skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you have rejected antibiotics if you were around when they were invented? There's a cost to always being skeptical.

RNAi was discovered in 1998 and is very well-studied. There's really no room for surprise here. It's hard to overstate the degree to which biologists can say with certainty that this isn't dangerous to humans in any way. My question wasn't rhetorical - can you think of a way that this could go wrong?

Regular small-molecule pesticides do worry me because the risk there genuinely can't be assessed without experiments. RNA is exquisitely predictable in this case.

I know the fundamental issue here is that you have no way of assessing my (or any scientist's) competence, honesty or degree of certainty (I'm assuming you don't have a biology background given your non-answer to my question, correct me if I'm wrong). And it's probably safer to lean on the side of caution, right? Just as I prefer organic foods, even though they probably have some small-molecule pesticides on them. I have no idea what those are doing to me, and no way of knowing.

But what is a civilization to do when it genuinely solves a problem? Sometimes things do get better.
This. And this was a problem with MS/Windows development for years, too, over-reliance on Visual Studio... In fact, XCode reminds me a lot of older versions of Visual Studio, complete with terrible giant configuration dialogs, generated code galore, and subpar refactoring and external tooling support.

I really don't get Mac/iOS developer's weird stockholm syndrome with XCode -- when I worked doing iOS for a period of time, I used JetBrain's AppCode and it helped take the edge off things.

Granted, I haven't ventured into XCode & iOS dev since Swift came on the scene. That does look to have improved things.
No interest on engaging on the core issues of trust, except to say my standard bit: HN is a site predicated on the whole idea of embracing risk. Except with this one particular vendor who everyone loves to distrust. Maybe... it's not about risk at all?
It's significantly closer to mainstream since the quest 2 than before. I never saw a VR headset on retail shelves before, and I never heard kids talking about it at all. Now both of those things happen to me occasionally.
Not always. IC7-9 can make ~$800k-$1.2m TC solving tough, uninteresting problems with massive impact. Most ~IC8's come across as total assholes, which might be a requirement in some tech cultures.
I doubt that. You yourself are just going along with this rediculous Net Zero target. Who decided on 0 why not minus 101 percent while we are at it
I used to work in cloud security, mostly AWS but got to hear about experiences with GCP.

AWS IAM is much better than GCP, or was 3 years ago. If you are in an industry where fine-tuned RBAC per service is a thing you want, it's better to go AWS, all things equal.

Also, GCP reps suck compared to AWS in terms of responsiveness and general give-a-shits. Hearsay.
Even 5% is uncomfortably high if you're planning to build your mission-critical infrastructure around it.
> How could they tell if you withheld anything or genuinely forgot? It's a stressful situation. I'm not sure if I'll remember even my mother's name in such situation.

You are not giving them password so you are withholding it from them. Law doesn't have exemption for whatever excuse you are trying to use. So it's jail time for you. There is no way to prove you forgot it. And this law logic is "guilty until proven innocent".

What bothers me even worse is situation when you think you knew password but it didn't worked. Had similar situation with LastPass, I was entering one password and no matter what it failed to open vault. Tried different spellings nothing, only after a month of frantic thinking I entered correct one. Most likely I would be accused of lying to cops
Huh, it doesn't compile with GCC anymore? That's weird, as someone contributing for the past 20 years, I could swear I just compiled it yesterday with GCC.
for tree-sitter? what button do you press in neovim or emacs?
it does seem like any of Google's support options for paid services have the primary goal of reducing support load on Google, not to solve problems for paying customers
I feel like there's an inherent contradiction in the statement that one has concluded they lack free will.

