skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The subtle evaluations of a dealership salesman cannot be emulated by an automated system. Humans are superior to machines for evaluating other humans. Beware unintended consequences of deregulating. Society needs more regulation (written in blood), not less, especially in these trying times where corporations, with their outsize power, are trying to get direct access to consumers to exploit them. Systems like dealerships are load-bearing in society, designed to reduce the pressure of direct impact of large corporations against individuals.
Electric vehicles is both a bane and a boon. Let them charge when it's cheap, program them to sell back a fraction of the charge when it's expensive.

Some of the planned industry investment is hydrogen generation, which is perfect for varying power. The gas caverns can be filled when rates are low.
I came across this video by complete accident. He's story from the latest video on his channel is very inspiring. I wish there would be more creators and clips like this out there.
Craft your own AI customer support bot with one-line of code
use case:
Build a AI customer support to any websites and answer questions specifically about your websites
Hetzner suspended the account of a non-profit org I voluntarily supported, without explaining the reason or giving us possibility to take our data out. The issue was resolved only after bringing it to the public space. Even there they tried to pretend we are not actually their customers first
Show HN: Run LLM generated scripts in CLI.
Was annoyed at the time I was spending manipulating data while fine-tuning a model. Made this.
On the other hand, I could see dealers setting a hard price and claim “no negotiation”.
Yes like paying 30$ for Tylenol in a hospital. You didn’t pay that much for the pill but for a nurse to enter that you need that into a schedule and then actually deliver it to you.
aggressive salespeople would be my guess
Meh. We've been here before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
Ladies and gentlemen, gather 'round as we reflect upon the profound wisdom imparted by the Log from Ren and Stimpy. In the sacred realm of the animated, behold the Log — a symbol, a metaphor, a wooden beacon lighting the path to enlightenment.

Just as the Log rolls through the whimsical landscapes of Ren and Stimpy's world, so too must we navigate the terrain of job applications. The Log teaches us perseverance, for even when faced with absurd challenges, it continues its journey with stoic determination.

Applying to jobs, my friends, is akin to riding the Log of life. We must embrace the twists and turns, the uncertainties of the job market, with the same unyielding spirit. For just as the Log is steadfast in its purpose, so should we be in our pursuit of meaningful employment.

And lo, let us draw inspiration from the Log Song itself — a melodic reminder that sometimes, in the chaos of job hunting, it's crucial to find joy in the simplicity of the process. Whether it's singing about our resumes or crafting cover letters, let the Log be our guide to finding humor and joy in the journey.

In conclusion, my dear congregation, as we face the job market, let the Log's unwavering resolve inspire us to roll forward with resilience and a sprinkle of absurdity. For in the grand tapestry of employment, each of us is but a log on the river of life, floating toward new opportunities and adventures. Amen.
Absolutely water weight.

I can drop 10 pounds this week trivially by triggering a water flush (change in diet), essentially at will. Wife absolutely hates it, but that’s water weight.
love it

this is the kind of creativity that won't come from an LLM (at this stage). it might be able to build it perfectly, but really creative idea generation still greatly benefits from human touch
Similar for me, I take the smallest possible dose of vyvanse that works to balance off the positives and negatives. Honestly, its a similar trade-off with Coffee or sugary foods.
I was thinking the same thing. If the migration took more than one man-year then they lost money.

Also what happens at hardware end-of-life?

Also what happens if they encounter an explosive growth or burst usage event?

And did their current staffing include enough headcount to maintain the physical machines or did they have to hire for that?

Etc etc. Cloud is not cheap but if you are honest about TCO then the savings likely are WAY less than they imply in the article.
So while the US pacifies its citizens China tried to make foreign solders to send to the US. TikTok being a tool to "slow down" Americans while enabling foreigners. Seems pretty Sus to me.
After WeWork's bankruptcy, what is the future of coworking
I'm starting to suspect there's more to securely stowing user data than throwing it on a bunch of 4TB SSDs!
They also saved the salaries of the team whose job was doing nothing but chasing misplaced spaces in yaml configuration files. Cloud infrastructure doesn't just appear out of thin air. You have to hire people to describe what you want to do. And with the complexity mess we're in today it's not at all clear which takes more effort.
I work with a team from PT->CET and am in UTC-0 so no joke the first thirty minutes to an hour of my day is catching up with the rest of what happened the previous day and what’s going on at the start of the next day. I don’t need to schedule it because thankfully my morning is usually quiet but it’s common enough I mention it in my work log.

