skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Channel 5 on YouTube has picked up where they left off.
You'll get better responses if you add more context. As it is, this isn't worth trying to answer because it's not clear what you're trying to do/say or what things you tried that didn't work.
People who cheer for their own disempowerment are fascinating.
It's a _little_ possible to generate a huge bill, but the biggest risks here are:

1. Leaving instances running when they're not being used

and

2. Deviation from default behavior that results in accumulation of storage volumes you don't want or need (low likelihood but something to watch for initially).

For 1:

If you leave the instance running you'll keep getting charged the hourly rate. Not really unexpected, but you have to notice it yourself or set an alarm.

There are a few tricks to reduce likelihood of this happening and to limit charges if it does happen anyway:

a. Prevention: Make your own little auto-stop script for the instance like rundiffusion has. Maybe make it into the launch sequence too, so you run a script, it launches the instance, then starts a timer. If the timer counts down all the way with you jiggling it, it stops the instance.

b. Mitigation: Create an alarm on the instance with the action to 'Stop' the instance when the alarm is triggered. Set the trigger for the alarm to be something like 'Max CPU usage has been less than 4% for a consecutive hour'.

c. Mitigation: Use AWS' Instance scheduler to automatically stop the instance

d. Mitigation: Billing budgets with associated action to stop instances -- kind of like the alarms but triggered based on costs

For 2:

It's probably a non-issue. You'll likely not have a problem because you'll start and stop the same instance most of the time instead of creating and deleting new instances. In which case, gp3 SSD storage is $0.08/gb over a month, charges on a 200gb storage volume you keep around all the time and use is only like $16 for the month. There are benefits so it's likely worthwhile.

BUT, be careful if you create and terminate lots of instances instead of stopping and starting the same instance. There's a small possibility of accumulating extra storage volumes you don't need, without realizing it.

By DEFAULT that's not a problem. AWS will delete the attached storage volumes for an instance after you Terminate (not stop) the instance. The problem comes from changing the default behavior.

That change can be configured in the AMI you use to launch an instance (by whoever created the AMI), or by you when launching an instance. The storage volumes are not deleted automatically then you have to do it manually to stop them from continuing to generate charges. Which you might not notice right away..

Keep that in mind, but that scenario requires a fairly unlikely chain of requirements to get to the point of bill bloat:

- If you use a pre-built AMI from marketplace (such as one with stablediffusion preinstalled) which is configured to KEEP storage volumes upon termination instead of using AWS default of deleting them,

- and if you do a 'Create' and 'Terminate' instead of 'Start/Stop' so you're using a LOT of instances instead of a few,

- and if you don't notice the setting during launch,

- and if you don't see all the extra volumes sitting around...
Go 2016-2019: My transition into management
I'm thankful for the Russian roulette series. Showed the brutality of war in Ukraine in 2014. Some scenes I won't forget. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw613M86o5o7a0FGlPRdt47xi...
In the EU, literally every AVP sold direct is so new that the burden of proof is on Apple to prove it's the consumer's fault and not a manufacturing defect, and otherwise repair/replace/refund free of charge. I'm amazed their premium warranty is not even meeting their legal obligation.

Same for non-direct purchases, but for non-direct it's the retailer's problem.

(Well, actually, they were pretty slow to comply with faulty charging cables and home buttons on a iPod Touch a decade ago too)
Great article. You would hope this feature was more readily exposed on USB-C laptops where it makes a bit more sense… oh well.
Wouldn't it be cool to have a website where you can discover smaller blogs? Whether you're looking for blogs about tech, philosophy or whatever. And people can leave reviews about those blogs on the website so users can easily find/sort/filter for what they're looking for.
Bummer. Vice felt like real media that could be trusted by way of the weird/outlandaish ways they conducted themselves.
True, and the peculiar reaction of animals (brief nocturnal activity) won't be very noticeable from the air either.
People still don't realize how many things from the last fifteen years were LIRPs. Low interest rate phenomena doomed the moment investors can get a halfway-decent yield from fixed-income investments.
You've clearly never gone to a Starbucks Roastery before. Its a night and day difference between the standard cafe and a roastery.
I imagine they still have to organize paying royalties and the like
Here, knock yourself out https://covertinstruments.com