If you lack free will the conclusion can't be yours, can it?
Not always. It could be for starting new lines of business or just plan political wrangling. May even be something that loses the company money.
Keyboard Maestro is my favorite applications ever. It's the one-stop-shop for an astounding array of powerful features. It can be used to replace ton of other third-party utilities. Some examples of what it can do:

1. You can easily implement your own window manager in it, e.g., replaces Moom or Magnet.

2. You can bind any AppleScript, shell script, etc... to a keyboard shortcut.

3. You can record and replay GUI macros, e.g., like Vim and Emacs macros but for any application.

4. At has a ton of built-in actions to script practically anything about your system, e.g., sleep, simulating media keys, image manipulation, etc... I suspect a lot of uses of Karabiner can be replaced by Keyboard Maestro.

5. It has a built-in clipboard history, with powerful features, like, processing an item from the clipboard with a Keyboard Maestro macro. One I use sometimes is running OCR on a screenshot I have on the clipboard.

6. You can bind any menu item in any application to a keystroke. E.g., you can rebind menu items to other keys, or adding key bindings to menu items that don't have keyboard shortcuts.

7. You can create custom command palettes (i.e., like ⇧⌘P in VS Code) for applications. For example, the command palette in Photoshop is awful, so I just made one for my common actions in Keyboard Maestro instead.

All of the above can sync seamlessly between computers with any file sync service (e.g., Dropbox). It's probably the best sync I've ever used, in 5+ years of use I've never had even the slightest hiccup. I don't bother using macOS built-in settings for things Keyboard Maestro supports for this reason. Put it in Keyboard Maestro and it will automatically sync to any Mac I use (I always install Keyboard Maestro).
They don’t have to look that far. There’s decades of precedent in the Gaza Strip.
With the exception of decorative 1-lane roundabouts in sleepy residential neighborhoods, all the roundabouts I encounter in Central and Southern California are 2-3 lane circles with various lane->exit mappings, some of which overlap and some of which are exclusive.

Drivers coming into them, who want to actually benefit from the roundabout and not just turn it into an awkward stop sign, are responsible for reversing the exit to lane mapping, then timing their approach to the intersection with an opening that will let them reach to their lane while maintaining a flow. If they can't manage to do that, of course they're supposed to stop and yield until an appropriate opening becomes available.

Inevitably, the designated pedestrian crosswalk is some 5-10+ feet prior to where the car would have to stop if it does need to yield while awaiting an opening.

Compared to a signaled intersection or a 2/4-way stop, where the pedestrian crossing coincides with a natural traffic stop, this basically means that approximately zero cars actually stop for pedestrians. Some are too busy to notice and others just don't want to have to deal with a stop and so ignore their responsibility.

I assume you must live somewhere else, where roundabouts are smaller and play some different role than here.
RIP SLS

Yeah SpaceX is goat. Between starlink, self landing rockets and this, oh man.
Wait, so a few years ago you predicted that they'd deprecate cloud, and now, when GCP is making a profit and growing revenue substantially, you're more inclined to think your prediction is coming true?

>Plus, as your company scales, you should REDUCE, not increase, your cloud usage, in favor of a properly optimized on-prem.

Yes if you get to dropbox size it might make sense to go to on prem, but most F500 companies save money going to the cloud for a multitude of reasons.
Just a quick clarification, I was not accusing you of being anti-science or anti-vax. I was using that as a short-hand for people the who don't want to get vaccinated, I'm sorry if I gave you the impression that I'm talking about you.

Regarding the "reaching only people based on certain educational background" I think choosing a citation about northern Nigeria is quite selective. The assertion that people in Africa are more vaccination skeptical seems to be a gross overgeneralisation and is vaccination acceptance rates vary greatly between countries (not surprising as this is the same in the developed world as well).

> I'm not implying anything. I'm saying it explicitly. I'm certainly exaggerating for effect, but I'm saying it explicitly: lots of people in poor countries are fearful of medical professionals.

Well your choice of language certainly makes an association to stereotypes of "superstitious primitives"

> I don't know why that's surprising -- it's true right here in the USA, as well, and one of the reasons why certain ethnic groups have disproportionately bad medical outcomes.

