skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe they folded before their ideas could take root and backed by decent implementation.
I recently (yesterday) for the first time tried various variants to get code completion and refactoring after all the hype, and was quite disappointed in it.
Now I mainly develop in C# using VSCode on Windows, which is not the most common platform for things like this I suppose. Most articles I could find were targeted towards macOS and M1/M2 chips.

I tried:

- Continue.dev with local DeepSeek: couldn't get it to work with CUDA easily and my Python experience is close to zero. After over an hour of debugging wild errors and issues I ran into a library that wasn't compiled with CUDA support (which auto-downloaded from the requirements-file) and refused to work, so I gave up.

- Continue.dev with GPT-4 (latest preview which should be less lazy): Still very lazy and slow, and I got tired of having to copy/paste (well, there's a hotkey) everything into the chat window and then missing context. And it preferred giving recommendations over actual code, even when directly instructed to write something.

- Codeium.dev: This seemed very promising right out of the box, but then it started recommending Python code in the middle of a C# project, despite being context aware. I wasn't able to get any useful C# out of it, but it is also not listed in the supported language section so perhaps I should have known better.

- Github Copilot: As a paid premium product and all the hype surrounding it I expected something better here, but it was even worse than Continue.dev with GPT-4. It was incredibly lazy, just gave textual answers instead of code or broad recommendations on how to fix something, or just repeaded what I asked (please provide a method to handle both these cases to remove duplicate code -> oh yes you can indeed write a generic method to handle both these cases; but no actual code, just confirming that it was possible).

Either I did something horrible wrong, or C# is entirely out of scope in these projects, or all the hype is.. People that got lucky? I have no idea. But I was heavily disappointed with my first experiences with this.
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Does this method also work when different cameras (or different camera zoom etc. settings) are used for every input image?
In current market, land in general is not stupid move when you are already multi-billionaire. If you have already big enough stake on stock, debt, precious metals and property market to gain profits, yea land is extremely sensible move.

Bunkers are weird, but probably lot cheaper that yatch anyway...
If you're on AWS, yeah, I'd say just use ECS until you need more complexity. Our ECS deployments have been unproblematic for years now.

Our K8s clusters never goes more than a couple days without some sort of strange issue popping up. Arguably it could be because my company outsourced maintenance of it to an army of idiots. But K8s is a tool that is only as good as the operator, and competence can be hard to come by at some companies.
"Hope" that your cloud provider matches as well your needs as you thought, that vendor lock-in doesn't let them milk you with high prices, etc. etc.

None of that is prevented with SLA
No, COVID-19 is not a type of flu. COVID-19 is caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, while the flu (influenza) is caused by different types of influenza viruses. Although both illnesses can cause respiratory symptoms such as fever, cough, and difficulty breathing, they are caused by distinct viruses with different genetic makeups and characteristics. Additionally, COVID-19 has been associated with more severe illness and a higher risk of complications compared to the flu in some cases.
Higher enforcement of nonviolent crime leads to more strained relationships with the community leads to less cooperation with law enforcement leads to higher rates of all crime.
I should have a look out for him doing talks in London this year :D
I am looking forward going to this talk: https://www.britishmuseum.org/events/seven-wonders-ancient-w...
Latest models can solve some relatively challenging math problems, such as those in the MATH dataset. Assuming not all of the capability stems from memorization, that exhibits a certain level of fluid intelligence.

Although recent research shows much of LLM’s reasoning capability are indeed based on memorization, some models can actually reason a bit.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.19450.pdf

https://twitter.com/_saurabh/status/1763626711407816930
"Set up a reverse proxy and do blue-green deploys behind it."

I think this already introduces enough complexity and edge cases to make reinventing the wheel a bad idea. There's a lot involved in doing it robustly.

There are alternatives to Kubernetes (I prefer ECS/Fargate if you're on AWS), but trying to do it yourself to a production-ready standard sets you up for a lot of unnecessary yak shaving imho.
K8s or no K8s, outsource to lowest bidder and you'll get unworkable platform :|
Land values play a major factor in home values, but there are other factors that could lead to the increased cost of building homes, such as the price of raw materials and the price of labor. Higher interest rates are also having an impact, since it costs more to borrow money.
A rejection email with the option of requesting a phone or video call seems like the best balance. I can imagine there's a few scenarios where the hiring team can offer constructive feedback, but ... again, it's probably few. Giving people the option, and seeing how many people actual request it, would be instructive to the HR folks about whether to continue that approach or not.
We're from the government and we're here to help!! It's for the children!!

