skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strawman argument - You are reducing the comment to "Hacker News" when thats not at all what they said, they said "The hype".

For sure the hype caused a lot more focus on reproducability attempts than it would have got otherwise.
And, AWS offers a 5$/month VPS with 1 or 2 TB free egress traffic, coupled with affordable S3 with free egress, in a product called Lightsail.

Honestly, it’s better than DO and Linode.
Why would the government be incentivized to drive down wages? That seems fundamentally at odds with the concept of income and sales tax, which account for a very large portion of revenue that funds most programs.
Altman's playbook
The register link says europe-west9-a was still down after weeks, and that -c had a five hour outage the weekend before publishing. The other article was published near the time of the incident and doesn't say anything about the weeks after.

europe-west9-a was clearly messed up, and for a long time; which I think is fairly reasonable if you have to toss out at least 58% of the hardware because of water and smoke damage. c'est la vie. That -b and -c were unavailable during the incident is not how availability zones are supposed to work, and it's bad; but you seem to be claiming that -b and -c were down for weeks afterward and I don't see that reflected in the links you shared.

If you demand a 3 availability zone system, and one availability zone had a disaster; the right thing to do is to move to another region which has three working azs (and hope that one is properly setup; or request an audit if you've got leverage). Cloudyness is supposed to make it easier to move infrastructure. But if likeminded customers are all moving infrastructure, there's going to be a capacity crunch. OTOH, GCP has several regions in europe-west, and there's a lot of interconnections in Europe in general, so unless you had a requirement to domicile data in France, lots of options.
Firezone (YC W22) is hiring Rust engineers to scale WireGuard through firewalls
This all strikes me as just so gross and inefficient. My guess is that half the people who buy 5 dresses to try them on and then return 4 also will state how they are "worried about the environment" and will shame you if you don't have 3 separate recycling bins.

I don't blame the consumers - businesses have deliberately trained them to act this way. But something simple, like regulation requiring all returns to cost like 5% or something, would drastically cut down on these returns which have a large environmental cost.
There are plenty of live-in landlords that rent rooms to people and live in the same house.

Many renter commenters assume that anyone owning a house automatically owes the society to provide housing to those that don't. Of course such people don't actually like taking care of the house or pretend that depreciation and maintenance don't exist.

You should probably fix that also, no? Unless you want all housing to look like abandoned blocks in Detroit.
https://archive.ph/rGhbd
For a new full stack project I'd use a full stack JavaScript framework, but spring boot is still awesome. Especially so when slow starts and higher resource consumption aren't as important as developer productivity, testability, reliability (which is pretty often).
Are you saying this change will result in a lower gdp? How do you figure that? Usually it would mean that Canadian companies can get more done for less money right thus boosting overall gdp?
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Fleece_Award
Literally the only reason that the US is attracting the best talent is that the pay is the highest by far there. Nothing is going to change that position unless salaries increase in other countries (or crash in the US, in the glass half empty version). So I don't understand the triumphant rhetoric about "poaching" tech workers from the US.
Your post reads like the intro to an unhinged anti-Musk manifesto. Are you sure you're not taking life too seriously?

When you accuse someone of "vast damage", destroying society, lies, and wishing them to fail among other things, it's you who is spreading hate. You are the problem.

> "People want to live in a sane world where sane outcomes hold up."

No idea what that means, but after reading your post I'm not confident you're a reliable source on what people want, or what a sane world looks like!
Yet we're all the better for it happening. Even for the original researchers - maybe it would've taken them another 10 years to get to a similar conclusion. Now, they can take the next step and not waste more time.
Maybe someone with a billion dollars could re-locate them and their families onto some posh island all expenses paid. If Elon had instead invested 40B into this and other tactical science projects rather than dump it into Twitter, imagine the possibilities lol.
It amuses me that there is so much criticism of the modern web - but a modern app is massively larger.

The dropbox app is 237.7 MB - that's so much more insane to me.

Of course that app size does include all the assets - images, icons, fonts, etc which the JS bundle for the site doesn't include. But its still insanely large to me.

I don't mean this as a criticism of the app size - just that web/android/ios all are platforms which require a large amount of code and assets to be uniform and available everywhere - web, desktop, phone, tablet, etc.
poach (verb)
poached; poaching; poaches
intransitive verb

[…]

2

b: to appropriate (something) as one's own

c: to attract (someone, such as an employee or customer) away from a competitor
Fumes from seasoning a cast iron pan or high heat cooking causes cancer even in low amounts. If you want to be safe cook things at low temperature.

https://www.pca.state.mn.us/pollutants-and-contaminants/poly...
When this change was made several years ago on iOS, I was quite annoyed because I had the habit of turning off WiFi and Bluetooth periodically (mainly to stay disconnected). I think I even provided feedback to Apple (from the public feedback page) to change this to a three-way toggle — On, Disconnect Devices, and Off. This idea had been proposed by many other people too. Since Apple rarely takes such feedback into consideration and does things the way it imagines is best for users, I had to go to settings and turn these off every time.

