skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey everybody! Interim Technical Lead of the OpenTofu project here, happy to answer any questions!

I'm really excited to see this release go out, and I'm looking forward to everybody's thoughts and feedback. It took us a while, but there was a lot of groundwork to be laid (esp. the registry). Just to be clear, this work was one-time, so we expect to be quicker with future releases.

Additionally, you can find a post on our blog about this, and what we're planning for the near future[0].

[0]: https://opentofu.org/blog/opentofu-is-going-ga
>> (3) whether these aims were successful?

With the exception of Germany post-WW2, has there ever been an instance where austerity was judged to be somewhat successful?

There are hundreds of examples of austerity, which could be added to the wiki page as a success?
World Bank Warns Poor Nations Risk 'Lost Decade' with Record Debt Burden
I don’t see much value added by a manager that you described. What you are describing is more of a product manager role.
The impact on the endocrine system is very serious. Testosterone and estrogen levels have been proven to be impacted by microplastics.

Human sexuality and reproduction is definitely being influenced by consumption of microplastics. Sexual differentiation and sex determination in human development are impacted.

As sexual hormonal levels become increasingly out of balance, what happens to children and adults?
How about a Pinebook Pro?
The full report is very detailed in addressing most of this - there is a chicken-egg problem for all of the issues they call out.

You can't get a complete design because nobody is going to spend the money designing a reactor that might never be built -- the utilities who buy them don't want to wait several years after committing to the project to wait for a finished design, so the engineering firms are selling 50% designs and the utilities are sending those plans to the firms to get fabrication started.

Similar with all the specific trades - there's a ton of turnover because the job is so difficult due to the poor planning so they actually saw negative learning curves on Vogtle 4 -- it actually took them longer to complete much of the same work on the 2nd reactor they're building.

The government is the only possible buyer who can fix these issues since they have an infinite timeline and infinite money to do so. We'd need a commitment to buy say 10 reactors of the same design, a design firm to commit to the length of the project and we'd have to pay them to get to an ~80% design multiple years before construction begins on the first plan. So we "just" need a stable government commitment to spend tens of billions of dollars over several decades.
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/amazing-dna/
It typically means the unit of management (and billing) are not physical constructs (or abstractions over them). So no servers/instances/nodes etc.

You manage purely logical containers like databases and tables, the serverless service takes care of the logical to physical mapping. This lets them get better density, manage patching scaling, and a ton of other things
Yeah that's the whole thing about advertising is it effectiveness scales with the feelings of inadequacy that it generates.
I believe that's called reddit.
They should do the same survey but for non-western countries
The effect is there in countries that didn’t have the 2008 recession (Australia for one).
Can’t you bypass CAP if you just have a ton of compute in the background handling all of these tasks in real time? Aurora isn’t just some binary running on ec2 it’s probably 10 different things going on
The worldview for commies depends on that. Pay no mind to facts or experts, those are all stacked against you by way of conspiracy. All that matters is the utopian ideal, which incidentally, they argue isn't utopian. That is thoroughly betrayed by Hegel-lite rhetoric that what they want (the "ought") can be realized without any consideration for reality (what "is").
Would some Brita (or any other related product) filter pitcher help at this, or it wouldn't catch some/most/all of the nasty stuff? (genuinely asking)
In most cases, no, they do not have an available app.
Piracy Is Surging Again Because Streaming Execs Ignored the Lessons of the Past
Your start up is probably not going to make it and if it does your stock will be worthless. If your company is struggling in a good economy then it’s very unlikely it will bring you fortune. Time to move on
If you think the layoffs will help, put your head down and work. I find that doing what I can helps my morale. Others may notice too, but you can't count on that.

If you don't think layoffs will help, look for another job.
> People blame social media, but they never ask why social media is like that.

This is the kind of worldview that comes from years of navel-gazing in a therapist's office. "Why do I beat my kids? ...Because my father beat me! Now that I understand why I do it, I can stop beating my kids..." Or, you could just stop beating your kids.

It doesn't matter why it happens, it just matters that it happens. But instead of preventing or discouraging kids (or people in general) from using social media, you can blame the ghost of Ronald Reagan--the gift that keeps on giving.
There is probably at least one European citizen in there, so GDPR applies.
Also retrospective studies of areas that adopted smartphones well after the financial crisis showed delayed effects that make it implausible to tie them to the crisis.
Ironically a lot of bottled water is just tap. It's one of the biggest scams out there. You're also generally paying 1600x markup.

https://stonepierpress.org/goodfoodnews/bottled-water-or-tap....
agree, thus there is no reason to make a blanket statement about what democratic control means to an economy in the way that was made.
Indeed. You can't sack/blacklist Capita or Serco or Fujitsu, no matter how bad their conduct, because they're absolutely critical to British state capacity. And the only reason they've been made that critical is profit and union-busting. Which is kept in place by recycling donations to the ruling party.
I think the iffy reasoning your committing here is the anthropomorphization of complex systems. Similar to the error of describing darwinian evolution as having a "goal"

We should probably describe economic systems as massively complex distributed interactions rather than thinking of them as organisms with monolithic intentions and goals
Dupe/Related discussion on current event:

Ex Post Office CEO hands back award after IT failures lead to false convictions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38930011
SV is about venture capital availability. There is no such thing in Europe even close to SV.

