skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember talking to an actuary once.

Actuaries have to be scientifically accurate with respect to risk. If they underestimate the risk, the premiums don't cover the losses. If they overestimate them, they lose in the market.

So I asked her if a red sports car should REALLY be that much more expensive to insure than a grey family car.

She told me, yes, the pricing actually correlates very well with the risk.

The only time when pricing is NOT correlated with the risk is AFTER an accident. Statistically after an accident, drivers become safer, but the insurance companies will not lower the rates charged to reflect it.
I agree with what you said. The only "scam" angle might be that this might be the pump stage of a high end pump-and -dump, the private investors might have had IPO talks and/or MS taking over the operation and paying them at that valuation.
I had also never heard of this, so did a bit of googling. Seems to be:

The problem for companies using the .io domain is that it represents the continued oppression of the original people of the Chagos archipelago. All proceeds from the registration of domain names goes to the Internet Computer Bureau, a former British company now owned by Affilias, a US company. Some of the profits from sales were supposed to go to support the territories, but the British government declared it has never received any money for this, and subsequently denied any responsibility for the support of the Chagossian people.

https://tamouse.github.io/blog/politics/2019/10/02/why-is-th...
It’s… not an issue! To be clear, a change of ownership does absolutely not get a company out of its obligations. That is not how it works, at all.
This happened to me too. It threw me because they told me which machine to go to (#11 for example) and when I arrived my items were already listed.

For a moment I thought they had futuristic CV covering the whole store.
We have some very long tail content and experienced this in 2023 after all the VC funded LLM start-ups tried to scrape every page ever.
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What is this FA? The "problems" of free (publicly funded) higher education have been solved for decades, if not centuries, in many (most?) countries.

"Equality of opportunity" becomes even worse a bad joke when a prerequisite for higher education is to be born to well-off parents.
Wow. Out of everything, this is the most impressive.
The words "Google" and "Labs" does not sound good together... they just killed everything what was good. Does anybody remember "Sets" ?
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It all depends on the strength of the correlation. We all know, that to link behavioral patterns to bio-chemistry is full of false-positive... and the other way around too.

Correlation is not proof, and in biology, due to inherent complexity it is even more questionable.

That looks like some kind of "more research is needed", "give me more money" kind of study.
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How are those virtually useless degrees?
That may just go to show how much you might be caught up in your bubble. All of that is a still very much active part of the human experience. Although technology has brought us great comforts and raised our living standards, art, music, anthropology, social sciences in general do absolutely have value to a great many people and contributed to a raised living standard in other ways.

Even if we decide the only relevant criterium is the free market, people pay for the ability to do these things, and for good reason, just as they pay for the ability to use and develop technologies.

I think it would be a great loss to all of humanity if we suddenly stopped paying for social science education.
In a nutshell, and a bit polemic: What do you want humanity to be, a great many cogs in a science machine churning away without looking sideways? I would not want that.
I think most people here see the value of the article. Thank you for publishing it.

Parent comment was also valuable to me, for seeing how important it is to listen to others before jumping to conclusions about the worthiness of something.
You can also encode the special characters when writing to file and decoding after read.
But docks work in a different way, such as XRender or just a PNG with an alpha layer. Much less expensive than copying a chunk of the backdrop and then "pasted" at your terminal background.

Often docks will be able to show you the underlying windows behind it, even without compositing. But under the terminal with fake transparency you couldn't see another window behind it, just the backdrop part.

I think X11 had some extensions to allow translucency too for software like oneko, xroach or such.
It was more what I perceived as a weirdly gleeful insincerity in your comment combined with a _lot_ of similarly weirdly gleeful insincerity in the big comment thread about the SMTP smuggling attack, which had a lot of 'GRRRREEEEAATT WORK BY THESE GUYS' type of comments

Just too much discordanism seemed to surface all at once and it was exhausting.

I know this is 'hacker' news but I always perceived that to mean 'hacker' as in the hacker ethos, not the pejorative 'yeah break shit lol' type of hacker. Sometimes it seems to be all the latter.
Not exactly. With 2000/XP you can set the entire window opacity. Still no gdi+ native. So regions were still just shapes(1bit mask). Trying to set a pre-multiplied bitmap to a window will just give you a brightened version(the multiplied version).

Though there was some support for cursor shadow at this point, and the improved GDI heap really helped, making faking a window drop shadow actually pretty feasible. Vista and Aero is the first native support for Windows with alpha channels.

I actually liked Vista. It worked just fine and wasn't unnecessarily reorganized. Plus the improvements to the OS threading model were excellent, which is why 7 is so incredibly rock solid, probably peak Windows.
> But twitter as a platform gets worse each day

Well that's just an opinion. I feel that it's better than it ever was. Sorry.
SQLite on the server. Did this again and again since the mid 2000s, each time getting reactions ranging from ridicule to horror, and each time achieving great results.
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How did you generate this?
'Næss argued that all beings, whether human or nonhuman, have an equal right to exist and flourish, a principle he called “biospherical egalitarianism”.'

