skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fly uses Firecracker micro VMs rather than V8 isolates. Two of the engineers behind both services had a friendly discussion about it a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31759170
I totally agree with you. You should start a new library called Even Greater Tables.
Is it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30017204
Something I've been wondering about with the Ultra HDR format, is why did you add the Google GContainer? As far as I can tell, it doesn't do anything that the MPF part doesn't already.
docker swarm is also a decent solution if you do need to distribute some workloads, while still using a docker compose file with a few extra tweaks. I use this to distribute compute intensive jobs across a few servers and it pretty much just works at this scale. The sharp edges I've come across are related to differences between the compose file versions supported by compose and swarm. Swarm continues to use Compose file version 3 which was used by Compose V1 [1].

1: https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/stack-deploy/
You sound ~unhinged~ (edit: "unhappy" is more like what I was thinking; pardon the negativity) with this unprovoked rant about the reasons you assume people choose a technology.

It would be refreshing to me for someone to suggest we at least evaluate HTMX on a new project before going straight to the Next.js or Remix behemoths where we'll have 45min builds pulling in thousands of NPM dependencies over half a million files in node_modules.

Edit: I was also thinking it would be even more refreshing if people focused on web standards and asked whether or not they actually need a trendy framework.
You're totally right about Iran cuisine focusing more on rice dishes. Chinese fried rice is what you do with leftovers, not an entree, way back when, anyway. Still, don't let the focus on white rice stop you from trying a rice cooker out as a modern fusion food thing. They're plenty capable of cooking delicious dishes full of spices. I throw chicken and vegetables on top of rice, and throw in a bevy of spices to get something more than plain white rice.

Don't need a fancy rice cooker to try either, they've had decades to perfect them so a cheap one that's big enough is totally fine.
Not affiliated, just guessing.

This 5 seconds might be the warm start, not cold. I.e. they likely have a pool of autoscaled, multi tenant workers
I'm calling eBPF "kernel shaders" to confuse graphics, os and gpgpu people all at the same time.
I don't actually care for most of Earthsea. Some of the shorts are quite good, but it's definitely more old-school young adult focused.
> I expected more comments on the source’s biases,

Are ad-hominems generally acceptable here?
Congrats on shipping! We built something similar internally. Tweaking it for the right cost/availability/speed was interesting, but we now have it working to where workers are generally spun up from 0 faster than GitHub's own are.
You put me in an awkward position because I’m describing an observed trend of people I’ve known personally, and while I’ll call out flagrant malfeasance by name, I try to not just call people soft or incompetent by name without an adjacent example of serious wrongdoing.

I don’t think it takes hard hitting investigative journalism to find catastrophic fuckup after catastrophic fuckup among the elite in the last month alone.

That’s a Google search away, if your objection is made in good faith, Google it.
The Rise of the Remote Husband
How effective would it be to shove all of the swift/swiftui/OS-dev docs into vector store and RAG it with a LLM?
I’m pretty sure that if they’re using even remotely fast chargers, cleaning and inspection (and associated queuing) would take most of that time. I also suspect that most rental places aren’t so close to capacity that someone returning a car a few hours late would block a customer from pickup. There’s a certain amount of slack in the inventory.
Even older, Daisy Bell on an IBM 7094 from 1961: https://youtu.be/41U78QP8nBk?t=63
Last fall I hiked 500 miles of a Camino trail in Spain. It was a fantastic experience and really made me wish we had something similar in the U.S. This is a good start, though the trail itself is only half the picture. To replicate the Camino experience you also need the network of cheap hostels every ~10 miles and the community and safety aspects that, sadly, I suspect would be lacking in the U.S.
> It's like cgi

Right. Full of code injection vulnerabilities.
Their invasive dark side is directly triggered by fire.
Roblox executive says children making money on the platform is 'a gift'
> communism [is] obviously worse in my eyes due to

Death squads, Banana Republics, indefinite US embargo and coup attempts, Pinochet & the Chicago Boys, risking the US military invading you in order to avoid the Domino Effect.

