skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I stuck with it until the bitter end since the catalog was far larger, and curiously, at least here in the USA, streaming in french (or spanish) is not available in many cases, while the DVDs usually had the french I suppose to cover Québec.

Another annoyance is once they killed off the service I was unable to get my DVD queue out to import into https://www.cafedvd.com/ despite going through their EU data request mechanism. They had the rest of the info on my account but they'd either deleted that data (unlikely for a large company to throw out a source of user preference info) or made it inaccessible to the team fulfilling the request. After repeated requests I gave up.
How can I get started with this kind of research? Is it even possible without a PhD? Thanks.
Sorry I forgot to include some data that motivated me to post it.
If we are talking about coal, for example this graph [0]. There it seems that coal is actually growing.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/coal-production-by-countr...
You can with blueray too, but the legality is dubious.
It's not a coping mechanism. These guys meet at least annually to imagine new ways to screw us. If anyone has an ego it's them, trying to tell us stupid shit about how to live our lives. They aren't scapegoats, they're wolves in sheeps clothing.
Yeah, I'm in a similar thought process. I've been burned multiple times by Apache, will not touch ever again.
Each individual problem listed isn't that hard on its own. Some are even trivial. However there are so so many constraints one has to keep track of so system complexity quickly snowballs into something unmanageable. Each cog is simple, but the whole clock is insanely complex. And by the way, the clock can't stop and has to be running 24/7/365 while you keep changing it. Your code will quickly turn into a tangled up mess of stinky petrified spaghetti, so you will end up re-building your entire system from scratch every few years. And with each rebuild you will keep having the same trivial problems you already solved again and again and again.

Billing problems in general are a subset of problems one has in banking because banking system basically = billing + interest calculation + payments + accounting + multiple equally complex things and it has to work in real-time in a super-regulated environment while working in perfect sync with other systems you don't control.

If you do everything just right and manage to keep the can rolling down the street for sometime, there will be a moment when regulation changes or your business changes and your architects suddenly resign and you will end up with a mess which requires more engineering dollars than off-the-shelf system would.

Don't build your business on such foundation.
It is XXI century already, no need to re-invent stuff which is readily available for peanuts.

Yet, every new neobank comes up with their own shiny corebanking ledger because they can't be bothered to look into somebody else's petrified spaghetti.
The remaining doors are not random. The one you picked still has a 1/3 chance of winning, that doesn't change with opening another door. However switching doors is essentially the same as picking all the other doors at once, since the door with a goat is not opened, thus the 2/3.

Imagine the thing with 100 doors and imagine the host isn't opening any doors, but just telling you what's behind them and it becomes pretty obvious.
FTC is pretty useless lately.
The punks are alive and well tagging freeway overpass signs, dumpster diving, planting flowers in public parks, making their own clothes, and living in communal housing where it’s always someone else’s turn to do the dishes.
Tangential to the framework itself, I've been thinking about the following in the past few days:

How will the concept of RAG fare in the era of ultra large context windows and sub-quadratic alternatives to attention in transformers?

Another 12 months and we might have million+ token context windows at GPT-3.5 pricing.

For most use cases, does it even make sense to invest in RAG anymore?
We've built a Kubernetes Operator for Apache Superset at Stackable: https://github.com/stackabletech/superset-operator/

It's part of our Open Source Data Platform and it's one of the few open source BI tools out there and there are not a lot of alternatives in this space. We generally like it.
The question reminds me of the dilemma between exploration and exploitation [1]. The art (or skill) is learning when to stop and redirect. Talking to friends about certain learning curves and making sure I don't waste my time just researching or building things that are overloaded with features has helped me a lot. I think it's generally good to know that there's a tradeoff no matter what you're trying to learn or explore.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration-exploitation_dilem...
I swear this problem only ever causes confusion because the original wording is ambiguous about what the host's motivations are. Once you realize the host is trying to get you to lose and knows what's behind each door and must open a door, then it's clearer that you should switch.
Counterfeits exist in real life too, bit crypto has the benefit that you can actually prove who created something where in real life a good counterfeit could remain undetected.
(Lago co-founder here.)
I guess it depends on how complex your pricing and monetization process are (is it the same pricing for everyone or custom ; is it a simple subscription: or a is there revenue share, transactional pricing, usage-based, tiers ; is it self-serve or sales-led with a quoting system, do you have grandfathered plans, do you need to use other payment processors than Stripe - "Stripe Billing" is only usable with "Stripe Payments").

