skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is pretty hard to move out of any cloud .

If your workload is just Compute or stateless with commodity or standardized API interfaces you could maybe do a move maybe.

Even for those it is fraught with problems and takes a lot of time , time you are not developing features and adding product value.

If you are using S3 or any sort of proprietary stack on AWS to the cost to migrate (retrieval + b/w or rewrite your app ) is just too prohibitive .

All cloud providers know this and plan that in their models , reason why they give out generous free tier or give a ton of money in startup programs or other hooks to get you to start .

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AWS does not just have an all or nothing suspension policy .

From personal experience I know they do suspend your access to a single service at even single region level - our account still has SES blocked in one region because early on we handled bounces poorly and this was at least 8 years ago they even sent few warnings too, so they have pretty robust framework to handle abuse. Back then I couldn’t get it unblocked with tickets and escalations , I am sure we spending 15/20k a year then so not super small either .

These days we spend more like 250k a year on AWS and I still don’t get a proper account manager. I could perhaps get it unblocked now if I really wanted, not just worth the hassle to jump the hoops, one of the reasons why Azure is our primary cloud partner and we spend most of our money on despite subpar tech compared to AwS (GCP is 10x worse on this) .

I cannot comment on specific controls that is put on lightsail never used the service but they definitely do have a framework to suspend for every service they offer.

Just given the generous free tier, there is huge industry of using stolen credit cards to run scams or send spam on AWS which they constantly have to fight against.
True; the generator for a "hello world" works to generate a "hello world" app that works!

It's definitely way less than full support for a real Rails app though!
Like you said its fine to promote language on its merit, but using false propaganda to promote it borders fraud and Rust community needs to act together to stop such practices.

Overhype within Rust community is a sign of fear among the community that some simple language (may be zig, nim or something new) might come and pull the rug under their feet. Given it compromise on simplicity in favour of quashing memory safety bugs.

One reason rewrite in Rust is popular because its easier to copy something already done vs doing something original (one recent example came to mind is rewriting gnu coreutils in Rust).
The hard part about a nutrition tracker is the data.

The most complete nutrient data for basic foods seems to be http://www.ncc.umn.edu/food-and-nutrient-database/ which you need to pay for, so I wonder how an open source implementation could work.

I use Cronometer daily which shows you the datasource for each food you add, and if it's not NCCDB (the one at the link above) then chances are it's not going to have much info. Yet that extra info is exactly why I'm using a nutrient tracker rather than just a calorie tracker.
It works out of the box.

It's pretty basic: mdBook just emits a JSON file containing the entire search index. The rendered book's JS then fetches that index, and uses it to implement the search client-side. (So that the whole book — search index included — can be served statically.)

It usually finds what I'm looking for pretty easily, as long as I pick a good search term. It isn't the best search, though, and sometimes I'll just revert to `rg` in a CLI if it's in the way.

The things I think people in our org didn't like: some people really really want a WYSIWYG editor, some people don't want to have to deal with making a commit to update docs¹, some people didn't like that the ToC enforced a hierarchy (and wanted a more Wiki style thing²).

(¹I'm in the camp that docs should be reviewed through normal processes, though … I've seen a lot of instances otherwise of incorrect docs getting through, and/or just bad/nonsensical docs getting written. Our org's code review policy at the time most of the docs were written was "you should get a review, but a bot will auto-stamp it if you want to opt-out and then it's just on you", but nowadays we require review, but I don't feel like the reviews are rigorous.)

(²to me a ToC is a wiki superset: if you want wiki behavior … just create a single level in the ToC, and all docs are at the same level. Alphabetize them if you don't want to think about the order. We call this section "Misc" in our ToC, but we do break some other parts out into more full-fledged sections. mdBook enforces that docs must appear in the ToC, which I think is a good thing for discoverability.)
That says nothing about the value of the company.

