skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: California, USA.

Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: No.

Technologies: I've been in a SRE & net/dev/sec ops role with some finops and ML/AI-Ops in the mix as well; About 50/50 mix with k8s vs bare metal.

Primary Languages: Python
Databases: SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and MongoDB (older atlas and newer Vector DB for AI/Embedding applications) Elastic Search (if you consider it a DB, that is :D)
Infrastructure: AWS, Docker/k8s Linux SysAdmin, Terraform (and the rest of the Hashi suite; consul/vault...) as well as most of the popular CCNF/k8s tools.
OS: Linux, macOS
Other Languages: Rust, go

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Email: v13gk5nfi@mozmail.com
(email relay since it's only a matter of time before a bot scrapes this and starts spamming me :D or see email on https://karlquinsland.com/contact/)

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Seasoned SRE/DevOps Engineer. Decade+ of experience working with multi-region AWS deployments on bare metal and EKS/k8s. All the usual IaC, Ci/Cd, config-mgmt tooling: terraform, cdk, cloudformation, GH Actions/Jenkins.

In general, I like automating stuff and am pretty good at diagnostics / incident management and resolution.
Walkie-talkies are still unconventional technical items. Everyone has a phone - homeless people have phones. Phones are ubiquitous, and someone having one is not unusual.

They might be lower-tech, but it is odd if someone has a walkie-talkie - also easy to monitor (range == eavesdroppers have range too) and it is in fact illegal to use encryption over the available frequencies or to send digital data (so all things you could do, but which would draw attention).

The problem with committing crimes is that efforts to cover up the crime themselves are likely to create evidence of it.
Bitcoin futures ETF's are already allowed - several exist and they track the BTC:USD rate relatively accurately. I'm not sure that a spot price ETF is really a huge breakthrough in terms of actual mechanics.

But approval is an opportunity to create hype and buzz around cryptocurrency.
The warthog is a pretty ugly plane IMO, yet well loved and highly productive, so function seems to have won.
Another fun one: the original OLPC XO-1 (2007?) had an AMD Geode, but ran on Open Firmware and had ad-hoc controllers and drivers for things that would have gone through ACPI, etc. Microsoft claimed they had Windows XP booting on one, but I've yet to see how that would have worked.
> nothing legal it can do that something else can't do better

Eh, Treasuries should probably be traded on a blockchain. Cryptocurrency is nonsense. But the tech has legs. It just needs to, ironically, clear its way of the crypto/web3 crowd first.
Only Sunday was off thanks to Christianity. Free Saturday only came in early XX century. Before that it was work 6 days a week.
I have a fridge, oven and tv from Samsung (all bought in the last 24 months). None has a problem.

I absolutely vouch for their appliances, I did spend good time reviewing and testing the competition and the fridge is perfect.

Actually fwiw I have never had any issue with Samsung electronics stuff (also have a galaxy tablet SE 7).

Thought it was fair to counter such negative anecdotes with a happy customer.
Good point. I should've said "presences" rather than "accounts".
Most of the comments here bias negative, but you shouldn't take that to heart. Hackernews is, in general, conservative when it comes to attempts to displace entrenched, battle-tested solutions (especially when they come wrapped with unfortunate, hyperbolic rhetoric).

It's a very impressive demo. You should be proud, keep your chin up, and keep us updated as Rama's value prop. continues to grow.
I mean, assuming you know everything your hardware is doing.

but yeah, the need for privacy is oddly intertwined with AI features.
Yeah when I read it felt the wannabe tech bro vibes, trying hard to look like Apple from the get go is not a good sign.
I agree that it's really dumb, especially in public.
Appears that only people from the northern hemisphere can order this, Shame.
> Ten people wasting 6 minutes doesn't necessarily waste an hour. No one is curing cancer with the time "saved" from loading GTA Online. More likely than not, they're playing GTA Online 6 minutes less.

That's an assertion. One I don't accept without some strong backing. The extra 5 minutes might mean a discussion somewhere is a bit longer leading to valuable insight. It might mean just trying that last thing before finishing up which you wouldn't try because it shouldn't work anyway. You can imagine any world changing situation which only occurs because of those extra few minutes.