In some cases, it's "brain dead simple", in a lot of cases it ends up "being much more complex than it seemed".

Related threads:
- "Why Stripe doesn't use Stripe Billing": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33191307
- "Stripe's real pricing: a primer" : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33920019
Judging by the hazing Marilyn vos Savant received for her resolution of the Monty Hall problem, it seems like Twitter's preferred style of commentary isn't all that new.
Exactly. Would the tone of the letters been different if the column was said to be have written by a man? Likely they would be different.

This is what makes discussions about discrimination so hard- it can be very subtle. And it can include situations like this one, where we don’t have a test environment where we can compare responses to the article written by a woman to the one written by a man.
The US often has cities spaced too far apart to make trains effective. The one exception is the Northeast corridor, which consequently does have a passenger rail line.
Not true at all. You can build and run your own billing system. You can bill on hand written paper notes if you want! And many still do.
Had a very good experience with Superset.

Superset allowed us to replace Tableau and not looking back

Took me a while figure out how to embed it into my app using Superset Embedded SDK.

Superset Embedded SDK - "Embedded SDK allows you to embed dashboards from Superset into your own app, using your app's authentication. Embedding is done by inserting an iframe, containing a Superset page, into the host application."

https://github.com/apache/superset/tree/master/superset-embe...

Superset is based on very high quality and well maintained chart library eChart

https://echarts.apache.org/examples/en/#chart-type-linesG

Community Roadmap

https://github.com/apache/superset/projects?query=is%3Aopen

Huge respect to Preset.io and its team for contributing to the project and keep it in a great shape

https://preset.io/blog/

Superset source code is very easy to read and understand, and as a result it's possible to implement some advanced caching techniques reduce the load on charts.

No BI is perfect.

Watching Superset for years gives me confidence the project will work as supposed down the road, and eventually some of its packages can be reusable for all kind of visualizations and data hacking.

Our main approach to visualisation is to start with eChart and simple Reactjs wrapping and spin off Superset on subdomain for power users, and later see which one works better. Same look gives a very pleasant experience.
It's self-made in that the over prescription of opioids for minor injuries resulted in a large population of people who are chemically addicted. Mexican Cartels and Chinese super labs are just rising to the increased demand
I wrote an article a while back about why I think it's the best default choice for vis in Python: https://www.robinlinacre.com/backing_vega_lite/
> almost everything I've ever worked with that was run by the Apache foundation turned out to be semi-abandoned disasterware over time

Can you name a few examples?
It's probably best to watch some YT videos by Anark https://www.youtube.com/@Anark or Andrewism https://www.youtube.com/@Andrewism on Youtube. Anark is very pedantic which I like, while Andrewism is more chill. Take your time especially with Anark's videos, cause they are veeeeery pedantic and can overwhelm with their information content.
Oh… I see… That’s a convincing argument. Well, in such case I see no other option but to use Windows. (/s)
Oh a few years ago, after the fall of the Wall, many people said we had reached the "end of history": capitalism has won and occident will rule the world and bring peace to the world. (I think Fukuyama, cited in the article, said something like that)

Interestingly, Putin is still there, Islamism, China too... One could always argue they're a form of capitalism but I'm sure history is full of "our system is the only one" claim.

So no, no and no.
I've just been playing with superset. I'd have to agree. Things which are easy in SQL are... disturbingly hard or nonobvious in superset.

And the documentation is sparse at best.
I'm running it in a docker container on a small server with a GTX 1050Ti and a AMD Ryzen 3 3200G with 16GB RAM.

