skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While it's plausible that I, too, will cancel my inreach subscription over this i'm not so entirely convinced.

My InReach (I have an Explorer, not the mini) is an exceedingly rugged bit of kit with an effectively infinite battery life.

It is, by no means, a sleek or svelte device like my iPhone but if I fell down on a trail and broke all my fingers (or had severe frostbite or something) I'm fairly confident I could operate the device with some combination of my teeth, nose and toes.

I'm also fairly sure that it will keep functioning even if I had accidentally dropped it off a cliff, in a blizzard, into an ocean.

The mini is basically the same kind of rugged so you know exactly what I mean :)

The battery also lasts basically forever.

I turned mine on about 48h ago before a trip and it's been on ever since and I just checked and the battery is at 86% with 2-minute tracking intervals.

Anyway I am still very happy for the starlink service for the 99% of people who don't have an InReach, it will definitely save lives, I'm just not yet ready to ditch my InReach.
Maybe both? COBOL predates the first draft of ASCII by several years. Character sets were far from standardized in those days.
I’m not a ML person so forgive my ignorance here.

It looks interesting, but I’m slightly confused about the way this is presented. It feels like it’s coming from the wrong angle.

Specifically, reducing a time series to a sequence of patterns and trying to predict what happens next is something that has been done for decades in some form or another. To me the unique aspect of this is that it fits the approach into a transformer.

So I’d expect to see comparisons against other approaches that do the same thing, not against other transformer approaches.

I wouldn’t be confused if the title was “Inverted Transformers are MORE EFFECTIVE THAN NORMAL TRANSFORMERS For Time Series Forecasting”.

However, if the target audience are transformer folk then it makes sense, it just seems that I’m looking at it from the other direction.
> We had to add on hacks like setting the request timeout to 5ms and keeping the cluster warm by submitting a no-op query every 500ms to keep it even remotely stable.

This sounds like you're blaming dynamo for you/your stack's inability to handle connections / connection pooling.
There is experience after your before-birth, though; how do you know there won't be another experience after your death? Maybe it takes a trillion trillion years, and the collapse and rebirth of the entire universe; but all that would happen in subjectively no time at all.
There’s an argument to be made that it is personal data:

“Art. 4 (1). Personal data are any information which are related to an identified or identifiable natural person.”

I think one of the reasons GDPR is so powerful is its broad definitions that favor people and data about them.

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/issues/personal-data/#:~:text=GDPR%20Pe....
I get it but I feel like it isn't really mine, and learning this new db/console/product/vendor that won't be around in 10-20-30 years is a waste of very limited time.

Linux admin + hosting a server = my data, on my terms, until I keel over, and possibly long after that.
"Final reminder that I’m not a lawyer and have no clue if anything I said is actually correct, so none of this is legal advice and I strongly recommend you go talk to a lawyer before attempting anything here. I’d also strongly emphasize the importance of supporting the incredible work behind your favorite typefaces by purchasing fonts directly, I definitely do not advocate ever for stealing anyone’s work."

The project is fun and a cool idea, but don't take the headline at face value.

Would something like this hold up in court? My guess is that it probably won't. If a lawyer can demonstrate that you've perfectly recreated a copyright font I'm guessing a fair number of judges or juries would find you in violation of copyright regardless of the method used to make the recreation. Either way you're opening yourself up to a potentially expensive legal headache if discovered.
> Space is a limited resource

Technically true, but even with the full planned ~40k Starlink constellation we'd be nowhere close to the limit.
The internet shadow libraries are by far the largest and least censored to have ever existed in history. And they are accessible to all instead of just the people living in the exact right spot. They are so much better than any physical library, that it is really beyond any comparison.

