skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are of course many factors, but the largest driver of cost increases in recent years have been materials and contractor profits. There aren't enough contractors and they can name their price. Unfortunately labor isn't really part of the cost driver, and basic laborers like carpenters are still under-paid compared to the wages that would attract people to the trade. Basically the American economy is now rigged to direct all earnings to middlemen and "thought workers" so nobody wants to just swing a hammer.
Nice work. I particularly like the vocal sounds.
I used to have a saying back when Heroku was more favourable, is that you use Heroku because you want to go bankrupt. AWS is at times similar.

Depending on your local market, AWS bills might be way worse than the cost of few bright ops people who will let you choose from offerings including running dev envs on random assortment of dedicated servers and local e-waste escapees
ChatGPT loves to add "it's important to remember" to every second answer. Also "multifaceted" and a few other adjectives like that.
This probably depends on the person. I have the same experience as you. I exclusively use audiobooks for fiction. If I'm reading for information I have to read a physical book. My wife is the complete opposite though. She retains the information much better if she hears it. She is dyslexic though so I'm sure that plays a big role.
Like the comment says, filing an issue on GitHub would've also eventually led to a proper internal report, so the system isn't wholly reliant on one guy trawling Reddit.

I have many complaints about Win32 (having half a dozen different error code types, for one), but outright bugs are really rare.
as linked below, 1802 instruction set, "GET HIGH BYTE OF Register N" binary encoding had a "nine" as the first byte of the binary opcode, so the phrase was "Get 9N" or "Get High (byte)" instruction.. "execute a 9N instruction" was "get high" ..

no info on that other stuff mentioned (!)
A Wonky Experience
For me it’s the same experience in my brain either way. This didn’t happen instantly though, I’ve done over 1000 audiobooks at this point and I could “feel” my brain rewiring how it processed them over time.
Will you image the drive anywhere? It sounds like a ticking time bomb, and it's so interesting it'd be cool to be able to look through it/through the beta System 6.0.6 software
Former option trader here. The free parameter is actually the "thing" that you're actually trading when you trade an option. All the other parameters are just environmental, you look them up.

The short story is that the implied vol is a sort of balancing price between how much the option loses in value over time vs how much you can make performing the hedge.
Afaik, SOAP is a subset of all webservices; the rest is REST (i.e. XML without SOAP and non-XML).
If they were profiting from that, then it would show up as higher profit margins in their audited financials.

So 99% of the time a business’s “greed” gets written about, and there are publicly listed businesses that can be referenced, notice that no one links to the increasing profit margins to prove the greed. Because the claim is usually false.
Sure, my email is on my website which is in my profile. I will gladly check out other project/works-in-progress in this genre.
> Yes, the free tier comes with advertisements. That’s a very common pricing model.

But like, built into your OS? That's a new low that was reserved only for Microsoft for a while. I agree with the parent comment - this sort of first-party advertisement was one of the things that soured me on MacOS.
I built a couple of glasgow devices and used one extensively- it becomes very useful once the IC in question has an interface you can't practically use with a microcontroller.

I used it to capture data from a thermal imaging sensor (extracted from an automotive night vision camera)- a weird ~75MHz data bus[0].

0: https://github.com/festlv/isc0901b0-breakout?tab=readme-ov-f...
kube-proxy operates at L3/L4 while service meshes generally operate at L7 so it can load balance on a per HTTP request basis. Particularly useful for long lived connections commonly used in gRPC and others.
I have a pet rock. By your standard I can't say it's not intelligent.
There is no easy way to reject. But I think a phone call with talking points is the best way.

Some saying an email is better, but then you literally start to form a relationship with the company. You have several interviews, you are in constant communication with the recruiter, they text you. An email after all that is just as impersonal.

Candidates should have that expectation. No matter how well things are going, you might get rejected.

My recruiter from Amazon ghosted me for 6 months, then started talking to me like it was nothing. [1]. I treated it like I would in any relationship.

[1] https://idiallo.com/blog/dont-ghost-me
Implied volatility is really the standard deviation of the price over time. You can calculate it by look at prices in the market. Then interpolate values. Where banks get funky is that the market for options go out about 3 years, but a banks will write options going out much much further. For those options, they are really just guessing, no matter how much fancy math they do, it's all to dress up a guess. And the traders don't care since they won't be around when the option expires
Anything tangential to the problem you're working on. Ping-pong, hiking, walks on the beach, swimming, to name a few. I also found REM sleep or deep sleep to be very reparative. Maybe not 'problem solving' but it sets the stage for the rest of the day, where you need a clear head and no brain fog.
I thought they mostly lost money on interest rates, not options?
Most devops disaster stories I’ve heard lately are the result of endless addition of new tools. People join the company, see a problem, and then add another layer of tooling to address it, introducing new problems in the process. Then they leave the company, new people join, see the problems from that new tooling, add yet another layer of tooling, continuing the cycle.

