skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
let chatgpt fix our dependency issues
>But we can't see the primordial Milky Way by pointing our telescopes at z=13.

Isn't that the cosmic microwave background? The ultrahot primal universe dispersed and cooled by initial expansion?
This is great! Haha
Surely 1MB/user for the whole year is more than enough.

It’s in the realm of “64KB of RAM should be more than enough for any computer”
ML is a kind of AI
Well, it might be harm reduction to let lonely men have AI girlfriends.

Sure, I wish reality was not a dystopia that constantly let me down, but all I can do is take anti-depressants, make money, keep voting, and hope things get better the longer I live.

If the hypothesis that isolated men cause trouble is true, and if we don't have a long-term solution, at least this could be a stop-gap. Assuming it does not radicalize anyone further. (Hard to say what will come from uncensored models, but it's a real genie-is-out-of-the-bottle sitch)
I think the scientist makes the factual point pretty clear. There is no evidence masks work.

"JEFFERSON: There is just no evidence that they make any difference. Full stop. My job, our job as a review team, was to look at the evidence, we have done that. Not just for masks. We looked at hand washing, sterilisation, goggles, etcetera…

DEMASI: What’s the best evidence for avoiding infection?

JEFFERSON: I think your best shot is sanitation/sterilisation with antiseptic products. We’ve known for about 40 to 50 years that the inside of toilets, handles, seats for example, you recover a very high concentration of replication competent virus, it doesn’t matter what viruses they are. This argues for a contact/fomite mode of transmission.

Also, hand washing shows some benefit, especially in small children. The problem with that is, unless you make the population completely psychotic, they will not comply.

DEMASI: May I just ask a finer point on masks… it’s not that masks don’t work, it’s just that there is no evidence they do work…is that right?

JEFFERSON: There’s no evidence that they do work, that’s right. It’s possible they could work in some settings….we’d know if we’d done trials. All you needed was for Tedros [from WHO] to declare it’s a pandemic and they could have randomised half of the United Kingdom, or half of Italy, to masks and the other half to no masks. But they didn’t. Instead, they ran around like headless chickens."
That's hardly true for many of the Apple apps (go look at the iTunes UI archive) and many of the changes are of questionnable usefulness/coherence/consistency.

You are just more used to it and prefer the "airy" look. As far as I'm concerned, macOS has severely regressed and that's before considering 3rd party apps.
Many of them do not macOS UI convention anymore (they became shitty anyway) and many others just use completely custom UI (both technical and look); to finish you have windows/linux ports that just have the chrome of a macOS apps but the whole UI is completely foreign and doesn't even try to fit in.

If your use case fits narrowly into the confine of what software Apple produces, I guess you could loosely say that. But their continuity is only about a general look, sadly not how things work (or should work), not really that important in the end.
The System Preferences re-design is precisely a case of looks over everything else (and previously it already had been downgraded, with sections/labels removed to make it look more minimalist). Apple makes fashion and like a shirt it will follow a basic pattern, but a lot of details change, and it matters...
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Blockchain
> if current nuclear regulations demonstrate how safe we think our power generation should be on a number of fatalities per MWh basis, then wind and solar (and everything else) are under regulated

I don't think everyone agrees that fatalities per MWh is the right metric.
Weren't you searching for a colo provider just yesterday? That was a quick $230k! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38275614
I assume they only need to store it between the time it is sent and the time it is received by the recipient.

Maybe the problem is that the Signal app doesn't eagerly download messages upon notification? They should start doing that given the money issues.
> If the migration took more than one man-year then they lost money.

Your math is incorrect. The savings are per year. The job gets done once.

> Also what happens at hardware end-of-life?

You buy more hardware. A drive should last a few years on average at least.

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

Short term, clouds are always available to handle extra compute. It's not a bad idea to use a cloud load-balancing system anyway to handle spam or caching.

But also, you can buy hardware from amazon and get it the next day with Prime.

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

I'm sure any team capable of building complex software at scale is capable of running a few servers on prem. I'm sure there's more than a few programmers on most teams that have homelabs they muck around with.

> Etc etc.

I'd love to hear more arguments.
We're talking about premature optimization, not necessarily shitty/buggy software.
I don't know of countries that mandate a minimum price. If you are doing high volume you are free to work directly with carriers. If you are drawing as much billable traffic as you are sending, then that could even be a wash.
Oh my god! So awesome haha!!
I haven't left reddit, per se, but I browse it less and comment less. I doubt I'm alone. Unfortunately, there's not really a replacement for much of what it offered.
AIUI FaceTime is already made from 3GPP and IETF standards, just apple holds the encryption keys and the auth servers.
To an extent, for me at least I get a great block in the morning to early afternoon then a lot of meetings that are mostly 1:1s with direct reports and strategy/planning clustered around PT morning and my evening. I like that though but it’s a struggle to not be brain dead especially with people freshly awake and full of coffee.
It's not stored on the server, except perhaps transiently.
People around these parts are generally well aware of their options.
Good comment. I guess it’s a matter of hope :) I really want to believe that the extensions platform will continue to develop with at least the same pace, and eventually comes to Android. Maybe I am over optimistic though, we’ll see, but otherwise I just don’t understand what was all that about and what justifies such a significant investment in the extensions team.
For this kind of thing, you can use LDA to draw out topics, then use clever prompting using the results of that with RAG to create summaries.
Just speculation, but...

