skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Essentially: We will only accept climate change action if it’s not degrading our standard of living which is predicated on consuming unsustainably.

The end.
Make more Internet. It is an unlimited supply. :)
Barnett.edu is likely a reference to Barnett College, one of the fictional institutions where Indiana Jones was faculty. Might explain his dislike of snakes!
Yeah. But I guess that might change. They maybe trying to implement end-to-end encryption with the new talent pool.
The alternatives aren't frictionless either; many items from that image are not specific to Kubernetes. I personally find AWS API's frustrating to use, so even if I were running a one-person shop (and was bound to AWS for some reason - maybe a warlock has cursed me?) I'd lean towards managing things from EKS to get an interface that fits my brain better. It's just preference, though - EC2 auto-scaling is perfectly viable if that's your jam.
I have bumped into some language forms that seem to defy machine translation so far.

A friend of mine is from Vanuatu, and usually posts to social media in his native written Bislama. It's quite beyond my ability to understand. Maybe if I were to live there for a while I would pick up some of it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bislama

It's led me to wonder about other languages which may be the result of mixing languages encountered by populations that experience lots of migration. "Creole"?

This phenomenon has often been discussed in the context of colonialism, one culture wishing to dominate another, but I'm pretty sure its more general than that.

I recall a friend of my roommate in college, who worked on a fishing vessel for a summer and came back with a pastiche of Japanese and Portuguese, enough to participate in the most important activity on the boat: placing bets on Japanese high school baseball matches.
I've found most Amazon downloads to be 320k and, while the audiophile will argue, hard to distinguish from FLAC. Most importantly, it's higher quality than the EP I have on magnetic tape that was a recording of a recording I bought at the Fireside Bowl in 1999. Boy, I enjoyed listening to that, and the 320k MP3s do just fine so long as I don't need to re-encode them anytime soon.
That's fair, although IMO it's additionally fair to be skeptical of making a long-term commitment to products/services that aren't funded in ways that permit long-term product planning and reasonably-paced development based on that plan.
If the choice is between using a dedicated queue and postgres for your data vs. using postgres for both, using postgres for both makes perfect sense.

The scale at which you would outgrow using postgres for the queue, you would also outgrow using postgres for the data.
The NY Times has an article about why sales of F150 Lightning EV Pickups have declined:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/07/business/fords-f150-light...

Reading that I was struck by how often they defer to dealers. My understanding is that dealers don't like EV's because it cuts their lucrative repair profits. If the dealers won't sell the EV's then it looks like demand has collapsed. But maybe it's just that the dealers are not pushing the EV's. It seems very suspicious that three months ago EV sales were booming and now they are not, for all brands simultaneously. I suspect a propaganda campaign.

It also seems that Ford's mileage estimator doesn't take into account temperature and they have not added a heat pump to the battery to optimize its temperature. So it is no wonder owners are surprised when the range meter drops by 70 miles when they drive 35 miles.
saying so without context or requirements at all reduces the effectiveness of the insight
I've been buying in small bulk quantities from crypto people.

These people told me crypto people are buying the GPUs again. There's even some crypto website they showed me where they get pricing information and comparables.

I don't know or care what coins people mine, just that their activities have restarted and that it's making demand go up.
In Elixir land Oban[0] uses Postgres as queue and seems to work quite well.

[0] - https://github.com/sorentwo/oban
GDPR doesn't apply if they're really frontier customers. As they're not in the EU.
In the days of yore, everyone eschewed mmap because it required platform specific tuning. Then everyone switched to one platform and continued to eschew mmap because they didn't want to read the docs.

Sure, you can manifest destiny and write it all yourself, and many do, but if you learn how to make mmap really fly, then you can do that again and again without having to even so much as smell a DBMS.