A physical library is a nice and comfy environment, usually in a good location as well. But it is not honest to try to argue for them in any way as better than online tools. If the purpose is finding books and information and obtaining it, comparing a physical library to online libraries is like saying it is better to eat using your feet instead of with utensils.
I imagine that's done to not all existing satellites having eNodeB yet and waiting for their laser network to work to create additional capacity.
Thanks, sorry it’s not working properly for you. If you have the time it’d be great to know what device and browser you are using and is there anything non-default about the setup? On desktop it can be hard to account for all the extensions people load into their browsers which tend to cause issues occasionally but usually that’s not so much of a problem on mobile. You could also try loading in incognito.
I told a team for months to be wary of shoving everything into a single nuget package and using it for everything across 9+ API's.

fast forward 6 months and suddenly they have a lot of problems due to that shared library being a larger risk than they ever anticipated.

sometimes "I've seen this before" is a legitimate concern.
There have been speculations about whether family connections played a significant role in the hiring decisions. For example, the fact that Stanley Zhong's father Nan Zhong is engineering manager at Google may lead to concerns that a reference or recommendation from that parent, who holds a high-ranking position, influenced the hiring process.

Moreover, some have pointed out that the Stanley Zhong's primary background in the case was founding a startup that utilized services from a major tech company, like Amazon Web Services (AWS). This situation has led to discussions about the potential overlap between the teenager's career development and the parent's professional connections, as Nan Zhong happens to be previously software engineer manager at AWS.
And GB was rushed out the door, not even half-baked. Too often tt's a beta product pretending to be production worthy.
the stress. hate driving in a city, esp. one where pedestrians dgaf and will just walk into the road.

meanwhile I lived in Melbourne (Preston) for a bit and the trams were great. walk out, hop on the tram, into the city before too long, and then do whatchu gotta do. getting from suburb to suburb might be hard without having to go to Central and then back out, but they have busses for that.
Isn't cost of repair relative? Why should looks have to suffer because repair is beyond the reach of some percent of the population but not others?

If you had better tools/skills to repair more items wouldn't that lower the cost of the repair? In your example, could the plastic lens be repaired by a toolkit that can sand it down and refinish the plastic thereby avoiding complete replacement?

New cars have LED tail lights. Once failure occurs, the common procedure to repair is to replace the entire module. However if you had skills to do a low level debug of the board, you could isolate the failed component (passives like resistors/capacitors/led modules or ICs) and just replace that one component repeairing the module for a much cheaper price.

I've been thinking about this recently. I do vintage PC restoration as an on and off hobby and recently I had a PC case with a front cover made of transparent acrylic with scratches. It also has text painted on the plastic. After failing to restore the piece using various polishes, I've considered either taping off the painted text and using a sanding + a buffing machine or just sanding/buffing it down completely and setting up a screen printing system to recreate the logos/text. Its a 20$ Pentium 4 Shuttle PC so its not worth the time and effort but the skills gained would unlock the ability to do better repairs on more expensive machines.

With enough skillset it appears that you can have your looks and your repairability at the same time.
IBM 8513 was dirt cheap
It just doesn't seem to me like you're trying to have a good faith discussion.

I asked it to learn this basic grammar (then clarified when it made mistakes, and eventually got it to agree to a grammar like this): Let’s make a basic grammar. The things between brackets will be the set in our grammar. Our terminals are: [1, “, 2, X], all sets of strings end with the symbol: [Q], Our rules are: no terminals may repeat. When you have a terminal followed by another distinct terminal, the only thing that can come next is the repeat of those two terminals, and the string must immediately end. An example is: [1”1”Q]. There is no symbol for the start of strings.

