skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ah, interesting dark corner there. Also, I was thinking there must be merit in allowing for some discrepancies in use of different notations when dealing with "read" use, as in learning a new concept, vs. "write" use, as in working on something, like the SO OP..
The around 100M tons is what we know to exits and we know where it exits. As you can see, more is getting located as we move on.
For sure.

A place where I worked in the early 2000s used old-school HP laser printers. The one in my unit cranked through boxes and boxes of paper with no trouble at all. It was all heavy-gauge metal, and must've weighed 50 pounds at least.

Post-Carly, HP printers became the same flimsy Chinese crap as all the other brands. Carly's bright idea was to take flimsy Chinese crap, slap an HP label on it, and sell it for HP prices.

You can get away with that. Once. After that, no one is going to ever buy your overpriced junk again.
>to do its magic

...which is what, exactly?
Not sure what the multidisk consensus is for btrfs now-a-days but adding/removing devices is trivial, you can do "offline" dedupe, and you can rebalance data if you change the disk config.

As an added bonus it's also in-tree so you don't have to worry about kernel updates breaking things

I think you can also potentially do btrfs+LVM and let LVM manage multi device. Not sure what performance looks like there, though
Gesture nav makes the app switcher impossible to discover (or "discover often enough to learn") for non-technical users.

I don't know what my mom and dad would do if Android ever took away the three button option.
A positional notation was introduced previously by De Bruijn but presumably Sussman and Wisdom came up with theirs independently since they don't cite him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_index
For some reason your github link repeatedly crashes for me. Not sure whether it’s because im trying to view it from my iphone..
Product discovery in general is a mess. It's not a particularly high bar you have to pass in order to build something that's better than your average online storefront when it comes to product search and comparison.
Lot of people out there buying enterprise hard drives on their tablets?

Or are these kinda of purchases most likely being made during work hours sitting in front of a nice screen?
Sorry, but we have not doing this for centuries if not milleniums for trillion of people before us?
Engineering wise Intel was part of EUV LLC in the late 90s but sold off their portion later in the 2000s I believe. It was a public/private partnership to develop EUV lithography and is the reason the US is able to dictate EUV machines not go to China.
Most likely, I feel almost all of these tools wrap around insightface in some form or another, sometimes with a face upscaler bolted on. To be fair, it is the best face swap model out there.
Honestly if you create something really, really useful, the internet finds a way to link to it.
I feel like your post is a strawman. First, tons of especially finance jobs have left the UK. I don't think anyone ever thought "all" the jobs, or even a majority of them, would leave, especially when it's obvious huge banks can't just pack up overnight (or even in many years), but there is an undeniable deflation of finance activity. One reference: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/mar/29/brexit-fina...

And I never read anything that had people predicting tech would leave en mass. It generally seems like a mixed bag, with tech being relatively strong, but especially not reaping anywhere near the original promised benefits of Brexiteers: https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/02/01/brexit-3-years-on-t...
it also sidesteps the whole discovery issue. I would love to know how that person is discovering music that they buy on bandcamp.
I think the theory is that you can't keep selling the same house each year so you've just developed inventory and not long term assets.

Though, the country where I work and live, R&D has more profitable tax treatment, your employee costs are a same year expense, but you can get some relief on the rest if your tax bill if you proactively document what's R&D about your work and it doesn't get rejected by the tax department
The sad truth is that a highly marginalized community of traditionally outcasted people realized this first. And now that community is doing the best job of addressing young childrens' emotions.

Unfortunately that group is indoctrining those children to share in that groups' problems by giving those children the same emotional issues at impressionable ages.
Than you for the explanation! I get it now.
Interesting that this site makes money despite pcpartpicker existing. Gives me hope that there are a bunch of opportunities to build something like this for other hobbies.
> If your Samsung TV breaks you don’t complain to Wal-Mart, you complain to Samsung.

WTF, here in Germany (or rather Europe as a whole) it is the other way around for the mandatory 2 years - if something happens, you return the item where you bought it and the seller is completely responsible for dealing with everything, and on the hook for delivering you a working item.

Only after these two years expire and you have an "extended warranty" in place you have to deal with the manufacturer.
That's the problem with standardized and sanitization of food. By rejecting irregularities, smell, dirt, we create souless food.
I don’t think Stallman is irrelevant. He’s still in charge of the GNU stuff, he still blocks progress on GCC, he still has donors and an audience, he’s still a pedophilia apologist.

Edit: https://www.vice.com/en/article/9ke3ke/famed-computer-scient...

https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec21...
It is a good site and I've used it before to purchase a drive or two.

However... What I've found is that it is not always 100% accurate and if you really want the cheapest TB/$ (and you can wait) you should be setting up alerts on slickdeals or another deal website.

