skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the explanation. Turns out I stopped reading a little too early:

> In order to test the barrier in actual stormy conditions, the water level threshold at which the computer system would start the closing procedure was lowered from 3.0 m over NAP to 2.6 m, for the duration of the 2007 storm season. On 8 November 2007, a storm from the northwest hit the Dutch coast. A storm surge, high enough to start the barrier's closing procedure, occurred.
When I was a teenager one of the coolest technology things I got was an old spare desktop. I installed FreeBSD at first and later Linux but it was amazing to have my own Unix machine at home.

It was not powerful nor did it have tons of memory or storage. But it was mine to do with as I pleased. I ran IRC bots and a web server hosting shitty Perl scripts I wrote. It was also the router (via dial-up) for the house once I got a network card for it.

I learned so much messing around on that machine. I credit my ability to exit vim to working on that machine.
When the news stops being consistent with my lived experience, I stop paying attention.
Not enough credible competitors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkHdF8tuKeU

Have you seen Aza Raskin talking about it?
You’re talking about the scene from Blade Runner when Deckard talks with Abel Ben Hasan as to who made the artificial snake.
Go 1.22: Interactive Release Notes
If it is the same in so many cultures, it seems quite likely the difference is not cultural, but biological.
I think you maybe underestimate the utility and reliability of flat text files on a filesystem.

If you don’t trust a filesystem, you can’t trust anything that uses one.

Flat files don’t scale past a certain point, but that point is way higher than most believe it is.
Moral of the story: make friends with PC nerds.

I never had much time for consoles and I don’t feel like I missed out on much. Popular games come and go. The joy of doing whatever I can imagine with my PC is more than enough consolation.
I wonder if fine tuning GPT-4 on the records would do significantly better
In Factorio's very specific case, overclocking your RAM is probably the best way to eke out that little bit of extra performance. FWIW.
Tbh I can't follow your logic here. You mentioned that in VanJS there are things that need to be careful with. But the same is true for other frameworks, even for plain Vanilla JavaScript. Thus what exactly the point that you're trying to make?

Complexity can't be avoided for extremely complex use cases. But that doesn't mean a simple solution that can work for most of the use cases has no value.
Starlink satellites are huge (500 kg) and a small number of them are often are the main payload.
tbh anyone can build fast hw for a single model, I’d audit their plan for a SW stack before joining. That said their arch is pretty unique so if they’re able to get these speeds it is pretty compelling
what's a faster method than a Crank Nicolson implementation discussed in the post?
In my experience, enough of the “news” about Tesla has proven to be strongly biased that I default to assuming this is another piece of clickbait following a narrative that reporters know has traction at this moment in time.
Johnny Pneumonic, the little-known Kafka-esque Gibson follow up in which a data courier's internal systems get a virus and he lives out his life in suffering, fully convinced that he himself is an embodiment of poor software/hardware implementations; a "bug", if you will.
I believe Google Maps invented AJAX. Google Docs I think was actually acquired, but it was definitely ahead of its time.
I have mixed feelings about this. It could be a great tool to help people, but on past experience it seems more likely that HR departments/ financial service providers/ governments would use it to write people off if they have too many negative life indicators.
I have not paid much attention to Bsky and I doubt I will
but from a quick glance it looks nearly identical to X.

Is it basically an X clone that will be an alternative Twitter/X?

Or is there a lot more magic going on?
Why are people excited?

(Mind you I dont spend much time on X either, so this is purely from
looking at the two and comparing. )
Yes, pruning hunches fast is important - then again it's important to have the hunches in the first place.
You don't see how that's an even larger barrier to entry than just picking an existing home server?
It took so long to get an invite code I unfortunately lost my interest.
He doesn't know how his "righteous" Android phone works either. It's the leading premise of his entire article. An iPod Shuffle costs very little and there are open source tools for putting music on them outside of macOS/iOS.
True in a blurry kind of way. Perhaps the word “net” clears up a lot here.