After making a ton of mistakes and agreeing, it was very easy to trip it up. I said: "Great, let's only talk in this grammar from now on. When I give you a valid string, you give me the output. When the string is invalid, you say "Invalid" "

Then I did a bunch of invalid inputs (some of which it gave me garbage outputs), and eventually it got stuck saying "Invalid" to whatever I told it (just started to repeat that output, like LLMs do).
RT-X: Scaling up learning across many different robot types
A great companion to k3s is k3sup.

https://github.com/alexellis/k3sup
I think it's the right term, a contrarian is someone that not only will disagree, they're not afraid to do it publicly.
QUIC didn't account for amplification attacks in its design and the people complaining about it were initially dismissed.
Another post here indicated that these times don't include startup costs. From my experience with Julia (and I love Julia and have used it extensively at school!), the "time to first plot" thing is still a big problem. You would never want to write shell scripts in Julia, mostly because it takes several seconds to get the interpreter running.
I never thought of Pascal as a systems programming language. I always considered the inline assembler as the hack to get around that limitation. (Just as it is in C)

I am curious, what's the problem with redundancy? Having more than one way to do something doesn't seem particularly ominous to me. I'm sure you've got solid reasons.
Which columnar databases are doing the above in-memory?
I've never got close to designing cutting edge mobile & server chips so I have to trust that they know what they're talking about, and after multiple conversations this is one thing they feel really strongly about.
For applications that aren't latency sensitive my company has found that Apple hardware inference is far less expensive than the competition when calculating for electricity usage. I wish they would make a cloud offering.
> European Commission fits here. Head of commission is approved by parliament as far I know, but commissars are not elected, just suggested by each state governments.

The commissioners are appointed by the EC president in consultation with the member governments, and then the commission as a whole needs to secure approval of parliament. This is similar to the process by which parliamentary governments usually form a cabinet, but with the European Council (representatives of all member-state governments) serving in the role of head of state.

One typically talks about the government in a parliamentary system as being elected, so...
> I like it so far although I came in expecting the overly forgiving narrative. It's obvious the book was supposed to be a hero's journey. Just a scrappy team of misfits that changed the world.

What's also frustrating now is that to this day, Elizabeth Holmes, and several supporters, and investors, truly believe she was wronged, and that we've robbed the world of a great medical revolution.

How that squares with almost cartoon-ish cringe things like "The FDA is doing an inspection tomorrow, let's mock up a lab, and put a filing cabinet in the hallway to cover the door to the 'real' lab...
what? is this free?
Amazing. I was looking for something like this about a year ago. Looks very promising and may be a good drop in replacement for some simple Auth0 use-cases as well as homelab setups.
I was not able to get past „ redirect_uri must be on the same domain as client_id“. Maybe you can give an example of a valid client id for your demo instance.
I think it was just a huge single HTML page spanning hundreds of pages, that took minutes to load and systematically crashed my browser.
Unix Structured Concurrency
Assuming reasonable affordability, when this becomes broadly available - would definitely use this as primary texting service in the backcountry but still bring Garmin Inreach Mini as back-up / emergency nav. The UI/UX for texting via Garmin's messenger app on iphone is very good...syncs contacts, etc. Limited to text vs. multimedia (assuming pictures would not be available until '25 via Starlink as part of 'data' launch?). As with all satellite services, connectivity comes/goes with Garmin - would expect the same for Starlink.

A real gamechanger for emergency/SAR situations would be if one could enable the Starlink service from an iPhone _while_ in the backcountry vs. needing to set it up a priori...many people realize they wish they had an InReach once bad things occur. Don't imagine that is possible today.
Yup, the correct term would be "broken features".
I find little comfort in this myself because it’s not the fear of being dead - I almost certainly won’t have a self to experience anything but it is the time leading up to this point when one has to contemplate finite existence that I find terror in the loss of everything and everyone I cherish.

As I recently lost someone close and spent a lot of time by their side, including taking them to appointments and such, the loss of ability and agency associated with various cancers and diseases is also quite scary.

