skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Containers still need to run on some kind of VM. If you're a small shop and the VM is managed for you by the cloud provider - fair enough. But a lot of larger enterprises still run servers managed in-house that are based off a golden image that is pre-configured to include observability agents, security agents, stuff that reports to centralized inventory management, in-house certificate authorities, etc. If you're a developer who ships a container, and it's only exposed to the stuff in the in-house server once it gets to a staging/pre-production environment - then you're missing a big part of the actual production environment in your dev environment. Vagrant can be a good choice here, depending on how customized the production servers are.

Then there are plenty of cases where cloud servers are insufficient and your actual production environment includes on-prem hardware with more specialized setups, then the VM vs. container argument gets more murky.
Startup Comp?
Question from a noob. I have a pretty good understanding of comp packages for my startup. But, I've got a situation that I need advice on.

I've been communicating with this dev and he fully understands my idea. He says he wants nothing to do with a partnership. I understand, I've been burned too.

So, we agreed that I would license his code. It's a pretty significant licensing fee ay $30 per month per install then $10 per month maintenance. Good position to be in right? Yet he wants 20% of the company when I sell it. Is this typical?

I'd like to have an understanding of what the normal package for my first dev should be to be entirely fair in this particular situation.
About a year ago I had the same attitude to antibiotics as you, but a basic antibiotic prescription led me to develop a Clostridiodes difficile [0] infection. People need to be aware that C. diff is AWFUL, and can easily occur after antibiotic treatment. It's totally debilitating, can even kill you, and is difficult and expensive to treat, often recurring after treatment.

I'm very fortunate in having a daughter who's a doctor, but had to use a $5,000 antibiotic to get cured.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/cdiff/what-is.html
Jay from Learn Linux TV [0] had problems. I get a sense it's been rushed out. Might want to hold out for a minor release.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1KXeTd30KI&t=328s
Google is an AI first company

Google's future is strictly tied to its AI products

All AI is written with Python.

Google lays off all Python team.

Segmentation fault
That's entirely fair. I don't think I'd end up using the same setup as the author, but it definitely planted some ideas.
Germany probably? Impressum aka imprint.
> Google, Facebook, etc provide close to no customer support services and that we "users" have accepted this.

This is why I've always rejected the concept of vendor "ecosystems" and cloud-first SaaS solutions for my personal computing. I've also designed my life so it's not dependent on having uninterrupted access to Facebook or Gmail.
It's an awful book. In the scenario, the US does launch SLBMs from a submarine close to North Korea, and they hit in minutes. But for some reason the author thought that's is plausible that the US would also launch 50 land based ICBMs. Why?

The author's technical expertise is very limited. She thinks that satellites fall out of the sky if their electronics are destroyed by an EMP attack. There are many other mistakes, you are better off skipping this book.
For code, future is neither unknown nor certain - we often do have a valid, informed opinion about what kind of changes are likely (or even inevitable on a schedule) and what kind of changes are possible but unlikely.

For example, you may know for sure that some invariant is true in your market but not globally, so you know in advance that when(if!) your company expands, you'll need to change that thing in a specific way - but not in an arbitrary direction, that change is knowable even if you haven't yet spent the effort to know about its details.
One nice benefit for optical media is that it's hard read only by default. This makes it easy to ensure the install media does not get corrupted by overwrites or malware.
This is a weird case of yes to both...

Think of it this way, the yes man will enable the leader to drive the fully loaded truck at 100MPH even when the brakes are bad. The yes man also won't tell the leader they are rapidly approaching a cliff either.
Great, so we are back to passwords then
“Make the easy things easy and the hard things possible”
I blame the vague job descriptions. It is a bit like granting any application access to everything on the system. What could possibly go wrong?
A VPN isn't always an extra hop from a "hops in traceroute" perspective. It's very possible to get a shitty route from your ISP; e.g. if the best route goes through an ISP that your ISP has shitty peering with. You might get better latency via a VPN to a server inside the "best route ISP" network, because then your ISP _has_ to route your traffic through that peering exchange. I.e. the additional latency of doing the VPN stuff is still less than the additional latency of having a poor route.

Hops also aren't a particularly useful abstraction here. They don't align with latency very well; the only thing a hop implies is that a router has to get the packet and route it, but that's a huge variance in latency. A hop could take nanoseconds or it could take hundreds of milliseconds. The number of hops doesn't really imply anything useful about latency.

All that is to say that yes, I believe under some circumstances the VPN could give you lower latency (with a bunch of asterisks). One asterisk is that figuring out whether your peering is good or bad practically requires a network engineer to look at your routes, it's not an easy thing to figure out. A second is that those routes change frequently, so just because the VPN helps today does not mean that it will tomorrow or even for the next hour. A third is that these solutions are likely somewhat custom; each ISP or maybe even each network segment will have particular links that need to be avoided, which means each ISP/network segment will have particular IP ranges that "encourage" the correct routing. Figuring out which to use would be non-trivial.