What is the lead time in developing new fossil sources?

What is the time to profitability?

How long will there be political will to greenlight new developments?

Depending on those we might run out of the option to increase production of fossil fuels in less time than we have physical reserves for.
Congrats on your project!

I am also pursuing a dream of mine: standup comedy.

I believe strongly in the same thing: it's better to work on something you're passionate about and possibly fail than just continue doing non-engaging work for a monthly salary.
Incredibly good both before and after. Before, I was working at Microsoft in an incredible group (now called DevDiv). I joined Microsoft when everyone thought they would lose the Internet battle, but just knowing their history, and hearing what Marc Andreessen said about them, told me that Microsoft would be a fantastic move, and it was.

I quit before the bubble burst, but, later, that year I purchased a dotcom business at a rock-bottom price, and turned it into a great job for the next 20 years.
The statement looks very misleading or even fraudulent. I used a system with 192 cores often and with GNU parallel, it did not stagnate at 8 parallel tasks for simple demonstrations. If we're talking about a case where 8 is intentionally the maximum (it's possible that some tasks should not parallelize more than 8), then the statement is misleading as well, since it gives the wrong impression. I have the service tag and the output from nproc and the exact version of everything where I used 192 CPUs. I suppose pseudoscience will always return and claim that the statement is true anyway, no matter what observations the rest of the world can give. There is pseudoscience forever who always says that the rest of the world is misunderstood.
Different sets of axioms open the doors to different mathematical universes? I'm given to understand that's the general concensus on what Gödel's incompleteness theorems mean, practically speaking.
That's the trap door in this. Apple is going to implement RCS exactly as the specification says it should be implemented, no more or no less. Any incompatibilities with Android will be laid at Google's door to resolve.

Having beaten Apple with the RCS stick for the last year, Google might find themselves now getting beaten back.
Having known a hyundai car salesman, this does not seem great for his job.
There are millions and millions of people streaming across our border as you read this. Perhaps people moving between countries (or at least, from certain countries to certain other countries) is more common than you think.
I think it's satire? Or perhaps they didn't know one can send pictures and videos on Signal and assumed it was only text.
Reminds me of ... WhatsApp :D

(Originally WhatsApp charged $1/year.)
Anyone can comment on server lifetime of 5 years? I would think it’s on the order of 8-10 years these days? Cores don't get that much faster you just get more of them, etc
Also a definition of single point of failure & third party actually running the thing messing up the project.
I will absolutely stop using windows if they force remote login. I will do whatever it takes.
100% this. Cloud is a hard slog too. A different slog though. We spend a lot of time chasing Azure deprecations. They are closing down a type of MySQL instance for example for one which is more “modern” but from the end user point of view it is still a MySQL server!
Those who try to end warfare, but who do not understand warfare, are doomed to reinvent it.
> The context of the post you're referring to contextualized "Everything" as related to the subject of groceries.

I did not interpret it that way. I interpreted that as trying to imply a breadth of cost increase that was not true, so I was trying to call that out.

If we interpret it that way, then I might not have replied, this comment does a better job: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38281712 But I might have pointed out that "groceries" is a pretty narrow view on inflation.
Some AWS outages have affected all AZs in a given region, so they aren't always all that isolated. For this reason many orgs are investing in multi-cloud architectures (in addition to multi region)
Exactly. Last job I worked at there was always an issue with the YAML… and as a “mere” software engineer, I had to wait for offshore DevOps to fix, but that’s another issue.
No actions yet but Nordiska Transportarbetarefederationen (federation of Nordic transport unions) said they support IF metall and the other unions in their fight. If they decide to join the sympathy strike it will spread to the other Nordic countries and they have 350k members.
This single file shows the entire set of OT transformations (retain, insert, delete):

https://github.com/Operational-Transformation/ot.js/blob/mas...

and this is a good post outlining the basics of OT, from the creator of CodeMirror:

https://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/collaborative-editing-cm.htm...
It's both. The axioms are invented, the corpus of theorems is discovered. As once the axioms are chosen the provable theorems are already fixed.

