skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha, this is weird. I noticed this earlier today in Fly docs and was surprised I'd missed it on HN (as surely it would've appeared). I didn't realise it was new.

My second reaction was that it's crazy there's 'Postgres by Fly' and 'Postgres by Supabase' in the sidebar. There isn't even an (obvious, or that I noticed) comparison offered. If I'm deploying an app on Fly and want postgres, what do I use?

(Personally I think if I use Fly and want a dbms I'll use LiteFS distributed SQLite, and if you do want postgres I think the answer is that Fly vs Supabase is basically unmanaged vs. managed.)
The most important paper to understand this issue is "Sacling Laws of Neural Language Models" by Open AI in 2020 [1].
Many consider it the most important paper that predicted the high performance of modern LLMs.

This paper shows how the loss decreases when you increase the model size, compute, or training dataset size.

From the article:

> Convergence is inefficient: When working within a fixed compute budget C but without any other restrictions on the model size N or available data D, we attain optimal performance by training very large models and stopping significantly short of convergence.

It clearly states that when you are limited by your training time compute, you should under-train your model.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08361
Brutal news, the Graphistry team would point to Noteable internally as an example of good execution on notebooks-as-a-service

For folks impacted, we've been pursuing a similar-but-different product & technology vision for making data analysis easier, and may have relevant openings for specific staff:

* Graphistry side - visual graph AI: connecting GPUs in the cloud to GPUs in the browser, automating data science for tricky data, ... . We helped make Apache Arrow a thing by bringing it to the web for most new visual analytic frameworks, helped start the GPU data frame movement (led to Nvidia RAPIDS), and are on the next generation of technologies here (GNNs, another 100X in viz scale, ...) and use cases (global supply chains, cybersecurity, finance, misinfo, fraud ...) . Biggest opening in WebGL/infoviz, and then in AI / security / federal solutions.

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More info @ https://www.graphistry.com/careers , and easiest is to just chat
We need regulations that fine companies in the neighborhood of $10,000 per violation (i.e. per person whose info was compromised) plus potential prison time for company officers in cases of egregious violations, which this appears to be.

Until prison time is on the table, companies will continue to collect, store, and sell personal information and will continue to fail to implement best practices for protecting it.
> USB-C extension cables are technically against the spec, but that doesn't mean you can't buy them and all kinds of other nonsensical cables and connectors. I have one that only works in certain orientations, which is just so distressing and the opposite of what USB-C was supposed to be, but it'll do to give us power while I poke that SWIO pin with a probe

I loled so much there!!

Funny parts aside, that's a wonderful design!

I wonder if it would be possible to do the same but with a small SoC running Linux, with wifi and/or bluetooth, a LED and a buzzer so a bit like a smaller and simpler Pi Zero W that would fit inside a regular USB A? (like sandisk thumbdrive or some bluetooth dongles)

Oh and it would use usb-gadget to enumerate as a USB serial so you could either connect to it with picocom to actuate the LED and buzzer with AT commands OR through bluetooth SPP or ping!

Then you could have a wireless orchestra!
Adblock Plus reportedly has 50 to 60 million users per month, so taking the conservative number, at 8 unnecessary seconds per update they're wasting 12.68 years of aggregate human life with each update animation cycle: 8 seconds *50M years=400M seconds/60/60/24/365=12.68 years. How many updates do they push per year? How many lifetimes do they waste?

Feels criminal to me, intuitively.
https://mitxela.com/support

i knew a guy who was one of the first digital artists to do patreons, before that he streamed on twitch and had a paypal donation button in his profile

he was easily one of the better artists streaming at any time, but i was still surprised how fast his bills got paid when just a few people started signing up to his subscriptions

when you think about it lump sums, living off your savings seems difficult, but when you can thrive off a monthly amount, the calculus becomes much more do-able (but you have to maintain your audience)
that actually makes sense. thanks.
+1 can't access any Discord servers
I'm rooting for Nickel, I really am, but I am doubtful. Nix is so incredibly dynamic that I believe it's nearly impossible to give it a practical static type system. I say practicaly because I do believe it is possible to come up with a reasonable type system, it's just that it would be so complicated to use that hardly anyone actually would outside of extremely specific applications (see Agda, Idris, ...).

In order to get something more reasonable, I think we would also need to rethink both the NixOS module and nixpkgs DSLs. Which is of course possible, but such a momentous task that I don't see it gaining much traction.

I think it's more realistic, and maybe even sufficient to integrate better error reporting into Nix itself. This is surely also no easy feat, but I am confident some improvements could be made: for example, more acurate tracking of source locations.

And while I almost always prefer static over dynamic typing, writing a specific NixOS config feels like it's one of the moments where it's less important, because I don't care about all possible executions working, I just need my specific config to work. This all changes once you write your own modules, where you obviously want all configurations to work, but that is less important for end user adoption IMO.
"is" might not be the case so much any more. He left journalism over a decade ago and has been in VC since. He's also one of a certain subset of writers who find it exceptionally difficult to write anything even mildly negative about Apple.

