skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, I forgot about that Altavista (and Hotbot and ...)

The Hardware Behind AltaVista [0]

AltaVista: AlphaStation 500, 256 MB memory, 6GB disk.
AlphaStation 500's handle all external traffic to the site.
They run a custom multi-threaded Web server which sends
queries to the Web indexer and News indexer.

Web Indexer: AlphaServer 8400 5/300, 10 processors, 6 GB
memory, 210 GB RAID disk. This model is the most powerful
computer built by Digital. These servers run the query
engine. The Web index is larger than 40 GB, but most
requests take less than a second.

Scooter: AlphaServer 4100 5/300, 1.5 GB memory, 30 GB RAID
disk. The super-spider runs from this machine. It fetches
pages from the Web and sends them to Vista, our primary web
indexer.

Vista: AlphaServer 4100 5/300, 2 processors, 2GB memory,
180GB RAID disk. This machine indexes Scooter output and
serves as a central distribution point for new index data.

News Indexer: AlphaServer 600 5/333, 896MB memory, 13 GB
disk. This machine keeps an up-to-date index of the news
spool: since new articles appear and old articles expire all
the time, it is in fact quite busy, even though the index it
serves is much smaller than the Web index.

News Server: AlphaServer 600 5/333, 896MB memory, 24 GB RAID
disks. It maintains a current news spool for the News
Indexer. It also serves the articles via http to those of
you who don't want to know about news servers but want to
read news. "

[0] https://groups.google.com/g/comp.unix.tru64/c/aB_z5YXwNMI
Is there any functional difference between Twitter and Threads, or is just the user base?

(I don’t use either)
More Than 80 Percent of Americans Can't Afford New Cars
No, I use curl similarly and a lot. Where I find Postman convenient is when using it against services that use OAuth2. You authenticate once, it fetches the token and you are good to go. Could I script this with curl? Sure. Do I want to? Nah.
Maybe a pihole.
That sounds like a process where it's very easy to slip up and if that's something to be concerned about in your threat model maybe you should not be doing that in the first place.
> Prod isn’t an acronym, it’s an abbreviation of Production.

Tangentially, "Prod" is justified since it's being treated as a proper name, like "Paris", "Roderick", or "Mount Rushmore."

But yes, "PROD" is harder to explain, and I suspect it might be bleed-over from looking at code or config files where it gets capitalized.
I believe this may have to do with how many mechanics are paid as independent contractors
That's a really weird way to write the title then.

"Chicago does X before NYC, ignoring LA which didn't have to because of a state law that already did X"

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Sort of related question:

Is there a neat way of turning a scan/1-bit bitmap of a PCB design (from e.g. an old magazine or book) into a set of Gerber files that you can have manufactured cheaply?
Where is Kotlin support for Eclipse and Netbeans?

Prove me wrong.
This is what people complain about, but at the same time there aren't enough cards, so the people with AMD cards want to use them. So they fix the bugs, or report them to AMD so they can fix them, and it gets better. Then more people use them and submit patches and bug reporters, and it gets better.

At some point the old complaints are no longer valid.
>These services are created to give the best product to users, and so wouldn't this be a better product? Therefore there is incentive. Happier users and a product that is better than competitors.

Why would the computation care about any of that ? I'm talking about incentive for the model.
I wonder how long until that ad selling a compact ghost gun pistol appears again? Unreportable ads, a great haven
If you are over, say, 25, then you know that the last 10 years have been _exceptional_ years for our climate, and that the time for normal non-sensational warnings was 40 years ago or 50 years ago.

Look at a graph of CO2 emissions and you realize that we are in a place where what was alarming in the 80's was the result of only _half_ of the CO2 pumped into the atmosphere since 1900 ( https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions )

And now we are using energy to cover for the effects of using energy a decade ago.

Things are worse and they will reach the point over the next five or ten years that heat events and cold events will become more deadly for more people and the fact that you're tired of hearing about it isn't the problem.