But the axioms are a choice, and we can pick different ones. The common choice of axioms is utilitarian, they lead to interesting math that helps us describe the universe.
The employer es basically subsidizing the mortgage, incentivizing workers to move to the most expensive location, which make these locations even more expensive.
> Is RCS a thing in Europe? I don’t think I’ve ever seen this mentioned anywhere.

Yes. Most Android users with either the Google or Samsung Messages app are already using RCS without noticing when they message each other.

> Does the carrier sell you an RCS package?

No, it's yet another OTT service, even if your messaging app is provisioned by your carrier to use its own RCS infrastructure (which is Google Jibe in all cases).
[dupe]

Discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38293777
First you had logs. Everyone uses logs because it's easy. Logs are great, but suddenly you're spending a crapton of time or money maintaining terabytes or petabytes of storage and ingest of logs. And even worse, in some cases for these logs, you don't actually care about 99% of the log line and simply want a single number, such as CPU utilization or the value of the shopping cart or latency.

So, someone says, "let's make something smaller and more portable than logs. We need to track numerical data over time more easily, so that we can see pretty charts of when these values are outside of where they should be." This ends up being metrics and a time-series database (TSDB), built to handle not arbitrary lines of text but instead meant to parse out metadata and append numerical data to existing time-series based on that metadata.

Between metrics and logs, you end up with a good idea of what's going on with your infrastructure, but logs are still too verbose to understand what's happening with your applications past a certain point. If you have an application crashing repeatedly, or if you've got applications running slowly, metrics and logs can't really help you there. So companies built out Application Performance Monitoring, meant to tap directly into the processes running on the box and spit out all sorts of interesting runtime metrics and events about not just the applications, but the specific methods and calls those applications are utilizing within their stack/code.

Initially, this works great if you're running these APM tools on a single box within monolithic stacks, but as the world moved toward Cloud Service Providers and containerized/ephemeral infrastructure, APM stopped being as effective. When a transaction starts to go through multiple machines and microservices, APM deployed on those boxes individually can't give you the context of how these disparate calls relate to a holistic transaction.

So someone says, "hey, what if we include transaction IDs in these service calls, so that we can post-hoc stitch together these individual transaction lines into a whole transaction, end-to-end?" Which is how you end up with the concept of spans and traces, taking what worked well with Application Performance Monitoring and generalizing that out into the modern microservices architectures that are more common today.
To manage a large fleet of physical servers, you need similar ops skills. You're not going to configure all those systems by hand, are you?
That's fair. A relative left a 12 pack of stag at my house, so I used that gross stuff. I was less concerned about price that way.
WSL + VScode ends up being a better Linux development environment than most distros...
Er, that script says my CPU is v2. Maybe because it's a Xeon? (It's ancient now, but this thing was a beast when it was made)
Oh man. I bought a win 10 retail box and the key is valid, yet activation just keeps failing. I have been putting off calling support because this is for my gaming only PC. Maybe I shouldn’t bother calling whatever Indian body shop that MS uses for this and I should just crack it myself? Seems safer? Is it? Can anyone point me to a trustworthy crack and place to get it?

I hate this company and I am kicking past me who spent much of my early career gleefully switching hundreds of firms over to windows from Novell.
I think someone mentions this every time nuclear power comes up.

It seems to me nobody is completely sure what the future will hold yet, except that we need to decarbonize energy production. Nuclear still seems like it could be a reasonable/viable/necessary option for decarbonized energy production.

The realistic worst case is that we waste some money building nuclear power plants that operate at a loss and are potentially decommissioned early.

Assuming we collectively have enough money to also keep building wind/solar/etc (it seems like we do!), and the risk of failing to decarbonize remains catastrophic, it's probably a good idea to hedge our bets and try all the viable options.

My guess is that we build a few crappy nuclear power plants with poor economics, learn some really useful things in the process, and then build some better ones with much more favorable economics.
Fraser and Hanson wrote a compiler as a book, using noweb:

https://a.co/d/4ctR3vW
90%+ of Americans have some form of health insurance, especially tech workers. And there are issues with socialized health care as well
9to5Mac.com are reporting that Apple are going to support RCS messaging soon:
> Later next year, we will be adding support for RCS Universal Profile, the standard as currently published by the GSM Association. We believe RCS Universal Profile will offer a better interoperability experience when compared to SMS or MMS. This will work alongside iMessage, which will continue to be the best and most secure messaging experience for Apple users.