The Linux kernel defaults are pretty horrendous for anything resembling high performance hardware, let alone disks that act like memory, but it can most comfortably accommodate all of those things handedly if you just configure the damn thing properly.
This is great. We desperately need the ability to manufacture cutting edge chips domestically. It's critical for our other industries, and it's the type of manufacturing that our advanced economy can compete in. Wish things like SEMATECH never went away because it's gonna be hard to catch up to Taiwan and Korea, but better late than never.
I just don’t understand why you’d like react if you like working with events. Sounds like you just JSX? Wouldn’t you get better served by something like lit?
There is a massive amount of conservative estimates implemented in current EPA standards. Further, air emission standards are typically based off "potential to emit" to add.

A ~8% difference in efficiency is large, but even without the aforementioned "wiggle room" in standards, a 90% reduction still drastically reduced its footprint converting to CO2 vs methane.
RavenDB 6.0.2 (A Jepsen Report)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39204622

10 days ago
I wouldn’t mind using unsafe rust for encapsulated cases where it makes sense (though this might not be the one as it could be done in safe rust).
It is just nice to have this delineation and it can simplify debugging as well.
This sounds a lot like the US as well. I lived in London and Surrey County as a kid. Since brexit I ask my friends so you decided to Londonize your whole country as that seems like the only viable path forward. I use a lot of British software, Nuke, Affinity, HDR Light Studio and I can see more of it develop. That said has to be painful to deal the austerity (which is wild as the UK still runs a deficit).
Chernobyl's mutant wolves appear to have developed resistance to cancer
They can’t because value is not exported. They must use the NewUsername function, which forces the validation.

In my opinion, this pattern breaks when the validation must return an error and everything becomes very verbose.
Async Device Shutdown Support for Linux
I seem to remember the early SiFive HiFive boards coming with a sticker to put on the insanely bright blue power LED on the board.
Even tauri’s own benchmarks show it takes thousands of syscalls to bring up a “hello world” app in tauri. This isn’t lean software. Just because the download size is small doesn’t mean the software is fast or efficient.
How would the power usage of bitcoin scale if it did serve every American? Until that question has an answer I don't think this argument can be considered valid. It's an incredible waste as it is, but just dismissing it outright doesn't make sense. If the number of transactions scaled up would the power usage become more reasonable?
Cool so I would just buy a roll of 2000 of them on Amazon for like $10 that I keep in the car.
The iceberg is fine, but using ECS doesn't absolve you from needing to care about monitoring, affinity, audit logging, OS upgrades, authentication/IAM, etc. That's generally why organizations choose to have infrastructure teams, or to not have infrastructure at all.

I have seen people rewrite Kubernetes in CloudFormation. You can do it! But it certainly isn't problem-free.
Well good luck trying to get people to lower their standard of living in pursuit of an abstract solution to a problem that can only be represented with predictive modeling.
To be fair, most networked filesystems are nowhere near as good as EBS. That’s one AWS service that takes real work to replicate on-prem.

OTOH, as noted, EBS does not perform as well as native NVMe and is hilariously expensive if you try. And quite a few use cases are just fine on plain old NVMe.
X3.3 Solar Flare – Full Analysis and Forecast [video]
Yea at rather insane prices due to the Ukraine war.

In 2022 the US imported 3 trillion CF, exported 6.9 trillion cubic feet, and extracted 43.8 trillion CF.

By comparison in 2015 we only exported 1.8 trillion CF.
Excel gang https://youtu.be/BNG_c9Ofd6c?&t=722
You can't think of another thing that is popular now which would be responsible?
The late founder had supported the direction of the research. It's just that the new CEO does not have the same level of risk taking vision, and instead listened to prevailing experts on the direction. He had assumed that this lone researcher is just following a dead end.

Childish behaviour aside, the conservative decision to cut costs and shut down the research is justifiable to some degree. The only problem is that the GAN research path is well trodden by others already, and therefore, a smart CEO should see that it is also a dead end.
I’m not sure this is true. You can buy insurance on virtually any potential loss risk, like how celebrities can buy insurance for body parts: they obviously haven’t lost said parts, but that doesn’t mean the insurer charges $0.
Why would you make it a shared resource if you don’t have to?

