skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My take is that LLMs are actually much better at "reading" than they are at "writing", and RAG plays to that strength.

They are certainly much faster at reading than at writing. In fact, they re-read the entire context window for every token they write!
I don't think the question was about the interpretation and specifics of the law but about the ethics. Wether an action is not unreasonable is also a question wether the action is should be a valid option.

We are playing a game about people after all.
My advice (based on my own experience) would be to try everything you can find until you find something that clicks with you.

When I’m trying to learn something new having a bunch of different perspectives and explanations is important because for one reason or another, some will click with me right away, and some won’t.

Sometimes one persons explanation won’t make sense to me until I’ve learned the concept from someone else - so it’s not only about trying a lot of sources but also going back and retrying ones you may have bounced off of initially.
Gmail is also one of the biggest email providers... it's almost like there is a correlation.
Show HN: A website for remote workers to find Airbnb's with good Internet
I created this website about a month ago to solve a problem I was facing myself as an aspiring digital nomad. It is very important to find an accommodation with fast and reliable Internet. I also specifically wanted places with Ethernet access to minimize latency as much as possible since I (and many others) use a VPN hosted back at home.

The database is in its infancy but covers 11 countries so far. I realize the UX is very basic and a minimum viable product. I intend to have someone help me overhaul the design (with ReactJS perhaps) to make it mobile friendly and more appealing.
Ask HN: What are the best-designed news websites you’ve come across?
The web design of news websites are notoriously bad with most optimized for ad revenue rather than functionality or aesthetics. But are there any news websites that you think are well designed or at least interesting to you?
You could just use plain libvirt/KVM, virt-manager works well enough and can be used to manage remote libvirt hypervisors too.

In previous company we pretty much went from Proxmox to bare tools once we got the hang of it.
RAG doesn't give you this -- it gives you a higher probability that you're keeping true to facts and source material, but the model may still give you hallucinated responses.
I'm still waiting for the VSCode for Terminal
My bet is that it was a frequent search in their Maps product.

Searching on it a ton? Must be popular with locals! We should send tourists there!
Blue-light glasses may not reduce eyestrain from screens, study says
it's because syntax highlighting rules are applied based on the file extension. as long as .env is the extension, it'll work. if the file ends with .local, vscode has no idea that it's supposed to be a .env file type
So we're in agreement.
> fully integrated linux mobile

It already works fine with PureOS/Mobian.
Unfortunately Postmark was recently acquired by a so-called “campaign management” company and they have already started sending unsolicited commercial mail to unauthorised recipients, and when I pushed back and complained they became downright hostile and confrontational and told us to unsubscribe - from a marketing list that we hadn’t opted into, and that was operated via their new parent company. It was like a conversation from the dark ages of UCE where the spammer says “just opt out mate”. So Postmark are dead to me now.
Microsoft is the worst. Endless auth redirects, and gates help you if you've ever had multiple microsoft accounts on the same device.
The picture labeled "Isle of Dogs" boomed. For us non locals: it seems that's mainly Canary Wharf, which Wikipedia says is next to Isle of dogs.
> You're really angry with that straw man you've stood up. The OP isn't saying systems have to be locked down to the extent that they're useless. Who would ever argue for such a thing?

You are - you're literally arguing for it right now. Short sessions just don't help all that much, and they have an outsized impact on users.

Why are you dying on this hill? Likely because your mindset is "security above all else" and that mindset is literally cancer.

Security above all else leads to a product that does fuck-all else (and it does it poorly).
>Men were more likely to greet neighbors than women, as were people with children under the age of 18 in the household, and people with a household income of more than $120k a year.

ah, so "wealthier people are happier and greet more neighbors". Things are much more simple when you drill down into the confounding variables. The data does not support the causality inferred by "maximizes" in the title.
Which is my point.

