skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want an example of how little importance vetting oci images is to most ops/infra teams I have a great example- I used to work on low level k8s multitenant networking stuff, think cdns. Most of them use something like multus to split up vfio paths between tenants. Think chopping your NIC into 24 private channels and each channel is one customer. The ENTIRE path has to be private, the container starts and claims that network path on the physical NIC. No network packet can ever be accessed by another channel, server or container. I was alpha-testing multus which controls this network pathing that every customer would take ingress and egress out of a cluster and put up some test containers on dockerhub.

Multus sits at the demarc line between the container and the NIC channel. I'm not saying it's possible or ever been done but if I were going to set up a traffic mirror somewhere it'd logically have to be there or after the NIC..

I wrote it 5 years ago. I have no idea what version of multus it's running but even today it's getting pulls, last pull 19 days ago. Overall pulls over 5 years is over 10k.

These containers would spin up every time a container starts on k8s that attaches an ovf interface. So, it's pretty much guaranteed that this is in use somewhere in someones scaling infra. I don't know if I SHOULD delete the image and potentially take down someones infra or just let them keep chugging at it. I'm not paying for dockerhub.

https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/swozey/multus/gener...

edit: Looks like it's installing the latest multus package so not AS terrible but .. multus is not something to play loose with versioning..

Also I really wish Dockerhub gave you more stats/analytics. It really means nothing in the end but I'm curious. They don't even tell you the number beyond 10k, it just says 10k+ downloads.

https://github.com/k8snetworkplumbingwg/multus-cni
Sure it is different:

- not a business

- not on a street where people bump into it

- doesn't sell physical goods, doesn't know beforehand the number of customers, cannot (by design) limit impact
They're also driving away contributors with more altruistic motivations. There are a few niche subjects for which I can offer a semi-useful perspective. But I'm not going to do it if Quora build a big fucking wall around it. When they started introducing that I deleted my account. Fuck them.
What the author wants exists, just not by the names that the author is likely searching for.

Victron makes combination charger-inverters that takes power from the grid and keeps separate batteries topped off and also supplies AC power via inverter.
They sell these as their 'Multigrid' and 'MultiPlus-II' products and are populat setups for boats, where you have shore power but need to be able to unplug the shore power at any time and keep things going.

It's also a feature of quite a few cheap hybrid solar inverters now- they can charge batteries from mains if there is no PV input.

These work as a UPS but you do constantly run the load thru the inverter, thus your are taking a small efficiency hit; however it is truly uninterruptible. There is no 'switchover' time, which is also what makes a lot of UPS hardware so specialized- many are doing mains switching in essentially 1 cycle of 50/60hz mains power. Theres all sorts of stuff that goes with that.

Meanwhile, charger-inverter combos ditch having to deal with that by just going AC-DC to battery and then DC-AC. You always have clean uninterrupted power from the inverter. This used to fuel reliability concerns but these days much of this hardware is in applications running 24/7 for years now.
> I'm not sure that there was an inrush of programmers because "it could make a lot of money".

I certainly saw that in college in the 90s. I was shocked at the number of people who didn't know anything about or even really care about software who were in computer science classes. Because the dotcom boom meant anyone could be a "webmaster," so computer knowledge would lead to a "good job."

Since then I've seen at least two more waves of folks chasing the money. Because millennials and zoomers have precious little hope of living debt free or even home ownership unless they follow what we used to think of as a "get-rich-quick scheme" like taking a 6-week bootcamp to try to get a tech job.

> Some are very, very technical, more like the civil engineers the speaker talks about.

> there are engineers on the other end of the spectrum that are more focused on completing a task with perhaps a more pragmatic (?) focus.

> Perhaps it's a good thing the industry has both kinds.

Would you say the same of any ("other") engineering discipline? It's a good thing those engineers at Boeing were worried about completing the task at hand instead of taking a deep, technical, holistic view, perhaps? I can't agree with you.
Att made around a 12% profit margin, which seems reasonable if a bit high. Would you consider 12% == “printing money”? I usually think of 25+% margins like in big tech that way.

Not arguing just trying to understand how much money these companies are actually making.
It's the same process for all package builders: install build-time dependencies, unpack source archive with a program, configure it, build it, install it to a fake root, validate it, archive it to the package, sign it, then publish it to a repository, update repository index.
I agree. And it's not even like "we displayed Doom on X" would be uninteresting, it's just a significant difference from actually running it on X.
I dig it, or at least the fact that you stuck it out. Well done. :)

Huh, wonder if people who aren’t familiar with the subject saw “GPT” and thought you were going off into AI gibberish land?
Fiber-to-the-curb has been a concept for decades. The last couple hundred feet would traditionally be completed with copper but short range wireless could easily fill that gap in 2024.
I’ve hiked out to soldierstone, but never had any background. This is great!
Anyone who shares an article or news which has been community noted gets an immediate downvote in recommendations for me.
Let me add my gripe to over-automation.