Decades of experience have shown us the massive costs of doing so - the crippled velocity and soul crushing agony of dba change control teams, the overhead salary of database priests, the arcane performance nightmares, the nuclear blast radius, the fundamental organizational counter-incentives of a shared resource .

Why on earth would we choose to pay those terrible prices in this day and age, when infrastructure is code, managed databases are everywhere and every team can have their own thing. You didn’t have a choice previously, now you do.
You could also put in about the same amount of effort and do something much more environmentally conscious at the expense of being less childishly subversive. I guess you’ve gotta decide if that tradeoff is worth it.
Anyone looking for custom keyboard inspiration, look no further than https://kbd.news/.

I personally went for the Stront split keyboard. https://github.com/zzeneg/stront
> the US is going to once again cripple one of their critical industries for short term gains, what happens when your senior engineers retire and there are no replacements prepared because it's more efficient to hire foreign senior engineers rather than onboarding and training a college grad? Even before AI improvements and Covid increasing remote work, the bar for hiring entry engineers was absurd and most startups only wanted seniors

Presumably you hire more senior engineers from overseas? What, do you think American senior engineers are inherently better somehow?
I had our gas furnace replaced this past November, a 100k BTU Rheem one, for $2,200. This was outside Chicago in Northwest Indiana, though, which is a pretty low cost of living area.

I spent some time trying to get a heat pump instead, but no one around here was familiar with them. I worried that if it failed service would be a pain.
> its not far from reality

What reality is that?
Art in a Cold Climate
I've climbed the mountain of learning the basics of kubernetes / EKS, and I'm thinking we're going to switch to ECS. Kubernetes is way too complicated for our needs. It wants to be in control and is hard to direct with eg CloudFormation. Load balancers are provisioned from the add-on, making it hard to reference them outside kubernetes. Logging on EKS Fargate to Cloudwatch appears broken, despite following the docs. CPU/Memory metrics don't work like they do on EKS EC2, it appears to require ADOT.

I recreated the environment in ECS in 1/10th the time and everything just worked.
Why are you trying to find a workaround? Circumventing a law is the same as breaking it.
> Why don't they have faith in their fellow man?

Their fellow man (or enough of them) will screenshot the product saying outrageous things and post it as proof that your company is bigoted and your product is harmful to society.

Enough users will use the product in bad faith that they have to nerf the output to keep investors happy and their business viable.

It's why open source models have an edge right now. Sam Altman more or less acknowledged this edge recently, saying OAI's products will start to get more flexible on point on view and people need to be ready for that.
I’m still waiting for the “Postgres as a Web Browser” thread.
No, bad and unsustainable. Almost every city in the U.S. is supported by its urban core. The infrastructure cost of handling suburbs is absurd.

Increasing sprawl is fiscally irresponsible and most cities are underwater without extra funding as it is.
The propaganda compaing would be believing that dealers are conspiring to not give cars that people want to be. Okhams razor is that there is less demand.
It is known for electronics designers, that specialized circuits outperforms GPUs for few times.

Before appear Tensor cores, GPUs was about 4 times worse (speed, power consumption).

With Tensor cores, GPUs become better, but they still need to carry video hardware (ramdac, video connectors, 3D processing units, network to connect all this stuff), so they still late.

Really GPUs are interest just because current AI applications are not achieve enough revenue to pay for large scale production of special chips.

I don't know, if Altman have something Big to get revenue to pay for special chips.

Exists speculations that GPT-5 will be enough to replace human at work.
If this is real, AI chips will be worth it.
It's not just an ~8% difference in efficiency, it's a 350% difference in purported emissions. The actual emissions are 4.5x larger than claimed: 9% vs 2%.
As the top comment says, this is sadly a consequence of remote working.