Doesn't the prey of the wolf share the same right? If so, which claim is superior? Isn't a better position that the wolf contributes to a healthy ecosystem, as was found when they were reintroduced to Yellowstone?

https://www.geographyrealm.com/wolf-reintroduction-yellowsto...

'It may also play an effective role in countering the often-baseless fear and hysteria around wolves (Næss blamed the brothers Grimm for the animals’ bad public image).'

Proper care of wild wolves must involve vaccination for rabies, as 78% of attacks on humans involved infection.

https://wolf.org/wolf-info/factsvsfiction/are-wolves-dangero...
Sorry, I assumed everyone would know that without a reference. .io is a regional domain referring to those islands https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Chagossians
> just delays the inevitable

We all recall how Musk wound up owning TWTR, right?
You have to wonder if they did it on purpose, and someone just made the call that it wasn't worth hanging onto. Remember also that Crusader was canned after one season so there wasn't a lot of love for sci-fi.

The CGI could have done with a re-render, but the live shots might come out looking really bad trying to clean them up.
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Fair enough, but youths seem to overdo everything. And alcohol is one of those things you can overdo.

I'm curious as to where the break-even is. e.g. one joint per day is as harmful as 2.5 beers per day.
For anyone wondering "queca" would be the normal spelling of the "profanity" although it's probably one of the milder ways to refer to "having sex". "Fuck" would be "foda" and variations. Queca is more of a funny way of saying having sex, definitely not as serious as "fuck".

Hyundai Kona on the other hand was way more serious and they changed it to another Island in the Portuguese market. Kona's (actual spelling "cona") closest translation would be "cunt", in the US sense in terms of seriousness, not the Australian more light one.

Source is I'm portuguese
Usually, some not verified and cleaned enough external input text managed to get into some complex and often brain damaged text parser (printf,sql,etc).
Obviously the criterion cannot be "is is technologically expressible". With modern tracking/spying you can know with plenty of confidence someone's personal characteristics such as ethnicity.
The only entity that actually inspected the car said it was damaged. And I don't think you were there, so why state it with such misguided confidence?
The thing I hate the most about the tech industry is that there is very little correlation between skill and reward and because everyone who has an economic voice believes that there is a correlation, we get led down all sorts of crazy fickle paths littered with anti-patterns and overengineered tools...

And the narrative keeps changing randomly depending on which nerds happen to stumble upon a successful business case at which point they are given the platform to impose their technology ideas on everyone else... Nevermind that they had 100x the budget of an average company and solved all their tech problems via brute force and dirty hacks.

IMO, there was a time maybe 15 to 20 years ago when the software industry knew what it was doing and there was a concerted effort to produce optimal, maintainable code but it seems that most companies just gave up and software became cheap, fragile and disposable.
thanks!

don't you need at least two fans and two chambers of heat storage material?
Why is it less expensive? Sounds like the exact same operation, except the OS is doing it.
Not quite what was asked but a few of the stories here reminded me of this.

Years ago I was working on developing a new cloud native service. The particular microservice I was working on had to call out to multiple other services, depending on the user parameters. Java 8 had just come out and I implemented what I thought was an elegant way to spin up threads to make those downstream requests and then combine the results using these fancy new Java 8 stream APIs.

I realized at some point that there was a case where the user would want none of those downstream features, in which case my implementation would spin up a thread that would immediately exit because there was nothing to do. I spent a couple days trying to maintain (what I saw as) the elegance of the implementation while also trying to optimize this case to make it not create threads for no reason.

After a couple days I realized that I was spending my time to try to make the system sometimes do nothing. When I phrased it that way to myself, I had no problem moving on to more pressing issues - the implementation stayed as is because it worked and was easy to read/understand/maintain.

To this day, I avoid the trap of "sometimes make the system do nothing". One day, that performance optimization will be necessary, but that day has not yet arrived in the ~7 years since then.
I wonder if Google trains its AI on paywalled data, that other scrapers don’t have access to but which those paywalled sites give full access for the Google bot to.
Oh this is a really interesting concept.

I guess it underestimates the number hard to find bugs though since it assumes same likelyhood to be found.
500 pageviews per second are big but 90 Web Engine + 50 API engine? i.e. ~6 rps per web server and 10*x rps/ API server. Apart from that ~250 servers for DB+cache. I know my comment smells so HN and kudos for the team that they build and scale it. But as an outsider hmmm.
I posted this here, but it somehow moved, and I can't delete that one, so I'll repost.

