skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The missing link is really a serverless postgres

Used AWS Aurora Serverless v2 (MySQL) and it worked pretty good actually never used the postgres version but it's now available.
Most of the improvement is in gaming and GPU-intensive work, which is why I upgraded. Baldur's Gate 3 via Steam/Proton at 1240p went from ~30 fps with settings cranked down on Intel to 40-60 at high/ultra.

I didn't upgrade the battery and the battery life is similar (as in, not great; about 4-5 hours of coding while occasionally maxing all cores, 2 hours or less of sustained gaming), but it's also hard to judge because of all the power/wake problems while in sleep. I've gotten in the habit of just shutting it down instead.

Blender was "usable" on Intel but I can work comfortably with much bigger scenes on the AMD board. I had 32GB RAM on both boards, going from DDR4 to DDR5 by necessity.

Anecdotally, non-GPU single/multi-core stuff (for me, typically GIS-related functions) feels better but not by as huge of a leap.
Google is more profitable in ads and search than anyone else so they can rationally bid higher for access to users. It's part of the moat.

Banning these payments is bad for Google because then Apple and Samsung will ship their own apps.
I am assuming it's an old picture?
fm Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Penitentiary,_Th...

"In October 2012, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) purchased Thomson Correctional Center from the State of Illinois for $165 million."
It's sad that you have to claim that you're "not anti-vax" in order to criticize a broken system these days.
I created an account on ECMWF but I still dont have access to the ERA5 page, just a big permissions denied message. :/

Any pointers?
Following. Havent gotten anything useful out of local LLMs yet, but it could also be due to my limited hardware.
Yes that a way if you dont work on it anymore, but what if you still working on it but in another frequency or fixing only security issues and no new features will developed?
The competitors are also "stacking the deck"
I always explain this puzzle by asking which is the best linux distro.
I feel the greatest difference is that in science, you are to assume the negative. You are to prove yourself wrong, not right. Being right is a matter of accomplishment by exclusion. It is the pursuit of facts/truth, but with the understanding that you are cutting away the incorrect or irrelevant to leave a predictive remnant, not starting with an answer.
> rent controlled apartment in Midtown for ~$1300/mo

> landlord tried to bill tens of thousands of dollars to bring the apartment up to their current standards

> landlord never spent a cent on modernizing the apartment along the way

Surely you see that these are directly connected. With an increasing cost of living and a legally fixed profitability per month that isn't going up over time nor keeping up with inflation, from the landlord's perspective, there's little to no incentive for them to fork over cash they never got from the apartment to put back into it. At that point the only incentive is to hold onto the property itself and wait for its value to increase while deducting depreciation, and perversely, they are incentivized to make you as uncomfortable as possible since they cannot raise the rent on the unit until you move.

It's my opinion that if we want rent control, there should be a cap on the amount of time that ends sooner than "on death", especially if you're not old. (For old people who are basically living in the last unit of their lives, it makes sense to me to rent-control those).
I tend to be on the side of "mad people are attracted to screens". Does Thomas the Tank Engine make people autistic?
> you can extract the dna from a strawberry and poke it

You can extract some sort of goo from strawberries that your teacher claims is DNA, but I don't think there's any actual way for a high schooler to verify that it is DNA.
David Graeber does appear in the word cloud (I guess some sites still use these?) on this site. So, the comparison to that book is legit.
Thank you for posting! This was the first venture down posting more relevant and real world use cases not having to use third party hosting for builders.
Is there a chance you made something up and got lucky ?
Microsoft lies to German IT magazine C't about Outlook stealing IMAP credentials
Google Translation:

https://www-heise-de.translate.goog/news/Neues-Outlook-Micro...

As discovered last week, "New Outlook" (which currently is getting rolled out via Windows update) when adding an IMAP mail account is sending your account credentials including password in cleartext to Microsoft, not asking for informed user consent.