Many times I’ve heard Sam Harris discuss the topic and the topic of meditation and one thing he mentions is taking joy in that the current experience, whether that is dinner with friends or doing a push-up may be the last time you ever have that experience. While I appreciate that one should focus on the moment, I’ve unfortunately found myself doing my best not to “take time to reflect” because the reflection is a reminder of loss and not an inspiration to enjoy the moment.
Media has always been filled with lies and propaganda. That isn't new. The folk traveling from out of town brought slanted news and biased stories to the watering hole. Songs manipulate your feelings on various topics. Broadsheets brought you the vile things the bad guys are doing, whether accurate or not. The newspapers, radio, and tv media have been filled with propaganda since their inceptions. I'm not sure that anything has changed except there is now another medium people need to learn to filter through. It's coming at us from more directions at once, but we have to open the door for those voices to come in.
If demand is really infinite then your logic applies but I see no reason to think that it's the case. How does building new buildings increase demand? Only by making housing move available and thus dropping the price.

In other words, I am either in the market for a $5M apartment on Park Ave or I am not. If a new building gets built, it doesn't make me go "well hmm, I never thought about living in NYC, but now that there are 50 more apartments available, I think I will".

What DOES happen is that ~50 people who were previously competing for the same handful of pre-war buildings now just bought into this new place because it's nicer. All of a sudden there's less buying pressure on the existing inventory so the seller has to drop the price (ie, if ppl aren't buying my apartment because the same $5M can get them new construction, maybe I gotta drop it to 4.7M)
If getting Let's Encrypt to work with HAProxy is your only struggle, you'll soon overcome it and be loving HAProxy. And there are multiple ways to set up Let's Encrypt, if you don't want to use acme.sh. For example, you could use certbot. There are blog posts that cover that pretty well.
Why not? The setup I’m experimenting with for an API right now is basically a single Lambda that’s accessible through a function URL (so no ELB/ALB) + an RDS instance. Spinning up additional environments is a single Cloudformation call and deployment artifacts should work with both Docker containers or S3 (depending on the Lambda execution environment).

Seems like a leaner setup than using ECS/Fargate + LBs to me. Have I overlooked something?
Retro-Simplicity
I had Beej as an instructor and his style of writing straight up reads how he actually talks. The guy's a gem.
Do these implementations use the neural engine? I saw that there was a stable diffusion implementation using the neural engine and I found that my macbook noticably did not run hot, as opposed to an average Teams call.
Cool! It looks like you effectively do auto instrumentation. Have you found there to be interesting nuances between LLM providers? Tracing is great and trace aggrgegates (with context!) cross-vendor would be even more awesome.
> there is an unsolved elephant in the room: It doesn't cover schema changes.

100% agreed. It's remarkable how Datomic also arrived on the scene in the same era (2012) but actually managed to solve a lot of these hard issues of immutable versioning + schema evolution via a clean EAV-based information model and an emphasis on accrete-only schema changes.

I'm a big fan of your work by the way :)
Sorry ESL here is "English as a Second Language" - or non-native english speakers. Our company has a diverse set of employees and only about 60% of us have English as our native language.
That's a complicated question and answer with a lot of variables. Are we talking about gam-gam with multi-organ failure on a mechanical ventilator who has had chronic pain for years and just prayed to Jesus to send her home? Or are we talking about a 20 something athlete who just collapsed on the field of play and received immediate attention? Because both of those get different answers.
Support wise, GCP is a joke run by entitled people. I had an issue some time ago with a VPN and after doing a lot of troubleshooting and having them agree the problem is on their end (packets would go in their VPN Gateway from the VPC, nothing would come out), the solution was to update my configuration on my end to workaround whatever they did because "it is how is going to be"...

TL;DR: they broke something and wouldn't fix it.
Lots of languages can mmap, it's not exclusive to C++ or C. The JSON package the Julia code is using seems to mmap too, for example.
Very cool to even explore this area. Although I do have to ask how on earth can this work in terms of patient consent?

Because if you ask conscient me, would I want a researcher waffling around in a room I am being resuscitated in, I would certainly not consent.

Physical space around the patient and distraction free environment are a premium in a resuscitation. The "Without interfering with the resuscitation" part reads like something you write down in a proposal to get it past an Ethics committee.
As I said, there's not a "full kubernetes".

