skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No way. Bourbon is still very affordable. You’re getting 8/10 bourbons at Total Wine or Costco for $20 - $25 like Buffalo Trace, Wild Turkey 101, Elijah Craig, Old Forester, etc. That’s the stuff even fancy NYC bars will put in a $20 cocktail. The 9/10 are still around $50.
Vinyl sales have been growing year on year in west too
Companies should pay for company phones.
Yeah, the pricing is ridiculous. Any bottle that starts accruing accolades will either sell out or start seeing price increases. There's even a secondary market where scalpers will buy as much of the local supply as they can and resell it. I remember asking a staff member at a Specs store in Dallas if they had any Weller in stock, and he just laughed and said that any time they get a delivery there's a line outside the door before they open. He couldn't remember the last time a bottle sat on the shelf for any amount of time. This is a bottle that has an MSRP of $50, but will sell for roughly three times that.
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Some more discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39937620

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39937426
It's an American reporter, writing for an American publication, probably connecting from a US IP address. Why would she expect UK English?

And to answer your question, yes, I'd prefer and expect the AI (just like any human) to use colloquial English rather than some pedantic but technically correct vocabulary.

If you're in the UK or India and had the same experience, I'd understand your confusion. You should write an article!

But if you prefer the pedantic train, "subcontinent" is one word, a common noun, neither hyphenated nor capitalized.
My employer pays for 1Password, and also a Yubikey. I don't have to use my phone for any work-related 2FA.

But yes, my policy is to absolutely never use personal devices for work, and vice versa. Complete and total separation. The laptop I use for work was paid for by my employer.
> It was clear they were trying to do more consumer grade things, just look at the N64.

Yes, but the team that did that also left SGI, then worked directly with Nintendo for the GameCube and are acquired by ATI. I’m not sure how SGI managed to not support that effort within itself.
Today’s society can’t exist without mass exploitation. AI at least gives us a chance at a true utopia, where we don’t need a large fraction of the population working long hours in farms and factories doing physical labor for low wages.

It also makes it possible that a few can effectively rule over many without risking a revolution. But there’s a solid argument we are morally obligated to take that risk due to the state of today’s society.

Analogy: if a lot of people are held hostage in a building, do you attempt to breach the building, risking more casualties, or do you give up and let those people die? You do option c, evacuate the surroundings, form a plan to minimize risk, and then breach the building.

Translating into AI, it means we need to minimize the risk of a few taking control and then move forward. Obviously if we achieved AGI today, the risk of a few taking control is still very present

However, you also move fast, because waiting costs lives. If the risk of a few taking control isn’t going away, then we need to move forward. It’s only worth waiting if there’s a good chance that society will fundamentally change in a way that reduces this risk, but if we move forward now, AGI would precede that shift.

Oddly, I feel society is becoming a lot more liberal and anti-capitalist. Maybe it’s just the echo-chamber from the people I surround myself with and online places like HN. So the above could be true.

But lastly, we’re nowhere near AGI, and I’m certain the steps we need to take will cause massive societal shifts before AGI is reached, revealing more about how great the risk of a few taking control really is.
I get the sense that Snapchat is mostly the current 18-27 crowd, but not necessarily the 13-18 crowd. Would be curious to hear the experiences of other parents in this regard.
How will anyone have an extra 86k on a 300k a year salary ?

The numbers just don't make sense. I don't have kids so I'll probably cross that bridge if I get to it, but there's a limit.

You can have a great future with community college + state school.
I was making crazy money in the dot-com boom and bought a SGI 540 in 1999 (with an SGI monitor).

With money to burn SGI was a childhood brand, legends in 3D. Such wonderful memories. 15k on a desktop setup - it was loose change, however it shows how clueless I was back then. However I'd felt like I'd "arrived".

SGI with Windows NT - lol - I wrote my first OpenGL game in Visual Basic... I've always been somewhat of an outlier ;-) God help me.