Some things are net assets, some things net liabilities.

The distinction matters a lot.
I choose software that runs on the devices that I don’t have to mess around with. There are plenty of options that do work across the Apple ecosystem. ublock is not the only option, nor is it necessarily the best one.

The extremely minor inconvenience of finding a different adblocker is one time pain. Attempting to curate the “perfect” computing environment is pain that just doesn’t go away.

I ran many different distros. I ran LFS as my daily driver for several years. I played with all of the desktop environments. What did it get me? Nothing. There is no practical value in sinking the time into that. It’s fun, sure. But I don’t get paid to have fun. My business doesn’t run on fun.
99% of compute power is wasted. You just know a 1GHz Z80 mobile phone with SymbOS would be smooth as silk...
EVs don't need to be any different in suspension parts than conventional vehicles, yet Tesla apparently thought otherwise. Reinventing the wheel, literally.

I'm not an expert but I know that the cast suspension parts they're using won't take overloads as gracefully as traditional stamped steel ones; the latter will bend before breaking and give a lot of early warning of failure, while the former tends to just snap. Combine that with aggressive cost/weight optimisation along with natural manufacturing variance and these failures are not surprising.
> we exhibit an example contradicting these assumptions: it is possible for an SI [snapshot isolation] history to be non-serializable while the sub-history containing all update transactions is serializable.

Do you know what this case is? It could be a truth that won't matter to many/most of us--perhaps good to know, but no reason to stop everything. I don't particularly care as DBs I work with have been Repeatable Read or Read Committed.

It was demonstrated on an Oracle database and it's unclear if it would apply to others.
Reread, this is with moderation on. And I only followed a bunch of other electronics nerds.
Bard is a really stupid name. I get the origin of the name, and it's a short word, and in some sense it's a nice vibe with implications of a mystical poet or whatever. But it's a word that most people don't use.

As many have commented, ChatGPT is a pretty bad name too -- people get the order of the letters wrong all the time -- but at least it starts with "Chat", which explains what you're supposed to do with it.
The real learnings of this incident is how to handle incidents effectively. The author cites ones that I use every time I manage one:

* Centralize - 1 tracking doc that describes the issue, timeline, what's been tested, who owns the incident. Have 1 group chat, 1 'team' (virtual or in person). Get an incident commander to drive the group.

* Create a list of hypotheses and work through them one at a time.

* Use data, not assumptions to prove or disprove your hypotheses.

* Gather as much data as you can, but don't let a particular suspicious graph lead you into a rabbit hole. Keep gathering data.

If you don't do the above you are guaranteed to have a mess, have to repeat yourself over and over and waste time.
I tried to build a startup based on a similar idea, but the traction was not good. The squarespace website is still up https://sundialcalendar.com/

It’s stunning how much of our lives are predictable. We are free will surfers on waves of determinism.
> are not profitable enough

With businesses, you need a certain amount of profitability for the risk or investors will look elsewhere. Maybe your stable, profitable business has a 3% profit margin. Cool, but if it's not growing, I can get 5% on treasuries.

Your comment also depends on when you were in television. Before streaming, prime time slots were limited, so being profitable alone isn't enough if the average pilot you pick up is more profitable.
That 0.5% figure is wrong. It’s closer to 20%. (350,000 people) Here is a write up of many prisoner stats from 2023. See slideshow 3:

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2023.html

Note that terminology in this space is very important and subtle. 7 million people are arrested each year, and > 600K are sent to prison, but the total number of people in prison (and number that are incarcerated one way or another) is much lower than those numbers suggest. The total incarcerated population is about 1.75 million.
Also updating your guys that AI social chat net netwrck. Com has the same logo.
Plenty of bright people don't understand the first thing about computers, even in the generations that came before Gen Z. It just means their calling is potentially in something else. It is possible that the majority of techie youngsters are so used to the abstractions around dealing with filesystems on modern technology that files and filesystems elude them. It's also possibly your nephew is just sharp in another area that only requires understanding how to open and use a web browser, and that plenty of other youths exist with similar cultures around computers as we had growing up.

