of non-spec compliance haven't been a problem in years and do not exist in Aurelia 2.

- You can write type-safe templates now.

- You have have conditional slots now if you use the new au-slot element. A lot of the slot limitations in Aurelia 1 were because Aurelia adhered to the Web Components spec for how slots worked. In v2 there is still slot, but a new au-slot has been introduced to allow you to do dynamic slots, spot replacement, detect if slots are defined or contain content.

It's important to realise Aurelia 1 was released in 2015, so it's not perfect and some design decisions reflected the state of the web and browser limitations at the time. Aurelia beat out React in a lot of benchmarks back in the day. I'm sure Aurelia 1 vs React has slipped, but Aurelia was one of the faster options for a while, especially in re-rendering performance. You should give v2 a look. It improves upon v1 in every single way.