skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in 2005, we ran the worlds largest hardcore porn site (kink) on JBoss 4, jgroups with multicast, EJB3 and we did all of this on 3 servers, but only needed one and used the rest of for redundancy on fully automated rolling deploys. They weren't even very special servers... just some Dell blades.

We had full transaction isolation and it just ran thousands of connections and transactions per second, gloriously, without any issues. We had a micro currency (kinks), first 1080p pay per minute live viewing, and a whole slew of happy customers with .gov/.mil email addresses.

Kids these days with their 'microservices'... psssschhhaaa...
Ask HN: What did you name your project that's just crazy or nonsense?
I'll start: I wanted to work on a little Thunderbird for the web, and named it CaMaChCo (calender, mail, chat, and contacts). Upon research, this was actually taken, so I went with CalMaChaCon, pronounced KAL-mah-CHAK-on. This was all I could think of, as I currently can't consult ChatGPT for ideas. I would say Calmachacon is right up in the "nonsense" alley, but knowing the meaning of it would make it understandable.
I'm not familiar with any off the top of my head, but this reminded me of the book Designing Data Intensive Applications, here's one somewhat relevant snippet from it

"JSON is less verbose than XML, but both still use a lot of space compared to binary
formats. This observation led to the development of a profusion of binary encodings
for JSON (MessagePack, BSON, BJSON, UBJSON, BISON, and Smile, to name a few)
and for XML (WBXML and Fast Infoset, for example). These formats have been
adopted in various niches, but none of them are as widely adopted as the textual versions of JSON and XML."
This comment comes off as claiming that neurodivergence is a bad thing.
One disgusting trend I see with many phone apps is notification spam with no fine-grained option to disable them without potentially disabling transactional notifications. Ride-sharing and delivery apps are particularly annoying for this.

I remember the time when phone OSes did not have notification categories but it’s not a useful feature if app developers don’t implement them.
I don't think that wasn't the deal-breaker. Jobs didn't want Flash to become the de facto development environment for the phone.

I'm pretty sure he always knew they'd end up with apps on it, they just didn't pull that together for the first release, thus the HTML song and dance. But if they supported flash, that would reduce a lot of the demand for apps later, and worse - it would be cross platform.

So he used the other (still good) reasons - battery life, security, etc. to obscure the real reason - Apple was not yet ready to compete with it on their own terms, so they banned it.
I think it’s actually beneficial to both parties, which is why it’s become the standard. It doesn’t tell you anything about the company.
It says he works at an investment firm at the end of the essay:
"Max Meyer works at the venture capital firm 8VC in Austin, Texas."
LibreOffice 24.2 Will Succeed LibreOffice 7.6
It's prompt engineering for humans.
I haven't seen anyone switch to Penpot either, but it's clear Figma has been borrowing things from Penpot, which is actually great.
Deck chairs need to be in alphabetical, not numerical order!
Ask for a timeframe for the hiring decision and if they don’t respond by then, assume it means no. No use working for someone who will string you along anyway because they probably do that will all of their work.
I support most of this, but the one thing I definitely want my phone to ring for is if I have a scheduled meeting on Zoom or some such.

Missing those meetings or being more than a few minutes late always feels terrible, and it's so easy to do when I'm heads-down working on something.

I would vehemently oppose a ban on public ringing for this reason--and also because it's needlessly authoritarian! If people want to ring at a similar volume to a person speaking or a baby crying, let them ring.
I'm 100% onboard with the notifications thing. My phone only makes noise for phone calls, reminders, and calendar events. All other notifications are silent. In addition to that, I only have a couple of apps that display number of unread messages. A few times I've had to give advice to a friend or coworker about managing their notifications because they were drive to distraction by them. It's mind boggling to me that people don't figure this out on their own.
You are not wrong at all. There is a certain level of fraud tolerated by banks so that they can more easily make loans to people. It's the classic security vs. convenience trade-off.

Two big problems are:

1. If you happen to be one of the victims of the fraud, it hurts!
Sometimes a lot! A lot more than it hurts the bank.

2. If you don't like the level of (in)security that the banks have chosen, what other options do you have? Right now I don't know, I think maybe Bitcoin is your best bet?
lol, do they have virtual bathrooms?
OpenTF: “Stay tuned for some big news this Friday [...]”
Some web servers might throttle or block you for opening too many parallel connections within a short time, so be careful not to overdo that...
The answer is physics and wave drag.
Why Aren't Commercial Jets Getting Faster? (Hank Green) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVLb0DRFKSY
Longtime Super Mario voice actor Charles Martinet retires from the role
Not only that, my take on this book is it's meant to help you classify those patterns and better recall them by going through consistent triage and process.
Hmm, I guess I am one of those folks who are complete without knowing why or how, or maybe I do but cant be sure. At least for past decade and a half, before that I was just a big useless lost child (I see big children around a lot, some are nearing retirement).

