skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really well written story.

As a software engineer, I have a couple stories like this from earlier in my career that still haunt me to this very day.

Here’s a short version of one of them: Like 10 years ago, I was doing consulting work for a client. We worked together for months to build a new version of their web service. On launch day, I was asked to do the deployment. The development and deployment process they had in place was awful and nothing like what we have today—just about every aspect of the process was manual. Anyway, everything was going well. I wrote a few scripts and SQL queries to automate the parts I could. They gave me the production credentials for when I’m ready to deploy. I decided to run what you could call my migration script one last time just to be sure I’m ready. The very moment after I hit the Enter key, I realized I had made a mistake: I had just updated the script with the production credentials just before I made the decision to do another test run. The errors started piling and their service was unresponsive. I was 100% sure I had just wiped their database and I was losing it internally. What saved me was that one of their guys had just a couple hours earlier completed a backup of their database in anticipation of the launch; in the end, they lost a tiny bit of data but most of it was recovered via the backup. Ever since then, “careful” is an extreme understatement when it comes to how I interact with database systems—and production systems in general. Never again.
For my last house, I had spent years on smart home automation, I had a binder that contained clear instructions I wrote for everything, and receipts for every upgrade I ever made on the home, warranty docs, QR codes to download smart home apps to control the devices, plot maps, floor plans, a 1-page list of repairmen for everything- you name it. I made short YouTube videos for everything like turning the water on/off, hose bib and sprinkler shutoffs, device pairing, etc. I put dozens of hours into documenting my home, and felt a sense of accomplishment that I was doing a “warm handoff” of the home.

The new owner sold the home after two years. From the listing photos she had ripped out most of the smart home stuff and had crappily remodeled (painting river stone hearth, etc). YouTube showed zero hits on it he videos I made. I sincerely doubt that she even bothered to look at the binder I handed over.

I will never put that amount of effort into documenting a home again. I know what I’ve done and I keep just enough docs around for my own purposes.
Google Drive losing customer data is which one?

Context: https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/27/google_drive_files_di...
Agreed. But also if you suddenly find that the precise behavior of one of the parts of your stack matters, you would be well advised to search the internet about how exactly that bit works in practice and whether there are any nonobvious footguns in addition to your empirical testing and the stuff that the manual claims is true.
This is better, but I still don't like these %-based fees, because they're still hiding the total fee. How many people are going to sit there, calculate how much the things they ordered will cost total, and then calculate what the service fee is going to be for their order? Few if any. So while this does eliminate the uncomfortable interaction of tipping the staff directly, it doesn't solve the 'hidden fee' aspect of it.

Just raise your prices 18%. If you're terribly concerned that people are going to balk at the raised prices, you can put a little explanation in your menu: "You may have noticed our higher prices since the last time you visited. We have raised our prices and eliminated our service fee. Now the price you see on the menu is the price you pay, no tips or additional fees!"
Why? It depends on your scenario. If it is “attacker gets hold of my wallet” then yes, you’re screwed.

But 2FA still helps if a single password was leaked/bruteforced/phished, and afaict most password managers in autofill mode recognize the browser url, so it’s quite phising safe (2nd factor won’t be autofilled on wrong website)

Security is not binary, and 2fa via password manager is still much better than no 2fa; it’s not pointless.
I only just recently discovered how awesome of a person he was in the past few months. I've really enjoyed absorbing his wisdom. Sad there will be no new content :(
I think it’s great. Haters will complain about impact on traffic, parking, busses, shadows cast, impacts on schools, etc.
Yes. Also when I drive I don't really care how my car looks. Practicality mattes much more - I don't wanna fix every scratch or dent and steel is far more resistant to this.

I don't get it how people don't understand this.
$500M is a lot to waste in private money, but unfortunately in taxpayer money it's pittance and usually swept under the carpet
This is true but I don’t think this was aimed at people who were going to deeply contemplate it as a serious metaphor. It seems more along the lines of effective altruism, designed to let people sleep comfortably while enjoying the pleasures of wealth now while saying that they would thin the rope with a massive donation later (why do you even need to ask?), which the church could very conveniently help receive.
(Copypasting my answer to another comment)

Why? It depends on your scenario. If it is “attacker gets hold of my wallet” then yes, you’re screwed.

But 2FA still helps if a single password was leaked/bruteforced/phished, and afaict most password managers in autofill mode recognize the browser url, so it’s quite phishing safe (2nd factor won’t be autofilled on wrong website)

Security is not binary, and 2fa via password manager is still much better than no 2fa; it’s not pointless.
This is actually not an uncommon situation among the lower classes. Even without high housing costs, the working poor often continue living together while divorcing because they can't afford to physically separate. My employer worked on an e-divorce webapp for the provincial government and had to include this scenario in generating the self-filing paperwork: you essentially attest that you're maritally separated but still cohabitating for financial reasons.