Later (maybe a year or so), I found that turning these off was possible through shortcuts. Since then, I have one widget to turn these off and an automation (within the Shortcuts app) that turns off WiFi at bedtime. I use this regularly because I just don’t want WiFi turning on at 5 a.m. the next day.
why not present the consequences of cutting open your mouth with glass? those should be serious enough to make an impression.

> focus on the person, not the behavior

what does that mean? or how do you do that? when it comes to bad behavior, i want to show them that their behavior is problematic, and not judge the person. so if i should focus on the person, that needs to be qualified that it's not about punishment or threats but something else. but i don't know what that would be.
There are externalities with this approach. A big issue with clothing donations, for example, is they put local textile manufacturers out of business. Why buy locally made whatever when you can get second-hand name-brand clothing for cheap?
I like how you pretend not to know about the existence of ice core samples or geology. Honest people make their best arguments first, shills their worst.
I am a Canadian tech worker clearing about C$400k/yr total comp as a Staff Eng. I pay $5k for my mortgage.

Taxed once. I work for a SF company that has set up a Canadian arm of the business.

Despite all that, it’s a bargain compared to Bay Area pay.
If you're selling items where fit/look/comfort are unknown and you don't have a brick and mortar store- online purchasing and returns is the only way to try things on and is just a cost of doing business. Fortunately markups are very high on fashion items.
If RTSCs turn out to be viable, they would reduce power transmission costs by maybe 10% for our current infrastructure. That's just because we don't build power lines over distances where the losses would be much greater than that, because it doesn't make sense.

But they would also enable new infrastructure beyond what is currently feasible, because we could transport power over much longer distances without any increased loss.

For example, you could transport solar power from the daylit side of the earth to the night side.
Something like HTML-over-the-wire [1]. It means rendering HTML on the server side instead of JSON, and using javascript (mostly) to replace some parts of the current page with some parts of the returned response. It sounds kind of bad, tbh, but it works ok. The inconveniences get offloaded by all the javascript that you no longer need. And someone using a non-js browser still can get a regular form-that-you-send-and-reloads-the-whole-page.

https://hotwired.dev/
Hahaha. Ok yes, there definitely are also some things that die.
> No, I don't.

Wrong "you". They were describing how Circle implements C++ compatibility, not how you personally use non-Circle compilers.
Well yeah, because

1) you're guilt tripping them

2) you're giving them cover if they get asked about it

It's much nicer to work at a grocery store pharmacy than a dedicated retail chain because of this
like enjoying beachfront holidays while Maui burns?

or watching football while Iraq is invaded under fake WMD assertions to provide someone has a bigger swinging d*ck than his father?

or flying to golfing holidays even though parabolic antennas and drones mean they aren't safe from eavesdropping any more...

antiquated habits and shows of power and privilege are a terrible combination
chill with the virtual signaling (no pun intended). fixed.
Lol I wonder how much you cry when you see a fire extinguisher knowing it stops your right to die in a fire.
You cannot claim to be as libertarian as they come while simultaneously advocating(not simply accepting) an ever present panopticon.

I also consider myself as libertarian as they come; I refuse to accept the rapid decline in personal freedoms(including on the road) and will do what I can to resist it.
No one cares of 100 years down the line, least of all 4-year cycle politicians.
Thinking of poisons in binaries is false - the dose makes the poison. You are eating "poisons" every day, and it is impossible not to. Plants create poisons to defend their seeds against herbivores, but you don't die when eating nuts or grains, because your body has adapted. Water will kill you if you drink too much of it. So the question is not "is this a poison", but "at what dose is this a poison".

You could argue that with food, there is a necessary trade-off, but with PFAS there isn't, because we don't need it to survive. But that is true for most of modern civilisation, and what you then end up with is the "this substance is known to the state of California to cause cancer" on basically everything.

You are right that this becomes a difficult problem of epistemology. Basically, it is impossible to prove "this is safe", only the opposite, and often it is not easy to prove conclusively. I'm not sure where the right balance lies, either.
I think the changing demographics of developers counters this argument.

I think it takes a special kind of person to grok C and C++. If offered C/C++ on the one hand and JavaScript/Python on the other, very few people in the world will choose C/C++.

Back in tha day, when C and C++ were the only games in town (and programming wasn't as lucrative), the industry naturally filtered for these people. Today, it lets more people in than ever before. These new people, it can be reasonably argued, are not as smart as those select few from yesteryear. The fact that they're not exposed to the mind-scrambling vagaries of architecture differences, which means the barrier of entry and attrition rate are far lower, should pump that intuition, no?
I also think you are missing the mark.