China doesn't have friends.
> And yet to see a browser that actually cares about DOCTYPE

If a web page does not have the correct doctype, browsers run it in quirks mode instead of standards mode. If a web developer is fine with their websites running in quirks mode, they are not a good web developer, and you should probably stay away from them.
Do those "neighborhoods" even have sidewalks then?
Replying to this since the comment I want to reply to is flagged:

It’s okay to fall out of contact with people. You have no responsibility to keep up on every person you have ever been friends with. Some of my best friends are people that are busy living their own lives and then we find time for each other after a five year gap because we both happen to be in a city for work. Get some drinks and catch up. Don’t let people convince you you are supposed to keep tabs on everyone in your life at all times.

Edit: To people downvoting this comment, can you tell me why you disagree? I’m not against checking in on friends and supporting them in times of hardship, but I don’t think that anyone is obligated to take a roll call of their contacts every week/month. If you disagree, tell me why, please.
This just in: if you heard it from some random person on the internet, it's not news it's rumour. Vlog at 11:00.
Would you happen to know of better alternatives for sending critical email notifications? We're just now working on moving away from Mailgun into SES. This thread is making me reconsider.
Which was acknowledged and dramatically increased since then.

https://www.deutschebahn.com/de/konzern/konzernprofil/zahlen...

Within 5 minutes was at over 90% in july 2023 and within 15 minutes was around 98% in july, and it was even higher in the beginning of the year.

But you don't get that as front-page news.
Frameworks exist, because you can't code everything yourself. And libs are pointless if you need interconnected gears, which UIs are very heavy users of. Frameworks exist, and remain to exist, because there is demand and they solve problems. But yes, not every framework is good.
Court Sides with PredictIt: CFTC Actions Are ‘Arbitrary and Capricious’
Link to cited study: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...
As always, "it depends."

What does "code" mean?

It sounds like you want to code front/backends for HTTP/Internet stuff.

If that's the case, you'll get lots of help, here, and you won't need much, in the way of equipment and software.

If you want to write stuff for devices (Droids, i-devices, computers, IoT, etc.), then there's no substitute for actually having the device, and the development environment (often, one and the same).

Also, "coding" != "software engineering," but that's something that you'll learn, down the road. For now, getting some "hello world" stuff going, is a start.
I don’t know about that. Social media in the West has encouraged behaviors (greater outness of LGBT, advocacy for minorities, new subcultures like furries) that the CCP feels, at least in the Chinese context, would pose a risk to social stability and harmony.

China expends huge effort on keeping its citizens’ internet activity tightly censored and surveilled. Its authorities might even have preferred that the Chinese population did not have smartphones with unlimited internet and were instead kept more atomized, but the cat is already out of the bag and the internet is too important to the economy.
> There is no "need" to show logos and images, etc.

…yes, there is. Email is a communication medium, and like in all written communication, an image can be useful. Do I really need to explain that images are useful in human communication?

> and most other people

According to you I guess?
Maybe they wouldn't have to trench and lay fiber if they could make use of the public utility poles. But even that has been fraught.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/att-and-comcast-...
My banking site has an extremely short timeout, like 5 minutes but feels like less, which is really burdensome when you're looking at stock data while trying to read news about it.

So I had to create a Tapermonkey script which reloads only a specific page of the bank every 30 seconds and I move that tab somewhere where it doesn't disturb me.

How is any of this improving security?
That's interesting way to do shared hosting, can jails limit by CPU time ?
the invite to discord is invalid
How I explained it to the particular elderly gentleman I worked with was - you know how Dr. Bob does model trains in his basement? You know how sometimes he wears the bibs and the hat while he works on them?

Like that, but probably not as much of a sex thing.
It's a reference to the animal used on the cover of the Subversion book, like how the major text on compilers has a dragon, and is referred to as "the dragon book".

See the bottom text on https://svnbook.red-bean.com/
This wasn't about evaluating whether others are good at something, but about what you should do if you want to become good at systems programming.