Then again, a Gen Z software developer at the company I work at was confused on how to download a torrent (not that it matters but the contents of the torrent were legal.) That was at least a bit of a shock for me, as it's difficult for me to imagine someone getting into tech without having gone through the usual piracy phase (that phase lasting shorter or longer depending on the person.)
There was a period of time where uBlock origin wasn't cutting it, so I switched to Brave. But yeah, I agree that the whole ad-blocker is a big cat and mouse game that doesn't favor the tech companies.
https://imgur.com/a/94yN0Ht
If you are going back, I'd be shocked if anyone has a moral leg to stand on. The West isn't better because we came from different roots. We didn't. We have improved, though.

One of the ways we improved was an honest assessment of our faults. Not perfectly honest, but we have been improving. Much of the rest of the world powers blatantly lie on their morality. Shamefully so.
it’s chronological
Mixin Classes: The Yang of the CRTP
>It's not when wages climb too high, it's when the cost differential between wages and automation climb too high. It's possible to have stagnant or declining wages and still be taken over by automation, if the cost of automation drops at a faster rate

You're splitting hairs to distract from the fact that you misrepresented the dynamic earlier. The point remains that the purported bare per-unit-hour cost savings of AI-based automation versus human labor doesn't necessarily account for newly-incurred costs and externalities, which is the real reason why the latter hasn't been replaced.

>I was making the larger contextual point that we can see what happens when people lose their job to technology. AI job loss is a subset of that broader context.

You broadened the scope to non-AI-based automation.

>The original point was that people will be working "retail/food" jobs.

Which is what I originally commented on. You keep asserting a fundamental drudgery inherent in those positions, and I'm saying that that's inaccurate. I'm not moving goalposts, I'm making a point about why more people working them, and having an interest in working conditions and pay being better, will lessen that drudgery.

>You took that original point and then expanded it to encompass all service jobs.

No.

>I do not think all service jobs are drudgery, and I'm made that point clear.

I don't think you have.

>Will AI help us get to the point where all get semi-leisurely pro-social and fulfilling work in a service economy? Maybe to a techno-optimist, but I don't see evidence that is the direction our system tends toward.

So, here is the crux of the issue. My argument was simple, but it's apparently so outside your concept of what's possible that you just... refuse to understand it. That's fine, people get dragged kicking and screaming into the future all the time. But that doesn't make me wrong. It just means you lack some combination of imagination and observation skills. And I'm sorry if that's rude, but I've had arguments with Trump supporters and nuclear energy advocates that were less frustrating.

>So while I do think that certain service jobs can be fulfilling, that is not the future the OP was initially claiming we'd inhabit.

To conclude, hopefully for good: I know. I'm (first mention of AI) OP. I explained the remedies for the current woes of such positions as workers are inevitably displaced to them.
I think tabs could be interesting if coupled with a way to filter the list of blocks (ex: I only want to see math blocks, or only blocks containing the #daily tag, or only blocks from this month).

Then each tab would be an opportunity to apply a new set of filter on top of the same document.
No, I don't think so. If you try to apply conservation of momentum as absolutely as conservation of energy (and that linked physics page states it in simple absolute terms) you can quickly encounter gaps because real objects tend to have less than their theoretically conserved momentum due to permanent deformations and interactions with the environment, or the situation involves friction in any way.

Conservation of energy always holds, whereas conservation of momentum has several important caveats and exceptions. Seemed worth pointing that out with an anecdote that amused me.

Hmmmm, actually can you explain a little more about 'momentum is still conserved'? In the cases that I'm pointing out momentum as a measurable property seems clearly not conserved, whereas the energy is (just transformed).
can someone explain why "pdf" gets a special designation? I understand it's a "document format" and intended for print, but for god sakes why isn't it just as accepted in the browser as HTML? Why hasn't it seamlessly integrated to the point that we don't care anymore?
> I don't want to have to smell that unpleasant plant on the streets or public transit or other public places.

