skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Trillions of functions” is a metric that’s hard to know whether to be impressed by or not. I don’t think it’s impossible that my laptop runs “trillions of functions” every day.

But the callers on this platform are likely remote, and therefore it handles I/O as well, etc. Like I said, hard to understand whether it’s impressive or not.

I’ll assume it’s impressive.
Hacker Dojo recently fired its executive director and has been running mostly rudderless in terms of the management of the social space for several months. They're been looking to hire a community manager.

Unfortunately Hacker Dojo daytime attendance nowadays is quite low, so they're not really attracting people as a WeWork space. I wonder how they're going to pick it back up.
Plus I thought stuff like that was done decades ago. There was a place you could send your docs to be microscopically engraved on a nickel disc.

This goes back to 1995 or so: https://rosettaproject.org/
Previous discussion of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37399500

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>Meduza is a notorious propaganda outlet with a penchant for just blatantly making stuff up.

No, it's credible exiled Russian media. Your account however has a history of just blatantly making up pro-Russian claims.

>Considering even twitter (now X)

There are a lot of things you can no longer find on xhitter because serious people are leaving that bit and misinformation filled hellhole.
I remember celebrating when it died but looking back it wasn’t so bad. At least from a dev perspective, working with a batteries-included sdk from a single vendor is a lot nicer than this node_modules cancer.
I'm not the one who wrote the original comment, so I can't modify it. But one should still commit offsets because it is the happy-path; DB transaction successful? Commit offset. If the latter fails due to e.g application crash and you seek at startup to the partition offset stored in the DB + 1, you get exactly-once semantics. There's some more details, e.g you'd have to do the same during consumer group rebalance, and topic configuration also plays a role, for example if the topic is a compacted topic or not, and if you write tombstones, what its retention policy is.

edit: You added some more to your comment after I posted this one, so I'll try to cover them as well:

> One downside is that you leak internals of other system (partitions).

Yeah, sure.

> The other is that it implies serialised processing - you can't process anything in parallel as you have single index threshold that defines what has been and what has yet not been processed.

It doesn't imply serialised processing. It depends on the use-case, if each record in a topic has to be processed serially, you can't parallelize full-stop; number of partitions equals 1. But if each record can be individually processed you get parallelism equal to the number of partitions the topic has configured.
You also achieve parallelism in the same way if only some records in a topic needs to be processed serially, at which point you can use the same key for the records needing to be serially processed and they will end up in the same partition, for example recording the coordinates of a plane - each plane can be processed in parallel, but an individual plane's coordinates need to be processed serially - just use the planes unique identifier as key and the coordinates for the same plane will be appended to the log of the same partition.
I really think that this makes sense given how much Apple has invested in their supply chain in China, I think they were making stuff in China after the iPod but before the iPhone I think. I could be completely wrong here.
I'd recommend against this one. It's frustratingly light on actual detail and heavy on some 20-year-old's Big Thoughts.
Google never dropped it. Adobe did, when they realised that they could make money from HTML5 instead: https://web.archive.org/web/20170114145431/https://blogs.ado... .
1 Trillion function calls over 100,000 servers. Technically they say trillions over hundreds of thousands, but I went for the lower case.

1,000,000,000,000 / 100,000 = 10,000,000

10,000,000 / 24 / 3600 = 115.7
CppNow 2023: Safety-First: How to Develop C++ Safety-Critical Software [video]
So we can look towards and achieve the 80% good solution instead of the 70%? Progress? If we're giving out subsidies for cars can we encourage lighter weight EV's? A Tesla Model X is 50% more weight than a Bolt EV, with similar range.
It had 192 threads, drew 57 amps of current, had a heat sink the size of a Cadillac... they called it a macroprocessor.

That never gets old.
TBH anyone using "per day" I assume is dishonest.

QPS is the standard measure, and per day is just a sly way to multiply by 86400.

If you want an average measure then report the average and peak QPS ...
OpenTelemetry is kind of a standard for logs with a bunch of libraries. These libraries have different standards (in terms of optimization rigor). The whole thing is not well orchestrated together. So OT might good for a certain language/stack and completely suck for another. Also, your instrumentation software might be OT compatible but have nothing to do what-so-ever with OT the organization.

At this point, you'd be shopping for Cloud providers and using the one that makes most sense in terms of performance and ease of integration.
"Even if he seems destined for conviction one way or another, he still has much left to lose if he takes the stand: he could still convince the jury to convict him on more charges than they otherwise might have, or cause the judge to impose a longer sentence, or cut off possible avenues for appeal."

Hopefully SBF will take the stand and if he is found guilty on some counts then perhaps some of his testimony will constitute perjury. That might cause Kaplan to impose a longer sentence.