> Why should that problem be prioritized over everything else?

Because it's burning away lifetimes. Besides no one would have complained if this was in the game for a few months and then fixed. It was in the game for YEARS. That is not "prioritzed over everything else" that is "the priority is so low you have to dive to the mariana trench to find the ticket".
I would hope that the judicial system fixes the government intervention. I haven’t heard of similar cases in Canada or other liberal democracies.
What the Japan and Alaska Airlines Incidents Tell Us about Airline Safety
I mostly agree and was happy to hear that you could shake the device to bring up an on-screen keyboard to use on the touch screen.
There is absolutely demand for that, especially when you add in artificial scarcity.
yes RAM is shared between CPU and GPU, I am able to run Mixtral-8x7B in this machine at decent speed, this is pretty good for testing LLM, yes
Attention is all you need. And then look into maybe working at Walmart.
>Why do government agencies even have accounts on proprietary walled-garden online platforms? That's for purposes like celebrity publicists, influencer brand promotion, disreputable mob behavior, and astroturfing.

You're describing some of the behaviors that occur on those platforms, not their purpose. Governments have accounts on those platforms because it makes communicating with their constituents easier, because that's where the people are. It would be grossly irresponsible in this day and age for a government not to have any social media presence at all.
> the reality is that ALL personal data is potentially personally identifying

To this point, an exercise for the reader might be to think about everywhere they've gone and how long they've been there for the past two weeks while considering every person who never left their side for this period. For the vast majority of people, that list will contain nobody, and that's why "anonymized" location data is still personal information.
Why not name your database "my_db_all" and then create a view called "my_db" that's just "select * from my_db_all where deleted != true", or something to that effect?
Though I agree flying is extremely safe, keep in mind that of those 4 years, two of them were while the 737 MAX was grounded, and much of it was while air travel was much lower due to COVID.
I'm sure many people can use this as their defense. "I didn't buy and sell on the news, my friend did!"
I actually don't know anything about MyPy, only that it exists. Does it run that example correctly, that is, does it print "nopenope"? Because I think it's the correct behaviour, type hints should not actually affect evaluation (well, beyond the fact that they must be names that are visible in the scopes thay're used in, obviously), altough I could be wrong.

Besides, my point was that one of the reasons why languages with (sound-ish) static types manage to have better performance because they can omit all of those run-time type checks (and the supporting machinery) because they'd never fail. And if you have to put those explicit checks, then the type hints are actually entirely redundant: e.g. Erlang's JIT ignores type specs, it instead looks at the type guards in the code to generate specialized code for the function bodies.
Hamas isn’t a country it’s a terrorist organization. It didn’t invade, it terrorized.

Anyone who ignores disproportionate, egregious civilian murders to explain their perspective that Israel is good makes a better case for a misinformed whatabouting propagandist.

That said, I genuinely don’t want this to be an Israel vs. Palestine conversation and more a conversation about why shouldn’t even “evil” theocracies have a right to defended themselves?
Loss of cooking skills hurt ability to adapt to rising food prices, experts say
Next on tiktok: How I became a millionaire from this device selling my bot!! Link in bio!!
Also this should be a massive warning to companies, non-profits, and governments who think "Sure, Elon is mismanaging this and platforming the worst people and making it a cult of personality, but its not that bad. We get to reach a lot of people, so its still good for us."

Now they have to worry about whether Elon is in the mood to give your account proper security or if your password hash leaked "by accident" by a "junior dev." Or just the everyday incompetence of all personality-cult organizations. Elon went from being sued by the SEC to hosting its humiliation.