As a data hoarder, I try to just wait for deals and not use this site.
1035 is really low resolution for a tablet. Held vertically a 2012 iPad and initial 2013 iPad Air are both 1536pix wide and 2048 tall.

Even a kid targeted 100$ Amazon fire tablet held horizontally is 1200 pixels wide these days.
Oh nice, it has an RSS feed too!
> Perhaps one could find a country where the "you can't run it on non-Apple hardware" clause is not valid

Some of us recall the era of the officially authorised Apple clones.

In my case, I was a level one tech at the time, and so I ended up fixing far too many of the damn things.

As is the way with IT, the non-Apple manufacturers treated it as a race to the bottom. They put out cheap-ass products that were built in an equivalent cheap-ass way. Sure you could buy a clone 30%(or whatever) cheaper than the Apple equivalent, but you got what you paid for.

I for one celebrated the day Apple killed off the Apple clone license regime.

The whole point of the Apple platform is the tight integration between hardware and software and, statistically speaking, the generally high quality and reliability of Apple hardware. As above, I have witnessed first hand what happens when you legally decouple the two ... its not pretty.

To pre-empt the people who will point me at some blog-rant where someone's Mac "broke", well sure, when you build millions of machines, there will inevitably be some that break ... but I doubt anyone can seriously argue against Apple reliability overall.
We just invested £2.5b into Ukraine, all while following the lead of the US into Israel and Yemen and trying to make deportation deals with Rwanda. All while we watch the news on Japan and India building (rather than destroying) and landing rovers on the moon for the first time.

Remember when the UK looked down on India? Now it even relies heavily on hiring people from there.
How is your answer connected with my question?
https://nitter.net/mjwhansen/status/1748345492998696961
Ask HN: What posters do you have on your walls?
I'm looking for some cool posters. How are my fellow geeks decorating their walls?

Currently considering NASA prints (perhaps hubble deep field) or something from the Kurzgesagt store.
I think he’s a bit extreme about proprietary software.
If you really want to learn good modern UI design from a business perspective, you need to look at websites that absolutely need to retain users and depend on high conversions to survive.

Example: Stake.com. Somehow manages to show a ton of information without feeling slow or sluggish. Isn’t pretty but has basic respect for legibility and whitespace.
Ask HN: Best ways of marketing your tech skills without using social media?
By marketing, I mean setting up your personal brand. Most of the developers I see nowadays use social media extensively to market their work. This is really a great way to do it. I did it for years and got huge rewards out of it.

However, I lost interest in social media because it is mostly algorithm-driven. Content that is not catchy or controversial does not get much attention, and I don’t want to fall into that trap.

So now I am looking for some alternative ways of marketing my work without using social media. Some of the ideas I found are:

1. Newsletter/Substack (You own it and have legitimate readers)

2. GitHub (Your code speaks)

3. Helping on community forums like Stack Overflow, Discord, etc.

The only issue with the above is that they are very slow to grow, and I don’t get much interaction on those platforms. I don’t expose myself to other people's content, which I also find useful on other social media. The social aspect is obviously much less. Also, most recruiters or people who are looking for talent use LinkedIn and Twitter to find people.

Hence, I am looking for the best alternative marketing strategy for software engineers without using social media.
FWIW, that's a different measure -- the 8-10c/kwh is for amortized cost over the lifetime of energy storage, vs the capital cost to build it.
Doesn't the term "blacklist" date back to medieval England, where it referred to the black book where the names of sinners were added?
Hard to stay in business when you become a parody

https://babylonbee.com/news/i-just-dont-know-where-we-went-w...
Yes, we use this setup for two "branch" services. It is pretty easy to get going, but setting things up to achieve zero-downtime deploys requires a little thought.

We're using ECS to manage our containers. What worked best for us is two task definitions, one daemon with only Litestream, another replica task with our web app. The web app task has a placement rule ensuring that Litestream has started before it can be placed, ensuring the database is "in place" before the app starts. Both containers have the same directory on the host mounted as volumes, so they can both access the same database. This series of tests convinced me that this is a safe setup: https://tangentsoft.com/sqlite/doc/trunk/walbanger/README.md

This has been working well for us - the db is fast, we can deploy whenever we want, and I don't feel anxious about the host going down.

One remaining source of anxiety is updating the machine image of the host - that will cause some downtime, of course. I think the safest strategy will be to increase the size of the ASG the host is in to warm up a second, updated EC2, then drain the first one.
{rolls eyes}

This is precisely the kind of 1990's level basic heuristic that this company cites as part of their Sentinel security system.

Trying to excuse a breach by 'the attacker tried a few passwords against lots of different accounts' is not compelling.
Then don't. Just don't visit the site. No harm no foul. Nobody owes you a web site catered to your preferences.
We haven’t at this scale, no.