They don't have a moral responsibility to do jack squat other than sell an honest product and honor their warranties. You don't like that, tough.
Pretty bad use of TurnitIn. They specifically say that their “AI detection” is in beta and to not solely depend on it.
Here is a a key problem:

“It began with an effort to extract “sponsorship” dollars from local service providers: the lawyers, accountants, recruiters and PR firms that cater to startups.”

The YCombinator strategy was to give founders money and get them to focus on building a product.

Techstars, on the other hand, sought to extract money from founders to support their sponsors to nickel and dime dreamers and bog them down with time wasting distractions like articles of incorporation and formal business plans and commercial bank accounts and press releases —- because these are the vanity services their sponsors provide. You feel like you are building a company when you consult a lawyer and accountant creating an S-Corp and delegating shares.

But Y Combinator has had direct access to the unlimited fount of free money created by zero interest rates so they only needed to appease the vultures capitalists with pump and dump schemes.

Both methods are flawed, even if the stated aims of the organizations are noble.
Apps for mobile devices! not personal computers. Self hosted PWA's are absolutely available to open on mobile.. and no one uses them.
I think you've read too far into this. Ray tracing is not a useful real-world primitive for extracting information from most scenes. Sure, "everything is shiny", but most surfaces are diffuse and don't contain useful visual information besides the object they illuminate. Many supposedly "pure" reflections like mirrors and glass are actually subtle caustics that introduce too much nuance to account for.

Also, "pipe" isn't considered harmful terminology (yet) just FYI. I was confused seeing the "|" mononym in it's place.
I got a 2x jump on my 4090 from batching SDXL.
Thank you! I appreciate and admire your humility and willingness to change. You're an inspiration to me to better express my thoughts too.
Setting aside the content, I guarantee the domain name has value. The investors will ensure it's going to be sold for a fair bit of money.
Airforms is self-hosted
I just did this but had to buy a special tb4 cable. Just worked, though I had to look up the IP addresses.
Paywalled. Can't read.
Or even Digg... Lots of comments and discussions lost.
And they've yet to release season 3 of Nirvanna the Band the Show. Unacceptable.
Inside North Korea is a classic: https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/vice-guide-to-north-korea...
As far as I understand it, the front-runner to build a commercial space station is Axiom Space. Their CEO is Michael T. Suffredini, who was the ISS program manager for 10 years.

Given that the stated mission is to own and operate a space station -- and rent out the space inside it -- I assume they're paying particular attention to how to reduce the cost of operations.

In particular, on the current ISS, it strikes me that a lot of things require spacewalks to replace parts that seem like they could have lived inside, rather than outside. Things like batteries, coolant pumps, and power regulators seem to constantly require a spacewalk to repair or replace. Even though it probably requires some extra improvements to improve safety in order to be able to put the machinery in "a utility closet" rather than outside, I assume Axiom Space Stations will be designed to be maintained from the inside, rather than the outside.

I doubt that the new station will last much longer than 30 years -- but I also doubt it will cost a billion dollars a year (I mean literally) to run.

https://www.axiomspace.com/team/michael-suffredini
In my experience most apps designed around relational databases will benefit from:
- one-to-many and many-to-many mappings
- soft delete
- log tables / append-only tables
- entity-attribute-value
- meta columns (creator_id, timestamp, version, etc)

Beginning with them is way easier than patching afterwards
I’m not clear what you mean.

If you’re imagining that AI tools mean it has to be a straight text -> output model that’s not correct. They are very much iterative transformations.
> Either they need to be bought out or they will need to do more layoffs to increase their runway and make sure that they meet the stock price requirement of >$1.00 to avoid being delisted by May 2024.

