skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you haven't used aws a lot then you might not know this but the old instance types stick around and you can still use them, especially as "spot" which lets you bid for server time.

I had a science project which was cpu bound and it turns out because people bid based on the performance, the old chips end up costing the same in terms of cpu work done/$ (older chips cost less per hr but do less).

aws though was by far the most expensive so switching to like oracle with their ampere arm was a lot cheaper for me.
"Rivian is shipping. Infinitely better than something that's not."

Even if they're losing $33k per vehicle? (See 2Q23 shareholder letter). Note this does not include R&D, CAPEX or SG&A. Was it infinitely better for WeWork to ship something than not?

"will be an important failure to rein in Musk's fantastical thinking"
Why would it fail when there are >2m pre-orders and a a 5 year waitlist?
I want to say "Static Initialization Order Fiasco!" but that only applies in cross-translation unit scenarios. Were x and y defined in different TUs? It's either that or a compiler bug.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/siof
I think the refrain: “Never judge a book by it’s cover” applies here.

Our brains tend to associate good looking with well-researched when this isn’t always the case, hence the refrain quoted above.

So, if someone goes through the trouble of using a cumbersome typesetting tool like Latex to format a paper, perhaps they have made an important contribution that is worth setting aside 15-30 mins of your time to digest the thesis in its entirety.
also the top 100 leaderboard people are so fast, for a lot of the days where the questions are easy enough for chatgpt to substantially help, the best people are literally done below 1 minute.
An insightful read on turning career dreams into reality through perseverance and experimentation
I started Approximate Labs to tackle this problem! We just recently addressed one of the biggest gaps we believe exists in the DL research community for this modality, dataset; we openly released the largest dataset of tables with annotations last month https://www.approximatelabs.com/blog/tablib

Feel free to reach out to me / join our discord if you want to talk about tabular data / relational data and its relation to AI~
Thank you for sharing these insights. It's really a huge help.
I wasn't aware of these options before, and I'm impressed by the efforts being made in these initiatives. Your suggestions have opened new avenues for me to explore.
FYI: this is not 'fusion power'

"first-of-its-kind Multi-State Fusion (MSF) Reactor which can be used to create vital medical isotopes. These isotopes can be used for killing cancer cells in radiotherapy and as radioactive tracers in the body to help spot medical conditions through imaging."
OS/2 would have beaten NT in the consumer and SMB markets.

95 dealt with every weakness of NT in those markets and provided developers, consumers and SMBs with a smooth migration path towards it. It had very good backwards (DOS and 3.11) and forwards (XP) compatibility, reasonable hardware requirements and the ability to boot into DOS (important for gaming and some other applications at the time). It also offered massive advances over 3.11 (proper multi-tasking, the best looking GUI of the time and greatly improved stability) that when combined with the above, pushed user adoption.

Given its design requirements, 95 could never have been as stable as NT, but it was a spectacularly successful interim solution for customers not yet ready for the trade-offs that would have involved.
A dying planet shotgunned trillions of life-bearing capsules far into the universe, consisting of basic organic molecules. One found its way to Earth, found purchase, and evolved. Others found their way to other planets. One day, two separate life forms will meet, and marvel at how their DNA is structured all the same. (Not so much a comment as a possibility. Thanks for the space.)
Ask HN: Banned from Facebook
I created a facebook account about 6 months ago for one reason only: to interact with a rare disease group that setup shop on facebook.

I post once a month at most, last month to share a dissertation in the research group and 2 months ago to discuss fitness trackers in the parent group. I donated money to the foundation when they were asking for donations and I read new posts from time to time using an app on the ios store called "Friendly" (https://friendly.io/); it's the only way to browse facebook while making sure posts are sorted chronologically.

My question is two-fold:
* Could using this app have gotten me the suspension?
* Are there alternatives outside of facebook I could pitch to this group so we can move off of facebook? I'm thinking mailing list but worry that it might not be "simple" enough.

And the reason I'm suspecting the app might be the cause is that the suspension message vaguely mentioned something about "accessing or using automations to retrieve facebook information". I appealed the ban and can't see the exact wording anymore but that was the gist of it.
The dark side of SEO is a multi-billion dollar industry that no investigative journalist has ever bothered to decipher, even though it can be done in less than a year. I wish I had the capital to do it because for the last 10 years, most of what you have clicked on in Google hasn’t been earned but heavily manipulated by people who aren’t afraid to pay $400 to $5,000 dollars per backlink.

Now we’re in the endgame though. Google is already rolling out features like showing follower counts in searches as a precaution against spammy sites. Who wants to click on an article for a site with 500 followers when you can click on Forbes which has millions.

