skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was understood. The point I was attempting to make was a partial outage is better than a complete outage. Restoring web services would allow them to better communicate to their customers what was happening... instead of everything just vanishing from the internet.

It appears they restored HTTP services now, so perhaps they ended up taking that route. Their homepage lists details of the ongoing attack/outage and their current efforts. This is what should have been done immediately, I'm afraid to say.

Once the attack passes, they will then be in a better position to consider their options and negotiate with providers for long term solutions.
For me, the reason I'd call myself an Apple fan (despite agreeing Apple is in the wrong on many of the points the linked post makes) is the entire rest of all consumer products cater to "non-Apple fan" taste. Most products are differentiated purely on price, not experience, and then if you truly want to pay for a different experience, in most categories you're thrust into super niche and fiddly.

My $2000+ Ableton Push 3 and ~$1500 in ergonomic Egrodox EZ keyboards. Those feel overpriced to me (but worth every penny for my personally).

But the fact that I can do my work everyday on a computer designed with the values Apple values, that it's a product so good that my company even buys it for me, and encourages me to use it for my work? I'm going to be a fan of this company for life! If you don't understand, really don't worry about it, the entire rest of all consumer products caters to your taste, so just enjoy that.
Amazon is effective in promoting products based on user cookies. The price indeed fluctuates to compete with rivals. They often curate products that provide higher margins. Sometimes, it is challenging to determine the best product from reviews due to mixed experiences worldwide.
Spot on. It is a great system. Really one of the great benefits of a “walled garden”

But you can do that in linux using this:

> weird unmaintained git repository
> some kernel level patch
> weird bash script that looks like it has a rce exploit in it
> weird vim configuration combination
> custom build android app because banned on the app store

- some hacker news user, probably.
I have no doubt this came down from higher up. The reality is that telling someone that they are being fired for unspecified performance reasons when you could just as easily tell them that their position is being eliminated through no fault of their own is outright cruel. In their attempts to make it look like they aren’t doing layoffs they have made the whole internet aware that they are doing layoffs, and that they are treating their employees terribly.

And now they have created a bit of a pr snafu. How many talented people with good performance reviews at Cloudflare are now looking for the door.
> They're hard to compete with because they're giant and have an amazing logistics network

... and because they have terms that are actively anti-competitive, like if you sell there, you can't sell the same items anywhere else online for a lower price (even if the other venue has lower associated costs).
> To me, the value is in scaling DOWN.

So much this. To me, something like AWS Lambdas is the best tool in the toolbox if you already run stuff in AWS and you want to offload any event handler or background task to a dedicated service. More often than not your use case will fit easily in the lambda's free tier, and you don't have to waste any time monitoring a service that rarely runs.
Wait just a moment here.
I've been on Arch for 2 years now after seeing the cancer that is Windows 11. Ads and "news" on your desktop, garbage free to play games preinstalled or linked to.

OneDrive your user dir(Desktop, Documents) to the cloud, Outlook feeding your mails to the cloud.

All this will be used against people to sell more targeted ads and other BS.

It used to be that Windows was reasonably solid with good performance for dev and gaming. Now Linux is far superior in both aspects.
In the table on slide 15 the Indexing & Search Efficiency cells for Traditional Databases and Vector Databases appear to be swapped.
> Any government that depends on human virtuousness will fail. The only way to have a sustainable government is to have strong checks and balances and putting multiple factions with different interests against one another.

Absolutely! Any form of government that depends on an unbroken line of "good people" in power will fail, and fail much sooner than anybody thinks. Modern China has already reached the end of their system, a scant 50 years after Mao Zedong.

"Ambition must be made to counteract ambition". And government should only have as much power as you think the worst possible people in charge should have. Otherwise, people suffer.
You make a good and constructive point. A real everything store _should_ have both a "100w USB-C Power Adapter", and a "Long Life 100W USB C Premium Apple Android Galaxy Power Adapter US International iPad iPhone good luck LIFESTYLE".
I use Kitty and iTerm.
> If you obtain libmysql.so and use it in any way, you have to respect the license or you're in breach of copyright law.

The GPL is a distribution license, not a use license. Once they've received that source and/or binary, they can do whatever they want with it as long as they aren't distributing it. (Copying it to another machine under their control may or may not be distribution, depending on the circumstances.)

Yes, once they want to distribute their copy to others, they need to comply with the terms of the GPL. But not before then.
[0] The anti-TiVo clause only applies to "User Product" defined in the GPL as a consumer device, i.e. not a device you sell to a business. The idea being business's can fend for themselves. Its perfectly valid to create say a medical device that is sold to hospitals and have it locked down and use LGPL code. The hospital actually wants it locked down.
Neat! I grew up on it and never knew the context, TIL.
The brainer price would be $20 / month. $50 / month if it was terrific.