Of my several divorced friends, all have agreed that divorce is the most expensive way possible to become a two-house household.
One of the hardest problems in a workplace is coordinating the workers. There's also a substantial overhead cost for every employee. I'm sure workers are less efficient at the end of a 12 hour shift, but shift changes also cost a lot and introduce lots of opportunities for errors.
You can already have sub 100ns latency on core-to-core communication on some common machines. And yes, thank if the magic of bus snooping the transfer can in practice happen cache to cache, although counterintuitively it is not necessarily what you want for message queues.
This is a really uncharitable take and sounds to me like basically just jealousy. What exactly is so immoral about What Charlie and Warren have done?
The Tantone's situation really weakens this article for me, rate hikes were entirely telegraphed by Powell, and they bought during the beginning of that spree. Further, you were always going to lose money, there are very few situations in which anyone could come out better in 1.5 years into a mortgage, their plan was essentially wait at minimum 3 years (ride up, -some time passes- , then the ride down, however long this process takes) hoping for an event that has only happened once in the fed's history.

If their situation was removed, I think this would be a decent article.
I ran the benchmark at Quickwit. I confirm it works as intended.
I was extremely excited about this feature, primarily interested in the decreased GET request cost, and secondly the lower latency.

Unfortunately the price model puts it in a place where it is the right technology only for some very rare places.

In a nutshell the key thing you need to know is:
- The storage is 6.4x expensive than classic S3.
- The GET requests are 2x cheaper (with additional cost for large requests).
- Your data is replicated within a single region.
- latency is single digit ms.

From a pure cost wise point of view, the realm where it makes sense to use it is there, but small,
and often competes more with EBS than it competes with S3.
(Copypasting my answer to another comment)

Why? It depends on your scenario. If it is “attacker gets hold of my wallet” then yes, you’re screwed.

But 2FA still helps if a single password was leaked/bruteforced/phished, and afaict most password managers in autofill mode recognize the browser url, so it’s quite phising safe (2nd factor won’t be autofilled on wrong website)

Security is not binary, and 2fa via password manager is still much better than no 2fa; it’s not pointless.
Yikes. Well played.
Earning or buying ESO Gold will allow you to increase your inventory by investing in new equipment, purchasing mounts and food, repairing gear, upgrading weaponry, and contributing to your guild. In short, a good amount of gold in your account brings an opportunity to enhance your stats and get better results in ESO.
CSP, CORS, HSTS? Sounds like a pretty bad dream. Come on, we have sites to hack together with jQuery and PHP.
What buildings have you designed with your degree?
They definitely should have used a grad student to complete the circuit, freeing up that multimeter.
That's been my impression. You want to be a small member of a large species. It's certainly true that human giants seldom live long lives and centenarians tend to be short and light.
Most popular car company is trying to make most popular car shape. Failure imminent.
Bootstrapping will be a big problem. A community that already has some size can potentially start adding an identity-checking step, but if you want to start a new community with confidence that you don't have it full of unaligned bots, it's going to be a lot harder.

Once the community gets going, though, well, we have experience with that. The web used to have a lot of actual communities, where you might know someone for 10 years and perhaps meet up for picnics or something. Larger sites took a huge chunk out of them, and there's actually some disadvantage to the Internet being completely geography-agnostic... it's hard to meet up with my community of 50 people spread more-or-less evenly across the world, or even the US. But they have existed before and they may exist again. I said it won't be all good in my original post, but it won't be all bad either. Some of what is going to be excluded in the botpocalypse is the worst of what exists today. Of course, there's going to be all kinds of incentives to create new pathologies, so who knows which way it will go in the end.
My first paying job as an undergrad was maintaining a remote job entry system running on a PDP-11. It was a revelation that the instruction set was simple, orthogonal, and made sense. Computers could be elegant! Later I had a full time job maintaining an driver written in C and 68k assembler and that PDP-11 experience was a big help. 32-bit x86 by comparison looked messy and weird, when I had to grok that for a gig ploughing through an impossibly large pile of Mitch Kapor's code at Lotus trying to track down and fix bugs.
Seems like a reasonable theory to me.

I haven't heard that Blender has made any real enemies. Neither is likely they'd be able to pay a lot of ransom (they're pretty well funded for a FOSS project, but not in the range that would make them the most attractive ransom target).
> It is, when spread over the internet in a systematic and intentional way. It literally is social engineering.

I tend to agree. Yet, the problem here, I think, is that like all people with a technical background, cyber security people are ill-suited to handle the issue; you really need those "damned" social scientists and humanists to understand the context and societal implications, such as:

> There is a serious problem with misinformation causing radicalization and SV is doing only the bare minimum to give congress lip service, and it is getting measurably worse.