German c't magazine, who first discovered and reported this, now got a reply from Microsoft, where they are awkwardly deflecting on the question of them stealing IMAP credentials. They claim that synchronisation is done for "consistent user expierence", but do not acknowledge sending the user's IMAP credentials to the cloud. But c't magazine has proven and can re-produce that once they setup an IMAP accouint locally that suddenly Microsoft servers from the UK are logging into their IMAP server with those credentials.

Obviously under GDPR EU law all of this is illegal already. But on top of this it is now proven they are storing users' IMAP credentials on servers outside of the EU (UK).
I don't buy either the premise or the conclusion of your last paragraph. If I own a sewing machine that I use to do piece work, that doesn't make my sewing machine rent-seeking. It makes it a tool that I use to do work.

But yes, expand this to IP. Tax Microsoft and Disney for the full value of their copyrights. If they don't want to pay the tax, they can let the copyright lapse early. Tax google for the full value of google.com. And so on.
I wonder how many of these products are going to slurp up proprietary information from unwitting code teams before it's over. Granted, if your team/org isn't smart enough to consider that, maybe there's not really much there of value anyway.
The only gymnastics going on are your gymnastics to make out that any criticism or warnings about fundamentalist Christianity are gymnastics because they should be about Islam instead.
A side by side comparison of the speed per model?
I care vastly more about raw performance than energy usage for my home systems. I also have good reasons to care about the best single core performance. I don't see x86 going away that fast.
Not to mention their cut in untaxed income should they stop smuggling contraband for gangs.
My idea is that this is just between you and people you actually know. First-hand.
> I know one L7 at Amazon who gathered all his directs' badges and beeps them into the office every morning to make it look like people are there

That person sounds like the kind of manager people would fight to work for
That doesn't align with the adage of 'ship every six hours'
schema-driven development is great, but I wish people spent more time on JSON-based API schema rather than switch to protobuf. Because protobufs immediately require some minimal level of complexity (at least a build system!) and thus effectively block small one-off scripts. And the debuggability is also not great.

Can we (as an industry) pick a standard (openapi? jsonschema? something else?) and add the tooling to match protobuf ecosystem functionality?
I think I see where the misunderstanding is now and that there is indeed a gap in my statement. The point I was trying to make here was to challenge the need for nuclear energy _in the first place_ by installing solar in every parking lot. It should be considered and studied more thoroughly, if it hasn’t already.

That said, I’m not against nuclear but there are significant environmental drawbacks to it for anyone who lives near a plant. I can’t think of any significant environmental drawbacks to installing solar in existing parking lots.
Running Redshift at Scale
And then some time later I would [will] try
again, under the blissful delusion that this
time it will stick

First... damn. I know the struggle. Much love to you and much respect.

Just an idea w.r.t. systems. Have you tried prioritizing "ease of use" over "completeness and awesomeness"?

I made some progress myself that way lately. I was always trying to organize things in some kind of... I don't know? perfect and aesthetically pleasing way? In hindsight, I think I was telling myself I had to get to some perfect system like these garages, where everything is perfectly organized and has a purpose and place.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/721209327810494107/

Instead what worked for me in the end was a bunch of clear plastic bins from Home Depot, with big labels on them. They are not literally childrens' bins but in spirit, the end solution for me was not too far away from this:

https://www.google.com/search?um=1&hl=en&safe=active&nfpr=1&...

Point being, what finally worked for me was the system with the lowest possible friction, not the "best" system.
> However, never underestimate the world-upending impact of "a nice UI". GPT-3 was available for years. But almost nobody knew or care

I’ve been using GPT-3 through the API since it was available for my discord bot. The difference with ChatGPT (gpt-3.5) was astounding, they weren’t even close in capabilities.
Those are open ended problems though.

Something like python's GIL issue is something with a clear end game. It just needs resources.
From the HN guidelines: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

Very plausible to interpret the post you're responding to as just saying that pitbulls, like Black people, are treated more poorly by society than other groups.
> For the majority of people.

science is not generally understood as a source of constant critical inquiry, but rather a source of unquestionable belief.