Efficiency is an answer but the question is never asked in public. Why? Secondly, a handful of industrial actors and their dot-mil customers are apparently never to be questioned, instead we get the 632nd episode of you and your carbon footprint, citizen.
Interesting. One of the reasons I prefer shopping at Trader Joe's instead of Albertson's is that they don't have constant stupid sales all the time. (Also because TJs is usually 30% cheaper.) Maybe groceries are different?
You've posted over 150 of these comments in the last 24 hours. That's abusive, and I've banned the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I would like to understand how they aggregated the data for a specific location (pixel in that map?) and how they obtained temperatures - is it a temperature measured by a satellite or measured by a weather station on ground; if it's on the ground how many stations they used and how often was the temperature sampled. They discuss very little about this and I think it's key to understand this data they present here.
Since we're being nitpicky. It's tract not track.

Point still stands though.
>within the 14 day right to return law (EU).

Eu too. My local, we get 30 days for an items bought online, so I tell the shops 'thanks for letting me look, I'll get it online just for the better returns policy'.
Yeah, OP seems to be confusing expert knowledge in a field with exclusive knowledge in a field.
Also why she might believe this is an obvious confounding factor and it was clearly not obvious to the authors, or the rest of the world!
This is why thos who make plastic products shoul be held to greater account...

Wht saddens me, and I seem to see lit. nobodoy talking about is our glamourisizing 3d plastics printing of billions of arbitrary objects - and where these plastics will end up in the ecos...

3d printers (I have an ender3) should be urged to have a recycling platform.

Personally - I want a 3d recycling machine which will shred HDPE, melt it to pellets and make a filiment extrusion for the 3d printer.

We should have the 3d printing community building recycling stations from 3d filiment and object fails etc... and try to close the loop as much as possible.

(lookng at you cosplayers of microplastic contamination for internet points)
Let's break this down. Large Language Models are almost all transformer models. Transformer models are sequence prediction models. There are other kinds of sequence prediction models like RNNs. Transformers are not tied to tokens, neither are RNNs. You can use them to predict sequences of values directly, you don't need to have high dimensional representations as input.

Now, why do LLMs work? They are exploiting structure. Language has structure, and language represents other structures. At a large enough scale the language models can learn and use that structure. There's quite a bit of consistency in language. You can train a model to be fluent (grammatically correct) without massive scale, but output often lacks meaning or coherency. It takes a lot of training to learn that "reading" a book and "reading" from a spinner hard drive platter are conceptually similar and extremely different in their details.

So, can you use a transformer with raw numerical data? Yes. Can you train a very large model on a very large amount of numerical data. Yes. Would you expect that training across a mixed corpus of raw numerical data would lead to a similar kind of 'understanding' that we've seen in LLMs? No. but it is not impossible.

Recall that language is just a layer on top of sensory processing. It helps a great deal but there is plenty of "intelligence" in the animal kingdom without it.

My personal opinion is that helping models build their own internal representations via curriculum learning and making sure it is being sent data which is generally related to, or correlated with, other data is very useful. If you don't have the aid of a universal sematic representation scheme like language, why not try your best to make it easy to make one?
Hurd AI
You can get an Asus...

If you are going to compare crap from Asus with something Apple makes, as if they're even remotely comparable, then we can just stop right there.

That's the problem with whipping out the spec sheet: low-end commodity machines will always have a better price than anything Apple makes. Never mind that it sounds like a 737 if you dare open more than one browser tab, and your eyes will prematurely go bad from the fuzzy screen, hey, you didn't pay the "Apple tax"!
I get that, but the reality is that people who take the game too seriously have long been doing this. Just because reality is not legal doesn't change the fact that it is reality. This is why not taking it all too seriously is so important.
As I say, when you play against people doing this you can use it as a tell. Of course you can get angry and bang on about the rules as well.
Electrochemical process could boost efficiency of capturing carbon from air
Having experience in parenting has nothing to do with understanding addiction though. If a psychiatrist tells you the best way is to just not give them a smartphone are you going to dismiss their opinion if they don’t have kids?
Clover Has Joined Figma
Some discussion from yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37139610
The fuck is an IRQ?
Incorrect response here with 9.9.9.10 (unfiltered version of 9.9.9.9)
As well as the corresponding Quad9 DOH
label the function going from X->Y would be how I was intending that to be read. I'm well aware that X->Y is a type signature ;)
Yes I agree. But people always move towards the tools that help them go a little faster.
Turkey, at least. Wife is an M.D. Just checked with her. She said “Nope, you can’t”.
Spinoza: Life and Legacy
"Poached" is a pretty common term with respect to hiring employees away from other employers.
an ISP is a utility. they're just, like, the phone company, man. i don't need them telling me what i can see, or say, and to them its all mostly the same anyway.

