skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Going to blame sleep deprivation for that one. Took your comment to realize reflog wouldn't help.

To give a recent example, I was fixing a cryptographic function and had a bunch of constraints in my head. Dumped that into comments and didn't read them carefully enough the next morning. Immediately wrote a change that subtly broke one of those constraints. Having a restore point was helpful. Similarly, I can also say "this experiment I've been pursuing for a couple days went off-track, let's reset and take advantage of hindsight".

It's not something I use frequently, but it's convenient and free.
Sibling comment already said so, but I want to emphasize - this requires two run-throughs (at least).

When I was grading homework, it took about 5 hours a week per class per run through. They didn't pay me enough to make sense for it to be 10 hours.
Go (and erlang) don't really have async, in the same way. In both of these languages, every function has implicit async yield points (this is? was? actually problematic in go since a for loop with no function calls can? could in the past? lock up the CPU), but in any case it's not the same conversation as rust/c/c++/zig which have the form of async where you have to explicitly declare your yield points by nature of the effective lack of runtime, or python/js where the vm is not smart enough to put yield points in for you.
VLC vs. the App Stores
This is what we have in our MI300x box. 2x9754. Beast of a CPU. Intel has nothing even close.
Right now GCP and lambda cloud have almost no GPUs available. I would have done better on prem.
Yes, to some degree we're all responsible, but those with most of the power, siphoning money off the work of the less powerful, can reasonably be held most responsible, especially within a government infrastructure that establishes and enforces regulations.
Unless your spend is in the tens of millions a year, you don't generally build datacentres, you buy space in a colo.
I scrolled for a few minutes and realized I could replace probably this whole article with 300 lines of terraform and still pay less than $200/mo.
I tested it and it works as expected. Also fixed a few things and released a new version (so please upgrade if you already installed it `pipx upgrade browser-hub`). And here is an example config for Firefox: https://github.com/amirkarimi/browser-hub?tab=readme-ov-file...

Please don't forget that you first should create the profiles in Firefox, since it doesn't create them automatically.
Ok, maybe the as-of-2024 product is living up to the 2018-horizon expectations from 2017 (as long as your expectations were not at the high end of the range at the time).
> For instance in VSCode the unused-var-error has become a complete non-issue taken care of by autoformatting through the Zig language server by inserting or removing '_ = unused_var;' as needed.

this doesn't help anyone writing autogen code, though.
I kind of agree with the premise, which is essentially "don't overcomplicate things at the beginning" but the article seems to keep conflating requirements. Does your company have a 10-person devops team or are you a solo enterpreneur? Are you servicing 2 requests per second or do you need a 80-core, 128GB RAM box for hosting your service?

The reason many start with cloud is that most businesses quickly grow, or at least hope to quickly grow, to the point where they'll need it. Standardized cloud tooling helps onboard new developers more quickly. It drastically speeds up audits like SOC2 or ISO. Much easier scale-up/scale-down. etc etc

You also pretty quickly get to the point where your cloud costs are negligible compared to the rest of your business expenses. If you're employing 20 people and paying ~$200k/mo in salaries, is reducing your cloud bill of $2000 to $200 going to materially impact your business, especially given the opportunity cost of not doing other revenue-generating work?
Waymo and Cruise have failed to scale and it doesn't look like they ever will. It's difficult to find a single article with the full context, but around 2017 as Waymo started giving limited rides to the public, everyone though the problem had been solved. There was a flood of startups hoping to be a strong second mover in the space, and then basically nothing. Expectations have shifted over time, but 7 years later and there's been only small incremental progress.

> In any case, the Mercedes system is what's known as a conditionally autonomous system.

Yes, but it's significant progress if it reaches consumer hands. This sounds like the typical Waymo marketing of "you can't get to Level 4 through Level 3". I bought into this at one point, but Waymo and Cruise have demonstrated that going straight to Level 4 with $100k+ (probably much more than that) of sensors and corresponding maintenance doesn't scale.
>This does not mean that they were cruel, at all, but rather that they understood rising and killing animals as fundamental for their livelihood.

The banality of evil. Enron executives' behaviour was also fundamental to their livelihood.
This is really neat, I wonder how hard it would be to retool for Android camera controls.
There's an accessory for the iPhone to get physical camera controls, but it's thicc
Do they? Why?
Some editors are more equal than others.
I’m not unsympathetic to the thoughts behind this headline but I find the article not compelling.

I think that with modern tools running your own / or rented metal (collocated) is doable and could make sense, but the could solves so many things that you don’t need to be responsible for, you really have to have a clear (businesses)case why you should not start in the cloud or migrate away.

