skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would they know if they did? This is the problem. The human wouldn't be "outperforming" anything or anyone. The human would be operating a tool that had mysterious behavior that this operator would not be qualified to evaluate.

The human would neither be a part of the performance equation, nor a part of the evaluation equation. But, if this person is the only human in the loop, then he may be the only person who could be held directly accountable for the failures of this system.

It's not "years of experience," but rather competence that matters. In the movie The Sand Pebbles, Steve Macqueen's character is an American naval machinist who confronts a ship maintained by untrained Chinese contractors who have let the engine deteriorate. It's not AI, but adherence to rote learning that motivates the contractors, but the principle is the same. He sets about teaching one of them how to reason about the engine, which causes social unrest on the ship.

I read an article many years ago that I can't find now. In it, a Space Shuttle pilot describes how the Shuttle is easy to fly-- unless something goes wrong. All the training is about what do do when things go wrong.

We must ask, when things go wrong, what then? Who is reponsible? Or is this a world now where we expect no one to know what the hell they are doing, no one is punished, and we passively turn society over to... something... we don't even know what?
This is about Low-rank adaptation. Not to be confused with LoRa the long range proprietary radio communication technique, which hopefully doesn't learn at all.
Ah, I'm using a set instead of list so I just always add and then toss remove.
We have a small, >4mi/kWh EV, the heating / cooking is all electric, and the house is small and extremely energy efficient by US standards.

Our panels produce 2000-3000 kWh per month in the summer, which is when we actually hit 2MWh of usage.
Reminded of that time I tried to sneak this ternary delight into FreeBSD src:

if ((Lflag ? chown : lchown)(p->fts_accpath, s->st_uid, -1))
(void)printf(" not modified: %s\n",
strerror(errno));

which relies on the function prototypes of the chown(2) and lchown(2) syscalls being otherwise identical.
Content like this is aimed at:

- New FreeBSD users

- People who find themselves in a FreeBSD environment but just want to get VS Code up and running vs. learning the particulars of the OS

The simplicity here also highlights that you don’t need to do anything weird or special to use VS Code in FreeBSD.
It is baffling to me that insurance isn't available for this. This is exactly the kind of situation that insurance exists for. There should be someone willing to underwrite it.
Isn't this technically a form of token bucket?
Thunderbird supports using TLS client certificates or Kerberos as alternatives to a password for IMAP access.

When you do choose to store a password locally, it's stored encrypted using a second password of your choice.

Since the end result of an OAuth login is a "token" (password...) stored on your machine, I think the difference is pretty marginal either way. But I do hear they're working on OAuth-for-IMAP support. If it were more standardized they probably would have implemented it sooner.
I notice that some people here say "vaccine" and some say "antibiotic" those are very different, as different as like bicycle versus jet liner. Is it a vaccine or an antibiotic?

There are often EU rules against antibiotics in foods because those antibiotics end up inside the humans eating the food which is unnecessary risk (if the humans need antibiotics we'll prescribe them thanks), and sometimes because this is a sign that you're probably not treating whatever it is that's full of antibiotics very well, that's why it needed antibiotics - so stop doing that.
Its a great question-- our developers had never used it before and found it counterintuitive and hard to find good information on how to use. Projects are under time pressure so it's hard sometimes to have the mental space to properly grok a new framework, especially if its quite different.

I'm sure it works well for Google.

Also the support tools are lacking generally compared to say JSON or SQL or Python or any other technology.

Bugs were hard to diagnose-- I'm assuming if you were a grpc pro this would be ok.
SHEIN is more like Urban Outfitters with the TikTok trendy throttle turned up to 10. Everything is obscenely cheap and not intended to be worn more than 5-10 times and sold for more than a season.
How is marijuana use “logical and right?” It serves no logical function other than dulling your ability to perform your social obligations. Legalizing marijuana is actually an example of politicians following public opinion that’s wrong and illogical.
What is happening since AFB vaccine was allowed, has there been any push to actually start using it? https://www.labiotech.eu/in-depth/vaccine-honeybees-american...
This is perhaps the most practically useful thing to come out of academia since the technology that allowed for the leaf blower.

They're the worst. A noise pollution posterchild.
This is "Low-Rank Adaptation", "a widely-used parameter-efficient finetuning method for large language models."

Not to be confused with LoRa ("long range") [1], an Internet of Things radio technology.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoRa
I don't, but I'm doing something similar, and I've been using this video [1] about axum as a guide. My thinking is that I'll write something similar, but instead of kicking off a task when a request comes in I'll kick them off on a schedule.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnb_n5YktO8
I don’t think it’s very narrow to note that the Pyramid of the Sun was built with stones that a single man can carry on his own. It’s impressive at half the size of the largest Egyptian pyramids, but it doesn’t really raise the question of how. They just got a lot of people to carry a lot of stones, maybe using carts or something.

The Egyptian pyramids easily make one wonder “How did people move such large stones?” I could never move those with strength alone. Some form of technology / leverage / something was needed for the Egyptian pyramids which wasn’t needed for the American ones.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Comparis...
Nobel Laureate Alice Munro on the Secret of a Great Story (2013)
Leaf blowers are probably one of the most annoying inventions ever.
Almost certainly--judging by their submission timestamps, they appear to never sleep. I guess you can farm a lot of karma by just re-posting old popular posts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvmgdJQi5cA
There was an increase if you read the article

> In 2020, for example, the U.S. murder rate saw its largest single-year increase on record – and by 2022, it remained considerably higher than before the coronavirus pandemic. Preliminary data for 2023, however, suggests that the murder rate fell substantially last year.

