skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well docker based stuff seems to have a lot more of an ecosystem on the orchestration side of things.

If I want to have a bunch of instances scaled up and wired together network wise and defined in a nice yaml file, kubernetes makes this easy and replicable and I just have to push a container image somewhere like GHCR and have it all rolled out with CI.

You can deploy almost the same system on top of the managed kubernetes offerings from any of the big cloud providers, so other than working out a few differences generally your config will work on anything.

If I want to do this with unikernels I'm lost, would I do it with AWS services like EC2 and auto scaling groups or something? How do I get it all wired together and configured? Perhaps terraform but I'm not sure.

It's all about the maturity of the glue and the architectures, not to mention training and familiarity. Does (mystery unikernels solution) have the equivalent of custom controllers somewhere in that stack?

K8s provides an abstraction layer over resources and lets you define your system holistically.

If this exists in a mature and flexible state for unikernels I'm all ears.

What real advantage is there to using unikernels over alpine linux + k8s (or whatever) orchestration?
Jesus Christ, that really puts it into perspective what a game changer starship is
Typically these tools are bought and used by HR or Talent Acq departments, not managers so the type of detailed decision-making you’re describing wasn’t a use-case in my experience.

It’s more like a roll-up metric that can be looked at globally, by role, department, location, etc. yes, it can also be used at the individual level but again, HR is the buyer and they are the most fearfully bureaucratic department in most companies .

From a data and capability perspective, I agree it’s a little scary. But in practice I doubt it’s used this way and if so, there’s your retention problem.
I am not an expert on porn, that's true, but porn as bad for both the "creators" and the "fans"! There are plenty and plenty of evidence about it. If we care about people's mental and physical health, this thing should be banned!
Recent realtor lawsuits across the US and Canada highlight the need for change. Could LLM-powered tools be a viable replacement?
Thanks I will check it out.

Any idea on pricing/business model?
You have to buy an old one and have it reanimated professionally.
Great job shipping. The README / repo however could definitely benefit with a benchmarking report in them.
selling shovels to the gold miners
> The only time I'm on my couch is when I have a few people over.

You make it sound like this is not merely a rare thing for you, but that it should be rare... I don't just passively sit and watch much television and yet I have spent an incredible amount of time in my life sitting on either my couch or the couch of a friend -- or even one of many couches at an office -- talking and laughing and having fun with other human beings. If I had to choose only one: a couch or a dining table, I'd go with a couch. Now... bed? That's harder for me, but I can totally see people deciding couch (as you can sleep on the couch but it is awkward as hell to invite people over and only have a bed to use).
I've posted about our ~$2000 West Elm sofa that disintegrated within 2 years in a similar previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37393399

The whole thing is just stapled together OSB.

I ripped the dust cover off and added 3 new frame stretchers made from 2x8 construction lumber (and tied other loose joints back together) and its done pretty well since then:
https://imgur.com/a/bqlLgW3 (wish I'd gotten a few more pictures, but I was tired by this point). Just shocking how terrible the construction is.
Buy something used on ebay. I picked up an &Tradition Cloud sofa on ebay a few years back for ~30% list price.
A thing to keep in mind is that many of these forgeries Wright has successfully been using for a number of years. They fooled people! "If it's stupid but it works, it's not stupid".

One thing I've realized during the case is that the kind of scrutiny people apply when they get handed a document as "proof" is not the same as the scrutiny they'd apply if handed a document they know is fake and they simply need to find proof.

In the former case people just tend to confirmation bias themselves, they check a few things and say "yep checks out". While in the latter case, they'll much more quickly say "well if it's authentic, then all the version numbers should check out, lemme go check those".

The former kind of check is almost completely ineffective against an intentional forgery unless it was made by someone dramatically less competent that you. Validation for "proof" sake must use the second process of assuming it false and looking for the evidence of it.