Definitely no nurture, an average guy with slightly above average mind raised in former communist bloc, if that means anything to you (kids raised as obedient workers, no critical thinking, no strive for greatness, little self sufficiency and other real life skills, thank you soviet fucking russia union for destroying not only my parents lives and dreams). What I achieved in my life is beyond wildest dreams of my humble parents, but they had a nano fraction of my options.

One thing I have is self-discipline but that may not be related. Or maybe non trivial consumption of weed over past 2 decades in right moments.

I can empty my mind completely with a snap of a finger, and keep it so if I wish. Mindfulness is utterly boring to me as it does nothing since I am there on my own without even trying, just gets me very sleepy and decreases my heart rate to the point of being cold.

Mild extreme sports make the 'feeling whole' part work. Currently probably rock climbing is #1 with a great buddy (american teacher), followed by my eternal struggle to get finally proficient at paragliding. Small kids give a lot of other fulfilment and take away easy sleep and some mental stability, thats a mixed blessing to be polite.
Oneplus phones have a nice hardware switch to set it on ring, vibrate or silent quickly, it is very nice!

https://community.oneplus.com/thread/1155070
My personal flavor of social anxiety is quite a bit different. I don't expect to have a negative social interaction (I almost never do), and when it does happen, it doesn't actually bother me that much (I find it very easy to roll my eyes and dismiss assholes).

My anxiety stems from the fear that the interaction will be exhausting. And that fear is almost always realized.

The only thing I've found that reduces my anxiety is to ensure that I am feeling very energetic (e.g., getting a good night's sleep and giving myself an extra strong dose of caffeine), to make sure the interaction happens in an easier and less tiring format (e.g., face-to-face where I can read their face and body language, as opposed to something like a phone call where I have to work extra hard to process what they are saying), and to make sure my schedule is clear for the next few days for recovery. When I can do these things, I find myself actively looking forward to social interactions and enjoying them a great deal. I can even manage to be downright outgoing and charming.

So I'm not really sure what a good solution is here. Life requires more social interactions than I can properly prepare for, and assorted necessary interactions sap all my energy for more fulfilling interactions. It creates this conundrum where I crave more interactions with my friends, but I simultaneously avoid them; even receiving a text from a friend fills me with dread.
too long didn't read, no diagrams
I think it's made up but can be used to justify return to office.
As long as you're not some violent extremist/racist who the hell cares which way do you lean politically? o.O I never once asked a workmate who they vote for. Nor will I.
I thought Perelman ran off into the woods forever after winning the Fields Medal.

Nifty.
>As to the iPad, there really isn't a good alternative that I'm aware of...

As someone who refuses to use Samsung phones because of the bloatware (and was using a Pixel 4a until the sim slot crapped out last week, of all things) I've actually been pretty happy with Samsung's tablets.
Yes, business interests are adept at using any sort of progress as an opportunity for instituting authoritarian frameworks to increase their centralized power. We could have had a world where racial discrimination was prohibited and financial surveillance bureaus were illegal. Instead they're just slowly remaking a stratified society in formal terms of information processing rather than ad hoc by skin color.
Looking at the number of open jobs on https://www.trueup.io/job-trend

It was flat since March '23 and had a slight uptick in July
Like jimmytucson, I've been preparing (somewhat) not for climate change, but for social / economic upheaval which may result from well.. anything. Including climate change related, like food or fuel shortages.

But it's also in line with a general direction my life is going: become more self-reliant, moving away from big masses of people, enjoying life @ a slower pace, reduce environmental footprint, etc. Like:

-Obtain materials & practice with collecting rainwater as drinking water.

-Keep at least several weeks (drinking/cooking) water & a month or more food stored. No special 'prepper' items, just the food you normally buy. And in my case, not using fridge/freezer for that.

-Same for fuel.

-Solar panel (some power generation for any type of off-grid situation). Plus batteries (~800 Wh here) for storing that energy. Smaller batteries (AA, 18650 etc) for things like flashlights or a portable radio: all rechargeable.

Don't count on running all your appliances (unless your whole roof is covered in solar panels). But when AC goes out, having some power for low power devices (eg. phone, flashlights, portable radio) is very very much better than having no way to power those.

-Some gear for low(er) power computing. Probably not a big concern if things get really bad. But useful in any off-grid situation.

-Keep some cash on hand @ all times.

Basically I'm not too scared about Mad Max scenarios. More like making sure I'm ahead of the curve when riots break out, or supply chains break down. When other people would be looting supermarkets for stuff like bottled water, batteries or toilet paper, being able to hang back & sit it out for a month or more, gives a lot of peace of mind. That in itself is worth the prep work.