For most of human existence, you would already know if Bob or Jane was dead, since you’d have gone to their funeral or knew someone who had.
0. If you really want to support an artist, just ask what is the best way to just send them some hard cash every month? Patreon, ko-fi... even straight wire transfer (isn't FedNow already working?).

Why do we keep insisting on having middlemen?
Paying Spotify does not pay musicians. It pays Taylor Swift and Joe Rogan. The musicians I am listening to are receiving fractions of a penny per song.
Empathy for people does not preclude apathy for a person.
Ah yes, the dish and laundry washers are indeed not “hot fill”, that is hard to find here indeed.

The dryer is a heat pump yes, some years ago it was the most energy efficient one we could find. (But I guess it runs longer, relying more on tumbling than heat, and wears out cloth faster).
copying and pasting from a different thread because this keeps coming up and I want to share my experience in case it's helpful:

I use SQLite/Litestream for https://extensionpay.com! Serves about 120m requests per month (most of those are cached and don't hit the db), but it's been great!

I was convinced that SQLite could be a viable db option from this great post about it called Consider SQLite: https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/consider-sqlite

Using SQLite with Litestream helped me to launch the site quickly without having to pay for or configure/manage a db server, especially when I didn't know if the site would make any money and didn't have any personal experience with running production databases. Litestream streams to blackblaze b2 for literally $0 per month which is great. I already had a backblaze account for personal backups and it was easy to just add b2 storage. I've never had to restore from backup so far.

There's a pleasing operational simplicity in this setup — one $14 DigitalOcean droplet serves my entire app (single-threaded still!) and it's been easy to scale vertically by just upgrading the server to the next tier when I started pushing the limits of a droplet (or doing some obvious SQLite config optimizations). DigitalOcean's "premium" intel and amd droplets use NVMe drives which seem to be especially good with SQLite.

One downside of using SQLite is that there's just not as much community knowledge about using and tuning it for web applications. For example, I'm using it with SvelteKit and there's not much written online about deploying multi-threaded SvelteKit apps with SQLite. Also, not many example configs to learn from. By far the biggest performance improvement I found was turning on memory mapping for SQLite.

Happy to answer any questions you might have!
The main thing that I have to switch to non-Firefox is various video/audio conferencing software.
Egos only exists if the team let them exist. A strong leader will make sure this is not happening.
>I don’t like the accepted answer here, because it criticises Leibniz notation without explaining what it means – and apparently without actually _understanding_ it, since the author several times writes words to the effect of “this is nonsense” in reference to expressions that in fact make perfect sense when interpreted correctly.

Did you look at the posting history at all? I think the poster understands what it means.
Salaries being amortized never made sense
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> Still weird how someone who can't control their emotions can spend hours sitting calmly in front of a debugger while coding over many years. I feel like developers have exceptional self control compared to most people.

If you think that the debugger is frustrating, you've never been married.
In other words: it was the attitude espoused by John Carmack more than Steve Jobs. New technology creates a new market IF you can make it work brilliantly well.

And, frankly, Carmack's "trick", which he does but doesn't admit to, is to rewrite everything from scratch every time he makes a release (more or less). That's how, that's why he got so incredibly good at it. Innovate once, optimize 10x (by throwing away what you got), repeat.

Companies don't do that, because it means having a department make tech demos and nothing else. Again, and again, and again, the SAME tech demo.
Very strange to see Brennan (hotwheels) come up in this context. He always struck me as a tragic figure.
So everyone paying for a subscription is a poor pensioner?

In this case it’s more like taking the standard deduction.
There will be lots of confusion and litigation on this exact issue.
> I now have access to one of the weirdest Edge Computing platforms imaginable.

If you think that's "weird", I have a bad news for you...

Not that your intuition is bad. It's sensible and fully justified. It's just weird to call common things weird ;)
I noticed that, too
Maybe if he became irrelevant and we moved on we could find someone that could champion all the benefits of GNU without the Stallman baggage.
> perhaps the current lot aren't quite as bad as the recent few governments from the same party.

Worse on every other metric, unfortunately!
> “They spent $100 million on us. They’ve already gotten the 60 million back, just because it’s been four years.”

It looks like the debtor and acquirer lost money on this. Journalists have a weird definition of “greed”

Alternative theory, they just lost their relevance and wasn’t bringing in enough revenue to support their business model. So they tried increasingly long shot strategies to salvage the brand, but it failed and everyone lost money and jobs.
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How do you reliably do it at a massive scale? Other than using some kind of biometrics, there's the possibility of impersonation.
Is it true that they are 1/5th into the pain? What about every new hire? That's the part I don't understand. It seems to discourage companies from increasing their headcount. Also, what happens when an employee leaves after 2 years? The company paid 2 years of salary but expensed only 35% of year 1 and 15% of year 2.