In TLDR form, I think a network engineer willing to spend like 4 hours analyzing their network to set up a VPN that will shave 5-10ms off their latency to a particular game for a limited amount of time could probably do so. It's within the realm of possibility that some company is doing a Thousand Eyes-like thing and actually creating optimized VPNs with the same strategy. My suspicion, however, is that they just tell you to log in and try your latency on a bunch of servers til you find one that's lower (at the present moment) and then they hope you never check again.
I guess you know what was meant. Keeping the complex ecological circles at least somewhat intact and alive.
And unlike glaciers humans do have some options about what they do.
I'm not arguing against your premise because your conclusion - that you leave implied - doesn't follow from your premise. When your argument did follow from your premise, that "all the expensive parts" is solely in the clinical trial, I did argue against your premise.

What you actually wrote in your second comment doesn't effectively argue against my point. There's no point arguing your assertion that clinical trials are expensive, they are, what you needed to argue was that it means that pharma companies are more efficient at developing drugs.

It can even be true that clinical trials are more expensive and that most of the aggregate cost from failed drugs is due to those that fail late, as well as that public research is more efficient at developing drugs.

Why? Because the likelihood that a drug fails, late of early, is a function of the drug itself - we expect that any trial of the same drug would arrive at essentially the same result. Therefore, even if the total cost of failed drugs is concentrated in those that fail late, that cost mostly has to do with the initial drug design, and I've provided quantitative data on the success rate of academic drug design, which is comparable or better than private drug design.

Therefore, the evidence is that academia can actually design drugs that have a competitively low expected cost from late failure.

Market dynamics also support this : a major and growing portion of new drug approvals are exactly this : academia designs a drug that has a competitively low cost from late clinical trial failure, a biotech company buys the rights to it after academia makes a compelling case, the trials succeed, and the biotech company makes a large expected profit.

So, even if your hypothesis is that most of the cost is from drugs that fail do fail late, it doesn't challenge the idea that academia is good at discovering drugs, because the drugs academia discover aren't more likely to fail late, according to the data I found and provided.

Also, you have to show that the majority of cost is from drugs that fail late : that doesn't seem true at all. The total cost of all clinical trials in the US is around 7B$ a year (https://www.clinicalleader.com/doc/considerations-for-improv...). As you correctly imply, this is a cost that is borne in large majority by the private sector. However, the other costs that are borne almost exclusively by the public sector and that are a necessary additional cost to add to the cost of drug development, is fundamental research, which provides new targets and modalities that are a necessary precursor to drug research. That accounts for the majority of the NIH budget, which itself is only one of the institutions that funds such research, and amounts to 48B$.
Ah yeah, the most hyped device since the Game Boy selling out like the Wii U is the canonical definition of success.

Worse than that, even people who bought it aren't actually using it. No wonder why Meta's VR division operational losses are higher than their turnover…
SAT appears to be rather impervious to statistical methods because it is very non-linear and non-local (besides, of course, being NP-complete). Flip one single literal anywhere and poof!, your formula mght go from SAT to UNSAT, or vice versa, or you might enable a ton of simplifications, etc. So it might be very hard to train a network on such a riotous state space.

Additionally, in practice SAT solvers are also supposed to provide witnesses (i.e., a satisfying assignment or an unsatisfiability core) to back their verdicts, and that may be an ever taller order for ML.
To be fair, you've posted a toy example. Real games are often chains of dependent systems, and as complexity increases, clean threading opportunities decrease.

So, while yes it's nice in theory, in practice it often doesn't add as much performance as you'd expect.
Use the tech to speak and hide your real voice.
A good zach-like everyone should check out it "the signal state" on steam.

This game is great, but is geared more towards digital logic instead of coding.
Alright man. So was it a quip when you said “if _your_ not a native English speaker”? Ok then. Very funny, I get it now.
Yep, one of the biggest factors on political leanings between areas in the US (and one could argue globally) are where a person geographically lives along the urban-rural axis.
I really appreciate that DuckDuckGo has managed to get 2.5% of US search traffic. Frankly that is impressive. It now equals that of yahoo, while obviously a tiny fraction of the overall market it’s likely enough to sustain it

Regarding generative AI for search. Brave and Google already do this to a large extent. I don’t see myself switching.

That said, these AI models are far better when you’re looking for code and recipes, etc so perhaps I’m speaking too soon.
It could be that all reasoning displayed is showing existing information - so there would be no reasoning, but that aside, what I meant is being able to reason in any consistent way. Like a machine that only sometimes gets an addition right isn't really capable of addition.
Show HN: I made an app to help you explore your curiosities and scroll less
There are quite a few, at the top of my head: getinput.co, quillforms.com, heyform.net snoopforms.com
No. The foundation of why I dislike it is simple. If I own some data, then I get to dictate the terms of how that data is used. Period.

