skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"ended up rolling my own version"

What does that mean in this case? What does a hand rolled version of this look like?
Always found this pursuit completely absurd and a sign of some issues at the company. The fact they even researched spherical wheels at one point really makes it seem like they have no self-awareness anymore.
The backstory:

Seems EU politicians requested a hearing with Amazon about worker conditions which Amazon declined with the argument that it was short notice and that the hearing seemed to focus solely on Amazon despite the company consisting of less than 1% of the sector. They'd be happy to join if more companies, organizations or academics would be invited.

Apparently, politicians didn't like being turned down.
Some of us can't even be civil with themselves (self-mutilation, depression, overworking etc).
Sigh, considering how bad journalists are at nuance - especially those that don't consider themselves as journalists but still wield the 4th Power of Broadcast - I can't wait (/s) until we have to "explain ourselves" about how it "contradicts" our previous meme about excess freshwater from melt being expected to at least slow down the thermohaline circulation in the North Atlantic, leading to a weaker Gulf Stream, and therefore a colder Europe (as emphasized to the point of ridiculousness in The Day After Tomorrow apocalyptic movie)... by "forgetting" the emphasis on summers.

Will at least be an opportunity to explain how Science actually works, and about chaotic systems I guess...

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Still, one immediate question is how this impacts the rest of the year, since there's an (on the surface) obvious feedback loop here... (an answer to which might or might not be forthcoming...)
> We had this nonsensical system where we socially subsidize the most expensive (Medicare) and privatize lower risk. It literally makes no sense.

If older poor people had to pay the true market price for health insurance that takes age into account they couldn't afford it.

If insurers weren't allowed to take age into account then younger people wouldn't buy health insurance for that price.

> Alternatively is we simply pooled assets and introduced competition into care delivery, health maintenance, and care quality I expect that the system would be more efficient and effective.

What incentive is there for the patient to choose lower prices if the insurance is paying for everything? What incentive does the insurer have to prevent claims fraud or keep administrative overhead in check if they can just pass on the cost in premiums and no one has any other option?
The DMCA says it's illegal to bypass DRM schemes based on encryption. Yuzu needs to do that to function. Therefore, Yuzu breaks the DMCA.

But, we'll see what the judge says.
Interesting link. Thank you
If you extrapolate Klingon martial culture and capabilities from their traditional weapon, the Bath'let, this in-universe behaviour makes perfect sense!

Edit: For some reason, every non-FTL civization Star Trek just seems to be ignored by everyone. Heck, even the Dominion ignored them in their empire building...

That's authors so: In the Star Wars Legends EU there are the Ssi'ruuk. A species from the edge of the universe harvesting other lifeforms, litterally, for power generation. Throughout the books about them, the fact they could go on a spree of exterminating each and every primitive species they encounter is never mentioned or even hinted at. Nor is the fact, that with a bare 6 systems under their control, and inferior ships and tech, they should be one punitive expedition away from extinction themselves.
To use Google's sensitive APIs in production you have to certify your product and that costs tens of thousands. To be honest, didn't think about imap at first, but it looks like that could be getting tougher soon too https://support.google.com/a/answer/14114704?hl=en. Soon they will require oAuth for imap and with oAuth you'll need the certification: https://developers.google.com/gmail/imap/xoauth2-protocol. If it's for personal use, you might be able to get by with just with some warnings in the login flow but it won't be easy to get oAuth flow setup in the first place.
E.g. In Poland this has been the warmest February on record.
Soo much that. I just want stuff that doesn't fall apart. I don't care much for fashion, I just don't want to buy pants every 2 years
Have you tried using Copilot's @workspace command in the chat?
I own switch games. I do not want to play them at 15fps at a 600p resolution if I can play them at 60fps at 4K.

