skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. Because the nix language is an actual programming language you can have hundreds or millions of programs that can be interpreted into identical configurations. It makes it so that these configuration files can get unreadable.

I worked at a company where ALL development happened on a nixos development configuration that was shared by the entire company. So all developers were developing on essentially the same configuration as the deployment machine. But the nix stuff started getting unwieldy and complicated. Just adding a freaking package was a programming chore.

The only way it worked was because this company was big enough to have a team dedicated to NixOS. Right an entire team just managing NixOS and this is NOT the team that runs dev ops of ops in general. That's how complicated it is.

Anyway the fact that you have to program the configuration makes it hard to use, it makes it hard to build a GUI around the configuration. Imagine you're playing a video game and the video game required you to write python code to configure it.

That would be a dumb design. The python code could be for modding it, that makes sense but you still need a configuration layer that's much more declarative and dumb. You can have this dumb layer STILL have all the properties of Nix. And you can still have the nix language underneath the dumb configuration layer for users who want to create packages and stuff like that.

If the nix developers worked on this and got GUI up, I'm telling you user adoption will sky rocket. Suddenly you'll get more casual users willing to use it as their daily driver OS. And you'll get more advanced users too because these casual users are more easily converted to advanced users due to the more gradual learning curve.
All the users in a single Postgres database that a bunch of project members appear to have full access to based on the screenshots they've been posting to brag about the user count /s
I meant to write 'fast'. In general it stays out of my way and doesn't eat too many resources (significantly better now tahn a year ago in that respect).
Management Killed the Elixir
This is a post I read on Reddit. I have no idea the accuracy of it.
It's even worse than what you said: the <img> tag has a srcset attribute with many possible values so different people may see different images depending on their browser's resolution. The one displayed to me was Shoot-Antoine-0044-_DSC0085-lossless-800x450.webp, which shows clear posterization at its native size as well as when it is further scaled down by the browser to 550x309.
Btw if a lawyer is around, I would be curious to know how legally they can store my messages on their server (because technically that's how Activity pub is working) while I did not accept any terms and conditions... I guess there is something like "while connecting with a Thread user you accept that we store your data", but because I don't have an account I did not accept those conditions...
In the end, Solid is a much better approach than AP or diaspora, kudos to Tim Berners Lee
This exact discussion was already exhausted the previous time Threads was announced.

I'm going to repeat now what I was saying three months ago: XMPP is fine now, as it was before Google Talk was a thing. It was a niche protocol for niche people, it remained a niche protocol for niche people.

Assuming that it expired just because Google Talk ceased to exist is just a fallacy.
Debian 12 is the way to go these days imho. Everything else is derived from it anyway.
It needs to be made a standard and enforced programmatically.

If thousands of users aren't following it, what's the point? Now the OS has to cater to the requirements of all those users.
I suspect you’d actually be ordered to provide access to this device (which you regularly access).

In particular, I don’t remember the pin or password to some devices and accounts. They are shapes, on the pin-pad or keyboard. There are enough alternative ways of logging in (the apple face thingy, yubikey, you could hypothetically have devices setting up arbitrarily complex interlocking login processes) that I suspect the court would just define what they want, rather than how they want you to do it.

I could be wrong though, no actual experience here with the legal system at all.
4F Optical Correlator: https://youtu.be/wcRB3TWIAXE

A simple optical computer.
Yeah I'll agree to that. But neither UFOGen nor GigaGAN have released models (I've admitted to being wrong about GigaGAN's checkpoints. In fairness, who the fuck releases 6GBs of generated images? And removes the issues tab from GitHub? Can we agree that's sketchy as fuck?[0]).

LAFITE is the only of the 3 with released checkpoints but it's definitely not to the same quality (Nvidia backed down to place it in products and imo a bad move). But it is 75M params compared to the 1B of UFOGen and GGAN. I was able to get a bit better images by some prompt engineering but yeah, classic paper painting a much better picture of their model than it actually is (pun intended). But then again, I got shitty images the first time I used SD so YMMV. There's probably better works out there but honestly my focus is elsewhere and no one's got time to keep on top of and try everything coming out.

I'm literally just saying that you can trade quality for inference. Do you disagree?

Because I'm not sure why you think I think GANs are better for quality, as I've said the opposite many times. Why are you hyper-focused on quality and thinking I've said GANs do better. This is why we're talking past one another, because you're attributing assumptions to me that I ('m doing my fucking best to clarify that I) don't have. If you think I think GANs produce higher quality images, I assure you that this is from your imagination as I've never stated such and it is not an opinion that I have. Sorry, I said I wouldn't say this again, so last time for real.