The problem is that people haven't been taking the danger seriously and now it's an immanent and deadly danger.
People hear that 57% of households paid no federal income tax. They look at their own W-2s and see their combined Social Security tax and income tax withholding payments exceed their tax refund, and believe they've paid income tax.

There are quite a few people who believe they pay federal income tax who don't. They do pay some taxes that come out of every paycheck, but they don't (in net) pay federal income tax.
High Resolution 1-Inch Samsung Sensors
This has already been banned in most of the west coast states.
Other states and cities also have tip credit far above federal standard.

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/minimum-wage/tipped

I feel betrayed that these laws are enacted without capping or preventing the practice of tipping. I doubt that tipping could be banned constitutionally due to past supreme court precedents but we really should re-evaluate and try to get rid of this practice. Why does a certain class of workers get this benefit that perpetuates race and age discrimination (white and young employees get tipped a lot more).
Kaiser is a Colossus, it was more-or-less the first HMO. I've been reading about it in the context of health care economics since the 1980s.

I was getting a test at the hospital in my town the other day and got asked by the technician about my job, which involves public opinion data, and that got into "why are people unhappy with the economy today?" which got into strikes, and she volunteered Kaiser as an example so people like her are very away this is going on.
Shame is a terrible motivator for weight loss. It just doesn't really work. Nobody gets fat because they think being fat is okay. Fat people tend to be struggling with other things that they largely need to tackle before they have the emotional bandwidth to do the un-fat thing.

Fat shaming doesn't help anyone lose weight, it just makes you feel superior.
Can't be blocked with first party tools, at least.

That "can't reply, retweet, or even see the account's name" format should be distinct enough for things like uBlock or a specialized extension to find.
Yup, and this is mostly to protect profit for the pharma companies so people don't split doses.
If anything, it'll be the legacy media that ceases to exist soon enough.

Twitter directly competes for the same advertising revenue the legacy media does. If Twitter was dying, it behooves the legacy media to report about it.

I can't think of any other industry where a someone spends more time trying to paint the competition in a negative light, than casting their own brand in a positive one. Think about it.
Request for Information on Open-Source Software Security
Yeah, nvidia linux support is meh, but still much better than amd.
Of all the changes made to X, the one that places responses by paying members first is what ruins it for me. Those responses are usually pulpy.
You can configure tokio with feature flags in cargo. I'm particular you can pick a single threaded scheduler.
Even C# seems like something stuck in the 1990s compared to Kotlin. (I know it’s not a high bar).
What?! He did the work, likely diligently and with aplomb. He performed excellent work, in exchange for money.

And then a third party, the government, who had no part in this, took money from him. No matter how it was assessed, was a fine.
I like this, but mainly because it will help get rid of tipping.

I suppose alternately some restaurants will add automatic tips to the receipt, which will go to the owner, and the employees will be 100% wage, and no tips. Which basically works out to the same thing with extra steps.

I'm not so sure it will actually cause the employee to take home more money though, I suspect they'll end up with less.
And we are all connected, so there are not only twice as many people on the planet, and more people with computers, but also people in China, India, Brazil, and Russia are able to collaborate instead of being completely isolated in their own locales.
The old solutions to phishing, education and weak 2fa, are in the way of the new and improved solutions, FIDO, passkeys. Nobody wants to admit that the old ways were lacking. They were hipped too hard. It's like when new health guidelines appear and contradict the old ones.
I'm forced to detail this one person situation because people reacts by re-inventing the situation so that it fits what they want to hear.

This one person is just one example, even a bit extreme, of a mentality that I keep seeing over and over again.

The problem is not this person, or "working from home" or "at the office", the problem is the mentality here: they are basically saying that asking someone to go back to the office can only be part of an evil plan from incompetent management.