Yes some ethnic groups, would these somehow be more likely to engage with the medical professionals that engage with the control groups, or go to the hospitals while being opposed to the "mysterious doctor-magicians"? Also the modern "health-suspicious" population in the USA (and other developed nations) is primarily composed of well off, well educated socio-economic backgrounds, e.g. just look at where recent measles outbreaks happened.
Sounds like a problem with the screen reader. If they are supposed to replace the part where the user interprets a glyph on the screen, then they should act like a human would and interpret something that looks like semicolon as a semicolon, even if it's a Greek question mark (excepting at the end of a Greek question).

(Do any of them have an OCR layer? The context sensitivity might be more challenging, but probably can be specialised to common cases or LLM-magicked away.)
Or just make PHEVs. Cars that have small batteries, that are big enough to do 95% of your driving on electricity. That still let you jump in and go somewhere without hoping that there is a place to charge up. And even when running the ICE engine, you're getting fuel economy much higher than a regular ICE car.

I think that if everybody could reduce their ICE usage by 90%, and only use 1/4 of the batteries, that is a win-win for everybody. People driving around in 200-350 mile EVs, that only drive less than a 1/4 of that on a regular basis are just wasting batteries that could have gone into other cars and saved them on the cost of their current car.

Like seriously, how often do you drive more than 100 miles? Once a week, once a month? We all know the stats for people's commutes are far shorter. Most people don't need long range EVs except for once in a while. That's what pro-EV people have been saying for years.

Even a Jeep Wrangler 4xe that only has like 10 miles of range... if your commute is 20 miles round trip, that's still half the gas usage. That guy probably wasn't going to buy an EV anyways. PHEVs are also a way to get skeptics to reduce reliance on gas.
Crying about other people not putting the community for something they created on your preferred site is a bad look. You should reconsider what you're doing right now.
And it's one of the best things of HN, thank you
That's pretty crazy. I'll check out.
Baloney. chroot and execvpe work with mere temporary directories. This is roughly how homebrew does "isolated" builds. You don't need virtualization, but you may want it.
You only need to know one fact to navigate it: the middle is not a roundabout, ignore the fact that it is round.

Every driver in the UK is used to sequences of two or three roundabouts, they are part of the driving test. As long as you are not bamboozled by the pseudo roundabout in the middle, you just navigate it based on principles you already know.
You mean it's trivial to work around. Only Apple can truly resolve it.
Thats only because 99% of people dont do any running at all. 10K is a warmup for runners.
The Cruise crash that got the robotaxis pulled from S.F
Generally the phrase is "High risk, high reward." This would be considered a relatively low reward.
Been using it for a long time but found myself more and more using Shortcuts and HammerSpoon instead.

Maybe a few very basic things that I still have in KM are stuff like “paste as keyboard strokes”, muting my audio when stuff changes and the occasionally keyboard shortcut remap (because it syncs across my machines in contrast to the macOS native thing)

Curious what the people here use KM for. What are some of your use cases?
> It confounds me how anyone would want to work there. The money must be really good.

Why does HN always do this, comment up from their moral high horse? Someone works in big tech then they must be a sell out doing it for the money. Also, if big tech is off limits then by that logic I assume so are big banks, big pharma, big oil etc etc. Almost feels like only start ups qualify as employment opportunities then perhaps, but even they most likely are using frameworks/tech by big tech (is that ok or is that selling out too). Where does one work then? Is it that hard to fathom that people have different moral codes and care about different stuff. Such comments almost feel like sour-grapes.
It's crazy to me that so many of my gripes about Windows can be traced back to one person. He's going to single handedly drive me away from the OS.
> Companies in general should do this, not just ones targeting developers! Instead they have a bunch of vague marketing copy that means nothing. It's a pet peeve.

This seems to appeal to purchasing teams. When you write what the app actually does suddenly it’s technical and the team doesn’t understand what is written any more.
> Can hold that for about 5 minutes, then falling back to about 60 to 65 kph.

If you’re suggesting doing 60 to 65 kph for an hour on a normal road bike after 5 minutes of 75 kph, I simply don’t believe you.

