skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hell, I doubt most businesses even have a functional full text search for internal documents. My job certainly doesn’t, but the SVP feels the need to make noises about LLMs and throw the word “revolution” around

It’s like nobody wants to talk about reasonable solutions that incrementally make things better, everything has to be some meme “revolution”
It’s not a surprise for me to hear that Amazon is still a heavy user of RDBMS all these years even after the so-called Rolling Stone project to get rid of Oracle DB in 2015. If Amazon can use RDBMS for their scale, I’m just furious when folks jumping up and down screaming in top of their lungs “Why do we use Postgres and not (insert some random NoSQL engine here)?” My response so far is calmly ask another question “Why not?” And let them try to find a justification to suite our scale requirements.
Not a single comment about whether the claim is actually true or not? Just assuming the absolute worst / most damaging scenario? The propaganda machine is pumping hard isn't it.
https://archive.is/oGnY6
>It's important to remember that things like Prime Day are basically marketing

Be it Prime Day or Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales, I've seen the prices before the sale starts, and then once the sales start, it is the same price but with a slashed out higher MSRP type price. It's not any more of a sale during the sale than it was any of the other days.
Thats the onvious interpretation, clued by the word "employees". Headlines don't include every bit of context.
They started doing that day one.
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from 2022 : https://archive.is/lVY43
A massive power and CPU load decrease in Zstandard is a big win for Intel. AMD has been racking up major pluses in the enterprise space, with RAM, PCIE and core count advantage. Showing that any Intel is faster at such a major CPU load task is a big deal.

That's not to detract from everything AMD has done, but hardware is only the first step. Software that properly uses the features your hardware provides is just, if not more, important.

I love the fact AMD is pushing Intel so much. Pre-C2D days were amazing because we had two vibrant, innovative companies pushing to the edge of possible; trying to out-do each other. Pre-Ryzen was a horrible time. Do you want to spend $500 to upgrade from a 4-core intel 4000-cpu to an intel 5000-cpu? You'll get DDR4 and 1% IPC.

Now we get massive IPC, clock speed, ram and PCIE improvements on a regular basis. Competition is great, especially for the consumer.
Which has nothing to do with tracking the movements of law enforcement.
Caught me by surprise when I first saw that black box emerge while doing a search.
How big is LTT? The tweet about doing internal investigations seems weird but I didn’t think they had more than dozen employees…
On modern systems the simulated MC146818 is part of the chipset.
Yes, teachers should be motivated by "Do your job to a minimum standard or be fired." I think kids would be really motivated by the chance to earn 15-20k a year.

A legion of motivated kids would also help root out bad teachers. Right now, kids probably like a lazy teacher - less work for them. If your payout, as a student, is based on standardized tests - you're probably going to be upset with a teacher who isn't teaching you much.

There would be corruption and cheating to balance against - but I think it's possible to strike a balance that's much better than our current system.
I don't recall any part of this conversation being about gun control, so it's pretty weird, in a completely common way, to bring it up.

You apparently have made an unsafe assumption about what my stance is on that.

"copyleft bros" is like saying "soup kitchen volunteer bros"
> Okta

While I agree Okta is the most feature complete why only Okta? Are there any other products that can replace Okta?
I worry that some form of Kessler syndrome [1] developing in the next 50 years seems very likely.

I realize that this article is talking about laser- or cyber-based attacks, but turning space into a battleground seems like a disaster waiting to happen when anti-satellite missiles exist.

What got me thinking about this was the recent Black Hat talk on satellite security [3], which suggests that maybe it wouldn't take much effort to create a lot of (near permanent and self-reinforcing) damage.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_mi...

[3] https://www.blackhat.com/us-23/briefings/schedule/#houston-w...
Collection and transportation for natural gas, not hydrogen. Which is very easy to imagine since it is already widely done.
Damn I remember Cicada 3301. Good times.

I think the source is always online though as it was to cast a wide net. IRL would be too narrow.

Hope the Cicada crew pulls another one soon, although now that reddit is what it is...
SHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
They're actual quite robust... what they don't do well with is typical American ignore-the-maintaince-schedule "care". Ounce of prevention is easier and cheaper than a pound of cure.
It might imply the opposite; I think a reasonable argument could be made either way. I think most likely the two propositions (energy prices and good governance) are orthogonal at best.

But I think there’s very little support for the flat statement I quoted from the post. Higher energy prices are political suicide under any form of government? I think that’s quite obviously false.
Thank you! I'd welcome any feedback if you had any.
The dominance of Intel and ARM is so sad.
> No, more like the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys,

I'm going to be incredibly cynical and go back to my channer days for a second because you think this holds water for some reason:

I can't believe anyone thinks these cosplaying militiaman would hold their own in any real conflict, it's pathetic: look at how the bodies of even mercenaries from Wagner are piling up when former Ukrainian farmers, bakers, bank tellers, and artists are trained by and with modern Western weaponry. The fact that anyone thinks these things is why I think Social Media has irreparably damaged most people's minds.

