skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a sub-component but Oracle Labs has a project to develop something like the FaaS platform he's asking for, called GraalOS.

The basic idea is that FaaS is a leaky abstraction because (a) lots of runtimes are slow to start up and (b) isolation tech isn't good enough. So FaaS services start up VMs and containers and then the user's function which might have to do a lot of init work, like to load reference data, and because that takes too long you have to keep idle capacity around. At that point the abstraction is broken.

So there's a two-part fix:

1. For Java users, the GraalVM native-image tool can pre-initialize and pre-compile a JVM app so that it starts up instantly (including with pre-loaded reference data).

2. Change the isolation model so VMs and containers don't need to be started up anymore. Containers alone can take hundreds of milliseconds to start.

There's also some interesting stuff there that takes advantage of Oracle Cloud's more "edgey" nature than other clouds, where it has more datacenters than others (but smaller).

The new isolation model works by exploiting new hardware features in CPUs that allow for intra-process memory isolation (Intel MPK) combined with hardware-enforced control flow integrity. This requires compiler support, but GraalVM knows about these features and so the cloud can just compile JVM apps to native for you. And what about other apps? Well, many languages run on GraalVM via Truffle, so those are covered (e.g. JavaScript) and for native code you can use a modified LLVM to compile and then do a static verification of any user supplied binaries, like NaCL used to do.

If you put those things together then starting user code that's already available locally becomes just mmapping a shared library into a process, which is extremely fast. It can only exit the hardware/software enforced isolate by going via a trampoline that's equivalent to a syscall, but without needing an actual syscall. The Linux kernel isn't reachable at all.

With that you can have functions that start and stop in milliseconds.
You should not be going around looking for ways to use new features; the point is not to use the features per se.

But if you know about them, maybe next time you have a problem that it is awkward to do without, you'll reach out for them. Or not if there is a simpler solution.
These are bad ideas. They are software wishes which no enterprise will pay for. Infra is setup once so optimising for setup time doesn't do the trick. Rollouts should take time deliberately so faulty software don't lead to an outage in seconds. No infra provider will bother turning off infra as again it can have impact on availability. AWS is optimising resource usage anyway barring a few services like Cloudwatch
But that’s only true if it eventually puts an extra $2,000 in your pocket or an extra 10 hours in your life.

If you estimate that it saves hou 10 hours per month, but your salary stays the same and you don’t work less hours, did it really give you $2,000 in value?

Obviously I don’t know the details of OPs situation. Maybe they aren’t salaries. Maybe the work for themselves. Etc.. I just think people tend to over estimate the value of GPTs unless it is actually leaving them with more money in their pocket.
I'm sure this is "normal" industry practice (not like I'd know since I've never tried doing SEO), but having a service that just uses AI to generate articles/blog posts for you just so you can have a better SEO rank seems, unpleasant.

I just don't like that people and businesses are using AI to create articles about "choosing the right video editing software" just for better SEO ranking.
David Foster Wallace it ain’t.

https://www.columbia.edu/~col8/lobsterarticle.pdf
I don’t see the paranoia or conspiracy in their comment. Plane based infrastructure could be a local minima that we’ve bungled our way into without any need for coordination.
Could it be that the reason for you flagging them is related to your beliefs/topic being discussed?
There are many virtual keyboards built into OSes, and many OSes, even in use by the general public.

There is a very extreme difference between the ability to choose an iPhone, and being able to choose which wires are on the pole in front of your house.

Common carriers are required to provide service under a special set of terms, in exchange for special and preferential treatment, like having exclusive access to public resources. That's not the case with a mobile phone, virtual keyboard, or OS. If you want to make one, go make one.
1) That may be allowed in Germany. Definitely not in Poland and many other countries.

2) In my experience, not true. Most often an employee needs to get a pre-approval that often take too long. As a full time developer, there's difference between playing soccer and developing software.
Glean raises at $2.2B to accelerate generative AI in the enterprise
> The sheer number of non-ant species that have evolved to look and behave exactly like ants, from being drug-pushers to parasitoids, to meme-ready social influencers says a lot about how long they've been around and how important they are to how natural systems work.

Fascinating to me, and thank you for calling it out. Ants aren't the only "form" that this happens to in the animal kingdom either.

Homo sapiens used to live alongside other similar species like neanderthals etc, and eventually we crowded them all out. Often we tell ourselves it's because we were superior to them. Many have wondered what society would be like if we still had close species cousins living among us. Certainly our own approach to geopolitics would be quite different to what it is today
If anyone were to collect the major PFAS/microplastics/foreverchem threads from HN, I bet the list would be even more mammoth than the tax-filing perennial for which I had to convert the "related" list into continuation-passing style: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

I'd do it myself, but am le tired.
AI Bubble Tracker++
> You mean I screwed over those 0.1% of commits in EmailEngine (because the other 0.1% is from the Github Actions bot writing the changelog)?

