skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was the operator of a webserver for a small B2B shop for a number of years. We only had a couple dozen local customers, we hand-delivered custom orders with a dedicated truck. If you weren't local, there was nothing on that website that would have mattered to you.

But there were on the order of 50x more attempts from bots trying to log into our Wordpress instance from India (all illegitimate) than from actual customers. It was ridiculous.
The difference is that the model is based on usage not seats and revenue is going to be shared with builders of extensions used by users of the framework (80% of the revenue) to help grow the serverless ecosystem
"True except now the printing press means trash novels devoid of real artistry can be pumped out without additional effort from the original author." Parents point is that the newness you highlight also isn't new either, strictly speaking. It's all a matter of scale as the effort approaches zero
Linguists call this usage, “the emphatic literally” and the best writers of the past 300 years have used it.

So if it’s good enough for Charlotte Brontë, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, Vladimir Nabokov, and David Foster Wallace, then it’s good enough for me. Literally.

https://www.thecut.com/2018/01/the-300-year-history-of-using...
> ceph is never the answer. Its a nice idea, but in practice its just not that useful.

Depends. At my last job we used it for our OpenStack block/object store and it was performant enough. When we started it was HDD+SSD, but after a while (when I left) the plan was to go all-NVMe (once BlueStore became a thing).
> The even smarter version is to not discuss anything illegal in electronic form.

Well, yeah. But he belongs to a social circle that lurves technology; his generation does everything via mobile devices, AND all his buddies are into cryptocurrencies and fintech. They discuss everything electronically.
To be fair the Neoverse N-series was designed for datacenter style usage where lower clock frequencies and going wide is more common even on x86. For client uses some of the things the Apple M-series does for single core performance may or may not be worse; in particular 128-bit cache lines would potentially add a lot more false-sharing, and the really big-and-fast per-core L2 is probably not practical even if you added the 16kb page size that Apple uses to achieve it (L2 sizes it didn't get any better with AmpereOne either, though). Those are big, good single-core wins that make sense for client SKUs. I think you'll always have some of those tradeoffs with CPUs like this.

Hopefully Qualcomm Oryon will spice things up on the client side a bit. Maybe we can get some real HEDT designs after that.
Rotary Positional Embeddings Explained
Anyone know the cost of a box like this? Couldnt find it in the article
http://0x0.st/Hyq2.pdf
True, but it’s still a separate server process, with access control and interprocess communication requirements. SQLite is just a C library so there’s no separate process to talk to.
This technology can also be used to turn cancerous cells into healthy cell Michael Levin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g798Mck7dPk
What if you chose to follow people who you enjoy following instead?
> It's greedy to want things for free that aren't available for free.

But they are available for free. I can go to any torrent site and get anything I want.

You don't think they should be available for free, but that's quite a different argument.

> You're right that greed is normal human behaviour, but that doesn't make it okay, let alone good.

Downloading a movie to watch on a Sunday afternoon that you would never pay for is not greed, it's curiosity more than anything. It's greed to try and punish that behavior.

I'm sorry to see you've been so successfully indoctrinated.
Flexport Is in Talks to Buy Failed Freight Firm Convoy's Technology
Start a new node restored from my Litestream backup.
I'm very confused by the talk of "teraflops". Author references linpack (which is a double precision benchmark), but then says "if you really care about teraflops, you need a graphics card" and installs a 4070 Ti, which does like 600 gigaflops in double (IIRC). This would make more sense if we were talking about single precision (4070 does ~40 TFlops single?); which is it?

The original 1.2 teraflop CPU number also smells funny; 128 cores * 2 neon units / core * 2 doubles / neon unit * 2 flops / cycle * 2.8 billion cycles / second = 2.8 TFlops peak, an even halfway decent BLAS will get you to 80% of that, for 2.3 TFlops. Double that number for single precision. Either a completely untuned BLAS or benchmarking a problem that's much too small for the CPU under test.
In Microsoft SQL Server you should use MONEY or DECIMAL.
In Oracle you should use NUMBER.
In Postgres you should use MONEY or NUMERIC.
In MySQL you should use NUMERIC or DECIMAL.
In IBM DB2 you should use DECIMAL.