Bubba and his buddies stack of ARs isn't going to mean a thing if they were taken seriously, it takes one drone strike at the local watering hole for this to end; what I think is a media distraction is how Jan 6th was a psyop that let these imbeciles into one of the most fortressed places on Earth in order to increase survielence and policing budgets; they let the National Guard sleep on the floor and opined how under-budgeted they were and was unpreventable when their is actual video footage of the security letting the mob into the Capital rather than doing their job and stopping them from making a mess.

Hell one guy even had a heart attack on the way to storm the Capital by tazing himself in the balls [0].

I think I've had enough of HN for today...

0: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/01/13/fac...
Yes, they are private and offline in the sense that they are running entirely locally and do not send any information off your local system.
Spring was the reason J2EE is better today. It is the reason for existence of Interface21 if you can remember. I think your bad thoughts are tied to the J2EE monster and dumpster fire that goes with it.
Going back to the original point, "the features they need, shipped promptly, and without bugs" you speak of is actually part of the UX (user experience)!

Maybe you are mixing up the UI design with the UX? In any case, the original point is just highlighting the importance of UX, without giving any solid examples of DX.
You said it, man.

https://amphetamem.es/meme?id=The-Big-Lebowski_1998_560&titl...
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The claim is that he cannot access his account. How would you confirm this, make him give you access to his email/2fa and let you reset his credentials?

It does state that he isn't showing up in search, which you could verify independently.
Disclaimer: I work on Ubicloud.

Wow, it is exciting to see what we are working on at HN. We only shared it with our professional circle so far, but it seems it found its way to HN .

Happy to answer any questions, but in summary we are building an open cloud, an alternative to existing hyperscalers, because we believe that you shouldn't have to give up power and lock yourself in to be able to have the ease of use of cloud.

You can use the managed version of Ubicloud or you can host it yourself. You can also use any bare metal provider such as Hetzner or OVH (currently we only support Hetzner because... well.. we are just starting , and support for other providers are on the way), thus benefit from their low prices and many available locations.
We have allowed chief executives of enormous corporations to frame the entire conversation around what makes a “good” employee. In their estimation, it’s “morally wrong” (Elon Musk) to work from home, because a good employee is one who wants to “hustle” (Jamie Dimon), working long hours in the office every single day. Joan Williams, the chair and director of the Center for WorkLife Law, has called this the “ideal worker” norm — a set of beliefs that assumes labor will be performed by full-time employees with no caregiving responsibilities or life outside work, continuously, for 40 years.
Doing it at Defcon is a show. The point isn't really to actually collect passwords there, it's to demonstrate what's possible in the rest of the world, where people absolutely will.
Is something like Pixelfed an option?

https://pixelfed.org
> I worry that some form of Kessler syndrome [1] developing in the next 50 years seems very likely.

Global environmental and civilizational collapse will be well underway by then, so it doesn't matter, we'll never be sending anything into orbit again anyway.
https://archive.is/QHdLA
There was that time I was finishing up my PhD thesis and had written a Monte Carlo integration that computed the volume of an energy surface in a 6-dimensional phase space.

I wrote the first draft of the program in Java, it wasn't really fast enough, so I wrote a second draft in C that used a bunch of performance optimizations, most notably it applied a coordinate transformation to the phase space that meant the probability of a point being inside the surface was much higher than it was before.

The program was really a lot faster but most of the gain came from using better algorithms, the factor I got from C might not really have been worth it. I wrote that program in my own dialect of object-oriented C.
To rendezvous with the cloud, it needs a network connection first. This pop-up is meant to transmit the network password your iPhone uses so the factory reset Apple TV can establish its own network connection.
Sometimes I encounter those snippets and I still have a discrete memory of writing something that "I knew my future self will understand".

That is especially frustrating.
> So people in Taiwan have no say in what happens to them?

No more than the people of the south had a say in what happened to them.

Imagine if after the civil war, china got involved and 'liberated' the south from the north.

Taiwan is entirely a US creation. And china should take it back.

Almost everywhere there is instability in east asia, it's the fault of the US. From japan to myamnar and everything in between.
Counter anecdote.

My India teams that were easily less effective than my US teams have now become more effective than the US teams though the actual devs haven’t changed meaningfully.

What’s different since the pandemic is the US teams are almost completely remote whereas the India teams voluntarily have been coming to the office 3 days/week.
Some members of the LK-99 team published a claim of superconductivity and it included falsified data. Nature published it and had to retract it.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05294-9

https://www.science.org/content/article/something-seriously-...
Can you please say this a little louder? Lately it seems much of HN needs to be reminded of it.
> You can't win if you don't play, but 2 tickets doesn't increase your odds significantly.