The point? My personal experience says something about the strength of the SGI brand - even in the face of what was happening at the time (3DFX and so on - my previous company was one of the few 3DFX api devs - illustrating how clueless I was...)... it all happened so quickly... I'm not surprised SGI couldn't respond - or more importantly understand the strength of Microsoft/OpenGL/DirectX in the boiling pot of 3DFX / Nvidia and the rest... From memory it took three years and SGI was done - shared memory architecture? No longer worth the cost. :-(

Looking back, I was such a kid - a complete fool.

Greybeard advice: bet on the monopoly. Be smart. Brands like SGI are nothing in the face of install base. Think about how crazy it was to spend 15k on a desktop SGI back then... nostalgia is insanity, vanity.
It's equal in Scheme. You need to use rationals.

Also, under 'Unix Calc': (0.1 + 0.2) - 0.3 yields 0.
my model is that you need to tell give it ways to make the hallucination not the most plausible thing. I prefer to tell it that it can say "I don't know"
We're going to need exponentially more metals of all varieties to build all the green tech to save the environment, and they have to come from somewhere. If deep sea mining makes economic sense then let's do it!

Now, if deep sea mining only makes economic sense because misguided policy prevents land based mining for the same materials, then sure let's revise the policy instead.

But we need to de-carbonize. If there's any industry that should get a pass on carbon emissions it's mining for industrial metals.
Linux isn't a product.

I would also assert this question would've been better asked scoped to non-OSS type products. You don't place ads or dragnet telemetry if you also don't care about whether people use your product or not.
The East Coast gets EF3 and EF4 tornadoes.
There's something very, very energising to me about a mob of people physically dealing with corrupt rulers. A sort of pure expression of democracy.
You know they'll give a low-tier samsung with physical buttons that barely passes for a smartphone and you'll complain in less than a week that you can't install work apps on your personal phone.
Deus Apparatus or the Modern God?
>This sort of statement is a bit out of touch if you ask me.

Just a bit? It's wildly out of touch, $300,000/year is literally the 95th percentile of income for families[1]. Dude called income that's more than 95 PERCENT of the population "a very reasonable amount for two typical people."

Fucking hell!

[1] https://dqydj.com/household-income-percentile-calculator/
In Russian, half the unnecessary syllables are just swallowed. Together with half the necessary ones. (Source: somebody who learned the language many years but never understood a native speaker speak)
Advice on how to manage a small technical team?
i manage a small team of engineers (2 frontends and 4 backends). we are about to start a large project that needs both frontend and backend development. i'm thinking about having the whole team work on the project and i'm wondering if that's a good idea (i'm thinking that sometimes more people make projects slower instead of faster). any experience doing something similar?
"Change Adoption Curve" - search for some images.

I talked with a few infra-ish people at Facebook once upon a time, and they described effectively a "Service Assassination Team". ImageResizer1.0, ImageResizer9000, they were an actual funded team to hunt down and destroy (and presumably help migrate) people using ImageResizer1.0 (or whatever).

It seemed that was a very forward-thinking way of looking at things to prevent an eventual "big-ball-of-mud" pile of services.

Either that, or Bezos's insight that internal teams should have an API-charge, and each team had a budget for requests between systems. If you're on ImageResizer1.0, and the costs go up 10x or 1000x, you're instantly motivated to go and search for the recommended new alternative, or eat the increased API cost (which can then be directed to the "Service Assassination Team...")
Could have a similar function to grace notes in music.
The alien-like creatures blanketing US beaches
Oh! That's easy, although a little uncomfortable for some people.

A program is safe if it remains well-behaved regardless of inputs. A safe language necessarily constructs such programs. It turns out Memory Safety is a necessary part of this.