He also wrote gushingly that the Vision Pro will revolutionize movies and we'll consume Hollywood content by sitting on the couch together, all watching our own Vision Pros. Hmm.
As a follow up to this, given that bubblewrap-suid without userns vs bubblewrap with userns is a tradeoff, I could make it so both variants are published. This would give users choice between the two and be less opinionated. If this is wanted please open an issue for it and I'll add it.
Imo main benefit is you can use 1 tool/deploy pipeline for app and infrastructure.

Yes, technically you can do that with Terraform but in my experience it doesn't work great for code deploys (which tend to have procedural steps)
Yeah they have a bunch of physical cafes in Philly. Their original location in Fishtown also sells some liquor like a coffee infused rum they make.
Definitely. I’ve even had those magical moments where you wake up and realize you solved the problem in a dream. I think my preference is to have the major points of confusion cleared up so that they don’t become more confusing when I lose my mental model overnight.
I wonder if one could use raw data like this to build a sort of spam filter for papers. Perhaps there are common metadata (institution?, date?, time?, name?, topic?...) among BS papers that could be part of a classifier score?

I know that a Proper fix to enshitification is to get the human beings to stop doing it, but I can't help but wonder if there's something I can do on the "receive" side to have a better experience.
He doesn't strictly refer to a cash register and the person behind it, but to the entire counter where someone has to put your order together. The cash register ringing part can be automated away easily, but the "putting all your ordered items onto a tray" part is not automatable in any economically feasible way in 2023, and will not be for the foreseeable future.
I'm a master of bone, and like what my life have become. Please contact me via my profile if you'd like to chat.
Amazing, that was exactly my (only) reaction too.

Oh, this must be genuine, hip CEO who has disabled autocapitalisation (or fought it) and not bothered to capitalise anything anyone else with similar education level would ... Until the next paragraph!

If I am ever in such a position and make such a decision I hereby give anyone and everyone permission to berate me and point me back to this comment and I'll correct myself thenceforth.
> His font choice is terrible for my legibility.

There may be a connection [1].

If we assume some of the people designing codecs, that he curses in this piece, end up reading it, he may simply have wanted to make sure they do remember. ;)

[1] https://hbr.org/2012/03/hard-to-read-fonts-promote-better-re...
Software defined lenses, holographic projection, and many other absolutely wild possibilities come into potential reach with this. It’s going to revolutionize a lot of fields.
Got it, thanks. This actually fits one of my side projects really well, will have to try it out with NextJS.
Gemini Pro vs. GPT3.5
Thank you so much for writing this up!
It is a pain, you would have to submit your own versions of the android and iOS app, bundling your FCM info. I'm not even sure they would be accepted since the app is already on these stores. It might be impossible to do this.

edit: for Android at least, you could give your users a modified APK.
Blocking the way to the Suez seems like a good way to get a visit from your friendly neighborhood carrier strike group.
python is becoming a weird language. we introduced type checking so we don't have to do these mental gymnastics. and yet as the article suggests, there are still reasons to do them.
"self-hosting the notification server is explicitly discouraged by the Zulip documentation and would require re-compiling both iOS and Android apps"

Given the app store rules, this seems like the Zulip team has no choice in this matter.

If I'm wrong, and it is possible to have an app whose notification server is configurable at run time, then only one person needs to do the work to modify and publish that binary. Everyone else who wants to self-host a Zulip notification server can use that same binary.
The Imaginary Audience
It seems like Mattermost is basically the same deal unless you use their “Test Push Notifications Service”, which they discourage using in production, no?

“Same deal” in that you can either pay a per-user fee, or host the push server yourself and ship patched mobile apps to receive them.
I see this (and other ublue images) as an alternative to Ansible, rather than just an image. I could fork this repo, automate PRs from upstream with a GH action while making my own changes to it and keep an automated CI/CD pipeline. This painless extensibility is a big advantage imo over traditional distributions.
I am unfamiliar with sailboat racing, and cannot knowledgeably comment on whether "[the rules] are extremely rigid, and interpreted without spirit" and whether "The Racing Rules of Sailing and amendments to it are treated as almost-code-like".

But I can say that the 1988 America's cup does not support either of those points.

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Background:

First of all, the opinion of the appellate court is better written and clearer than the Wikipedia article: https://nycourts.gov/reporter/archives/mercury_sandiego.htm I'm going to be quoting it a lot because it says things more plainly and authoritatively than I could.

"The America's Cup, a silver cup trophy, is the corpus of a charitable trust created in the 19th century under the laws of New York." Such a charitable trust is governed by a "Deed of Gift" written by those who gave the cup to the trust. "[George] Schuyler executed [wrote/signed] the present Deed of Gift in 1887, donating the Cup to the New York Yacht Club".

