skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have had 5 incidents in the last 2 months. I haven't seen that many in such a short period of time before. I know everyone is implementing austerity policies but you need to pay that cloud bill. Beautiful Bezos needs to eat too
Inverter drive heat pumps do well in a continuous and lower output situation, so the conventional wisdom (from gas fueled appliances, often with only 1 or 2 stage burners) to do a nighttime setback for economy is less useful economically. Set back for nighttime comfort if you want/must, but not (much) for economy.
because those rules obviously don't apply to them.
Extism, the WebAssembly framework, hits v1
That's the goal. Currently animal models are still the gold standard for pre-clinical testing.
Little amusing that everyone speaking in the video was in front of a green screen, and not actually in the office, no?
To quote another commenter, “If an interviewer whined about Wall Street TOS, I'd pull my application on the spot.”
But yes, that might be why I didn’t make it past that step. My internet connection also dropped in the middle of it (AT&T Fiber, connected via Ethernet), and I had to give the presentation again, that might have been why- though they explicitly said that wasn’t why, but… you never know.
I had a German boss who said that Germans who designed the DB interface often had meetings to discuss where users were most likely to click onscreen to perform whatever action, and then move that button to the opposite side and if possible under 3 layers of menus.
And also the functionality scope and incentives are pretty poor right now.

For instance I'm trying to work out if I should make a GPT of Summer AI, well I would have to ask the user their location (like Alltrails GPT does) which is a poor experience and I'd have to forgo the usual subscription (which doesn't even cover server costs) and take whatever their "usage" based comp is.

I suspect in a few months when they add options for fetching more data, more interoperability with other apps and services, and if they add better monetization, then the GPT store will get some really interesting GPT's added.
>Reddit's reputation is improving hand in hand with the tightening of their content policies.

What? Reddit has gone from interesting and nerdy, to circle-jerk, to an insane aslyum. At least for anything remotely political (and political things will often invade hobby subs). I used to use it all day every day, and now I use X instead. Almost entirely 100% -> 0% | 0% -> 100%.
i need that muffin recipe.
Did energy prices go up as a result?
The Big Dummy's Guide to Fidonet (1992)
Thinking this video is a good idea, and the message it is attempting to convey, both seem to be "on brand" for "Internet Brands Inc."
Throw in Wheel of Time while you're at it
I think it's a threat to the competition (i.e., other companies), a bit of team spirit: when we're a team, don't mess with us! Earlier they have the 'crush the competition' bit, with someone crushing a can.

Edit: I mean not that it's a message for the competition to hear, but it's the leaders telling telling the team 'we're tough - when we're together!'.
Redirect web is a pretty neat app. Does exactly what it says on the tin and isn’t intrusive. I use it to bring back i.reddit.com with a nice homegrown regex
Probably because he wasn't at the office.
>The solution is to treat these two concepts separately. One subsystem should be used for representing the source of truth, and another should be used for materializing any number of indexed stores off of that source of truth. Once again, this is event sourcing plus materialized views.

At work we decouple the read model from the write model: the write model ("source of truth") consists of traditional relational domain models with invariants/costraints and all (which, I think, is not difficult to reason about for most devs who are already used to ORM's), and almost every command also produces an event which is published to the shared domain event queue(s). The read model(s) are constructed by workers consuming events and building views however they fit (and they can be rebuilt, too). For example, we have a service which manages users ("source of truth" service), and another service is just a view service (to show a complex UI) which builds its own read model/index based on the events of the user service (and other services). Without it, we'd have tons of joins or slow cross-service API calls.

Technically we can replay events (in fact, we accidentally once did it due to a bug in our platform code when we started replaying ALL events for the last 3 years) but I don't think we ever really needed it. Sometimes we need to rebuild views due to bugs, but we usually do it programmatically in an ad hoc manner (special scripts, or a SQL migration). I don't know how our architecture is properly called (I never heard anyone call it "event sourcing").