Why should I not be able to emulate them?
> Privacy-centric search engine DuckDuckGo, the filing alleges, sometimes preferred to funnel fresh sources of funding to investors rather than improve its own service.
So far is going great! Good community, having fun. Many ideas to explore :-)
Ask HN: Any good on-premise Ad Server?
Any recommendations for a good one? Like plausible.io but for ads?
>It's funny you can easily spend 10-15 USD more and get a product that will last you 5 more years

....or not and it will fall apart just as quick if not quicker.

I wish if it was just "pay us extra and it will last longer"
This isn't really true tho. Shein ads over 10k of items every day, appearantly, and other than most shops they have many reviews on most popular items. It's kinda easy to pick the exact quality you are looking for as you have more or less unlimited choice.

Saying it's just 'utter garbage' is to simple.
Signs of another tech bubble if you ask me…
> Most Americans experience first hand how horrible health care here is.

The little people and not so little people experience how horrible it is. All the big people get the platinum plated VIP treatment. And it's a great source of nomenklatura make work jobs for them.

Anecdote: Friend worked for a billionaire. Had a seizure at the office and ended up in the ER and the head of neurology department came down to check on him.
Maybe a 99th percentile of latency could measure these brownouts? Or some other way of quantifying how fat the tail of the latency distribution is.
Please, do not look at the specifics. In this case many things were put to the test, one of those is the ability of returning answers from the search engine. That is a very important selling point for 'advanced' search engines and it is something that almost consistently under-performs.
Worm screws have a known and simple failure mode, however, which people understand. It can also take a very long time to fail depending on the design - longer than the useful life of the product in many cases.

Software fails suddenly and unexpectedly, and when it does, it's rarely clear how to mitigate it. Witness all the "turn it off and on again" jokes...
Agree. If a competitive model can be trained in a few months, its not clear what is really unique here
Golang tried the same thing. The result seems half-hearted but it does work and it's close to "normal" Markdown.
Asian tiger mosquitos are evil. I shouldn't know that, having never been to Asia.
Presumably the costs for a platform are passed on to the platform's customers from that platform's cloud provider (with profit). When a spike happens due to, say, a DDOS, does the platform first have to negotiate with the cloud provider to waive the cost?

Presumably the costs for a cloud provider are passed on to the cloud provider's customers from that cloud provider's operating costs (with profit). When a spike happens due to, say, a DDOS, does the cloud provider first have to negotiate with its downstream suppliers (e.g., energy, network peering, etc.) to waive the cost?

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How far down the chain does this go? Or maybe insurance steps in at some point -- or every point -- to break the chain?
Just to provide a counter point to all the anti-UHC complaints here - some of which may be legit - my last job had UHC insurance, without question the absolutely best insurance I have ever had in my life - literally everything was covered, no denials, no referrals needed, very reasonable co-pays and honestly felt like I had a truly gold-plated health coverage.

Now I switched to a new job, with a much small regional health insurance provided by new employer- and it sucks. Higher copays, more hoops to jump thru, penalized for going out of network (and that network is much smaller than UHCs) etc.

I for one don't care how big UHC is, how many additional related businesses they own including pharmacies etc, especially if it allows them to control costs better up and down the delivery chain - if, as a consumer, that gives me excellent service and limits my out-of-pocket expenses, I see that as a good thing, so I am all for it.
It's good for memoires, around a decade after the hype died down.
Most people are only mildly greedy, but that accumulates as a silt in a river, and eventually gives opportunity for more serious greed to manifest in full glory. Corporations, while are not democratic in nature, still get nudged in various direction by all the people around it, not only execs, but (even if differently weighted) also employees, customers, voters. As it is the environment where corporation operates in. Btw. I know it’s a bit of a stretch, but I would call turning a blind eye to minor infractions done by others as manifestation of minor greed. (acting would cost my time/energy without benefit to me)

> that specific companies that are found systematically guilty of some sort of crime should be forcibly disbanded.

There are limitations what can be actually done to boeing, even if a lot of people agree that boeing is faulty.