For most people, the university is a unique opportunity. You get to spend a few years learning all kinds of interesting things, in an environment designed to support that, without the social pressure to do something that is more productive in the short term. How do you choose to use that opportunity tells a lot about you as a person.

A motivated and disciplined can learn a lot on their own. In most cases, they can learn even more in a university. But not always. Some people are not a good fit to a particular university, and some people are a poor fit to any institutional environment. The latter tend to become an entrepreneurs, as their personalities are not a good fit to being an employee.
it's not very realistic

It is totally realistic. I have multiple projects running that do not use any external code. With millions of users.

Those projects are PHP though. PHP has a lot of bells and whistles on board. Unfortunately with PHP 8, they started introducing a lot of breaking changes. So they lost my trust and I will use Python for new projects.

Not sure yet if I will use Django (As you said, it seems pretty stable) or do the good old CGI approach. If I do the latter, I will probably write a new CGI library for it, because in the Python ecosystem it is all about long running processes nowadays and I think that is the wrong approach.
> Also, if you ever find yourself feeling like the "smartest in the room" it's time to start worrying. You are not going to learn anything in that situation unless you are a very special kind of person.

I typically sit in an empty room, making me the smartest in the room by default. So im curious to know what you mean by "a very special kind of person", maybe itll help me learn better.
> It goes out the window the moment we start meaningfully reducing the probability of death.

What does “Meaningfully reducing the probability of death” mean?

I thought death is certain. Do you mean pushing death further into to future, say by hundreds or thousands of years?
Email sending is a largely efficient market, and SES is the cheapest sender.

Thus, the SES IP pools have the worst IP reputations among all the SMTP-based senders. I would never use them (or an ESP that sends with them) in a million years.

The reason why cheap = bad in email is because Spammers have the lowest conversion rates of all senders (their emails are always untargeted), so price is their number 1 consideration.

You can cheap out elsewhere in your stack. But never cheap out on email — especially if you’re not sending high volume enough for a dedicated IP.
I think far less efficiently than propelling a light sail - asteroids being not very reflective. There would be some momentum imparted by the photons impacting and more by ablation of the surface though (if the laser is powerful enough).

Enough to deflect? A kiss from a kitten is enough to deflect if you do it far enough in advance…
I’m inclined to agree. Unless the framework implements a lot of opinionated behavior that aligns with your product goals, you almost invariably end up fighting it. And on a long enough time line, that tends to happen anyway.

But that’s not why we adopt frameworks. We do it so that engineers are fungible commodities. It makes it easier to find, hire and onboard additional resources. Also requires fewer resources since you don’t need folks on your team dedicated to maintaining your house-built framework.

So, while I agree that building something in house is better for getting exactly what you want from a framework, it isn’t very practical from a business standpoint.
Chrome now has the same 4 week release cycle as well [1], so they will probably continue to stay close. I know Firefox sometimes adds a week to their cycle due to holidays (especially around Christmas and the New Year). I don't know if Chrome does the same.

[1] https://blog.chromium.org/2021/03/speeding-up-release-cycle....
Well, I'd say yes, we welcomed and considered any proposition made by our team members, junior or not. The CTO makes the final decision. But if it's a good idea, it'll be included in the workflow, yes. Source maps would be a good example of this. And it's not hard to include in my experience, even more when considering the added value.

And, yes, I've had problems in the past with hunting rules as you say. But it's been a good long while since it happened.
I'd think the local governments know what they're getting into, and if not they figure it out after a few years. Nobody is requiring providers to enter those local markets and be unprofitable.

Telecoms could raise local prices until covering 100% of the area is profitable. "Local government requiring customer service standards" might be a harder thing for them to comply with.
Makes him very easy to manipulate, sadly.
How much do you make use of Claude's large context window, and has it helped? Or did you basically revert back to small context size + multiple steps?
This was an interesting article.

