skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't switch to original titles though, so I'm not really confident Google is going to be offering this option for long.
My experience with X is mostly is as follows:

- Spam post (AI generated?)

- Another spam post (AI generated?)

- And here is an ad for a revolutionary mop which lets you mop not just the floor, but the walls and the ceiling as well!

- Spam post (AI generated?)

- ...
It bugs me how similar Youtube Shorts is to the spinning wheel game on The Price Is Right.

So much of social media is TPIR style gambling for dopamine and worthless knowledge.
That's very odd that they didn't give you a comp range. I know that when I interviewed with them they gave me ballparks for a few levels which was helpful in my decision making.
Same here. So pissed that Markdown won the "docs battle". Tables and higher-level semantics in Markdown are a nightmare compared to Asciidoc.
> Before that, the Russian Empire would also often suffer massive casualties even in victory.

But also in defeat, right? As in, Russia lost big time in WW1, despite their capacity and willingness to absorb staggering losses.
Maybe because FORTRAN arrays index from 1 by default?
On a somewhat related note, there are some channels on 802.11ac that are designated as "DFS" (dynamic frequency switching) channels, because they are sharing frequency ranges with weather radar equipment. Networking equipment will periodically monitor for radar signals. I think I heard somewhere that this monitoring for radar signals will temporarily add extra latency to the connection during this time. If any equipment detects a radar signal, it ends the wifi network and switches to another channel. But if another DFS channel is chosen at this time, there is a 60 second timeout before the new channel is confirmed.

So if you're trying to avoid latency spikes, don't use DFS channels on 802.11ac.

Page here has a list of all the Wifi channels on 5GHz: https://www.networkcomputing.com/wireless-infrastructure/cha...

In particular, you can't get a 160Mhz wide channel (8 channels bonded together) on 802.11ac without being on a DFS channel.
Google search, itself, is so bad now that I have had to resort to duckduckgo and yandex or adding "reddit" or "ycombinator" to searches to get anything remotely close to what I specifically ask for. Google just ignores my well though-out search terms and phrases it seems. Often returning the opposite of what I specifically searched for! I don't know if it just pinging on a keyword and ignoring everything else or wtf, but it is practically unusable. Google Maps is still pretty good for me though!
Dopamine also plays a role in the perception of time. Basically, high dopamine gives more processing power it means you get higher frame rates so time feels slower.
similarly, low dopamine leads to time flying quickly. Moreover, the speed at which we blink eyes also affects the perception of time.

(Learned this in one huberman podcast)
Nobody works around the clock at Google.
what's morally problematic about emulating something you already own?
Distributed Systems 4th Edition
> Up for consideration by the FCC on March 14, the draft report would increase the current national broadband speed definition of 25 * 3 Megabits per second (Mbps) established in 2015, raising it to 100 * 20 Mbps.

What is this "25 * 3" and "100 * 20" notation? The next sentence just goes on to say "1 Gigabit" and "500 Mbps" directly.
Those behind bug report make strange moves too. You ask for Y, Z gets delivered, without feedback.
What fails me with TNG is that why would anyone do any of the jobs that require hard boring labour anymore? Like mining dilithium, or other stuff that isn't easy to replicate.

Are they all some starfleet officers toiling for decades on off-chance that one day they might get job on a vessel? The ages of people on show don't present that...

The whole post-scarity kinda really breaks down when you start to look at edges. As society would not be effectively be able to keep up the production at least not as shown in shows...
Insults me for supposedly using a throwaway account then complains about whataboutisms. It was a simple question.
Google just has too many employees ... So they change things that don't need to be changed just to have something to do?
Ctrl+F only gets you so far. It doesn't allow you to perform semantic searches, for example. If you don't happen to know a unique word (or set of words) to search for, you're out of luck.

Just the other day, I was able to find a song by typing the phonetic pronunciation (well, as best I could) into ChatGPT, and it knew which song I was talking about right away. No way a regular search engine would've helped me there.
You could also use a unified, OTel native platform like https://www.kloudmate.com instead of setting up Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, separately.
https://semiconductor.samsung.com/news-events/tech-blog/a-br...
except the parent is wrong (at least the Java impl). see:

https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-java/blob/m...

https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-java/blob/m...
Pandas' pipe method and the empty object design pattern
its in the style of long runnning dailyWTF: https://thedailywtf.com/