So (imho) you shouldn't prepare for specific scenario's. Just make sure you have basics like water, food, fuel & (a bit of) power covered for a while when supplies of those break down. Tailored to your situation. A few weeks is a lot of 'lead time' to make other arrangements. And avoids having to fight people over last items on store shelves.

Other things to keep in mind: cooking, temporary shelter (tent, car, boat, ..), transport, sanitation, medicines / first aid kit, hand tools to build/mod/improvise stuff.

Should things get even worse: I have grown my own food @ various times. That's not rocket science.
And the author claims to have had 35 years in the industry so he should have some kind of intuition of when 30 years ago was. Or maybe he miscalculated 25 years experience.
For some, vtubing is capitalizing on a trend; for many, though, it’s a way to express and experiment with developing one’s identity in a way that transcends the physical limitations of both presenter and audience - and for those for whom that freedom to experiment can unlock unbounded creativity, it’s an incredible way to “limit break.”

A bit saccharine from an aesthetic perspective, but it’s something that would be entirely familiar (if old-school) to denizens of a cyberpunk universe, and I don’t think there’s a better way to articulate how it’s connected to a broader vision.
Part of the problem is that tech salaries jumped enormously in 2021/early 2022.

Settling back to something more reasonable is now a pay cut.
The potential ripple effect is too big to ignore for much longer. 100,000 engineers is tip of ice berg when it comes to number of people feeling the squeeze.

Social media commentary has been trending towards outright hostility towards the rich and politicians, not just in the usual discourse hellholes like Reddit and Xitter, but even here (I have access to dashboards that model and weight discourse; technically proprietary though so I can’t divulge too much.)

Too many people with too much time on their hands, with little expectation of help from the system will foster sentiment it is time replace the system. I don’t disagree but think it should be handled intentionally, not waved off until last minute like we did with covid and climate change.

In the US there are only 1 million LEO but an order of magnitude more of people who stand to lose it all if austerity for the proles goes on too long.
>if you want to protect your music collection from accidental changes and are willing to use it manually from the command line, git-annex will work better.

that's what plain old backups are for, surely? if I screw something up I can just restore from backup.

and anyway this is just not something that has ever caused me a problem in the first place. how often do you even do something that has a chance of fucking up your music collection in particular?
I'm guessing they are overgeneralizing since I'm a Bulgarian and I haven't really seen anyone do that.
To me it seems like this employee delivered on his intern project, got good reviews and was extended an offer.
In case you are not aware: https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/
Life is poorly designed. Kid had an accident, gotta go to the hospital? Of course that call is urgent.

Even at work, there are things that really are urgent. But those shouldn't occur often, otherwise you would be right, poorly designed process.
We're building Python (mainly python pandas) + Spreadsheets at op (https://opapp.io). Would love to know what you think. The code editor is more like a built in code notebook.
While some of these are great, I can't help but wonder if Figma is becoming more and more difficult to use for newer, less technically inclined users.
8x is a big gap. I feel that it might be better to just use few-shot prompting and supply some examples (not applicable to every use case ofc) every prompt to steer the output.

But it's worth experimenting with at least.

Edit: no function calling (until later this fall) too. That's most of my usage right now so I'll pass. Curious on what the verdict on the OAI finetunes are. I remember reading this thread which indicated it wasn't really necessary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37174850
"Monster truckers obsess over distinctions among types of dirt the way vintners obsess over terroir."

Are the author and publication trying to sound as condescending and uppity as possible? Honestly, this reads like the kind of thing that "Frasier" mocked so perfectly about upscale sophisticates living in a bubble.

I was never a big fan of monster truck rallies, but it's easy to understand what was so fun about them. Articles like this that deign to explain the finer points of monster truck rallies (while using esoteric references to wine sampling) for their audience of sophisticates tell me just how useless publications like the "The New Yorker" really are anymore.
It's also not like I message my boss before walking to his office, that doesn't make every time someone walks in equally urgent. Sometimes it'll be me asking about lunch, sometimes it'll be the firefighters.

I agree a priority button would be nice when calling someone, to be able to differentiate, but how often do you get interrupted by a phone call during something that you didn't want to be interrupted? For me it's never so uninterruptable that declining the call was an issue; I decline calls maybe twice per year (on a total of maybe a dozen unexpected incoming calls altogether). I'd prefer if it's okay to just pick up a phone and see if someone is reachable.
I agree. Also, the code repository has no changes since 2017 (at least on the default branch).
How much of the current low cost is due to the currently low storage requirements? As the share of energy production from the unreliable renewables increases, the demand for storage will increase as well.

How do the costs compare when you factor in enough storage and overbuilding to reliably cover the inherently unpredicable generation downtimes?
>special license

This idea that they have a special license keeps getting thrown about.

But nobody has ever been able to provide any proof or otherwise reference a believable source.