These are all backed by integer data storage and arithmetic, but the database handles scaling the values for you, to whatever number of decimal places you have configured. SQL Server and Postgres MONEY type will additionally format values with a currency symbol, when converted to a character string.

In SQLite you're out of luck - if you want accounting values you'll have to store them as integers and scale the values yourself.

Source: I work on a mobile app with offline storage of pricing and weighed quantities, using SQLite in the app, and SQL Server on the back end.
Yeah, interesting tidbit. It might sound insane today that one engineer's desktop computer could cause such an outage. But that was probably more commonplace 20 years ago and even today in smaller orgs.
Well, sure, it's just a general observation, so knock wood.
Remember Linux Journal? Me, either.

When organizations stop their print publications, they become just another content website.
But if the judge thinks he's being unresponsive to the questions, he can be penalized (including possibly jailed) for that.
Thank you! Many people comment without realizing this.

Your entry into the states (visa) and your stay (status) in the states are two completely different things. When you enter with a visa, the CBP officer note your status and its validity date on your I-94.

All a visa does is afford you the opportunity to present yourself at the port of entry and request to enter, it bears no guarantee nor right to enter.
Hypothetically you could also look for sites linking to so called one-click hosters, of course with adblocker, otherwise they would be (both, the sites, and the OCHs) unbearable. So called download managers would be unnecessary, becuase a correctly configured and isolated browser running on a paranoid platform still performs very well, or maybe just because of that? One wouldn't really care, because it would just work.

There would be no need go get an account anywhere, to get access, or seeing the download links at all. Just skimming the lists of all the trash that is streaming now, or the classics, and pick the few things of interest, professionally encoded according to so called 'scene-release' standards. Maybe there would be one captcha to be solved, but why would one care about that, if only downloading a few things?

The files would then come down with anything between one to 30Mbit/s, which means a few minutes at most, with some rare exceptions topping out at 150kbit/s which could mean a few hours. Which one still wouldn't care about, if one had rock solid connectivity, whereever and whenever one would be staying.

Limiting oneself to 720p or 1080p in x264, x265, avc1, hevc would be wise, to not run into the filesize limits of some of the free one-click hosters, but honestly, most of the serial shit available wouldn't be worthy enough to be watched out of the corner of ones eye at 480p anyways on some small 'other display', which would still be equivalent to DVD.

Which would be bad for blueray rips, but one probably wouldn't really care, because even at 4k most stuff stays being the shit that it is.

One probably could call that (in funny bad german english) "Loading, Looking, Lösching" meaning something like downloading, watching, and finally erasing that movie (anyway), because shit doesn't deserve to waste storage.

Yes, that would probably work very well for most use cases ;->
Delegating these kinds of decisions to a faceless AI is the thing that is controversial.

The ability to systematically analyze a person's life and communications and then derive a "desirability" score is the thing that's controversial.

Similar to the subject of client-side scanning for abusive material, the issue is not that anyone supports the abuse. The issues all stem from the implications of the underlying technology and embracing "the ends justify the means".
The 300-Year history of using 'literally' figuratively
Mine was 30 hours of lessons, 7 of behind the wheel practice. Most of that practice was very plain and simple. Parking lots, side streets, etc.

Being completely honest, I did not feel totally comfortable behind the wheel until maybe a week or of actually driving myself, post-license. (Not that I didn't have a lot more to learn, obviously)

During that week, I could have easily gotten into an accident and did have one or two closer calls.

I would not all be opposed to maybe an additional ~10 hours of more rigorous behind-the-wheel driving, or a very good-quality sim for that same amount of time.

But realistically, I'd imagine making this a hard requirement would hit some massive walls. Good simulators are expensive, everyone wants to drive, and states have very limited budgets for this sort of thing.
Various industry sources and think tanks (with various biases, including IfG, IEA, Czarnikow) suggest sugar consumption has fallen very significantly in the UK and Australia since 1970, without any apparent impact on obesity rates.