When asked if the Earth goes around the sun, most people would confidently reply, "Yes, it does."

However, when asked if they have any doubts, they would unlikely admit to any uncertainty. It suggests to me that most people have faith in what science says. Rarely questioning or ever challenging it.

The few who disagree with the scientific consensus are not necessarily more scientific, but at least remain skeptical which paradoxally may make them more scientific than those who just take it for granted. Whether the skeptic have well articulated reasons for their doubts or not, they are often met with resistance or even ridicule.

In my opinion, scientific claims have become as problematic than religious beliefs. If one questions or challenges what is published in a scientific journal today, they may be seen as heretical. The recent pandemic has shown how science can be used to impose a dogma, much like religion.
Fantastic product launch from one of the top infrastructure companies in robotics.
why cant we adopt the same standard (along with metric)
100%. High trust companies are better performers. WFH is (typically, not always) a sign of trust.
The fundamental point is that I'm not putting a box on my head so I can cope with your open floorplan.
Was the original paper ever replicated? Cause if not, that’s too strong a conclusion. A simpler explanation could be that the original paper got something wrong and wasn’t replicable.
Can we take similar extreme measures against Trump supporters, as some of them actively tried overthrowing the democratically elected government?
VS Code and Omnisharp are unconditionally free (and open source). DevKit and VS Community Edition are free for education scenarios. The arguments made in previous comments don’t correspond to reality.
Well that sounds like a great place to work.
Should we ultimately be able to develop relativistic rockets, and it seems there is no inherent reason why we shouldn't, then everything is just going to be so unbelievably weird. Traveling on a rocket to friendly distant planet, except the planet you land on may be millions of years in the future from when it was first settled. Or imagine living on said planets and occasionally seeing relics thousands, millions, or even further back in history approaching for landing.

Time, life, death, technology, and everything will be just so unimaginably alien. It will be basically impossible to have a normal linear view of time when it's violated constantly, even though your body itself will yet still almost certainly be insistent on linear time - and steadily marching towards its expiration date. Even evolution itself will be weird. Humans over millions of years will probably scarcely resemble ourselves today, yet you'll regularly have 'old' species humans regularly reintegrating with 'new' ones?

Such a bizarre reality we live in, unless perhaps somehow the views we have today end up being as quaint as those of times past.
I am very surprised to hear reports of poor Linux support for AMD devices. I recently purchased a GPD Win Max 2 [1] and a GPD Win 4 [2] for work. Both devices are AMD 7840U with Radeon 780M (and 64 GiB RAM at 6400 MT/s since I saw what appeared to be instability at 7500 MT/s.)

I installed Archlinux on both and the support has been very solid with the `linux-lts` kernel and only one kernel flag (`amd_pstate=guided`.)

The following work: touchscreen; suspend (s2idle, which correctly enters S0ix state giving ≥100h battery life suspended but requiring I disable entries in `/proc/acpi/wakeup`); audio; media keys; game controls; wifi; Bluetooth; USB; SecureBoot (with `systemd-boot`); webcam (available only on Win Max 2.) The TPM2 works, but I haven't done anything with it yet (and it's an fTPM.)

Battery life is quite good (8~10h with the `acpi-cpufreq` `powersave` governor.) If I dial down the TDP, I can eke out even more battery life than that. If I dial it up to performance, I get 1~2h of battery life (and the exhaust from the fan port runs very hot.) I plan to try the `amd_pstate` governor (kernel flag `amd_pstate=active`) once support is available in the LTS kernel, though I like being able to control TDP via the CLI with AUR packages like `ryzenadj-git`. (This sounds like a lot of work, but I have a short shell script where I dialed in the right `cpupower` and `ryzenadj-git` commands optimal for my use.)