Need plumbing advice? Forbes got you. Need an airplane technician who lives 58 degrees North of 6th street in Austin, TX? Yep, Forbes got experts lined up for that too.

Someone said it best in another thread, those who still give a shit about the web will go back to IRC and forums and that will be the end of it.

You couldn’t trust Google before, now you most definitely can’t. And to think that they are rolling out all their generative features soon to compensate for OpenAI wiping the floor with them…
How much does amazon pay for promotions disguised as “news”?
> The basic idea is that you use generative AI to systematically churn out articles about a given topic and then use A/B testing to eliminate the ones that don't "work" on search engines in favor of the ones that do. This is a way to automate the process of creating content farms.

Why does PageRank not combat this? The content shouldn't rank well unless high authority sites are linking to it? And if a high authority site started linking to AI generated junk, it would start losing its authority because it would start losing backlinks.

> The basic idea is that you use generative AI to systematically churn out articles about a given topic and then use A/B testing to eliminate the ones that don't "work" on search engines in favor of the ones that do. This is a way to automate the process of creating content farms.

It would be good if you could select a list of sites that you trust, so the sites they link to (and the sites those link to and so on) get boosted in your own personal search results.

I recall Google was trying something like this with Google+. People could +1/upvote a site, and the upvotes from the people you followed would influence personalise your search results, but this went away when Google+ was shut down.
Most start-ups are doomed. If you can build it in a weekend, they can too. But they didn't. And you have a weekend's head start.
Google's .meme domain is here to serve your wackiest websites
I don't think it falls under cowardice, certainly not consciously so.

I don't think human behavior can always be classified as either "brave" or "cowardly". (I also disagree that deflection is always a form of cowardice -- not wanting to deal with something directly is sometimes cowardice, sometimes laziness, sometimes tiredness, and sometimes other things).

It seems people develop certain behaviors, sometimes defensive, sometimes aggressive, sometimes something other, as they grow up, and they get deployed not always consciously. It took the Aaron of this story at least 1+ therapy sessions to partially unpack what he was doing, and possibly why.

It doesn't reek of cowardice to me. He was in a position of power (the money-maker) but wasn't afraid of his partner; rather he felt feelings of irritation which were masked with guilt.

"Cowardice" is not how I would describe it.
I don’t own a TV and am nonetheless somewhat depressed. I think TV is not any worse than other passive activities, such as watching YouTube, browsing news, scrolling Instagram, playing games, online shopping, … (and I don’t mean from time to time, but hours upon hours every day)
How is it better than a good search? Better enough to warrant the potential of hallucinated answers presented as truth?
Are they good really? Like half of my AAA devices don't even work on 1.2V. I've dabbled in USB-C rechargeable Li- Ion AA/AAA, but they're quite expensive and the charge lasts a short time. They're mostly useful in remotes and things like that, kind of like NiMH rechargeables.

Meanwhile nonrechargeable batteries get cheaper and cheaper so I just buy them in bulk now. Call me selfish, I guess.
It produces medical isotopes, which is important (but not what I'd have expected from a fusion headline).
IMO the dyson sphere model assumes energy demands go up exponentially as if we are some cancer growing unchecked with no constraints. How we "should" be is rooted in bias. E.g. modern life is certainly not that healthy for a lot of people, mentally and physically. Maybe living a more primitive life, closer to how we evolved as a species before our rapid cultural evolution phase and desire to make short term profit with all the low hanging resources on earth, might make you more likely to die from various disease without modern medicine. During that lifespan, however, you might have overall better physical health or even mental health being a forager who has to worry about little beyond what you can see in front of you. No existential worries, plenty of physical activity.

We are the only species on earth who lives like this, reorienting how lifestyles should work with every generation, iterating towards not biological efficiency but to further individual resource accumulation supported by society. I think its far more likely most intelligent life in the galaxy looks more like a pod of whales or a herd of gazelle than human society, which is inefficient and selfish in most respects.
Can someone explain quantized embeddings to me?
This is a heavily subsidized project situated by geopolitical concerns ... not a practical calculus based on economics.

Even so, even after so much government coddling, it has an uphill battle for raw materials and labor flexibility.

I wish it well as its one of the few Western projects that can rival the gigafactories of China. Its a very bad outcome for the democracies of the world if China remains the only hardware supplier for our automated and electric world.
I see the "nanoseconds counted so they didn't use protobufs" note, but in case you do you protobufs and want to make sure this never happens to you, I heartily recommend using the "reserved" keyword in your protos whenever you remove a field. Reserving a number is a note to the proto compiler that says "I will not use this number again, and please generate an error if I foolishly later try."