“Hustle culture types” is simply a little anecdote about the types that would look you in the eye and tell you they are entitled to disregard what I said above. They’ll usually wrap it in some altruistic bs to justify as well.
I'm thinking of Microsoft Accounts on PCs and how you need to know how to jump through hoops to avoid them at OOBE. And about how this is about AppleIDs and losing them - it's my understanding that Apple is less aggressive about AppleIDs than Microsoft is about Microsoft accounts, but also, TFA. Google has similar levels of fuckery especially if you're on Chromebooks but Google's sin is nonexistent customer support. I wouldn't want my most important email address to be tied to any of these three, although I speak as a gmail-using hypocrite who plans to change that soon.
It comes with Nouveau, but drivers and sofware from Nvidia is only installed manually after the fact.
There’s still arbitrage to be had - gains are often in percentage terms so when you downsize or move to a cheaper area you pocket the difference. You could also own more than one property, do sweat equity to increase value etc. I could go on.
About four hours of total content from 4GB is really nice. The cartridges seem to go for $25. This is a cool medium to explore. Gonna have to put me on one of these.
I hope they add that ability, I'm pretty fed up with onlyoffice and nextcloud office (collabora) frequently breaking and having terribly buggy/laggy UIs.
I've seen code all documented in Japanese with Japanese strings. I thought it looked awesome and wondered why people don't just write code in their own language - why nobody has bothered to create, say, Japanese JavaScript.

There are some non-English based programming languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_...
I believe -Og is only meaningful for gcc. IIRC it’s the same as O1 for clang.
Ubuntu is my first and last Linux distribution, which I have used for 16 years without discontinuation, since my early PhD days up to today.

The only change during the 16 years is that I switched from Ubuntu (with Gnome) to Xubuntu (with Xfce) [1], but I still call it Ubuntu. When people ask me about the difference between the two, I respond "color". I spend 90% of my time on the terminal, and I prefer the gray-blue style of Xfce and its lightness when I use the window system during the other 10%.

Before starting Linux, I had a very limited idea about what a computer is and how it works. An anecdote I often relate to my students is that I once copied the icon of an application (Turbo C) from one computer to another, believing that I could use the application on the second computer. Linux has taught me what a computer really is.

An "achievement" may be worth mentioning: in the past 16 years, essentially all my work as an applied mathematician has been typed under terminal using Vim, including papers, lecture notes, slides, programs, and particularly my 200-page PhD thesis in Chinese. It was not quite trivial to type Chinese in Vim --- think about it: how to get a Chinese inputting system that can work seamlessly with Vim's key bindings? Fcitx would not work (at least it was the case 13 years ago).

[1] Xubuntu 24.04 released! https://xubuntu.org/news/xubuntu-24-04-released
> By your own text your 6 year old phone (more than capable) "is far from great".

It's mostly far from great for design reasons than for performance reasons. I barely tolerate GitHub on my powerhouse of a desktop (I don't use it for any personal projects). If you want to download the repository to browse it locally, go for it.

Still curious what kind of phone you have since you didn't answer that, and I still browse GitHub (reading issues, discussions, and some code) daily on my 6 year old phone.
Another couple of games in the same vein are Human Resource Machine and its "sequel" Seven Billion Humans (by roughly the same people who gave us World of Goo many years ago).
Sounds fake. This ain’t Reddit.
Which books are they banning?
https://maps.app.goo.gl/e1M3USiv5Uay2t9UA
typical billing structure is time and materials or cofounder equity or sometimes stock options, this is not a structure i’ve seen before. note that the point of equity is long term retention (it has vest and cliff) - unclear if dev will be motivated here unless you have a very clear path to 100s of paid installs in <6 mos. and if so, it’s better for you to find the cash to pay them somewhere else (e.g. day job) and keep the revenue.
The most impressive part to me (having wintered for IceCube) is how well organised the stack is, and how reliable the in-ice hardware is.

The systems folks have had a decade to iron out most of the bugs and there are fairly tightly scoped teams that work on different components. The failure rate of the DOMs is extremely low for something that's deep in the ice and impossible to physically access. They were very well built and designed, but it helps having people on call 24/7.

All the telescopes here have some sort of data center. Icecube happens to have a lot more computers because of the sheer number of detectors, and a desire to filter data so that preliminary/candidate detections can be sent North as soon as possible. Though unlike the other installations, IceCube is far more sensitive to downtime.