If someone can be high in public without repercussion,
bdw5204's desire not to smell it in public will unfortunately go unsatisfied.
China to ban some monetization and engagement tactics in (online/lootbox) games
The fact that your whole community was insular enough to move to an invite-only app is exactly what worries me about Bluesky. It's just a bunch of cliques. Is that sustainable? We'll see.

I do like the technical vision, a lot. But I haven't been able to try it out because any time I felt the desire to look, nobody could actually link me to a post or a feed. So I never achieved the required activation energy to even look at it, nevermind adding it to my doomscrolling repertoire or signing up to the thing.

Opening up the posts is a good first step to sustainable adoption. Now next time people are mad at Twitter they'll have an outlet instead of being met with a brick wall when they finally get the urge to try something new.
Great work! This is the fastest inference I have ever seen of any truly large language model (>=70b parameters).

Just FYI, you might want to fix autocorrect on iOS, your textbox seems to suppress it (at least for me).
I thought I was pretty explicit in saying exactly that.

Many countries lost more than 10% of their population in World War II in the span of just a few years. Some lost more than 50% of the working age men. Even that wasn't an existential threat.
if we can diagnose autism by measuring how long it takes to take a picture isn't that even better?
Hochul to veto ban on non competes in NY
This - "TESLAS CRASH MORE THAN ANY OTHER BRAND" - https://futurism.com/the-byte/teslas-crash-more-brand-analys... - certainly ought to be manifesting in differential insurance rates, right?
CEO: Well yes, Crapcorp is developing this great world-destroying button, but we put a "do not push" sign on it, so it's totally safe and... wait, who pushed it?

Voice from beyond: I DID.

CEO: Ahaha, early prototype; fortunately we built in a fail safe reset sequence if I just

<disintegrates into dust>
It seems to load quite fast for me. Maybe try again?
To be clear, it's safe to assume the money's left the country in instances of wire fraud.
> It means you prioritize hiring diverse candidates over regular candidates, but without lowering your hiring bar.

This is still illegal. You cannot, outside of bona fide occupational qualification [1], prioritize the hiring any any protected class (race, gender, religion, etc.) over another.

Also, care to explain the criteria for "diverse"? Answer that question and swap out "diverse" in the sentence above with your answer. Then read it aloud, and ask yourself if that's something that's legal. There's a reason why companies hide behind euphemisms like "diverse".

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bona_fide_occupational_qualifi...
Did mounted warfare exist before stirrups? The bronze age was all about chariots, and had little or no mounted combat. I'm not sure if that was because of a lack of stirrups or because horses simply hadn't been bred large enough.

The big question is of course whether Alexander the Great's famous hetairoi used stirrups or not. According to [0] they're considered among the first shock cavalry, and yet I can't find anything about them using stirrups, so clearly mounted combat, including shock cavalry, must have been possible without them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companion_cavalry
I hate to say it, but when you're a new business on the front page of HN... and people are calling you "pre-alpha"... you're missing the boat. There goes another chance to grab a load of new members.

Is this all about tech?? Not enough funding to get things built?

I am not sure I'm even going to have the patience to wait to be allowed to try this platform. Reviews seem very lukewarm.
I have noticed that the quality of responses I get from Google searches
appear to have been in steep decline for a long time.

I have seen others comment on this as well.

I cant say I know when the trend started.

Could this have been running / going on for a long while without
getting the scrutiny, it needed?

Is this spam attack the final act?
In the early days, Twitter used to have a very open and friendly API. It's a big part of why users and third-party devs (I was both) loved it. Same thing was true of Facebook and Reddit.

Over time, they shut down their APIs (or charged huge fees) in an effort to intentionally kill off third-party clients and services.

A key goal for Bluesky is to "lock open" the network and the API so that it's impossible to reverse the decision.
> Also, the standard freeway speed limit is 65 MPH AFAIK, so I-91 seems like an exception that Google Maps is not accounting for (and perhaps human drivers as well).