The reason this is awkward is that it turns out that languages such as Go do not meet this requirement because they exhibit UB under some data races. There are three ways out of this, which are interesting to contemplate

1. No concurrency. Languages which simply don't have concurrency are fine in this respect, e.g. Python, as are (so long as you don't try to have concurrency) older versions of C and even C++ which simply decline to explain how concurrency is even possible - if you're using say POSIX threads from C89 that's a problem because in C89 concurrency doesn't exist so none of your programs have any meaning whatsoever even if they don't race...

2. Rust's trick, mutation XOR multiple references - you can't write a data race in (safe) Rust, so even though the language has concurrency it's fine, you can't trip yourself this way.

3. Java and OCaml's trick, survive despite loss of Sequential Consistency. The proof we have is SC/DRF - using this construction a program is Sequentially Consistent if it is Data Race Free, but if we can survive loss of Sequential Consistency then this proof isn't important. This is enormously difficult, like it's easily the sort of work that could earn you a PhD if you don't have one already. We also still don't know whether it's potentially worth it. For Java the answer was "No" but for OCaml it's too early to say.

Edited to add: Marked that just not having concurrency only avoids data races, it doesn't magically fix all the other problems C and C++ have for example.
This is extremely cool!

I've had an idea percolating in my mind for a while: Would it be possible to have VPN credentials stored in UEFI, and have a system reach out to a server for PXE network boot?

It seems like it would be a neat way of (securely?) allowing a remote system to automatically recover in the event of a nuked install that prevents proper bootup.
I have dumb phone for that. If they pressure me to install something on it, I just bring them that phone (with my real sim), and ask them how we shall proceed.
Missile Guidance and Control Systems
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Missile-Guidance-Control-Systems-Si...
I never seen an IRC server that only support SSL.... I don't use many networks nowadays though... I only know of one channel that supports encrypted DCC transfers though.
GitOps is just like "DevOps" -- you don't really know what it means to a specific org until you talk to them, because people interpret it differently based on their own understanding (or if they have a horse in this race).

To me it always means describing the desired state of your infra in structured data, storing that in git, and run controller to reconcile it against the actual infra.

If your GitOps engine has to compile/run the "code" to uncover the desired state, that defeats the purpose of GitOps and is no better than running your hand crafted release bash script in a CI/CD pipeline.

It should have never been called infra-as-code, but infra-as-data.

See "The Rendered Manifests Pattern": https://akuity.io/blog/the-rendered-manifests-pattern/
Not Android: they run their own OS, they've been around since forever (they predate both Chromecasts and Android TV), and according to Wikipedia they are the "leading streaming TV platform in the US in terms of market share. The Roku OS also holds a noticeable 30.5% share of the global TV streaming hours".

For a long, long time they used to be the "neutral" choice: while Amazon and Google were squabbling and removing each other's apps/products, Roku didn't have any beef with anybody and would therefore have the most complete selection of available streaming apps.
All the same "profit" arguments you're making against Telco's hold equally well against Starbucks or Home Depot or anyone else for that matter. Bad, risky investments are bad and risky no matter how much you try to subsidize them.

I agree that throwing tax money at corporations without clear deliverables is bad policy. It's also bad policy to waste taxpayer dollars building bridges to nowhere, which is precisely what broadband access in the middle of nowhere is.

Access to infrastructure makes places more desirable to live. It increases property values, which in turn encourage more development. I get it. I understand why local governments throw incentives to telcos to artificially make their cities more attractive and lucrative for business. It's not just telcos. We do it for sports stadiums, factories, movie productions. By and large, these policies end up being wealth transfers from the poor and middle class to wealthy people.
It was allegedly a front end for configuring traffic signals, allegedly to be used by the kind of Engineer (uppercase E) with licensure from the state.

It was actually just a Front. You'd buy it and then our support people (without said licensure), instead of supporting the software, would go out into the field and configure the things for you.
The only reason to give a damn about what you're working on is to make sure you're accumulating good bullet points for your resume.
Employers should:

- Offer people a cell phone stipend, which the employee may or may not accept.

or:

- Issue a security key.