As someone who's used Terraform for, gosh, at least seven years now (!!!) and has also dabbled with Pulumi, I agree with the complaints (especially regarding Hashi's licensing decision and their cloud offering) but disagree that open-source Terraform doesn't scale and that Pulumi is a better alternative.

A bulk of the authors argument lies in the following:

- Built-in testing deficiencies (I.e. Terragrunt providing some semblance of component testing that Terraform doesn't offer, and terraform plan/validate not guaranteeing passing tests post apply)
- Poor modularity leading to high DRY, and
- HCL not being a Real Programming Language™

These aren't new grievances. I think I've seen the "HCL is BS" take pretty much since I've started using Terraform, for example.

Ultimately, the issue is that Terraform is only meant to be good at creating resources in an unpredictable environment (a cloud provider) that you can't control. At all.

You can tell Terraform to apply against localstack (a mock instance of AWS you can run on your Mac), but AWS changes their APIs _constantly_ and error boundaries are essentially infinitely large. If you're serious about testing your infrastructure code, even considering the most common set of error states will lead to a significant number of (very slow!) tests.

You can easily apply the wrong state to an incorrect environment and "destroy your company" (great argument for a strong automated backup/restore workflow and ephemeral infrastructure, btw), but is it Terraform's job to prevent foot-gunning yourself in this way? I'd say no.

Regardless, I've seen some very large companies with definitely webscale levels of infrastructure enjoy lots of success managing all of that with Terraform open-source just fine. To that end, I'd say Terraform scales just fine.

In fact, I'd say Pulumi scales less well than Terraform does, in the average case.

I can teach a sysadmin with 20yrs of experience that was told to "do the DevOps now" HCL very quickly. If I, instead, said "okay, so we're going to manage our infrastructure with Pulumi and Python, and to do that, we'll need venv, pytest, pip, etc," they'll just straight up retire.

And that's before you get the 20-line long stack trace (with a bunch of frames that are within Pulumi's context) that basically vomits whatever bullshit Azure came up with this time at me.

Or trying to use Pulumi with something other than Python, Node or Golang. (Most enterprise devs write Java and C# and many of them have extensive build/release tooling custom-fit for these languages.)
If expiring sessions are not important, we can go back to using http authentication on the web and not have to build our own. Yay!

Oh, we still need 2-factor auth? Darn.
A childhood friend of mine invented the Lumitone, a microtonal keyboard with colored backlit hexagonal keys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfNIxTiApig

About 10 years ago I visited him in his studio where he had all mocked up in paper and cardboard, putting all the pieces together. Fun to see it finally out and in people's hands.
Hidden Agenda: mouse/keyboard FX pedal
Beresheet: 1,300 lbs

Danuri: 1,495 lbs

Hakuto-R: 2,200 lbs

DART: 1,340 lbs

Artemis 2: 112,000 lbs

Even by your examples there remains a 10,000% to 5,000% fold scale difference. And SpaceX agrees with this. This difference in scale is why they are working on Starship.
Congrats for building something!!!

Too bad it feeds into the affordability crisis though.
Define something you want to build to yourself or to other people.

Learn the tools necessary to rapid prototype it.

Learn the tech needed to implement the prototype. You'll see yourself having to learn a handful of things in parallel, but try to make your project move in a linear fashion, one step after the other. Every time you hit a barrier, learn only the necessary to overcome it. Celebrate every progress you make. Make notes to somewhere public like a personal website/github. Manage your motivation, expectation, anxiety.
SO, why would people be against removal of GIL ?
> secure solid-state

Or a CD
> If you look at the examples in the Cedar playground[0], they require you to provide a list of "entities" to Cedar at eval-time. These entities are some (potentially large) chunk of your application's data.

This is a primary reason we stopped looking at AWS Cedar. If you don't know all of the policies that might apply to your request (b/c policy authors might be different than dev teams), how do you know what entities need be sent in the request context? And in a authz system with many different entity types (and stores), gathering them all, even if you know which ones to get, would be non-trivial. Repeat for every system using Cedar, or build some SPOFish thing in the middle.