Another big problem, as I've argued here before, is the securitization that comes with cyber security people and these "misinfosec" things or whatever you want to call them.
There may be some independent “level of trust” in a given group of people that could be quantified, but I don’t think it’s a very powerful explainer of which games do or don’t work. Very minor rule changes can cause a huge change in the difficulty of enforcing other rules.
We all certainly agree on that! The fact is though that you will be treated like scum working in food service in a way you usually aren't working in, say, software development. I can confidently say this because I've done both jobs. It's not any more honest or realistic to deny this.
Not defending OP. But whenever we talk about overpopulation the conversation will automatically shift to limiting some races to have offspring. (Even you commented on incentivizing poor communities to not have children. Guess who is going to be disproportionally affected by this).

I don't think that overpopulation is a problem today. Population collapse due to concentration of capital and power is.
Indeed. Applepay gives a higher % back for tap payments than sliding their sexy card though. Because of that, it rarely leaves the wallet.
He was absolutely correct about bitcpin and history will vindicate his perspective.
It can, it just depends. Take these hypothetical scenarios for example:

Scenario 1: Buy 10Y today, @4.5% interest.

Scenario 2: Hold that money as cash for 5 years, and then use it to buy 5Y when it's yielding 17% interest.

Scenario 2 will yield a greater ROI after the 10 years. Obviously, there's no way of knowing exactly what the future will hold (many other scenarios are also possible). It just all depends.
Reminds me of the NOAA-N Prime satellite that fell over, because there weren't enough bolts holding it to the test stand.

The roots cause, and someone correct me if this is not accurate, was that the x-ray tested bolts to hold it down were so expensive, that they had been "borrowed" to use on another project, and not returned, so that when the time came to flip the satellite into a horizontal position, it fell to the floor. Repairs cost $135M.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOAA-19
Some are that expensive but most 4+ letter domains seem to be around $75, going down to $25 for longer names (on Gandi at least):

https://shop.gandi.net/en/domain/suggest?search=Microsoft.me...
I just listened to the Acquired interview walking through the redwoods on Sunday. I am gutted because he talked about his 100th birthday celebration at the California club and joked how it was a full party with no invitations left. It broke my heart that he isn't around to celebrate and enjoy that experience.
According to the article's comments, there was a movie about this exact scenario that came out in 2006. Maybe this scenario is an indicator about housing bubbles.
When I worked service sector jobs, I was called stupid to my face. I was threatened with violence. People tried to get me fired for making them wait while I tried to help them. I got cussed out how over-priced printers were for how long they lasted, then I'd load their absolute-cheapest Black-Friday-doorbuster inkjet into their brand new Lexus SUV.

Certainly, the lions' share of the blame lands on the business owners who won't pay a livable wage. But some of it falls on the kind of consumer who ship at Walmart because it's cheap, but also nods in agreement when restaurants call out a "cost-of-living surcharge" to the bill.
After years of owning services at work, I started writing runbooks for my house (and our holiday place).

This looks a lot more organized and polished, but I can also highly recommend a Google Drive folder consisting of a main Google Doc, and all the various PDF copies of manuals that it links to. I plan on handing the runbooks off when/if we sell…
>Our interventional studies with LOY-001 showed that the drug improved clinically-relevant aging parameters. We assessed these in laboratory studies using a dog model that represents accelerated aging. We then correlated those results with quality of life scores in the observational study, as independently measured by dog owners, and health outcomes as measured by veterinarians. This was key to show that the biological benefits of the drug are linked to clinically relevant outcomes.

OK, but did it actually make them live longer? As far as I know they haven't done that study yet.
Israel is an incubator for weapons systems, and generic contributions buy access. The US manufactures the ammunition for Iron Dome, and the DoD is generally keen on adding something like Iron Beam to the abilities of every branch of the service.
Not in this case. It's a one-off very custom-built rover, the first of its name. There's already all kinds of processes established, but no one can foresee everything. Yes, they probably fixed the process after that, but remember that it was their first time.

PS: Also, more rules and better processes are not necessarily a good thing. Sometimes there are just too much red tape and bureaucracy that makes already super-slow NASA even slower. In those first-of-its-kind missions sometimes you need to risk and depend on people, not processes.
Anytime, just say the word.
I live in the house I grew up in. My dad designed the second floor, an addition.

He knows the skeleton of this house in a way I never ever will. He lives 50 miles away now, but I still have him as an amazing resource about my house.

I wanted to run cat5 to my office on the second floor a number of years ago. "Oh just drill a hole in the floor right here in this corner, there's a void that goes all the way from the second floor to the basement." Sure enough.

What I want is the schematics that my dad has in his head.
I completely agree, and I'm glad someone wrote so eloquently about this.