The trick has to be really useful without too much work on my end. Combine screen scraping and simulating real users with some mix of AI.

My use cases:

1. Fill any form with intelligent data (from orders, through plane tickets to tax forms). Think of ChatGPT but for forms.

2. Research any person and company using various tools (e.g. LinkedIn, Google, job boards). Do it at human speed so I won't get blocked and can observe it on a screen. I can provide a script on how to do it (e.g. check LinkedIn, this board for that, etc.) Provide me with a summary of the text.

3. I want to be able to script it and hack it to whatever I need. API and CLI.
Just because an LLM can better parse what you're saying it does not mean the business logic to act on it exists. The feature discoverability and churn problem will still exist.
I like Coke, You like Pepsi. Aren't we all part of the cults that suit us?
Makes sense pragmatically. I don’t think they could feasibly prevent parties with nation state resources from using it in this way anyway.
Energy storage would serve two purposes:

(1) Ensure you always have fresh water available since you're continuously producing it.

(2) Reduce the size of desalination plant you must build by allowing you to run it 24x7.

You're right that you can just store the fresh water, so batteries aren't needed for #1. But the article is talking about how to achieve #2.
That is an intel video driver bug. I had the same issue. Newer driver cleaned it up.
I recently had a conversation with a senior React dev about Redux with years of React experience. I mentioned during a dry run that you can clear the store, if a local storage store (default), with localStorage.clear() from the dev console. Response: "Cool, I didn't know that.". This guy is good at creating UIs, but that's an example of 'How this works' knowledge I'd of expected him to have. It's a pervasive epidemic of learn just what you need to ship, instead of learn what you need to ship a quality product and hone the tools in your toolbox.
Costco/Nordstroms/Apple/Lululemon/etc.

Even BestBuy/Target/Walmart/Home Depot/Lowes/Staples/REI/etc to an extent, if the item is sold by them. Stores with physical inventory and presence that have to worry about rates of return will probably do more due diligence than an online marketplace.
A high comments-to-points ratio is bad on HN because it triggers the flame war detector.
> And the only reason is because you said so.

No, the reason is because HTML qua HTML has hypermedia controls and JSON qua JSON does not. Recall that, before I pointed out the widely used and accepted definition of hypermedia controls, and in particular that links and forms are hypermedia controls, you did not understand that concept, so you might spend some time quietly reflecting on that idea. It may help clarify things for you.

> Then JSON is just as much hypermedia as HTML. Both are structured text unusable without a specific client to display them or work with them.

As I have said and written previously (https://htmx.org/essays/hypermedia-clients/, https://hypermedia.systems/hypermedia-components/) I agree that a hypermedia client is necessary for a properly functioning hypermedia system that adheres to the uniform interface. However, I think that there is a good argument that Siren, for example, is hypermedia, even if it isn't being consumed correctly, just as I think HTML is hypermedia, even if someone is screen scraping it (i.e. not using a hypermedia client to consume it).

I don't think you can call those uses a hypermedia system, but I also don't think that changes the fact that the underlying formats, Siren & HTML, are hypermedia, due to the fact that they have hypermedia controls. That might be a subtle distinction, but I think it is a valid one. Again, perhaps as you reflect more on this concept, new to you, of hypermedia controls, the distinction will become easier to understand.

> They only invite them because of your insistence on calling only HTML the "natural hypermedia" etc.

I'm very sorry you that feel that way.

I would call HTML, "a natural hypermedia", rather than "the natural hypermedia". I would also call HXML & Siren natural hypermedia, due to the presence of hypermedia controls (a concept new to you) in their specifications.
I can't match up your numbers with anything in that 20 page PDF or with my comment... could you clarify your question?
From looking at this, I think it’s a very risky starting point for an engineer to kick off from.

Things like mentioning they’re clustered by meaning and optimized for analytics are questionable.

The clustering depends on the embedding you calculate. If you think that the embedding is a good semantic approximation of the data then maybe this is a fine way of thinking about it. But it’s not hard to imagine embeddings that may violate this — eg if I use an audio file and a text file that are identical in meaning through the same embed process, unless it is multimodal they will likely be distant in the embedding vector space.

I fully expect to see embeddings that put things close together in the vector space based on utilization rather than semantic similarity. If I’m creating a recommender system, I don’t want to group different varieties of one off purchases closely. For instance, the most semantically similar flight is going to be another fight to the same destination at a different time or a flight to a nearby airport. But I would want to group hotels often purchased by people who have previously bought the flight.

Vector databases also allow you to provide extra dimensionality into the data, like time awareness. Nothing is forcing you to use a vector that encodes semantic meaning.