If it's an infringement when OpenAI does it, it would be an infringement when a company with 1/1000th the value did it.
or just get rid of microsoft in the workplace and enjoy the absence of a terrible environment with the addition of fewer attack scenarios, better software and happier users but sad management people, but they don't do work on their machines anyway ;)
Not only Apple, but you also need to take account of those app developers and consumers in scope of the law. If you want to avoid this, you need to fully shut down your entire app store business in CA. This is why a big-tech regulation in a single prominent state sometime can become effectively an US-wide regulation.
Some might be looking for funding to do rocket launches, without caring if the payload they are promoting makes any sense.
> the most common lies about climate change now have to do with denying the benefits of clean energy, attacking policies meant to slash planet-heating pollution from fossil fuels, and maligning scientists and advocates that push for change.

Seems overblown. This isn't "disinformation" it's just people talking. You could have any number of perfectly valid reasons for saying that clean energy might not benefit you. Or for maligning policy or its advocates, which is exactly what this article is doing when they take a quote from Jordan Peterson out of context... and hilariously it doesn't even support their argument! He doesn't _do_ any of the things the article is complaining about in that quote:

> “The idea that we can make the planet more habitable on an environmental, on the environmental front by impoverishing poor people, by raising energy prices and food prices, is absolutely, it’s not only absurd logically, but I think it’s tantamount to genocidal,”

Is this not a reasonable and true statement? I believe it is: poverty, high prices, and genocide certainly will NOT help fight climate change, at least not without unbearable human cost. Clean energy, environmental policies, science and advocacy would be better, but this article never gets out of its own way long enough to actually say that bit.

> They used an AI tool called CARDS to sort different kinds of false claims about climate change and how frequently they occurred.

Here's the problem. The same busted AI model they fed all their YouTube data into is probably what wrote this article. Next!
The scary part is when you realize how many public figures in politics and economy have that same overly confident and delusional character. i have the growing feeling a huge part of the troubles in the western world comes from drug use in people in power positions.
So very much this. Around the end of the 1980s / start of the 1990s, all the big DOS apps switched their weird proprietary UIs out for CUA ones. Sometimes with an option to go back, but not often. Sometimes with some of the old UI as well, but mostly, big-bang.

And everything was better, the users adjusted, nobody ever looked back and we were all better off.

Sadly the memo never reached the Unix world, and those terrible 1970s are now enshrined as holy writ.
If the laptop was using FTP to get the file uploaded, then you already have a directory of the static HTML for the site somewhere on the laptop. So no need to get fancy - find and copy that directory somewhere else and you have the site. Put it up on Github pages, S3, or really any host you want and you are free of the old laptop.

You will lose the editing in Dreamweaver, but you will have the content. And there are less than a dozen pages on that, without much in common with each other aside from a menu and the background, so you could edit the site by hand fairly easily, or you could put it into a modern tool in less than an hour and modernize the design at the same time (if she wants that.)
THe best way to track productivity is to define it first. I would say start your day with 1-2 things that you really want to get done and get those done. Rest are just nice to have. "Get done" doesn't necessarily mean complete but you spent time on them and made progress.
A 2004 Toyota Tacoma vs a 2024 Toyota Tacoma is a simple machine.
What’s the bullish story for why solar panels in space with microwave beaming is better than solar panels on earth?
Let me know if you need assistance
Glad you’ve managed to make so much progress on your recovery!

As someone with a baseline dopamine deficiency (permanent nihilistic depression-like symptoms), my trips were always “bad trips”, but I used to enjoy them akin to how one might enjoy a horror movie or haunted theme park. I like to think it changed me for the better, but I’m not certain there weren’t lasting negative effects. I was used to darkness, but they magnified it by orders of magnitude… and you can’t “un-see” stuff like that.

Just a word of caution — when planning on trying them for the first time, i suggest making sure the first dose is smaller than the recommended starter dose, and work your way up — you can always take more mushrooms, but you can never un-take them.
Ha, well my job is the one part of my life I feel really good about. I'm learning a lot, have plenty of autonomy, the work is interesting/challenging, and I see a path to having a lot of impact in this role and whatever I do next (assuming human intelligence is still needed over the next few decades).
Pinecone Serverless: vector database for GenAI applications
Ah man the nostalgia. I still read through mine sometimes.
I think you're fundamentally misunderstanding what insurance is, or just refusing to acknowledge it.