Elon is chuckling it up right now. The problem with personality-led companies is that if you get on the bad side of that personality, then anything goes.
Thank you! My original motivation for this was just so I could execute the Al Gore-ithm pun :)
I submitted using the title from the article metadata instead of what's displayed in the article, since the metadata title was more descriptive and less clickbaity.
401k accounts at Fidelity don’t generally allow one to hold Bitcoin even if they do have a self directed account. With a Bitcoin ETF people don’t need permission from their employer anymore. I’m also skeptical of their current plans and whether they actually allow people to hold Bitcoin. Employees I’ve spoken to in the department have told me the most Id be able to get in a retirement account is “exposure” to the broader crypto market which is undesirable to those who are just interested in Bitcoin.
I set timers while cooking with speech all the time and I don’t see why that seems weird to you. I just think of it like some natural language parser helping me do something instead of talking to myself. Is it talking to yourself you find strange?
Only a small fraction of the covid test and trace costs were on software, the overwhelming majority was on lab tests and PCR kits.
oh thanks! I am getting down votted for a typo? reminds me grammar nazies during slashdot days... okay
To be fair, OpenAI made it very clear what they were about back when they ditched being open and made that multibillion dollar deal with Microsoft.

Don't listen to what they say, watch what they do.
Scientists outline bold solution to climate change, biodiversity loss
Bitcoin futures ETF's already exist - I'm not convinced that a spot price ETF is any huge breakthrough.
Judicial interpretation is essential. Half the artifice of western civilization is built on the word 'reasonable' and its interpretations in caselaw. However judgement cannot be the primary definition of a policy. 'I know it when I see it' couldn't even be the definition of obscenity - the court repaired it 10 years later with a more clearly delineated test in Miller.

The definition of 'platform' or 'monopoly' or w/e in the context of TFA is necessarily going to be technical and detailed, and encourage the entities it regulates to drive right up to the lines it draws. The job of the policymaker is to draw lines that accomplish her intentions.
Yeah, I don't want it. I spend the past 7 years in automotive engineering (firmware/controls systems stuff) I much prefer older stuff. Every time I hop in a newer car and it jerks the wheel from me or slams the brakes because a smudge is on the camera or a reflection. My truck weighs nearly 8klbs and is over 20ft long, I carry enough insurance to assume myself and the vehicle I hit will all be dead, god forbid it ever happens. Again my experience in automotive I have learned that newer is not "built to last" in a business sense and parts manufacturers (and remans) obsolete parts for newer vehicles faster as well (or at least the supply chain dries up MUCH quicker), we have seen vehicles scrapped for easy reasons because the repair job cost more than the vehicle was worth IMO due to complexity or availability.

I could continue to blow hot air in your direction for hours. Needless to say I'm hoping to get out of automotive and keep my old vehicles on the road for as long as the government allows.
Packages that make it into nixpkgs (and are not ignored by Hydra because e.g. they're non-free) get copies of their fetched sources included in the nixpkgs binary cache. So they're there for "posterity" (there's no such thing as posterity, though I'm sure some wise people are maintaining full personal backups of the nixpkgs binary cache).
Most people won't want to carry multiple devices, and I doubt people will sacrifice their existing phone.

When Apple implement something remotely similar to this into iOS (WWDC this year, anyone?), it will likely render products like this obsolete.

Honourable mention, Teenage Engineering crushing it with the hardware, as usual.
Cast All The Things: send videos from many online sources to your Chromecast
Yep, that’s a fine phrasing of it!
I think of them as throwaway. Get a good install, run them until a mechanical part fails, then replace with new.

It’s not how it “should be”, but that’s how the economics have shaken out. Paying a tech windshield time and working time (probably twice) and finding/waiting on the proprietary parts is a losing game. If it works 30 days, it’s probably going to work 8-12 years.
In the context of this thread - how many startups do you think strictly adhere to best practices?
There is no retirement when you do gig work
Oh boy. I would love to dedicate my entire working hours to the pure joy of programming (talking with customers and understanding their requirements, included). Instead I have to deal with tons of BS and accidental complexity in the form of:

- k8s

- ci/cd

- containers

- gradle/npm/poetry/composer/etc

- ORMs

- aws/gcp

- jira/scrum

- swagger/grpc

- kafka/sns/rabbitmq

and tons of yaml.
They don't make anything if the ETF doesn't get SEC approval.
Someone has to post it: that'd be worth $736,592,000 today if you'd kept it all.
> Putting children into an oven is certainly in the range of things that you could find in horror movies

or for that matter popular children's fairy tales
I store the playdate in one sock. I can store this in the paired sock for a few hours of light per year.
> OODA loop?