However, I can't find trustworthy original academic research on it, which makes it difficult to draw any firm conclusions. In any case, it doesn't appear that sugar consumption has risen dramatically in the last 50 years in the UK, yet obesity rates (and associated metabolic diseases) have continued to rise. Most research seems to suggest sugar is a marker of an unhealthy lifestyle rather than the cause, but the cause still seems to be essentially unknown. It is true that countries that eat very little sugar tend to have lower obesity rates, but that seems mainly to be because they are usually extremely poor.

In my opinion, there's more evidence that low fibre and easily digestible food is a bigger culprit than sugar, but the evidence is very poor quality on all sides.
Apollo 13 was saved by human improvisation on the ground; the crew could not have survived with a Mars-like communication delay (40-ish minutes at worst).
That made it 200%?
>> An alternative exists, but the FAA needs to certify it for each aircraft type.

They have. It's done. nobody needs to worry about liability for switching. Availability will be a short-term problem, and banning leaded fuel will get it fixed quickly.

https://www.g100ul.com/
The grassroots push to digitize India's most precious documents
Reminds me of libhoudini (ARM -> x86 translation layer) from the days when x86 Android phones were still thing. Performance wasn't amazing but compatibility was surprisingly good.
The only issue I had on my 240z was the valve seats were some super soft brass like material, those needed to be swapped as they were beat to up and did not seal. The 75+ heads, all have steel seats.

I’ve actually never experienced the, “California gas sucks” issue that car people from the mid-west talk about, have never had an issue with it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Why mention butter? It is delicious in morning tea or coffee and somewhat pricey having been imported from Ireland. I'm in the recommended weight, while some of the fattest people I know consume loads of low-fat products.
Some of us have working systems (a 11/23+ and an 11/730). The biggest problem with all of them is the disk drives are 30-50+ years old and dying. So there's a reasonable amount of activity around building new controller boards talking to more modern/reliable mass storage.

And if you want to clear out that cupboard, do let me know. :-)
I never understood why these services were sold as "social networking". They are just a more sophisticated form of advertising for the most part.
Just FYI (because your OTP hell was my OTP hell until recently) if you fly to another country, disable roaming in the phone, and don’t make outbound calls, your phone will receive these OTP messages for free with most US cell providers.
Sacrificing 10-30% of performance for other things that might be useful might be well worth it.
Hopefully they are at least archiving it. I know the library of congress takes their role in doing this seriously. A lot of the DRM protected stuff is not made generally available, but it is archived for future use.
Both?

I think he's clearly very smart, but not nearly as smart as he thinks he is.
Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information). When I click "new"
Just out of curiosity, and it may sound random, but does &T mean anything to you?
I don’t obviously know the word though. Was it intended to be ass?
Without too much difficulty you can get into the 100,000s inserts per second range, and even near 1M inserts per second.

https://github.com/eatonphil/databases-intuition#go-mattngo-...
Swap on a zvol I understand, disabling it entirely seems questionable, no?
Whenever I see "X" (twitter) I think of the x in the corner of a window, for closing the window. Sometimes I even click the logo.

Surely this is unintentional.
Headline is incompatible with the article.

> On an earnings call yesterday, Musk told X employees that he predicts X's payments system will launch by the end of 2024, The Verge reported.

Whatever. Lots of pixels will be spilled because, you know, Musk.
I greatly appreciate the sentiment, but you don't need to build something new. Thai forest monasteries, such as those in the Ajahn Chah tradition http://forestsangha.org/ , fit the bill just fine.
>I've never heard anyone concerned about it.