Was more complicated than I thought to initially pass the GPU through to the Container, but it runs fine and lets me watch movies on any device I own.
Haha such a first world problem
> The government treats them with kid gloves because of item #1; who else would the USAF order tankers, AWACS and other logistical aircraft from?

The military tried to order tankers from a different manufacturer, but Boeing owned enough senators to put the kibosh on that and make them re-run the competition.
The explanation that worked for me was:

Suppose after you make your initial choice, instead of opening a door, Monty simply asks if you'd like to switch to BOTH the other two doors, such that you win if the prize is behind EITHER of them.

That switch is intuitively a great deal, giving you 2/3 odds. The only way you can lose is in the 1/3rd case where you already picked a winner. The original scenario is equivalent to this, since by revealing a goat Monty is allowing you to pick "the best of" the two doors.

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Often people who don't like this problem complain that actually Monty, with his knowledge of the winning door, may be trying to trick you into losing. Maybe he offers this trade conditionally based on whether you've already selected a winner. Of course, this wouldn't support the most common intuitive answer of "it's 50/50", either, making this a bad excuse. If we accept this behavior from Monty -- not stated in the problem -- it becomes a very uninteresting problem based on whether we are dealing with Evil Monty who only offers the trade when it's a bad one (stay wins 100% of the time), Friendly Monty who only offers the trade when it's a good one (switch wins 100% of the time), or somewhere in the middle. It has no analytical answer. So for this to be a solvable problem at all we must assume we are dealing with Fair Monty who offers the trade all the time, or at least, offers it at random times not based on the contestant's initial pick.
I don’t know to what degree it’s “a thing” but I know a lot of 30-something punks from my old scene that are now into a kind of homesteading vibe. Moved out to the surrounding countryside as much for economic as ideological reasons. Some are all the way into off-the-grid, home schooling, etc.

Nothing says “Fuck the System!” like solar panels and a wood burning stove I guess?
Thanks for the feedback! Looking forward to `altair_tiles`. And again, great work, very much appreciate it!

Maybe while you're here: Is there any desire to implement box-zoom (or x-range zoom) at any point in the future?
Im in the very same boat for exposing what the corrupt government was doing in ontario (Canada) (forcing youth into gangs through mothers who sell their children in exchange for cash to the state)

some you see them as thugs when it was once a bright individual who had perfect grades; just needed the support to get to where they was destined...instead some parents sell their kids for money instead, than nurturing potential.

reality far from how we was taught, open your eyes; evil is being done and being covered as mental illness
> Wouldn't this effectively make frequency 0?

Yes! Letting the period length approach infinity, would make the lowest frequency (omega_0, also delta each other frequencies) approach 0, effectively turning the discrete sum of the fourier series into an integral, turning the fourier series into the continous fourier transform.
Ideas are not worth very much, and many try to focus on world-changing ideas, which is the wrong approach. I sit on two or three profitable ideas at any time, there's just not enough hours in a day to dedicate serious effort to any.
The worst part is that Senior Theatre Engineer, sees that the Theatre is on FIRE - but he calmly just exits the building... "well, at least **I** am not going to die in this dumpster fire..."

EDIT:

WHAT THE FUCK:???

>>>It's up to the public whether to act on this knowledge.

Its up to the public that the engineer knows what hes talking about????

THE PUBLIC should be responsible for your calculations????

JERASUS EFFSINGS CKNSDHIST@!
Financialization is why nice things can be done at scale. Without finanialization the nice things would be smaller and less common. Expecting people to do high quality work for free is not sustainable.
What a major solar storm could do
Because we (the FBI Surveillance Van) saw that you picked Metabase, called our shady French-accented overlord, and he told us to dump it.
$5 per disc

I think you could happily watch a different movie every night for a year on Netflix if you were happy with 'bargain bin' quality films. $5/night would be an expensive way of doing the same thing.