You need to print the paper that runs trade to have that kind of money to throw around.
Show HN: SQZ – Low complexity, scalable lossy to lossless image compression
I'd like to share a little toy project of mine, a really simple image codec that can do lossy to full lossless image compression with complete scalability at a byte level granularity - you can compress an image just once, even fully losslessly if needed, and then get any lossy version possible by simply stopping decompression at any offset in the compressed data.

This "encode onde, serve many" approach is especially interesting for providing downscaled low quality image previews (LQIP) in as tight a storage budget as possible, and then allowing seamless, transparent refinement as deemed necessary, without reencoding or needing to store multiple lower quality/resolution versions of the same image.

To better serve that purpose, the codec is tuned to provide as much detail as it can as soon as possible in the bitstream, so that downscaling will still produce sharp, good looking previews.

Features:
- Support for 8bbp grayscale images, and 3 internal colorspaces (YCoCg-R, Oklab, logl1) for color images
- 5/3 integer reversible DWT, 4 possible scan orders based on different space-filling curves (raster, snake, Morton/Z-order and Hilbert)
- No entropy coding, just bitplane significance coding using the Wavelet Difference Reduction (WDR) method, followed by progressive refinement

Some sample images, comparison to JPEG-XL and previous discussion can be found at https://encode.su/threads/4183-SQZ-Low-complexity-scalable-l...

Any feedback, suggestions or questions would be most welcome, thanks.
Well, it worked better at preventing inflation. It led to some really nasty financial collapses, though, and what we have now works better at preventing those.
AWS should show us the Jepsen or GTFO
I must charitably assume that neither of us is a redditor, so kindly spare me the pop-culture meme cringe. The fact of the matter that Russia is delivering these migrants to the Finnish border to undermine the resolve of the Finnish people to resist Russian aggression. It is an overt act of fifth generation warfare and as such it is a plain threat to Finnish national security. Secondly, the majority of Finnish people support addressing this threat by closing their border to these migrants, so that is the democratic course of action.

To oppose this is antidemocratic, and frankly, in the service of Russia's belligerent interests.
Gen X and Millenials also had video games (including online ones that didn't require you to be playing physically together) and it didn't have the same effect - the mental health decline became prominent and accelerated during the rise of social media, not video games.
Kids used to be more adult before technology was around. I think it’s the opposite parents are coddling their kids plus you have this new lib stuff like safe spaces and the whole concept of “feeling unsafe”. We have an entire generation of babies who can’t handle conflict including internal conflict. So what can they do? Kill themselves or other people as we see them do
There are multiple causes but a lot of the nastiest code I’ve seen did suggest “I don’t have time to update those other layers”, along with the very common misperception that you’re working on a huge shared service for the ages and need everything to be as generic and customizable as possible.
I think there is a taste difference. Did you ask her to try a blind taste test?
Conversely, Colorado has the lowest obesity rates in the US and has horrible public transportation, and the same food and drink as the rest if the US.

Instead they have plentiful access to outdoor activities and beautiful nature. I think public transportation would help a lot in urban areas, really anything to keep people walking around and active instead of sitting and consuming.
> There is nothing particular special about “onlineness” that should affect them particularly worse than boys

Females are on average far more social than males. If there's a dose-response effect social media time and mental health, then we should plausibly expect girls to be affected more.
China claims it has cracked Apple AirDrop's encryption to identify senders
CAP is a property of any distributed system. You have to tolerate P (considering it’s distributed), so you can only be CP or AP.

CP means you can’t be available, meaning your system will stop replying to queries.

AP means you’re always available, but you could receive stale data when querying.

It’s irrelevant whether it’s a single binary running on EC2 or a billion services working in unison. It’s a property of the system.
Strictly speaking, a stack is only needed for reentrant calls. Function pointers can be implemented via defunctionalization in a whole-program context (i.e. there is a single 'eval' function taking a variant record as an argument, and each case in the variant record marks some function implementation to dispatch to and the corresponding arguments).
> Why is 0 terrible if it's also on the efficiency frontier?

When would this be the case? I'm having trouble picturing it.

> And what's you moral argument for the level of fraud at the frontier?