It's not pre-paid care. It's not a discount plan. Really, it's a gamble.

Health insurance is ridiculously expensive because health care can become ridiculously expensive. Sure, you're healthy and accident-free, but the costs of a traumatic accident or long-term illness could easily reach 6, possibly even 7 figures in the long term. That's what your insurance is paying for.

For any type of insurance to work, you need people that aren't making claims to fund the people that are making claims. If you take the attitude of "Why should my premiums pay for someone else's care?", then really there's no reason to even get insurance. Your insurance is costing $25K/year, because statistically, the average family has at least $20K in healthcare costs per year (Assuming the insurance company is satisfying the ACA requirement of 80% of premiums must go to paying for care).

Your $25K/year in premiums is a bet that you won't need some $Y to pay for healthcare, where $Y >>> $25K. Most of the time, you're losing that bet, and the insurer is making $25K off of you. But if you ever find yourself in a world of hurt (quite literally), you'll be glad you made the bet.
It always seemed like a huge disconnect that retailers were expanding self checkout and cutting hours, at the same time that they were complaining about higher shrink rates.

While I often prefer self checkout for small purchases, the counter-shrink measures at make the entire experience worse -- locked up products, weird checkpoints after you finish purchasing, etc.
That's like saying arrows are not nukes so don't worry we won't hurt ourselves. Focus on the unceasing progress we are surrounded by, not the level of current technology.

Humans keep at it. We're all trying to unlock the next step. State-level actors are trying to beat each other at this. Give it 100 years, we won't be using LLM's.
Eh, I wouldn't call it an issue with Bayesian math itself. Just... it's an issue with reality.

At least with bayesian math you can make your priors explicit, so we the reader at least have the possibility of disagreeing with it.

If you really had no idea you can say it's 50/50 chance and plug the numbers.
> different observers with different priors can come to radically different conclusions

One may view this as a feature, not a bug! :-) To quote Jaynes, "there is no unique notion of ignorance". And to further quote Carl Sagan, "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence".

Combining these two statements, if Alice expects an experiment to succeed and Bob expects it to fail, each very well MAY come to different conclusions after observing the result, depending on the depth of their prior belief.

This is completely normal in how everyday science is carried out. Even informally... how many researchers had grants denied funding because the funding agency had a prior belief that the subject of the grant had a foregone conclusion? The opinions (the prior) of the grant panel differ markedly from the grant applicant, and each would require correspondingly different levels of proof from any subsequent experiment!
I love self-checkout, honestly. Machines need to improve, but still. There's a store here where u simply DROP all items in the self-checkout basket, and it automatically computes everything! I suspect it uses NFC or similar, but it works, and its wonderful, simply drop everything in!
And wait, there's more: did I say drop everything in? I meant, the bag you are using to hold everything? just put it in that basket, insert your CC and it's done. You don't get easier than that...
So yes, let's keep self-checkout, and focus on improving it!
I love your optimism that anyone could do this
Rational fractions will terminate only if the denominator’s prime factors are the base’s factors.

So for example, 1/2 = 0.5 and 1/5 = 0.2, but 1/3 = 0.333… and 1/7 = 0.142857….

1/4 = 0.25 works because the prime factors of 4 are 2 and 2… but 1/6 fails because 6 is infected by 3.

Now, base 12 has 2 prime factors (2 and 3) so it much any better than 10 really. But may I introduce base 30 (235)? Or perhaps base 210 will strike your fancy?
At the risk of sounding rude, you could start by politely declining the request.
It's certainly an option. :)
That’s literally what human artists do, and how they work. Art is iteratively building on the work of others. That’s why it’s so easy to trace its evolution.
I was kind of hoping they would explain why it helps prevent chromatic aberration. Unfortunately their explanation stops short, basically just saying that 'it does' without going into the details of why.