And that's before you start on TV series...
Launch HN: Delve (YC W24) – HIPAA compliance as a service
Hey, HN! We're Karun and Selin, co-founders of Delve (https://getdelve.com). We help companies get HIPAA compliant fast, with 1-click infrastructure, streamlined legal policies, and real-time monitoring. Here’s a quick demo: https://youtu.be/mQbb5mprsUA.

HIPAA is a US federal law passed back in 1996 that sets standards for protecting sensitive health information. Here’s an article that breaks it down pretty simply: https://www.getdelve.com/blog/quick-guide-to-hipaa.

Most companies that process health information in the US need to become HIPAA compliant, a process that can be long and expensive. At our previous health tech company, we spent 6 weeks (and tens of thousands of dollars) on getting compliant. We had to complete a lot of manual work, even after purchasing an industry-standard compliance solution, and felt like we were hitting checkboxes with little confidence in our security. We realized that many parts of the compliance process could be streamlined and simplified, which led us to building Delve.

To get HIPAA compliant, you need (1) secure infrastructure, (2) legal policies, and (3) logging/monitoring. At Delve, we help startups with all three. We provide 1-click HIPAA compliant infrastructure deployed in your cloud and a CI/CD pipeline to update infrastructure from git push (think Heroku but HIPAA compliant). Then, we provide legal policies, paperwork, and a complete task list customized to your infrastructure setup. Finally, we have a real-time monitoring dashboard to help oversee compliance, track system activity, and review logs.

One thing we noticed the first time we ever got HIPAA compliant was that we had to use many tools along the way. We bought an industry-standard HIPAA compliance solution, hired a HIPAA DevOps contractor to help configure secure infrastructure, and worked with lawyers to adapt the boilerplate legal policies that our compliance solution had provided. When building Delve, we worked hard to give you everything you need in one place, reducing the hassle and cost.

We currently charge on an annual flat-fee basis. However, we’re still exploring our pricing model (flat-fee vs. usage-based vs. combination of both), and if you have any thoughts to share on that, we’d love to hear them.

We’re really excited about making it easier to build in healthcare and removing compliance bottlenecks. Thrilled to share this with you and hear your comments!
I think in this particular case you are probably right(you see much more experienced in actual enterprise sales), but I think my more general point is that these sorts of price hikes are what is priced into this business now.

VMware was bought at about 400k rev/employee, Broadcom was running at about 1.7mio per prior to that. Tan is essentially running a PE buyout shop that is listed, and he uses a lot of leverage. He might not get it to 1.5 mio but he wouldn't have bought it if he thought it could churn out anything less than like 1.2(over 6-7 years).
> Nadella [in December 2022] abruptly cut off Lee midsentence, demanding to know how OpenAI had managed to surpass the capabilities of the AI project Microsoft’s 1,500-person research team had been working on for decades. “OpenAI built this with 250 people,” Nadella said, according to Lee, who is executive vice president and head of Microsoft Research. “Why do we have Microsoft Research at all?”

The answer to that is till Google released the Attention is All You Need paper in 2017 there were no breakthroughs allowing models as we have now to be built, OpenAI being a small and nible team picked up on which direction the wind is blowing with LLMs and quickly brought a product to market whilst MS just did what corps do - move slowly (same for Google etc).
The Fragility of Society
Ending the Ivy League's Tax Dodge
Agreed, I moved all my passwords and 2fa to Keychain after the LastPass hack and I couldn’t be happier. The integration with Safari is slick.
Maybe a requirement set by MSFT in their latest "partnership"
I tried this question "what makes for a good LLM?" and the answer has nothing to do with LLMs (as we ML people know it).

Yet another example that a single answer is a limiting form factor for chatbots.

"A good Master of Laws (LLM) program typically includes the following elements:

Academic Rigor: A good LLM program should challenge you intellectually and help you deepen your understanding of legal principles and theories. It should offer a wide range of specialized courses that align with your interests and career goals.