Hibernate works perfectly on the Win 4; I haven't tested it on the Win Max 2 (since s2idle works so well!)

On the Win 4, I can't get `xrandr` modes at anything other than native resolution (1920×1080) to work, but I am content with scaling via `xrandr --scale-from`. All resolutions display properly on the Win Max 2. Rotation works perfectly on both devices, but I rotate manually (and I haven't bothered to see if there is a gyroscope sensor.) There is minimal to no screen tearing. The displays present to the OS as landscape (i.e., rotation is not necessary from the Linux console.)

The only hardware that outright doesn't work are the fingerprint readers (but I believe Linux support for fingerprint readers is limited to very few devices.)

In short, my recent experience with AMD 7840U/Radeon 780M has been nothing short of amazing, and these devices have been an absolute pleasure to use.

[1] https://www.gpd.hk/gpdwinmax2

[2] https://gpd.hk/gpdwin4

[3] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ryzenadj-git
This is basically what the streamer Lifecoach has said his life was like for a very long time. I think he is much happier now
When it comes to Amphetamine derivatives what works for you might not work for someone else. Stimulants generally work well, but some people have genetic conditions that make their situation worse. It's best to find out which medication is best for you.
Previous discussion on this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38212453
> there won't be a worker's right month same as there won't be a worker's right parade

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesar_Chavez_Day

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=Cesar+Chavez+Day+parade&atb...
At least they read the book.

I know book clubs all over the planet that have been stuck on the same book for thousands of years, and most of them haven’t made any serious effort to actually READ that book - they just cherry-pick the parts that support or can be twisted to support their own worldview.
I mean, MOJO has 100 million in funding and is 'supposedly' building a faster and better python.

Programming improvements are all about hiring a small group of highly talented engineers. Funding a lab of 10 tenured R1 level PL researchers to work on python fulltime will likely cost $5 million/yr and should be more than enough for whatever 'leap forwards' people want to facilitate.
I've known a few of the "one monitor, minimal peripherals" types as well. When I think back to the "most productive" (whatever that means) half dozen or so people I've worked with, it's a mix of both. I don't think there's anything inherently better or worse about either approach, just a matter of finding what works best for your specific mix of discipline, interest, and brain chemistry.

I actually enjoy working on laptops directly but the keyboards always do me in. Just a little too cramped for my wrist/arms, and if I'm adding an external keyboard the monitor is just a bit too far away so I'm back to the normal docked setup.
That’s not what this piece is saying. It’s calling out the toxic ideologies that are indeed common in SV, especially among leadership. There’s no question that those attitudes strongly influence how companies are run and what lobbying is done. That influence extends out to government and other companies that buy into that technocratic mindset.

The overarching policy here with broken incentives is the kind of relatively unrestricted capitalism which Silicon Valley would be loath to give up. Most of the attitudes listed in the article tie strongly into that: money is seen as defining worth, values that can’t be monetized or that inhibit profit are rejected, often vehemently, and so on.

If you’re inclined to dismiss a piece like this, it may be because you’re too enmeshed in at least some of the ideologies in question to recognize its accuracy.
I think that seems healthy to me. As folks with ADHD we are typically novelty-seekers. I think it's ok to accept that one's systems will be ever-shifting.

For a decade or two I've gone back and forth between paper and electronic note-taking and I think that's OK, I don't have to find one perfect forever system for everything.
You're right, I shouldn't have said "first" there. Instruct had RLHF.

But I don't think ChatGPT would have worked nearly as well using InstructGPT as the model. GPT-3.5 was still a better model, especially for chat, than InstructGPT.