My first guess would be something to do with it having a well suited refractive index, but it is almost equal to that of glass. The best candidate I've found is that the group velocity dispersions are opposite, which seems like it might explain it, if only I knew what it meant.
He wants 25% voting power, not own 25% of Tesla shares.

Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook shares have more voting power than regular shares. It sounds like Musk wants a similar setup.
A recurring type of problem I've seen goes like: there's an API function f(x) where x can be any of half a dozen different object types. You want to do something similar to f(x) on a different object, which actually requires a completely different multi-step approach, but the LLM will just try to use f(x).

It's really good at spitting out code in common, familiar patterns, but the failure rate is very high for anything a little unusual.
Deepseek-coder-6.7B really is a quite surprisingly capable model. It's easy to give it a spin with ollama via `ollama run deepseek-coder:6.7b`.
I hope it never dies either. We are paying subscribers of both Apple Music and SoundCloud here and use both of them just about daily, and we have Bay Area DJ friends on there as well.

I wouldn't be upset if Apple acquired them as well. Perhaps we'd finally get an Apple TV & CarPlay version. They bought Shazam a few years ago and the sky didn't fall then either.

I'd rather see Apple acquire then rather than a venture capital firm or even worse, Google.
"Long. Term." Winters are seasonal. People are trying supersonic planes again. Rockets are improving again.
Webhero's cheapest plan has 100GB limit and the rest are unlimited. Given the homepage is 100KB, it would take about one million views to possibly exceed a plan.
I don't mean this as any disparagement of the base claims - which are themselves somewhat a function of the fact that the majority Android market is fragmented into many, while the minority iOS market is One, as we all know - but the underlying network of corporate links here : that is, this story being a release by Blackstone's IDG Inc., who also ran the MacWorld magazines and trade shows, e.g. at which Steve Jobs famously debuted the first iPhone, and so on - along with some emotive media language in the story (e.g. "stunning numbers") - do arguably highlight how such releases also involve elements of selective framing which support the commercial motives and networks of the releasers.
Rebuild the site with wix.com (or other tools)
It looks completely static and after the initial setup it is extremely easy to maintain/add to
It's only a problem if you want to use Bayes to take some credences + evidence and prove them irrational (indep. of prior).

Bayes is great for verifying self-consistency: given some priors and some evidence, it produces exactly one set of credences. If you've somehow got a different set, you've gone wrong somewhere (and can be Dutch-booked).

What it won't give you is a full theory of rationality--but IMO this is not a problem with Bayes in particular. No theory will. There /must/ always be some free variable that prevents landing at exactly one set of credences. All theories that disagree come with very strange (and not very believable) implications.
Prometheus? :)
https://jabberwocking.com/texas-vs-california-lets-have-this...
> they could still be several orders of magnitude away from optimal

I have a fair bit of experience in optimisation and this is ridiculously... optimistic, shall we say. The only way you can get literally orders of magnitude speed up is if some pillock put literally orders of magnitude of slowdown in originally, typically by combining a couple of O(n^2) operations, and even then only seen that a few times and it's easy to fix.
I think there are a lot of counterexamples of courts settling on contradictory, controversial or misinformed verdicts.
Burberry issues profit warning as Christmas shoppers shun pricey trenchcoats
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lol then so does all solar terrestrially
France still uses coal. And what does China have to do with Africa, which you explicitly mentioned?
SoundCloud disappearing would be a shame. There's nothing that currently exists that replaces it. Consumer-oriented streaming platforms are a dime a dozen these days, sure, but there's no real alternative for a musician-oriented platform; specifically, a platform where musicians can connect with other musicians, with zero overhead for sharing music. Just upload and done. Unlike commercial platforms like Spotify, there's a culture of bootlegs, edits, mashups and DJ sets where musicians turn a blind eye to copyright complaints, thanks to the inverted payment approach (with Spotify, they pay you for being on the platform; with SoundCloud, you pay SC to be on the platform).