Until proven otherwise, it's a myth.
This is good to know -- I primarily use FF and couldn't narrow down why my site was bugging out but running fine on other browsers. Glad its not a compatibility issue.
"Being open does not automagically make it happen." Absolutely true. Many many "open" things have never gained traction and have fallen by the wayside. It was a plausible argument about RISC-V in 2016. It is not in 2023, when it has already happened.

Lots of companies have made their decisions, projects are kicking off -- for example Samsung just started porting .NET and Tizen to RISC-V for use in their future TVs and other products. LG similarly. It will take five years for the products resulting from that to emerge, but they are coming.

The RISC-V ISA didn't even formally exist as a frozen spec a little over four years ago. Ratification in July 2019 was the starting gun for many to start projects. The results of that are just emerging in the last months -- the VisionFive 2, tne Lichee Pi 4A, the 64 core Milk-V Pioneer.

A lot more things have gone into the pipeline since then, and will be emerging in the next two to three years. Things up to around Apple M1 performance ... from multiple companies.
I admire the dedication to single-page sites.
I had interviewed and accepted an offer at some time, call it t0. I was meant to start some time in the near future, tn. The boss-to-be called my personal cell phone both during work hours, early morning, and late evening at t0 <= t <= tn asking if I could start sooner (I was still at my previous job...)

I've worked there now, for ~2 years, and the prodding hasn't gotten much better. Work's fun, though. :^)
Sounds like http://icepanel.io/
Something reasonable needs to factor in the waves of inflation that have also occurred. TC was definitely over inflation at one point but in many places I suspect people are operating at a pay cut still.

The never ending war on labor rates continues.
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Pointless story about running outdated, vunerable software.
You might be on to something. Although it’s not too far fetched for someone to get their work done in a few hours and have the rest of the day to themselves. Especially a very competent jr who gets assigned easy work at a slow moving company. I had this experience when I was Jr engineer years ago. I wasn’t given enough work and half the time was just told to spend time learning by manager or Sr Engineer. Heck just browse cscareerquestions and you’ll see several posts about Jr engineers complaining about lack of work and fear of their skills stagnating and not learning enough or fears of being made redundant.
We can infer these densities just fine, subject to the assumption that the model is correct. Nobody has ever produced a measurement of dark matter density or dark energy density, for the simple reason that nobody has ever managed to detect a single particle with the expected properties of either one (e.g. a WIMP and an inflaton, respectively).
Russians do that. The first time I noticed it was in Counter-Strike. They would type ))) and the messages would look like this:

Vladimir : )))

So I thought that they "reused" the colon that separated the name from the message. That was my theory at least...
I'm not an expert on this subject, but I have done a bit of gpt3 finetuning through their api:

I think it's clear that "fine tuning" with GPT is different from fine tuning something like Llama2, in that it probably isn't adjusting all the weights of the network, only a tiny subfragment of the network- Exactly how OpenAI accomplishes this is properietary.

The tradeoff is that OpenAI fine tuning is less expensive, but it is also less powerful than "real" fine tuning.
Next time my wife calls me when she's crashed her bicycle and needs picking up I'll remind her to schedule it better.
> FireWire was developed by Apple and some other companies, as a competitor to USB, and lost out to USB.

Apple was part of the patent pool for FireWire and is also part of the patent pool for USB C and was early to be onboard with Thunderbolt along with Intel.

Apple went all in on USB with the iMac in 1997 well before PCs were completely onboard.

> Apple had their own video container and codev formats in quicktime, and those also lost out to others

Apple’s QuickTime container is part of the standard

https://wiki.videolan.org/QuickTime_container/#:~:text=The%2....

And Apple is in the patent pool for H.264
Thanks for that link to a bureaucrat website. Where is the law? Unconstitutional laws and regulations are on the books until someone is harmed and challenges it in court.
Intern I just hired as a junior compiler dev said he got silence from all applications.

Guy had three prior internships, and great GPA from a top school.

It was a really hard to advocate for his hire because we could get somebody with ten years of experience. And this is even with my policy of ignoring anybody from Google.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060523-10/?p=31...
Styling – Page Structure – WAI Web Accessibility Tutorials (2014)
They want you to mediate so you can forget about the climate emergency and the fact that capitalism is failing 99% of us in the United States.

Mediation is opium, pure opium.

And I am saying this as a Doaist. Probably an ex-Daoist. Might have to get a new handle soon.
But its also not a framework as it offers barely any facilities for mid+ size projects, which immediately start to crack under the weight of trying to reimplement Django
That's an entirely different statement.
> Cosmology is based on a web of different observations, tied together by well understood physics.

It turns out that roughly 68% of the universe is dark energy. Dark matter makes up about 27%. The rest - everything on Earth, everything ever observed with all of our instruments, all normal matter - adds up to less than 5% of the universe. [1]

That doesn't quite live up to my idea of "well understood physics".

[1] https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/what-is-da...
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