It's a useful and probably under-used feature.
Kate has a PluralSight course which I have watched (not really to learn C++ but to see her approach) and that seemed decent to me, although of course I can't vouch for it having taught what you'd need coming from Java and JS, not least because my background is far more polyglot including Scheme and the Standard ML for example.

I definitely think Bjarne Stroustrup's book about his own language isn't very good, even in later editions (which correspond to a more modern language) and so I would avoid buying that, I'm not sure it's a good defence of the language as an idea and I'm sure it isn't an effective tutorial, even if not for being out-of-date.
Fixie Tries
Blades in the Dark does a hybrid model: for small things (the example given is bribing a doorman) the player rolls a fortune roll with their lifestyle quality.

For larger things, there's coin. One coin is "A full purse of silver pieces. A week’s wages." Coin can be spent/sacrificed for significantly larger things than day-to-day expenditures.

A character banks coin in their stash which determines their lifestyle quality and, eventually, their quality of retirement.

It feels much more like a stat to me, but has some of the flexibility of a resource as well.

<https://bladesinthedark.com/coin-stash>
Ask HN: How do you think your job will change in the next 2-5 years?
I assume the script they provide downloads it then uploads it to the archive.org site and then deleted the local copy.
I'm going to take a look at this, but have you seen https://tembo.io/blog/introducing-pgmq/ ?
Will AIs not know about OS and networking?
Some photos in https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/civil-war-weapons-th...
In 2023, there's a good chance it was written in markdown and converted to latex anyway, so there's not even copy/paste going on.
A large chunk of people are only doing it because of the gamification.
Since it's not possible to sell the same physical item more than once without some intervening event, it's not that ambiguous!
It could be as simple as...

- Do we have accounting for what trading strategy generated this order?

- Will this order immediately lose us money? (e.g. are we buying out-of-the-money options)

- Did we accidentally set the PhysicallyDeliver flag?

- Have we hit our organization's margin limits?

Any situation that no reasonable trading strategy would put you in, or that would otherwise be outright illegal, is a good thing to put in risk checks for.
Instrument your python code and gather metrics. Maybe use a profiler. If it is heavily CPU limited and it spends all time in python interpreter calls it might benefit from moving to a more efficient language. It it’s mostly waiting on IO (eg remote services) it might be a negligible difference.
This is awesome! These are good candidates for building your own stuff, I would say. I do really need a garage door sensor for example.
HN conversation from the time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4329101
Still using a P2015dn here :)
This article completely conflates SEO with content generation, which hasn't been the deciding factor in SEO for decades now.

It also asserts that ChatGPT is better because it's not trying to sell, also completely ignoring the fact that it trains on data that also somehow has to be ranked and the fact that this ranking algorithm is hidden deeper doesn't automagically make it bulletproof to gaming.
As a professional Golang dev (among other responsibilities), I see more hate for Go on the internet than praise. Like most things people complain about, I usually can barely discern what people's exact complaints are, as most people seem to just complain about the unknown. I take it you get the opposite on your travels around the internet, and I'm just wondering, how do I get into your newsfeeds? The internet algorithms seem to be putting us both in the wrong places, and I'm wondering if we might be having a Freaky Friday moment, if you will.
The idea is that you can have a belief and derive emotion from it without ever consciously acknowledging the belief.

Aaron had some deep-down, partially-formed belief that he worked harder than his partner Jim, without even knowing it. That subconscious belief led him to be passively aggessive.

By acknowledging that belief and the associated anger, he can now look at the belief logically and solve it. Does Aaron truly believe that he is a harder worker than Jim, and is that a problem? If so, he should talk to Jim about taking on a side job or more chores, or maybe break up with him. If not, then he should consider what might be fueling that belief. For example, Jim might work his ass off practicing and performing and cooking good food, and perhaps Aaron could do more to appreciate that.
Don't forget to deploy your CloudKit-backed SwiftData entities to production
Perhaps one way to look at this could be auto-scaffolding. The typical modelling and CAD tools might include this feature to get you up and running faster.

Another massive benefit is composability. If the model can generate a cup and a table, it also knows how to generate a cup on a table.

Think of all the complex gears and machine parts this could generate in the blink of an eye, while being relevant to the project - rotated and positioned exact where you want it. Very similar to how GitHub Copilot works.
Copyaid.it: Copyedit with AI from a CLI
Dataset in a day. A clustering-based approach for fast dataset creation
If there's one thing C++ needs, it's more slightly-different varieties of smart pointers in the standard. ;-)

What exactly would you use these for? I find that usually I can get away with unique_ptr for the sort of object that I have many of where pointer performance matters.
https://archive.ph/ck7eL
That's the first section of the article. It then continues for four more sections.
Nuclear, wind, solar. Besides, building a carless society isn't exactly emission free either. For that one would need higher housing density, which means more construction. Concrete production is a major source of carbon emissions.