I think this was the "near-death experience" I was thinking of regarding Salon. Didn't Salon do a reverse stock split to meet the price requirement? Can Buzzfeed do this too?
The AVP isn't sold in the EU yet.
USG paid for R&D, physical hardware, and the actual launch.

It’s about as ‘private’ as the F-22.
great work with the explainer video etc.
good luck w/ the project @ OP.
If they have no employees and no servers in the EU, there is nothing they are required to do. You could try to get a judgement in a US court based on a EU law, but that won't go well.
If it makes no sense, there's someone mean behind it.

The deal to work with the media outlets likely dictates they cannot have their own distribution channel even for historical content.
World Space Flight: How many people are currently in space, and who are they?
15 hours later and the title of this post still stays Verizon and T-Mobile when it was only AT&T
Slightly more interesting in my opinion

If you were willing to risk $2,100 on a "buy-to-open" long 2-days-to-expiration (2023-02-23 expirations bought 2023-02-01 right before close) 3.5% out of the money call ($700 strike), you would've had a 300% return today.

How many people (hundreds? thousands? millions?) tried to guess the right combination of earnings up/down (long/short, call/put) risking money they might not necessarily should be, high premium / theta decay / implied volatility crush be damned?

I'm not saying the stock market is "as much like a casino as it has ever been" but... like... at 50-50 coin flip... it is better odds than a casino? lol

I guess roulette red/black.
Yeah I was about to say, though I'm getting a bit worried that as Andrew grows more successful and grows his operation, the more it will start to resemble a traditional news outlet (much as Vice did in the later years).

In any case, I'm hoping once Channel 5 grows big enough they can relaunch Hamilton's Pharmacopeia (though by a different name, of course).
I wish I knew more about how one would stop instances full of malicious spam bots from flooding the services, but as for DMs, my understanding is the fact that everything is public through the AT protocol is probably why it doesn't yet have DMs (though maybe through public key crypto, one could have something). Maybe in the future, BlueSky will allow for messaging by tying accounts to some messaging protocol or services.

Apparently, DMs are low priority: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues/1114
This is true. If LLMs recalled perfectly their purveyors would get into legal trouble :)
I don't understand why publishers take down Kindle books when the paper book goes out of print. It happened to one of my favorite scifi novels.

It takes zero effort to keep the book available (I know, I self-published a silly little one), and zero effort to include it in your accounting as long as there's a data feed and a computer.
Do investors know that they exist? I feel like this is something that will only happen if the archive-er actively make contact and persuade the current website owner that it's worth it to make the deal.
I think we could say AI is part of the revolution ?
Its odd to think that both Silicon Valley and Vice were from the same phenomenon, but it does track (radical entrepreneurial libertarian "world-changing" businesses).

But yeah, the whole neoliberal environment just produced a lot of bullshit in the end (in the developed countries). But I don't think, fortunately, the reaction to neoliberalism is going to stymy creativity at all, I think many are ready to embrace a new kind of economy.
yeah, newspapers do this all the time. Could also regex the dates to show up really large.
Having spent several years as a manager, as a once-again IC I now include lack of problems with my features in production in my written self-assessment. I'll often refer back to major features I shipped ~2 quarters ago with a statement like, "Project Foo continued to function as expected, scaling as designed under load while incurring zero production incidents." I'll often include the words "engineering and operations excellence" and "commitment to product quality" when doing so.
They're still working on getting Starship to orbit, reentry and demonstrating cryogenic fuel transfer in space (there seems to be a decent chance of the first happening next month which would also allow for an attempt at the second, and maybe being able to demonstrate the third within the same ship too). Still a few steps to go before they can put a crew on-board and fly it out past the Moon. They've got to demonstrate reentry, the catching mechanism, orbital docking and refueling and life support.