Observe, Overreact, Deny, Apologise?

[Edit]. Just kidding. OODA is foundational.
I really enjoyed the first half of the book, but hated the later parts.
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The idea that the aliens could modify protons to become super-powerful supercomputers that could manipulate matter in basically arbitrary ways (and then use this to mess psychologically with individual humans) really violates my idea of good science fiction. There should be a coherent science model behind how things work in-universe and if the universe is basically supposed to be ours the science should basically be ours as well, possibly with some tweaks or extensions. That storyline just doesn't go for me.

When there was all the discussion about the 'shooter and the farmer' hypothesis I was convinced the sci-fi explanation coming was that the protagonist's world was really a simulation; the demonstrations violating physics then would be explained by someone having control outside the simulation. The lesson of the shooter and farmer stories is that empirical induction (like understanding the physics of our world via scienctific experiment) would give incorrect results if there was an outside power manipulating the results (in my anticipated storyline, the simulation). But instead the book went its own frustrating direction tht didn't tie with the shooter and farmer stories.
I can’t open a store without something to sell so it sounds like neither of us have an actual business model.
It’s a really interesting product that I’m not going to buy!

Declarative interfaces that allow you to describe what you want and use agents to go out to different services and chain them together is a cool idea:

I don’t want to spend time using dozens of different apps with different (often poorly designed) interfaces.

Having a push to talk hardware button instead seems less clunky than a “hey siri” key phrase (I use Siri dozens of times a day but unfortunately ‘raise to talk’ feature on Apple Watch has never worked well for me).

I’m curious how their LAM works with interfaces being updated- if they need to retrain with UI updates or if it’s flexible enough to be stable with UI changes and new features etc.

I currently use ChatGTP sessions to dive into various topics I’m interested in, and explore ideas- I do like the idea of dedicated hardware that would allow this, but it’s something I imagine I’d keep on the coffee table at home, I don’t want to get a dedicated SIM and data connection or carry around another device.

They’ve raised $30M and I wish them well, I hope they survive and have me as a customer in the future.
More Than Half of the World Will Be Obese by 2035, Report Says
Reminds me of how the Pontiac Aztek did very poorly in reviews and sales, but became very popular on the used car market because of Breaking Bad[0] in the early to mid 2010s.

[0]: https://www.inverse.com/article/6092-kids-are-buying-up-pont...
Presumably the bid and level of busy-ness are positively correlated rather than inverse/negatively correlated.
It's a client device to an LLM that can use software on your behalf, presumably running on Android and Chrome/Linux VMs that they host. You log in to their web portal, authenticate various apps as you would on your own phone, and then the LLM can do everything you can do. You can also train it to do specific tasks.

When you press the button on the side, you speak as you would type to ChatGPT, but now the LLM can do arbitrary things as you.
Who boots every day?
> both of those require the general public to have some amount of technical knowledge

Twitter and Instagram could repost the government feeds.
Market manipulation by SEC itself?! So strange.
HP Enterprise to acquire Juniper Networks for $14B
more accidents is less safe, anyway you cut it. I really can't understand how you can view flying as not being less safe in this moment.
If you want to do integration over huge time spans to make your point, lets start at zero and go to infinity... human lifespan is 0 years long average over history, seeing as we didn't exist for some period of time. So any changes to human life in shorter time spans is completely meaningless to an average. Is this 0 year lifespan a useful statistic?
It looks like it depends on applications either using threads or go routines for concurrency:

> When collecting invocation logs through eBPF and cBPF, DeepFlow calculates information such as syscall_trace_id, thread_id, goroutine_id, cap_seq, tcp_seq based on the system call context. This allows for distributed tracing without modifying application code or injecting TraceID and SpanID. Currently, DeepFlow can achieve Zero Code distributed tracing for all cases except for cross-thread communication (through memory queues or channels) and asynchronous invocations.
So if one of my error messages leaks sensitive data to Sentry, and therefore gets used for AI training, are you going to delete your entire AI model upon request?