I'm curious what people think the game plan and business dynamics is for this decision?
you can get the official media from Microsoft so there's essentially no risk in using a grey-market key (other than you may lose your $3)

vs. a random .iso from some dodgy forum containing god knows what
Signal doesn't save history so at any given time most users use 0 storage
I'm interested in what the parent doesn't find convincing about this. Seems pretty straightforward to me. There's tons of isolated places we could put nuclear waste in the US.
So what if people respond to truths? Is there something wrong with that?
That’s the niche DigitalOcean is trying to carve out. I’ve always loved and preferred their UI/UX to that of AWS or Azure. No experience with the CLI but I would guess it’s not any worse than AWS CLI.
Ah good question. I think I have read that statement by some other people. But the limit is kind of arbitrary. And of course, this limit will be higher and higher over time, that's why I put the year.

I think the limit should also not be much lower. We already have language models three order of magnitude larger (>1T params), and we also call them "large", so in this context, all those single-digit billion parameter models feel quite small.

Similarly, when is a network "deep"? It used to mean more than 2 or 3 layers. And then there was a definition for "very deep", starting with more than 10 layers (I think Schmidhuber introduced that definition many years ago, https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.7828). Obviously, that's totally outdated now. Networks are often very deep, e.g. those large language models often 96 layers.
> I can't relate to this to be honest, I feel confident on my phone that main features are either right in front of me via a tap and less common features are behind a visible menu icon. Think how much worse it would be if double tap and long tap were required for common workflows. Some apps do require gestures but they either onboard you or the gestures are optional.

Not my experience at all. Snapchat famously made their UI deliberately undiscoverable so that only people who made an effort would find all their features; I don't know if Instagram deliberately copied that or not but a whole lot of its functionality requires blindly tapping somewhere that's not obvious to tap or dragging somewhere that's not obvious to drag (e.g. going backward or forward in a story, messaging someone).

My favourite example is pasting a phone number into the dialer on Android: you have to long press on the blank white input, and it will only even show the context menu if you've got a phone number on the clipboard already. A couple of versions back it was worse: you had to long press in the correct half of the featureless white rectangle, otherwise it would just silently not work.
well, if you look closely at the screenshots you have all your answers.
Thank you very much for your insightful review and valuable feedback regarding the accessibility of our recent list transfer feature. Your suggestions were instrumental in enhancing the user experience, especially for those relying on screen readers. I have incorporated your recommendations into the updated code [0], ensuring better accessibility and usability. I'm also including a link to our conversation [1] for further context and transparency. Your thoroughness and attention to detail are greatly appreciated, and I look forward to your continued guidance and expertise in future projects.

[0] https://output.jsbin.com/hawelubaxo/quiet

[1] https://chat.openai.com/share/faa9e2b7-8e4c-4ee3-9386-1f74ea...
That if I worked harder than most people, and used a little bit of common sense designing my career, that I would have only myself to blame if I didn’t get ahead. I live in the USA which means I pretty much had opportunities that few others in the world could hope for.

One of my key observations was that people not smarter than I was got further ahead, simply because they persevered and put in the hours.
Cloud is putting spend decisions into individual EMs’ or even devs’ hands. With baremetal one team (“infra” or whatever) will own all compute and thus spend decisions need to be justified by EMs which they usually dont like ;)
I don't know, ask the people who downvoted me, they apparently know better than me.
Diff Docker Containers
TikTok 'aggressively' taking down videos about Bin Laden 'Letter to America'
To me, the strongest evidence that masks work is Japan's relative success during the pandemic. I can't think of any other reason. They have a large, dense, elderly population where people crowd into public transit and workplaces were slow to accept remote work. They should have had it really hard, but they got through relatively well. I can't see that as anything less than a testament to masks, which were already in widespread adoption even before the pandemic.
I think we pretty much all figured out the pros and cons to remote work over the last 4 years, and at this point it's really up to each individual organization and worker to decide how to approach it.
>...which produces green fuel with a solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of 0.13 ± 0.03% and 0.95 kg m−2 h−1 of water vapour as the feed for the PC and collectable purified water. This integrated system maintains operational stability in seawater and other aqueous waste streams for over 154 h due to the isolation of the PC from contaminants in the liquid feedstock.

So, wildly inefficient, but if the device is cheap enough to produce, could still be worthwhile where there are no other options. I know there is some interest in floating solar panels, which would probably be significantly more efficient (can centralize the hydrogen/H2O production at a large scale facility), but that struck me as introducing a host of engineering problems vs finding some unused land.
I have been blocked several times in the last few days, I am thinking I will cancel my subscription.
All the humans who couldn't deal with tiktok are dead?
Those are a pretty big portion of people who buy and use an actual computer anymore. Sure you still have plenty of other desk jobs using some outdated version of Windows, but the personal market is all but doomed. Even my 70ish year old parents just use tablets for everything these days, and MS has next to zero marketshare.
the official SDKs will only support an api once there's a spec that allows it.

for const attributes, generally these should be defined at the resource / provider level: https://pkg.go.dev/go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric#WithR...
https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

This is also the one used in TFA.