I was talking to someone from a local startup a couple weeks ago who was trying to explain their devops stack. The number of different tools and platforms they were using was in the range of 50 different things, and they were asking for advice about how to integrate yet another thing to solve yet another self-inflicted problem.

It was as though they forgot what the goal was and started trying to collect as much experience with as many different tools as they could.
>If it was just build costs wouldn’t we see more starter, smaller homes

Sort of. Smaller homes also use less land, so it doesn't really matter which it is; you'd see more smaller homes either way.

But zoning forces lots of land per house (with required house and lawn minimums), which squeezes land supply. So yes, it's land values, but only as a symptom of the core zoning issues.
An open list of biotechnology essay ideas
The people that don’t like IQ tests usually deny that “general intelligence” is a thing at all.
Black Mirror keeps getting things depressingly correct. :/
If you don't want to change the setup too much, consider running your nodes off an AMI with pre-loaded image. Maybe also ensure how exactly the images are layered, so if necessary you can reduce amount of "first boot patch" download.
If only we had some neutral mechanism for allocating resources like electricity to productive uses! I guess we'll just have to ask the fine ladies at The Atlantic which of them are worthwhile.
Companies do marketing because these techniques work, not because they enjoy being evil. If you work in tech, part of your income is likely dependent on marketing, whether you think about it or not.
Watermarking Makes Language Models Radioactive
The problem with bespoke, homegrown, and DIY isn't that the solutions are bad. Often, they are quite good—excellent, even, within their particular contexts and constraints. And because they're tailored and limited to your context, they can even be quite a bit simpler.

The problem is that they're custom and homegrown. Your organization alone invests in them, trains new staff in them, is responsible for debugging and fixing when they break, has to re-invest when they no longer do all the things you want. DIY frameworks ultimately end up as byzantine and labyrinthine as Kubernetes itself. The virtue of industry platforms like Kubernetes is, however complex and only half-baked they start, over time the entire industry trains on them, invests in them, refines and improves them. They benefit from a long-term economic virtuous cycle that DIY rarely if ever can. Even the longest, strongest, best-funded holdouts for bespoke languages, OSs, and frameworks—aerospace, finance, miltech—have largely come 'round to COTS first and foremost.
Slight nitpick, while Wikipedia allows primary sources in some cases, it generally prefers secondary sources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research....
People were stuck inside, didn’t have money and sex is free. US has been below replacement rate since 2008, one blip isn’t going to rescue us.
I often think about it like this - what job would you prefer for your child - work on building a road, or be a lawyer arguing whether or not that road should get built?
Systemic proteome adaptions to 7-day complete caloric restriction in humans
New species of sea slug discovered in UK waters
This essay is great. I can see from the first comments that its point is entirely lost. Which is too bad; the core idea of Representational State Transfer is interesting and deserves to be respected separate from "HTTP but not SOAP".

I built some of Google's first public APIs and we used SOAP, to match the onion on our belts. It never worked very well. I'm real glad that JSON over HTTP and other forms of RPC succeeded where SOAP failed. But it's a shame that Roy's ideas for REST got lost in all that.
You got a raise this year that kept up with inflation?
The token would be the pure sensation of hunger, not the word for self, which is merely a convenient abstraction which we use to share knowledge between outside and over time.

LLMs don't have that sensation (why would they?), that doesn't mean can only be used for text: https://deepgram.com/learn/applications-of-transformer-model...
You missed what I think is the most important point in OP's list: it does all of the above in a cloud agnostic way. If I want to move clouds with TF I'm rewriting everything to fit into a new cloud's paradigm. With Kubernetes there's a dozen providers built in (storage, loadbalancing, networking, auto scaling, etc.) or easy to pull in (certificates, KMS secrets, DNS); and they make moving clouds (and more importantly) running locally much easier.

Kubernetes is currently the best way to wrap up workloads in a cloud agnostic way. I've written dozens of services for K8s using different deployment mechanisms (Helm, Carvel's kapp, Flux, Kustomize) and I can run them just as easily in my home K8s cluster and in GCP. It's honestly incredible; I don't know of any other cloud tech that lets me do that.

One thing I think a lot of people miss too, is how good the concepts around Operators in Kubernetes are. It's hard to see unless you've written some yourself, but the theory around how operators work is very reminiscent of reactive coding in front end frameworks (or robotics closed loop control, what they were originally inspired by). When written well they're extremely resilient and incredibly powerful, and a lot of that power comes from etcd and the established patterns they're written with.