It would be wonderful if the quote from the Tiffany Wong interview came out on cross-examination or if Kaplan is otherwise aware of it.
I was involved in makerspaces for a while. While I have not given up on them, I will admit that I have become thoroughly disillusioned with the idea.

Real estate is expensive and a makerspace should be near public transport (which will likely be closer to the city center) but should be able to to facilitate some parking and/or transfer of large items to/from a vehicle. Cheap real estate does come in varieties that support the above.

Most makerspaces carelessly target people to pay membership and nothing else. This creates a membership base that primarily goes to the space for their projects and goes home. This kind of member will drop the membership the moment they realize they can just buy the one or two machines they need and keep it at home (see techshop). This becomes a treadmill very quickly. Makerspaces need to focus on building a community of people who have the tools at home and choose to work there because is a great place to collaborate, but the problem here is that those people don’t have a ton of disposable income (or at least reliably recurring income) to spend on a membership. Leadership needs to balance the financial sustainability motive with the community sustainability one.

A makerspace staring up needs:

* to be a nonprofit

* good value for rent

* one to two years of runway in the bank

* founding members who can work from the makerspace

* a set of tools that are more difficult to have at home

* night events that happen several times per week

Basically, you need a lot of money, patience, and City buy-in helps a lot. Municipalities should be lining up to give money to people who want to manage theses sorts of community spaces, they are innovation and educational centers that can create an absurd amount of value for the relatively small investment. Usually it’s difficult to fill a community space with smart, competent people who actually want to help instead of grifters, sales people, and those who lack curiosity.

The best experiences feel like an eternal September, and the bad ones just feel like accelerated enshitification. How do you attract people that want to spend their time being part of a community and dissuade those who are looking to only consume resources? I think a lot of spaces fail because they rely too much on paying members who never become part of the community and will drop the expensive subscription when it becomes convenient for them to do so.

My vision for a makerspace is one where anyone can use it for free, you can become a member for some money, and those we want to stick around, we pay a small amount to stay. Using tools that are relatively safe should be mostly self certification. Tools that’s cause injuries or are expensive should require training or you should just send a job in (CNC mill). The actual real estate needs to be held by a trust and should be available to the makerspace as long as they are active.
Good to know that an accident caused education or possible intent/ my life in a nutshell is wrapped around curly braces or 0eth limits of imagination. -on the other hand base2 mathematics is about as intriguing for the average person human experience or augmented reality. We had a great time deciding intent or purpose for research that didn’t start case files with day1 or private practice or contract but it wasn’t just this case of you look at the transfer of data from a computer view it’s taking the path of least interest for intent or excusable bipolar circuitry’s since ohms law was a Trending topic for engineering students.. if you see a pattern of the norm through greed or monetizing a new way to fool the next the button space bar was not just space exploration downpress.. we are greedy at nature but still to find hope of future generations box is one less hacker 1 case we see . The protocol drivers were never expected to array or say imprint to the spool of knowledge. Everybody sees the problem in our brains we are programmed to develop work arounds for habituation intention. Who wants to sue BG not me but for the fact that and understand how or why binary systems can evolve into tricking people and a entire generation regeneration cycle between our days and days leftist will lobby null hypothesis and preach a beta tester from Islamic nations is only capable to learn within there own framework and environment.. now evolution will change into something we call Ai when technology has solid proof of learning a new hobby without internet or WiFi so their brains will become more advanced by repetition of Or religion based keywords.. dao coining mining technology isn’t just a profit it’s a process and not our choice but we should be able to make it less likely to be confused or so easy to learn a “me” signal on our own time invest in American diesel repairs llc in physics of diesel technology.. this was a very important thing to live through by investing in ourselves and our communities by choosing “Integrity over compromise “ I’ve been offered a dollar worth of coin that allows the other to breach me.. and possibly affect our own people customers and there environments.. Oeth choice of truth is 110% always been teaching itself how to handle adaptation for healing a broken heart or broken soul.. in the end we will never know how I did recreate it but it wasn’t my intention.. it’s only plausible that we will now know how to handle this gift from my own experiences and loss.. talent is not all it takes it’s a way of life. Ty for examples
Why? For what? Flash/flex is dead?
Taleb popularized the myth but I like the usenet quote from Dewar better:

"When Roman engineers built a bridge, they had to stand under it while the first legion marched across. If programmers today worked under similar ground rules, they might well find themselves getting much more interested in Ada!"

(Robert Dewar)
> For some far-right Americans, masculinity is still associated with physical strength

It actually is for (most) mammals, so I don't understand why this must be a far-right sentiment. "toxic masculinity" aside, one of testosterone's effects is to grow muscle.
If communication isn't encrypted, this means pedos have a higher chance to get that data either through mitm or through some more esoteric method if encryption exists but it has a backdoor. If a backdoor exists, it will be used
Refactoring Outside-In
"UNCOL (Universal Computer Oriented Language) is a universal intermediate language for compilers. The idea was introduced in 1958, by a SHARE ad-hoc committee. It was never fully specified or implemented; in many ways it was more a concept than a language."