There used to be a whole host of specific fuckup like list site, sadly I can't find them anymore.
It is possible that he did, but that his brain did not compel him to give it politically spicy prompts. However, I think that should be expected from a general audience. I am more curious of who they used as a test group to give this a once-over and a "looks good to me". There is no way it was representative of a wide public consumer base.
These products are beyond bad for the environment. Maybe something somewhere in their storefront is legit okay, but over production and spam products is a terrible strategy for a longterm business model.
The Semantic Web:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web?wprov=sfla1
Because Sundar wasn't the CEO responsible for any of these leading products. In fact, he has the distinction of not creating a single major new product during his tenure, despite having one of the most qualified engineering teams in history under his command. But indeed, it's unlikely that he will voluntarily resign rather than keep bloodsucking Google as he has done for years.
That's 25 Mbps download and 3 Mbps upload speed.
This project can potentially reduce a lot of our cognitive load. I hope it succeeds.

edit: Now I see it's a 20-year project.
MacGPT is way handy because of a global keyboard shortcut which opens a spotlight-like prompt. I would love to have a local equivalent
Web pages are increasingly bulky. A 3 MB page will take 1 second to load at 25 Mbps, so latency is often not the primary bottleneck.

Part of the problem may be that companies who own network infrastructure, and get paid for data usage, are also the ones that are the largest content providers.

This also comes with an electricity cost. We regulate efficiency for refrigerators, it might be time to add some sane limits to the largest content providers, which will also improve connectivity for those stuck with 2 Mbps.
That machine with 128GB is $5000, with 48GB is still well over $3000, and has as much memory bandwidth as a $400 GPU. At the current spot price, 128GB of GDDR6 is <$400 and 48GB is <$150, implying that they could be paired with any existing <$1000 GPU to produce something significantly faster for dramatically less money. If anyone could be bothered to make one.
Looks like pure JavaScript using the WebGL Canvas.
Technically walking into any store and buying clothes is more eco sustainable than anything Temu or Shein. Doesn't even have to be second hand as long as it was bulk delivered to that store and bought by you on that spot.
> Thanks to the amazing work of @ggerganov on llama.cpp which made this possible. If there is anything that you wish to exist in an ideal local AI app, I'd love to hear about it.

The app looks great! Likewise, if you have any requests or ideas for improving llama.cpp, please don't hesitate to open an issue / discussion in the repo
Stargate did this in the episode Seth (season 3, episode 2).
It's not a cloud problem. The cloud is just somebody else's computer.

It's either a billing or an architecture problem.

Either let me throttle requests to prevent overbilling, or cut me off when I hit a certain value.
My bad - a correction on my side: it was more like tens of thousands of humans killed by man-eating big cats. Thousands of humans were killed every few years in the last millennium - it was not a small number by any means.

Big cats don't face groups - they are ambush predators. Some man-eaters have murder counts reaching several hundred just by their lone selves. Even late as the early 1900's, a tigress in India stalked and killed 436 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_attack#The_Champawat_Tig...
> Making money is not a factor for fair use, but one factor is whether it’s a for-profit endeavor

Whether the use is for-profit is not a factor either. It's part of a factor. The first factor of the fair use test [1] is:

> the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;

"including" is not "limited to", so something as simple as whether the use brings in any revenue, whether through donations or sales, could be one consideration within the first factor. Whether the use is for-profit is another consideration.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#U.S._fair_use_factors
> I think hotdesking/hoteling is worse than any desk move because you get to have the feeling of uneasiness and disruption daily.

It's interesting to observe how many companies deliberately adopt policies which they _know_ cause employees to be less effective workers. It really does make you think, although... I don't know _what_ it makes me think.

Like, to me, this is trivial. I know what people want from a working space. They want a little nook they can customise and personalise, a little space that they can both retreat into when they need to concentrate and invite people into when they need to discuss. A cubicle isn't perfect - an office with a closed door would be best - but a cubicle works.

Yet cubicles have been utterly abandoned in favour of open-plan offices, which I've literally never seen anyone say anything positive about. Ever.

It's just... how does this occur? And the smug reddit answer 'all CEOS are dark triad' isn't it because CEOs are not making these decisions.
Nintendon't with the usual stuff
Related submission from yesterday:

Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39520776
Skimming the article - it sounds like this board is a holdover from the pre-WWI era, when the British Empire was the global economic and military power. Now, Britain looks more like a dysfunctional little has-been. What global tech giant's corporate mission statement includes "Help the VIP's of yesteryear to still feel relevant"?
Because serverless 1) uses pay-as-you-go more often than traditional models 2) scales better to achieve massive usage.