You can be wonder why people are interested in the outputs, or you can think that the explanation is adequate. You can't do both at once.

Here, in fact, the explanation is not adequate. Let's analyze:

> Welcome Groq® Prompster! Are you ready to experience the world's fastest Large Language Model (LLM)?

"The world's fastest LLM? They must have made an LLM, I guess"

> We'd suggest asking about a piece of history, requesting a recipe for the holiday season, or copy and pasting in some text to be translated; "Make it French."

"Instructions, ok".

> This alpha demo lets you experience ultra-low latency performance using the foundational LLM, Llama 2, 70B created by Meta AI - running on Groq.

"So it's not their own LLM? It's just LLaMa? What's interesting about that? And what's Groq, the thing this is 'running on'? The website? I kind of guessed that, by virtue of being here."

> Like any AI demo, accuracy, correctness, or appropriateness cannot be guaranteed.

"Ok, sure".

Nowhere does it say "we've built new, very fast processing hardware for LLMs. Here's a demo a bog-standard LLM, LLaMa 70B, running on our hardware. Notice how fast it is".
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Once worked IT at a small company in college. Needed to run CAT5 to a new building we acquired. There was no conduit, but there was twisted pair for telephone running between the buildings. Occupying 3 lanes on each side gave us Ethernet on the new building :)
Note that the original uses (pumping, grinding) of windmills were for high-torque, low-speed applications.

In principle, gearing should make the low-torque, high-speed motors that one can drive via PV their equivalent or better. I'm no MechE; what's the situation in practice?
It's not only russian submarines, all sorts of soldiers are using it to track their fitness in secret army training camps that now show up glowing on the global hotmap.
Stressful? In what way is it possibly stressful? Because you have to keep an eye out for a receipt where you maybe were overcharged for something (but probably weren’t) so that you can receive a guaranteed refund to correct the situation upon request?

There are a lot of ways I’d describe the Amazon Go shopping experience. Creepy? Yes. Unsettling? Quite so. Oddly evoking the feeling of being a rat in a maze? I wouldn’t argue. But stressful? If there is one thing it is not, it’s that.
Thanks! Yeah, I think that's right.
Natural predation is irrelevant to the argument. Wolves and their preys co-exist and "equal right to exist" is more fundamental: they have the right to live their lives in the natural world as opposed to being exterminated. They have "the right to be there" as also written in the article.
I have a similar story, except instead a CD drive and kielbasa i had a floppy drive (that was on an XT clone) and i used oil... that is olive oil :-).

It worked perfectly for years after that.
This list, as presented in the blog post, is a great list though. Succinct and to the point. And in fact, just how I went to become a hopefully decent enough SE.
> Those wild west days certainly have passed.

Not if you see some of the stuff my coworkers write.
I worked with maybe half a dozen product managers and none of them were women.
Or if you live in Ireland - "endure the rain" - because we have no other choice /s
The risk of bacterial infection is overblown. But you still don't want to use tap water for a humidifier because you'll get limescale all around the device.
I have never used Bing. I use duckduckgo though and they buy their results from Bing. At least they did in the past, I don't follow them closely enough to necessarily notice every possible change.
It like this is the relevant paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.13243v1.pdf

This is pretty amazing
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Communication Mistakes I Made as a Staff Engineer and How I'm Fixing Them
Reflecting on this past year, I realized this was a big part of my growth.

How do you communicate effectively across your org? Especially if doing glue work.
looks cool! Can I power a simple personal blog with this?
That's DoJ policy. The legal community in the majority also agree with that, but, here is the text from wikipedia:

> The Constitution grants the president the power to pardon "offenses against the United States".[5] An offense that violates state law, but not federal law, is an offense against that state rather than an offense against the United States; however, the Supreme Court has never ruled on this matter or in the President's power to grant a habeas corpus petition for a state offense where it has been denied by a federal court.

If you consider english common law and the absolute nature of the pardon power, including presumptive crimes then this is an untested grey area. If the power was limited, the limit would have been stated. The current consensus is that the limit is implied, but an argument can be made that since english kings had pardon power over their whole domain, the same is implied when stating "offenses against the united states".

Federal authority supersedes state authority in every other case, if this was different it should have been stated so as it is a deviance. But ultimately this would come down to a supreme court opinion.
500 page views / second is, again, not that big.

Basic servers are capable of handling hundred of the housands of those if you optimize your db and use a low level language.

We used python and an orm and we handled 1000 r/s on peak hours daily.

And we are talking user accounts, comments, votes, upload, transcoding, video streaming...

Todays computers are mind blowingly fast.
I don't know, why do dictators love to ruin old stuff?
Here in Sweden university education costs less per head than high school education. Then of course, there's money for research, but we pay for that separately.

