skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At what cost?

Forced relocation is a component of companies rolling back remote work.

Not to mention new COVID-19 variants ripping through the workers and their families. I have too many friends who are now permanently disabled by their last round with the virus.
Try to fly anywhere without talking to Air Traffic Control of that sovereign country. You will get shot down.
I've always wondered whether I had tinnitus or not.

After listening to this I heard silence for the first time in a while. I guess I do have it. But its not delibitating.

I guess I don't get bothered by tinnitus any more.
Old news, so just a cross-reference to:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37857535

That is, it is not only about DRM.
But a disabled user cannot subscribe to Youtube premium
Reddit is still very much alive and well. It might have lost some of the nerd userbase (through a lot of them still put up with their antics while telling themselves that they will stop doing so if old.reddit.com is shut down), but it got the mainstream(-ish) userbase instead, which is not only a larger market, but also one which is easier to monetize.
The Milky Way May Be Missing a Trillion Suns' Worth of Mass
I don't know how to reply to that except "experience tells me it is miserable to mandate everyone to quote their identifiers when they touch your database". Do you do that?
that's what I'm thinking too

I don't like Google, but I still use it

I absolutely refuse to use Sony, and Debian. And actively discourage both recommending alternatives. I can easily add more to that list :)
I think there should be considered a distinction between a magazine's content (produced over a week or a month, with time to pause and consider the news cycle) and everyday journalism content (a newspaper or new site perpetually striving to put things out now). Magazines, at least the right ones, had a quality edge over their more rushed peers.

But when you turn magazine content online, you lose a lot of that edge. One because a lot of magazines digitised very poorly, and ceded informational space to far more digitally native players (Vice, buzzfeed, clickbait news sites).
Two because a magazine story may look the same as a quick 800-word content sludge I could churn out in an hour.

Is there a way for magazine experience to be made more premium in a digital space?
> AI in production, operations side, aka MLOps

How did you get into this? Seems like a lot of places are stuck on the idea if you didn't do it in the past you cant do it now
I found it was mistra-openorca:7B_q4_0 or something like that. Note that "mistral" is missing an L. They may have fixed this.
AI Designs Little Robots in 30 Seconds and They Keep Sprouting Legs
> I mean, what was the theoretical upper limit on the benefit of cryptocurrency for the world

The value of potential bank scams that are otherwise illegal was enormous to investors though. Lots of people got extremely wealthy thanks to crypto scams. Then when the legal holes were covered crypto was forgotten extremely quickly since the hype was mostly kept alive by scams.

AI doesn't have nearly as lucrative scams, so I doubt you will see the same investor frenzy.
Every Life Is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things
It seems extremely unlikely this would happen- both because of lack of political will, and because this would be considered a huge intrusion into people's privacy.
You don't even need an account. You can use RSS to 'subscribe'. I haven't logged into YouTube in 10 years.
This looks great! I will definitely be taking a close look. Only thing I noticed with a quick try is that portier allows both a magic link and code for passwordless email login. Magic links are much more vulnerable to attack than codes because the email providers and anyone who may have access to your email can hijack your login from any location. I think it's fine to provide magic links but that choice should be the user's option when they enter their email, after warning them of the security implications.

EDIT: They actually address this in their non-goals document[0] but disagree with the decision, since many users may not realize the tradeoffs.

[0]: https://github.com/portier/portier.github.io/blob/main/Non-G...
This is just complete nonsense.

First of all, its not even remotely junk. These are sophisticated pieces of equipment and they will in almost all cases not be junk. Its standard regulation that all sats deorbit themselves at end of live.

And even in the very few cases where the sat fails Starlink sats are low enough orbit they will only be junk for a very small amount of time.

> Tesla's revenue in 2 days are roughly the same as the yearly GDP of Tonga. Space X's revenue is 10 times the GDP of Tonga.

Completely irrelevant statistics. Why don't you compare it to the Vatican City? Or you the local lemonade stand? Or to Apple?