I don’t think this is unplanned work so much as unrecognised work. Few Gantt charts etc. keep track of that overhead like the overhead from ‘surprise’ tasks.
Best of luck!!
Its weird how much they deemphasize it and every time there's a zero-day, the solution is to upgrade. Let us add more to the pile while taking away a single point of entry.

Actuvate LockDown, and its all gone. Indefinitely cuz it blocks the original sin. And there's basicaly 0-downsides.
Also, I'd imagine most companies can fill unused compute with long-running batch jobs so you're getting way more bang for your buck. It's really egregious what these clouds are charging.
It is Levelized cost of electricity which is a standard way of measuring cost for energy investment.
I broke the rules and read the article first:

> In the context of AWS, the expenses associated with employing AWS administrators often exceed those of Linux on-premises server administrators. This represents an additional cost-saving benefit when shifting to bare metal. With today’s servers being both efficient and reliable, the need for “management” has significantly decreased.

I also never seen an eng org where substantial part of it didn’t do useless projects that never amount to anything
Sorry, how does 1 mb per user seem reasonable? I’m sending tons of videos, documents and pictures, probably beyond a gigabyte daily. Just one video is like 40Mb. 1Mb assumption seems absurd
> At the very minimum, capitalism is a poor allocator of this great majority of value.

Poor, eh, compared to what other allocator?
A dry bar lacks water, not ethanol, and dry cleaning still uses liquids, so I'd argue even the colloquial definition is water.
Every bad day for windows is another great day for Linux. You have a choice. Make it.
>It's Cloud 101 to architect your platform to operate across multiple availability zones (data centres)

A huge multi billion dollar company with "cloud" in its name recently had a big downtime because they did not follow "cloud 101".
Forget the VMs. You can use UMSKT (https://github.com/umskt/umskt) to generate valid keys and phone activation confirmation IDs for any pre-Vista MS product.
> simply predicting the next token

... it's doing A LOT more than that. The technique you're referencing is very limited and rarely used for any practical purposes
I really really want to use OTel for a small project but have always had a really tough time finding a path that is cheap or free for a personal project.

In theory you can send telemetry data with OTel to Cloud Watch, but I've struggle to connect the dots with the front end application (e.g. React/Next.js).
You can get stripped down versions of windows on ahem other parts of the internet. If you're going through the trouble to get a grey-market key, might as well choose your installation media with some care.
IAM is absolutely NOT something you can just ignore unless you have a huge pile of cash to burn when your shit gets compromised.
You don't need overengineered generative AI, just photoshop half of the left-looking and half of the right-looking photo together
I went to an in-person Q&A featuring a Fields medalist. The audience was a collection of undergraduate and high school math students, with a few professors in attendance.

One of the young students asked exactly this question to which everyone in the audience collectively groaned. The Fields medalist gave a short answer, something along the lines of "I don't know a single mathematician that thinks it's invented."

He was being polite, but you could tell he didn't think there was anything else interesting to say.
I love multi timezone teams because it forces everyone to work asynchronous. I find those environments to be really relaxing and flexible.
I've said this before, unless you are using specific AWS services, I think it is a fools errand to use it.

Compute, storage, database, networking. You would be better off using Digital Ocean, Linode Vultr etc. so much cheaper than AWS, lots of bandwidth included rather than the extortionate $0.08 GB egress.

Compute is the same story. 2 VCPU, 4GB VPS is ~$24 using a VPS. The equivalent instances (after navigating the obscured pricing and naming scheme), is the c6g.large is double the price at $50.