The gist of the deed is that one yacht club can challenge the current holder of the cup to a race to win the cup (the race is 10 months after the challenge is issued); the two clubs are free to agree to whatever rules they want, but if they fail to agree then the deed gives some fallback rules. One of the rules that the 1887 deed gave is that for single-mast vessels the load water-line length must be between 65 and 90 feet. However, "In 1956 the New York Yacht Club obtained a court order amending the Deed of Gift to reduce the minimum load water-line length to its present 44 feet". For context, the America, the ship for which the cup was named, was 89ft 10in.

From 1956 until 1987 all challengers agreed to a lower maximum length than that 90ft limit, because even though longer boats were faster, they were more expensive.

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Why I don't believe that this supports your points:

- Because the issue was about the Deed of Gift, not The Racing Rules of Sailing, this was decided by the NY courts, not by the International Yacht Racing Union (IYRU).

- Because reasons ("see, e.g., Crouch v National Assn. For Stock Car Auto Racing, 845 F2d 397, 403; Finley & Co. v Kuhn, 569 F2d 527, 539") the court specifically did not interpret The Racing Rules of Sailing, and just interpreted the deed. If Mercury Bay wanted The Racing Rules of Sailing to come into it, they should have brought it to the IYRU--which they totally could have done--and not to the NY Supreme Court.

- The discussion in the decision of the court by word-count I would say is 90% about about the spirit and intent of the deed and what the author intended, and 10% about rigid textual interpretation.
FYI: "A Vercel account is required to use v0."
My experience isn't quite what people with aphantasia describe, but it absolutely is not what everyone else describes.

I used to take mushrooms pretty regularly. It usually just alters what I physically see, like fish swimming out of the TV into free air or objects moving. I did once have a very intense trip where my senses were entirely blocked out by the hallucination. I was totally unaware of my surroundings.

The experience had a visual component, but it was very similar to the way I visualize ideas normally.

I 'see' outlines and shapes, everything is fuzzy and abstract. Sort of like remembering something from when you were very drunk. The details are missing, but you have a clear impression of what it is. Except for me the details exist in an abstract form attached to the image. Like metadata on a jpeg.

The images I saw had very little information in them, just impressions of ideas. But behind the images was a great depth of conceptual information. I understand perfectly what the images represent, but there's so little visual information that another person would understand the image if I could show them.

Anyway, Vishnu revealed to me the secret structure of the universe. At the quantum level, little spiders hold together the fabric of reality and they are very tired of their job.

It was actually a really fun ride.
Revealing the secrets of the sun: How magnetic structures drive coronal rotation
Spade – Hardware description language inspired by modern languages like Rust
Referenced article https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-48447-0
Cloud providers have automated cert renewal.
In my experience, "Point of Sale" as a term refers to the cash register and the actions around it, not the rest of the business such as delivering the food to the customer.
RE 50TB/year, or $100 of storage How is this storage amount obtained for that price ?
Perhaps the companies which self-host are the ones with the most stringent security needs, and are the exact customers who would be willing to pay more.

Perhaps the optimal price is higher for this new plan, than for the cloud plan?!?
(supabase team)

you have a few options:

1. connect to Postgres like you do with any other Postgres database. Supabase is just postgres

2. connect to PostgREST, the autogenerated REST API that you mention

3. connect using Edge Functions (Deno)

Most people are fine with 1. You can use 2 & 3 if you want to, they are just another tool in the shed
What's Causing the NFL's QB Injury Crisis? and What Can the League Do to Fix It?
An SEL4 kernel based os, but they’re few and far between for desktop use for some reason.
I wouldn't expect such a sudden death from "business plan just didn't work out" though. Take Docker for example. Curious. Competition perhaps?
Not who you replied to but I'm in the same boat re: sleepless nights.
It's not quite literally that bad but it's distracting for sure.
I just can't seem to leave enough breadcrumbs to stop ruminating about the problem after work.
Of course working from home doesn't help the situation. But sometimes it feels like I have to leave so many breadcrumbs and capture so much context that I might as well just do the work...
Iran rethinks its role as a regional troublemaker
Casserole
I built both the Titanic and the Eiffel tower. They both felt pretty repetitive.

On the other hand, these models are a marvel. Particular the Eiffel Tower. Everytime I look at it im just awed at how beautifully intricate it looks.

I think there's sets and sets, the lion knights castle was incredibly fun to build and had so many secrets and mechanisms.

So all in all, I'm really happy with these big Lego sets. I really like the Eiffel Tower. Once you see it in person you see how impressive it is. Also, I don't particularly mind the repetition... It took me a few days to assemble the tower, I watched tv, listened to podcasts, etc.
Jeff Epstein too if we are going for specific examples. It is kinda tricky when conspiracy theorists are saying that the elites are a bunch of paedophiles and the evidence is there is rampant accepted paedophilia afoot in the elite circles.