It's just good old MySQL + RabbitMQ and a bit of glue on top (although not super-trivial to do properly I admit: things like transactional outboxes, at least once delivery guarantee, eventual consistency, maintaining correct event processing order, event data batching, DB management, what to do if an event handler crashes? etc.) So I wonder, what we're missing without Rama with this setup, what problems it solves and how (from the list above) provided we already have our battle-tested setup and it's language-agnostic (we have producers/consumers both in PHP and Go) while Rama seems to be more geared towards Java.
Announcement post: https://openai.com/blog/introducing-chatgpt-team
The scale of "all the postal mail in the world" is about as large as it comes, so to a first approximation, every little potential issue you can imagine, as well as every one you can't, will actually happen. Is that "fragile" in Russian or "urgent" in Mongolian? Is that bit of text the oblast or the road?

But even beyond that, even expecting every postal system in the world to have to understand every script is itself not feasible. I don't mean this to offend, but Arabic is just a scribble to me. I know from reading articles about the difficulty of typography that Arabic letters are generally strongly affected by their preceding and/or following characters, but that only from HN, not from my normal day-to-day experience. I couldn't even parse it into letters correctly or safely. The ideographic languages have no spaces, so I can't break them into words safely. (After some non-trivial study of Japanese, I could mostly do it, but still only mostly.) It's not a reasonable expectation to put on every postal system in the world.
> I'm Swedish, so everything about me is public anyway

I'm confused, Isn't EU much more privacy focused and with GDPR etc it's easier to reduce your internet footprint?
> I personally know people who will jump on remote work only to st around watching netflix all day

In office work is prone to the same difficulty in different forms. You don’t think people were alt-tabbing in the office? Taking really long lunches or coffee breaks? Tying one or more drinks on during those breaks? Clocking out mentally if not physically by 2 on Fridays?
I've found a few. Queen's Gambit, Yellowstone - were quite good for me. Born in 81 so maybe not quite matured my cranky-ness. Stopped paying my (UK) license fee years ago. Netflix/Prime do tend to recycle a lot of stuff in the recommendation screens.
Made this one awhile ago to speed up scaffolding for some SaaS dev, and it works 'ok'. https://chat.openai.com/g/g-iFDxja3KI-bootstrap-express-post... ...has anyone had success with your own GPTs?
The reason to come to office doesn't sound very convincing. What is convincing is the threat at the end.
Isn’t this just a thinly veiled ad?

That’s the way I read it, until I stopped when I realized it was another ad.

I feel like these posts should be tagged with [Advertisement] like they used to do in magazines.
It's silly that you can't even see what these things can do without having a $20/mo subscription. They have one line descriptions for each one, but it doesn't really tell you what it actually does. They need to add a feature list and provide some examples for each one of these. There is zero reason for anyone to start a new subscription when you don't even know what the app does.
To answer, daily peak, 3pm PT to about 11pm PT...

That starts 6pm ET, so post work and kids, it's "free time". By 6pm PT(9pm ET) we would be hitting a peak, for the next hour or two and then winding down till 11. It's the prime time for "adult working women" as a demographic.
I don't have any questions but do wish you well on your journey through the Andes :) Signing up for the course for fun, thanks!
I've heard several different complaints, but probably the most common one is that it's hard for women to find compatible men who are interested in real relationships. Most men seem to just want hookups, not taking the time needed to build something with substance.

This isn't a complaint I hear men make about women.
It is clear that you do not understand how an LLM works if you believe it can explain a novel scientific paper to you with any reasonable degree of accuracy.
> but don't seem to believe in it that much.