Going from 0 to 1 tickets increases your odds infinitely. The spread on your possible outcomes goes from $0-0 to something like -$2 to $100m heavily weighted toward the bottom.

Going from 1 ticket to 2 tickets to 40 tickets… increases your odds by a very minuscule amount. The spread on your possible outcomes is now like -$80 to $100m, still heavily weighted towards the bottom.

The marginal value of every ticket after the first is basically negative.

I don’t buy lottery tickets but buying _one_ makes sense to me. No more than that.
This assumes filter bubble theory is true, which it isn't, because being exposed to things outside your bubble mainly makes you resent them even more because they're annoying.
My battery has given up the ghost, and it's probably in a box of stuff around here. At the time, putting a new rechargable in it was impossible. I wonder if that's changed now...
Edit: Neglected to mention mine was also solar
Would that short story be "Into Darkness", in Axiomatic?
Explanation requested. I guess it's missing a hyphen but "anti white racist" is a pretty thin salad at three words and not especially ambiguous in terms of the politics it implies.
You can check out our managed service to get a feel at https://console.ubicloud.com
You do know what "a tiny bit" means? That's why I didn't say "Twitter became a bastion of free speech with spectacular record", I said "allowed a tiny bit more of free speech". I'm not betting on any horses here - as I wrote in another comment here, I left Twitter years before the whole Musk brouhaha started, and I am not planning to return ever. I am just noting not all complaints can be taken at face value.
Or they're effectively trapped there with their visa being based on their employers sponsorship
Tucker Max, not Carlson. He was a pick up artist/bro influencer.
Your link says that summary is false
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It isn't? But the linked thread shows precisely that, and that is the title...?
> Should every other country ban American tech?

Every american tech? No. Every american social media, yes. Especially the major countries. Why india hasn't banned foreign social media is beyond me. What's the point of banning tiktok but not facebook, twitter, etc?
Agreed.

Gpt4all[1] offers a similar 'simple setup' but with application exe downloads, but is arguably more like open core because the gpt4all makers (nomic?) want to sell you the vector database addon stuff on top.

[1]https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all

I like this one because it feels more private / is not being pushed by a company that can do a rug pull. This can still do a rug pull, but it would be harder to do.
https://archive.is/iCtmH
It's literally Chinese nationals in NYC spying on US citizens, who were shut down after being found by law enforcement.
I am so happy you shared this here, I had no idea. Really lovely, thank you.
But there is no equilibrium now or anytime in the forseeable future, hence my comment. The US has far more to lose in space then to gain because they have way more satellites then anyone else, that are more valuable on average, etc...

The US airforce can't credibly threaten PRC satellites as long as they also maintain the minimum viable ASAT weaponry too, since trading tit-for-tat would be hugely detrimental in both absolute and relative terms.
Apologies to Greenspun:

“Any sufficiently complicated C program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of C++.”
> not especially ambiguous in terms of the politics it implies.

What politics are those?
10+ years ago I worked on a trading system that was generating something like 1TB/day of messaging.

As we hit these levels we asked them - how many trades are we even doing on this system? The answer was something on the order of.. 50. Granted it was a bond system and the nationals are huge, but theres just no reason to store 20GB per trade.

These are the kinds of decisions that get made when one team is responsible for message generation and the other is responsible for the storage, lol.

We then had to work backwards with them to unwind a lot of the INFO level chatty messaging between what you'd now call "microservices" and reduce the volume by 90+%.
You wouldn’t commit for 3 years for increased resources of a single day.
In small defense of macos, that's been the case since 1984. Not great for new users, but it's an old paradigm
It's amusing how the times have changed.

Back in 2002, you couldn't get a job unless you wrote "object oriented code" in your resume.

Nowadays, state is evil (pun intented) and OO is the naughty child - "Bro, do you even write functional?", yet no one writes haskell (neither do I).

Seeing articles like these for 2006 trying to shoe-horn Objects in C is amusing!

This is not a nostalgic post about the gool ol' days, today we know so much more about what works and what doesn't in large applications. State _is_ bad and should be encapsulated. Pure functions are your friend. Objects... egh. We don't talk about objects, we refer to them as "this guy".
Distributing copyrighted books is different from learning from copyrighted books.

That said, most of the major AI companies have pending copyright lawsuits. The one against OpenAI specifically mentions this dataset. Nobody knows how it's going to play out in court.
The first paper on AI and Neural Nets was published in 1945. What's your point? 15 years is not a very long time for deep tech.
> I think they wanted a freedom fighter based in China to criticize the CCP and she was not taking the bait.