As you say "the issues you present are easily mitigated". One way to mitigate s to ask the person to work at the office. The problem is this mentality of excluding this mitigation as if it is not as good and as legitimate as another one. All the other mitigation that you will come up with will have inconvenience for one or several actors. It is just biased to say "I can solve the problem by clicking on the button A or on the button B, but if they click on the button A, they are incompetent evil management, because after all, they could have clicked on button B. Button B has also some inconvenience, as much as button A has, but not directly to me, so it means it is objectively the best choice"
> But there is clearly not much point in passing a city law saying the same thing as a state law employers in your city already have to abide by.

The only reason I can think of would be to secure the law in place if there might be uncertainty about a state law getting reverted.
How much it matters depends on many factors

I think you'd be intellectually dishonest saying it wasn't a historical election
No we could not. We literally physically could not. We wouldnt be able to maintain the huge myriad of systems we do in fact need to survive while doing that.

We couldnt even, without external dependencies, support humans artificially in biosphere wtf makes you think we could do it on a planetary scale...
Are you suggesting that ethnic Han is in fact second-class citizen in China (possibly behind Caucasian)?
Try to call Kotlin co-routines from Java.

Telling me there is Kotlin support in Eclipse only tells me you never actually tried it, specially after JetBrains ramped down the team that was doing the now stale plugin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_2nd_Factor

https://www.yubico.com/

A 2FA token is simply another "thing you know". A plugged-in USB dongle is actually "something you have". (Although, technically, it's still "something you know" because it has a secret key; it's considerably more difficult to phish this key.)
I'd guess there are a few factors at play, but my assumption is that the drug is perceived as a cheat. We see obese people as weak and loathsome due to their own failings and now they're going to simply take a drug and think they can get away with it? Surely they must deserve some punishment. Surely this drug is too good to be true.

If it was available readily and cheap, I'd be curious to give it a try, though I have no desire to ever get below 10% body fat.
Better init and architecture aren't what people think of when they think of "giving models more data" - they mean a larger training set.
Different but I've seen multiple ads from the @NFL (and a few other brands) on X that are not labeled as ads. This is on the "Following" tab which is supposed to only show tweets from accounts you follow (I do not follow the NFL)
You’re not legally obligated to tip so I’m not sure how it would be abolished. Best just to stop doing it if you don’t want to.

I’m not sure a law explicitly stopping people from giving more money would pass, but maybe one explicitly asking restaurants to stop asking for tips would work.
I pay $500/mo in property tax. If I were to watch kids to pay my rent to the government, it would take at least one full time kid. That is residential; I assume commercial tax rate would be higher. And that one kid may represent 10-25% of a caregiver's capacity.
As soon as the investors and boardmembers realize that chips mean "hardware design" they will quickly put an end to any of these efforts.
Anybody know of one for sublime?
But the overall rate across all cities is not 20% but much lower. So the title is inaccurate even if it’s true in select cities.
That's fair. I've been using Android for the past 10 years after originally using iPhones, and I definitely agree that it's frustrating how much each OS update changes the UI. I'm actually considering switching back after seeing Apple's more recent OS design updates.
I find Google's updates on apps like docs and their work suite are a little more navigable than the Spotify desktop app UI changes, but that's definitely not the case for all their products. It's a good point that they did basically setup the idea of users being "perpetual beta testers".
Nice insight!
The fourth paragraph in the article explains LA already does it and lists every state. The first paragraph and the original title users the word "independently" to emphasize it was Chicago's choice and not a statewide mandate like LA.

Really, this should be fixed as a misleading change-of-title when posting to HN. Who can summon dang?
Oh okay. I’m curious what the capacity is.
Slack staffers are 'gaming' the company's training platform to speed through
You don’t have to fight tools if you learn them, but I understand— as a fellow programmer— that you don’t always have time to learn them. However, it’s pretty easy to use pipes and tools like jq to do complex stuff.
I use mine for the most boring possible answer: exactly what it was marketed for. I edit videos in DaVinci Resolve with it. :-)
I think its about internet real estate. I.e. eyeballs / user to track.