There is nothing fundamentally wrong with accepting a document on its face, but you shouldn't deceive yourself that you've validated something. If someone is giving you a document to prove something then you have to accept a serious possibility that it was fake, otherwise why bother looking at the document at all?
Impressive alliteration in the headline.
Are you saying you want genai to influence elections using a blackbox model? Google search still exists.
I think you touch on the issue of managing public perception as part of the FAAs job.

In general the public is not monolithic when it comes to this. Many people would ecstatic with the biggest fuel air explosion and thought Launch 1 was great while others were aghast.

Some people even think rockets shouldn't be developed at all.

As a result, you see regulators trying to find a line between covering their asses from blowback from different groups of constituents.
Can someone explain, in this day, how it is possible we don't know who Satoshi is? He communicated with the bitcoin community, wrote a paper,... That should have left plenty of digital breadcrumbs to e.g. analyze writing style, see where IP adresses came from, etc...
> Being unresponsive isn't the same thing as being slow

Just double checked and it seems “responsive” can refer to either speed or presence of response.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/responsive

> What basis does anyone have to jump to your take on things when the article plainly states otherwise

Without evidence we should withhold judgment as the default position.

The article doesn’t plainly state bad behaviour from the company, but it does use a lot of rhetorical devices to describe Onlyfans as bad without direct accusations.

It’s almost impressive in an unethical kind of way.
PWA's Are Finally Looking Good
> "Most important piece of furniture" is a heavily loaded ideological claim. It points to the rampant American culture surrounding media consumption.

I think you may be engaging in a bit of axe grinding here! I agree that the sofa is one of the post important pieces of furniture in my home [1], but for reasons that have nothing to do with television. There is no TV in the room! But it is still where I spend the most time sitting during downtime, reading books, talking to my family, etc. And when I have friends over, we're either there or at the dining room table.

[1] For the title of the most important, I might have picked my bed. But that's a quibble.
The part about springs is interesting because all the sofas I've owned in the past decade have used foam, and I don't miss springs... When they are new maybe it's ok, but over time they wear out and the sofa becomes really noisy and uncomfortable as they aren't even. The same thing with mattresses, I'm never buying a sprung mattress again.
> "Most important piece of furniture" is a heavily loaded ideological claim. It points to the rampant American culture surrounding media consumption.

That's quite a leap. Did you consider that dwell.com might not have actually done a study on what Americans consider the "most important piece of furniture" but just used that phrase to justify the very existence of their article?
I'm not American. But I feel seen(!) :)
Despite the article mentioning other things, it seems like at least half the problem can be avoided by never buying furniture online.
I don't care if they do some filtering or not, we can always go to the competitors. But they should make it clearly visible in the UI that it's an explicitly policy-filtered result so users won't waste their time on figuring out what's going on.

Added: "I'm still learning how to answer this question." is very misleading and confusing. Instead of this, the response should be explicitly marked as policy-filtered and give the link to provide more contexts on the decision.
The article seems to exaggerate a bit, because neither in 2024, nor in 2004, would I have expected a $1,200 couch to be 'well-made'. (Although I wouldn't expect either one to actually fall apart in two years of use.)

This isn't exactly a novel problem.
The level of censorship going back to the Bard days has been impressive. For a company with a product solidly in 3rd maybe 4th place they're definitely choosing to handicap themselves quite a bit.
There are aspects of federation that are stricter than the web.

It isn't that you are wrong as there is some overlap but here are a few properties that federation assures, that the web doesn't.

The web is decentralized. What's served on the web isn't necessarily decentralized.

- Server Decentralization: Federated systems use a decentralized network (www), and are themselves decentralized, meaning the servers that forms the federated network are decentralized, there is no single central authority controlling the network. multiple servers run by different individuals or organizations communicate with each other to share content and data, via:

- Interoperability: different platforms can communicate and share data seamlessly, and also enables easier:

- Privacy and Control as users are given alternative servers, which may operate very different policies, or can run their own if policies from this or that server don't fit their liking, compared to centralized platforms. all ultimately run on the same web but since users can choose which server to join or even host their own, they have more autonomy over their online presence and data.