You cannot average 66 mph without going over 65 mph, and the states involved don't post speed limits over 65 mph. You cannot get this result with by a simple oversight under the assumption that speed limits represent the speed people actually drive.

Consider what inputs might lead Google Maps to such a conclusion.
That’s the whole point. They’re an appliance like a dish washer, fridge or TV.

They’re not marketed as a computer.
Thank you for your contributions. You also want to get paid in exposure?
At least on mobile, it auto-downloads whenever you visit the page. I think it's worth having that be known.
I might surprise you but our current population is not a prerequisite for technological civilization. At 4 billion people died, that would only set us back to 1970s population.
Toxic chemical reactions fuel crises at L.A. County's two largest landfills
One red flag that stood out for me is where the blog says the team considered all apps to be the same and hadn’t looked at any of their logs, only infrastructure stuff.

When they looked they saw all apps were not the same, and it was only a few kinds of apps that were affected.

When a big incident hits, you need people drilling down not just across; and hopefully people who know the actual apps in question.

Maybe this was DevOps people too far into the ops side and not as much on the dev?
Thanks. I personally think that Leonardo was beyond “remarkable”. I just don’t think every doodle was a fully-formed complete idea, and insisting that they must be so is doing his genius a disservice. In those doodles you can literally see his thought process at work.
https://archive.ph/t5UD6
yea fail me once...
Please feel free to add if I've overlooked anything.
These endless conversations about what “tech debt” is reveal how poorly matched the term is.

Debt is not something useless. Or malformed. It is something you owe.

If you sign a contract to produce a feature and get paid up front you have tech debt. Literally.

To pay off the owed feature, you produce & ship the feature.

If you throw out some feature quickly in a haphazard or buggy way that requires maintenance to operate as advertised (regular manual fixes of data base corruption), you now have operational debt. Literally.

To pay off that owed operational commitment, you can fix your bug or keep fixing its impact. Pay off all at once, or for all time.

But if you ship a fully functioning feature that works, regardless of its implementation, you don’t owe anything.

If the feature had a haphazard design or implementation that is going to slow future development, you have taken a shortcut and reduced the quality of your foundation.

Reducing the quality of a foundation due to a shoddy code rework isn’t debt. You don’t owe anything.

It’s a destruction of present net value.

Present net value is your codes immediate value + its expected contribution to future value.

Maintain and increase the “present net value” of your code base by making changes carefully, and investing in its ability to fit future needs.
I would agree on this from experience, even though I would agree with the initial statement as well. The advice applies for some parts in life but not all social contexts.
I've seen that. Shallow clones have too many reason to upgrade to a full clone to be totally useful, as well as the additional load on the server it causes. Partial clones don't (yet) let me just checkout a subdir of the repository with the checkout rooted in that subdir.
Remarkable can be a good compromise
> How could I reliably tell if I'm behind a CGNAT or not? If I poll one of those "what is my IP" websites, and the IP my router has assigned from the wan matches the what is my IP then I'm fine, I'm not behind one, right?

My layman understanding is that the WAN IP on your router will match the "what is my ip" website, but the problem is that it will also match many other people's routers.

Basically imagine your home router and NAT has been moved into the ISP and is serving thousands of end users as well as you... you can't just configure the ISP's CGNAT to forward port 80 to you alone.

I'm not sure if there is a definitive way to know if you are behind CGNAT, however its definitely the case on all mobile networks.
Bronies are just fans of the show, 'Cloppers' are the ones that are sexual about it.
That’s odd. I’ve used bsky for several months along with 5-6 friends and none of us has ever had an issue with explicit content with moderation on. Coming from Twitter the overall content isn’t particularly shocking, though if you’re coming from Threads it is less tame than that.

Out of curiosity, who were you complaining about the porn to? I’ve seen quite a few dogpiles on accounts that register and then proceed to reply en masse to every account they dislike.