We choose to go with "We are issuing you a security key, bbbbuuuttt you can choose instead to use your phone at your discretion."
I don't know whether to think this is awesome, or a horrifying demonstration of bloat in UEFI.
Strange. Letting a bad book give me negative feelings a second time feels masochistic.
The original goal wasn't to just build a car. lots of companies are doing that and the financial returns are limited. It would have been a poor investment for Apple.

Apple wanted to launch true self-driving transportation. That would have been revolutionary and when they started, many people thought that was a goal that could be realized in 5-10 years. Since then we have learned that self-driving and much more complex and harder to get right.

Apple seems to have tried some different approaches to the problem, but eventually they decided it was not worth pursuing and cancelled the project. It was inevitable that they would have to lay off some people with skills that could not translate to other products. What is amazing is that they seem to have been able to retain 70% of that team.
I mean, not really? Could argue that compile time is how long the "language" itself is being processed, and that's pretty slow in C++.
They are business partners with Google.
Enlighten us as to what the competing frameworks are then.
They were distant on market tier but most importantly on economies of scale. The Intel PC market grew exponentially.
Is this like CapRover, Coolify, Ploi.io, etc.?

If not, what is the difference?

My main "pain point" is the self-hosting aspect, I want to manage my servers from my own platform.
Straight out of "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown.
The translator gets translated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_the_N.H.K.

If you like anime dubs, especially the ones with the same two guys who voice the protagonists of _every_ Funimation dub, they're in the dub of NHK and it's pretty funny.
That sucks dude, I'm sorry.

I mean, I get it from the company's perspective. They have a product that serves video, you were building a thing that served video.

The thing that irks me is that since they build multiple operating systems and a wide range of software, literally anything you write and publish on the public internet is theirs simply because they will fire you and sue you into oblivion. Even if you _technically_ slip through a loop hole, they have more money and time than you do.

Stories like this remind me that I have to be careful about who I work for, the scope of that work, and where I publish it. Thankfully, I think I'm in the clear as long as I don't invent a thing that solves the traveling salesman problem.
Marked? I don't think that's how it works, but thanks for the sentiment.

Non-sequitor? The last comment is a literal quote from you, and an explanation about how it doesn't fit the charter that you agreed in the preceding comment.

You're offended when I explain the argument, and then when I don't, you say you don't get it.

/shrug

Look it's simple; Gaza is worse than Israel. Objectively. That doesn't mean Israel is a model of human morality. And I don't think anyone is claiming that. But let's not pretend it's the same as Gaza. Israeli troops aren't rolling in beheading children while dancing and posting videos, right? It's nowhere near, even if we take everything in this garbage hearsay article and multiply it by 1000, it's still better than Gaza.

There's nothing you can say other than, "Yeah, I shouldn't have made that comparison." Any other statement at this point just looks like you condone beheading children. How do you not see that that's what you implied unintentionally?

Hopefully that's not what you're condoning.
This but unironically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_the_N.H.K.
It can definitely be annoying, but there are ways to get similar benefits: note-taking

You may not record the call, but you may certainly take notes, and you can write the whole conversation down if you want, and you can use that in court
For context, this study was in 2022, this drug had received accelerated approval in 2021 and was fully approved by the FDA in 2023 for mismatch repair deficient endometrial cancer. (https://www.fda.gov/drugs/resources-information-approved-dru...).

It's awesome to see the amount of progress in cancer that deeper understanding of the disease is bringing. Identifying interventions that work in a subset of patients with specific mutations, targeting them specifically, using immunotherapies, all incredibly cool and impactful.
The worst downsides of social media weren't apparent or even necessarily occurring yet until we were well into it by more than just the first few years.
> The release tarball thing was just an added benefit to the attackers, but not critical. IMO.

What I mean is that Debian and Fedora presumably download the tarball and build from there, rather than cloning a repo and building from the repo.