I think Kubernetes is really painful sometimes, and huge parts of it aren't great due to limitations of the language it's written in; but I also think it's the best thing available that I can run locally and in a cloud with a FOSS license.
objection -- ChatGPT does not "love" anything.. a reason to repeat that phrase is that it is written often, for real communication reasons. Declaring that something written often by humans is now an indication of ChatGPT is wrong-direction IMHO and directly objectionable here, a place where reasoning humans think and communicate via writing.
I played around with DUSt3R last night using an iPhone with different lenses (whether you consider this a different camera or not, I defer to you). It worked well. Note that the camera intrinsics aren't used here, so it makes sense that it would tolerate different lenses or cameras. I did not test wildly divergent lens types (e.g., a fisheye lens).
> a popular and beautiful song

Also "Perfect Day", some might say is a lullaby to drugs.

(Can't believe some comments are just sooooooo tone deaf thanking I'm
expressing dislike for these amazing artists rather than criticising
the industry that feeds on them).
Hah. I once had a company ask the same, except they didn't specify that it was feedback for them. I set time aside for a call with them thinking they were going to clarify why they didn't want to proceed with me, and what I could have done better (least a company can do after rejecting someone), and was soundly disappointed when they said that they couldn't do that, but that I should please let them know how they could improve their hiring process.
Continuous deployment systems like ArgoCD and Flux, user friendly local development environments with tools like Tilt, novel networking, distributed storage, distributed tracing, etc. systems that are basically plug-and-play, etc. Search for "awesome k8s" and you'll get many lists of these.

It's surely possible to cobble all of this together without k8s, but k8s' main advantage is exposing a standardized API that simplifies managing this entire ecosystem. It often makes it worth the additional overhead of adopting, understanding and managing k8s itself.
A year ago these articles were about how destructive server farms for crypto mining were. Now those same servers have pivoted to "AI" and the articles about them are almost the same.

Perhaps we will always find a use for this computing power, as long as governments allow it to be built.
Harder to remember & doesn't work well with word-of-mouth marketing strategies. 'Just visit domain.com' versus 'just visit blog dot domain.com' the former has a ring to it, the latter doesn't.
The Atlassian APIs have JSON responses with URL links throughout for further navigation. That would seem like it satisfies the stricter definition of REST without being HTML. But self-describing interfaces like that are only useful when interacting with people who are then deciding what next action to take. They are decidedly not what you want when interacting with programs where the semantic interpretation of information is hard-coded into the program.

That's why at the same time, REST was taken as a call to action to formalize the server-side API that clients rely on so that your user-facing UI would use that API to generate the relevant HTML for the browser and the same API could be reused for 3p developers to rely on to build automation / additional products without increasing the maintenance area.
I’m surprised this is legal in the US.

In a lot of European countries, the landlord cannot raise the rent as he wants, there’s a maximum per year (usually a bit lower than official inflation).
I thought Wikipedia loved secondary sources? Like articles about something, as opposed to a primary source which would be like a person who was present or something (which would mean it’s original research).

An article that says Abraham Lincoln wrote the emancipation proclamation would be preferred to Abraham Lincoln himself being asked and then the Wikipedia article citing “my interview with Abe”.

(Your general point is valid, I’m just confused about the terminology)
Still slightly better than being ghosted by the company, which is what happened for one job I applied for. (Hey maybe they're still considering me 15 years later!)
We live in an advertising hellscape now. The biggest crock of crap is being forced to watch an advertisement at the freaking gas station as I pump my gas. I'll never voluntarily use those pumps ever again.
Evolution of a headline...

NPR quotes some ordinary person:

> "It just feels like everything is rising at a scary rate," Morro says.

NPR's headline drops the "It just feels like" of the quote, and also lost is that it's some ordinary person asserting this:

> 'Everything is rising at a scary rate': Why car and home insurance costs are surging

HN's headline drops the quote marks, so it looks like it's a factual determination of NPR:

> Everything is rising at a scary rate: Why car, home insurance costs are surging (npr.org)

I saw this HN headline, with NPR saying "scary", and was expecting that experts had convinced NPR staff that something grave was starting to happen -- such as with inflation, employment, trade, or crime -- and insurance was the bellweather.
Agreed. And not just the source, but a fully functional local demo! Runs great on my M1 pro using:

PYTORCH_ENABLE_MPS_FALLBACK=1 python3.10 demo.py --weights checkpoints/DUSt3R_ViTLarge_BaseDecoder_512_dpt.pth --device 'mps'
It's not really implied volatility, it's the actual volatility between now and expiration. Everyone can only estimate at what that will be.

IV is essentially using prevailing prices to understand what everyone else has estimated that forward volatility to be.

Beyond that, you will also find that IV differs across strikes [1]. Still, being able to fit a vol smile from incomplete market data (and some other adjustments if you are very sophisticated) and then price an arbitrary option is pretty useful.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volatility_smile
I could’ve written this. My goal of 2024 is to remove all emails, alerts, notifications that don’t truly deserve my attention. And as I’ve started doing that, it feels like a never-ending hole.