I suppose the conspiracy part is would guessing how common it is?
yeah that's the most honest charting I've seen. they're not looking for headlines, respect
Microsoft Defender for Office has been disappointing, replied emails with no attachments or links or dodgy keywords get quarantined for no reason at least a few times a month.
I dunno, every incel I ever ran into was a fedora neckbeard. The power of atheism!
I'd bet a lot of money that it's around a new on-call requirement with no pay increase that no one will put their name on promoting but managers are seeing appear on their all-manager meeting agenda.
I'd argue that people are far more likely to forget a password/passcode than to have dissociative personality disorder and then have only one personality be aware of the password and then also be cured of the disorder/personality or otherwise be unable to ever manifest that personality to allow for questioning by police.

I think in that case it'd probably be treated more or less the same. Jailed for months/years for contempt of court, either locked up in a cell or a hospital with court ordered mental health treatment depending on if the judge believes the person actually has the disorder or not.
Apparently much of the IEEE trouble is ICERECT[1], which as best I can tell, is primarily for papers rejected elsewhere. Filtering the dataset from the article[2] down to just this one paper[3] from that conference helps illustrate the point.

The suggesting elsewhere on thread that this could be LLM driven seems unlikely -- "bosom disease" is not a common pairing of words in the English language corpus, but "breast cancer" is.

[1]: http://www.pesceconference.in

[2]: https://dbrech.irit.fr/pls/apex/f?p=9999:24

[3]: https://pubpeer.com/publications/2A7F7A96A9E42D48FCAA5DA6548...
Excellent coverage about this here: https://reason.com/volokh/2023/12/14/is-compelled-decryption...

The author thinks this could be the case that goes to SCOTUS.
> I've been thinking of the best way to make a website that won't die when I die.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about the same, and eventually had to ask myself: why do I care? (This is just my personal reflection, not an indictment of your goals. I'm a fatalist.)

If I have to go to the trouble of setting up a 100-year trust to maintain a digital presence after my death because nobody else finds what I have to say compelling enough to archive on its own merit, is it worth preserving? Or am I just wasting my time, adding more debris to float around in [cyber]space?

Blockchain would have been useful here. Everyone could share in the storage of collective, immutable history. But all of it is lost when some trillionaire inevitably decides to start a competing, incompatible product with a flashier UI.
https://posthaven.com/

Says it supports full HTML theming so you could have ~arbitrary content.
It's now also possible to install any add-on on Firefox by turning on desktop mode.
Your assertion fails even the slightest scrutinity, I* was able to create this extremely beautiful piece (https://i.imgur.com/4AOHe6A.png) just minutes after installing some stable-diffusion-GUI and I'm neither experienced or driven, AI is not just a tool, its way more close to the definition of robot (or bot) than the definition of tool; and its just beguinning, those models are gonna get better and better, including a better understanding of the nuances of what its being asked for it based on context clues (e.g. previous prompts, tags, etc) making it even less important to become "experienced" or "driven" as the models themselves favor those audiences.

* For the most possible loose definition of "I"
you mock my capitalization and and in the same comment use "thenceforth". shame on you
It'd be tough to write an access control layer that prevented this image embed, while allowing other image embeds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confused_deputy_problem
Clicking yes == not blocked at all.
posthaven seems like a good shot: https://posthaven.com
See faq>archive mode

Of course it’s nothing more than an organization of people promising you that they will keep the lights on for you insofar as it is feasible, but i’m not sure you can get better than that in practice
Wow, I have to say that this validates a lot of my life decisions so far. Never wanted kids, bought a modest house, drive a beater car because it gets me where I need to go (with air conditioning because I’m not a sadist). I just always sort of naturally despised the status games of society and didn’t feel like I had to participate. The goal is to be able to retire at 49. Not that I necessarily will, but that at that point I can say “fuck you” to anyone if I want and keep doing my own thing. I feel fortunate to currently work for an employer who I don’t want to say that to anyway.

I think there’s a common belief on either “side” of the child/childless divide that the other one must be secretly unhappy with their choice, but I’ve tended to believe that most people end up where they prefer, so it’s interesting to hear a perspective that’s a bit different. I think children are cute and all that, but as you said, a $1 million expense sure blows a hole in my budget.

I also have some philosophical issues with the whole thing very much like the OP stated. Also, I feel pretty bad about the state of the world being left to children born today, primarily around climate change, but not limited to that.

Given all those factors I’m surprised that fertility rates are as high as they are, but perhaps it is no surprise that they are falling almost worldwide.
Depends more on whether you support progressive social policies though (I'm a lot less confident Australia would go in like it did, but I'd like to think it could - we did Medicare in the 70s after all).