I listen to a lot of audiobooks (often for book clubs), i.e. which don't require handling a physically printed cover, and I've really enjoyed the experience of figuring out "what is this book about, and who even are the main characters??", that would have been completely robbed by even a quick perusal of the book jacket.

Oh, you want to know what I'm reading now? Everything by Irvin Yalom. Lying on the Couch is a good place to start.
Because there are not nearly as many of them. Haaretz documents 12 children under age of 12, incl. as killed during Oct 7.

So if you have 12 kids on one side, and thousands on the other, you'll see more footage of Gazan children, assuming no bias in reporting.
Worth noting how treacherous is the American assumption that Israelis are just geographically displaced westerners, since a plurality of Israeli Jewish trace their origins to West Asian and North African states.
Stable Diffusion:Real time prompting with SDXL Turbo and ComfyUI running locally
It understands synonyms. If you search for "blinker bulb", you won't find the documentation for "turn signal lamp". But e.g. Bing chat can find it.
Historians and the Public
I do this as a maintenance schedule on a Trello board. Each list is an interval (1 day, 7 days, 180 days and so on) and each thing to do is a card. When the due date is marked complete, an automation advanced the due date the correct number of days from today (except in the 1 day list when it advances it 24 hours from the original due date).

Then I have another Trello board where I stick documents and reference material.
You can absolutely serve with Keras if your inference server is in Python. For instance, if you're looking for a basic solution, you can just set up a Flask app that calls `predict()` on a Keras model.

If you're looking for a high-performance solution that is entirely Python-free, then you can simply export your Keras model as a TF SavedModel and serve it via TFServing. TFServing is C++ based and works on both CPU and GPU.
> Alternatively, maybe the Cybertruck will have end up successfully scaling production, develop a healthy aftermarket for parts and modifications

This. Since 3 and Y are so insanely popular there are tons of 3rd party mods. My guess this is going to be even more popular with Cybertruck.
People are worried over AGI, but I claim it's already here depending on which human population you compare against.
"the tough, black mineral that won't cop out when there's heat all about"

-Prof. H. Farnsworth
I think rewrites can be as "glamorous" as greenfield, because you get to use a modern language and toolset. yes you have some drudgery tacked on, which is likely having to wade through legacy C code, but having a perfect set of working requirements (do what the old app does!) more than makes up for it.
They've been roughly reliable in the past. Past performance isn't guarantee of future results, of course. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/26/can-we-trust-c...

Good discussion at https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/82572/why-are-s... about the issue.

A quick Googling doesn't find me a counter-estimate from Israel. Given the very clear evidence of large scale bombardment of the Gaza Strip (Israel claims 6,000 bombs dropped, and Hamas is known for favoring populated areas; https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/israel-hamas-war-gaza-strip...), counts in the thousands seem very plausible.
Government censorship and government-corporate/NGO collusion is of interest.

https://soundcloud.com/pushbackshow/matt-taibbi-on-the-twitt...

Western Civilization is in the midst of Fascism (in the Mussolini sense of corporation and state), and yet most people are in a Mass Formation and welcome demonizing and killing their fellow man all because of minor disagreements, ideological or religious differences, or tribalism.

I don't know how much longer Western Civilization will survive without world war or collapse. The inmates are running the asylum.
This is awesome. Have you ever considered publishing these?
But it's not so much a "story" considering the reasoning is still motivated by cost savings. I don't really care to condemn "greed", to be honest. I'm mostly baffled by how terrible those rich people are at spending money.

Why doesn't a billionaire like Charlie Munger want to be remembered for building the most lavish building with the most incredible experience ever on the campus, instead of the one that optimizes for a problem with constraints that are mostly made up ("it might cost too much money for Charlie Munger")? It's just straight up dumb.
I'm not questioning your logic here, but how do you keep intimate knowledge of the seasonal vagaries of shift changes at every department of your local hospital?
Similar, but I also have a QRH[0] for disasters small and large: Floods, freeze-ups, fuel exhaustion, electrical failure, telecom failures, septic emergencies all the way down to missing tv remotes (there’s a stack of spares and exact instructions to program it for specific TVs).

The idea is that I can literally give anyone acting on my behalf access to the utility room, they grab the binder on the wall and mitigate the issue exactly.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick_Reference_Handbook
Web hosting to host my vanity domain.

DabbleWriter because it's a great product for writers
Would we accept this if they were dealing with nukes, rather than people? Yeah we let people who haven't had sleep in 36 hours handle the nukes because having the people involved talk to each other between shifts is hard.
Actually if you think that Register report supports your first sentence you are perfectly demonstrating that lack of critical thinking that permeates this site.
For those not in on the joke, here’s the April fools RFC it refers to [1]

“Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0)”

[1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2324
Aerospace-grade connectors are specifically designed to support multiple keyings that prevent this kind of thing. It's definitely a problem preventable by careful design if the interface supports making this kind of mistake.