It is not feasible to just nuke it from the orbit. (As in, “there was boeing a minute ago, and now there is vacuum”)
For example, somehow supply/services to Us military MUST be kept.
Maybe restructuring, maybe some execs investigated, maybe penalty, but military must be supplied.
(Not disagreeing with the sentiment regarding accountability per se, but implementation must be compatible with current reality)

> You're on Hacker News, so I have no doubt at all that you're living your life in good faith.

Thanks for that, but I would caution you to adjust this heuristic. As I see it, HN is a good filter for tech curiuosity, but it is orthogonal to a lots of things. I’ve read that suicide bombers frequently were engineers.
SSO Tax – Wall of Shame
The irony of peaceful wallpapers and subliminal messages remind me of the defunct theprofoundprogrammer.com full of ironical wallpapers for devs/ops. Site is dead but web archives did collect a big portion of it at https://web.archive.org/web/20120728082918/http://theprofoun...
A bit like how Lorem Ipsum looks like Latin if you didn't learn any in school.
It needs to be taken over by the government
Yes, that issue is also present in the German translation.

I'm planning to monitor the output quality. Basically, feeding the translated audio back into the transcriber. Then compare it to the original transcript. Like a higher level loss function. I'll need this already because I don't speak all of these languages myself. But I can also use it to make the pipeline self-regulate and generate a new, better version if the last one scored too poorly.
This is already happening, but I don't know to what extent (especially over multiple countries), but we moved into our extremely well insulated house (thing 3 layers of glass) in the Netherlands mid 2020. Heating happens using a ground source + heat pump, cooling using just the ground source and passive pumping, ventilation is centralised and uses heat exchange.

During some 30/35+ waves of the last few summers we kept it below 23 degrees Celsius inside, even over many days of heat.
In what used to be a snow-secure village in Bavarian alps, we had 12 degrees last week.
This. Cheap production is long moving away from china. I won't excuse it, but people have a deprecated image of the country mostly.
> Replacing common sentences with simple strings

This is what byte-pair encoding does. It doesn't go quite so far as to allocate only a single token to "Once upon a time", because that string isn't actually that common, but in principle it could.

Trying to get humans to produce content directly in such a concise representation is a waste of time, since LLMs heavily rely on the ability to take whatever content is already available on the internet, which drastically reduces the labor cost of acquiring training data.
Run Alicloud's Qwen LLM with a 2MB cross GPU/CPU rust app
What have you written/published so far?
While I agree in general, I would venture to say that even humans don't really use logic to say what 1 + 1 is.

Best evidence for this is the construction of natural numbers in traditional math* with `successor` function (A. There is a one (1). B. There exists a successor of one (succ(1)) called 2.) — everything else follows from that using formal logic, and that's why everything else is generally out of reach for generative ML models (eg. summation can be defined in multiple ways, one of them being successive application of a successor function the right number of times on one of the operands).

* Modern approach is to use set cardinality instead, but the essence is the same: something has to be memorized (axioms), and then logic is applied.
It is unusual, but in a remarkably boring way.
That's what Microsoft used to do with everything, they had so much money they could just make incredibly bland versions of everyone else's hit products.

I assume it's because Wall Street was mithering them about why they hadn't invented said hit product and they built their own versions just to shut Wall Street up while the Windows/Office money flowed in.

Bing is a remnant from that time that they never killed.
Users Say Microsoft's AI Has Alternate Personality as Godlike AGI
No, CA = Central Asia. Comparing California with is a typical first world whine.
>For me -- I like simplicity.

Pretty much for that reason the only piece of tech in the last 15 years that I've genuinely liked is the Kindle (or comparable ereaders).

Literally just displays books in a format that feels pretty natural and does almost nothing else.
Creating a private copy and using it is absolutely legal. Breaching an "effective" copy protection scheme can be illegal, but "effective" is defined through case law, and can range from "DVD DRM isn't effective" to "rolling ciphers on YouTube are effective" depending on court.
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Please explain how you rotate ssh keys, store audit logs, backup (and test backup procedures), configure secure network between vpses such that your neighbor cannot eavesdrop.
Thanks for the comment —Author of the book here.