I mean... yeah? Correct me if I'm wrong but you profited off their labor without compensating them, right? Why should the number of people you did that to make it less wrong? Obviously a corpo making bajillions of dollars without paying you sucks, but by sheer number of people negatively affected, it's still the same lol, in this case you're just the one with the bag, instead of a corporation.
> this action would make it seem like the Houthis actually have grievances with the majority of the non-Houthis world.

They have "death to America" literally written on their banner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slogan_of_the_Houthi_movement
Your example is missing the prompt injection on the backtranslation which is why it worked.
US judge halts government effort to monitor crypto mining energy use
I think Zoom was the one company that paired layoffs with reductions in executive compensation. Beyond that one example all of those executives faced $0 worth of personal grief over their actions.
Exactly this. But I disagree that settled is natural. Humans evolved in nomadic tribes that followed the herds. Stability is a social technology that was developed alongside agriculture. Stability feels unnatural to me and I get the itch after too many months in one place. My two bases are near family and I have developed friendships with other traveling people. I’ll meet up this weekend in Miami with a Swede that I met in Portugal and last saw in New York.
Rust keeps proving the stereotype true lol. 50 game engines written in rust but only 5 games made in rust.
Machine Learning Myths Debunked
"Bumpiness" could be climate related - I've spent a lot of time in the upper midwest US and Canada, the freeze/thaw cycles mean things move in the earth.
The secret is to bump that debt up to $100B
EU is very large. If I were to believe your posts, Germany has achieved good protection of employees from their employers. Simply not true in ... many non-Germany EU countries.
We need more trees, i am shouting that for years.
Everyone in the industry, or everyone else?
If they actually had to pay those costs, I promise you they wouldn't be letting their customers run up a bill without a credit check.

There's also the question of whether Netlify is even accurately tracking this bandwidth...
> and that ensuring everyone has read/write access to everything makes it inclusive.

You don't want everyone to have read/write access to all company documents.
Why did the engineers allow this? They had no power? Why? I have a general sense that many engineers take the position of "tell me what to do and I will only ask why X times." I think its a self-serving but ultimately shortsighted position like a tragedy of the commons. Did engineers actually push back on these decisions? "I walk" etc? At some point a man needs to be willing to go back to the dirt with a hoe in hand when his principles are subverted. I get it, you can find yourself in a position of a slow moving landslide and have to deal with things related to sunk costs in a boiling bucket and your companion is only a frog. Still, where does this lead in the long term? Engineers should see themselves as the brick and mortar of a nation not some extractive force in a financialized environment. What are you leaving your(the) children?

I was reading a story about the decisions made by miners in UP Michigan in 1912. You know what they did when shit sucked? They walked and did something else for 2 years. They let the equipment rot with intent going as far as to coerce the machine maintainers to cease and desist with machine hibernation procedures.
It was based on the differences in mtDNA, but it's actually not true that such differences are unusual.

The most striking example is from the Taï forest, where the 19 haplotypes show greater diversity than the entire human clade, even though they occur in a single breeding group.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC21819/
What Germany and China do: change our industrial policy to favor manufacturing over tech and finance.
No, Knuth's cweb has the notion of chunks, which is just lines of code. It wires the chunk in dependency order. A chunk can have multiple functions, or no functions, or parts of functions; cweb doesn't care.
You should look at what he actually said - it was not some anti-woman screed like you may think. The overall goal of the paper AFAIR was to examine why (then) current diversity programs were not achieving the desired results and how to address that from beyond the lens of inherent bias. Its very short, you could read it over a single cup of coffee!

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-Ideol...
Yeah. Maybe what I’m calling “annoying” is what makes it “difficult”.

The features and ideas billing usually needs aren’t “difficult” to write, but if you have someone inexperienced designing the system, your project is inevitably going to run face first in to these “annoyances” and this may present as somewhere between difficult and impossible where if you had an experienced person at the helm from the get go, you won’t be running in to the same issues.

Yeah. I guess the iceburg will present as difficulty in some ways.
Did they create the dashboards though? The problem I had is every time they wanted some small change, they needed to bother someone that knew SQL and they couldn't create one from scratch.

What were you looking to replace it with?
People have started to get interviews from yesterday.

Here is also a link on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ycombinator/comments/1b0q9u0/early_...
A great example of what will happen when the libertarian mindset takes hold of any industry.

The risk/reward among market forces is entirely different; many lives lost become "the cost of doing business" despite being entirely preventable.
Thanks! We've put a lot of effort into making Multi feel like it's built into macOS
It’s got a ton of papers, but here is a quick and easy cite from 5 seconds of googling.

Weight lifting increases it more than cardio.