If they did the latter, it would have been much more difficult to manipulate the build process to inject the backdoor that lived inside the testcase binaries, because that change to the build scripts would be out in the open.

But I could be mistaken...
> SGI had always been a dream company

It was a dream company for pretty much every siggraph person at that time. I was in grad school, eagerly awaiting a very popular 3-semester course in computer graphics. It had been devised and taught by a young promising professor who had published some pioneering siggraph papers. I signed up for the course. On the first day of class, the head of the department walked in and said the professor had been recruited by his dream company SGI for an ungodly sum of money to work on some Jewish director’s movie about a dinosaur themepark. I thought ok, whatever, someone else will teach the course. The bastards scrapped the entire 3 series computer graphics module because there wasn’t anyone else who could teach that. So we had to pick from one of the usual dumb options - databases, OS, Networks, Compilers. Since then I’ve always held a grudge against sgi.
Impressive! So cool
The convenient lie is papering over the blame where it squarely belonged.

Like many of my generation—Gen X—I was closely following the on-goings because it seemed so close (Berlin wall, Russia
seemed
like an ally; more
peace in our time); but in the end Arafat scuttled the deal because he did not want to compromise and give-up any part of Jerusalem.

“Arafat rejected Barak's offer and refused to make an immediate counter-offer.[100] He told President Clinton that, "the Arab leader who would surrender Jerusalem is not born yet.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasser_Arafat [1]
In my country, the party that proclaims the end of the world due to climate change (note how it is no longer just „global warming“) shut off the last remaining nuclear power plants, increasing lignite consumption.

Holding conflicting POVs at the same time is not a challenge for these people.
Misleading title, should mention that its a dataset of CUSTOM Usergenerated GPT's.
I've been to Louisville for work / vacation a bunch of times.

The "Van Winkle" stuff is not measurably better than the cheapest Knob Creek, IMO.
Idk. The protagonist might be kind of an incel, but the show does not frame that as healthy. My least favorite bit is that it's kind of about two people rescuing each other from mental illness, which is sweet when it happens but very unreliable and a recipe for instant heartbreak quicker than you can say "I lived off microwave noodles for a year"
That jellyfin is that nitpicky with a prerequisite just to get a music library to work is horrifying.
There's a whole host of similar solution in the local-first realm of software[1].

I'm biased but you should definitely try Triplit[2] if you want a super easy way to make real-time collaborative software that works seamlessly even when offline or on unreliable networks (like on mobile).

[1] https://localfirstweb.dev/
[2] https://triplit.dev
I built the best site out there for playing magic the gathering online. It's way better than any other available option.

I've never shared it with the magic community because I think wizards of the coast would just send me a cease and desist, so three years of work is just sitting idle.

I'm still not sure how I feel about it.
We don't need to go to the ocean for metals. There are new technologies that can recover metals much less destructively from "unconventional resources" that are already exposed or naturally exposed. And some of those mienral resources are ones that can create benefits to the planet, such as carbon dioxide removal. One example is a process using hyperaccumulator plants to draw up nickels from the soil, known as phytomining.

Full disclosure, I have been working for the last two years developing this technology, but combining enhanced weathering of olivine for carbon dioxide removal, with nickel phytomining in order to solve two problems at once. Leaving stealth finally after two years, look out next week for an announcement... Will post here.
Maybe it's not just that the merchants prefer high-spending customers, but that they're ok paying a little more for customers who have a lower chance of fraud, since they've passed through whatever hoops to have those special credit cards.
Get another job or use the money for counselling / therapy, your mental health is more important than the job.

Hell, maybe try work two jobs if you can!
> One thing the scientific community never got around to accepting themselves and admitting to the public is how much of the learning is trust-based rather than fact-based.

In the years I spent working with research scientists, I observed the exact opposite of this. They were acutely aware of this and it was a common topic of discussion. It's important to them because they need to be as aware of and to call out as many assumptions as possible.