I’m rooting for 37signals, but I’m not sure their move away from the cloud (which I root for in particular) will be really that effective in the end, but I hope it will.
A lot of the "this has happened since the dawn of time" falls apart when you remember we have created in the past 30 years technologies that have never existed and are changing the nature of civilization.
Would that make this the Japanese Sword Fallacy Fallacy?
My personal opinion is that we bull-shitted ourselves into believing the slap-dash tech stack we created for internet facing applications is the greatest thing since sliced-bread. In the past, we developed software that was meant to be used by one person who used one pc which connected to one server and there was maybe three software vendors involved: the client OS, the software tool itself, and the server OS.

With internet facing applications, it is not uncommon to deal with open sourced software (with no vendor responsible for maintaining it), several APIs (each API may or may not have a vendor who can provide support), and security by duct-tape (we slap this security module on it and hope it stops most attacks). That is the complexity of modern applications has increased exponentially. To deal with this complexity, instead of a mechanism to pay/fund engineers to improve our tech stack. We magically hand wave these concerns away. My opinion is that those who can afford it and demand security will go full "zero trust" by using flashed EPROMS. Software will no longer be soft. Instead software will be flashed onto EPROM chips and only after they go through thorough testing against hacks, will they be deployed into production. When your company buys cyberinsurance, instead of a checklist of security best practices, your company will attest their software stack consists of EPROM chips that have been certified by CISA and the like.
Sorry. Life is short, and there are certain ideas that are simply not worthy of serious consideration, like whether the earth might be flat. All you have to do to see that you are wrong is to do a web search for "scientific inquiry into human fallibility". If you're not willing to put in even that minimal effort you are not worth engaging with.
AC definitionally has zero voltage 60 times a second, so when you try to "disconnect" by breaking the switch, the flowing electricity doesn't hold the switch closed. It's why when you look at relays they're rated for 12VDC or 120VAC (that and the commonality of house voltage and automotive voltage). I think the true values are probably a little higher in each, but you'd find that relays cannot break contact at 120VDC where they can at 120VAC.
College application essay to study paleontology writes itself
This is a great read:

http://www.digitiser2000.com/main-page/games-of-my-years-dig...
There's a certain value proposition to the cloud that I think the author is completely missing. Yes it is cheaper to run all this stuff yourself on a VPS but you still "pay" for those things with your time.

Right now I run a SaaS platform entirely in the cloud. I am fully aware I am paying more for a managed Postgres cluster versus spinning one up myself and I'm paying more for a managed docker service than I would if I just spun up some EC2's myself or went for a VPS.

But right now I'm also working on the project entirely solo so I have to be careful about what I commit my time to. Sure I could save some $$$ by managing my own infra but the time it would take to spin that up and maintain it will cut into the time I have to build new features for my app. I could hire a contractor to help me maintain that infra but then it goes from being the cheapest option to the most expensive option because I'm paying someone to help with it.

The cloud isn't cheaper than running your own infra, but it's sure as hell cheaper than running your own infra + paying someone to help you run it. Down the road when (hopefully) my company has more scale and we have dedicated folks for infrastructure, then I can start looking into lowering costs on the cloud side because those infra folks are gonna be working for me regardless of where I run the app, but for now when it's between doing it myself and hiring someone to help me, the value prop of a managed service is undeniable.
This reminds me of cliques. I give them the definition: insight everyone can recite but nobody can act upon.
$200/mo is the cost of like 1-4 developer hours/mo depending on where you are.
Why? Are there other human societies that have had internet and smartphones for two thousand years before it reached us?
The important distinction is that the Mercedes does not demand the driver be paying attention and ready to take over immediately if the car decides to pop out of self-driving mode. Tesla does not offer that.
US Senate renews FISA law moments after it expires
Yes, that sort of mirror-sampling would reduce variance. The problem is, though, you need to know all the uses of randomness in order to properly counterbalance them, and these systems are already enough of a pain to use.

(For example, if you have two, you can simply swap: but what about other biases? like if it's broken in half to assign to 2 grades. Or what about if there are three exams? And what about balance across other courses? if you want to do variance-reduction and tricks like antithetic sampling, you need to know all this in order to structure it properly - get it wrong, and you may make things worse.)

So that's why simple random shuffling would be preferred. It allows total ignorance of all other uses (past present and future), handles all ordering biases, and can be done independent in parallel across arbitrary sets of courses/exams/grades/students.
I guess it depends on where you are, because 12 year olds (and younger) certainly do things on their own around me. For example, they tend to meet up at the local ice cream place to hang out.
Even if you never use zig generics --if nothing else eliminating fucking spiral types is enough of a quality of life improvement alone that you should consider zig over C.

if you've never heard of them:

https://c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html

I'm not even sure if the faq is in jest or not.
Claims processing is working exactly as designed. Money comes in, it does not go out. If money goes out the process is optimized further.
I would love more graphic novel like storytelling.
The next evolution would be the text itself becomes another vector
for invoking the feeling of environment and so on.
If currently the story environment is about nature, trees, so the text would reflect that.