That, and pricing seemed pretty terrible for us.
Wow, 1 million people lived in London in the 1800s!

Are there any good books / content on what day to day life was like for people in those times in London specifically?
That is a straw man argument. Nobody was saying security should be prioritised over the goal of the product.

Security is just another non functional requirement (mostly) of a product.

To obtain good enough security, defence in depth is still a good principle to follow. It means you are not putting all your eggs in one basket. It often means that each individual control does not have to be perfect or massively over engineered.
But if anyone asks, I don’t own a TV and I don’t speak Japanese, sorry, goodbye.
If you're 45 now, you studied probably in the late 90's?

In many cities today, rent for 4-5 years is going to be 40k. I live in Edinburgh, where we have a large student population. Getting a room here is going to be the guts of £8000/year, before you've eaten anything.
Limitations and workarounds for supporting streaming video on PS4
Do you have a custom return-path configured? Using a custom return path might help, because it ties your reputation primarily to your domain.

ESPs check multiple factors. Both IP and domain reputation play a role. They will check your return path / envelope sender domain reputation and your IP. Your domain will start with it's own reputation, but can be boosted with a good IP reputation. But if your domain had bad sending behaviour in the past, that might be an issue.

Source: I'm running a transactional mail service that solely works with shared IPs: https://www.markix.com.
Having access to fast municipal internet is going to be a requirement for every home I buy going forward. That restricts my possible relocation options, but it's worth it to not have to deal with monopoly companies that can simply dictate whatever terms they like. Imagine if other utilities were private and had similar powers.
You are talking nonsense...

> It still requires context switching into the Kernel.

There is no less context switching between two threads than between two processes.

> It still poses problems that threads don't have.

Hu, no, it's actually the same problem. If you see threads as different processes with heap being mmap'd at the same location, then you're basically 99.9% right, up to some minor process accounting metadata differences.
Multi-cloud is definitely not an urban myth; I've worked with several customers who are actually doing it moderately successfully.
Is it safe to breathe that dust? I'd like the smell of nuclear floppy in the morning.
I find it hard to believe that only 20% of crops in the US are irrigated.

I'd think that with warming and water wars, it would be adapting from above crop irrigation to soaker hose style irrigation.
If you tell a Czech that they live in Eastern Europe, they will get very upset! They consider themselves to be in Central Europe.

I learned this the hard way!
"This may be the only place to get an honest answer" is an interesting way to title this, considering the piece discusses responses that are exactly what you'd tell an ugly person that asked you "Am I ugly?" if you didn't want to answer earnestly.

C'mon WSJ. Surely there are some ugly people posting there. If you're telling me we can get honest answers there, show your work.
I think you're right, Bun has a better chance just because because it's a drop in replacement and because it genuinely outperforms the existing tooling by a good margin. Also, LLMs know Node.js a lot better than they know Deno which may be a significant factor in 2023 and beyond.
In this context, fils: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fils_(currency)
>Such requirements kill fiber development. Laying fiber is expensive, and having to lay it through neighborhoods where most people won’t or can’t subscribe just increases the price for everyone.

Odd, laying fiber was deemed "too expensive" to lay in a community where we have a family cabin. Instead, someone formed a co-op. Everyone is getting wired, and the speeds:price is SIGNIFICANTLY less than Comcast, with symmetric up/down to boot.

I appreciate you've got a job to do and a talk track, but it's simply not accurate. What you MEAN to say is: wiring everyone in a community results in a margin profile that's below what large Telco executives find acceptable, so they focus on areas with high adoption rates and low deployment costs and tell community's that it's just "too expensive" to do anything else.
Incident solar radiation of 1kW/m² is something like 100 million gigawatts and the force from that is about half a billion Newtons, or the weight of an Iowa-class battleship.
what a waste of time lol