The world record 1 hour time on ultra flat indoor terrain set in 2014 was 51.852 km (32.219 mi). It’s climbed since then but your suggestion of ~63 kph for a full hour on a roadbike comes off as silly unless your using serious electric assistance.
> losing billions

Isn't the word "spending" in this case?
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The market is tiny (relatively) for all of these players. Motley Fool estimates the entire cloud gaming industry is ~$2.5B in total revenue for 2023.

Many of the current services are likely running at a loss, hoping for the hype-train to get people into it.

The reality is, most people wanting to play AAA titles either have a console, or a gaming computer already

The cross-section of people with a 10 year old macbook, that want to play the latest AAA title, have expensive high-bandwidth internet, and are willing to pay ~$30+ a month is just not that large.
For work, it goes into my Todoist inbox.

For personal, it goes into my Apple Reminders app.

I put in as much or as little information as I care to, at that moment.

I make it a point to look at both every day, and adjust items as necessary.

I do keep a pen and notepad on my nightstand, but my phone's also there, so I almost never end up using the notepad.
Yeah, the reason there are perforamnce regressions is due to a partial rewrite.
While I never spent a lot of time in GCP, it seemed like it was harder to understand GCP itself as a platform compared to AWS.

That is to say that Google APIs and services seem fine, but figuring out project management and infrastructure management feel incredibly weird. Not necessarily bad, but arcane and awkward where in AWS I can just hit the ground running.

Arguably, debatably, GCP might have the "more correct" model with resources scoped to projects and such, but it does make the learning curve harder.
Even more extraordinary; ancient engravings submerged for years, without a trace of life growing over them.
I debugged our ML container and wrote yamls for initial version of demo

Also met customers and talked to them one by one travelling across the country, each time having a detailed game plan for what we wanted to learn and what we wanted to get back from the customer
>Https....

No, detect what was typed and make it work.
If it's just an ip address, try https, try http, if they put in http, try https, then try http, if they mistyped https or the like, replace it with https, then try http.

These things are not hard, and are much friendlier to the user.
> Why is GCP a distance 3rd with cloud providers?

Honestly, it boggles my mind. Bad marketing seems to be the driving force here.

“Nobody ever gets fired for buying IBM.”

If you've actually spent time building on their platform though, it feels like you're in some sort of inner circle of knowledge. The stuff works, and works really well.
Your energy math, or its explanation, is incorrect. the embodied energy in CO2 is irrelevant - the comparison is of products and reactants, of which 'C' and 'O2' are neither.
I don't, sorry. I know people who do, but I don't have direct personal experience with doing so. None of them had any negative outcomes from it with occasional larger doses, but as far as I know none of them went too extreme on those doses.
The link is to a news article about a recent paper not the a link to the research itself.

The editorialization of this being a breakthrough was done by the reporter not the authors of the paper.

I see people here comparing this to GPT-4 but I can't find that section in the actual paper nor in the underlying data. Can someone point me in the right direction?
over the last 15 years my residential internet and power supply have been considerably more reliable than us-east-1
I'm tired of reading the same thing over and over where people prognosticate based on poor readings of events and I think people should put there money where their mouth is.

I really do not think the chance of GCP discontinuing a core service is high enough to warrant the level of comments this gets and if I find myself constantly reading these comments, maybe I can at least be compensated by people making bad bets or maybe people will admit the chance is really low.

So if you are so worried about this, please give me a number that represents how worried you are about this.
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Sounds like 99M haven’t found out they can delete the threads account without killing their IG account now.
I was an ops engineer at Fastmail. We ran our own hardware. A mix of Debian on one stack and SmartOS (Illumos from Joyent) and there were plenty of physical problems and costs. Now putting petabytes of data with replication and syncing and all that would have been a cluster F on the cloud, we missed out on a lot of the awesome newer deployment other tooling because we had written our own. Before I left we swapped out a good chunk of these snowflake software but it was impressive actually how well it worked. Good multi data center multi master mysql support in 2008? Killer feature. Maintaining that in 2020? Horrible.