Yeah, if they won't eat their own dog food then why would I want to eat it?
This was a little buried, so surfacing some #s that seemed interesting to put this in perspective:

- 565 MWh of storage capacity

- 185 MW of instantaneous power delivery capacity

- $219M of financing for the project

Hawaii's residential electricity price is roughly $0.415 per kWh vs a US average of $0.162.
I think some companies just want to look for a reason to disqualify a candidate to make their decision process easier. If you have two roughly equal candidates, pick the one whose side project did NOT violate some random company’s TOS. I kind of get it. It’s incredibly lazy and arguably just as unethical as violating some random company’s TOS, but I get it.
There is this 2021 paper where they constructed a logic OR gate protein:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26937-x

Some companies are planning to use them when designing drugs: "only activate this if both antibodies bind"
I got weird feelings about that as well.

I'm not sure they mean to start a RTO Krewe, but it sure feels like they're calling out the WFH Krewe.
The quantity and type of SPIR-V issues which DirectXShaderCompiler has makes me believe it is not really used in serious settings.

Microsoft also directly states in the README it is a community contribution, which seems an intentional choice of language.

I'd love to be proven wrong, though
Cultural war it seems.

"VLKK Chairperson Violeta Meiliūnaitė claims that legalising such a spelling would “violate the Lithuanian name system and have a negative impact on the country’s linguistic and cultural identity and distinctiveness”."

https://media.efhr.eu/2023/09/27/vlkk-legalisation-of-female...
Show HN: Cardog – Finding a car made easy
Hi HN,

I just finished building the first version of Cardog, a platform that makes finding a car online simple. There is currently over 240,000 vehicles to search and filter from. Currently I only have vehicles from Canada but am working on adding 20,000 dealerships from the US.

Searching for cars online is an awful experience, most dealerships websites are littered with popups, ads and bugs. This leaves users with the large vehicle listing platforms, which suffer from the same problems of failing to make searching simple.

That's why I built Cardog, I saw most dealerships use the same few website providers, so I built a system to fetch the data and serve it in one simple to use platform. Everyday the data is fetched and updated so there isn't any stale listings.

Its my first major project and I was hoping to get some feedback from the HN community. I was also hoping someone from Google might be able to speed up the OAuth verification process.

I'm really excited to share this with the community and would love to hear any feedback.
https://ourworldindata.org/battery-price-decline

https://www.energy-storage.news/global-bess-deployments-to-e...

Start where electricity is expensive and/or the revenue you steal from thermal generators (grid support mentioned, synthetic inertia, black start capability, etc) supports the economics, and work your way down as battery costs decline and you force thermal generators to become uneconomic due to compressing their runtimes. Think in systems.
Show HN: Dbeel – A distributed thread-per-core db
For a while now I had the urge to learn how to pick the "right" database for projects, I looked around online at different databases to try to understand their different traits, and was bombarded with marketing instead of actual info on the advantages and drawbacks.

The only solution for me was to learn some database internals (I read the wonderful book written by Alex Petrov), and the problems seemed so interesting, I could not fight the urge and went ahead with trying to write my own db.

Anyway, ~9 months have passed and I feel like I'm "done", I have learned a ton, and really proud of dbeel.

Now I can pick a database and way more easily understand what are its most defining traits.

Some short time in the future, I will release a blog post or something, where I will write about the fundamental problems you need to solve when writing a performant data system like a database, so stay tuned :)
I don't really know how to interpret this comment. 3.2M rows are not loading into the browser at once, only about 10k. The page size is configurable. The frontend and backend have a contract to agree on how this works, so as the user scrolls (and frontend needs another page) it asks the backend for more. The frontend will keep up to N pages (also configurable) cached in the client. Works shockingly well without any fuss at all. The AG-Grid team really did a great job here (it is not free for this particular feature, but well worth the cost)
Welcome to weight loss discussion on HN, where any rational point like "eat less" or "calories in, calories out" gets downvoted and discussed to death.

Apparently for this crowd taking medicines is better than stopping stuffing yourself, because you know, if you take a medicine you can keep stuffing yourself.

Oh, and also "it's more complicated than that" is always a nice escape from the harsh reality of thermodynamics.
> It turns out they'd never received those requests. I'll give you two guesses ..