The frontier is exactly the point at which you cannot reduce the amount of fraud without it costing genuine users (and you) more than you gain. So if you're at the frontier and you want to reduce the amount of fraud further, you are acknowledging that harms to users are less important to you than losses from fraud, and doing so would be immoral. The efficient frontier should be the point of least moral harm, almost by definition - at least, as long as all the relevant externalities are priced in.

> Is the same efficiency better with lower levels of fraud or higher or indeterminate?

That's a trolley problem question. Higher levels of fraud at the same level of efficiency would mean there's a corresponding rise in value delivered from genuine usage of the service, so cost/benefit is the same and preference boils down to personal choice. But it sidesteps the more difficult question, which is how taking action to reduce the level of fraud actually plays out: there'll be diminishing returns as you take more and more extreme steps. Each step will likely have an incrementally more harmful effect on the genuine users, so efficiency won't remain the same.
> At the very least, if a fixed ratio of coin:gold were actually maintained these failings wouldn't have happened

It could still have happened, the mechanism is basically the same as in a bank run. If there isn't enough gold and too much demand for gold payouts, the central bank will run out and the system will explode.

The "other" "abolishment of the gold standard" is actually something different: The transition from commodity money to fiat money. Commodity money is when your money is something of intrinsic value such as gold. Stamping coins in commodity money only serves to assure the holder of weight and purity, but the value of a coin is 1:1 the metal value. In commodity money, it is pointless to mint any coins out of metals other than the precious ones, so that transition is marked by the abolition of actual gold coins. There you transit from intrinsic value to putative ("fiat" means "believe" in latin) value, usually through instilling some kind of trust into that coin by payout guarantees (you may still get some gold if you really want), force of law and guarantees of purchase power (a loaf of bread will always cost some fixed amout, or else...) or just plain trust that it will continue to work as it always has (which is the current state of things). So the actual abolishment of the gold standard was quite some time after the commodity to fiat money transition and just exchanged the "fiat base" of a promised gold payout by plain trust.

However, that "plain trust" can only work if the amount of money in circulation doesn't increase too rapidly compared to the amount of goods and services available and provided. Which is why you really really need strict control of the amount of money in circulation, thus central bank interest rates, austerity and other limitations on "printing" of money.
Is it still open source if sourcehut has been down all day?

Tongue in cheek but seriously I'm looking for a project like this but it's impossible to do anything with it at the moment.
HPE != HP

The HP you’re thinking of is now Agilent.

And this isn’t going to go well. Look at the downward slope of Aruba since HPE acquired them.
We need Whitehat awards and give this person that.
Democratically elected parties can transparently enact anti-democratic policies. If my local democratically elected fascist transparently has "do not allow group x to vote" as an intended policy, then that policy is anti-democratic, even though it may be popular.

The argument the article makes is not that austerity measures are unpopular, it's that they're anti-democratic.
Self-eating rocket could help UK take a big bite of space industry
Could have submitted it to https://haveibeenpwned.com/

Chances are some blackhat already discovered this data and sold it.
Stripe runs on Mongo, on multiple servers as you can imagine :)
I don’t use Google any more but it looks like they have the same functionality for iCloud. I’ll have to give that a try since it’d be perfect for our older relatives.
And somehow I still get regular “H0ME_DEPOT Order CONFRIMATION” junk landing at the top of my Gmail inbox.
Ask HN: Good resources to learn quantum computing
I remember learning the basis via a wonderful website designed to teach quantum computing (qubits, Bloch sphere, doors up until explaining Shor) with recurrent quizzes, whose content depended on what you had good/wrong on the previous one. Though I can't find a mention of it anywhere, HN submissions/comments or search engines.

As I'd like to brush up my knowledge, any recommendation of the best resources to get a 101 on the subject?
> Saying "my argument makes sense, you just can't understand it" is just you being petulant.

I did not say that. I said that my preferences are consistent. Security and diversity are orthogonal concepts. I can say: "I want as much security as possible AND as much diversity as possible". It is not an argument, it is a preference.

You come and say: "Aha, I got you! You cannot want both security and diversity! You have to want one or the other, not both, because I say so! You just lost the debate, you dumb ass".

Fine, I lost the debate, you're the best.
> they didn't intent to question your identity.

Of course, but, to give you a sense why I felt so annoyed, the conversation went something like this:

> What is your last name sir?

"de Bakker"

> That name is invalid. What is your name?

My last name is "de Bakker".

> That name is invalid. You need to give a valid name.

"de Bakker" is my last name. It's on my passport.

> Sir, if you don't cooperate I'm gonna hang up and proceed with the next customer. What's your name?

So it was very clear that I was the one at fault here.
The best indie web tools ever were Geocities and Myspace.