> There will be no real oversight of this billionaire on the loose.

Except of course the tons of regulation that Starlink and SpaceX in general have to agree to in order to be allowed to operate.

Before you are allowed to launch you need to actually tell the regulator where you are gone deploy, what your end of life policy is. Of course lots of regulation about spectrum and so on.
when you search a book title it'll usually show it on the main search

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-library-book-avai...
Planes are not as focused in their benefits and impact as Starlink is - people literally everywhere in every country of the world take flights, and the profits from these flights(usually) stay local. Starlink is affecting everyone in the world but only available to select countries and the profits are all flowing back to US.
I can personally attest that this happened for me. Starlink was an absolute game changer for my neighborhood.
They say that scientific discovery advanced one death at a time. I imagine this same theory applies to kernel development tooling.

I understand not changing for change sake. The kernel is at this time not "this gen" developer friendly.
Microsoft patches 2 actively exploited bugs, part of Oct. Patch Tuesday
I'm pretty sure you're the only person expecting a startup luxury car company to break even in the first few years of it selling vehicles.

Pretty amazing, especially given the site you're on.
Maybe going outside of engineering?

I use both loom and cmd opt 5, but my CS and sales team would not be able to effectively use cmd5 (editing, hosting, comments, etc.)

The moat for us is that it just works and is cheap enough that moving off is literally not worth my time.
How loudly are you supposed to listen to that sound? Like, at the threshold of hearing, or blasting it, or something in between?

Thank you for sharing it, I am hopeful it helps me :)
Ouch. I wonder how much of the exit value got absorbed by their preference stack.
If the short dash means multiply, what symbol do you use for subtraction?

What would the majority of people answer with this:

2-2 = ?

If I put 2-2 into Google, is it going to return 0 or 4?

If you're going to be pedantic, at least write it properly.
The point is that the cancer warnings in california are so omnipresent and non-informative that people ignore them.
I think both products could even coexist ;-)

SQLlite would be super nice, but we lack engineering capacity right now to get that done.
I agree with your view of the first rule and would gladly store multiple related apps in one repo. No rationale for why one repo should only containing one app is given, therefore that rule can be disregarded.

Dynamic or managed languages can often ignore most of the hassle with system packages.
Decided to remove the JS part, lots of people made their fortune on battling its oddities.
Not a Googler, but two guesses:

1. No Googler here knows the answer to your question, because something this big is decided way up the chain. Furthermore, due to the huge backlash for such a move, I assume most Googlers would be against such a move, so it will only come to pass if forced by top management.

2. Your account is worth more to Google when you are using it, since they can better target ads at you, so disabling an account is something they want to avoid. I'm guessing they don't think it is profitable for them to disable an account that blocks ads on YT. Remember that even if you are blocking ads on YT, you might still see Google Ads elsewhere, for example on your Android device. They might just not show you the videos though?
I have been using adblocker on youtube for years now, both browser and ios app and have not had issue yet.
i'll quote this quora question for you

https://www.quora.com/Who-was-the-Roman-emperor-who-was-show...

question: Who was the Roman emperor who was shown an invention and had the inventor executed?

answer from andrew kirk:

"I think you are thinking of Vespasian. An inventor came to him with a way to transport columns to the Capitol at a low cost—that is, he offered a labor-saving device. Vespasian turned him down, saying, “How will I feed my people?”

It highlights that the point of government works was to create jobs and distribute money; efficiency was not a priority. Vespasian thought it would just throw people out of work and create civil unrest.

This may be the main reason the Roman Empire never industrialized; they had plenty of inventions, but they didn’t put them into practice except in rare cases. The emperor was more interested in being the ultimate patron than advancing the economy, which was not really a concept anyway. You get money by taxing conquered lands, not by increasing efficiency.