Qualified Faculty: The faculty should be highly qualified and experienced in their respective fields. They should be able to provide you with valuable insights and guidance.
[etc]"
To quote the article:

"Regardless of what the social landscape looked like for same-sex attracted or and/or conscientiously gender-nonconforming people fifty, thirty, or even fifteen years ago, at this point “queer” culture is anything but counter. You can buy its swag at Hot Topic—and at Target, for that matter. It’s got its own shelf at the bookstore, a category on Hulu, playlists on Spotify, and representatives in newsrooms and film studios. Nothing intrinsic to it interferes with the general program. It has been neutralized. A space has been provided for it."

"Counterculture became subculture and subculture became mass culture."

"the culture industry learned to neutralize and exploit radical elements, and how it may have become acclimated to anticipating and guiding their cyclical emergence."

"Today’s teenaged and twenty-something “blue hairs” will figure it out, in time—just as most of us learned that being punk or goth or metal or whatever else was essentially a paid subscription for a product line which we were sold on the pitch that we required it to give expression to the Authentic Selves that would otherwise be hidden under a bushel of blue jeans and polo shirts.

"But for the most part, it rather seems to me that most modern subcultures aren’t interested in pretending to be anything other than hobbyists, fandoms, and followers of fashion and influencer content. "
muh shareholders!
LXQt: Qt6 and Wayland
So many wires that are likely less visible, more present, and less survivable. Amazing he hit and became affixed to the main tower.
yeah 100% true

but if apple and google led the charge with adoption, they could easily change that. it's really not about today, but 5 years down the line.

from a tech perspective, there's no reason by then we couldn't be building native-feel and experience apps as "downloadable websites"

the problem you're talking about is the current distribution sucks, but that's by design. we all know by now how much apple needs their app store. so it's not (in 99% of cases) "ahhh our users need this feature now", it's "this could be the future but they're stomping on it"
Sadly, we do not have David Graeber anymore.
At least the waste is not dumped in the atmosphere. We have better waste management for nuclear than coal or oil.
"semi-abandoned disasterware"

Hmm. I suppose all open source looks that way if it doesn't get regular funding/attention.

Apache does house a lot of abandonware. They had some relevance as recently as 6-7 years ago but they've been largely replaced by nginx I think. That being said, I view them like the local soup-kitchen - important to have and maintain, but not where I want to go for a 5-star meal.
Curious how does this compare to mixtral moe? I couldn't tell from the writeup
I think part of the problem is that you can't properly contextualize the issue without badmouthing police.

Most police, like most people, are good and want to do good. The US (and likely many other countries) is being plagued by activist DAs who see letting crime slide as a form of restorative justice.
OpenAI will want to expand to all clouds to increase TAM.

Microsoft will want to avoid things regulators in the current regime will go after.

This seems like a step towards both and ultimately good for developers as it seems likely to bring costs down by increasing competition.
I guess you could look at paper tape as a physical manifestation of redirecting terminal I/O to text files using > and < in the shell.
Your mention of being on IRC during 9/11 brings back memories. I happened to have taken a sick day and was home watching the news when the first tower fell.

I immediately got on EFNet where I knew a few people that worked for CNN and CNBC at the time. We'd usually get together and talk old broadcasting/radio tech, but not that day.
>MacOS is bland and hasn’t changed in years

Sign me up. If only...
Libertarian socialism tends to reject both corporate power/ownership and state power/ownership in favor of worker led ownership.

They aren't necessarily libertarian socialism per se, but there area also lots of variations of socialism that combine social liberalism with economic socialism or which are fine with greater collectivism but reject central planning.
There'e also MVNO as a service providers. It's probably worth calling a few of them to see if that's a credible way to get started.
I would add Simon Fraser University in Vancouver BC. Its grey concrete architecture combined with Vancouver's grey skies has appeared in a host of scifi, mostly dystopian stuff such as the Underworld vampire movies. And of course X-files, which was pretty dystopian imho.

https://604now.com/simon-fraser-university-movies-filmed-at-...