If you DDoS my $5/month DigitalOcean VPS, it's not going to increase how much I have to pay DigitalOcean in terms of compute, and most likely the VPS will buckle under load before it can actually rack up massive transfer costs (since those are also pay-as-you-go for DO).
Structural changes past due at Google, but still possible. The costs will be very high due to the established culture: him pushing hard will likely lead to departures that will cost much and that’s gonna be also leading to time penalties he can’t afford to pay in the current race.
Is there a difference in using a system prompt and just pasting the "system prompt" part at the beginning of your message?
I do the opposite and seek out videos in other languages for my kids to watch. Now they're learning German, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese.
It's funny you can easily spend 10-15 USD more and get a product that will last you 5 more years. Old Navy sounds like crap, it is but they have gems where flannal shirts are double stitched and hemmed perfectly. I even buy pants I haven't had to replace in years.
The documentation mentions GNU stow:

https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/manual/stow.html

This was very useful in early 2000s running shared linux machines with a diverse set of software for scientific applications.
Moved from Netlify and deleted my blog just in case
If you update your drivers. You could use an older license.
Ask HN: Open source alternative equivalent to Palantir Foundry
There was a discussion back in 2017 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13488795) regarding this topic. I am curious if there are any open-source projects available for creating "self-service data platforms," or a similar concept, akin to Palantir Foundry. Specifically, I'm looking for:

- A platform that includes an execution engine like Spark or another option for creating datasets (akin to Databricks).

- A system similar to Dagster, Airflow, or Prefect for building DAGs of datasets.

- A setup supporting multiple projects or repositories where users can easily define their transformations and version their code (similar to Git).

- A feature for managing data lineage (similar to what Palantir offers) to control access to datasets, requiring access to all upstream datasets for a given dataset.

- A granular access management system for individual datasets.

While the individual components exist, Palantir's value comes from integrating these elements. An architecture combining these tools, along with a simple frontend for interaction, might suffice.

The ultimate aim is to empower business teams within an organization to independently develop "data products" and provide these products to other teams for further development into more complex data products.

Are you aware of such a project, did you face similar issues in your work or is anyone interested in discussing these topics further?
I agree with you, that’s how it should be, but that’s not how it currently is.

Looking at what’s available right now. You need 3 A100 40GB to get this amount of VRAM which will cost you way north of 20000$.

Doing it with A6000s is still about 15k$.

There’s not that many high VRAM options out there you know..
Opensource.org is fully migrated on WordPress
Star Trek is an extreme case of the plot driving the tech, and not the other way round. They manage to pull it off, most of the time, using ingenious Starfleet engineering and technobabble. For some reason, with Star Trek it works most of the time.
Oh so relevant from pmarca:

“Some are saying that the apparently bizarre behavior of one Big Tech AI or another is an opportunity for other Big Tech AI to differentiate by being objective, reasonable, and unbiased.

This is not the case; there is no differentiation opportunity among Big Tech or the New Incumbents in AI. These companies all share the same ideology, agenda, staffing, and plan. Different companies, same outcomes.

And they are lobbying as a group with great intensity to establish a government protected cartel, to lock in their shared agenda and corrupt products for decades to come.

The only viable alternatives are Elon, startups, and open source — all under concerted attack by these same big companies and aligned pressure groups in DC, the UK, and Europe, and with vanishingly few defenders.”

https://x.com/pmarca/status/1762532979317043515
Right. What I hate about copyright is that winning a copyright infringement lawsuit with a fair use defense (fair use being by definition not infringement [1]) will still bankrupt you because of the legal fees.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenz_v._Universal_Music_Corp.#...
About 7 years ago I wrote conex, which is basically testcontainers for Go, with first class integration with the Go's official testing framework:

https://github.com/omeid/conex
The thing I find unconvincing about zombie movies is that the zombies are running around powered by human physiology for weeks in the middle of winter and yet their numbers are inexhaustible and they can get through security doors.

It seems like a far more realistic scenario would be a fortnight of chaos where everyone locks themselves inside, possibly enforced by 24/7 shoot on sight curfews, followed by the death of all the zombies and a partial and limited social collapse. Maybe sporadic continuing outbreaks, radically different border policies, and limitations on movement within countries after that.
Latency is important because that 3MB isn't one 3MB transfer, its a tree of dependencies that can't be completely parallelised.

On high latency Internet with otherwise OK speed, pages of "only" 3MB can take several seconds to load.
I once bought a Burberry hoodie in a Turkish market (not the ones with the name plastered all over it, subtitle little tag in a corner). It lasted for many years and my girlfriend at the time who was a lawyer at a prestigious lawfirm and lived in Kensington Ave. London thought it was the greatest piece of clothing I possessed. It cost 15 Euros, but probably only because I didn't know how to bargain properly, and it never occurred to her that it wasn't a real name brand apparel.

The sibling below mentions Tommy Hilfiger, and it just reminded me that one of the worst pieces of clothing I ever bought was from a Tommy store in New York.