[0] There's too much sketchy shit going on in ML research right now and honestly, that's why I've been more passionate about trying to get people to think harder and about context. Again, this is about context. (I also really hate this railroading as it stifles community innovation and sweeps important problems under the rug by saying to just rely on large companies for checkpoints. The community doing so much around Stable Diffusion is awesome, but I want to see that around lots of works because there's a lot that can be accelerated by even a hundredth of this community effort)
You can’t get the efficient discussion UI of usenet clients anywhere, except maybe on mailing lists with a specialized mail client like Mutt. Usenets clients were peak discussion UI. Reddit is a far, far cry from it.
Can you self-host whatever it takes to handle push notification yourself?
I don't think that's correct at all. Heroku Postgres has a central control plane that is monitoring availability and orchestrating things. There are continual health checks that go back to Heroku. In the event of unavailability it sets off a page to the on-call engineer to investigate if systems haven't restored availability.

My understanding of Fly Postgres is they put a lot into the tools to orchestrate, but there is not centralized monitoring and in the event of a failure it is up to you to realize and remediate.

Disclaimer: Was part of the team that built Heroku Postgres, and know the Fly team pretty well but don't personally use Fly Postgres so it's my understanding from the team. We've had a number of customers leverage Crunchy Bridge (build by a lot of the original Heroku Postgres team) use us for the managed Postgres connected to fly.io via Tailscale.
Your right about this occuring mostly at night.

The store looks dead but do you know if the night crew is caught up on their closing responsibilities? Doing dishes, stocking nuggest sauces, cleaning the grill, disassembling the fry hopper, organizing the stock room, etc...

If the store closes with none of these done the manager will blow their labor budget due to taking 3 hours to close and the employees will be pissed.

Your rebuttal is a good one and your somewhat right. Grabbing you an ice cream cone when there's no customers likely isn't a big deal. The manager usually cuts the ice cream while being overwhelmed (Ahh! 7 ice cream cones and we have 10 cars behind them. No more ice cream!) and never tells employees to start offering it again. Offering ice cream again would piss off the employees and also slow down the manager who's trying to hit labor and drive through times
In high school I tried to use Gimp for a UI/UX class and my teacher flipped her shit and went on a 30 minute diatribe on how un-PC I was being. I tried to explain that it was in fact a popular open source software package for graphic design. That entire school was a friggin nightmare.
it will have our own connection pooler[0] for Postgres connections instead of HAProxy, as well as PostgREST[1] for REST

[0] https://supabase.com/blog/supavisor-postgres-connection-pool...

[1] https://postgrest.org/
> Dick Watson was a much less rebellious character than Tom; he’d even permitted his father to accompany him and his bride on their honeymoon.

1) What
Sure, I don't think kids (or anyone) should have "damaging material" pushed in their faces. But the issue with the twitch community's reaction to their moderation changes isn't about content being pushed onto kids, its about the community's moral views regarding anything loosely associated with "camming". It's been a common thread since the beginning of twitch to talk down to non-gamers on twitch, usually women, and call them various derogatory terms implying that they're just glorified camgirls. The backlash against any and all non-gaming categories over the years is this dynamic playing out. This is just the most recent iteration. Over-dramatizing one's concern for kids is just a convenient surrogate that lands better.
cool, tried it with chatgpt-4. it's more verbose, and (!) you can ask for illustrations along the way.
Text with photos / illustrations / images - however there's a lot of poorly put together attempts to be instructional, including books that appear to have had the necessary proof reading, sub editor etc since the topic would expected to be out of their field of "in depth" knowledge. I prefer a good book, but have paid out (long ago) for stuff that I could have copied out of stock standard books that cover similar or written off the top of my head and got a few technical details from the supplier.

Video usually wastes 10 minutes that could be explained with a thorough text description with photos, but sometimes, it's the simplest way to ensure people haven't missed an important step. If it works in video, it should work the same for those who can duplicate the steps. I've had to refer to a few videos for pulling certain bits apart without destroying them, where the text was really written for the technician who do different brands or models all day long.
Yeah! One way to think about it that is almost (not perfectly) correct is that you could build and run all of Fly Postgres yourself; it's almost just a Fly App configuration.
If you get into FastLED, try out the emulator I made – https://editor.soulmatelights.com/gallery/732-rainbow-conway

I haven't worked on it at all recently (COVID project) but it's fun for experimenting. You can also flash ESP32s from the downloadable desktop app
Am I understating this correctly …

If you self-host & have more than 10 users, there is no option for you to use another push notification service (like https://pushover.net/)

You either pay for zulip or don’t get push notifications?
I'd genuinely like to see what moderate right leaning content is even available for consumption. The only thing anyone seems to talk about anymore is the grifters and lunatics.
First, SEO and Ads (no matter how much ppl hate them) work, even in B2B. Yes, it is lot harder nowadays to compete but it is still possible.

Second, you don't need an accelerator for network advantages. You need to learn how to sell. You can do B2B without YC. Plenty of B2B SAAS companies doing it. YC is great if you can do it but don't depend on them for customers and leads.