These are the worst mantras that we can ever hear coming out of those we put in political positions. Absolutely an attorney general is it a political position. Now if his argument was that parental oversight and parental consent needs to be required for minors using platforms that would be a different argumentation that I would be more sympathetic to. Because then it would give parents the tools to monitor and decrypt and review the messages and determine what's going on. This nonsense that the government needs to do it is bullshit and is always bullshit every time they make the argument.

Keep in mind one of the most costly and wasteful and wrongly prosecuted cases that we've ever had is the McMartin preschool trial. The news media had a field day with it when it first came out. This is the same kind of nonsense that was. Hopefully the people from Nevada can see this and remove them from office immediately. Of course I don't think the news media really publishes the results of the McMartin preschool trial because they are just as culpable as the morons who wrongfully tried to prosecute it for 7 years.
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You're confusing the broad scale cosmological predictions of DM with explaining rotational parameters of individual galaxies.

Even so, there are predictions low-parameter DM models seemingly can't make, like: what percentage of galaxies have zero dark matter?
This sounds like terrible advice. Managing a reverse proxy with blue-green deploys behind it is not going to be trivial, and you have to roll most of that yourself. The deployment scripts alone are going to be hairy. Getting the same from K8s requires having a deploy.yaml file and a `kubectl apply -f <file>`. K8s is way less complex.
> hackers have long moved away from creating exploits

That's not because they're not targeting old operating systems anymore (they are). It's because they already have so many exploits that will never be patched that there's not really a point to coming up with more.
That was the problem, thanks :) So I learned something today: apps like Spotify will play regardless of the hardware mute. But a browser clearly mutes.
ECS is so nice and simple. http://kubernetestheeasyway.com
> The private key that I would hypothetically sign commits with?

Yes. If someone has your private key they can sign commits as you. I’m not sure how I can put this more plainly.
The important bit to remember when reading is to understand the origin (why) of the concepts. I've seen Engineers being too dogmatic about the book, saying that "Google does it this way" and not being able to apply the concepts to one's own organizational context. Even at Google, there will be different teams who will deviate from the "described process" given their business context, setup, or stakeholders.
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New Zealand is going bananas, we had a series of weather events that massively drew down on insurance, 6-18months later everyone's getting whacked with big increases. Furthermore insurance companies are starting to take the position of 'we won't insure x/y/z strips of land - too risky' (where councils really shouldn't have allowed building in the first place)

Times are going to get interesting..
A good read is a good read - whoever writes it.

Whole issue of fake media and that, well, look at social media over the years, I doubt it will make much difference than what we have already. People over time, learn what to trust and who to trust.

The real issue though, as you touch upon, will be governments using this as another way to gain even more power and control of our daily lives.

Though my thoughts are, like most new tech that can copy/mimic - it will be the Disney's and movie studios with their lobbyist money that will do the most harm in any progress.

Though mindful of the potential damage, a rouge AI could do in the financial markets.

One upside - postal letters will start to see an increase in usage as people start to trust physical media more over digital. Is certainly a trend I foresee happening.
Cloud run, etc, but there seem to be some biggish gaps in what those tools can do (probably because if deploying a container was too easy the cloud providers would lose loads of profit).
It’s great if you understand what it is doing, it is really just search 2.0, but it’s a huge leap from search 1.0. It can’t do original research. But most humans aren’t doing original research either.
I think it's best to teach in a high-level, multi-paradigm language that isn't one of the popular languages. It resets the playing field, provides a nice language to have in their tool belt, and still allows easy transition to other languages.
In the days before "google it" was a synonym for "find it", we had different curated link sites, and even pyhsical magazines with hand-curated lists of links that people interested in a certain topic might find interesting. This still exists today in some forms, for example the "awesome lists" that you see for some programming topics, for example https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome .

Just like there was a time when 90%-99% of all email traffic was viagra spam but e-mail as a concept survived, I imagine in the future most of the internet by volume will be AI-generated trash, and those in the know will still circulate lists of where the other 1% can be found.

An even brighter scenario is that someone, maybe a kid tinkering in their garage, figures out how to make a search engine that finds the good stuff, doesn't immediately die to AI bot farms' SEO efforts, and is financially viable.
https://kpmg.com/de/de/home/themen/2024/02/modernisierung-de...

https://consultingstar.com/nachrichten/21410

Sorry for German but that's what I turned up on the first try. At least the Bundeswehr is dumping a lot of money into these companies.
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>he's just pointing out there's no universal agreement on what intelligence even is.