[https://www.nm.org/healthbeat/healthy-tips/fitness/quick-dos...]

More activity, and more muscle, leads to more testosterone.

More fat leads to more estrogen (and some other problematic hormones for men) - [https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/healthyliving/obe...]

We’re a nation in the midst of an obesity epidemic.

Also, sex also seems to increase testosterone. Participating much more than watching. For both genders. So more sex == more sex, generally.

[https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/325418]

Notably, we’re at record levels of sedentaryness in western society - and record levels of low sex.

Low sex IMO also partially due to high levels of narcissist abuse by society (and mothers) aimed at - well - everyone - coupled with little support or guidance on how to fight back.

Especially in younger folks.

Personally, I noticed schools phasing out recess, PT, and physical activity a long time ago. Steadily decreasing for almost 30 years. It’s gotten pretty bad, to the point now that many schools do almost none now. I’m sure everyone has noticed the ‘dads are incompetent losers’/predators schtick that’s been on TV for decades too.

The level of physical activity in most jobs has also been dropping.

Also, the widespread use of high SPF sunscreen, while likely reducing cancer rates, is also likely depressing vitamin D levels, in combination with the amount of sun most people are exposed is likely leading to subsets of the population (non supplementing) which seem highly correlated to neuroticism and mood regulation issues. [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4496526/]

Anecdotally, I’ve seen no decrease in sex drive among active folks - and any following of news from the olympic villages shows similar behavior.

If anything, there is a pretty clear correlation between activity/health/sex (or at least sex drive). And always has been.

Personally, I’ve noticed a very strong correlation between seasonal weather patterns (aka winter) and everyone losing their minds (more), especially online, especially the last few years - as everyone has stayed at home more, and people are online more, staying single more, etc.

The big issue with this kind of problem is that it can be self reinforcing. Contagious even.

The best thing to do is get outside into nature, get some sun, exercise/lift heavy things, and have some good sex.

Easier said than done though eh? Especially when there is so much ‘crabs in a bucket’ going on.

Maybe it’s caused by endocrine disruptors - they certainly aren’t helping, and we should do what we can to remove them. But the elephant in the room is that our society has shifted in exactly the way one would expect would cause these issues too. And it correlates with the various mental health issues that are going nuts as well.

If you look at the daily habits and attributes of the population 100 years ago on these elements vs today - they couldn’t be more different.

So society, we need to get out, workout, and get laid if we want to be healthy.
All of your assumptions - and the article's - are rooted in this profoundly unequal society. The very worst of us are making billions on our collective suffering, and will gladly keep murdering millions to keep it that way. That's the context missing from tfa.

Universal basic income, as an example, makes debates like this irrelevant. There may be other ways to run things that also make these arguments look like the anachronism they ought to be.

I believe a world with 99% less advertising is not only possible, but necessary.

And I believe a world where creators can create, without having to sell their souls, is not only possible but necessary.

And we best make that world manifest fast, before our window closes.
> we as humans could probably roundly poison them into extinction if we wanted

We probably could extinct all the ants in the world if we wanted to, if we were content to extinct all other life on the planet as well.

https://xkcd.com/1217/
> Apple starts censoring your sentences at the keyboard level. How would you feel then?

Vindicated by my choice of operating system.

But seriously, "what if <company> did monumentally stupid thing for their business?" can be asked about many sorts of things. What if Apple decides to only support Dvorak keyboards? What if Apple gets rid of all of their game-specific graphics APIs? What if Apple triples their prices overnight? Which of these should the government categorically ban businesses from doing?
In my mind a rocket engine would be much more tolerant of debris since you just pipe the fuel into a giant fireball (yes I can practically see the eyes rolling, sorry! :-). For ICEs I can understand clogging tiny injectors or carbs would be a problem, do rocket engines also have injectors or other narrow parts susceptible to clogs?
OpenAPI SDK Creation: Speakeasy vs. Open Source Client Generators
Swiss people are extremely humorous, at least if you don't do laundry 1 minute past your allowed slot. Light-hearted fun is something that is taken very seriously around here.
What's wrong with FastAPI?
Plain urllib3 staring from v2 is also pretty nice to use.
Why are you fixated on TCP/IP?
I might have mis-interpreted this statement: "Certain types and traits that exist in the standard library are known to the Rust compiler."
(https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/special-types-and-traits...")
I can’t help but imagine exactly the kind of types with “legal and reasonable” critiques of critical race theory.

This piece doesn’t actually seem to elaborate on the IMPACT of this “lack of free speech”. People are being “shunned” for questioning DEI?

Hardly the Cultural Revolution, is it?

The report itself gives much more weight to the complaints of these academics: https://afcomm.org.uk/2024/02/22/caf-survey-reveals-climate-...