Analogy with selling buckets of paint:

- Centralization of that service is a one stop shop re-selling exclusive delux white and blue paints.

- Federation of that service is multiple shops, selling white and blue paints. By a maker not moved about the idea of shops selling to each others, not interested in making it exclusive and letting any shops offering other colors.

- the web is all the streets
More like being able to extend existing "recipes" for a unikernel, like you can with Dockerfiles. So you can have a Dockerfile that creates a general solution (e.g. nginx) and extend it to provide your exact implementation (nginx + your public files copied over into the right place).
It's since changed, but for a while the band [Portugal. The Man]'s website was just a Google Sheet!

https://web.archive.org/web/20230831003431/https://www.portu...
Maybe we should name it. The "alt-Wiki reflex" or something like that.
Really? You think this is that bad?

I always said “at least we’re not building weapons we are trying to get people jobs (or keep them in jobs)”

But aside from weapons, if you think building a retention tool for HR is bad, you certainly should not ever look at AdTech or the types of things insurance companies are doing from a data perspective.

Or ah hem… Palatir for example.
I dunno, I think it's pretty cool to be either a millionaire or a billionaire. That's probably why I'm not either.
Hmm, wonder why they didn't try FoundationDB.

Interesting that they had problems with vacuuming. I always thought that part of Postgres was the worst part. I vaguely remember that you needed twice the space to vacuum successfully, which hopefully has changed in later versions.

An article about why vacuum is needed in pg (as compared to mysql/innodb).

http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2011/02/mysql-vs-postgresql-part-2...
Can Reddit Survive Its Own IPO?
I'm not making any claims about the preferences of Americans but about the default assumptions of the authors. It is as good a reflection of cultural attitudes as any.
20k stars, 330 contributors,...

> I can't log in anymore.

Unfortunate, to say the least.
> Banks/Credit card companies selling my purchase history?

As far as I am aware, almost every credit card company already does this. They tell you they are doing it too.
Not sure they can turn that far.
> “The court does not have the constitutionally mandated quorum necessary under Article VI, section 3 of the Illinois Constitution to render a decision on the petition for interim suspension. Accordingly, no decision will be rendered,” wrote Cynthia Grant, clerk of the Supreme Court.

> Adding to the oddity of the situation, the lawyer representing Burke says his client no longer even wants the license that was the underpinning of his half-century-plus legal career.

LOL.
Covid Still Makes Everybody a Little Bit Crazy
Some discussion: [0](30 points, 2 days ago, 31 comments) [1](41 points, 1 day ago, 54 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39688590
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39689167
That's a great idea! I hadn't thought of pen-testing as a possible value prop for this product
Never a good idea to rely on Google proprietary tech (unless you are Google)... it could be sunset at any time without warning. I use GCP but I try my best to stay Google agnostic (avoid GCP-only offerings, etc) so that I can move to AWS if Google pulls the rug out from under me.
Apple Acquires Canadian AI Startup 'DarwinAI'
No, it's just that most activities in my home are not amenable to sitting.

For instance, people come by all the time to play pool. Does that mean I should advocate that pool tables are important things to have in the home?
I wasn't aware of any of this! Outrageous!

All kidding aside I totally get it. I was lucky and taken under under the wing of a very generous group of people who have pretty much followed one another around to various jobs/projects over the last decade and our skills have just grown non-stop. I WISH I'd gotten into FOSS projects way sooner, like when I was a kid instead of just learning linux and crawling up the sysadmin route.

Like, junior help desk tech support to principal architects nowadays, etc. I try to get my friends who want to level up or change careers to hop into foss projects, #goodfirstissue sort of things. A lot of people just have no idea where to start, and they don't think they're skilled enough to join a project like kubernetes or what not, but those projects actually have Contributor Experience people/teams to help bring new people in comfortably and they need all sorts of help, not just go developers, etc.