In Russia there's the Independent University of Moscow, which probably doesn't have any expenses other than the salaries of the professors.

What a university needs is skilled scientists and well-prepared students willing to work hard, and that isn't expensive.
> As to his distaste for those upscaled and colorized vintage shorts, I'm happy to go on record and say that I love them

Then your sense of taste may be worth questioning
How do you figure this 45 minute talk with slides is "literally the same" as a five minute article with pictures?
Did they switch from Django to Flask, and if so, why?
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I'm not going to touch most of the stuff you brought up here, but I do think it's worth pointing out that the first psychotic episode revealing something like schizophrenia has long term side effects. Not just socially but also in terms of physical differences in brain structure. These severe episodes can actually be closely monitored and prevent for some people. So there is a very real opportunity to do good here
In a thread about “if it’s not stupid if it works” you accuse people of doing something “incompetent” by doing something ostensibly “stupid but works” but totally miss on what was even possible “non-stupidly.” There feels like some form of irony here.
I have no idea what strava is, perhaps a sentence describing what it is without mentioning the competition and forcing people to google strava would be nice at the top of the readme and/or title?
This means people that don't go to the university and usually as a result has less income pays for people that goes, seems quite regressive
>In January 2012, Pinterest hit 11.7 million monthly unique users with only 6 engineers.

The thing to strive for 12 years later should be how to scale to 100M+ users with 6 engineers. NAND and CPU core has an order of magnitude reduction in price / performance. 1-2TB DRAM is obtainable. MySQL or Postgres has a decade of improvements made, along with simpler, battle tested solution for scaling. Both Python and Ruby, Rails or Django has all the lessons learned from real world.

At least that is what should have happened.
Plain html from mid 90s still renders and looks as good as it ever was.

I think CSS is also backwards compatible.

It is the JavaScript birs that change
IMHO, the problem, especially in the US, is that you pay the premium not for the knowledge but prestige and alumni access. Essentially, you pay for a bling. Education should be freely accessible, and one of the best things that came from Eastern Bloc is a high-quality (free) education anyone could have, which means that I don't believe in that complex financing talk very much. For a start, take a small percentage of taxpayers' money that goes to the military and redirect it to education.
Years ago my team was tasked with greenfield dev of a cloud native app while the platform/infrastructure was also evolving. We worked nights and weekends to get it done on time only to find out at the last second that the platform team had enforced controls on internal services being able to access the internet, requiring authentication to do so. This was news to us.

We were behind schedule and had, I think, three separately implemented/maintained/deployed services that needed to be able to access the internet to do their work. Rather than implementing the intended auth mechanism in each service, writing tests for it, going through code review, and redeploying, I instead added nginx to the base Docker image they all used, configured them to send requests to that nginx instead of as normal, and made that nginx instance man-in-the-middle our own services to attach a hardcoded HTTP header with the right creds.

I man-in-the-middled my own services as a hack - dumb but it worked. It was meant as a quick hack but stayed for I think a couple years. It did end up being eventually being the source of an outage that took a week to diagnose, but that's a different story.
Financing by taxes but having the state determine which degrees are "useful" is a poor combination that falls victim to all the usual mistakes of centrally planned economies. Is the Education Department bureaucrat in charge of deciding which degrees are useless really going to completely align with your narrow view of the world?

If you want to defund the areas of education that don't provide value, you should favour less government intervention, not more. Let the market fund education by having employers or financiers preferentially fund (through loans, or otherwise as discussed in TFA) the students who are more likely to enrich them later on.
Free speech cannot be hold up for people who are against free speech. You can't be tolerant to intolerant people. That is the hard lesson from German history in the 1920s and 30s. Germany at that time was a very tolerant democracy. They allowed free speech for everyone, democrats, monarchists, nazis, communists... . The result was a power grab of the most violent and intolerant party (this was legal, because you know: free speech!) resulting in the total destruction of German society within 12 years.

Censoring intolerant people is just letting them taste their own medicine.

It is disappointing to see, that Twitter/X and Musk haven't grokked that, Substack hasn't grokked that, Noam Chomsky hasn't grokked that and the American society as a whole hasn't grokked that.
That is very far from my experience with non-tech people. My friends and students always google something, and almost inevitably fail to find it. Then they do it again, and again, and again.

Over two years now I see specifically two people deterministically failing to find stuff through G search, and yet they still start with it in an almost Pavlovian ritual. Sometimes they will desperately scroll down, click on a blatantly irrelevant result and switch to facebook or some other bookmark aggregator of theirs to continue their brutally inefficient search process, thumb flick after thumb flick after thumb flick.
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Crawler hints and index now could reduce that traffic these days

- https://developers.cloudflare.com/cache/advanced-configurati...

- https://www.indexnow.org/