skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe their terminology was wrong, but what about this point:

> But in the case of postgres, why wouldn't you have a dedicated cluster

Does k8s not push you to mix postgres pods in the same host as your API pods? Unless you go out of your way to handicap it.

I understand the appeal of applying the k8s (or swarm, or nomad) model to stateless API containers, but mixing in stateful db containers and pretending they're all equivalent makes less sense to me.
There's a massive scholarly debate about when exactly the Final Solution took shape, with one school of thought being that it wasn't until after the invasion of the USSR that extermination became the goal. Christopher Browning's _The Origins of the Final Solution_ [0] provides a good overview of this position.

[0] https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/bison-books/9780803259799/
I guess people really have forgotten how to run datacenters.

The only people who should be shocked in this thread are the people who have been hoodwinked into thinking operations is so hard you need thousands of staff. I know AWS/GCP/Azure like to charge us as if we were hiring an army of sysadmins, but the truth is that day-to-day DC ops does not require so many people. Hardware failures are more rare than you think and you can work around them without panicking anyway.
Indeed - and curl requires `-L` to follow redirects whereas wget just does that by default too. So for ad-hoc CLI use, I turn to wget rather than remember all the curl options required.
Just so happens I watched this on YouTube the other day. Someone is building up a board that will hook a floppy drive up to a MiSTer FPGA build so you'll be able to access it from the MiniMig Amiga emulator core. I'm always impressed by what people are doing in the retro scene these days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MYw0lLerBA
Black Bears Move into Abandoned Canada Town Evacuated Due to Wildfires
This is so petty, greedy, and passive aggressive on the part of police.
Isn't that rectangular hole for grabbing the disk?
Apple September 12 Event: iPhone 15 Charging Port Change to USB-C from Lightning
Oh come on... I read these comments and was thinking I'd see something ridiculously large--maybe even taking up a third of the video--not something that's only like a tenth the vertical space. Yes: it would be better to not have it, but a lot of TV stations had watermarks on TV shows at the time! This isn't that large, I can see through it, and the audio is (of course) fine.

The reason no one is mirroring these things isn't because of the watermarks: it is because all of this content was already just ephemera that most people consider trash in the first place. Hell: I care a lot about this stuff... but do I want to personally spend the money to carry it around forever? This is a lot of content that I will never personally watch much of. But is that because of the URL watermark? No.

(edit: Oh god... I started watching some of this stuff and realized it isn't just commercials but local Chicago news reporting on important historical topics and now I am in fact frantically archiving parts of the channel, though I am definitely doing so selectively; but like, they clearly themselves were uploading somewhat selectively, so the hit rate is higher than I had initially hoped even though it is still certainly a small fraction of the channel.)
Rip and tear!
For me it's sadder that preventing genocide has to be perceived as a forever war. That "liberal internationalist forever war" is the reason you there hasn't been another Srebrenica. At minimal US cost.
I began to think that we should see LLMs just as another kind of programming model to be potentially embedded into existing systems. Nothing more, nothing less.

This might sound like a trivial conclusion at first, but as a community we should find some kind of common understanding without playing down its potential usefulness nor riding the hype train some people want us to jump on.
yes, dictatorship or Mafia. I was referring to Communism-as-implemented not to Communism-as-in-books. The latter existed nowhere.
It's an Electron app AND blockchain related; hackernews's two favorite things to hate. I don't expect much love from this crowd. Heh.

It's certainly either something I'm doing wrong, or a big in the software I'm using to automate signing, notification and stapling.

Here's the issue I opened on the software I'm using to automate:
https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/issues... that issue kinks to the PR that adds the automation.

It's a non-trivial thing to test, since it involves so many secrets and the notarization step can take over an hour, so I don't expect anyone here to actually want to look into it.

My original comment really was just venting my frustration, not a cry for help (but I might be crying soon if I cant get to the bottom of this!).
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I took that comment to refer to the scrappy original AirBnB, not the one we see today (I can't recall exactly how the first implementation was done but I do recall that it was something really simple along the lines of an excel spreadsheet and email).
It's in that space of proof of concept implementations that the LLMs can really accelerate (and, potentially, as a "pair programmer" kind of role).
I'm not familiar with the drug so I couldn't speak to how close or far away that story is from a typical Datura experience - which is perhaps the most interesting thing to know - but reading that whole post it really felt more like somebody practising creative writing than a genuine account. Of course it's possible the author just writes about a true story that way to try to be more fun to read, but there's just something about it that makes my spidey-sense suspect it's a piece of fiction.

Does anyone else get the same feeling?
Cities worldwide watch London to see if Ulez can get up to speed
Keep Linux Open and Free
>> The price of unchecked climate change is the destruction of civilisation.