Hell, those contributor experience people are absolute diamonds and really make certain communities so inclusive and great to be in. There is a lot of cool ancillary work to be done and everyone has something in their wheelhouse they can contribute.

https://goodfirstissue.dev/
> really only Americans who obsessively talk about or reference TV shows and movies in their small talk

For one, it doesnt seem like americans are significant outliers in tv consumption[1] or smartphone usage[2]. For another, yeah if you're a foreign traveller people probably aren't going to make small talk with you about TV or other pop culture...

[1]https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/which-country-watches-th...

[2] https://explodingtopics.com/blog/smartphone-usage-stats#smar...
Chat is fairly transient by nature, anything that is not should be put into reusable documentation anyway.
The Mythical Non-Roboticist
As if it wasn't bad enough that most consumer goods have completely bifurcated into "junk" and "luxury", now it's hard to even tell which products fall into which category, because there is so much junk now being sold as luxury.
WikiNews[0] sounds like the news bit of what you're describing.

[0]: <https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page>
Looking for an online community as a solo-founder for growth and suppport
One of the biggest selling points of YC is its networking opportunities and community support.

I'm a solo-founder looking for this experience online. An online community, providing substantial support, motivation, and skill improvement, where they can discuss challenges, gain motivation, and progress in their entrepreneurial journey.

Where can I find one?
Google's Gen AI Search Threatens Publishers with $2B Annual Ad Revenue Loss
Once you get above a certain level sure, it's not mostly about IC metrics anymore. But that doesn't mean you can't make them objective. If a person has a set of defined responsibilities, they either delivered on them, or they didn't, and you should be able to judge that relatively objectively. And if those responsibilities can't be clearly defined, or are constantly changing, that's a signal of organizational dysfunction. I will agree that if you're in an org like that, it will be difficult to judge people's accomplishments objectively.
(I'm a mod, yes.) I'm not defending anyone else's bad comments. I'm saying we need you to follow the rules, regardless of how bad other comments are or you feel they are. The same goes for everyone.

I've put in countless hours, over the years, trying to do just what you're demanding here. That's why I gave you that last link to look at. We've learned the hard way that there are limits to what moderators can do about this, unfortunately—and when you post comments that are egregiously breaking the site guidelines, you make this problem harder.

Just to be clear, I don't want you to stop posting! I'm saying we need you to make your substantive points thoughtfully, in keeping with the HN guidelines. I realize how hard that is when feeling the pressure of being outnumbered by an ignorant majority. But if you post things like "you sound as ridiculous as the politicians", "jfc the absolute garbage rhetoric", and so on, you make it impossible for the mods to do much about the comments on the other side—people will simply point to your posts and say "but it's ok for them to break the rules?"

We cut people slack for being under the pressure of holding a minority view in an argument, but there's a limit to how far we can take that, and your comments are unfortunately beyond that limit. That's why I responded to you, in the hope of persuading you to understand this dynamic. I have a lot of sympathy for your position—not because I agree or disagree about the underlying topic, but because I know what it feels like to be outnumbered on the internet.
It's known as the Valley of Death syndrome. [♪][♫][ꜘ]

Especially common in the DoD where they're good at funding enormous numbers of SBIRs/STTRs, yet they never go anywhere, because all large money contracts are guaranteed to be vacuumed up by Lockheed / Raytheon / Northrup Grumman / Boeing / General Dynamics / Teledyne Brown / Honeywell / ect...

And in most cases (in my opinion, not legally binding), they purposely, slowly build cripple-ware with planned obsolescence that results in equipment that's vestigial before it launches and immediately needs 'upgrade' contracts.

[♪] DoD funding, https://federalnewsnetwork.com/contracting/2023/07/defense-i...