If chatgpt can steal eyeballs from google or facebook (something that Bing has tried with no success for the last 10 years), it is existential treat to google or facebook, so they must react.

The same thing would have happen with VR. As soon as some company will succeed with VR, your would suddenly see a lot of VR companies.
No, I mean Reddit instances, not third-party Reddit clones, e.g. Lemmy.
This is why the Dummy's and Idiot's series of books written in layman's are so popular.

If more people realized how great the chat AIs are for this purpose, they would be even more popular despite the hallucinations.
Using Apple/iCloud for everything, and getting rid of other services and software. One low monthly payment. Seamless integration between devices. Easy sharing of purchases, photos, or other media. Apple has an app for everything we need (notes, reminders, calendar, browsing, music, videos, password manager, photos, videos, etc.) No need for shared email as we use a shared bank account, and Apple Pay/Wallet supports shared cards (Apple Card also has a co-owner/family support).
I'm curious how much of this is perception vs reality.

Context: Heard something about an active shooter this week and followed a link to the Baltimore Police twitter account[0].

As I'm no longer logged in, I see tweets from 2021 and 2017 with no indication that there's new content I'm missing. If this is how public services are trying to get the word re:ongoing events, it's a terrible option.

(granted, you said journalists and politicians, not public services…)

0: https://twitter.com/BaltimorePolice
Well Jeff Hawkins has been working on this for a while, in terms of biomimetic neural networks. They've done some great work but they don't have anything like modern language models in terms of abilities + performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz-3WDdqbj0&list=PLX9JDz3uBp...
It hovered around 40c, about the same as my Macbook Air. Fans kicked on at 45c, so idling was silent (but working wasn't).

The real killer-app for me was just switching to Linux as my base OS. I can leave containers idling while watching YouTube at a cool 27c internally. I'm using a 6-7 year old T460s, but honestly I feel like I could get away with even weaker hardware if I wanted. A Macbook Air running Linux might be a candidate if I didn't need to wait for basic functionality to get reverse-engineered. As-is though, you can count me among the people who doesn't quite need an upgrade yet.
Semaglutide made me feel more like I was full and simultaneously made me feel less like I was hungry. The stomach slowdown helped as well. I had some of the less desirable side effects of that, and those were really unpleasant but also showed me that I had no real idea when I was full or hungry and wasn’t eating for the right reasons. I’m hoping the insight sticks, at least.
I was strategizing with a friend recently about how they could get a fresh start somewhere new. They're broke, have been unemployed for years and are dealing with fairly severe mental health issues. They have some skills, but will likely need a flexible, unskilled job in the beginning. So I started scouting out cheap cities and noticed an interesting trend. The rent for a 1-bedroom in a decent part of a city in Kansas is about the same as an equivalent in South Dakota, arounds $700/mo. The difference? The lowest you can get paid in SD is 33% higher than in KS. $7.25 (the national min wage) versus $10.80.

It would take a lot more work for a thorough analysis, but my quick assessment found SD and neighboring Nebraska ($10.50) to be top states to live off of minimum wage in large town/small city.
Do you use Eclipse? Have you looked at the available plugins?

There's nothing special about Kotlin. It's a bunch of libraries for runtime and compile time... like anything else you use.
I wonder what that means for the culture of tipping. A real side effect of this will probably be restaurant prices going up (no idea of the amount), and that might make people less likely to tip. There's also a psychological effect that not tipping or tipping less doesn't feel as bad now that the workers are getting a real wage on top of tips.

I wonder if this will be the end of tipping. That seems simpler than trying to remember how much to tip is normal where based on laws like this.
> without any tradeoffs.

why did you interpret my comment as being extreme?
> This is primarily an accounting and enforcement change.

No, it is not primarily an accounting and enforcement change. Previously the first $6.80/hour in tips were simply donations from customers to the employer, because the worker wouldn't see one additional cent from that. Now, 100% of tips are required to be paid to the workers.