> Speaking of alternative ideas..Chesterton was critical of both communism and capitalism.

Distributism as described in that article is socialism modeled on the ideal of the small-time craftsman or whatever of that time. That would probably be called naive by normal socialists (certainly by communists like Leninists) but it has some similarities with socialism. On the other hand it seems to outright reject anything like the modern capitalism that we are dealing with in the present.

> Regardless, I'm really interested in these kinds of niche ideas if anyone has others to share.

Riffs on socialism, an idea which is over two-hundred years old and has adherents all over the globe.

Fought against and repressed is not the same as niche.
Apocalypse Now is itself, a treatment of the Heart of Darkness published 1899.
I'm sure it happens. We get EV 'reviews' from time to time in some of the ev forums and reddits. I've noticed a common tendency to get this experience, then extrapolate it to the rest of the experiences as well. It isn't always a representative sample, though I understand why it happens.

But that's not why I mentioned Tesla. I mentioned them because there's so much weird industry caused complexity that they avoid. Need to charge the car you've just rented? Just find a supercharger and plug in. Not ideal necessarily, but at least it isn't hard.

Got a non-Tesla and need to use EVGo or EA? If you're lucky the card reader isn't broken. Then there's a decent chance it times out while communicating, because the order of events isn't intuitive for first timers. Cancelling the session at this point sometimes gets tricky too. Oh, and all of this is assuming the unit itself wasn't broken. If the card reader was broken, now you are downloading an app, tapping in card details, trying to figure out which stall to active, etc. And finally, you find out that the Bolt might require you to hold the cord just right for it to activate. EA used to have a whole video just on this detail. :facepalm

It can be a really terrible experience.
I was really looking forward to a discussion about beautiful wood tables. I should have known better
TBH, containers are the wrong way of doing things, but they are the least bad solution of shipping software that we currently have.
The C++ language standard is not a funny joke.
A product that's a violates my principles _is_ a problem.

More practically, being surveilled creates a data store about my life that can last forever, theoretically. It's hard to conceive how that could be used if (when) that data gets mishandled. Might as well not leave a trail.
Show HN: I made a surprisingly fun & enjoyable AI Art buying game
To keep busy over the weekend, I decided to build a small AI Art collection site .... and ended up building an amusingly enjoyable AI art buying web-game where you basically collect beautiful AI art using virtual (not real) dollars.

Enjoy => https://yoomter.com
We're both offering managed GitHub Actions runners - some of the differences include:

- Depot runners are hosted in AWS us-east-1, which has implications for network speed, cache speed, access to internet services, etc. (BuildJet is hosted in Europe - maybe Hetzner?)

- Also thanks to AWS: each runner has a dedicated public IP address, so you're not sharing any third-party rate limits (e.g. Docker Hub) with other users

- We have an option to deploy the runners in your own AWS account or VPC-peer with your VPC

- We're integrating Actions runners with the acceleration tech we've built for container builds, starting with distributed caching
I drive an EV and I’m still a bit unconvinced about renting one.

If my total expected mileage is practical without charging and I expect the car to start adequately charged, fine. It’s like a free tank of gas.

If not, I can’t charge at home. Charging at a hotel is a PITA. Charging first thing in the morning in cold weather without heated parking is slooooow even at a Supercharger.

And I really don’t want to deal with the utter mess of charger networks and their ridiculous membership cards.

And the usual rental model of strongly encouraging customers to return the car with a full tank of gas doesn’t really make sense for EVs.
The blog/website/whatever says what the hell are you trying to sell and why.

Clearly.
I've built my career on Apple platforms and honestly this is basically what people have said about it since the beginning.

I'll offer a counter and say that if you like the Apple ecosystem, there's never been a better time to get started. SwiftUI is an amazingly great way to build apps – and again, I've been doing this for a very long time so I'm speaking from experience here.