Ceiling fans that can only be controlled using a remote. No way to wire at switch.

I am very much into local home automation, that is where no internet connection is required or allowed (HomeAssistant anyone?).

One thing I always watch out for is the automation must allow manual interaction. These fans have no pull chains, or switches when the remote breaks or more likely get lost.
Why would a compiler needs any privileges, it's like a text editor
Well, the revenue sharing probably didn't help much for sure. I've seen dozens of sites and platforms add that as a feature, and as unfortunate as it is, this almost always backfires. People see 'make money contributing to this platform' as 'free cash for spamming!' and the quality often falls off a cliff. You need really strict rules and a good moderation team to keep a platform under control in this situation, and that's rarely the case for services like Quora.

You can see the same issues cropping up on Medium with its partner program, on Twitter thanks to Twitter Blue and revenue sharing, and even to some degree on the likes of YouTube and Twitch (though they're so massive that the scammers don't really stand out/do as well). Put money on the table, and the scammers will come out of the woodwork to try and get as much of it as they can, quality content be damned.

Edit: I also suspect part of the issue with revenue sharing programs is that they don't offer enough to incentive genuine experts, but offer enough that if you're utterly desperate and local costs of living are low, you're incentivised to spam for it.
Oh you're welcome, thanks for the kind reply. One thing I've learned from this thread is how much misunderstanding there is around follow-up or duplicate articles that get moderated because they're repetitive, not because they're off-topic in themselves.
Executives, senior leadership, middle management trying to please leadership, engineers trying to get promoted... everyone has been whipped into a frenzy.

I sat through a two day (all day) "retreat" (conference room in our regular office) where people tripped over themselves to present their teams innovative AI ideas to leadership.

"It's a chat bot that..."
"It's a chat bot that..."
"It's a chat bot that..."
> when they say 'pick any language', I go straight for Perl.

The other good thing is that the interviewer probably won't know it and wouldn't be able to critique your solution ;-)
FWIW I thought "hate" and wrote "can't stand" because I intentionally wanted to tone it down just a little bit. "Hate" is a pretty biting word and I'm trying to use it less hyperbolically. The distinction is more one of politeness than anything in this case, so I agree with you.
Most Language Models can be Poets too (2022) [pdf]
No way the same org that named the mole a unit discourages the use of counting units.

I think what we are really after is yoctomole Becquerels.
They won't. They already have given both Apple and Google pass when chrome was launched or when smartphones took of. Mozilla sees Microsoft as devil's incarnation while Google and Apple are the ally in their holy war.

I am saying this as a developer who was using Firefox since firebug v0.8 era.
>"You have to log in, accept the data policies and either purchase a subscription or start a trial."

TBH I'm most frustrated by a product I already paying a subscription to use having a "wink wink nudge nudge" plugin thrown in by default to lure me into a second subscription.

I thought I paid for the IDE precisely to prevent such nickle and diming? If I wanted CI/CD or memory profilers or whatnot I'll find them myself, I don't need to have some menu context option that turns out to not actually be on my machine.

>All of the comments speculating about it collecting your code for their training purposes or doing 3rd party AI things without your consent, or being enabled without any warning are easily disproven by a quick read of the article.

Well that's what happens when some mysterious new plugin finds itself on your dev tools without much acknoledgement. See Notepad++ for a similar controvery for a much more tame update. These aren't casual users who just can't or don't notice such subtle changes to websites.

That said, I do remember some AI update in some notes when I upgraded Rider. I thought it was just some under the hood code completion experiments, but I wasn't expecting it to ultimately install a trial to yet another $10/month service on there.
That's fine.

If the proposal is to reexamine and change the way our society works in order to avoid the tragedy of the commons that's great.

If the proposal is to arbitrarily ban something we don't like or understand that's a problem.

How about the amount of power a datacenter uses? What about all this "AI" - the hardware used for training the models is very power hungry?
Seems like you still lose the Python plugin and remote extensions? Missing the wsl one is pretty rough. If you’re comfortable with vim (or want to be) I can’t recommend neovim enough.

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/wiki/Extensions-Compati...
>First the discussion seemed to be about systems as implemented today (presumably you now concede that those actually do have practical computational limitations?)