As the first paragraph explains, "This book is different from usual books. It does not come finished." The idea is to write a living book and share as I go. If you do not want early versions, skip for now and return later.

Suppose you like to explore the beginning of data engineering and challenges; you might find the intro chapters interesting. The greyed-out chapters are the ones I'm working on, and I'm planning to publish them later down the road.

Regarding the paywall, as mentioned here [1], part 2/3 of the chapters are closed, except for sponsored chapters such as The History of Data Orchestration [2]. I need to clarify what's free and what's not. Thanks for the hint.

[1] https://www.dedp.online/subscription.html
[2] https://www.dedp.online/part-2/4-ce/bash-stored-procedure-et...
Similar discussion: [How to read Korean in 15 minutes](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3880837)
> I don't think you have to worry about it breaking 40C, I don't think that temperature has ever been recorded in for example Sweden.

No, it seems you're right. The highest temperature ever recorded was 38C in 1933. It hasn't been broken since then.
Marine heatwave may have caused 7k humpback whales to starve to death
Buy "work" clothes. Dickies, Carhartt, etc. for socks and jackets. Pants too if you like the fit.

Doc Martens for footwear if you like boots; they're mendable.

Tilly's shirts have held up surprisingly well for me but I think they carry Dickies stuff there anyway.

Dryers degrade most clothing and cause pilling. Avoid them and hang dry wherever possible.
What you describe are simple systems. Most people confuse simplicity and intuitiveness. The Apple Car or the iPhone are intuitive to use but far from simple, because of the abstraction level. I like simple systems, which are maintainable, because they lack high abstractions.
Thanks for the list. Tried Jan just now as it is both easy and open source. It is a bit buggy I think but the concept is ace. The quick install, tells you which models work on your machine, one click download and then a chatgpt style interface. Mistral 7B running on my low spec laptop at 6 token/s making some damn sense is amazing. The bugs are at the inference time. Could be hardware issues though, not sure. YMMV
Stupid question but what does RAG stand for?
I learned Korean from a tourist guide book many years ago. After a few days, I could read and pronounce the train stops to figure out which stop to get off.
Pay someone to not kill people they hate? What makes you think this works?

By the way, there is different way to read your Russian pro-verb. Talking about Russia, how much money do you think Putin wants ij exchange for not trying to conquer Ukraine? Or Nethanyahu and his rihht wing nutjob allies to not deplace every Palistinian? You have a ballpark amount at least?
> VPSs being “easy to manage” is a strong option full of assumptions.

There are definitely many footguns with managing a VPS but I think the threshold to get vaguely competent with a VPS is not really that far off with getting familiar with the average cloud platform - which comes with its own dangers, like the near-total inability to put an upward cap on fees that that person found out with Netlify recently.

Having a $5 VPS and knowing it's never going to cost your more than $5 might balance out a lot of things on the other side for a lot of people.

(And, as a bonus, it comes with the benefit of having a better idea of what is going on on the actual computer which is running your code.)

Platforms like https://coolify.io/ (which I have not tried, but looks interesting) seem to give you some of the abstractions that you get in cloud platforms to save you having to mess with too much low level stuff and become an expert in a billion separate systems.

If you have Debian with automatic updates that does most of the heavy lifting for you. The hardest problem I have is resisting the temptation to just install everything, because the cost to do it is capped at my VPS monthly fee.

So yep, it comes with a lot of assumptions. But so does everything!
Also, can't you run some heat pumps in reverse and use them as air conditioners?