If you are in a datacenter, it's best to use the K8s distributed by that datacenter (EKS for AWS, for example).

The EKS provided by a datacenter will have integrations with external to Kubernetes resources you will almost certainly want (like storage, DNS records, or load balancers).
100% this, and even though I work for Google I absolutely agree. BUT, for the folks that need it, PostgreSQL just DOESN'T cut it, so it's why we have databases like DynamoDB, Spanner, etc. Arguing that we should "Just use PG" is kinda a moot point.
GBoard Caps [video]
I've only kicked the tires, but https://neon.tech is a pure hosted Postgres play. I'd be curious to hear if anyone has used them for a real projects, and how that went.
MSSQL is one of the best rdbms you can buy, the absolute best for some use cases. Its only downside is that it’s expensive. T-SQL idiosyncrasies are inconsequential.
Rosencrantz: Do you think Death could possibly be a boat?

Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is "not." Death isn't. Take my meaning? Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not be on a boat.

Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats.

Guildenstern: No, no... What you've been is not on boats.
Yes, but also every 3 out of 4 people here have applied to work for Google, and most got rejected, so that can contribute to the negative sentiment.

Spanner is a pretty solid database, it checks all the boxes: consistency, geographic replication and transactional updates are not present at the same time in most large scale db's out there.
Well the fear is evolved. Outside of action hero movies things that don't adequately fear dying probably reproduce less. Except the honey badger.
Sure. I'd also call the entire civil service part of the democratic government.
Nope, just attach the cable to the last bit of the robot to be grown. It’ll be pulled along with it until the cable runs through the length of the whole robot.
“ People don't buy from clowns." - Claude C. Hopkins ”

Most brands are _trying_ to be funny.
DDH made a funny comment about this in his keynote for the Rails World conference that just happened:

"Twitter moved off rails and I was always really curious about that story. Here's a testimony from someone who actually worked at Twitter when they moved off. Yeah they moved off because they had a badly designed Rails app, that happens. Okay and then they moved into what they thought was better a constellation of java microservices and then nothing fucking happened for 10 years. They poured concrete over the application and hired thousands of people to make no progress at all."

You can watch the whole talk here, the quote starts around the 15 min mark:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqXjGiQ_D-A
That is where some of the frustration does indeed emerge - one vivid example involved refusing a $500 procedure from someone driving a brand new Tesla.
> Meanwhile, Sweden's power sector was the least carbon-intensive in the EU, with 45 gCO₂/kWh.

Can anyone see where Scotland sits? Our live snapshot current shows 7 gCO₂/kWh:

https://electricityproduction.uk/in/scotland/
To summarize (please correct me if I'm wrong here):

You see this being deployed to service every customer of the partnering mobile networks, wherever they may be.

I see this being deployed to service those customers who aren't covered by existing and much cheaper land-based LTE-coverage from the partnering mobile networks.
Doesnt help when GKEngine has constant issues and recent upgrade feature is on 10 days strike.

Recently was woken up by alert about DNS resolution issues.

GCP rolled out new version of SkyDNS and NodeLocalDNS, SkyDNS reports 99% miss, had to quickly hack it.

This is not the „out-of-the-box” experience you want to have.
How A Series of Air Traffic Control Lapses Nearly Killed 131 People
That's a backfire. You're right in that a muffler can diminish the volume of a backfire, and that it is caused by combustion in the exhaust.

But the incomplete ignition of fuel can occur in both stock and modified vehicles. My car is completely unmodified, but can very easily have a low quiet popping noise during downshifts. With e removal of my muffler, it would be quite loud.

A modified engine can do this to a much greater extent, depending on the modifications. Some do so intentionally with what is known as a "burble tune", which is quite annoying in my opinion. It is inspired by rally cars that would intentionally inject fuel during the exhaust stroke and fire the spark plugs to keep exhaust driven turbines spinning even when under deceleration.