By the way, he rewarded the inventor—hint, hint, give out money, show gratitude, etc. to be the best and greatest patron. He didn’t kill him."

so i was wrong about the killing part afaik
The whole .env file holding all your configs thing is a disaster. People forget to update the template, it has to be passed around, etc.

Configure your secrets in Azure Key Vault (AWS Secrets Manager, GCP-something-I-forget) or whatever the non-cloud Vault software is called.

Devs only set client_id, client_secret, and env defaulted to dev. On startup, the app fetches configs for the secret store. The needed secrets are in source control. If the needed secret is missing from the secret store, there is a clear error on startup.

You are welcome, I just saved you weeks of onboarding, confusion, and devs passing around .envs on Slack.
You can’t add or subtract units, so it’s not a relevant question. The dash gets used for many things. It is also used to hyphenate words, but people don’t ask how you can subtract two words.

> If you're going to be pedantic, at least write it properly.

I didn’t write it. I’m just explaining a commonly-used convention since you seem unfamiliar with it.
Ha that brought back some memories!
> People who think the entire world is simple CRUD web apps tend to think that guides like this are completely universal

That's the very first point they make:

> In the modern era, software is commonly delivered as a service: called web apps, or software-as-a-service. The twelve-factor app is a methodology for building software-as-a-service apps that...

Anything not web app/SaaS they express no opinion on.
The reason people pay outrageous prices for Splunk is you can get some pretty decent burgers out of sewage if you know what you are doing, and from personal experience the results can be totally game-changing if you are stuck with a mishmash of different log formats and have to support a large distributed application.
WordPress blogs can now be followed on Mastodon and other federated platforms
Not really a discount if you arguably don't need to buy it in the first place! That valuation to begin with is ridiculous with their DAU.
Could you elaborate? How are environment variables insecure? If the secret will be present in the application throughout it's lifetime, then what's a better alternative?

Just because a secret is injected into the application as an environment variable does not mean it's handled insecurely elsewhere. For example, AWS ECS containers have built-in support for fetching secrets from Secret Manager at startup and passing them as environment variables: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/...

This fetches the secret at the time the container starts up (IIRC), and uses the IAM credentials of the running application to fetch them from Secret Manager (so it must have permission to the secret).

The merit of using environment variables seems to depend entirely on how they are, well, configured. With a mechanism like this I don't see much disadvantage. (The main disadvantage I see is that generic malware that attempts to dump environment variables might capture them, but defending against that threat is largely obfuscation, unless you aren't storing the secret at all permanently in memory.)
Ask HN: Using Sublinear Time Algorithms?
Sublinear time algos are ones that do not look at all their input data (perhaps because it is too big, too expensive, etc) yet, try to provide high probability answers about it, often in the form of "property tests": ex: is this massive list sorted? One log(n) algo for this property is to repeatedly pick an element at random then look for it with binary search. If the list is sorted then you should find it every time (ok, assuming unique elems). The more times you repeat the test, the higher the probability that the list is sorted.

Are you using these in your work and can you say a few words about them? Any good references you can share? As an example, Ronitt Rubinfeld has given an engaging recent talk (yt). Her refs:

https://people.csail.mit.edu/ronitt/sublinear.html
Which sites from anime would be the best to visit for actual tourism?

Places with just a few cafes and streets seen in the anime aren't worth the trip.

Something like nature from Yamanashi (Yuru Camp) or Oarai for the tank festival (Girls Und Panzer) would be fun.
A Dutch Sandwich sounds like two dry pieces of bread with a thin slice of cheese. I'd discourage MS from getting one.
The fake magical talisman is the placebo, so it cannot be superior to the placebo. At least I'm not sure of any useful study to demonstrate anything about real talismans if you're not using the fake one as a placebo.
Google Podcasts will shut down in 2024
AMC CEO was target of blackmail and extortion plot
100% this. ML has been very hyped for a while now and having it was seen as a badge for the company. To be fair, ML is not also something that was historically central to a degree, so many people wanting to get into AI, even good engineers, did not have the background in it. This too is changing though, but the hype and the lack of an experienced pool doesn't help.
Thank you for the recommendation. It's now on my list.
Steam Antitrust Refund Action 2023
Scala 3 actually has a brace-less mode that supports this.
You can, and probably should, have reasonable defaults.