The Event Horizon Telescope setup at SPT probably takes the crown for superlatives in terms of data rate, clock accuracy, etc.
The 'love it or leave it' crowd do seem to get upset when people move from one state to another
If 2ft from a 40" monitor is fine for your neck, again, glad it works for you. But ergonomics is about avoiding strain and injuries not the minimum your retina needs to distinguish letters on a screen.
It’s disappointing to see the US continuing to foster negligent driving attitudes by attributing blame to a brand name (Autopilot) instead of attributing blame where it belongs: inattentive drivers.

Regardless of what assistive driver tool is used, it doesn’t change the fact that the driver is the only human-thinking operator behind the wheel of a 2-4 ton vehicle. Sensors and cameras can fail. Software can crash. Humans are the only realistic failsafe right now for consumer driver assist.

Attempting to shift blame to a driver assist continues our decades-long path of refusing to admit that we have a careless and underskilled driver epidemic.
Why do you put it on the open internet if you don't want machines to find and read it?

ToS is nice but you can't expect that it applies - the user (of the machine doing the scraping) might be a child which makes the potential contract automatically void, for example. Also, there are people under jurisdictions where such things have no power, or that don't recognize your rights to the data.

And the whole thing of putting data out publicly and then just expecting machines to see the pile of data and go "oh so where do I sign the ToS?" is weird...

Just put it behind a rate limited API key...
Being able to reason, analyze, compose side-effects is important. I think people are still figuring out the right abstractions and ergonomics though - give it sometime. Effect systems are already more familiar than wrestling monad types.
I'm not following your argument at all. Yes, there are diminishing returns in science as in everything, but generally speaking, all other things being equal, the more resources you put into an endeavor, the more you get out of it.

One big example from recent years is AlphaFold, which required massive computation resources, and has since its release been an ongoing fountain of innovation for biomedical (and particularly pharmacological) application.
I wish the west was more open to elitist policy
Would there be any benefit to adding self-drive sensors and recording to a vehicle but not allow it control, then just record everything the car senses while being driven by the public. You'd then have a massive amount of data to feed into an expert system or similarly-constrained ML system. Take that data over a couple of years, across the world's drivers, and you'd have a lot of useful stuff.

The carmakers probably have something like this for training FSD but would having a lot more data help build a better self-drive?
tesladeaths.com has the total number of Tesla fatalities, from any cause, at 500.
AFAIK windows gets around this by having audio devices for the A2DP profile (ie. audio output only) and the HFP profile (ie. audio output and input) and having both be active at the same time. The A2DP device is set as the "default device" which means if you play spotify or whatever the audio goes through that and you hear high quality audio. The HFP device is set as the "default communications device", which is what apps like Teams or Zoom is supposed to use, and has shitty audio quality.

> It’s because of the limited bandwidth in Bluetooth that it has to lower the audio quality

It's not a bandwidth limitation. According to google A2DP supports up to 728kbit/s, but SBC (the default codec) only goes up to around 300. Clearly there's enough bandwidth for mid quality input and output streams.
First impressions of 24.04 desktop compared to 22.04 is that it feels more polished. A lot of apps on 22.04 had large windows around them taking up way to much vertical space by default.

The foundation is way better than any other OS, so if they just keep improving the UI/UX then it would be a dream to use.
Serious question- my understanding is that when Americans say "reproductive rights" that's a euphemism for easy access to elective abortions for unwanted pregnancies.

Compared to moving to a new state, wouldn't it be far easier to just use any of the available birth control methods? Take the pill, get the injection, get an IUD, use a Nuvaring, use condoms, etc.

The idea of moving to another state so that you can... not use birth control and instead just get abortions every time you get pregnant... seems unlikely to me?
Not just Ubuntu and Bluetooth; my Mac using USB to my conference speaker+mic shifts to much lower output quality when the mic turns on.
The article is not saying that Bevy does not parallelize but that the impredictability of parallelism (both in ordering and in timing) forces the developer to add enough dependency constraints that there is not much left to parallelize.
The updates at the end of the article are funny, it’s like “how can we change nothing but say that we held up our side of the deal”.

Update April 26 - 10 am BST:

Tarkov developers Battlestate Games have offered to give owners of the Edge of Darkness edition access to the new PvE mode for free, but only for six months, after which the mode will return to being exclusive to the $250 Unheard Edition.

Update April 27 - 1:15 pm BST:

After further backlash, Tarkov developers Battlestate Games have announced plans to give the PvE mode to owners of the Edge of Darkness edition when Tarkov exits beta and hits 1.0.
In my experience laptops from the competition are as durable when you pick up the professionnal line instead of the general consumers one. That will be Lenovo thinkpads, Dell latitude, HP elitebook, etc.
It's not just some dust
There's no way it's just some dust
It was just some dust
Mastodon forms new U.S. non-profit
Jail is not actually about rehabilitation. Its use is to separate criminals from law-abiding citizens in society. A drug user may have good intentions but they will more likely to involve themselves in crime to feed their addiction.