IMO, from my naive outside perspective, it seems like they were trying to be yet-another generic music streaming platform and that was a losing move. SoundCloud's legacy and current relevance is essentially "a social network for musicians". Positioning themselves as yet another subscription service where Joe Average can listen to Taylor Swift is a huge misplay.
> There's another story going around that if you add benefits like health insurance not to mention programs like food stamps the gap between rich and poor hasn't increased as much as you'd think otherwise.

Where’s that story?
> I think perhaps the ruby community was also smaller

Back in 2008-2010 when Python 3 was released, Python really wasn't as huge as it is today. It probably was bigger than Ruby, but not by that much.

One datapoint (that doesn't give the full picture), Pycon 2008 had 1k attendees [0], Railsconf 1k8 [1].

IMO It's really in the early/mid 2010's with the rise of "big data" that the Python community really became huge compared to Ruby's.

> I have never been a serious python user, so can't really compare

As an ex-pythonista, now Rubyist, IMO one huge factor was that Python 2 and 3 were developed concurrently for several years, that played in the messaging. Python 3.0 was released on 2008, Python 2.7 in 2010, and Python 3 wasn't really deemed production ready until 3.2 or 3.3 if I remember correctly. So there was a 4-5 years limbo. Whereas in Ruby's case, it was very clear to the community that 1.9.x was the future.

Also Python 3 did make some absolutely necessary breaking changes (like unicode), but also some minor syntax changes that made it much harder to support both with a single codebase for questionable gains.

e.g. the `try/except`syntax was `except Class, var:` in 2.x, and `except Class as var:` in 3.x. That kind of changes made it hard for packages maintainers to support both versions. Ruby 1.9 didn't have this problem. It was much easier if not trivial to write code that worked on both Ruby 1.8 and 1.9.

> typical python "minor" releases may actually have fewer backwards breaking changes than typical ruby "minor" releases?

I haven't seriously used Python in a long time, but from occasionally glancing at release notes, they seem to regularly deprecate things. Can't say if more or less than Ruby.

[0] https://pycon.blogspot.com/2008/04/part-2-attendance-registr...
[1] https://www.endpointdev.com/blog/2008/06/railsconf-2008-repo...
Walkthrough is generally performed once or not so frequently. It would be a bad investment if you just use it for just this use case
I’m kind of surprised it’s not defined that the first page must be 0-mapped read only… this sounds like a security vulnerability because it’s not like any other machine code would be written against and thus violate all sorts of safety assumptions.
Vlang Release v0.4.4
Deepinfra Mixtral is $0.27 / M tokens as per their website
I’m not sure your average user would know what that means, let alone the implications.
In Jef Raskin’s ‘Humane Interface’, there’s a good justification to why modes are evil, mainly leading to excessive user errors, so it’s not that surprising.
I think any leftist would laugh at the idea that the Parti Socialist is even remotely socialist. The name is historical, they converted to market economics and modern liberal state management as soon as 1981 if not before.
I don't think François Hollande is remembered because of removing merit grants lol. If anything he will be remembered for the Loi Travail to make laws around employment more flexible and advantageous to business and for the CICE which was basically free money for businesses if they pinkie promised they would hire more (spoiler they did not)
If you want to deal with luxury goods of the rich, go after Louis Vuitton. It has a market cap of $362B. The world doesn't need expensive handbags. Atleast SpaceX is lowering the cost of launching satellites into space.
> good for you. That in itself is a huge accomplishment. Not everyone can say that.

Yes, that is a good perspective. Hedonic adaptation really applies to everything

> things that you can share with your kids or as a family

Yeah I think that is part of the answer. I have perhaps over-optimized deferring to what my family wants/needs but it would probably be better for everyone if I had something I was excited to do and set aside time around that.
Tyler Cowen often asks guests: What will you ask the whales once we can speak to them?

I still don't feel like I have a good answer