> Or zero

According to insurance companies, it is already not-zero:

* https://www.munichre.com/en/risks/climate-change.html

* https://www.insuranceinstitute.ca/en/resources/insights-rese...

* https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-is...

* https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2023/08/09/climate-change-cana...

And it's probably a fairly safe assumption that it's only going to get more expensive.
Story-end-first means focusing on the stories. The big ideas and such. Dogma and rituals. Philosophy.

As opposed to getting something real that you can observe firsthand. A solid method with solid results.

It can be a problem because there's infinitely more to it than stories. But the stories won't show you that. So it's a bit of a trap. (And a very popular one at that)
They just made something up about me that is not true. They've insulted my integrity. They are a liar. No one in good faith can disagree.
I am in my late thirties and have been developing arthritis in my hands for almost ten years now. I have tried a lot of different ergonomic keyboards including the aforementioned Kinesis Advantage. I was extra hopeful for it, but even after getting through the rather intensive learning process I didn’t find it helped. If anything I think aggravated the problem.

I found myself having to repeatedly bend and unbend my individual fingers to reach keys. This action is particularly painful for me. On a standard keyboard I can maintain roughly continuous finger curl and move my entire arm at the shoulders only slightly extending the finger I wish to use.

I remain largely unconvinced of the benefits of welled keyboards, since they do seem to increase overall wear on individual fingers.

The solution I found that has actually helped the most is simply using a keyboard with the lowest pressure mushiest rubber domes. For me that has been a keyboard I already owned, a Sun Type 7
1995ish
I’ve also noticed a huge shift in which topics it tries to suggest, but I suspect it’s natural selection rather than intent. It feels like the ‘strike’ allowed subs which didn’t participate to rank higher, and it seems those gains are self-reinforcing (more members/participation lead to greater prominence, which leads to higher placement, which becomes circular).

I don’t like the results, but I’m not convinced it was intentional- more just self-selection between which communities did and didn’t participate.
Ho man. To stop major, major climate impacts we long ago passed the point where reductions or caps would even make a dent.

To even have a hope of not seeing major disruptive climate change we would have had to be at the point of net-negative fossil carbon releases years ago. And we’re nowhere near that.

Those changes are something of course. and we’d be in a (marginally) worse situation without them. But they’re overall just minor impacts.

The changes required to actually address the issue have barely been contemplated, and will be massively disruptive.
As a Polish guy - I would not trust a single thing shown in the national propagandist TVP television.

It's really weird to see this on Hacker News.
> Why can we even write equations for this stuff.

It's a (very) weird way to write the same equations as Newton. It happens to be easier to solve on some cases, because calculus works like that.

It's conceptually not very different from using a Fourier or Laplace transformation to simplify some signal handling. But 400 years ago they didn't have any easy way to understand it, so it got an aura of magic that never got away.

(But you probably already know all that. You probably just didn't internalize it because of that aura.)
I try to adjust expectations away from the extremes with these things. Both "it's just a stochastic parrot" (and more recently "artificial stupidity, learns nothing") as a common trope in one group, and also "this is already enough to render $random_profession entirely redundant!" in the opposite.

Anyone who tells me the latter: nope, it's as good as a university student in an industrial placement/internship.

Anyone who tells me the former: nope, the algorithm definitely had to learn a lot to be able to produce even a half-baked mess, and even 3.5 clearly knows more than I do about almost every subject.

So…

> it's fundamentally limited in what it can produce,

Indeed

> and the massive productivity benefits you see (30x faster!) are for trivial tasks, not difficult tasks.

For many people, programming at all is difficult.

Even for us, switching to a completely different language and API isn't a matter of moments.

Don't get me wrong, it absolutely screws up; but at 80% right-first-time (in my experience) going up to 90% just from giving it back the error messages from the compiler or interpreter, that's better than most students and much better than coming from a different domain.

The same in reverse means you should never ever rely on it for anything critical, even though it can still save time if you can perform fast reliable tests on the output.
Thomas Kuhn
A quick google suggests the average truck driver drives 160-180km a year. This means that this provides an extra ~3% fuel efficiency for a lot of overhead and complexity. Trailer skirts save an estimated 4-8%.

I’m not saying it’s an either/or because you can have both, but it does seem like this is potentially overly complex for minimal gains.
Two things:

1. 2FA does not require your phone number.

2. If you don't already, you should use a public key for pushing your commits

It's highly unlikely that you lose commit access even if you don't complete the "enrollment" unless you use http authentication for pushing commits in which case you should realize that password security is a huge liability for any big web application and I recommend you reconsider your approach.
Counter to the old Slashdot adage, let's actually read the fucking article.
Remember, the headline trumpets: How Accurate Were Their Predictions?