One store that's absolutely worth a visit if you live in NY is the century 21 outlet mall near ground zero. I've been there twice when I attended a conference and you get really good quality clothing for cheap, that was absolutely worth it. Every single one of those lasted a long time.
Creating Email Sequences on Substack
For over three months, I've been manually sending six emails every morning for my newsletters Implementing and Quickview since the platform doesn't support it. Sometimes I'd forget to send them. In this edition of Implementing, I detail how I automated email sending for a SaaS. Feedback appreciated!
It looks like an Electron app, and not a native app.

https://imgur.com/a/pz0kzJ1
I think HAL is actually perfectly done example of AI. As we currently see with many recent issues. It is trained over reasonably long time and then it is fed too many directives. HAL is exactly following the instructions and survival of the crew is NOT the top priority.

Edit: added NOT
We already have that. One is called 4chan, the other Reddit, the other truth social. And let’s not forget the actual public square. I don’t know why these being different platforms is a relevant detail, the users still have a vibrant level of choice.
> physical devices are subject to entire categories of bugs that software can be reliably proofed against.

electronics != software

> All worm screws will ultimately fail, while software can (if done correctly) run forever.

You also need a machine to run that software forever.
They wouldn't have been banned if they were present when required, right? What should be the rules then, they can pick and choose when they are present because it's convenient to them or should they be around when it's also not in their interests but in the interest of the EU?

Almost every political action is for politicians' benefit, that's the whole incentive, it's unfortunate because I'd prefer a world where politicians just do the right thing but we can't have a political system that depends on the morality of everyone involved to do the right thing.
Hah. That question comes up on every single one of his explainers. The answer is none; he hand-crafts the JavaScript and WebGL shaders. From the design language, I’d guess he has built up a library of templates and snippets to draw from by now, but all in all, each of these pages is a bespoke work of art.
Andras (who created both Serverless Horrors and Coolify, which I imagine you're describing as the competitor here) is a pretty solid guy from everything I've seen and I've never seen him ask bait questions or engage in bad faith in discussions here or on other platforms.

Although he calls Coolify a Netlify 'alternative', it's 100% 'bring-your-own-server', and is not at all serverless. Coolify is basically a (very nice and featureful) fancy frontend to Docker with integration with Git.

Coolify is free if you want to install it yourself and don't mind the (minimal) tinkering needed to get it set up and keep it up-to-date, although you can pay a monthly fee to have your own servers managed for you, the main benefits are either to support continued development, or to access priority support. You still need to bring your own server, even if you're paying the management fee.

It's not a competitor to Netlify, it's an alternative.
Which commonly used webpage is 3 MB for return requests excluding the images? Figma has everything and it's 317 KB transferred for small design for return return. Most of the content is cached.
Not sure about that so. AI at the moment is a hype around LLMs. Given what the tech in the Expanse is doing, it is easily possible that AI is used as just another tool for everything from automated med bays to ships diagnostics.

Edit: Another great example of how computers are used is Perry Rhodan (a German SciFi series going since the 60s, and a rather good one). There, in books written up tobthe 70s, they have positronic computers (and other tech that beats everything Star Trek, Star Wars or any other sci fi universe I know has), and computers are still used with punch cards and stripe print outs. Even the ones salvaged from civilisation being millenias ahead tech-wise compared to humans. Pretty funny detail.
I've tried a few and it does very much seem to depend on the game. Some run better, some run worse. Most are about equal.
> The ddos attack was focused on a file on my site. Yes it’s partly my fault to put a 3.44MB size sound file on my site rather than using a third-party platform like SoundCloud. But still this doesn’t invalidate the point of having protection against such attacks, and limit the spending.

This is extremely sad. It's like we are taking steps backward. A 3.44MB should not be an issue and if it is, the answer should not be to host it elsewhere. If there is no other lesson learned here, it's that there is no such thing as 'free'. As others have said, there should be more done to prevent such large losses without some kind of limit.

I would also like to point out that VPS's are extremely cheap [1] and extremely easy to manage. They have automatic limits.

[1] https://lowendbox.com/blog/1-vps-1-usd-vps-per-month/
It may be morally wrong, but that is somewhat orthogonal to whether it is legally wrong (e.g. illegal).
Out of curiosity – how is this app built?:-)

There is a demo clip with a vertical scroll bar which does not fade out as it would do in a native mac app:)
> understand the statistics of how metrics work

Haha, since you worked on Scuba I’ll mention IMO this point was by far the biggest flaw of ODS. No one ever performed the metric rollups correctly. Average of averages? And at what granularity? ODS downsampled the older time series data but now perhaps you’re taking a percentile over a “max of maxes”. Except it only sometimes used that method of downsampling automatically.

And I seem to recall the labels “daily”, “weekly”, and “monthly” not being intuitive either, and two of them meant the same thing... that was quite a mess to work with.

A lot of the autoscaling systems were wonky because the ODS metrics they were based upon didn’t represent what people thought they did.