This is the happy middle ground between bare metal and AWS.
Someone's got to catalogue these things somehow. If it wasn't them, it'd just be some YouTube essayist or TikTok streamer.
What a waste of time. If there's 1 thing I have learnt, it's that people PREFER to spend time with their phones.

People might SAY they are lonely, but their actions speak louder. They don't WANT social connection to the degree we think they do.
Thanks very much for sharing your experience and detail! This kind of info is what I was looking for and is super helpful.
To be fair, people also said that 20 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
I'm fairly confident the implementation of CBDCs will never happen in the USA precisely because it would allow the public to see just how much waste and abuse there really is.
Exactly, someone is lying big here.
1MB per User? People share tons of pictures and videos, I‘d guess that the average is more in the 0.5 to 2GB range.
Oh definitely, but still, they will find out very quickly if that submission was worked on by several people day one when you ask them to do x task and they can't do it. It's a silly suggestion and borderline conspiracy theory for something that is not that important.
The point seems to escape you, it isn't about the sensitivity of the issue, but about if the behaviour is changed or not.
That is an operating systems thing, not a language thing
Honda and Toyota are the canonical reliable cars, I thought that was well-known, so not sure how finding a reliable car is difficult. I associate Kia and Hyundai with inexpensive, so that wouldn't be my first choice for reliable. (My two Hondas have been fantastic. I bought my Honda Fit used, and from 75k miles to 150k miles I have had no problems at all, no maintenance required besides oil changes. (I suspect the clutch is going to need to be replaced soon, though.)
There are resellers that are selling Windows keys for single digit dollar values.

European Court of Justice has declared that it is legal and Microsoft has to accept it.

edit: removed "obtained in bulk"
Hey kid, wanna buy a *nix?

Give Linux a shot. Mint is a good easy-going distro that debloats Ubuntu. They have a few different window managers they offer and all of them are pretty good. The defaults are sane and the whole thing is pretty easy to use.
The difference is the reward afterward. Learning to play a complex piece on an instrument is mentally taxing, but getting it right gives you that sense of accomplishment that can't really be matched with anything else. Same with debugging a program you are writing, or solving other types of problems.

Doing hours of arithmetic homework as a child didn't give me that reward signal, so for me that was torture back then.
Yeah I thought that was odd. You could use some random timers to have the AI "check in" on you if you don't talk to it for a while.

Is it eerily similar to the gambling gacha games that expect you to play a couple hours a day _every day_? Yes. Is it also similar to a real friendship or long-distance relationship? Also yes.

It may cost a few tokens, or you could generate a few canned responses and use those. For my real friends I usually use "Hi"
So basically truecar?
They probably need to now hire 24/7 security to watch the bare metal if they're serious about it, so not sure about that engineer
At big companies I worked for NR’s pricing was a complete nonstarter for the amount of data we had. No idea if DD is better on this but that was the problem.
What kind of nuance is necessary to discus the idea that Jews hate white people?
Most people using Signal - and particularly most people likely to donate - are not using it to hide their identities, but to decrease the chance of unknown parties reading their conversations. My Signal account has my full name on it, and checking my top contacts, most of them do too (some only have their first name).
They took them down when they gave up on Edge.
Definitely looks like progress, but they're still firmly in the center of the uncanny valley.
1mb per user? What is this 1992?
Whoa, thank you for the comprehensive answer. I reach for Lyme since it's one of the most common and under-diagnosed diseases in this category, but you are definitely in your own category here. Good luck, having something outside the reach of standard antibiotics already makes doctors afraid, and this would probably give an immunologist nightmares.
the irony is that the code is hosted on github, a microsoft owned corporation
Top left sector seems to have one photo too few, rest is amazing! (And ofc cross eyes pls)
this is the year of the linux desktop!
When the client gets HTTP 409 Conflict, it asks for the current version and presents to the user for manual resolution
Genuine question - I wasn't aware of this (fatalities per mwh for wind & solar), what would be the best source to find out more?
That's what I figured! but thought the derivation would be fun to share with people reading the comments.
Was this intended as satire? I honestly can't tell.
Plus...