So there might be a natural path to taming the problem as heating systems are replaced for end of life reasons.
My guess is that since they had most Windows boxes in the bag, they didn't really need to throw resources at that department to innovate. Search is really, really hard, and expensive. They had a built-in market, and it's cheaper to grow the market with one big deal than improve your product incrementally.
She tweeted things like kill all white men. Its was nuts
Well here you have 3 choices:

1) bad looking cheap, falls apart quickly.
2) good looking cheap, falls apart quickly..
3) Unaffordable.

before Aliexpress/temu etc. there were only 2 options.
AWS guarantees protection from all DDoS attacks done at level 3-4 (Google aws shield). If someone calls your api million times then there is throttling.
For all its size, Microsoft is generally horrendous at making their products available globally. For example, Xbox Live Gold / Xbox Game Pass only became available in all EU countries in February 2023 (previously, you could only access it by buying pre-paid cards from another country).

Their (now defunct) music streaming service was never accessible in many of the poorer EU countries - not to mention globally (to add insult to this, they didn't even pull the advertising from it in local versions of Windows - you'd get big ads for it, but following them would only lead to a mess of redirects).

Even Sony, a much much smaller company, has more global coverage and faster than MS - the PS4 had full support in Romania for example since launch in 2013, and PSPlus has also been available since around the same time - nearly a decade before the MS services.
This editor can be used with the Godot engine for environment, level, and asset creation via the Qodot plugin:

https://qodotplugin.github.io/

It would be really cool if Godot had an in-editor 3D modeling tool similar to Trenchbroom, such as UX improvements to the CSGMesh3D workflow :-)
It's not just Google. Open AI rewords image prompts too:

"A family enjoying lunch" gets revised to "Portray a family of four, consisting of a Caucasian father, a Black mother, a South Asian daughter, and a Hispanic son, joyfully eating lunch together".

Yeah, I know loads of families like that.
I think they just wonder when the uneasiness that throws him constantly around the world subsides and he'll settle down comfortably in his own skin and mind and start living instead of constantly trying to escape from life into the world.
> I am wondering if those ultra-fast-fashion is sustainable

It doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. The grand scheme of things being something like 70 million new passenger cars being sold each year. Now that's a lot of future trash.
That's a bummer - it's a handy service with a great pricepoint. What other services would recommend for a small project with a small database?
Demo: Run LLava multimodal LLM with a 2M Rust app portable across GPU/CPU
It is surprisingly easy to learn how to read the phonetic nature of the language
>>Be healthy.

This - obviously a lot of things are out of our control, but it is also absolutely true that the vast, vast majority of health problems Americans have are all self-inflicted by decades of poor diet and lifestyle - as an individual, if you are concerned about the kind of care you are going to get when you need it, the very best and easiest thing you can do, is take as many actions as you can to avoid needing it.

You can't control everything, but you can do your part to ensure a healthy life - if only for selfish reasons (i.e. that won't fix the healthcare problems in the country, but it will minimize your own need for it).
> I don't think it's radical that when prompted with something like "Generate photos of doctors", that it's reasonable to return a set of images that shows diversity

Historically Google had a very simple solution to globally differing expectations about query results: IP or account geolocation. Query personalization by geography is one of the biggest quality wins in web search. Generalizing, an AI built with the same values and ethos as classical Google web search would respond to "Generate a photo of doctors" differently depending on where in the world you asked it from.

That solution also fixes many other cases that aren't third rails, like "Show me a good nearby restaurant serving local food" which you can't solve by attempting to hallucinate a non-existent restaurant that serves a menu of every conceivable dish weighted by population size.

It's unclear why this solution wouldn't resolve all their stated concerns, so we might infer that their actual goals differ from their stated goals. For example, influencing the people who use their services.
Rustls claims to support TLS 1.2 as well (https://github.com/rustls/rustls)
a basic bitch static website takes three commands in the terminal and a very basic nginx config file to setup on a completely fresh ubuntu VPS. you could read a guide from 2012 and it would work perfectly fine.

is this harder than dealing with cloud 'platforms' and their ever-changing UIs, APIs, SDKs?
But doesn't Korean also have 40k+ other characters to learn? Since Korean is the K in CJK
Like every other GUI Editor and IDE of the last 20 years has built in as core part of their interface? Or du you mean something different?
All that will matter is that they're the only results, so no one can prove otherwise.