For smaller developers, the revenue share can be as low as 15%.

Also, for anyone weighing the decision keep in mind that while iOS may not represent the largest marketshare in the world, their users are well known to spend more money on the platform compared to other platforms.
i looked at dspy last week, and was trying to wrap my head around how it would be useful for a "fine tune" style use case - where i would want to give the base model more context vs use a vector DB and have the model put together a result.

could you give a high level way to think about how to use dspy for something like this?
Why is the NY Times afraid to namedrop XKCD :(
https://xkcd.com/2347/
I didn't actually work on the format, just happened to be on the same team. My guess would be that it's related to compatibility with the places the format need to render (android, chrome, photos) or possibly necessary to preserve edit metadata.
Nice, you combined some older established tech with some cool new stuff. Good to strike a balance instead of going full cargo cult.
Fisker Ocean 2.0 – 2 Little Too Late? [video]
No mention of actual bones anywhere. More stories of the city of gold than of these guys, which of course never existed. Hard evidence, please.
you still have to clean and process ready for next customer. adding 2 hours to other work may make it half a day
> When someone needs something composed, they don’t learn to write music…

Speak for yourself! There is only one thing that scares me more than composing music, and that’s paying somebody a few bucks in fiverr to do it for me.
Regarding “nanoplots”: they are essentially sparklines, aren’t they?
I use the PayPal Cashback Mastercard (2% back on everything, 3% back on PayPal purchases, no annual fee). It deposits the cash back into my PayPal account, but I'm also able to make card payments from my PayPal account, so I typically just redeem it every month and then immediately pay it back onto the card account before I pay the rest of the balance off normally.

I wonder if the Robinhood setup will allow making card payments from the brokerage account like that?

For the PayPal card, they honestly did get me to start clicking the PayPal checkout button on websites instead of the credit card button when they added the 3% back on those in 2022 (which incidentally made dispute resolution way easier once when I ordered from a no-name website that never shipped my order or responded to inquiries, since I was able to handle it via PayPal purchase protection rather than a credit card chargeback). Aside from that, I haven't been tempted to use any of PayPal's other services-- and Robinhood doesn't have a checkout system AFAIK, so they can't pull that one off.
I think the more appropriate comparison would be between a rule-based system and an LLM specifically built on clinical data, e.g. Gatortron (https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2203/2203.03540.pdf)
SWE-agent: A deep dive [video]
What structure and tempo can you realistically give to the MIT license?
In a word? GPLv3.
> Don’t ask. If you’re not one of the 5 or so people in the world who already know what this is, you don’t want or need to know.

The attitude rings true though. I am convinced that C++ is
proof that we have discovered alien technology, and it is awful.
It is not. It links to a lengthy StackOverflow thread about std::launder.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39382501/
Yeah Tesla preferred 60 Hertz
Was this article written by AI?

(The grammatical flaw in the headline is the only thing making me believe it might have been written by a human.)
I think swift 6 will be the version where this language finally exists, or will remain a niche for always, until it get replaced by another (hopefully open, hopefully truely cross-platform) tech.

Apple was a great place to start the language but its now completely really detrimental to it, largely due to its impact on the ecosystem (objc compatibility, xcode, focus on iOS only, etc).

I believe swift core team should now reorganize around a community of people working in various major companies, not just apple.
I didn't flag you, but I did think your comment felt like whataboutism. That's an accusation I've had leveled at me in the past, so I know how it feels and don't say it lightly, and I don't mean it in an accusing way.

At the end of the day, most arguments are not about factual disagreements. They are about, what is the most important consideration right now? And I would posit that the most important consideration right now is that we have automated killing that may rise to the level of what will someday be categorized as a war crime.

There are other tremendously important topics, like how have both Israelis and Palestinians suffered since the formation of the country, should there's be a ceasefire and/or a hostage release on both/either side, and many more incredibly important things.