Which is why I find it strange that he takes it upon himself to proclaim in a definitive manner that LLMs are not intelligent, and not "by any stretch."
There were some "hype cycles" (in Gartner's lingo) that I avoided during my career. The first one was the MongoDB/NoSQL hype - "Let's use NoSQL for everything!" trend. I tried it in a medium sized project and burnt my finger and it was right around when HN was flooded with full of "Why we migrated to MongoDB" stories.

The next one was Microservices. Everyone was doing something with microservices and I was just on a good 'ole Ruby on Rails monolith. Again, the HN stories came and went "Why we broke down our simple CRUD app into 534 microservices".

The final one was Kubernetes. I was a Cloud consultant in my past life and had to work with a lot of my peers who had the freedom to deploy In any architecture they saw fit. A bunch of them were on Kubernetes and I was just on a standard Compute VM for my clients.

We had a requirement from our management that all of us had to take some certification courses so they would be easily to pitch to clients. So, I prepped for one and read about Kubernetes and tried deploying a bunch of applications only to realize it was a very complex piece of moving parts - unnecessarily I may add. I was never able to understand why this was pushed on as normal. It made my decision to not use it only stronger.

Over the course of the 5 year journey, my peers' apps would randomly fail and they would be sometimes pulled over the weekends to push fixes to avert the P1 situation whilst I would be casually chilling in a bar with my friends. My compute engine VM, till date, to its credit has only had one P1 situation yet. And that was because the client forgot to renew their domain name.

Out of all the 3 hype cycles that I avoided in my career, the Kubernetes is the one I really am thankful of evading the most. This sort of complexity should not be normalised. I know this maybe unpopular opinion on HN, but I am willing to bite the bullet and save my time and my clients' money. So, thanks for the hater's guide. But, I prefer to remain one. I'd rather call a spade one.
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> Having read the article, isn't the point of the article kubernetes in general and what the author prescribes you sign up for/avoid?

Yeah, and I think that provides a good basis to discussion, where people can critique/discuss whether the evaluation that the author has made are correct (which a few comments are doing). At the same time a lot of that discussion is being displaced by what I would roughly characterize as "general technology flaming" which isn't going anywhere productive.
They don’t because it would be against their financial interests to do so.

Advertising, blue checks, admitting that they have fewer genuine monthly active users than they currently report all negatively affect their bottom line. And any moderation solution that could work would be decried as censorship and people who do genuinely engage could leave the platform.
He wasn't lost he was hiding!!
I'm curious whether the success of Google in launching software that seems not fully developed can be attributed to their Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.
If I only "pretend" to rob a store, don't you think I should get prosecuted?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignorantia_juris_non_excusat
>> For every dollar in home and auto premiums they collected last year, insurance companies paid an average of $1.10 in claims and expense

I've seen this before. What I haven't seen is this compared to their other revenue streams. Insurance companies are quick to total out a vehicle and then insist on getting ownership of it. They must be selling them to someone.
I don't think it's necessarily better or worse than email. As the hiring manager quoted in the article said, for candidates who made it to the final phases of the process it can seem more cordial. But I can see how it might be cruel to do it to new graduates, who are both potentially less ready for rejection and more busy with the job search process.

That said, it can be horribly executed. Last year after several interviews with a large company, I got an email from a recruiter who hadn't been involved in the process up to that point, telling me to expect a short call within a certain time window. I kept my calendar clear, but didn't get a call, so I sent a polite email offering a couple of times the next day to reschedule. After hearing nothing back for a few days, I got another email with another window. The recruiter also missed that window. This went on for a few more days until I suggested that they just get to the point over email, a few minutes later the recruiter called unscheduled to tell me I didn't get the job. At that point I feel like it was more awkward for the company (big one, name begins with "A"). I think I might have audibly laughed when the recruiter asked if I'd be interested in other positions there.
But it does do the thing you just described (at least to some degree)?

I suppose it rests on what is meant by "completely different" but I've been relatively satisfied by the variety.
Something struck with me here that I've been thinking about. OP says a human should never wait for a pod. Agreed, it is annoying and sometimes means waiting for an EC2 and the pod.

We have jobs that users initiate that use 80+GB of memory and a few dozen cores. We run only one pod per node because the next size up EC2 costs a fortune and performance tops out on our current size.

These jobs are triggered via a button click that trigger a lambda that submits a job to the cluster. If it is a fresh node, user has to wait for the 1gb container to download from ECR. But it is the same container that the automated jobs that kick off every few minutes also uses, to rarely is there any waiting. But sometimes there is.

Should we be running some sort of clustering job scheduler that gets the job request and distributes work amongst long running pods in the cluster? My fear is that we just creat another layer of complexity and still end up waiting for the EC2, waiting for the pod to download, waiting for the agent now running on this pod to join the work distribution cluster.