If that was the case wouldn’t the CCP silencing her generate a ton of Western media attention?

Who needs a freedom fighter to warn about what the CCP can do when you can actually show the CCP doing it.
What happens if you destroy a black hole? [video]
Ah, my bad. The link I saw said K-6.
I suppose you need to know how many requests did not result in a purchase. Is it 1000 views:purchase? I have not checked in on a Prime Day sale for several years, but is there any timeliness component (Flash Sales?) where people would be incentivized to mash the reload button?
This article feels too self-congratulatory. Love of reading by itself doesn't impart any special critical thinking or creative skills. At the extreme it can be another mode of passive consumption that hinders one from developing the creative muscles.

Reading is just one part of an all rounded development.
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Ah, that must be it. Thanks for the correction.
I didn't interpret his criticisms that way at all, and given that his criticisms with both the resistivity graph and the not-Meissner effect turned out to be exactly correct, I'd give him a bit more credit.

As someone who remembers the original cold fusion debacle well, this felt exactly the same to me: announce a result with a ton of unnecessary hype and fanfare (I mean, the closing sentence in the paper was just absurd in my opinion) without first trying to (a) at least call up some experts in superconductivity to get their opinion, or at least (b) write a paper with less of a "new era for humanity" tone. This smelled 100% of these researchers chasing glory without a modicum of introspection. I thought the most important part of the video is where the professor said that scientists are taught that when they get weird results, their first instinct should absolutely be to question it: what could have gone wrong? how could my experimental setup have been flawed? These researchers showed none of that appropriate skepticism.
"As of May 2023, it has over 100 full-time employees.[2]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Media_Group
It’s fascinating that this is your conclusion from the article. Mine would be that if you can make it work and believe these estimates then dynamodb is clearly more cost effective. And given that every project inevitably settles in access patterns and thus is a perfect fit for something like dynamodb, why bother with rdbms as the hot path? Just use dynamo and stream to a columnar database for analytics once your product is “finished”.
Fiddler w/ SSL decryption is the way to go to help diagnose connectivity issues with Exchange.
https://archive.is/RclVh
I am not saying that this is true AT ALL, but it would be kind of ironic if AWS slowed down competing ecommerce stores to try and get an advantage.
Sometime back IIRC, some hackers were upset about something Amazon did and tried to DDOS them.

When they realized their entire attack was just a fraction of what Amazon handled during the Holiday shopping season, they realized the futility and called it off.
Yup, 100% agree, having custom roads is ideal.
I remember as a child, reading an article about a man who got up every day and logged into Wikipedia and wrote articles about Native American artists. This was in the 90s, and I thought the whole thing sounded wonderful. So I signed up for an account and became an editor. I've maybe contributed 20 or 30 edits over the past 20+ years. That initial influx of people I think has given the impression, or, perhaps the media, that there is a huge army of people maintaining the site.
He's notable because he's always wrong about everything, to the point you can profit by investing the opposite of what he says.

https://galloway-index.webflow.io
In the US? One classroom, a maximum 12 students per class, I'd imagine that the much better teachers incentivized by getting paid $120K/yr more would do a lot. That formula is no secret, it's been around for decades.
Pulling funds from established services would cripple the system. Consider resourcing for special needs students, programs for low income families, programs for second language learners. You cut the budget in half and many of those services could no longer function.

Im a supporter of social programs as a whole and am regularly disappointed when people completely ignore the less sexy parts of budgets as if they didn't exist. If you want to be more fiscally prudent you have to be willing to do the work and actually deep dive into the systems and budgets and people throughout the system. Slashing education with a machete is just lazy and incompetent and will hurt people. You want to convince people to actually lower costs? Do the grown up work.
If the escape velocity from the event horizon is (defined to be) light speed, that seems to mean falling in from indefinitely far away, you would get indefinitely close to light speed (as perceived from at rest outside) at the point when you cross it,.
https://archive.is/G9Jya
Apple is a good example. The UI is mostly simple enough that no extra guidance is needed. But when signing up, they do show a few slides about how to use gestures and include a “tips” app if you want to know more. Most of these tips being stuff most people just work out themselves.

No walk thrus with arrow pointers and text boxes.
Link dropping without context is just rude. Abusing statistics to make an invalid point is annoying no matter the actual goal.
> Interestingly, unused L2 caches from other cores can be repurposed as a supplemental L3 cache.

IBM will want to have a word with them, I guess.
In some cases, the upload portion of the waveform test appears to be broken, btw.
I worry that underneath it has switched from cubic to BBR and is thus understanding what a normal user actually experiences.

Otherwise I still feel yours is the best web based latency under load test out there! Thank you for creating it and keeping it going so long! (Can I have you add preseem, libreqos, etc, to the FAQ?)