For the catching mechanism they're going to want a second tower, for which the parts are only just starting to arrive at Starbase, so it'll probably be at least 6 months until that's assembled, and closer to 12 until it's through simpler testing and ready to take on a real catch. So probably a good 4-5 years until they're ready to put any humans onboard, and then another year or two after that to put complete amateurs onboard.
I’m somewhat skeptical, at least for LLMs per se. They are language models. They have, in many respects, superhuman abilities, but I wouldn’t really want to trust things that require accuracy to an unaided human or even an unaided superhuman.

I would expect better results from LLMs using programming languages, perhaps ones tailored to LLMs, to prepare tasks on behalf of their users.

(Also, LLMs doing anything direct are an incredibly inefficient use of computing resources. There are quite a few orders of magnitude of difference between the FLOPs needed to do basic calculations and the FLOPs needed to run inference on a large model that may be able to do those calculations if well trained.)
"Oh well" \s
Yes. Electromechanical switching systems were substantially more reliable than their components. How this was done should be understood by anybody designing high-reliability systems today.

"A History of Science and Engineering in the Bell System - Switching Technology 1925-1975" is a readable reference. The Internet Archive has it.[1]

More hardcore: "No. 5 Crossbar"[2]

The Connections Museum in Seattle still has a #5 Crossbar working.[3] Long distance used toll switches, "#4 Crossbar", and there were 202 of them.

#4 and #5 Crossbar machines are collections of stateless microservices, implemented from electromechanical components. The terminology is used in the old books is completely different, but that's what they are. Each service always has at least two servers. The parts that do have state are distributed. The crossbar switches that make actual connections have state, but are dumb - they are told what to do by "markers", which are stateless but can read the state of the crossbars and of other components. Failure of a single crossbar unit can take down less than a hundred lines at most. Other than the crossbars to external lines, everything had alternate routes. Everything has fault detection, with lights and alarm bells.

Error rates were fairly high. In the previous "step by step" system, a good central office misdirected about 1% of calls. With bad maintenance (and those things were high maintenance) that could get much worse. Crossbar was better, maybe 0.1% misdirected calls.

Routing tables in crossbar were mostly static ROMs of one kind or another. Routing consisted of trying a predetermined set of routes, in order. Clunky, but reliable.

Modern systems need a backdown to that mode.

[1] https://archive.org/details/historyofenginee0000unse_q0d8

[2] https://archive.org/details/bellsystem-no-5-crossbar-blr

[3] http://www.telcomhistory.org/connections-museum-seattle-exhi...
"renaming" you lost me there, now you have a backwards incompatible API
Someone overwrote your answer with a PSA about how unsafe these links are. Fair enough I guess, but could you post the original question here?
Very nice! Always use profilers!

In reality, though, data always have errors, and you get many validity checks in there, and data is never only ascii, but full of Unicode.

I so wish python would come with the equivalent of jvisualvm in its “batteries included” (not even talking about better profilers even).
42 Page AI generated book masquerading as classic on Amazon
Appears to be a Kindle unlimited related scam.
This is why I post on slashdot. They've passed the test of time (but not UIs, fuck beta). Looks like their first posts in '97 start here: https://slashdot.org/?page=8582 dunno what their december 31st, 1969 posts are after that (errors? intentional de-ranking?)

Newspapers have a bad history of "experimenting" with enabling online comments and then deciding the experiment failed and delete them all. You're a newspaper, you're not supposed to delete history when you don't like it!!!

And then they complain when people use social media as their newspaper.
https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/main/smallweb.tx...
I don’t think people realize that Government contracting doesn’t make you a Government entity. As far as anyone is concerned day-to-day, they’re just an important client.