The following is too dynamic but it illustrates the possibilities.

Ira Glass on Storytelling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHc3s-MtoUc
https://predictablerevenue-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/customer...

Hope this is ok/helps ^
RSA-Based Dynamic Accumulator Without Hashing into Primes
That makes sense with yesterday's low interest rate and high VC investment, sure, and for startups that are VC funded so have cash to burn.

But we're entering leaner times. Many younger people haven't been through this before. Others may not remember. Investors are going to demand more responsible spending, and better balance books, sooner.

If you can start on a shoestring and hold on until you need to scale, you have an advantage in this market that you didn't have 5 years ago.

That and a lot of the cloud stuff comes with an inherent complexity. Architecting for cloud hosted K8 and various cloud services comes not only with a $$ cost but a software architecture complexity & labour overhead.

A single server can do a lot these days. Many many businesses think they need to scale out of the box a lot more than they do.
Right. You got my point though.
This is not unique to the US where MBAs / business-minded people are the driving factor for healthcare workers being overworked.

In Canada most fully-trained doctors are paid per patient (AKA fee-for-service)[1] and so there is a huge incentive to rush through as many patients in a day, which results in overwork for the residents (who are salaried) and nurses (also salaried), and no time for adequate education of medical students and residents.

[1] https://www.dr-bill.ca/blog/billing-tips/physician-payment-m...
I wouldn't be surprised. It's very natural. Probably not for that specific use case but if for some reason you are actually going through the list then it's natural
For sure. I also find I have to update my rubric to give more/less part marks, which also requires going back. It takes about 10-15 papers grades before things settle down.
Good grief, the problem of induction was solved by Karl Popper decades ago. Do people here really not know that?
Happy to onboard a startup like this and have them spend thousands of $ on me just on consulting on how to migrate to AWS/GCP/Azure without downtime.
I dunno ... been there done the startup thing.

Had we not gone with k8s and just gone with a vm -- even without docker compose -- but just a monolith we'd have been 1000% further along than when I left.

Even doing everything cloud native means learning how to package your stuff for that provider and go through their docs, learn their idosyncracies, etc.

BUT!!!!

Let's say you hire a kid whose been tinkering with servers in their room since they were teens and know their way around a Linux distro and can package python and run a proxy etc etc

There's a lot of compelling reason to simplify the tech stack and cloud/k8s/etc makes sense only when the scale requires it.

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That being said -- Hetzner is not the panacea its pricing might suggest. We run our self hosted gitlab on it and we've had 2-3 incidents in the last month that required them to either power cycle a machine or fix some networking thing etc etc. I kinda expected more. But it's hella cheap: where else will you find so much hardware for 200 a month.
Flagged because of the uninformative, sensationalist title? I didn't watch the video and I found the discussion enlightening.
Extremes choices are usually bad. Do nothing on Cloud, Do everything on Cloud... An ideal middleground is to do what you can with a VPS and offload things like Database (Supabase etc), emails to Cloud Providers. You can skip the VPS and go bare metal too if that's your expertise, but it's not for everyone. So, Stop doing (all managed) Cloud. Added bonus is you can shop for each category too and you aren't tied to one Cloud provider
> Bucking tradition, she didn't change her name when we got married,

Unless you were married earlier than the 90s, I wouldn't really call that "bucking tradition" any time from, say, the mid-90s onwards.

If you really want to buck tradition, then don't get married - just live together, and have kids :-)

(After all, there's nothing more traditional than marriage, is there?)
This isn’t fair at all.

Previous Twitter had just as much (if not more) political bias in their censorship decisions as Elon.
How is Waymo pricing compared to Uber or other ride share?

I originally thought autonomous cars would greatly reduce costs but considering the tens of billions dumped into these companies, they can't charge lower prices as they have to recoup investments.
I'm curious if anyone have tried to differentiate screen time, meaning the effect of using social/games on mobile vs using a desktop to study, a classic one, not a modern one...

Because generic screentime sound like the effect of walking around, observing just people walking in a good spring climate in nature vs some who only walk around in a battle zone, with mines and casual attacks here and there and heavy pollution.

Differentiate the screen alone by the content shown on it, it's a little bit a thing.
EXtreme Go Horse Methodology (XGH)
You will have down times no matter what. I've been surprised quite a free times about how well (in term of availability) a simple one with just a few nodes can perform.

Cloud is a scam in multiple dimensions:
- It's overpriced most of the time (I'm looking at you aws)
- It wastes you're brain cycle about their stupid proprietary stuff instead of focusing on real problems
- Makes you dependent on their bullshit
- There's probably more to add to the list.