Of course, now we like things a little more content focused, but the point still stands, what people need is free or cheap cloud hosting with zero sysadmin work, just pure edit some pages and then have people see them, ideally with some builtin web ring type discovery features.

Any amount of tech work repels anyone other than the tinkerers who don't mind tech that needs maintenance. Usually that means all the content is just about web tech, specifically how much they hate modern bloated stuff.

Also, remember, proboards forums were almost was much of a defining element as personal sites, and were every bit as personal and indie.

Give us forums where you can set per-thread and post custom themes, hyperlink between posts, show threads in a one post at a time mode, lock threads to just you and friends, and filter posts in a thread by tag, and you're probably most of the way there to an accessible indie web.

Markdown + CSS is probably enough for almost all users.

Add the ability to import and export threads and move them to another server if needed, and

If you want interactive content, provide some sandboxed prefab options, like a Gameboy emulator you can make roms for on GB studio and attach to posts, or just give every use a subdomain for arbitrary files they can put into iframes, GitHub.io style.

The sandbox attribute is in 98% of browsers, maybe there's a way to just block the other 2% from seeing iframes, to be fully safe.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bogleheads/ if anyone agrees. This has been my strategy for a couple years.
I'm using a combination of Duolingo, Babbel, watching and reading French content, and live drilling with local French speakers. Since I live in the US, it's difficult to replicate immersion here, but I do what I can.

I'm also studying Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, and Esperanto. These aren't (yet) as intensive as the French, but a bucket list item of mine is to become a polyglot. Fluency isn't likely, but I should at least be able to chat with folks about food, the weather, and other pleasantries. Yeah, the language selections center on Europe and the Americas, but these languages are at least somewhat interrelated, which means that I get a boost when learning them, since I already know English and some French.
Sometimes the austerity is ideologically motivated rather than pragmatic. The goal is to reduce public spending, and it's often combined with tax cuts for the well-off. Public finances don't get any better, but the income/wealth distribution will change.

And sometimes austerity means stupid spending reductions that would not even qualify as cost savings under any meaningful accounting scheme. You save money on infrastructure maintenance, education, preventative healthcare, mental health services, and youth work, and you don't see any changes in the short term. But in the long term, you get failing infrastructure, a less productive workforce, higher healthcare costs, mental health issues, and more crime.

Instead of cutting fixed spending, it would often be less harmful to cut discretionary spending – the programs the current government uses to achieve its policy goals. But of course no government wants to do that. People get into politics to change something, not to manage the existing system.
When I wanted to learn I’d try to understand the fundamentals. How things interact and get a good understanding of relationships between concepts. When I wanted a good grade I’d drill problems for hours on end till I could flawlessly execute the steps required. Completely different study patterns for different outcomes
Like how Apple says about the App Store rejections:

> Running to the press never helps.

Except of course, in reality we know that it ABSOLUTELY DOES. In fact, it has been often times the ONLY thing that has helped.
> I think Amazon was betting that AWS efficiencies could push Twitch into profitability, guess not.

Twitch seems to pay normal rates for AWS. And they are around the profit-zone for several years now it seems, just not making big money. So they are in fact very profitable, just not for Twitch, but for AWS and Amazon.
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and all the storage vendors they have aquired over the years. LeftHand, Nimble, 3par....
[Dupe]

Don't you usually like to pepper some of your "dupe" comments with a snarky, "C'mon"? I feel like that's warranted here...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38909961

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38916581
"Priest/CEO" is a really weird combination, though. Especially at the same time.
> Which may or may not be true, if they were using "password123" then sure that's negligent and they'd bear some of the responsibility, but it might not have been the SEC's fault at all.

It seems like SEC didn't even have some basic protections in place for their Twitter account, like having 2nd-factor enabled. That feels kind of negligent already, even if they had a very secure password.
I mean, the inverse incentive to hobble performance is still there for all the serverless stuff that bills by time spent.
https://www.brita.ca/why-brita/health/whats-in-your-tap-wate...

If you look at the list, even Brita doesn't claim that their pitcher filter the really nasty stuff. At most they "help to reduce". It looks like they are really designed only to remove the chlorine taste.

Their "Faucet Mount Filters" looks a bit more effective.
Is this a group I can join? Is it like a book club, but for reading ML papers?
Public inquries are 100% pointless. They have no power to jail people or impose fines.
Uh let them in?
Also, it's a way for AWS to reuse very old hardware where customers don't think about the specifications of the underlying hardware.
> I think even people against Austerity agree that governments may have to temporarily rein in some spending following a crash or time of economic hardship.

Which by definition is austerity.
Is your product zero-sum or positive-sum?
So in Biology everything is a global variable and side effects are the standard. Got it.
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38915163
Yes. And the Tory press has been pushing us in the failing direction at every step.