And from this, you can see that we’re optimized for lookups or searches based on an input vector. This is not analogous to OLAP queries. This is more akin to elasticsearch than snowflake. If you are using a vector database thinking it’s going to give you reporting or large scale analytics on the vector space afaik there isn’t a readily available offering.
Oh, I have no plans of not drinking RO water because of this article. It was just interesting to me. Whole Foods water is very likely RO water too. Both my water and a grocery store water source are probably going to be very comparable as far as quality.

Sourcing the filters is extremely easy, I order them in sets of two complete sets every other year, since the cost for order two is slightly less.. then I can order them on some on-sale price instead on on-demand.

labor is extremely minimal. I have to replace filters only once per year and it takes about a half hour of time.

Labor saved over transporting water from off-site is not in the same ballpark.

I was inspired to do this because I tested our well water for arsenic and wasn't happy with the results. It was 30ppb, and it's now 2.5bbp from the tap (after the iron filter, but before the RO filter)

I had gotten the RO system in hopes that's all I needed, but after testing the water out of the RO system for arsenic, I was still unhappy with the results. ~15ppb... so likley un-oxinidated arsenic. Adding an iron filter to oxidize the water and remove both iron and arsenic did the trick.

Before I installed new filters, I started sourcing my water from grocery stores by buying 1gal jugs and it was more than tedious. I had new children in the house and I was wanting to avoid having them drink water that may be high in arsenic. With storage, travel, lugging large quantities of water around the store, and having to manage the milk jugs they came in was way more work than I wanted to do every week. It would have been easier if I had access to 5gal jugs, but still more work than the system is now. I had bought 5-10 1/gals each trip.

The store also uses an RO system, treating and filtering municipal water from tap on-demand. They don't truck the water in or store it. The regeneration, even with their large system is slow, so filling up 5-10gal jugs took a long time and there was sometimes a line. I did not like doing it. I would guess the time I would save not changing filters once per year would be eaten up by 1 or 2 trips to the store.

Pre-filled jugs were available at higher quantities for 3-5x the price.
I have a cheap samsung laptop with an intel iris gpu. Not a proper gaming laptop. This was an emergency replacement for a broken macbook a few years ago. It came with windows and I booted it once to download a manjaro image and put it on a usb stick. Long story short, I'm back on a mac for work and the laptop is now used for some light gaming. Steam installation on Manjaro was easy. It's basically arch linux and that's the same OS that the Steam Deck is using under the hood. It works great. I'm actually considering getting something a bit beefier at some point. Possibly with some VR goggles. I'm pretty happy with Linux, and not having to deal with Windows is very nice.

The nice thing with lots of users now doing this is that it is becoming important for game developers to ensure their stuff is supported on Linux as well. That used to be something that few developers cared about but this is actually turning into a large enough chunk of users that most of them will probably want to make sure their stuff works. And the good news is that it is not that hard. It mostly just boils down to testing and fixing bugs. There's no good reason for them to not do that. Even if it's just 1 or 2 percent of users, that represents some serious revenue for some of these games.

Apple apparently is paying attention because they launched their game porting toolkit over the summer. Which, despite the name, is actually quite similar to Proton. Early days but it looks like MS is losing their monopoly on PC gaming. I run X-plane 12 on my M1 macbook occasionally. It's a pretty capable machine. It would be interesting to see if Valve is planning something for Macs now. It's a nice market. Lots of wealthy users that think nothing of spending a few dollars in the app store.
https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/news/ai-discovers-not-e...
If we are talking about cults. What about the weird orientalism in software engineering? The fetishisation of asian culture particularly Japanese. And the romanticisation of using archaic mechanisms to interface with systems - terminal interfaces.
True. Ten or more like 15 years ago I would have been excited about this title from Google. Now I am just like "oh great what am I losing now?!"

Its a shame, its been a LONG time since Google surprised and delighted me like they did many times during the 00s.
$20-50 / month

Though I'm a picky and very demanding user who likes to use API, etc, you have been warned :-).
I close blogs/websites/web apps when there's too much advertising, with "too much" often being "more than one".
Yep. If lots of companies are laying people off, you can pass it off as macroeconomic pressures instead of issues with your own company.
Correct - but you CAN get corporate lobbyists and industry lobbyists out of Washington.

Simply mandate that lobbying must be done on behalf of natural citizens and ONLY natural citizens, and limit the lobbying to be done on behalf of citizens with only a $ net worth or under.