Configuration should be version controlled, but separately from source code because it describes deployments, not images used for deployments.
Depending how we define "AI" -

Aside from 4-5 companies, who is building a product that is profitable? Not clear anyone is right now. People are running into fundamental, hard technical problems. For example its hard to evaluate chat interface, and even harder when you augment it with context from a retrieval system (ie RAG).

Who is augmenting existing UI paradigms with LLMs? This seems a more reasonable model that meets users where they want to be.
Could you elaborate on the sparkling drinks? Do you know of a rationale?
Hmmm yeah that's a good point. The site does work pretty well on mobile but I didn't make any mobile videos. I'll put that on my todo list. Thanks for the feedback!

And if you do get a chance to check it out on desktop, I'd love to know what you think.
Many places also require Azure knowledge related to microservices communication. So you might want to learn about basics of azure functions, service bus and queues
The diet thing is interesting as I have noticed if I drink too much coffee I get a slight tinitus.
No but you can use ground lasers to push things higher to avoid a collision. I guess you could do the same thing from space with a big laser. But that not really viable. If you already going for a space base based solution why use a laser in the first place? There are better solutions for that.
I would kill for a major manufacturer to make an e-ink phone that isn't hard to acquire and run. The Hisense A9[1] looks just about perfect, but the difficulty of getting Google services to run on it puts me off.

[1]: https://hisenseeink.com/products/hisense-a9-pro-e-ink-smartp...
The Lexus LS is their flagship model. The entry level model is the IS, starting at $41K.

As a general point of comparison, the average transaction price (including taxes and fees) for a new passenger vehicle is $48K.

https://www.coxautoinc.com/market-insights/kbb-atp-july-2023...
What's the benefit of using a coffee mug on earth? We risk spilling hot coffee on ourselves and things that can stain, we allow heat to escape to the air, and there is potential for something to get into and contaminate our coffee. And yet most of us probably have a decent collection of coffee mugs. Ergonomics and aesthetics, while perhaps not the very highest priorities, are nevertheless important.
It's okay. If a company asks that you return to SF, just ask them for a 2-3X raise to afford real estate. That's what it costs. Or leave.

$200K/year is practically the poverty line. It's all because of real estate cost.
I think the internet is a poor analogy because by the time it started to enter the awareness of the general public, it had already been around and subjected to refinement for years. Its value and usefulness was proved before the average joe had access to it at all.
What fun, jake! I am really enjoying your series here. When we built Pixelpusher (https://inkandswitch.com/pixelpusher) that was the beginning of a long and ongoing journey into the user experience implications of CRDTs.

For instance:

* how and when should we merge changes?
* what if we change our minds later?
* how do we know if our data is “in sync” with another user
* what does it mean to depend on another change?

And so on. Pixelpusher is awfully naive by the standards of today but I have very fond memories of working on it with Jeff Peterson, Jim Pick, and Orion Henry.
Reddit is for 40 year old men/millenials. Facebook, 40 year old women.

Genz doesn't care about reddit. Neither does the next gen after them. It's dead.
The entry level for this group of goods is more expensive than you can afford, but it's not representative of the entry level of all cars, just Lucid's. You wouldn't say appetizers are something you can no longer afford just because there exists a restaurant that does not have any appetizers you can afford.
Nitpick: Joel is referring to the old BIFF-style format (from 2003 and before) in that quote. The new "Office Open XML" formats are not mentioned in that post at all. However, one of the many criticisms of the Office Open XML formats is that they are, in some areas, nothing more than an XML serialization of the BIFF records.
I did something similar. The person whose process was being automated hated it, because they got more work that was more challenging.
> Organizations that insist on using workflows like git send-mail and mailing lists not only drive away a significant number of potential contributor

Often that's a bonus if not the whole point to begin with. The higher the barrier to entry the less noise you need to filter through.