Really cars are not any more of a problem than other forms of consumption.
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16079
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38449769

Plenty of software jobs might be called draining. For instance the contractors HN loves to pity. But I’m a contractor and I love it, more than my prior FAANG time even.

Still, should we expect public school teachers to deride the idea of being a software engineer because some instances of it are stressful?
I dunno, I think intentional geo-engineering shouldn't have to hold itself to a higher standard of caution than everyone else on the planet. When this past summer, we saw record high ocean surface temps b/c container ships had cut back on their sulfur emissions and produced less artificial cloud cover, that highlighted to me that we're _already_ doing these things, but we hold ourselves to a much higher standard if doing it intentionally than if doing it on accident. Somehow a shipping companies does it on accident for decades that's not so scary, but if a group wants to do it intentionally (say, with seawater so it doesn't produce acid rain), that's irresponsible.

There's a spectrum of how controllable these things are (how large a region do you impact? how long does the effect persist after you shut your operation down?), and there are things at the more local / shorter-lived end of the spectrum that I think we should be trying. Are they a "sure thing"? No, not absolutely. But billions of us are pumping carbon into the air and nitrogen runoff into rivers and plastic absolutely everywhere. We're already gambling, but we gotta start picking better things to bet on.
Drummer earphones exist. Very common use case, for example for recording. Many drummers nowadays use the metronome click when playing. And listen to the band, or, monitoring.
The problem is your take that allowing AI is somehow progressive.
It's just fun for me like watching movies. I don't need to retain a ton from the 70 detective and mystery novels I read. It's the ride that's enjoyable.

I am more studious w/ the 30 non-fiction books I read and notate and review pretty heavily. Maybe 3-5 I'll write a detailed summary of what I liked to share with people at work (reserved for the more business-y books).
> insufficient culture of loyalty

Loyalty in tech..? Have you not seen the layoffs? Employees are just a line item in someone’s cost center.
I do AoC for fun, as I expect most people do. I don't think AI will change much. Cheaters will cheat, and get the non-satisfaction they deserve. Doesn't impact the rest of us at all.

The leaderboard? I guess I can see it for a very small minority. Cheating may be more of an issue, but again, doesn't affect the majority of the participants.

Go buy some AoC swag :-)
I've lived in rental apartments where the drain pan has a pipe leading to the existing water dump hole that the washer drains into
I saw this a lot in game development. If your leaderboards are being attacked by 'cheaters', the best solution is to legitimize the cheater gameplay and quarantine them from the other players.

In this case it would involve creating a second leaderboard and letting participants register for either the manual or AI leaderboards.

There will still be trolls, it's not perfect. But the majority of these players simply disagree with your definition of cheating and will happily self-select in return for anointing their playstyle and giving them an arena to square off in with other like-minded players.

Plus you'll get lots of good data, tagged by your users, as to what a cheating score looks like, what IPs they come from, etc. You could use this to prune your other leaderboard if you really cared.
They just... don't retire them? The most expensive thing in a DC is the chips, so it's worth it to just build more datacenter space and keep the old ones around.

In 2019, before I left the EC2 Networking / VPC team, we were using M3 instances for our internal services... those machines were probably installed in 2013 or 2014, making them over 5 years old.

With the slowdown in Moore's law and chip speeds, I'd wager that team is still using those M3s now.

Eventually the machines actually start failing, so they need to be retired, but a large portion of machines likely make it to 10 years.
What makes you think it's 800W per chip?
To be honest, this seems likely to have happened _somewhere_ in the universe at least a few times. Maybe we are all secretly just an overgrown virus of self spreading amino acids that's been propagating through space and time slowly over billions of years.
Data Quality Score: The next chapter of data quality at Airbnb
If the roadmap is accurate then some of the core features (like sharing the recorded video) are not done yet: https://cap.so/roadmap
Please don't submit partisan clickbait about the Supreme Court, especially written by people who aren't lawyers. HN is for intellectual curiosity, not a random political news aggregator.
The implication is that it's a nation state, and not one of the "bad guys".
Takeaways for developers from the OpenAI saga: a multi-model strategy
But enough people will not play by the rules to make it pointless.

Maybe they could have leaderboards for smaller groups that you arrange with your friends and colleagues that you trust.
I am gonna be honest: I hope this paper never gets cited by anyone, ever. There's a number of very weird issues about it, but I don't think what it actually shows is demonstrative of reality, even if it happens to show Rust in a good light.