> We trained this model using Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), using the same methods as InstructGPT, but with slight differences in the data collection setup. We trained an initial model using supervised fine-tuning: human AI trainers provided conversations in which they played both sides—the user and an AI assistant. We gave the trainers access to model-written suggestions to help them compose their responses. We mixed this new dialogue dataset with the InstructGPT dataset, which we transformed into a dialogue format.

https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt
That's every male with measurable testosterone levels.
Minority Report was a bad idea because the minority reports demonstrated that the precogs were fallible: people weren't inherently destined to carry out the crimes the precogs testimony were used to convict them of.
Hover your mouse over those and you should get the absolute date. Some if not many are using time tags.
>One main reason why no direct replication has been conducted before now, is that the proposed underlying psychological basis for the CASA Theory suggested that a short period of time (e.g., 30 years) should have no influence on the effect. Specifically, the original authors postulated that the reason we respond to social computers as if they have an awareness is because our brains are not evolving at the same rate as technology; our brains are still adapted to our early ancestors’ environment4.

I find this hypothesis... shockingly naive, bordering on psuedoscientific. Brains are there to learn behaviors faster than evolution can. Neuroplasticity (as well as just the general experience of being human) means that brains can un- and re-learn things as needed rather than being stuck with the same static behaviors that, say, a plant might have. No surprise the CASA theory got falsified, and good on the researchers for doing the necessary falsification work.
- if you pass it is a parameter, pass a read-only reference.

Completely breaks with a lot of async code
That article is from last month, not from 2019, if we stay on the context.
The historical context is what really matters and why this book is so interesting to me. Tone-policing the book isn’t really valid criticism to me.
> Seems like this is a company specific issue, not an office vs remote issue.

But it's the overwhelming majority of companies.
OpenAI pauses ChatGPT Plus sign-ups as it hits capacity
The author's focus on the "whiteness" of Silicon Valley betrays a comical disconnection with reality. I suspect this author lives in the Silicon Valley of Twitter and Social Media.

Has this person ever waited in line for Din Tai Fung? Or know the difference between IIT Bombay vs IIT Delhi?

Give me a break.
My favorite method is RSVP. I've read entire books with ease using it.
> strange gaps in logs and code didn't have to deal with time changes.

Use UTC for everything, except when displaying then convert at the last moment in UI code

The U in UTC is for Universal.
If the absolute time never changed, people’s sunlight modulated circadian rhythms would be all
messed up, which is unhealthy. Best to rise with the sun.
Their Ultimate plan includes access to various top-tier LLMs for different uses, including GPT4 https://help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/assistant.html
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They do offer ISO layouts, which afaik all nordic language layouts use.
> Vaccine manufacturers should be liable for their products just like regular pharmaceuticals.

Aren't all of the recommended vaccines already covered by the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program?
https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation
Moving from Phoenix to Austin was a bit of a shock. Weather prediction in Phoenix is essentially perfect. In Austin the forecast seems much less accurate.
> I've studied VAERS closely. It almost seems purposefully designed to under report adverse reactions, even before Covid.

I'm going to state this bluntly: I think you're lying and/or stupid. I've also looked at VAERS, and the entire system very obviously over-reports every tiny bit of noise. Every cough, hangnail, and sports injury which happens to occur in the 2 weeks after a vaccine gets reported. If there's anything wrong with VAERS, it's that there's so much alerting the system is not useful.

> Vaccine manufacturers should be liable for their products just like regular pharmaceuticals.

You are very misinformed if you think vaccine manufacturers are not liable for their products. They are exempt from normal civil suits because of their mandatory nature (nobody would make a mandatory medical product at the usual rate of medical malpractice suits), but the FDA is authorized to withdraw products and levy fines for defective/harmful vaccines, and has done so many times in the past.

> Good science gets trampled when there's so much money on the table.

Pharmaceutical companies report that they basically break even on most vaccines, since they're pretty much commodities. The new ones like mRNA are the exception, not the norm.

You don't seem to know very much about this subject, and I think you should actually bother to learn before making confident statements like this.
They'll sound better after we hear Microsoft's names.
There's "Swatch Internet Time" (.beats), they're a form of metric time :)
The paywall is definitely always a choice and the choice is only available to people who get paid.