HN is not, and they can certainly ban what they want.
Lost to history is the fact that XFree86 version 3 provided a different binary for some families of graphics card. If you owned an S3 911 (a very common "Windows accelerator" at that time) you needed XF86_S3 but if you owned one of S3's execrable ViRGE 3D cards you needed XF86_S3V. Having a single server that contained or could load every driver did not come until version 4.
OpenAI bought the makers of a Minecraft clone
Well, that's true, but there are also more important applications: reducing heat and power loss in chips, increasing the efficiency of electric motors, increasing the efficiency of electromagnets, decreasing charge times for batteries, and so on. I may not say as important as fire, but it would certainly be in the same league as the integrated circuit.
They didn't propose new class of superconductors. They conjectured that LK99 follows some 25-year-old theory from a paper written in Korean. Leaving alone the fact that the theory doesn't make much sense to me (at least the parts I managed to understand), there was no evidence in the LK-99 paper that this mechanism is indeed what makes LK99 superconductive (or more precisely that it is present in LK99).
What does Canada offer me as an American professional? In particular I enjoy living in my state with no sales/income tax and no restrictions on my gun hobby. Many of my generation would move to Canada solely as a political performance though I suppose.
I disagree but know I’m in the minority.

I would take Spring config XML over the tightly coupled mess of Spring config annotations and code. Circa 2006, Spring config was about binding decoupled POJOs together and code didn’t require any build time dependency on Spring. Now Spring is required at build time and objects expect to be instantiated as beans, and unit tests either require a minimal spring context or some other method of injecting dependencies that would have otherwise existed as a constructor arg or mutator anyway. Now “config” is fully Turing complete as opposed to declarative. Yuck! I’m no fan of XML, but config as code is no longer config, imho.
I think there are many boring industries that are benefiting from the use of technology to improve their operations.

We had the misfortune of being rear-ended a month ago. No injuries, but three damaged cars. The entire claims handling process had significant technology components, including a pretty usable website, a mobile application that the adjuster was using, text messaging for communications, etc.

Electronic health records. Electronic procurement. Increased technology applied to logistics (every UPS, Fedex, and Amazon driver has some kind of mobile device to assist them and assist in communicating with shippers and recipients). My bank has a solid mobile app, as do my investment brokers and 401K providers.

Across all of those boring industries, there are hundreds of thousands of, maybe a million, tech/software jobs with an easy prospect to more than double in the coming decade.
100% This is ideal.

The trick for me though is that the foundational assumption on which to build our "proofs" change often and quickly. This creates drag on any software project to keep up, and becomes untenable if the abstractions are wrong (i.e. the interfaces for components aren't adaptable). This is what I meant by designing with the assumption that one component could be replaced. To me it's a about the challenge of designing to reduce the need to "cut corners with proving ... correctness", if that makes sense.
Nagios used to be only Open Source then they created the Enterprise version and left the open source core version lagging behind, it was forked a billion times or more :) creating the Nagios Effect. A lot of monitoring software / companies then removed / replaced the core of Nagios from their products.
That’s not what CFS is.
No I'm not.

This denialism was already very strong well before the collapse of institutional trust that you're referring to. It goes back many decades, both at an institutional level and a population level.

Two things can be true at the same time.

1) We can recognize the measurable physical reality of climate change, the likely devastating impact on life, wealth, and well-being, and the absurdity of believing that all the data around it is an elaborate century long scam, especially when even huge moneyed interests that are condemned by it (e.g. Shell) acknowledge that it's really happening.

2) We can be suspicious of our government's ability to respond to it reasonably and not take advantage of and leverage the tragedy to force unpopular and restrictive changes on their populations.
You should have him listen to “Bistirno Dupare” and “Old Man River” together and see what he thinks
There was Mac OS X server 1.2 which was a NeXT foundation with macintosh system 9 gui.
Ask HN: What are some easy ways to earn some side money?
Hello,

I am an experienced developer (11y) trying to earn some money on the side.

I am looking for some tips what could I do.
The reason I said "easy" in the title is because I have a full time job, so I can't commit to multi-month projects full time.

I earned some good money on Topcoder before, but currently there are only a very few projects listed.

I am not a good speaker, so things like Youtube channel, or streaming is out of the picture, I am not comfortable uploading videos of myself.

I checked freelancer websites, but competition is crazy there (developing a full-fledged ecommerce web application for $100, and such)

Are there any other good websites like Topcoder?
What do YOU do to earn money on the side?

Edit: For suggestions about the US: I am actually living in Canada. If you have any Canada specific, please suggest :)
> The only thing that matters for a tech company to "defeat" Canada over this regulatory bill is whether the population cares enough to make this topic a voting issue.

Canada does not operate on the US system in terms of politics, it's much more like the UK in that regard.