Update: Now thinking about it, it doesn't matter if an employee leaves, since the company will expense their salary portions that they haven't expensed yet in their future tax bills.
I'm umming and erring on this one — "irrelevant" feels much too strong (even NK isn't "irrelevant"), but OTOH "becoming" implies a direction of travel rather than a state, and every impression I have is that the UK doesn't matter as much as it used to.
Some may have been involved in Linux at the time and this raises unhappy memories. Some may consider his action unforgiveable. Some may have butted heads with Hans Reiser in the past and be uninterested in his words because of their personal opinion. Some may be uninterested in the poster (the 8chan founder, not a regular Linux contributor). Some may see themselves as representatives of their employer and worry any response could be a PR risk if it gets interpreted as sympathizing with a murderer, or alternatively kicking a man while he's down.
> You're missing the point entirely.

No I'm not. I retain my argument that it is a zero-sum game.

The manufacturers would have you believe it's a one-way gain and you can magically recharge to 80% again through regenerative braking, but in the end it almost entirely nets out. So a lot of it is marketing fluff.

That's the point.

> If I could make a 10% improvement to my fuel economy solely by coming to a gentle stop (which I already do anyway) it would be amazing.

For all you know, you probably do.

Its just that your ICE doesn't have some fancy display pumping out the numbers to make you feel all cozy about it.

Why do you think haulage companies spend an inordinate amount of time and money on driver training beyond the obvious parts of the training ? Because driving style can affect fuel economy, sometimes substantially.
It's really simple. You just require that the death certificate is used to close down a pension[1]. Sure people can continue to fraudulently claim a pension but at some point it's unsustainable and they'd be forced to fess up and they will be suitably prosecuted.

[1] https://docs.api.lev.homeoffice.gov.uk/life-event-verificati...
No child dies in the movie:

> Marc's dog Cléo comes after her owner, and one of the fortress walls collapses, killing her. The war ends, as both sides help bury her.
I think spending hours calmly in front of a debugger is the reason programmers become angry at people.

Stress builds up and needs to be released somewhere.

What I learned over time is that it’s better to get angry at the debugger and be nice to people. Not a day goes by without cursing that hecking tool that does whatever the heck it wants again, but I smile at my neighbours and try to help whenever I can. I also use HN as a means to let some of my craziest thoughts run wild, so I wouldnt have to torment those around me with them.

Programmers are humans and humans rely on emotion. Got to control the flow and pressure somehow.
Does the LLM have something it, as its own entity, wants to accomplish? Something it decided internally that may or may not mesh with its creators intentions? If it so, then regardless of whether or not its software, I would consider this evidence of free will.
> I wonder how many people bought a peacock subscription last weekend for the nfl wild card game

None. That was a slap in the face to football fans.
I understood the point you made, but I think you're maybe being a little deliberately obtuse (due to your tooth ache perhaps).

Have a great day.

Edit:

I explained my reasoning here:

> Why would you need to? .. it relates to the act of washing white paint over something.

> There's no logical reason for a negative list to be known as a 'blacklist' as far as I can tell?
Sorry, I am missing something. Are you saying that the people that are dying every day, in the developed world, is uncounted by a big margin? What is that margin?
> So to have something to point to, the CIA just went out and covertly funded a bunch of cultural outlets. Make of it what you may that the government was secretly subsidizing these and just how capitalist that is or isn't...

Was the argument ever about a planned economy versus a government that does nothing but foreign policy? Subsidies in a capitalist system don't make it non-capitalist.
The narrative here is that the evolution of database systems has always been in response to a rapidly changing landscape of "constraints", e.g.

- The challenge of open R&D collaboration -> Postgres & MySQL

- The ineffectiveness of one-size-fits-all DB engines -> 19 database services at AWS

- Shared disk architectures being difficult to scale -> cloud object storage

- High storage costs limiting the applicability of data analysis -> cloud data warehousing

...and so on. Followed by a summary of the biggest constraints that databases face today:

> What limits the application of infinite cores?

> 1. Data: inability to get data to processor fast enough

> 2. Power: cost rising and will dominate

Conclusion (spoiler!):

> ML central to DB going forward + opportunities with H/W specialization = big database innovations still coming
Do a follow up plan with the grafana bit. I'm intrigued
Show HN: API to convert users' plaintext input into functions your site can run
Created a way for anyone to define the data types associated with their SaaS/website such that we can parse plaintext user requests into function calls that the backend can handle. For example. User types “Rename all my documents in the ‘Memos’ folder to follow the pattern “[Department] Memo: [Date]”, our API yields JSON with the IDs of functions to be called and their parameters.
What I see around me is that because of macroeconomics (no cheap credits) companies trying to outsource to India (to a greater extent than a few years ago).