Overall, I'm a strong believer of "Refrain from doing cloud) :)
Startups are about hype. Current hype is AI. Google’s CPU based AI training system, whose name I’m blanking on now, doesn’t out perform GPU on smaller loads. Can’t say, “This pen is worth paying $10k unless you include ‘with AI’”.
> Without FISA, the intelligence agencies have less oversight and fewer restrictions.

What restrictions are you talking about? Constitutional warrant requirement was sidestepped using this law and you are still cheering here.
A lot of people overestimate the effect of exercise on weight loss. Yeah, obviously you can but it takes A LOT of exercise to have it make a serious impact. A 5k run for most people is not even a Big Mac worth of calories, not a Big Mac Meal with fries and a Coke, just the sandwich.
It’s a risk. It’s not clear what will happen. Maybe one fork will win, or maybe the competing forks will come up with a common standard (like browsers).

An issue with databases is that unlike browsers, there’s not that much incentive to standardize, since most apps pick one and stick with it, and their users don’t care.
If you click on his LinkedIn and see his experience I think you can see why he thinks cloud isn't worth it in favor of running everything on a single server and saying things like don't worry about back ups. Being relatively new to the industry and never spending more then a year at a company you will never suffer the consequences of architecting something poorly.

Cloud or not, I think depends on your unique circumstances. Just becasue you can apt install everything once doesn't necessarily mean you should.
Zig elminates the pointer/array ambiguity issue that exists in C. It does increase the complexity of the language, but the safety you get out of it is very much worth it.
I still cannot compute evolution

Take chimps to humans : 6 millions years. 10 years to produce some offspring : that's only 600000 generations

To be a success, a mutation would be transmitted to an offspring, replace a large number of the existing population, and only then be followed by the next "worthy" mutation

I do not know how many mutations are required to transform a chimp into a humain

I guess the number are not working
> Are you aware the alternative is less oversight?

Yes, I am. That is in fact what I want.

> FISA protects Americans

No, it does not. At this time, the greatest threat to me (and other Americans) is in fact the glowies who want to use this sort of law to violate our civil liberties.
Wait, what?

You think it's good that China is harassing Chinese who have abandoned the Chinese nationality even in foreign countries and ignoring the laws of that country and their new nationality?

You think that's a good thing? You do know why normal countries don't extradite people to dictatorships, no? :)

Because an opinion shouldn't be a death sentence.
failed to scale? You can read their public operation plans which outline their plans to scale.
I do not believe that veganism can be criticized for a lack of empathy versus plants.

Even if we value identically plants and animals, plants are exploited in a much more benign way than animals.

In the past, there were many domestic animals which could be said to have lived quite a happy life for their kind, until the moment when they were slaughtered.

Nowadays, the vast majority of the domestic animals live in conditions that can be hardly named other than torture.

On the other hand, the cultivated plants do not really live in any worse way than in their wild state. The majority of the cultivated plants are either annual plants, which are killed a very short time before the moment when they would have died anyway, or they are perennial plants from which we take only their fruits, which have been developed by the plants especially for being taken by animals, as a payment for being aided in reproduction.

So without giving any preference to cultivated plants or domestic animals, the more ethical choice is to continue to exploit in the current way only the former.

I believe that in the future not even cultivating plants will be the most efficient way for producing food and other organic substances.

The most efficient way will be to use solar energy gathered by photovoltaic cells to capture carbon dioxide and dinitrogen and incorporate them in some simple organic molecule or molecules, perhaps glycine or a mixture of urea or ammonia with a simple carbohydrate or a short-chain fatty acid.

Whatever will be synthesized using solar energy, at a better efficiency than currently achieved by plants, will be used to feed some genetically engineered fungi (or parasitic plants, i.e. non-phototrophic plants), which will produce any kind of desired food or other useful complex organic substances. (A first step in this direction is shown by the recent news about strains of the Trichoderma fungus that have been genetically engineered to produce either whey protein or egg white protein, but in the future it should be possible to make for instance fungi able to grow fruiting bodies that are bananas or turkey thighs).
Almost, but the ZX80 was also using the Z80 CPU:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX80
My daily standup is run by the order my boss sees the participants in the JIRA board -- My first name starts with W, so I'm last in that list. Makes staying engaged the whole meeting hard...
correlation doesn't rule out causation and anecdotes should be heeded with caution.

to YC you are just another lotto ticket out of the thousands of founders, be very wary about divulging information such as finances or what works.

its akin to going to a hedge fund, letting them in on an edge you discovered, and expecting them to not trade on that information without you.
You think its a problem only in the US? Its a problem everywhere.
There are two different ways of approaching QM: the physicist's way and the computer scienctist's way. You were probably taught it the physicist's way, which is not wrong, but obscures the parts you need to know to understand the MWI. That part really is pretty simple. You should try again.
In case anyone is interested in how the author creates the illustrations, here's his video "My visualization tools (my Apply Keynote setup for visualizations and animations)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSPRxJLxIHA