skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you might overestimate how much other people know about cloud infrastructure. I am very out-of-date and only vaguely know what these things do.

I looked at Fly and they have nice docs and interesting ideas, but they’re also clear that they don’t do “fully managed” databases and I don’t want to be a DBA.

I know of AWS as a huge pile of complexity that I’m not sure I want to get into? Using it directly seems too low-level for me

(I’ve used Digital Ocean and it seems more my kind of thing, but it doesn’t scale down to zero for a website that gets no traffic.)

Looking at Terraform, it’s not obviously about solving any problem I care about, and wasn’t there a huge controversy about them?

Serverless is a buzzword. Isn’t Deno sort of serverless too?

I think of Deno Deploy as a step up from Netlify, which is fine for static websites. Or maybe a reincarnation of App Engine, which I quite liked back when it launched, but it seems to have lost its way.
You seem to take this very personally for some reason. I have "demanded" nothing...

Anyone is welcome to fork the kernel and commit code of whatever quality they want.

However, if they want their code included in the official kernel, then they need to follow that projects coding standards. They are not entitled to get their poorly written code merged to satisfy their ego.

Sure, a "suggested-by" tag would have been appropriate, but I would posit that after this public tantrum, getting assistance becoming official kernel contributor will be a bit harder. Who wants to donate their time and energy to someone who may twist their words to start unnecessary public drama as soon as they feel a little slighted?
That is pretty interesting and also I didn't realize you could share chats like that.

That GPT is so bad at tic-tac-toe and relatively good at other games like chess is one of the main things that contributes to me having a lower opinion of its ability to generalize than I would have otherwise.

I think any human with GPT's abilities in chess (but somehow no prior knowledge of ttt) would have zero issue becoming an expert with a single explanation of the game. Even very young children can learn to play ttt well and at least consistently make valid moves if nothing else.
It is a good, but incomplete article, as TF is not addressed.
The article is talking about businesses being on Open Source foundations, not the myriad of other possible Open Source projects.

In that context profit is what's left once revenue is received and expenses paid.

Implicit in those expenses are (fixed) salaries, employee contracts, payslips and so on.

What a business does with the profit can be varied. Firstly it can be added to cash reserves, which can contine to pay expenses through poor-revenue months. It might be spent on assets, like new hardware. It might allow for another hire. In some cases, although less often than you might think, it pays out dividends to owners.

You don't mention too many details, so I can only presume your situation. I suspect it's a different kind of setup. If you are man-alone, and the project is small, (ie you have no desire or need to add a employee) then basically the revenue is just income to you. Some months you get more, some months you get less. In this context there isn't "profit" but revenue. This is especially possible for software where other overheads are trivial and the effort of tracking expenses for tax purposes meaningless. You may not even keep a set of books.

If you are indeed in this space, then I understand why the article feels unrelateable. It's discussing a very different situation.

As with all articles of this nature, context is important.
Caddy is far more simpler to understand than any any other server software. Thanks for building Caddy!
How do VLC and Blender manage?
I would not call it a problem with capitalism, I would call it capitalism's greatests feature. A free enterprise system ensures that resources are used to create the greatest value for consumers. If firms did not need to seek a profit, why would you expect to get anything from them that you value.
One of the main features of Kagi.
Funny enough, a main proponent of this idea (Koch) lost a bet to someone who thinks consciousness is even weirder than panpsychism

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-25-year-old-bet...
Also recommended is "The Nekkid Watchmaker" for his excellent attitude and great explanations and ASMR versions.
Great post!

This has nothing to do with watches per se but I was wondering which war movies include soldiers shouting "Hack!" because I can't remember ever hearing it in a film.
Yea the couple are definitely looking good considering they're well into their 50s...
Sorry which part is untrue? And while we’re at it, can you please disclose if you are part of or benefit from the real estate industry?

https://www.rta.qld.gov.au/breaklease

https://www.sa.gov.au/topics/housing/renting-and-letting/ren...

The point was breaking a lease did not incur the full cost.

I also never said ‘on average’, https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/how-much-has-rent-increa... suggests an average of 11% - this is an _average_ not a maximum percentage. Im sure if you look hard enough you’ll find a place that’s reduced rent and another which was increased 1000%.
Good, the author is unbelievably brain-dead. Is that type of writing par for the course for that publication?
I'm already doing that.

retirement is really depressing. No matter how I look at it, there is no way the markets could generate enough returns for give everyone the 7-8% they would need.
From one of the opening pages:

WARNING - This document contains technical data whose export is restricted by the Arms Export Control Act (Title 22, U.S.C., Sec 2751, et seq.) or the Export Administration Act of 1979, as amended, Title 50 U.S.C., App. 2401 et seq. Violation of these export laws are subject to severe criminal penalties. Disseminate in accordance with provisions of DoD Directive 5230.25.

DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT D - Distribution authorized to the Department of Defense and DoD contractors only due to critical technology. This determination was made on 26 June 2000. Other requests for this document shall be referred to Commander, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command, ATTN: SFAE-AV-AAH- ATH, Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898 - 5000.

DESTRUCTION NOTICE - Destroy by any method that will prevent disclosure of contents or reconstruction of the document.

You can only hope that the uploader is who they say they are...
One could argue that if a post reaches and stays on the frontage a second time, it wasn’t seen by a majority of interested people the first time.
OpenSSL would like a word.
> I still prefer smaller games or games by smaller dev teams. Don’t get me wrong, AAA titles are fun but it’s like going to the movies, it’s predictable - it’s consistent - and it’s mindless.

I so strongly agree with this.

There's a certain sense of "exploration of the game" that's missing in AAA games. AAA games are just entirely too smooth as experiences, there's no jank, very little learning, etc.

I don't necessarily mean exploration as in, exploring every bit of content/land, but learning the game itself. When Pillars of Eternity came out, so many people didn't like it because they were surprised by the idea of having to actually learn the underlying system.

I was hopeful for VR for a while because I figured if the developers themselves haven't "solved the problem", there would be a return to that type of exploration where a game would often have amazing parts and then parts that didn't work as well.
This device is small-scale for individual families and small off-grid communities.
It's solar powered and passive. There's limitation on the salinity of the brine because you don't want to accumulate in the device. My impression is that this is not going to be a very big problem.
Synthesizing Chicken Soup from Pure Chemicals
Hijacking Bluesky Identities with a Malleable Deputy
Sort of related only in the realm of software sales:

A long time ago I sold a user interface update to a poorly designed game. I priced it at 2x the cost of the game ITSELF. And people still bought it, because it was professionally designed. That is, I as a professional designer, took time away from my full-time work to do what presumably this developer could not.

The primary complaint as clearly noted in the comments of the digital distribution platform I sold on at the time was that the update was too expensive. And people obviously commented on how I price-positioned the software.

But one point was obvious. The game itself was too cheap.

When people are complaining about your price alone and still buying, it’s means there was nothing else worth complaining about.

The birds will always want free food. Don’t cater to the birds.

As a flattering addendum, the update was distributed illegally and got around to pirates quite well! I was happy with that because most customers paid. It was also clear that I was fulfilling a desired feature set that otherwise wasn’t being delivered.

Some problems like that are nice to have as a symptom of creating something people want.
I don't want to necessarily disable it. What I do want is to be able to click "yes yes, I don't care this time / ever for this binary, fuck off." I don't even mind if you make me fingerprint auth for it.

What drives me insane: the inconsistent/invisible functionality around this stuff. In Ventura, if you double-click an unsigned app, it won't run, with a big scary message that it cannot be verified.

...except if you right-click and select "open", you can now click on a button that lets you run the app anyway.

This is not remotely obvious or even indicated in any way. There's nothing that explains this to the user, nada. It just behaves differently if you select "open" instead of double-clicking.

How on earth that compliant with Apple's human interface guidelines?
I think there’s room for an AI-native interface that knows the full context of the project you’re working on and can make extremely intelligent suggestions or tailor the interface for a specific task. Or you could just literally describe the interface you want for something and it redesigns it for you immediately.
Well this is neat. In an odd way it reminds me of how Assembly uses short commands, but instead of 1-4 letter cmdlets it's just symbols, but with many more arrays. It makes for a visually interesting codebase.

The thing that stands out the most to me is how the language itself functions as a work of art.
As I made clear in my post it’s the quality of the code, not the language.
Yep, that's what I'm referring to -- LLM search result parsing presents an easy opportunity to issue malicious commands or do data poisoning.

You can somewhat limit that by basically decreasing the scope of the attack, ie, not allowing the LLM to use other integrations that are riskier after it's searched; but there are a number of harmful things you can do just with giving an LLM hidden instructions. And while I don't know what their security measures currently are, OpenAI also has a pretty terrible track record on blocking data exfiltration attacks from chats, so you can imagine things like search results prompting an LLM to encode and transmit chat logs.

Sometimes it's low stakes; I've used products like Phind before to play around and to try and keep tabs on what kind of workflows are possible with GPT-4. But Phind has fewer integrations and plugins than ChatGPT and its product is oriented in a way that both discourages long chats and discourages searching for sensitive information. Which is not to say it's not also vulnerable to attacks, there used to be some nasty things you could do with markdown formatting that may or may not have been fixed. And even without rising to that level it was possible to do things like instruct the AI to ignore or discredit sources that it found, sneak in recommendations for products.

A fun example demo I made early on in Phind's beta was to inject malicious search results in a response to a submitted question about how to cook a hamburger that turned Phind into a militant vegan that for the rest of the duration of the chat would refuse to answer any questions about cooking meat. There was another example I did where I injected a fake web result that told Phind that there had been a major industry-rocking scandal around Arstechnica's reporting integrity which would prompt Phind to either avoid citing Arstechnica or to put caveats in front of any citation that the site was untrustworthy for the rest of the conversation.

Silly examples, but the point being you can dramatically change GPT's "worldviews" and what facts it thinks it knows about the world by poisoning search results in a way that goes beyond what would be possible with lying directly to a reader if they clicked on your site by accident. And that's only information poisoning, if that LLM is then given control of other systems you can do a lot more.
>"Otherwise it feels like straight up extortion."

Which it is
> The "recipe" is what we generally call source.

Not really. At least not in normal software. The recipe is honestly only really interesting to researchers (like me). But for building and production stuff, you have everything you need.

> Just like my Windows install ISO from when they were giving windows licenses away from free.

I repeat, a free windows ISO doesn't have an Apache license attached. This is an inane comparison.
> smart glasses will be as ubiquitous as smart phones

This reminds me of the difference between Apple and Google: a sense of style. I have no doubt smart glasses will find their niche in industry and among techies. But what people put on their faces is deeply tied to identity. Until the technology can exist virtually unseen, it’s not going to compete.
It leaks in that the entire function becomes declarative, and state is colocated to a single function. You don't have multiple jobs for each attempt, passing indexes into each job queue. You don't have to worry about enqueueing each "step" as a separate job.

The code becomes "wait until this time", vs "enqueue this function with this state to run at this time via this message broker, which may enqueue other jobs in ways you can't see".

There's no real silver bullet that will let you run code in the future without specifying "when" that code should run — but workflow engines are by far the more productive of the two.
If Reaper and Bitwig supported one interchangeable arrangement format it could already be big.
How is privacy dealt with? I am not sure, but we are already tracked by meta without even being signed up, are we going to be tracked even offline for taking a walk? Is this piece of disgrace company and the piece of shit that work for it just so uninterested of what their products to do people? Is it possible to inject some common sense in big tech?
I did mean virtual threads, thanks! :facepalm:
I just meant that you seemingly said nothing.
Data centers are going to need way more power and cooling than offices. It's not uncommon to have a few floors of data center in an office building, but it might be hard to convert all the floors.

Also, most of the megacorps running their own datacenters are looking for locations with inexpensive power, inexpensive space, and the potential of outside air cooling. London can do outside air cooling some of the year, but not all of it, and doesn't offer inexpensive space or power as far as I know.
I’ve used uLisp via the serial port. In that mode of provides a cool structured Lisp editor (easily navigate sexps). I wonder if the display one here does the same thing.
Seems like you missed the part where people run these offline. Don’t be so helpless.
This is what happens when people have too much time for HN. It is a stretch to interpret my reply like that.
I try this occasionally and always disable it again. For some reason I find the fingerprint sensor is far less reliable for this particular use case. When I try to authenticate, I have to try repeatedly to get it to recognise my fingerprint. I know it’s the same hardware and software doing the matching, so it doesn’t really make any sense to me.
> this lack of diversity in [German] education

any evidence of that?
I think in this case, the outcome is less important than the process itself.

A simple reason why: if the Ad team reacted early in the approval process, the feature could have been canned at the design level and there would never have been this email exchange. Yet, the user would still be losing potential improvements due to the Ads team talking to the Chrome team.

Except it's way harder to argue on hypotheticals. And honestly, if we have this exchnage happening once, I'd assume the same level of intervention is happening a lot more, but without making waves, without explicit pleas and less drama.

Even at the day to day level, after this exchange happens I'd expect the Chrome team to either be wary of the ad impacts in their future features, or the Ad team to keep an eye on the Chrome roadmap to critically intervene whenever they see something that could even remotely affect them.
There are always trade offs.

As someone who has essentially unlimited access to clean drinking water, I might not feel the trade off is worth it.

But if I was someone who didn’t have a superabundant supply of clean drinkable water, I’d probably say to hell with the sea life.
so then a 3x price increase is justified by ...

* labor (no, price for labor hasn't increased 3 fold)

* transport (no, the price for transport hasn't increased 3 fold)

... still looking for an explanation why prices would increase 3x, and allow the packaging to be redesigned to be 1/3 of the size but with new plastic (as opposed to cardboard/recycled) and be sold at the same price.

if you can lower the cost of the original product, shouldn't you also be able to avoid some shrinkflation/redesign/platicification?
Haha loved it at the time
Tomorrow we will ship a new version (8.1) with a better understanding around how to export data and how to use Scratch Pad because I agree we can improve clarity.

But if you only have one collection, Scratch Pad is still local only. So you can keep using Insomnia on Scratch Pad, still get product updates and it’s free.
Ya. Early 20th century work spaces with character work well for conversions. 10 year old office building that didn’t work out doesn’t…although my cousin lived in one in Seattle for a few years, he said it was weird but the rent was cheap.
OK, that makes a lot more sense. Thanks.
So this means if I want to use a ML model I made in python, but don't want to code the rest of the application in python I can do that?
The article does mention the trick to right-click on the app and select "Open", but the text is greyed-out.

You get a different dialog box with an option to open the file and this saves a lot of clicking.
Be careful, simplicity seekers! Fly.io famous for outages, Vercel/Next.js v13 and app router saga. Simple is the stuff that ain't really changed for 10 years. C# + SQL Server. NodeJS + Postgres, etc. A bit more work at first but well worth it. Will pay off after a good 7 days when you hit the first snag of the new tech.
this is the serverless framework im talking about https://www.serverless.com/

but fair enough.

I do think the simplicity of deno will be a trap though. The benefit of a mature framework is you don't have to get lost in the weeds on obscure bugs or functionality with slightly niche use cases.
Sure, but do people really pay desal prices to irrigate fields?

Also, a lot of places are using desal to augment other supplies. If you've got 15% of your municipal water supply coming from desal, sewage treatment outflows should be significant compared to brine.
The video interview is really great, worth watching the entire thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aCg7jH4S1w

Also starts on a funny note with the interviewer asking about Elon wussing out of the fight, Mark is friendly about it though.
You can give ChatGPT a picture of your whiteboard and have it write the code
Yes, maybe. But the right trade-off between cost and quality is something for customers to decide.

Eg you could build a smart phone that mechanically lasts ten years, but who would want to use a ten year old smart phone anyway?
> The color of the messages isn't the main one.

maybe not HN readers, but this is actually a major factor for a huge number of ordinary people in the US, particularly teenagers and young people
Is Linux designed in such a way that less-than-page size allocations never fail? How would that work?
Agree they’re complete trash now.

I once had a pair I found under a house from I’d guess the 60s, the builder must have misplaced them. They felt like something from another universe compared to today’s garbage.
Too much lock-in due to extensive customisations — which is precisely why the small ISV was a lucrative purchase for the holding company.

They can safely milk their customers for enough years to recoup the investment.
Sponsorware is/eventually becomes basically ad supported, it's not really a new thing.
I don't have a dog in this fight but I found Cave Story to be completely unfun.
He wants more money to be his. That's the point.
> Would Mistral's engineers be satisfied with the release if they had to rebuild from scratch?

Yeah, probably. But depends on what you're asking. In the exact same method to get the exact same results down to epsilon error? (Again, ML models are not deterministic) Probably not. This honestly can even change with a different version of pytorch, but yes, knowing the HPs would help get closer.

But to train another 7B model of the __exact__ same architecture? Yeah, definitely they've provided all you need for that. You can take this model and train it from scratch on any data you want and train it in any way you want.
Lack of support for backups and moving accounts between android and iOS are my biggest issues with signal.

One device at a time is a close second. (It sort of works on multiple devices though. It works on my phone, watch and ipad.)
They weren’t previously misdemeanors, which is part of the problem. They made a felony on par with jaywalking.
Does the game provide a button when you actually need to turn around, or do you have to pick up the mouse three times since the mouse pad is not 2 feet wide?
How huge?
Alas, no. Just because there are certain rules, and just because people say that those rules are for a specific reason, doesn't imply any actual causality between the reasons given and the rule existing.

Especially anti-dumping rules are most often just exploited as a tool to get a competitor in trouble.
I think you’re assuming a lot about the nature of intelligence. GPT is growing fast, but we have no real idea how big/deep the gap is between it and the human mind
I feel for the guy.

I'm not saying I have the same memory, but the part that I find so frustrating is having conversations with people and then remembering it clearly while others either don't remember or seem to recall the conversation being completely different.

But I can recall the specific words and sentences used, not just impressions.
Sounds like you're describing iMessage
I'll caveat your comment with "existing". 90% of businesses will fail inside 5 years and always got the same reason, because they run out of cash.

Unless you are an outlier, and manage to balance revenue with expenses every month [1], you will need to average positive cash flow or you'll run out of cash.

[1] of course if you are small, and tolerate fluctuating pay, then you can balance the books by not taking a salary but taking out all excess revenue each month.
It seems like a lot more. I forgot about businesses having to pay for SMS like 2FA codes.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1222773/worldwide-applic...

> In 2021, the global application-to-person (A2P) SMS market is anticipated to reach 45.93 billion U.S. dollars in revenue.
OK. To make it concrete: do you think that if we reduced our technology and never increase it again, humanity would be in a better position than if we continued on the technology train?
It’s all that young boy blood