This is a day to celebrate. This is a momentous achievement and I can’t wait to see private space scale to its potential — which is ginormous.
All the endless scroll models have had their day, I hope. They don’t provide what you want or what is good for you, they provide cheap low quality ads, and worthless content that just comes with more ads.
A small tool to enable instant open in Chrome
Wondering which sites you saw that are spammy, as I consume this 2-3 times a day pretty much every day and have not noticed any. In any case submitting a PR to remove them should not be as burdensome.
I had a pair of Sony XM4s develop the same ANC shrieking issue. Would happen once every few hours. Sony sent them back saying they seemed fine to them :(
I would spend more, but how do you find an unknown brand that's has durable products? It is an issue of discoverability amongst a sea of mediocrity or out right trash.
I think the automobile put the saxophonist underemployed. As people moved away from the city core in the suburbs live music venues suffered. The radio, recorded audio,and TV cemented it, but people would always frequent live music if the venues existed. And they do - where there are enough fans to support them. This is why we have a lot of live music places in NYC, etc, even with Spotify and instant gratification.

But I also don’t think the life of the musician is all that dire, at least compared to the portrait artist and tunnel digger. There are plenty of jazz clubs in any major city, and live music that pays enough to at least supplement a day job is a thing. Even at the height of live music your average musician would have needed a day job to get by.
What? Why on earth does Vice have 3000 employees? I thought publishing companies long since switched to having all their content creators freelance.

Edit: I thought OP was exaggerating, but nope, per this random website they have/had at least 2,300.

https://rocketreach.co/vice-media-profile_b5c6f6cef42e0cd9
What are the most exciting projects you have seen in this space so far?
Don't include the brand in the deal, just the content?
So do you just end up with a lot of unsolved problems? I get the principal, but does it end up hurting you in practice? Or do you end up solving the problem with a free tool? If so, I guess the product wasn’t really needed.
I think he's principled enough to keep creative direction on it. And just like with All Gas No Brakes, if someone else takes ownership and he disagrees with their vision for the content, he'll just move to a different channel or platform. His fans are devoted enough that they'd follow him.
Hey, hope you're doing well! I've updated the repo with instructions on how to get started and documentation!
Nothing in that post indicates they are taking it offline, the HN headline is just editorializing. It says Vice is no longer making new content for their Web properties and focusing on other platforms instead like YouTube.

There's no way they'd give up the ads dollars they get from he existing stuff... That makes no sense
here's a few examples

https://old.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/100j6md/new_year_n...

https://old.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/10t393y/final_upda...

https://old.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/17i5x9u/posts_rela...

https://old.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/17tszml/free_pales...

https://old.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/18jctpk/propalesti...

https://old.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/1apxrbc/torontos_m...

Not even allowing discussions of crime and city-wide threats is completely asinine and the mods reasoning is that everybody who visits r/toronto is racist and can't be trusted to discuss these issues in good faith. Yet .. it has NEVER been tried and this "experiment" has been going on 2 years now. What I think is really going on is that the Toronto mods are lazy and using that to implicitly pushing an agenda based on what they allow to be posted.
This has been added to the Readme under the 'Background' section.
Well, it ends up being a journey through different images pulled from the same noise, so yes, any smoothness results more from the degree to which the sampling approach produces similar features when pulled towards slightly different target embeddings than from intrinsically the images being 'neighbors'.

These low-step approaches probably preserve a lot less of the 'noise' features in the final image so latent space cruising is probably less fun.
The point with auto insurance (and why you'd use it rather than just putting the equivalent of your premium in a savings account) is that they win the bet most of the time, which means they can afford outlier events which your saving approach alone wouldn't cover.

This is different to the claim here AppleCare is profitable on every unit even if they do pay out.
This is a great new addition to my collection of low-budget screen-free ways to teach programming concepts to little kids.[0]

We don't have a xylophone but I might just have to get one so we can try out this game - I love it!

[0]https://twitter.com/CBancos/status/1581662053189574656
fair, but it's better to point out the solution:

"learn how to be better at self promotion"

Do you have another solution to this issue?
BlendSQL: Unified dialect for orchestrating SQLite logic and LLM reasoning