I thought me having a hyphen on my last name was bad. I'm glad no place I work at has tried to add them. This is a great ending to this story btw, and maybe a reason to try and contact them via phone if you never hear back at all.
OpenAI today updated their Usage Policy to include the GPT Store: https://openai.com/policies/usage-policies

> We want to make sure that GPTs in the GPT Store are appropriate for all users. For example, GPTs that contain profanity in their names or that depict or promote graphic violence are not allowed in our Store. We also don’t allow GPTs dedicated to fostering romantic companionship or performing regulated activities.

> These policies may be enforced automatically at submission time or applied retroactively upon further review.
Introduction to College Mathematics with a Programming Language (1978)
Amir, you can also go to our website: https://akhenaten.co and fill the form
Managers don't care about commercial property values, I don't understand why this asinine argument keeps being made.
I had my share of problems, so I didn't use non-latin chars in my name as much as possible, but there was an instance that really surprised me.

It was around 2010 and I joined (as a contract) company which used Google's Cloud Platform for their products. It was initial phase, but stuff was ramping up quite quickly.

So, since I was contractor, and it was supposed to be short gig, access was given to my Google account, which was one of not that many places that had my full name visible (mostly for visibility and official matters).

Week or two later I was to do something with CDN, or Cloud Files, don't remember the product, but it was managed through Python script. As soon as I logged in and tried to do something I got familiar error about unsupported encoding.

That was weird, but as that was Python script I quickly figured out that the reason was that Google was pulling my name from their account and their script couldn't handle it. Oh well, happens, I mailed support (what a time to be alive back then!) and went toward my way not really expecting much.

I received response shortly after, that in this case it wasn't possible to fix the access script. After few back and forth where I pushed against using latin chars in every Google product possibly support finished with something along the lines "well, you can just change your name in that case".

Funnily enough, for company that was hiring me it was the last straw and they took their business elsewhere. I, personally, was annoyed for a long time, but today it only makes for a good anecdote. I never used any GCP products though.
Fyi, while PTSD is commonly associated with the experiences of war, it can be caused by any trauma, like a car crash or abuse. PTSD is actually a fear of a traumatic memory. A person experiences flashbacks (pieces of the traumatic memory) and fears that the traumatic event will reoccur. The most effective treatment is exposure therapy - in a nutshell, you eventually write down the traumatic memory in full (not just pieces of it) and read it until it becomes boring/you understand that for example it wasn't your fault. Here is a recent meta analysis https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02727...
I don't know how you can see GOP behavior, in Congress, the courts, and (when they have it) the White House, and overlook the radical anti-regulation, pro-corruption and power policies and actions.
I still work remote, but go to a co-working space most days even if it's just half a day.

Getting dressed, out of the house, and seeing real people face-to-face is a huge boost to my mental health.
Amazon's approach to RTO seemed broadly effective at getting workers into the office even though it was largely bungled at level of fine details.

1. Track badging
2. Enforce RTO via chain-of-command. SVPs, VPs, and directors have aggregate RTO compliance metrics. SVPs crack the whip on VPs to get their numbers up, VPs crack the whip on their directors, and directors crack the whip on their reports, and so on, all the way down.

The actual implementation of the policy was a mess and there was poor messaging especially at the beginning. I'm pretty sure it still doesn't take PTO or illnesses into account — if there's an issue with that, you're supposed to work it out with your manager — and from what I heard they simply handled the holidays by excluding the work weeks before and after Christmas from the metrics. But, ultimately, the chain of command approach appears to have worked very well in terms of actually getting people to come in.

edit: Just noticed from your profile that you also work at Amazon, so I guess there's nothing new in my comment for you :)
True but we should also celebrate successes like this. If we wait acknowledging progress until all emissions are replaced we miss the good deeds that happen.
An LLM can reasonably explain code because code is both a closed, finite set of instructions and heavily explained in the training data that contains a vast number of learning materials.