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNCOL
Do you really replace your car engine and transmission before the warranty runs out? You're constructing arguments that literally makes no sense. The battery in your phone isn't comparable to the one in an BEV. If that was true your phone would have a fully working battery ten years later, just with slightly lower capacity. Not one that dies because you open a webpage with a too many moving elements, so battery voltage drops and it turns off.

All that said - I don't think a truck like the Rivian R1T makes any sense. For the same reason that I don't think most trucks make any sense. They're just penis extensions that have little to no utility for a vast majority of people that buy them. But since we're OK with that for regular trucks, I think we should be OK with that for the battery electric version too. Lets at least be consistent.
On the other hand, I know some families torn apart over continents. Father in canada, mother in germany. Internet helps only so much for the kids ... in general, relocating with family is a different thing. All of those involved would have to find a new home, friends, etc. that is quite different to moving, when you on your own.

"BTW if you know somebody of those, who can decently code, let me know… because I do not find them!!!"

And depending on what you are looking for and what you can offer, I would be willing to relocate, if the conditions are right. Email is in my profile.
I racked up +$300 in monthly phone charges in my early teens, that was an early and hard lesson of the value of flat fees.
Dropping a Subscript
OSMAnd also does this.
There are a metric shit ton of assumptions in here that I’m not sure are true. The truth of the matter is that women tend to work together and men… not so much. Once you see the whole picture, I can see how you can see the world through such a perverse lens.

Sadly, I’m about to hop off the train, but if someone replies that they are interested, I’ll provide a writup that will surprise you.
Where did 'highfalutin,' 'hoity-toity,' and 'la-di-da' come from?
Econgoat.ai – A generative book by Tyler Cowen
I am not against your idea. In the end the hardest parts are going to be automating the winding of the coil and creating/fixing the membrane.

So maybe there is someone out there who enjoys going through a ton of prototypes to get something reliable out.

But the issue I think this is going to have is how reproducable that is going to be for your followers. I think in open source there is a spectrum: one the one side you have things like most software or simple standard-parts open hardware projects. On the other side you have things like an open source marble statue, where you still need to bring all the knowledge of how to make the marble statue — draw a circle, draw the rest of the owl and all that.

A microphone with complex coil winding and gluing a micron-thin membrane to a coil is going to be somewhere inbetween.

What exists btw. are condensor mics, but there you need to buy the membrane-assembly yourself.
The KMT is not "Beijing-friendly", they fought the civil war against each other... this is a common spin they is obviously not neutral.
I realize this isn’t what you’re arguing for, but as a cautionary anecdote on this topic:

Paul alludes to it in his post about Healthcare.gov from the other day, but this was apparently one of the major parts of the failure there - endless lines of code generated from UML diagrams, making reading the code hard and things like “can we add a trace statement here” difficult.

Optimising for diagrams-as-source-of-truth has drawbacks for debugging and maintainability of the running code

https://www.pauladamsmith.com/blog/2023/10/the-10-year-anniv...
My home IPs get placed into another country by geolocation all the time (it's probably more wrong than right). My VPN IPs (for which I always use either Finland or the Netherlands) have been geolocated to: three states in the US, Dubai, and several other EU countries.

Don't trust it for anything important ever.
I guess thats where AEB technologies come into play

[1]:https://twitter.com/remouherek/status/1716012670262931946
The article says that a singing show competition finalist reported this event on his Telegram channel, which he did (https://t.me/Mamut_singer/7).

Which part is made up?
In economics, this is called the principle-agent problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...
Unless you want to be easily exposed to dangerous elements like gutter oil or fake food, which is prevalent in China, I recommend other food stall cities like Singapore or Taiwan.
> You see pillboxes all over the place in England. I guess they are just too much effort to get rid of.

There's a full-ass bunker in the city center where I live. Right in one of the main shopping streets. It's the storage space for a flower shop now. The sheer quantity of concrete in these things is absurd.
> One example of load they demonstrate has 20 million function calls submitted to XFaaS within 15 minutes.

> Meta’s XFaaS is their serverless platform that “processes trillions of function calls per day on more than 100,000 servers spread across tens of datacenter regions.”