1. Estimate seems to be alright.

2. "On target if a little high"? or you could read it as off by about 50 years.

3. Glad that this has been pointed out.

4. Whatever my opinion is on geoengineering, this is not a prediction, this is a statement of theory, there is no prediction or verdict to be had here.

5. This is also not a prediction.

6. I agree with the author re the link being proven out, but I disagree with their attribution of lack of action to climate changer denialism. Or is this the standard "Let's not call out India and China" dancing around the issue? Poor form, either way.

7. Is not a prediction.

Verdict, saner than most articles regarding this, but still extremely poor. Out of seven points, three are not predictions, one has numbers that are so twisted that it can be spun any which way, two are valid points and one seems to be written specifically to deflect blame from the majority polluting nations. Not really quality journalism here, which is kinda sad. For an article that sets out to measure the accuracy of certain predictions it's sorely lacking in both predictions, as well as accuracy.

Bring on the downvotes!
Users are fickle. And in the 5 years I've been deploying this app I've never had to ask users to do that. I'm sure it's fixable, the solution has just eluded me this far.
It's surprising that something like this isn't available

Cryptography is a munition (in the US).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...

That might explain the non-ubiquity of convenient random number generator hardware under a hypothesis that widespread use would make signals intelligence much more difficult for three letter agencies.

YMMV.
Atomic Accountability
You have to save like an old farmer. Money goes in bank, needs pried out with a 20ft crowbar. It's not what you make, it's what you keep.
> Marx and his ideology when they were happy with the soviets

Marx died 30 years before "soviets" had been invented. The ideology followed by the bolsheviks was marxist in name only.
Yeah, I don’t think the U.S. is turning into Sarajevo during the 90s but I think there will be more disruption than we expect and probably actual refugee camps sooner than we like to think.
That's exactly right. Any product is essentially made up of a gazillion small tasks, whether setting up a framework or writing a database query. If just some of those small tasks can be made quicker / easier using these tools, then why not?

What I find most useful in this space is twofold:

1. Specificity: so yeh, I can look at SO or wherever and see responses to a semi-specific query, say about querying a database. And yes, I could post a question and maybe after a few hours if I'm lucky get a response. But with ChatGPT I can throw in the actual table and column names and get a specific response back. Most often it needs honing, sure, but it's most often a great starting point.

2. Being able to back-query. So the fact that history is maintained means I can say "actually, add in a column called X and can you make sure that the query only returns unique IDs" and - again - I'll get an immediate response without having to go all the way back through the questioning journey again.

As with any tool, the extreme responses on either end seem obviously flawed. On the one hand: no, it's not going to replace all developer jobs. On the other, to just completely ignore it, not try it, always assume that "the documentation" is better - this seems blinkered and foolish too. Somewhere in the middle is a sweet spot where human brains collide with these tools and we manage to tease out code that is more quickly researched and saves time but also well considered and treated with a degree of healthy scepticism before deployment.
> switched to products

This is always a temptation for agencies which almost never works out. They underestimate the effort to build a product. They also typically don't have the skill or experience to build a high quality product that can compete with the whole world.
Good question, I just checked. The numbers I can find for 2022:

Renewables: US: 21.5% Germany: 44%

Nuclear: US: 18.2% Germany: 6%

Fossil: US: 60.2% Germany: 45.9%, 20.1% from lignite (brown coal)

So pretty clear win on the renewables for Germany. Adding Nuclear for "clean energy" it's still pretty ahead. However, Fossil in the US is mainly gas, which is cleaner than lignite. Hard to quantify.

Sources:
US: https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
Germany: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...
> what about the vast number of times a prompt like this this won't have worked for other people?

similarly, what about the vast number of times a prompt like this this _will_ have worked for other people?

we don't know either of these two numbers, especially not which one is larger than the other
> crashing Win 95 remotely by sending an Out-Of-Bounds packet to my IP

WinNuke. Any packet on TCP port 139 with URG (Out-of-band data) flag set crashed NetBIOS/SMB service.
yes, exactly. i think that the option would have to be ignored when doing recursion. or alternatively use the .1 .2 ... method like with all cases where a file of that name already exists.
As a everyday sway user, Out of the box Gnome experience way more user friendly to most people.
Wise advice indeed. There's a fine line between "working to to live" and living carelessly. I would hope anyone attempting the same thing ensure they have a solid plan for the eventuality of old age and/or broken wrists, blindness, etc.
go away ai bot
I still wonder what scrum masters do all day, our stand up is only 15 minutes.
I think of it like this: curl makes HTTP requests, wget downloads files.

(Though both can be made to do the other thing in some capacity)
I recently attempted to trace exactly which app is making a particular DNS SOA query. I can confidently say that there are very few applications in the *nix space that do proper DNS reporting at all, and Little Snitch seems to be the only one that would map the actual app. I found no working solution to match a query to a pid in Linux.