You are not Turing complete. We do like to pat ourselves on the back and say, "Humans? Of course, they're Turing complete" but you're not. You do not have infinite memory either theoretically (all else fails, you'll die) or practically (boredom, lack of concentrating, lack of interest, and a memory that is very prone to making stuff up or discarding vital details at a disturbing frequency).

In fact, you are a very poor excuse for a Turing machine. Simulate any computation? You wish you could. Your brain is a finite state machine through and through.

So why do we continue to deceive and pat ourselves on the back ?

Because, well besides the dash of human exceptionalism and narcissism we're so well known for, limited =/ trivial.

You see, I don't really care how precisely Transformers meet some imaginary goal humans don't meet themselves.

It's not important how Turing complete transformers are, only that they could potentially learn any class of computations necessary via training.

>Moreover adding memory is no longer the simple "forward pass" system that you were arguing had no significant computational limitations

Memory or not, all the computation is still being performed just in the forward pass.

>Second, and more importantly, the fact that through clever human manipulation you can express a Turing machine using an LLM does not mean that such a machine is learned through gradient descent training.

It also doesn't mean it couldn't be.

>There is no basis to the claim that today's systems have converged on model weights that implement "higher-order" computation.

Results are basis enough. If I say, "you're intelligent", it's because you appear to be so. It's an assumption, not truth I've verified after peeking into your brain. All the properties I might ascribe to humans: 'intelligence', 'conciousness' are all assumptions I ascribe based on the results I see and nothing else. I have no proof you are performing any 'higher order computation' either.
12% in perpetuity with no stress the number will go down and lots of (imho insidious and customer unfriendly) ways for it to go up is in fact "printing money"

Being able to make money risk free without risk of competition always ends up being worse for the customer and bad for the overall economy (in terms of efficiency)
> C# doesn't have ownership/lifetimes and the kind of safety that comes with them.

I believe .net Core has supported several forms of escape analysis for quite a while.
>track their falling cost

I do recall that patents/trademarks/tech are owned by E-Ink inc., and one of the biggest reason for the cost is them gouging the market? That mechanism can keep high prices for a long time.
And then you’re stuck paying for every cast and crew for the time they are not working. If you end up having to shoot another day, you’ll have to pay that too, which may not be budgeted for. This can easily put the value of a few lost minutes of power into the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.

It’s very similar to the discussion of self hosted vs cloud providers. Business people are willing to pay more for a predictable cost, rather than save a significant chunk of change but run the risk of having an unpredicted event that ends up with a large extra cost (such as replacing a whole rack tower
Wikimedia is a non-profit that operates like a for-profit when the yearly round of donations comes around. They literally hoard money[0].

I will get downvoted for this, but it's my perception.

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[0]: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/wikipedia-millions-bank-beg/
0.0 eccentricity means that it has no seasonal variation?
Counts per second doesn’t need a unit. It’s probably closer to flux (generic definition, not specific definition).

counts per second is common in particle physics
Do you have 5 minutes to talk about TOML?
“Anti-discrimination” laws are a modern patronage system. Instead of government jobs being given out based on political favors, private companies are forced into giving out the jobs, and if they refuse, (like Elon Musk) they get hit with spurious lawsuits until they comply.
> A persistently visible ad for a paid service you don't want, in a paid product you paid for? That alone is a justifiable reason for the outrage.

Oh, you mean like up- and cross-selling CTAs in, well, virtually any SaaS product under the sun? If that was a reason for outrage, we’d spend the work week screaming. Or is it that you just want to be enraged because an LLM is involved here?
Take one last look at the sun springfield!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyjJbhuwGkU
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I know that happens and I suppose we could look into tightening the screws a bit, but it feels to me like a step too far to exclude those sites from HN.

Some of the opinion sections get extra downweight - that might be helping a little.
Mostly taxes on wages paid as a part of making this movies.

FICA - employer part of payroll taxes

FICA/Medi - employer part of Medicare insurance

FUI/SUI - federal/state unemployment insurance
Could you elaborate? Easy to signup for or initially easy to use?