We can't discuss them all at once, and I believe considering the impact of AI on warfare at scale needs a place to be discussed with as little distraction as possible.
Yeah that would be pretty amazing.
I think you are missing the most important effect of cold: more air density at terrain level, which creates way more drag on the car.
Nah, the velocibradfors can't reproduce. Everything is fine
I built my first iOS app in 2010. Today, it's fantastically easier to get started. A night and day comparison. My biggest piece of advice: pick something you're interested in, build it, see how it comes out, and then do it again. You'll learn way more with a project you're interested in to motivate you.
If we required that government invested in open-source to use it, the only thing that would happen is that projects would be outsourced to the private sector (either explicitly by the government tendoring, or implicitly by the government offering tax incentives to build the project), and the private sector wouldn't fund it.
question: RAG by definition offloads the retrieval to a vector similarity search via embeddings db (faiss, knn et al).

what is the preferred way to feed documents / knowledge into a model so that the primary retrieval is done by the llm, and perhaps use vector db only for information enhancement (a la onebox)?
A state of affairs totally unlike the ones we have in the West, to be sure.
Netplan 1.0 Is Ready to Go for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
I don't think you've checked those numbers. SSD access is in the order of 10-20 microseconds (10,000 - 20,000 ns) and memory bus access is ~10-15 nanoseconds.

Here's the comment I made a couple months ago when I looked up the numbers:

I keep hearing that, but that's simply not true. SSDs are fast, but they're several orders of magnitude slower than RAM, which is orders of magnitude slower than CPU Cache.

Samsung 990 Pro 2TB has a latency of 40 μs

DDR4-2133 with a CAS 15 has a latency of 14 nano seconds.

DDR4 latency is 0.035% of one of the fastest SSDs, or to put it another way, DDR4 is 2,857x faster than an SSD.

L1 cache is typically accessible in 4 clock cycles, in 4.8 ghz cpu like the i7-10700, L1 cache latency is sub 1ns.
As far as complicated features that very few people understand or use and that are hard to implement correctly in compilers, std::launder ranks pretty high.

Topping the list, for me, would be memory_order_consume. It's so complicated and for such a slight extremely technical memory ordering optimization, compilers have mostly given up hope of ever implementing it.

There was even talk of outright removing it from C++, but looks like it still stands today. I've never seen it used correctly (and even if it were, compilers just throw up their hands at it)
You can't clean the car while it's plugged in?
I first saw Alien with my roommate soon after we had both graduated from nautical school. We had a similar thought: the crew of the Nostromo were sailors. In their behavior, the things they talked and laughed and bitched about. Move the timeline back to late 20th century on a commercial oceangoing ship and they'd be right at home.
If we funded XMPP, we could fix the UX on XMPP, rather than reinventing the wheel with Matrix
They're all awful. The third party ones are data loggers ans require retraining your typing, and the first party auto correct is terrible on both (and slightly more terrible on Apple).

I disabled autocorrect years ago, and every time I use someone elses phone I can't understand how they function.
Agreed. Brevity is the soul of wit, and all that.
Yes. This was the policy I saw when I considered renting an EV in Phoenix. We were only going to be there for 27 hours and our hotel did not have its Level 2 charger operational yet, so we opted for a gas car instead.
Remember when he said your Model 3 can act like a robotaxi and earn you money? Pepridge farm remembers.
No, it's born out of Element not funding Matrix, and Matrix being desparate for funding.
if i understand the problem correctly - you'd like to feed xMM documents directly into an LLM so that it uses this context to "reason" answers to questions, vs offload the retrieval to a vector db and merely assemble results into an "answer"?

and since your dataset is large, the longest context windows are insufficient.
It is not about charger coverage. When I have a 7:00 flight after an all day meeting I don't want to or can't budget the time required to fully charge an EV on my way to the airport. It's all about time.
Menacing Hawaii ? =! Large U.S. Military installations on Hawaii
Pumped hydro is great, but only in certain areas where you already have the elevation gain available.