Still… if being “unable to mention” the academic a building used to be named after, is ranked as a problem big enough to mention, I struggle to find sympathy.

There are bigger threats to free speech than “lots of DEI posters in a department building”.
Sorry I didn't reply, the answer is yes if you want the benefits of TRT.

If you start and then stop, you'll do a post cycle therapy of either hcg or clomid to fire up the old boys. But you'll end up right back where you started.

The goal isn't to blast your self with so much test you need other drugs to manage it. I do 100ml split into two shots every 3.5 days. This gives you a boost without need other drugs.
No better or worse than US or EU cars manufacturers, all of whom have been doing this a LOT longer than Tesla.
Oh that’s true. She was a most excellent chatbot. But I don’t recall her making images, movies or composing music.

I recall that movie seemed cute but probably technologically impossible. Now it’s reality for many users of AI girlfriends.
I believe it has more to do with accounting discrepancies. Unless the company already has a set process for donating/payments to Open Source Projects, it is a whole process to get that type of payment set up, approved, and paid. Corporates need to answer the what, why, who was/were the payments for. For bigger companies, a non-standard category of $5,000 would be more of an irritation to deal with.
Where was he mistaken? He knew his job, did it to completion and was very well rewarded the entire time.

His work at Boeing is so well regarded that investors couldn't wait to firehose capital his way.

ref:https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/forme...

Boeing's CEO is what success looks like.
My guess is it caused people to stay home and keep their head down when things were going badly. Which may have been functional in a violent tribal ancestral environment but maladapted for the modern world.
> In their briefs responding to Texas and Florida, the platforms argued that both laws infringe on their First Amendment rights by preventing them from exercising editorial discretion—which they view as protected expressive conduct—in deciding when and how to disseminate speech. The platforms asserted that the laws would prevent them from removing problematic content, such as terrorist propaganda.

Interesting take. So the platforms, as entities, want them some first amendment speech rights. And of course, it's all been about the terrorists. Thank you Google, Facebook and others, for keep us safe from those villains.
I disagree. Win 8 was awful, but Win 10/11 -- while they're far from good -- at least removed several of the worst aspects of 8.
Fifth person to achieve remission for leukemia and HIV after cell transplant
Show HN: Use function calling to build AI Assistants
I worked on a creator economy Salesforce-like product for the for businesses wanted to pay creators, run campaigns, interact with creators on a unified platform etc.

I have to say that Sponsorships make much more revenue than Patreon, however sponsors have gotten a bit smarter and not simply relied on view count anymore, they look at things like quality metrics, how the creators voice stands in the community and other aggregate factors (which we would factor for them in the product as a good estimate, we were an organic match making service in a way).

That is all to say that you can get much better sponsorships if you have a Patreon because it a very strong signal to companies about your viability in the community.

Its not required by any means, but it serves a purpose around this. I am 100% certain that most of the creators you might see with sponsorships and Patreons have realized that simply having a good active Patreon lets them up their sponsorship money and thats why many keep it around even when its revenue by comparison is a rounding error
What does efficiency have to do with anything? Efficiency and robustness are often opposed (one hates redundancy and the other loves it, for example).
An accountant isn’t necessary for something like this, plans like Zoho books free or harvest take care of the same things an accountant would take care of.
They will be next year, and customers will be back on Kayak and Expedia sorting by price and clicking the top result to book.
Better and more effective AI detection techniques are on the horizon
Seems interesting as current Python-based solutions don't have good support for Javascript. I see the support for the binding is from Python to JS but do you have any plans to support two-way binding work?
I remember the first time I sold code to a company for low 4 figure amount. The hassle of registering for a VAT-Id (in Germany) and writing an invoice wasn‘t the problem. I was afraid that there were any liabilities or other „rules“ I simply didn‘t know about like „what if something breaks and they sue me, because I didn‘t include a specific line of legalese in the contract?“.
How does price caps work on Hetzner? I never managed to figure that out from reading their price lists. It looks to me like they charge for each TB, and the only thing I can see is that you can set an email alert to go off when close to some threshold?
It's quite informative to look/listen to old videos and podcasts, and see who the sponsors are.

So many of them are now-dead VC-backed startups, but here and there you find a sponsor that still exists (Squarespace, for example).

The food related ones are always the most amusing because you know it's all fake bullshit and the host doesn't actually use the product, because nobody does.
icy_term: Old school ANSI/AVT terminal program for modern systems
A corporation is a legal entity created on paper to allow people to do business more effectively.

Corporations don't do anything, the people in them do.

People working at GM didn't act to fix their vehicles and people died.

People at PG&E chose not to perform actions based upon inspection data, and people died when their infrastructure failed.

According to your Jacobin article, people at Coca Cola killed those trade unionists.

How about let's not let the legal wrapper for people protect those who murder others?