Would it actually lose customers long term or just give you early extra customers you fail to retain?
Deflation is worse than inflation, and it's hard to hit a single number, so central banks aim for low, stable inflation. 1-2% inflation isn't very perceptible vs 0 but avoids deflation.
Whats wrong with make or dare I even suggest a package manager like conda? I get having a half dozen dependencies can be specified in tools like docker but its just another way to do the same old task thats been solved a dozen ways for decades. We are sharing a shell script here. Seems crazy to me to run an entire redundant file system to share a couple hundred line bash script. Plus now users need docker skills as well as command line skills to install and run this tooling. There are corners of the command line user/programmer world that have thankfully not been polluted by docker yet so its not nearly as widespread a tool as setting up environments for bash scripts using some older ways.
IMAP is indeed old, but the question is, what implication of it being old they see as critical. If they worry about things needing to be encrypted better, then they could have PGP set up. It is quite common to have a more secure message exchange via a not secure channel in many protocols, so I don't see a big problem.

Usually when someone claims some proprietary MS owned product is the future, they are either sorely uninformed, MS fanboy, or their income depends on sticking with proprietary tech. None of which one would want at a public institution, and least of all in institutions of the education system.

I still remember, when some admin at some educational place I went to wrote messages to everyone on the whole system to warn them about MS office document macros. But of course people did not get it and then some malware spread over many people's systems, because they ran the code. And this happened multiple times within a year or so and even after I had graduated, but still received e-mail, it happened again. So funny to watch that story play out over and over again.
> Nope, you can’t the-free-market-will-fix-everything this one. The telco lobbyists wrote the government regulations

Just a point of clarification, the free market generally means independence from government regulation. This isn't the free market failing so much as incumbents using the power of government to force their advantage, part of the argument of the free market is that by not allowing the government to interfere in this manner no one can get laws written to benefit them because the government doesn't get involved in the first place. Now granted that's in a frictionless airless world with spherical cows. But to say the free market failed and the very next sentence say it is because of regulation from the government is oxymoronic.
The hardware/software infrastructure for cards and mobile payments is separate. We get card outages or Swish (mobile) outages occasionally, I don't remember any that affected both. Card payments are expected to work offline.

We're so dependent on IT systems that even cash doesn't always work. One of the most significant outages we've ever experienced was when Coop, a grocery store chain, had to close all its stores for a couple days because of an IT outage. It didn't help that the stores accept cash - the payments still couldn't be registered, receipts couldn't be printed, so the stores were completely unable to function.

We clearly need a robust fallback solution. Some kind of payment system that can work despite centralized outages (a bank's systems failing) or local outages at the merchant. But that shouldn't be cash. The practice of exchanging fragile, filthy pieces of paper whose ownership you cannot prove once outside your possession belongs to the past, we can do much better now.
Updated list of public BitTorrent trackers
Almost all of the services I've seen at Microsoft were built in C#
This is the same Sweden that issued a bogus arrest warrant for Assange?

If you think they won’t point and click seize your assets and freeze your accounts prior to trial for publishing the wrong thing, you’re crazy.

Cash is the backup, and must be preserved. Electronic payments can be centrally censored.
What are the main causes of climate change? And who gets to decide what is an appropriate use of power vs a bad use of power?

If the power I use comes from renewables is that cool?
> Every contributor-driven platform has eventually jumped the shark, and all in exactly the same way.

Do you think Wikipedia has jumped the shark? Obviously not perfect, but it's certainly a lot better than Quora in terms of accuracy. It's been around for a very long time and it doesn't seem to me like quality has decreased.

Edit: to be clear and re-iterate, I never said Wikipedia was perfect, just that it has a certain baseline, generally above where Quora is, and hasn't seemed to decline over the years.
No problem! I see these threads as opportunities to explain things to the entire community so I try to make the explanations as thorough as possible, and to answer every question that I see. (though I'm sure I don't see them all - if anyone has (or sees) a question that didn't get answered, you can always let me know at hn@ycombinator.com)
The technicians are good at configuring and fixing issues but they don’t have the ability to call up Avid and demand a new machine get overnight courier carried to replace one
So that started very recently in the history of IPv6, no? And if IPv6 is so awesome, how are they convincing people to pay for IPv4??
See? I didn't even tell anyone what they should do, and here's a Latex guy spouting off :)
Me too.

I've a simple but strict set of security rules for whether I'll use a
website.

- it does not want to run javascript

- that I can access it over Tor without being blocked

- that it will work in a text based browser like elinks

Despite the protestations by idealogues that no such sites exist, HN
meets all those requirements, as do dozens of useful sites I regularly
use.

If and only if I get to evaluate the quality of a site based on those
requirements, I may eventually register, with nothing more than an
email, in order to post replies.

Quora fell off that list long ago. More recently so did StackExchange.

Often I find that things break as soon as Cloudflare proxies are
involved.
Gov4Git: A superpower for open-source project maintainers
I find the answers on Quora to be way too try-hard. It feels like LinkedIn growth style BS stories.