It only feels annoying to you because you're not used to it.
depends on how you define "step". Engineer a 10x/100x version of what we have in terms of LLM (either by being more efficient and/or more/specialized hardware) and let this thing build novel attempts for AGI algorithms 24/7 in a evolutionary setting.

I guess the challenge is more to agree on a fitness function to measure the "AGI"-progress" against, but thats a different topic. But in general scaling up the current GenAI tech and parallelize/specialize the models in a multi-generational way _should_ be a safe ticket to AGI, but the time scale is inknown of course (since we can't even agree on the goal definition)
nanny state
What I love about the Ea-Nasir story is the tablet was found in a pile of other tablets, suggesting that Ea-Nasir saved them. Why? Who knows, maybe he found them funny.
See my other reply. You are confused about the nature of the EU and are repeating how the treaties say they are supposed to work, not what processes are actually followed.
On this forum people very often take computers as an analogy to the brain/body but it's like comparing a wooden spear and a heat seeker missile.

I think we're just blind to how insane nature is compared to our mere half assed copies of organic processes
Which is why nobody uses food colouring outside of (especially children's) baking at home. But in ready meals and other prepared foods sold in supermarkets, they're adding it to make you buy it, not for your pleasure while eating it. 'Ooh it looks so vibrant and fresh' or whatever. Or in the case of sweets etc. to hint at the flavour.
Also recently Atlassian released a Whiteboard (read Miro/infinite canvas) feature in Confluence cloud, so this could become another tool in the set that they release to keep people collaborating on their platform and not heading elsewhere.
I applied to Loom several years ago while they were still tiny. The CEO sent me a Loom thanking me for applying and asking me to send him back a Loom describing why I was excited to work for his company. Something about that rubbed me the wrong way at the time. I didn't reply and dipped out of the interview process.
The description of a typical power bank leaves voltage and watts implicit, as far as I can see https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07S829LBX/

I mean, I can work out what they probably are with a little general knowledge and arithmetic, but it isn’t as clear as you suggest.
I’m really curious why they went with a sedan first (minus the practicality of a hatchback as well). No one’s buying $75k+ sedans these days - at that range people are mostly buying luxury crossovers, SUVs, or trucks.

So is their strategy then to focus on just making the best (trackable) electric sedan, and not care about volume per se?
> Unlike previous hype cycles, the potential value of this one is extraordinary if it’s actually unlocked

That was also true, in AI, of the expert-system hype cycle. And the actual value unlocked was extraordinary, just not at the scale people saw as the potential.

Actually, it was seen as true of all of the hype cycles during the hype cycle, that's what makes it a hype cycle.

> (I mean, what was the theoretical upper limit on the benefit of cryptocurrency for the world? Probably not that much.)

If you believed the people that were as breathless about it as you are about the current AI hype cycle, basically infinite, unlocking ways human potential and interactions, economic and otherwise, are held back by centralized and/or authoritarian systems.

That's what made it a hype cycle.

> It’s quite possible that we already have sufficient computational power and the necessary data for AGI—all we need are the right algorithms.

Yeah, but that's always been true. If software-only AGI is possible, we've always had the data in the natural world, and with no strong theoretical model for the necessary computational power, its always been possible we had enough. What we clearly lacked were the right algorithms (oh, and any reason to believe software-only AGI was possible.)
Things to try:

No stimulants (no coffee),
magnesium,
gelatin (or glycine, not collagen)
thiamine (B1)
Hopefully they aren't paying for all those ghost users from the pandemic hype. Could be a good acquisition but Atlassian somewhat known for just buying useless crap.
Actually averages are even more likely to be irrational than ordinary numbers.

It only takes a single irrational input to make the average irrational.