I started my career in the dot com boom a quarter century ago, and when it burst there was initially a huge rush of fear that "everything will be outsourced to India and China". That never really panned out, primarily because (a) teleconferencing tech wasn't nearly as good as it is now, and (b) the huge timezone differences were an absolute killer for productivity, especially in a world that discovered things like fast cycle times and continuous deployment were a critical competitive advantage.

Now, though, I think a lot of companies have learned from those problems. I see much more outsourcing to places like Latin America (same or nearly same timezone) or Eastern Europe (obv. not as good timezone overlap but still doable if you have US workers start a bit earlier than usual and European a bit later). Also, since nearly everyone, even in "RTO" offices, spends a huge amount of time on Zoom, etc., it's much easier to have outsourced workers treated as fully equal team members.

I agree, it totally sucks for US entry-level devs. Based on my experience in the US of how we outsourced other previously critical competencies, I don't have a good answer.
That grossly ignores the majority of rural america where public transit systems will never effectively serve their needs given the economics
> We’re extremely excited to accelerate our mission by joining forces with Notion’s world-class team. We sincerely hope that the Skiff community will join us for this next stage of our journey.

Yet another entry for https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
Seeing the astounding number of CVEs in C++ code everywhere, everybody needs training wheels.
Laptop jockey morality, anything that isn't in the life experience of someone who is bolted to a laptop 9-5 is dangerous and weird.
Yes, I think the point being made is that the infrastructure described in terraform is a much more difficult thing to change and evolve over time.

Changing a source file line and shipping a new version of the app is much easier.

They are not really comparable things at all. Even though we moved to infrastructure as code, that does not mean that the infra code is like functional application code.

Come to think of it, I guess it was a damn good lie to sell infrastructure as code as so easy it's like shipping a new app version when it's everything but..
I always considered Asimov to have good ideas but he's a pretty bad writer, specially of female characters.
FDB, a distributed DB, would be superior if complete order is not required.

https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/queues.html
Or, you just avoid doing multi tenet from the start and none of those become your problem to unblock. What’s the downside?
Are you sure? I still see them around in some local shopping malls.
Tutorial on generalized algebraic data types (GADTs)
Low-Code Multi-Agent Automation Framework
Lyzr Automata. New kid on the block. Multi-agent Automation Framework.

Ultra low-code. Open-source.

https://github.com/LyzrCore/lyzr-automata

Here is the demo video of how we managed to automate 'Newsletter Creation' using Perplexity, GPT4 and Lyzr Automata (the framework that we started building).

https://www.loom.com/share/c5878b106f634b3d9079a9c9b86de93b?...
The shade would be much closer to the Earth than the Moon. The article says shade would block 2% of Sun light. It would "would have to be about a million square miles, roughly the size of Argentina".
> if we spent more time baking we would have trouble getting out of the birth canal because we have such large heads

Human birth seems strangely difficult. If you’ve never witnessed a live human birth it’s very traumatic with lots and lots of things that can/do go wrong. I can’t think of another mammal that struggles as hard as humans do during birth. It makes me wonder how humans have survived as long as we have.
FWIW this isn’t true anymore with newer uuid schemes like v7 that are roughly time sortable.
It was used in my previous job and it worked wonders. It was an internal tool which stored lots of data but did not see high traffic. And as such the load was not an issue. In the world of thet large corporate it was almost the only viable solution. DB already existed so it could be used. Other solutions would require an “architecture” documents, security meetings and perhaps even hiring someone to care about new tech in stack.
Agree. One can't really run enterprise grade solutions by haphazardly throwing code in a kubernetes cluster. It need to have fully automated pipeline with authn/authz and other fixings.
I understand that the microbes in a starter change quite quickly to the microbes in the surrounding environment. I.e. that buying a starter from a distant place doesn’t mean you are getting the terroir of that location. I cannot at the moment find where I read this but I think I’ve come across it several times and that it is sort of common knowledge.
They can. Every country can.
And they do in other cases - USA is perfectly Ok to sanction Chinese/UAE bank for doing business with Russian military.
If it's ok to it with sanctions - why it's not ok to do it for market access?
Yes, this could create situation where things EU requires worldwide are in direct conflict with other countries but it's rather unlikely to happen.
If you go looking for how much productivity those older paper documents enabled, the answer was already all over the place. Computerized ones have the unfortunate feature that they are so cheap to manage that people were pushed into creating all the questionable-value ones, and then some clearly negative-value, and then more.