Compressed air storage is another one that's pretty good, but it's only particularly good if you can store it in underground caverns or unused mines, so it's also geography dependent.

For longer term storage, producing hydrogen can be a good one.

And batteries are actually fast becoming competitive with some of these options from the other end, generally better for shorter term storage but getting better at longer term. Even shorter term, flywheels can be a good option.

There's room for several different types of grid-scale energy storage, based on how efficient they are at different energy storage periods and numbers of charge-discharge cycles, and also in some cases on local conditions, like the availability of terrain and water sources for pumped hydro.

There's a good paper here which shows what the most efficient energy storage systems are for various combinations of length of storage (hours per discharge) against number of discharges per year, and for each one shows the current cost, and a predicted cost based on trends in technological advancements: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S254243511...

There's a lot of the chart that is dominated by pumped hydro currently, but plenty of other storage technologies that are more cost effective on different timescales and numbers of discharges. But it looks like it's predicted for prices of battery storage and hydrogen storage to fall relative to the others, causing a different predicted landscape in 20 years.

And some of these, like pumped hydro, are dependent on geographic features, or access to certain resources, so even when one dominates overall, there can be others that dominate in particular geographical regions.
TikTok's Strategy: A Guide for Digital Business Success
This is my first fully functional SaaS project. I'd love to get feedback on how I can improve it.
There is voice control.

https://www.tesla.com/support/voice-commands
But you can't make it creative. You can't say "give me something cool" and have it produce something of note.
It's a strange sort of gift where the giver profits by it.

Roblox arguing that it's not exploitative is a reasonable thing (I don't agree, but it's not a ridiculous argument). Arguing that it's a "gift" when they're taking a 75% cut is just offensive.
Dark energy might not be constant after all
I'm working on something similar, and the crux of that issue is configurability vs automation. I.e. it's very easy to make backups for a system that users can't configure at all. You just ship the image with some rsync commands or something and done.

Once you start letting people edit the config files, you get into a spot where now you basically need to be able to parse the config files to read file paths. That often means making version-specific parsers for configuration options that are introduced or removed in some versions, or have differing defaults (i.e. in 1.2 if they don't set "storage_path" it's at /x/, but in 1.3 if they don't set it, it defaults to /y/).

That gets to be a lot of work.

Then it gets even worse when the users can edit the Docker config for the images, because all bets are off at that point. The user could do all kinds of weird, fucky shit that infinitely loops naive backup scripts because of host volume mounts or have one of the mounts actually be part of NFS mount on the host with like 200ms of latency so backups just hang for forever and etc.

It's just begging for an infinite series of bugs from people who did something weird with their config and ended up backing up their whole drive instead of the Docker folder, or removing their whole root drive because they mount their host FS root in the backups folder and it got deleted by the "old backup cleanup" script, or who knows what.

At some point, it's easier to just make your own setup where you define the limitations of that setup than it is to use someone else's setup but have to find the limitations on your own.
I've been with LW people for years and no one has ever mentioned Roko's Basilisk.
Out of curiosity, what leads you to train models from the ground up rather than fine tuning existing models?
As I understand, they do use computer vision, but the 1000 people are just either reviewing it or labelling the data for computer vision. Which seems like a normal way to me to start with a system like that. You definitely need to review it for a while to be certain of its quality and understand the edge cases which I'm sure there would've been many of.

E.g. the way I imagine it to be is that this CV system will attempt to identify the item and confidence that it is that item. If the confidence is too low, it will trigger a signal for human feedback, then human will either confirm or reject.
I'm not delusional there are quite a few better programmers out there, but I know I'm in the upper ranks within my field worldwide. I hired plenty of people both as developers for me as for other companies I worked at. There were a few people that really blew me away, but usually I was just glad to find somebody near my capabilities.

At one company they gave me a "PR from a junior member" to review. I thought it was great. You were challenged to both find issues but also how to communicate them in a constructive way.