[♫] VC investment, https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/death-valley-curve.asp

[ꜘ] US Biomanufacturing, https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/mind-gap-bridging-...
I'm incredibly curious about what this demographic is.
Sorry, I’m being a little dramatic.

I mean the data part is a little scary. Look up People Data Labs. There are lots of these data aggregators and that data can be used for a lot of scary things. HR in practice is probably the least scary.
Not to interrupt your principled tirade against lazy Americans or whatever, but it's not a "claim", let alone an ideological one. It's just a bog standard literary device for framing a puff piece.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
This is neat and some thing (aka text "expanders") that I imagine a lot of the commercial offerings (midjourney, etc) are using behind the scenes.

This seems to be targeting SDXL workflows, but in my experience a lot of the custom checkpoints derived from SDXL can have widely divergent recommended prompting styles ranging from natural language to just a list of booru tags.

So I'm guessing this is really only optimized for base SDXL, but I would be curious to see how well it worked on some of the more SOTA SDXL checkpoints such as juggernaut and unstable.
You should expedite your plan. The faster you become self-reliance, the better.

Consider this:

You are only now planning for this, so either you are early, right on time, or late. Most people are behind the curve on just about everything, but now hear "billionaires are building bunkers". They are already too late, but they have money to make up for it. You don't.

Go look at some traditional lifestyle and cultures such as Amish, Indigenous peoples, etc...who have been living sustainably for decades plus.

Your entire mental model of life needs to change, not planting trees and having hobby chickens.

HN is not the place for this type of discussion either, IMO.
I’ve never flexed my new positions or anything like that, which seems to be widespread nowadays to seek validation on social media.

I’ll never make a post about a company even if I end up loving my time there, it’s just not going to happen. It looks fake and everyone knows that.
> A regular policy of the US government forcing foreign companies to sell assets to Americans with impeccable national-security credentials would create interesting incentives... — ML
> not only infinite ones

I don't think this really has much to do with the "infinite" nature of the canvas. Individual instances of infinite canvases have a finite size. :)
In the Midwest, the "better" option is to buy furniture from "The Amish".

Parents bought a living room set, it was double what a similar set would be at the local furniture superstore, but the fabric/cushions were a new level of terrible. Basically fell apart in two years.

It's a great place to find wooden tables, beds, dressers, but it's all heavy (as you'd expect) and hard to move.

If I was buying a sofa today I would get something from Stressless.
This is why I trust IKEA’s price to quality ratio. I know I won’t be getting the highest quality, but I will likely be getting the highest quality to price ratio.

Got this one in 2016 for $1,100, and it’s survived 2 kids with minimal pilling. It won’t impress anyone, but I have no problem using it.

https://www.ikeaddict.com/ikeapedia/en/Product/60276883/us-e...

I have no way of discerning furniture/fabric quality, and no one offers long warranties, so I don’t see a reason to spend more than IKEA prices.
It will take a lot of prototypes and “reinventing the biological wheel” to achieve some kind of integration between the ML systems which were previously designed with a very specific task in mind. Truly exciting times.
It doesn't help that the reviews are edited and removed when negative.
Nothing happens if the service is down. They could just as easily DDoS other Apple services, most of them would cause actual havoc if they were down - iMessage, iCloud, Apple Pay, Sign in with Apple, etc.

If the device is jailbroken then all bets are off regardless? If you can bypass the theft database check, you can bypass the current parts pairing check, too.

> E-waste implications would be staggering.

Is that meant to support your argument? That's the status quo.
I've been very happy with my Lovesac sofa, but its pricing is borderline extortionate.
Probably a good idea just to stay out of it.
Good luck 'deactivating' your account. Somehow I was registered via Facebook. I was able to sign in via Facebook. Then they force you to give your company, title, location, and name before they allow you access to anything, including settings (scum). Then when you click deactivate you have to sign in again, and the Facebook login just redirects to a blank page and deactivation doesn't occur.