AI, I have no idea except that it is very hyped right now. So I can't comment much on it unfortunately.

Source: I run a bootstrapped B2B SAAS doing low 7 figures in ARR. Most of our revenue is generated inbound through organic SEO and very little with PPC/Ads (looking to invest more in it as we now have better PMF)
> there can only be one per industry in Australia

That seems hostile and designed to enable corruption
So many of the possible experiences one could conjure with technology as ambiguous and seemingly boundless as genAI (particularly LLMs), as a PM, I've found it challenging to find my footing. Thought I should write what's been helpful for me personally.
Are you bicultural? According to the article, the effect is more apparent for individuals who are bilingual and bicultural.
Some audiences prefer a bit longer winded content with some entertainment value. Myself, I wouldn't have clicked on an article that discusses this story even if it would have taken me half the time to read it than watch it.
ha, I think I probably wrote "Fly" to keep their brand name and then continued in blog-writing mode as a result
Hey, that's interesting, it would be very cool with a study to look for correlation between nearsightedness and aphantasia.
> so hopefully he's fully onboard with the workers

If he was the union wouldn't be necessary, right?
Need Advice on Cloud Service for API/EDI Connectors in SaaS
Hello everyone,

I’m facing a challenging scenario in the SaaS logistics sector and would appreciate any insights or suggestions.
Our SaaS platform is increasingly required to integrate with a variety of customer systems. These systems range from custom APIs (often rudimentary) to the widely used EDI standard in logistics. Additionally, we need to synchronize with internal and external systems like SAP, Oracle, and other ERP solutions.

Another complexity arises from the diverse platforms used for freight reception or transport capacity procurement, including some proprietary solutions from shippers/carriers. Ideally, most of these connectors will be managed by our customers, but we’ll inevitably handle a significant portion.

Currently, Lobster, a Java-based on-premise solution, is prominent for API/EDI connectors in the German logistics market.

We’re keen on finding a cloud service that simplifies connector development and management, preferably with a no-code approach.
The ideal solution would allow us to integrate with a reputable provider, maintaining a central adapter to ensure continuity and avoid breaking integrations due to schema or format changes on our side. Without such a solution, we’re looking at the daunting task of implementing intricate API versioning and constantly nudging system admins for timely updates…

Has anyone ever had similar challenges? How did you handle them?
Appreciate any pointers or ideas

Cheers
Are you not concerned that maybe some of it’s more bleeding edge features are not battle tested?
There are 2 main axis to work on, which are abysmally less costly than any container based mitigation of the issue, since with the following we get "clean" sets of ELF binaries:

- educate the devs on the matter. Those not using an engine already taking of that (this reduce by A LOT the amount of devs to teach).

- work on a toolchain switch to link with version symbol names from a backward ABI, easily (not having to manually enumerate all version symbol names and use the binutils gas .symver directive, or install a 10 years old distro). And a toolchain which does default to -static-libgcc, -static-libstdc++ (when c++ is used) and -ftls-model=global-dynamic while we are at it (in order to spare those expensive static TLS slots).

I do consider that gcc and clang(llvm) are lost for sane open source. Their absurd and grotesque size and complexity make them more toxic than anything else. Look at tinycc, cproc/qbe, simple-cc/qbe.
I don't think you need to really in this case. Just don't follow links generated by the LLM.
I'm really hoping this means they add Chobani ice cream stand like yogurt mixes at my local La Colombe cafe.
The trace chemicals are even more interesting. Phosphorus while only needed in small amounts has a critical role in life as we know it. Phosphorus also turns out to be extremely rare in the known universe. to the point it is noteworthy to find a star that has it.

https://www.sciencealert.com/lack-of-phosphorus-in-universe-...
Depends on if you are a protagonist or not.
If you're doing sequential I/O, you will hardly be able to be faster than std library - it is synchronous, goes directly to the operating system, which does read-ahead. 40+ years of OS design was meant for this. io_uring can't beat it either, it's just too ubiquitous of a usecase to not be hyper optimized.

If you do any non-sequential processing, let's say a database, then you can see standard library show its weaknesses - feeding the operating system with multiple requests becomes more efficient than waiting for each request to finish in the synchronous std case.
I've said this before, but it's a shame that the HP brand didn't end up with Agilent/Keysight. What was once a well respected name has been destroyed over the last 25 years, and is now synonymous with terrible printers and computers.
Ha ha, dream on, my friend ...
> I think it is illegal to make a credible threat against certain public figures, though, or something along those lines, right?

The Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969) Supreme Court case allows for criminalizing speech only if the speech is "directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action" [1]. "imminent" means that there has to be a near-future, clear time window. "I will kill X president within 3 days" could be illegal. "I will kill X president within a year" is too vague. Regardless, either one could be interpreted as evidence of criminal intent to harm the president. (If you were only joking about killing the president and the jury believes you, then you're fine.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio
Could have been a good thing you didn't know about it. The house might be haunted by demons.
I suppose if you're talking about consumer cards, I agree, support is often missing.

But if we're talking datacenter GPUs, the software is there. Data centers is where most GPGPU computing happens after all.

It's not ideal when it comes to hobby development, but if you're working in a professional capacity I'm assuming you're working with a modern HPC or AI cluster.
You probably admire other qualities and are oblivious to that one in particular. They might be a coworker who's saved your bacon, they might be a friend who's given you valuable counsel, etc.

I think you're thinking circularly, that being into weird hentai implies they aren't a valued part of your life and that being a valued part of your life means they're not into weird hentai. I can understand how that might be comforting to you in this moment, but it's not so. One doesn't imply the other, they're largely unrelated.

ETA: The real point of contention here is that you believe the only people who would enjoy this material are people who are traumatized and on the brink of mass murder. I've been avoiding addressing this head on because I struggle to critique this delicately, but I'll be frank with you.

This appears to be to be a failure of imagination combined with some catastrophism. I don't think there's a way to put this delicately, but people are into kinky stuff, and they almost never talk about with people other than their partners. A lot of people have trouble talking to their partners about it.

I know nothing about the proclivities of the vast majority of people in my life - but I don't take that as evidence of the absence of such proclivities.
There is no Royal Road to mathematics. There is also no shortage of people convincing themselves they understand some particular aspect of it by watching a YouTube video.

It is rare when a mathematician, or anyone, can write a book on a topic that no other expert in the field can top. Walter Rudin did that with Fourier analysis.
> Leadership 101 is you never mention a business change or action in the same communication as a situation with a competitor. This guy clearly didn't do his yearly antitrust training

It depends on the nature of the change/action though?

“We are falling behind competitor X in features… that’s why I’m increasing the R&D budget by 10%, and tasking the head of engineering to close the gap” - where is the antitrust issue in that?
Particularly the Gen Z should know at least the IBM Mainframes
This is quite disappointing - having the same pricing as a fully managed Zulip Cloud for simply getting push notifications (at $8/user/mo!) is really steep and feels like a clear way to push people to Zulip Cloud and discourage self-hosting.

In particular, "We are not turning Zulip into a proprietary product with an “open core” demo version" doesn't ring too true, given that a key component that must also be pretty inexpensive to run is walled off (self-hosting the notification server is explicitly discouraged by the Zulip documentation and would require re-compiling both iOS and Android apps).

I've been evangelizing Zulip for a long time but this feels like it's being slowly turned into Slack, and the open source/self-hosting proposition lost a lot of value.
ZFS Profiling on Arch Linux
I think you're talking mostly about Heroku being a managed service while Fly Postgres is unmanaged. It sounds like the new managed Postgres in partnership with Supabase is managed in a similar way where Supabase would handle health checks and all that?

Management is a huge difference of course, but I was mostly asking about the database from the point of view of a user of the database. It doesn't sounds like Fly Postgres is doing anything like running your database globally - you still have single instance of the database.

Apologies if I'm missing some details. I intentionally try to stay out of the technical devops type stuff. I'm the kind of person who just pays Heroku for a Postgres and doesn't think much about it after that.
But even then lawyers still get involved. Remember when Larry Ellison go into competing for the America's Cup? https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2010/feb/07/americas-cup-a...
Raised to the power.
So you know the "puzzle" where you buy a cow for $5, sell it for $10, buy again for $15, sell for $20, and some ding dong on twitter says that you lost money? Well, the same math brains think that if you pay some company $100 and get a $30 kickback, that you somehow made a profit.
I'm a really, really big fan of Zulip - I forced it on my company and people are also not mutinying (though it's closer to mutinity than I'd like).

I understand the need to monetise and I'm a paying customer despite not really needing (or being able to use in some cases) the extended features of the standard plan.

But for the love of god, please fix the mobile app.

It's the #1 thing people are complaining to me about, and by a very wide margin.

Adding more costs for self-hosting and using mobile is not a smart play when the mobile story right now is already terrible.
Why do they not open up extension settings in a "normal tab" like on desktop? That breaks so many desktop extensions that are now available to be installed, e.g. floccus.
Wish they had a photo of the two bolts they can't get out. Though I wonder if, in the vacuum of space, the metal of screws and the metal of the containers contact welded together due to high machining tolerances.
plus-sized tea
> the best analogy is a basis change in a vector space:

It's closer than an analogy. FT is essentially a map of basis into a dual space, but this dual is non uniquely isomorphic with the original so given an arbitrary choice of isomorphism you can turn it into "just" a change of basis.
Glad runescape solved this in 2004 by implemented randomized positions for each digit