Instead, structured information is what was already very valuable, became more valuable in a computer, and got even easier to create. But the one defining feature of structured information is that Office applications can't deal with it at all.
I don't want to be negative, but this post reads like a list of things that I want to avoid in my career. I did a brief stint in cloud stuff at a FAANG and I don't care to go back to it.

Right now I'm engineer No. 1 at a current startup just doing DDD with a Django monolith. I'm still pretty Jr. and I'm wondering if there's a way to scale without needing to get into all of the things the author of this article mentions. Is it possible to get to a $100M valuation without needing all of this extra stuff? I realize it varies from business to business, but if anyone has examples of successes where people just used simple architecture's I'd appreciate it.
As someone with a TBI and several linked issues (military) I can say that if long COVID brain fog is similar it’s a tough road. The number one thing that helped me was lowering my stress; once that was done I started having far more “good” (high performance) days than “bad” (days where I was notably having cognitive issues).

Generally now it’s tied to my anxiety; if I can prevent a spiral I’m fine and operate at my previous normal. Preventing a spiral is the issue…
I actually used that exact car argument when someone here was strongly against any use of psychedelics unless medical and aided by a professional.
I live in Aus as well, and I don’t expose myself to News Corp at all. Can you explain to me what the heck the issue is? We have so much space and we don’t need that much more solar, how is anyone’s crops at risk? Is this just a complete non issue? Like i agree that solar panels shouldn’t be installed over the top of crops but is that even a thing that is happening? Don’t the farmers have almost complete control of what goes on their property anyway? So confused
> "the internal IT of a company"

Many small and medium companies don't have any internal IT. Maybe the original parent commentor works for an MSP / outsourced IT services provider / as an IT consultant.

> "What could be so complicated that"

Windows 11 has hardware requirements that Windows 10 didn't, their equipment may need to be reviewed/audited or refreshed - planned, budgetted, quoted, ordered, received, checked, configured, user data migrated over for dozens of devices. Business customers need to buy Windows Pro not Windows Home - and need enough IT experience to know that, non-technical companies may have bought some Windows 11, had problems, and needed to call someone for help. A company might have some internal IT who could do it, but are busy with other projects and don't have time to plan and execute an upgrade. Windows 11 comes with new Group Policy templates which need importing to a Windows domain and configuring - and may need reviewing or auditing for regulatory compliance to see what needs setting up and the parent commentor is some kind of compliance person helping with paperwork instead of a technical person. A company might take an upgrade to Windows 11 as a time to change other things like a move to Microsoft Cloud Services (OneDrive, Microsoft account for login) and each user needs to be given a new laptop and have all their settings moved over. A company might have specialist software from vendors who aren't very progressive - e.g. optician's software which manages retina scanning cameras - and needs lots of time consuming hand holding with the vendor support line before the vendor will agree to the move, even if it would in principle work fine. Regardless of technical issues, the upgrade could take an hour or two per machine, over dozens or hundreds of machines, that's either a big interruption which needs planning (staged rollout for different departments, say) or needs some automated way to deploy it which needs setting up, testing, and checking on, and may just hire some temporary contractors for more people to do that. There may be users who could do it, but won't because it isn't their job, or aren't allowed to by their manager or union so it isn't their responsibility if it goes wrong.