I think people should abandon this heuristic.
Yeah, I'd cap that factor at 1% (and it's probably less) which would mean you'd have to live 100+ years to get more out of it than the recipients.
All the luddites here, weird for a place called "hacker news"
You need a cite to understand that the bellows of the ribs might be constrained by tension held in the intercostals and shoulder girdle? Lol. Here ya go.

https://academic.oup.com/ptj/article/86/3/345/2805157

The diaphragm is also a muscle, and can be trained.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S17460....
Copyright infringement is not an idea, it's a law. There is nothing disingenuous about this, it's the legal reality in most countries. But, to be fair, there is a nuanced discussion on the topic of whether something is copyright infringement or original work with some inspiration or quoting of another work. But I didn't get the impression this is what's talked about here?
Then advocate for it with a valid reason?

There seem to be plenty of diseases that are commonly spread by inadequately washed hands. COVID does not appear to be one of them.
Yes, context can provide what an abstract term cannot.

As a suggestion, using the term "seismic" to refer to subsurface vibrations would be more specific than "quake."
Getting “Lost” vibes
Look, for all it knew that was an alien with a chlorine-dependent biology.

In all seriousness, we're just finding that GIGO still applies. That doesn't mean the tools aren't useful.
Breaking Barriers for TikTok Data: TikAPI's Story
Maybe. Maybe not.

Europe has better public transportation than the US.
What you say would actually indicate that yes, it is React'a fault, would it not?

It's not possible to flash misinformation with normal front ends before React, without going to extreme extra effort to enable such misbehavior. Whereas with React, the easiest programming path is the user hostile path. And React is adopted only to make it "easier" on programmers.
Having multiple threads does not mean that they are all doing equally useful work. Single threaded performance is absolutely critical for a desktop machine.

Even in multithreaded desktop applications, it's rare to see them effectively use more than 8 threads.
Well he really inspired me to consider kidney donation, if only I hadn't just discovered that I have only one.
You can spec out the prices here, which are the same boxes used in this article. The entry price is about $2k USD for the 32-core SKU: https://www.ipi.wiki/products/com-hpc-ampere-altra#

The Dev Kit is probably what most people here would want, but if you probe around the site you can also find the fully loaded (PSU, case, etc) option too.
I believe Overwatch was originally a paid game, went free-to-play, and then was "upgraded" to Overwatch 2 in a similar way to CS:GO>CS2 did, but I don't remember there being as much anger over it.
1- The issue is rarely from the debit card it's always accepted, most of the times the payment will be cancelled from the service provider side

2- It's not technically non-Indian account, I'm opening accounts using valid Indian mobile number (tied to my visa and a real address), I always disclose that I'm not Indian when needed.

3- I was even trying to open Indian bank account to transfer money but no success so far (while possible in theory as I understood).

There are legitimate reasons for not wiring money if that was even an option, because you don't pay the hospital large amount ahead, and when it's time there's not enough time to wire the money.
This is a great writeup, and very broadly applicable. I don't see any "this would only apply at Google" in here.

> COMMUNICATION CHANNELS! AND BACKUP CHANNELS!! AND BACKUPS FOR THOSE BACKUP CHANNELS!!!

Yes! At Netflix, when we picked vendors for systems that we used during an outage, we always had to make sure they were not on AWS. At reddit we had a server in the office with a backup IRC server in case the main one we used was unavailable.

And I think Google has a backup IRC server on AWS, but that might just apocryphal.

Always good to make sure you have a backup side channel that has as little to do with your infrastructure as possible.
Parliament, under the same theories, cannot alter any laws - parliament suggests laws to the monarch who grants them according to their caprices ...

Of course the monarchs rather like their position of power and the money they rob (it's only a threat of violence) from the taxpayer and so they don't rock the boat, even when they should (eg when a corrupt, lying PM asks them to please prorogue parliament in order to subvert democracy -- extraordinary prorogation being one of the few reserved powers).

The monarch is perfectly entitled to take a seat in the public gallery of HoC, just as they are entitled to vote, no court would ever deny them such rights as they really derive from shared freedoms given to all UK nationals. When the Tories take us out of ECHR they might lose those rights.

About the only good Mr Alexander Boris de Pfeffle Johnson was to demonstrate how we can no longer trust politicians to be honourable, and must reform our parliamentary system with an assumption that MPs are lying, cheating, thieving beings with utmost contempt for the electorate, the rule of law, and even the institutions of Westminster (buying silence with peerages and stuffing HoL with cronies, for example).