2x FTEs to manage the AWS support tickets

3x FTE to understand the differences between the AWS bundled products and open source stuff which you can't get close enough to the config for so that you can actually use it as intended.

3x Security folk to work out how to manage the tangle of multiple accounts, networks, WAF and compliance overheads

3x FTEs to write HCL and YAML to support the cloud.

2x Solution architects to try and rebuild everything cloud native and get stuck in some technicality inside step functions for 9 months and achieve nothing.

1x extra manager to sit in meetings with AWS once a week and bitch about the crap support, the broken OSS bundled stuff and work out weird network issues.

1x cloud janitor to clean up all the dirt left around the cluster burning cash.

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Footnote: Was this to free us or enslave us?
It is bad due to the short days and low angle of the sun.

For example in Stockholm you get around 6h of daylight. Malmö (can’t really get further south than that) a bit over 7h.

Basically the northern most point of mainland US is a lot further south than the most southern place in Sweden. Thinking about how good solar panels are in the winter in Anchorage gives you some idea (which has slightly slightly shorter days then Stockholm at around 5h30min at their shortest)
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> Just make sure that they are fail safe

You are essentially saying that "just make them safe and they will be safe".

> You could melt a couple down each year intentionally

Lets keep this on the draft stage please ...
A possible middle-ground option is to use a cheaper cloud provider like Digital Ocean. You don't need dedicated infrastructure engineers and you still get a lot of the same benefits as AWS, including some API compatibility (Digital Ocean's S3-alike, and many others', support S3's API).

Perhaps there are some good reasons to not choose such a provider once you reach a certain scale, but they now have their own versions of a lot of different AWS services, and they're more than sufficient for my own relatively small scale.
It's spreading rapidly. Worth a shot. Undiagnosed Lyme is horrible and can cause serious long-term damage.
A little video of a guy playing with it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAS85xmNDEc
FYI some of your GitHub links seem to have been hijacked, might want to update. E.g. seem carver.

Cool personal site!
Google News removing magazines, including the ones you paid for, in December
Water can evaporate with just light, no heat, says surprising study
onsite security is offered by the colo provider. You can also pay for locked cabinets with cameras and anti-tampering or even completely caged off depending on your security requirements
This and other surveys only take into account desktop/laptop computers. For an average person their Android/iPhone or an iPad has fully replaced their Windows PC. I'm certain that if one included mobile platforms into the marketshare stats, they would show a significant decline in the percentage of people who use Windows.
So it seems I'm severly underpaid and underemployed. Seriously I'm wasting my time reading HN.
> At some point during debugging you might throw your hands up and wonder who created this tangled web of complexity

There's a nonzero chance that it was your predecessor on a 2am Adderall binge ;)
So, one issue is that source_location is not a valid non-type template parameter as it is not a structural type. But you can trivially make one yourself if you chose an upper bound on the filename (and function name) size.

The second issue is that it seems that default values for non-type template parameters are not evaluated at the instantiation location, but at the definition location, so you need to make the template parameter explicit. This is the best I could come up with:

log<o>("hello", "world") // at example.cpp:30

which prints[1]:

app/example.cpp:30: hello world

[1] https://godbolt.org/z/z1eGc6cM4
Mine just sits around and worries all day.
EKS's control plane consists of decent EC2 instances, ELB, ENIs distributed across multiple availability zones.

You're not saving anything doing it yourself.

And you've just given yourself the massive inconvenience of running a HA Kubernetes control plane.
Yes arts will be impacted by AI.

Added to my article on economics of LLM's:
https://open.substack.com/pub/rakkhi/p/economics-of-large-la...
Do the relevant laws about how people get paid care about the difference between company scrip and company token?
I don't know if they transformed my life, but the following things substantially improved it.

- OK, except the MacBook Pro. That transformed my life. Portable, powerful, long battery life, super-usable.