A novel scientific paper is much, much different than code.
There is a legal requirement to adjust names to conform to Lithuanian morphology. This includes foreign names.
Anyone who has ever posted a "I need help" here on HN and gotten support has also used "backchannels".

An actual concern would be if this "backchannel" turned out to be messaging an insider who acts outside of policy. We know the Saudis and other state backed groups had insiders in Twitter at least, but I'm much less inclined to believe there are any pro-israel insiders in say, TikTok.
I hate the cold, I don't like being in snow for more than a few days at a time.

But if I were single I would seriously consider applying for a winter-over at the pole based on these blog posts. It just seems so interesting and different.
That's unfair. For the snapshot scenario, you described the bureaucratic sad path for doing it. For the soft delete, you used a happy path.

Let's compare both in either best-scenario or worst-scenario:

Snapshots on good team with no bureaucracy: Everything is automated. Even retrieval is automated via individual, commited, retrieval commands. Setup is done once and requires little maintenance, retrievals can be reused if fallen in same category (restore account, restore conversation, etc).

Snapshots on shitty team with lots of bureaucracy: Everything is manual, AWS-panel operated and only a few people have access, you have to escalate to initiate the proccess.

Soft deletes on good team with no bureaucracy: Everyones respect the soft deletion, no one queries it or do funny stuff unless for recovery purposes. The soft delete related columns, structures and tools are standardized.

Soft deletes on shitty team with lots of bureaucracy: There might be multiple, competing standards for soft delete column naming and structure. Other teams ignore the soft delete and query hidden data either knowingly (tricky hacks) or unknowingly (data team unaware of soft delete model), you can't do shit about it. When it breaks your soft deleted data, you're the one who has to fix it.

If we put external stuff in the mix (teams, people, org structures) we can spin it the way we want, but that doesn't reveal much information about the technical issue itself (having some kind of reasonable data recovery).
Starlink test of direct-to-cell texts successful [pdf]
My shout-out page: https://www.cynicusrex.com/shoutout.html
Yes, unless your data is part of a public database. The principle of public access to official records [1] combined with the Swedish freedom of the press act [2] makes my full name, our version of the SSN, an estimate of my salary as well as my address just a google search away. Which is not a problem for me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_public_access_to_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Freedom_of_the_Press_A...

EDIT: There are even search engines to find out who in an area have been convicted of various crimes.
There are ways to measure performance beyond "someone is sitting in a chair within eyeshot." Its non-trivial, but its do-able.
> Physically, weight-loss is utterly trivial. Literally everything that people say works, does.

You can't say this on HN, where weight loss is a myth and the only way out is to take a crazy life-altering medicine. Exercise? PFFT. I walked a flight of stairs once, and did not lose a single gram.
Maybe in general, but this is in the context of "time loop logic". Ordinarily, you can have entangled states where measuring both parts will produce the same (random) outcome. Unfortunately the outcome cannot be influenced by either party, so it's useless for communication, as you say.

Now suppose that the first party resolves to go back in time and kill his grandfather unless the bits he measures are precisely the message he wishes to send. The universe can't tolerate the paradox, so it is corralled into the only non-paradoxical outcome: both parties read the desired message. Something like that, anyway.
Old but gold https://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus
Bottled water contains 100x more plastic nanoparticles than previously thought
Yeeeep. I usually end up creating isolated grids with circuit networks and banks of capacitors to make it so the power production (and fuel production to feed it) can never shut down...

Dyson Sphere Program (an amazing factory builder game, if you haven't tried it) has similar problems -- but no circuit networks. I haven't yet figured out how to make a robust power generation system that doesn't rely on just alerting the operator that something is going wrong...
More stuff to hack?

https://i.ibb.co/VBz88GF/basketcatch.jpg

Alternatively, a nice place to park your shopping list. (Please don't use superglue. )