That we cannot, even now, have a general election is a despicable endorsement of the lack of actual democracy afforded to the British people.
A few years ago, gift cards are THE currency in scamming world for shifting funds between victim and money launderer. They would ask victim to go to 8 different department stores to buy as many gift cards as the store allows then tell them the card number. It's pretty normal the victim hands them over 20 $200 gift cards. And the scammers will keep phishing the victim over and over again until there is no more money to squeeze.

Nowadays many scammers switch to digital concurrency like Bitcoin, which is even less traceable and hard to shut down, but that's only because banks and stores have put in the counter-measurements you encounter to combat them.

There are many scamming related materials available online. Many scam-baiters put their video on Youtube, such as Jim Browning [1] and Kitboga [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@JimBrowning

[2] https://www.youtube.com/@KitbogaShow
> So how do you tell

I suppose you can't; not definitively. I find it very hard to tell whether someone brighter than me is only a little brighter than me, or dramatically brighter than me.

My heuristics are:

* Nobody is dramatically brighter than me; I don't believe in geniuses.

* Bullshit is a giveaway. If I detect bullshit (e.g. "word salad"), then he's not brighter than me.

[Edit] In my experience, barristers/courtroom attorneys tend to be very bright, and also very good with language. Language is "what they do". Word salad doesn't seem to me to be a good strategy, when facing a good lawyer.
If I did not misunderstand what OP was saying, I think he is saying Amazon or other company hold his account but not the card issuing bank itself.
We've spent ridiculous amounts of money on faster disk and network and we're still at around 30ms for our average server ping to the DB.
I have few ideas. Why can't people create their own filter bubbles? Lists do that in some sense. How about "For You" tab but for a particular List so that recommendations expand and let me get the feel of that particular List's filter bubble. Why can't I choose to browse Twitter as it appears to a particular category of people e.g. say a mathematician or neuroscientist? Twitter is all public, there is no fear of de-anonymizing anyone if Twitter decides to implement such a feature.
Started a Minimum Lovable Product last week that helps people work through their anxieties or fears.

Using SQLite as a backend for everything from session management to logging. No elk stack, no separate db. Just a single file.

Development is so simple so far. Maybe I’ll need to move off of it later, but who knows maybe not. And the speed of development and simplicity is what matters more now.

https://bravesteps.love
> What I want is to be able to specify and have (when possible) automatically proven arbitrary assertions anywhere in the code

This doesn't even exist in TypeScript. If I change

function foo(a: any) { return baz(a); }

to

function foo(a: number) { return baz(a); }

whoever calls foo has to still prove (or assert) that the argument is a number.

Is that what you're after, asserting a dependent type? For example being able to change:

function divByTwo(a: number): number { return a/2; }

to

function divByTwo(a: even_number): number { return a/2; }

You want every place divByTwo is called to also automatically supply a proof that the argument is even?
Just say no to the implicit grant. OAuth 2.1 removes most of the foot guns in OAuth: https://oauth.net/2.1/
It makes me wonder what the world would be like if Bishop Joseph Butler was more popular among rationalists, and generally more well known as an Enlightenment thinker. It's been a while so excuse my spotty memory, but in summary his work challenged prevailing Enlightenment ideas about self-interest and centered human sentiment in understanding ethics. It goes to show you can be a rationalist and still talk about human morality with words like compassion and resentment.

I understand that the rationalist project has been to bypass the emotional and get to some kind of cold hard truth of right and wrong, but I've long suspected that this is impossible.
Ah yes, absolutely agree. You were referring to the EU as a whole, and I was specifically thinking about the parliament.
Greenwashing under the guise of science, when trees are a renewable resource, but the strip mines to produce batteries are not.

Quite ironic actually.
I think the idea is simply that you can prove authenticity if you have the metadata. You can’t prove authenticity without metadata, nor can you prove “inauthenticity” without metadata.