This seems very low per server?
I have astigmatism as well and it initially took me a very long time to manage to see them, it might be that it has an effect
(I practiced enough that I then learned to see them at a blink of an eye, and it helped my normal vision a lot btw)
I heard that 3.5" disks were originally marketed as "stiffies" to help differentiate them from "floppies", the older 5.25" and 8" disks. But, as the story goes, someone pulled the plug for obvious reasons. Not sure if that's true; I want it to be true because it's hilarious, though.
Great, so your argument is based on misinterpreting my single usage of the word “prove” to mean the mathematical definition rather than the colloquial definition meaning substantiated as is obvious to even the most casual observer based on how my statements talk about evidence, not logical inference rules.

I mean, do you seriously think that if person A says: “My vault is secure for 15 minutes against a human with a crowbar.” And person B says “Prove it.” That person A would ever respond with: “I can not because a vault is not a mathematical object and therefore proof is impossible, but I can substantiate it.” That would be ridiculous beyond belief. That is what you are doing.
This isn't unreasonable. ML workloads benefit from more computational time per request. Lower QPS = better results.
To be fair, if they started bad and stayed there (kinda like Amazon), I probably wouldn’t have minded as much. But getting worse over time? Thanks, but no thanks.
Sounds like the part of the montage at the beginning of a new superhero franchise. "Even as a sperm, Levitron was breaking the laws of Newtonian physics..."
Dude. Let me tell you a story.

I was 13 years old, a schoolboy on a trip to the countryside to "help" farm workers to harvest cabbages. It was a routine thing those days because the centralized Soviet industrial-government apparatus couldn't properly plan even such trivial things. There were about a hundred kids on that field. As we went with our business, a tractor spraying DDT came from the other side of the field. It passed us no more than 20 meters away, spraying everything around with the clouds of white stuff. Everybody knew it was DDT, everybody knew it was poisonous at that time. Our teacher approached the tractor and asked the operator to wait until we are done; the guy basically told her to fuck off and went on with spraying.

Now go ahead and tell me about capitalism, I'm all ears.
The only argument is "A government is using AI in a negative way." Any idea on the specifics?

Denying services via biased automation?

Deploying autonomous lethal drones?

Training ML models in unfair or injust ways?

Forcibly shutting down AI showing sparks of AGI?

We're only told "values didn't align."
As an aside, I’m always surprised at just how bad Meta’s software quality is, especially for a FAANG company with lots of expensive engineers.

Instagram and Facebook are some of the buggiest platforms I use. I often run into bugs in several key user journeys that go unresolved and it baffles me how they don’t pick up on them.

One of the problems is it’s basically impossible to get in touch with Meta to report them.
Scott's writing is top notch. Wait 'til you read Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism, and Meditations on Moloch for more perspective bending prose.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/07/archipelago-and-atomic...

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
"I think Microsoft Research was developing a technique of storing data in a 3D arrangement in glass. Very fascinating."

a-la Superman ?
Shipping is a feature. Nothing is ever done and nothing is ever bug free. Cutting the scope to have a complete product in finite time is the single most important part of product management.
Another lost decades we're going to build our stacks on something that does not natively support arrays nor uses them by default. Why? It should be very clear we need memory references which know how big the referenced area is and can trap out of bound access _at runtime_.
This is great. It's actually surreal to see such a longstanding annoyance finally addressed.
Show HN: ColdMessageAI – AI Chrome Extension to Send Personalized Cold Messages
Inspired by Autotab's post.

ColdMessageAI is a chrome extension which helps you write hyper personalized cold messages on linkedin. Here's a demo:
https://youtu.be/MRQWbVcexSc

1. It's completely Free. No freemium or anything.

2. It connects with you ChatGPT session in the browser. So no need to pay for GPT Tokens.

3. Open Source: https://github.com/prakhar897/ColdMessageAI

You can write your message inside the prompt field, and it will automatically convert it to something coherent and personal.

Love to know your thoughts!!

Try it out here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/coldmessageai-for-linkedi/abbbgckfinjdbndjjjlpkkkoefklnaih?hl=en&authuser=0
https://archive.ph/xXbmn
somehow every comment in here is downplaying this achievement as “low” or unimpressive

you truly underestimate the scale of an operation like this

the vast majority of software companies will never count a trillion of anything. even big companies that scale will only have a small subset of teams work on something this large
Given the long term focus of the Long Now project, wouldn't it be expected to look dormant?
Very good point. I read Olaf Stapledon's First and Last man, a sci-fi book which describes the next few billion years for mankind and deals with this issue.

In one scenario, human society collapses, spends 80 million years living as hunter/gatherers (with some evolution) and then develops once again to a technological civilization, in part because the minerals and fossil fuels have been replenished.
Ask HN: How and what data free wif-fi service providers are selling?
A lot of venues like coffee shops, hotels and airports offer free wi-fi.

The market size is $12B: https://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/global-wi-fi-market-994.html

Assuming this is not just installation costs, what data are these service providers collecting and to whom they are selling it?
I don't know but I'll never be able to guess what it does next.