- OK, and Raycast (https://www.raycast.com/), too. Raycast has transformed my life. I resisted Raycast for a long time, because I already owned Alfred and I thought that Raycast was hipster junk for people unaware of Alfred. I was so wrong.

All my common statements and actions are now down to quick launch and hotkeys with a lot of GPT integration thrown in (eg. "Check spelling and grammar", "Improve writing", "Summarize text", etc).

I've been trying to stick with cross-platform apps as much as possible so that I can eventually move back to Linux, but Raycast is that exception. I pay for the Pro license. And yes, I've played with Albert and (I think) KRunner on Linux.

I could do most of this with Alfred, Albert, or KRunner, but Raycast is so much more polished and has so much less friction when extending it.

- Standing desk: https://www.amazon.com/Flexispot-Standing-Adjustable-Electri...

- Electric Kettle: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DEQDEZA/

- Light therapy lamp: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075H39NDL/

- AA battery flashlight: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01G75P1SC/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b... I use this thing all the time.

I was nervous going from a USB-charging, albeit larger flashlight to something that takes AA batteries, but this is way easier. When the thing is dead, it's not useless for 2 hours until it's charged up enough. I go to the office battery drawer, retrieve another AA, pop it in and I'm good immediately. In actuality, I keep a spare AA battery in my daily backpack and rotate it out.

- TNF Surge 2023 backpack: https://www.amazon.com/NORTH-FACE-Commuter-Laptop-Backpack/ I moved to this from a Goruck GR1 (which I still use outside of work). The Surge backpacks change all the time. I have a couple from past years -- they aren't that great.

It has a lot of pockets to stash things, the bottle holders aren't stupid. It's ergonomic. The chest strap has a whistle which I use all the time to get people's attention. It holds a 16" MBP and an iPad easily. It's light. The fabric on this particular color is quite rain resistant. Don't watch the YouTube reviews for the 2023, most of them are reviewing a substantially inferior 2023 prototype model before they improved a bunch of things.

- Foam rollers. Doesn't matter which, just buy one with decent ratings.

- Balance board. Nice little core workout and kinda fun when you're noodling on a problem. I bought the crappy plastic one that was on Shark Tank. Don't buy that one. Instead, buy one of these from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=balance+board
The national security surveillance angle is bogus, they'll just use automated speech transcription and translation for that.

It is a sign of the continued relative decline in the quality of American education programs, but that's what you get when you blow billions on stupid foreign wars and a bloated military industrial complex while neglecting K-12 education and driving college costs so high that many people are priced out of the system.

A decline in language knowledge is just one effect - fewer people with skills in higher mathematics, engineering, physics, medicine etc. is an even greater threat to national competitiveness and economic productivity in the future.
Not OP, and they said what they use (Red Pocket) but I also pay $5/mo for service from Tello ( https://tello.com/ ). 500MB/mo, data only, calls through Google Voice via data. (100 minutes of voice $1/mo extra.) Lots of choice in building your own plan.
If we saved 35% that could hire 20 FTEs.

Not that we'd need them as we wouldn't have to write as much HCL.
I can pop into almost any phone shop around here and walk out with a free SIM card, which I can top up for cash.
ADHD has too much creativity and barely any capacity for bulk, so trading a bit of that creativity to do the bulk work is worth it.

Imagine if your brain refuses to do worthless uncreative work, that is ADHD, it is great for coming up with ideas but sucks for doing the work you often have to do.
Kinda feel like you have that backwards, why would an AI that sophisticated care about controlling your mind? Why would the group of people who control that AI care about you as anything other than a liability? What do they get out of manipulating average individuals? Votes?

The scarier prospect to me is human labor and intelligence become almost worthless and those at the top start to view the masses as superfluous.
Unknown Horizons is looking for Godot developers
I was recently pointed to xtts:

https://coqui.ai/blog/tts/open_xtts

I dunno about performance, but the model is 1.86GB.
> Footnote: Was this to free us or enslave us?

I assume whichever provides more margin to Jeff Bezos.
Love that the speech to text even works in FF on Mac, and rather well I'd say.
With complementary spyware of course