Wage theft is still a massive problem - theft due to minimum wage violations alone are larger than larceny, burglary, and auto theft combined - so enforcement is still an issue, not to mention the risk of retaliation. But this law is a material change for people working tipped minimum wage jobs, not just an accounting change.
Not really my style to respond / talk to myself on the internet. I mostly selfishly keep that ... perk ... of my 'carnival hall of mirrors'-esque mind to myself (unless I'm muttering more audibly to keep 'the crazies' away at the bus stop ... you know, the real ones, not like me ...).

But...

Realized I need to temper what I wrote about the 'roast' aspect of the "age check". Specifically, I think there IS a (deeper) wisdom to the setup, and a more nuanced satire of "age restrictions". What I will offer here is more the conclusion I drew years ago - drowned out temporarily by not having thought about the game in years and by the strength of the relived 'glee' at the seeming "hurling of the hammer into the 'Big Brother'" face* that I quickly realized the system could be taken to represent.

While labeled something like "age check" - the simple-minded approach, the question-based system IS more what you'd ~rationally want: a maturity check (perhaps not quite the best word, but, will do for now). I.e., what's the point in restricting access to the content in that game if someone is already at a point where they know and/or can dig up the kinds of information queried for in those questions?

I always love the example of Benjamin Franklin, the dude became an apprentice printer at 12, began writing letters that were published under a pseudonym in the guise of a middle-aged widow around the age of 15 or 16, began influencing the politics of the era in significant ways around that same age, fled his apprenticeship and lived as a fugitive for a bit when 17 ... founded a successful newspaper at 23, etc. The world was different, and some of that was more the usual than it would be today. But, at the same time, Franklin himself WAS unusual - particularly 'fast', intelligent, clever ... and, that is the point. People both on average AND as individuals do not conform to such 'simple boxes'.

Age is a practical, reasonable, and simple system - in some sense, exactly the right system. About the only reasonable system (as a parameter for sale / no sale, basically). And yet, it's also obviously rubbish. The 'question system' IS almost certainly better - more reasonable / accurate in certain ways (aside from the additional limitation / potential jest in multiple choice ... so someone who is 5 is getting in at least some of the time, which also doesn't seem unreasonable to some degree) - and also great parody of perhaps the entire concept and us more generally (e.g., the literally MOST COUNTERPRODUCTIVE thing you can do - try to hide information about a BASIC BIOLOGICAL DRIVE that has an extremely serious side).

* If unfamiliar, look up Apple 1984 commercial or similar (terms)
Pretty sure the company is going to be sold to a private equity firm once it reaches $1b in valuation. There's just no way Musk is going to want to stick around the way things are trending.

Premium tiers are not going to come close to replacing the lost revenue to declining ad spend. Especially when it's in a death spiral with increasingly spammier ads causing a flight of higher quality advertisers. And there isn't the profit to cover debt payments let alone pay for new features like payments that X desperately needs to generate new revenue.

Meanwhile Meta gave a glimpse of the levers it can pull by adding Threads to the Instagram sidebar. Ever closer integration is going to drive hundreds of millions of new users at zero cost.
Not kept up with the times in regards to C# 12 features?
"I'm talking about incentive for the model. "

In Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, this is (somewhat) fixed by giving the AIs emotion ..
Rewrote the manual from scratch I'm afraid. Second time went faster ofc. Still, a lott of needless double work.
Price difference between 13900K and AMD Ryzen 9 7950x is not big - the latest 7950X3D is about on par with the higher clocked 13900KS as well.
I’m pretty indifferent to self driving cars, in fact I still want a 5-speed for my next car, though I know someday I will go electric.

But I would really like my car to be self-PARKING. Why is that not a feature yet? Sure it can’t handle ALL scenarios, but can we get AI to handle mall parking lots and parking garages? Just drop me at the curb and put yourself away.

How far away is THAT!
Why anyone is still on there is beyond me
Why is this bad? These superads will enable users to discover more products to improve their lives. Many will be YC companies. Advertising is the root of all good.