However, we probably could be more proactive with this because we could spin up an extra pod+EC2 when the work cluster is 1:1 job:ec2.

Thoughts?

We're in the process of moving to Karpenter, so all this may be solved for us very soon with some clever configuration.
The rate of natural disasters isn’t going up, the cost of natural disasters going up. It is because they are affecting more densely populated areas. And the structures that are damaged cost more to fix/replace.

E.g., https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdec.shtml
It's not good that you were ghosted, but don't you think it's a positive sign that the CEO was trying to make amends in some way? Admittedly, it's 'too little, too late', but I think it still shows a basic level of self-consciousness if not actual remorse of the part of the executive.
If this video call gives the interviewee a final opportunity to express their thoughts and has the potential to change the outcome, then I think it still has positive value. However, as mentioned in the article, most people feel very awkward and have nothing to say during this meeting, which is simply torturous. In that case, I think it would be better to replace the video conference with an email, after all, if you don't allow the possibility of changing the outcome, why not make it more comfortable for both parties?
So people flagged a correct guess (that's it's a SCIntilla wrapper) and are OK with the public incorrect claim on the webpage (that "the editor consists of less than 2000 lines of C and C++ code, and less than 4000 lines of Lua code.", really meaning "the editor consists of less than 2000 lines of C and C++ code as glue on top of the 30K+ SCIntilla editor codebase").
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I don't get the impression that natural disasters are becoming more frequent, necessarily, or even more severe. But rebuilding is becoming much more expensive, for the same reasons it's become so expensive to build anything in the first place.
I'm going to keep opting out
I know it's fashionable to hate on Kubernetes these days, and it is overly complex and has plenty problems.

But what other solution allows you to:

* declarative define your infrastructure

* gives you load balancing, automatic recovery and scaling

* provides great observability into your whole stack (kubectl, k9s, ...)

* has a huge amount of pre-packaged software available (helm charts)

* and most importantly: allows you to stand up mostly the same infrastructure in the cloud, on your own servers (k3s), and locally (KIND), and thus doesn't tie you into a specific cloud provider

The answer is: there isn't any.

Kubernetes could have been much simpler, and probably was intentionally built to not be easy to use end to end.

But it's still by far the best we've got.
Good article. I used to be a k8s zealot (both CKAD and CKA certified) but have come to think that the good parts of k8s are the bare essentials (deployments, services, configmaps) and the rest should be left for exceptional circumstances.

Our team is happy to write raw YAML and use kustomize, because we prefer keeping the config plain and obvious, but we otherwise pretty much follow everything here.
I found k3s pretty easy to spin up.
Even if you're a hardcore Calvinist who believes in total depravity, you can still have compassion for the individual. To be specific: while the inability to outwardly uphold the law is inherent, the gospel provides for love and compassion towards the fallen. Also, those notions of "sinfulness" are human constructs. Drug abuse, for example, as a moral failing, is a judgement. But drug addiction is not a moral failing, it is a disease that can be treated. There are many things we now know are treatable diseases that in the past were considered signs of moral failure: leprosy being an obvious one.
In looking at the Book Updates section (https://sre.google/resources/book-update/) there's a bunch of companion articles and resources but has there been any actual updates to the book since 2017?
Good luck fixing etcd when a major version upgrade breaks. It took all weekend to fight that fire when it happened to us.
anyone here tracks those kind of blocks each day in a good way?

I like this stochastic way, but it's not really user friendly https://messymatters.com/tagtime/
I went from Notion to Joplin for note taking: I drop 1000s of images in a note and annotate them and publish them. Notion crashed all the time; so badly that support apologised and had to delete things for me. Joplin has 0 issues with it; it scrolls super fast, is a pleasure to work with. Also on a m1. I cannot say I noticed any bad behaviour compared to others, included Obsidian.
Especially because there’s often an intention to degrade the target. It’s not just someone’s private fantasy, it’s usually shared in the context of them being able to do something without the victim’s consent which is going to be hard to look past.
When I read the title I thought this was going to be about the case when AI supposedly rejected an applicant for listing their date of birth as 4/20. I can think of many other worse ways than this, even though it's dumb.
> Why not just use an autoscaling group?

Not everyone has money to burn, even back in ZIRP era.

And before you trot out wages for experienced operations team - I've regularly dealt with it being cheaper to pay for one or two very experienced people than deal with AWS bill.

For the very simple reason that cloud provider's prices are scaled to US market and not everyone has US money levels.