What can we do about this? With e-mail, we can create temp inboxes and throw them away.

What about phone? Is there an IPV6 for phone where we could have billions of throwaway numbers and use them as we see fit? Introduce a new country code that has 32 digit phone numbers and if you don’t accept those numbers, you don’t get our business?

At this point all of my personal, business emails, and phone numbers have been bought and sold a million times, and there’s no recourse or penalty for people spamming them. What can we do about this? It’s oppressive.
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>> For every dollar in home and auto premiums they collected last year, insurance companies paid an average of $1.10 in claims and expense

Yet all the major insurers are claiming vastly profitable quarters. Someone is lying and it’s not the insurers in their SEC filings.
How much is slightly? And the radioactive question - among which population are births concentrated? Isn't it usually recent immigrants who have the most?
Why do any of the other variables matter if the market is collectively fighting between "overpriced and underpriced" on premium/implied volatility?
I wonder how many people reading here have taken the time to sit down with Fielding's original 2000 dissertation, analyze what he said, and understand it?
Mistake Created HN Logo
Mrpixels.eth sent me this logo just now for another project and reminded me about hacker news right away..
https://i.ibb.co/VYCFtfy/hn.png
> Cloud and terraform gives you those

* your stack almost always ends up closely tied to one cloud provider. I've done and seen cloud migrations. They are so painful and costly that they often just aren't attempted.

* Cloud services make it much harder to run your stack locally and on CI. There are solutions and workarounds, but they are all painful. And you always end up tied to the behaviour of the particular cloud services

> but you don’t need one tool to do all of those things

To get the same experience, you do. And I don't see why you would want multiple tools.

If anything, Kubernetes isn't nearly integrated and full-featured enough, because it has too many pluggable parts leading to too much choice and interfacing complexity. Like pluggable ingress, pluggable state database, pluggable networking stack, no simple "end to end app" solution ( KNative, etc), ...
This overblown flexibility is what leads to most of the pain and perceived complexity, IMO.
Bug: The first image is too wide to fit on my Android mobile.
CloudQuery – AWS/GCP/Azure plugins pricing changes
Really agree with this post.

I wish gmail had a filter for mails sent by a human, but I suspect it would be antithetical to their aims.
Show HN: Sal, an LLM-powered educational video creator
>By some estimates, hemp can capture up to 15 tonnes of CO2 per hectare

At the same time, a report from UK government [1]

>Hemp has been shown to fix up to 22 tons CO2 per hectare each year.

Which got me to thinking, what is the Highest capture of CO2 per hectare for Plants. Turns out one hectare of bamboo can sequester up to 60 tonnes of CO2 per year. Perhaps we need to think about how we turn Bamboo into more useful products.

[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/62cd011fd3bf7...
What numbers are you looking at? There was a further decrease in the rate when COVID began, then a slight rebound from those depressed levels. The decline continued this year. Small fluctuations don't contradict a general trend.
> This person was invited to visit the employer’s office, only to be rejected in person once they got there

I wonder if this is actually meant to avoid leaving a record -- if any part of the rejection message was legally contentious, the candidate is less likely to have any tangible evidence to share.

I had similar thoughts regarding rejections via phone calls and video meetings, since some lawyers prefer those over written discussions for similar reasons, but it's conceivable that the candidate would be recording all calls if they were at home.
I don't understand. Your friend has a catering business that throws parties for wealthy people? Because wealthy people don't get enough parties? Or did you mean metaphorically. In that case, what kind of metaphoric "welcoming parties" are missing from wealthy people's lives?
> REST must be the most broadly misused technical term in computer programming history. I can’t think of anything else that comes close

ahem Agile
For me, it all comes done to ideological purity vs. what works. Everything exists on that continuum.

REST as defined in Roy's dissertation is pure and beautiful, but the work of programmatically navigating such an API adds burden for no gain in the vast majority of use cases.
The answer is simple…

Sometimes you spend more time trying to make an API cleanly fit into a REST scheme than actually making the API.

Sooo you say fuck it.
It'll be interesting if AI-generated content is ever no longer distinguishable from human writing in both evidence and prose. I suppose that's the ultimate goal.

The final hurdle at that point will be the de-democratization of writing and the dilution of creativity and novel writing. There will probably always be a market for that, but for things like reporting events, it seems like AI could easily overtake the industry.
At this point I found out that k8s knowledge is more portable, whereas your trove of $VENDOR_1 knowledge might suddenly have issues because for reasons outside of your capacity to control there's now big spending contract signed with $VENDOR_2 and a mandate to move.

And with smaller companies I tend to find k8s way more cost effective. I pulled things I wouldn't be able to fit in a budget otherwise.