You know that technically that would virtually be the only guaranteed way to comply with such requests, right?
Thing is, the US isn't going to attack (with ground forces) until they've thoroughly destroy the enemy with a "superior air defense." Take a look at how the US handled Desert Storm. Over 100K sorties simply leveling anything slightly threatening. Now most militaries can't fight this way, they simply don't have the resources. But the US spends $800B annually on its military.
There was a truly excellent museum at Newquay Airport called the Cornwall Aviation Heritage Centre. It had a number of rare British aircraft - just to name a few:

- a Vickers Super VC10 airliner in flying condition[1], one of only 22 built and one of the even fewer number that underwent a successful conversion to military in-flight refuelling service

- a BAC 1-11 airliner, the last in flying condition, I believe

- a English Electric Lightning supersonic interceptor

In 2022, the museum's lease was terminated by the Cornwall County Council with eight months' notice. When the museum found a private donor and proposed to move all the aircraft to a nearby site (which belonged to a local businessman who wanted to support the effort), that same Council cancelled one of their meetings. The meeting was supposed to have been to arrange temporary storage for the exhibits during construction of the new museum site. This gave the museum one week to move or destroy the aircraft. Some of the airframes were returned to the armed forces (who have historic collections of their own, for instance at Yeovilton).

The Super VC10 was disassembled; a few metres of the plane's front section were moved to the RAF base at St. Athan. The BAC 1-11 had a similar end, with the forward fuselage moved to one day be turned into a café in Southampton to support a local aviation museum.

[1]: When I visited the museum, I was asked not to touch any of the VC10's engine controls, because, as the volunteer explained at the time, it still had some fuel in the tanks!
People are delusional _or_ you don't get it _or_ the truth is somewhere in between
Well, it will let be boot an OS that isn't Windows, cool. Still can't modify the signed firmware itself.
I was going to spend some time criticizing/ridiculing this ("analog scroll wheel" in the feature list made me lol) but then I saw the price. $200? Maybe.
Completely agree with you along with a single caveat.

I do think some of the UX of these devices offer something your mobile phone doesn't but in the name of testing the market, it would make more sense for them to build devices that are currently accessories to your phone, see what use case is getting traction and if a self contained device is necessary.

What I find surprising about these devices is that not only am I paying a lot for the device, presumably because they over-built on software so they could have a stand-along experience, but I also have to have a 2nd SIM for it?

Is everyone paying $50/month for each mobile connection?
Never a dull moment with crypto. This may compel the SEC to delay. This is why you don't chase fomo.
> This is bunk, even if we forget that campaign donations aren't bribes

Are you sure? A quick search seems to indicate that Boeing certainly makes campaign donations
Slightly longer linger.ms should squeeze more throughput (at the expense of higher latency) not the other way around.
Tough.

OpenAI's wholesale abuse of the internet has made the internet no longer an acceptable place for me to distribute data and writing to the general public. I have no sympathy whatsoever for them.
I couldn’t help but read the title to the tune of Where Have All the Cowboys Gone by Paula Cole.
My thoughts exactly. I'm willing to give it a try because it's exactly how I imagined a companion device for intelligent note taking. Given that it's a collaboration with TE, I trust the build quality. My only concerns rest in the lack of a subscription given the cloud reliance on the OS, and as I'm sure many others feel, security with a fledgling device and it's interactions as an agent of you is definitely an important consideration.
We've made elements up to mass number 294.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superheavy_element

However, the specific isotopes made in the r-process are very neutron rich, right up to the neutron drip line, and I don't believe we've made many of them.
Meh,its better than nothing, but real world traffic is often very different than simulated traffic. If it isn't actually working with real traffic than i am not impressed.
https://archive.is/Aw7vO