This tells me that either people rarely need to do this, or that it’s very hard to do in userland.
These usually mean temporary construction jobs. Politicians don’t like to point that out.
Not sarcasm, he is a jerk but I am trying to figure whether it would be in character or not. It sounds more like a play from the “vulture capitalist” toolbox. Although I suppose it could fit with a vision of unburdening a company to allow rebuilding.
> Preventing an app from accessing browser data feels like an approach to make people feel safe while providing no meaningful protections from most malware behavior.

Depends on the threat model. Yes, protecting browser data does not help if the attacker gained entry into the system by exploiting a vulnerability in the browser. But it helps against all other entry points: USB sticks laced with malware (common threat against companies), malware that came as part of an email attachment or by dodgy warez, an attacker that's already in the network (either because they're laterally moving or because the victim is in a scenario like a public wifi) and exploits some vulnerability in network-enabled software...

Classic defense in depth here, it massively raises the bar for attackers because to steal Chrome user sessions or passwords, you now need a code execution avenue but also a kernel-level or at least sandbox exploit to bypass Bastion.
“Do you value content on YouTube? Has the internet brought you any kind of content of value?”

Maybe the diametric opposite of this? No, I do not value “content” and the Internet has brought us Hell, more or less.
The most outlandish thing I remember was the CN Tower got a Windows banner strung down the glass elevator shafts. The same thing was repeated for Windows 98.

I don’t think there were any other displays of that “magnitude”. It must have been one heckuva an ad bill.

As a kid, I remember being fairly adept at Windows 3.1, but that all went out the “window” once ‘95 came out.
Well, questionable original source aside, just went on a rabbithole in wikipedia reading about it. Or do you consider wikipedia also propagandist?
Humankind: A Hopeful History
I doubt it; the ability to run your own code is completely different from the ability to copy somebody else's code
> If people's home insurance suddenly jumped up 1000% due to recalculated natural disaster risks, that would suddenly make people rethink their positions.

Insurance costs what it does due to the risk of paying out. Changing risks makes the price of the insurance change as well. If insurance companies aren't changing their prices, then the risk isn't changing either.

By asking to inflate the cost of insurance artificially, you're really only pointing out that natural disasters have not yet increased enough to notice.
Please forgive my ignorance, but how do you pronounce Hodów?
The issue here is that ‘nudged’ doesn’t make the actual changes necessary.

‘Nudged’ isn’t transitioning anyone’s military off fossil fuels. Or international shipping. Or major capex outlays in things like home heating when existing (fossil fuel) options are cheaper and more effective, etc. Things that require double digit percent of GDP expenditures, which are often required.

Germany tried (guilt perhaps?) and made a dent - but far from solved the problem, and is still consuming massive amounts of fossil fuels and is now burdened with debt and very high energy bills.

They cut back from a case a day to half a case a day,
and are clearly unhappy about it and far from sober.
ChatGPT is a junior programmer who knows everything and can do shallow things (like this) instantly. I'm not sure it will ever be a really good programmer, but having such a junior dev at your fingertips feels like a superpower. The ability to decompose problems and recombine the solutions remains in the human sphere.
Antioxidants found to spur cancer growth and metastasis in mice
Just make sure you cross validate the facts it gives! It might hallucinate
Fine, I'll be the one to say it... 2 minutes is not 30x faster than 30 minutes
Which is similar to T-Money in South Korea, Octopus in Hong Kong, and later Suica in Japan. All of which if I remember correctly came before 2000.

They are still extremely popular in those region. One of the thing I dont understand is why these type of payment never took off in the West. Even things like Oyster card in the UK is only for transport but not for any other sort of payment.

Another point worth pointing out, Offline payment are much faster, with Sucia based on FeliCa capable of doing the transaction in less than 100ms. This is important in a transport system as heavily used as the Japanese transport. For people who are used to these type of payment, everything else just felt so slow.

With every iPhone now getting a Felica Chip built in, I was hoping this type of payment could take off. And yet nothing happened.
> This must be US only? Consumer protection law in the EU/UK has got this covered for those citizens.

They seem to handle it in the UK correctly based on the return reason.

Defective/faulty/not as described - free return.

Changed your mind - pay for a return, or return to a collection point for free.
Still nicer to its custimers than nintendo.
WinDows 95 was the first Windows architecture I wrote code for. I remember so much of the literature was awash with 16 bit sectors which I actually needed to undo to make 32 bit code. But I was thankful the resulting code was so relatively straightforward.
I'm not saying that the article is untrue. I'm not a historian. What I'm saying is that all content from this source should be treated with high skepticism.