Also there were plenty of upstream routing issues where solving that became a headache. The #1 thing we wanted was uptime and the #1 outage was our upstream providers having trouble routing to other upstream providers.

The number one reason and tradeoff for cloud is uptime and availability and the cost of not having it
There have long been working Spectre attacks. From skimming the paper a bit, I think the contribution of this work is that they have come up with an attack that works on Apple's processors, as well as bypasses for a number of mitigations WebKit has (that fall short of site isolation).
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Is it legal to willfully circumvent DRM for the purpose of ML training?
I mean....if the content is there, and people found it engaging enough to want to interact with it, is it really scammy? _Dishonest_ is probably a fair descriptor of presenting the content as coming from more people than actually were (and if those "usage numbers" were presented as actual usage numbers for, like, VC funding, then it's an out-and-out scam), but I don't think it's really _that_ much of a scam as-presented. If someone told me tomorrow that all of the content I'd read on Hacker News for the last month had all been provided by one extremely prolific person with a bunch of sockpuppets, rather than by multiple actual real human people, it wouldn't reduce the value or enjoyment I'd got from them.
Isn’t that normally an add on service that you purchase in addition to the thing you’re buying?
Same thing happened on this site. To this day most comments and discussions are between the two HN moderators using a panopoly of usernames and ip-cloaking.
Even though the conclusion itself may not be a product of free will, the awareness of this conclusion can be consistent with our subjective experience of having the capacity to reason, reflect, and examine our beliefs.
"We note that iLeakage is a significantly difficult attack to orchestrate end-to-end, and requires advanced knowledge of browser-based side-channel attacks and Safari's implementation" - possibly the reason Apple is not losing sleep over this?
Gentle reminder that to much computer use can cause a repetitive strain injury.

Not the same thing, but it’s good to be aware about. Breaks are important.
If you want to give me 10:1 odds GCP is not going to be around in 10 years, I will bet you any amount of money you are willing to name lol.
Renting dedicated server off company like OVH, or even co-locating your own is also far cheaper than cloud, few times over, without fuss of turning your house into datacenter.
I mostly agree. The only thing which I'd learn more about is

> I've never seen a counterexample

Perhaps that Voltaire's "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" was made too much in jest and didn't really correspond to some real events, before or after. Or people like Vaclav Havel, who got to the power from the power's opponents, didn't have opportunity to refrain from silencing a political adversary. I don't know.
Off-topic but I was curious and checked your profile and wow... you've got a lot of karma on reddit and hackernews. (Also your blog mentions you still working at Netflix, while your HN profile page suggests that was in the past.)
I know this is old, so I'm not sure if you'll see it, but I'm genuinely curious what alternatives you suggest.

My experience has been: start with Google until it's too painful to continue, choose between Azure AD or Okta. Self-hosting for plenty of firms is just asking for worse scenarios. Is there some market leader I'm unaware of?
GCP, AWS and Azure are all, for sure, 100%, big revenue centers for their corporate overlords. Cloud is where you go to make money, not lose it. It's the "enterprise" of the modern world. The only problem with it from a business perspective is that it's increasingly commoditized and so everyone can only compete on price these days. So margins will trend to zero over the decades, but these will always be profitable.
I can't agree.

For one, both entering and leaving the roundabout happens at low speeds, so there's very little chance of getting hit at high speed.

Second, the drivers are necessarily doing turns, so their blind spots move around quickly, which makes it easier to scan the area for pedestrians.
It's my wife and it's my life
It's insane between actually renting servers, or even classical "bare" VPS providers and cloud too.
MDN Observatory 2.0
Why every microwave sucks these days
Over here everyone takes dead lights for green lights/no lights
> Erm, including the apparent signal race and the illegal instruction?

Yes. They're probably both caused by this person setting their CPU microarchitecture wrong.
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