If a billionaire complains about not being able to buy a couple senators, well, too fucking bad. I'd GLADLY give up my ability to corrupt government officials if you gave me a billion dollars.
You can still be fired, the company needs to justify it and in practice it isn’t that difficult to do. But employees can for sure always do the strict minimum, implying they do the their job correctly. I don’t really see the issue with that
What counts as plagiarism? Harvard president's resignation sparks debate
Amazon is just SO EASY though. It's a vortex I can't escape. I tried ordering a Nintendo Switch from Walmart for my son's birthday. 3 days they told me. It didn't even ship. The website said I could "try" to cancel the order. "Try" I did, and that try failed. I then waited a few weeks and had to call them up and they said oh we will just mark it as lost in transit. Oh yeah, that sounds perfect. They wasted my time, they endangered my mission, they cost me money, and then THEY MADE ME TALK TO SOMEONE (who was very pleasant and it was pretty quickly resolved but that's a little cherry on a sundae made of poo,). Screw all that nonsense.

The only way for others to compete is to have a 3rd party help them all become just as easy as Amazon. We need someone to partner with Fedex and step up. Who can do it?
I think the legal concept of "beneficial ownership" is the intent here: We want to know the ultimate (natural) person(s) who control the app's assets and for whose benefit the app is monetized.

There is no simple rule that can be applied at scale. Determining beneficial ownership requires a case-by-case review of not just the chain of legal ownership, but management, contracts, incentives, etc.

Any fixed rules can be gamed. For example, a company could license out its name as a "franchise" who is legally independent but whose franchise contract has so many arms of control that they de facto function as a single company. Another example is that a majority donor of a nonprofit controls the nonprofit even if they have no board seats or de jure power to appoint or fire board members.
Lol on one side. Constant whinging about skills shortages and labour shortages in areas like security. On the other side. Tens of thousands laid off because they aren't the skill set that's needed. In the middle we have fat profits and zero effort being spent on migrating or training workers for the sectors that need it.

They literally expect you the employee to cover the cost of retraining yourself to bring them in profit. It's absolutely bonkers, yall are cash cows for companys that will ditch you at the drop of a hat.

I'm bailing to become a mature age carpenter/builder.
It's never been tested in court, but the theory is you with company A run an Affero GPL (modified code) server. It's not accessible to anyone outside company A, except me, with a proxy-ish server in Company B (which may or may not be controlled/related).

Then I'm the only user of your software, and never request the code, even though ten billion users use it via my proxy.
This is really it right here. Recession fears and large layoffs correlated directly with the raising of rates, as they always do.
What is this? I don't understand. Currently it just leads to a "not found" page.
Only if its the same executives. And those 50% would still have to go too.
On a good day, when it asks me for feedback I tell it to fire the person in charge. On less charitable days I throw in the rest of the team.
The idea of basing a business around trying to get people to love a model which could be changed at any time seems both futile and immoral. At least when a person dumps you it's generally understood to be a decision made by a person, not "we adjusted the model for performance reasons and now your virtual partner is essentially dumber and will never be the person you fell in love with." Illness and injury can change a person, but that's a possibility rather than an inevitability for a partner built on top of someone else's model.
The link redirect does not specify which point in the list you are referring to but I guess it is "Install missing packages from...". If so, then I really wonder if you mean supporting something like '!pip install numpy' like Jupyter or something else?

I don't think this is really a solution, not to mention that this raise the question. Does it support running shell commands using '!' like Jupyter Notebook?
I'm genuinely baffled at your experience . I can't think of a single Amazon search I've done recently, not one, which didn't result in a page 1 filled entirely with drop-shipped Chinese junk with keysmash brand names like RETVUKOR. It has become almost entirely useless.
Yeah it's almost a double-dip in some ways because they are taking money from a product's competitor to show you their alternative when you search for what you actually want, and then when you still/eventually end up going to the product page for the thing you want and you buy that, and Amazon takes a cut of that sale too..

If it wasn't a super shitty user experience, it would be genius!
This is definitely the worst thing about Amazon. I pay them $120/year or whatever, and I search a specific product by a specific brand, and the entire browser screen shows me brands and even products I didn't even search for. I should not get ads in a store that I pay to use, especially in search.
Tarkov (though I don't play anymore).
Dual redundant hardware, sounds like a server or IT equipment.

Airliners and the like are triple, sometimes quad.

Designing a Dell server for high uptime with dual power supplies is one thing. Designing stuff where it falls out of the sky and crashes into a high-school if the computer signal from one sensor to one actuator takes 2 milliseconds too long to traverse.
Histre is a site/browser extension that adds (AI-generated) tags to HN: https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/35904988

HN has a minimal tagging system based on the title:

- Ask HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/ask

- Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/show

- etc (some people create their own, like "Tell HN", "Thank HN")
https://archive.is/dvWA0
The PC term predates IBM and was also used for the Apple II, Commodore, etc era "micro"computers.
Good quality stuff mixed with a lot of shit = shit

I could also make a more graphic analogy, but I don't think anybody needs to read that.