Just because the rate is lower then 30 years ago doesn't mean it is not higher then 5 years ago.

There is also a lot of people who believe certain crimes are just not being reported, like property theft.
Only if those are available. €1/km is way more than I pay for car ownership including all those costs, but even if it wasn't it would be economically unsustainable to provide such a service which would always be available
One use-case that other systems support is doing queries with a time budget..Eg find me all columns that match a search within 50ms.

Not sure now to do that with postgres.
I'm a student in college studying cybersecurity but I have an interest in computer engineering.

I also have an interest in energetics. Florine is one of those chemicals you just got to respect. I know HF is used in the photoresist etch, and I'm interested in doing my own chip design. I realized that if I ever spilled HF on my, and the calcium cream didn't work, I'm better of just dying to anything other than HF. Iv heard its horrific to get on you in concentrated doses.

The price we pay for the small feature sizes on the wafer, and the increased density, in paid for in the usage of harsh chemicals.
> ...but the benefits are nowhere to be found.

I disagree pretty strongly:

- Loads of companies now have tools for getting copies of all the personal data they hold on you e.g. google takeout, which is a direct consequence of GDPR.

- Companies are punished for improper handling of personal data e.g. data breaches (though you could definitely argue that more should be done here)

- The US government's lacklustre approach to data privacy has been repeatedly laid bare (https://www.gdprsummary.com/schrems-ii/), leading to better data residency practices e.g. many services now have a "store data in the EU" option

Not to say there aren't a lot of dodgy things happening in the data collection world, but to say the benefits are "nowhere to be found" is an exaggeration.
Bend: a high-level language that runs on GPUs (via HVM2)
Beating up on qsort with radix sort
I think you would find a significant population on HN that would agree with the comment I quoted. I don't fault them, that's just how some brains are built and operate (we are all wired differently), either due to a libertarian model or autism/neurodiversity (which also inherently optimizes for software dev and engineering aptitude). I just wish these folks, before doing something like this, would ask someone: "Hey! I have this belief, and I want to work on this. Is there any potential harm by doing so? What does the risk calculation look like?" instead of "Imma throw this out into the world and Imma be fine." You might not be fine! And imho, we'd all be better off if you were fine vs going to prison, at least in this context.
Lotta the honey bees we're using these days have genetics from Ukraine/Russia as they were found to be excessively mite resistant. The breeding program for mine (Saskatraz) is in Saskatchewan, partially selecting for cold resistant behavior. Meanwhile your honey quality has a lot to do with the local ecology and the weather.

Its interesting NZ is able to have a reputation like that, but I think honey is the exact opposite of specific regionalism like "Champaign from Chapagnia". Quite sure you can drive through all 50 states and find a local beekeepers with good, interesting and organic honey.
Oh, I was looking at the blog site but assumed it’s the main page because I got there by clicking the logo and it had buttons like “download thunderbird”… my bad
You don't need all that much to ensure integrity in a brand-new system without decades of legacy. I mean, still non-trivial, getting that "not much" right is a professional cryptographer's job, but you don't need all that much.

Getting it right in a system the size of the world with decades of legacy in an environment where right up until DKIM came out pretty much every player in the system expected and used the ability to make arbitrary modifications to emails passing through it is really hard. It makes even the simplest thing takes decades.

Unfortunately, there isn't going to be a replacement to email either, because at this point anyone with the resources to pull it off will also insist on making it a closed box that you have to pay way, way too much to use.
That head looks quite a big larger and more obtrusive. If I really cared about interior aesthetics i’d hate it
I can't think of a great application either. Maybe if you want to map camera movements when converting an animated scene from 2d to 3d. It'd probably be easier just to start from scratch though. Simple polygons with a toon shader would work for simpsons and family guy im sure.
You missed basically all of the practical details of sending and receiving mail. The people who wrote these RFCs and mail systems have been doing this for decades and have the experience to avoid the "why don't we simply [[wave arms]]" traps.

The reason that DKIM signs only enumerated headers is because mailers add more headers as the message is in transit, and there is no way to sign those.
I'm not sure what you mean, I just added a new Gmail account to test and it went through the normal OAuth flow. I didn't have to enter any password into Thunderbird itself, just the Gmail OAuth popup.
You're not the target demographic for strict RTO policies. It's clear at this point that most manages and execs above line managers are fulfilled by the sight of workers scurrying, logic, economics and humanity be damned.
So why did you choose to use grpc if you were just going to have to convert it?
This made me realize that I don't mind humor in HN comments when they're genuinely clever.

This is opposed to what you often see on Reddit where the "funny" comments are just chains of some meme/common phrase and display no ingenuity (though, to be fair, I did once find those comments funny).
I, at one point like most people in tech thought being a farmer sounded good. In reality its very very hard and stories like these make me realize how lucky I am to get a good salary for essentially sitting in my office writing words in an IDE before calling it a day at 5pm.
Can someone explain why it's going to take 2 years to bring a piece of plastic to the market?
Diffusion of risk does not make it go away, and that diffusion is not what makes insurance profitable. You can insure things like 'hole in one' prize money on an individual basis - it's up to the insurer to set the price and they can and frequently do one-offs. Astute insurers would see the proliferation of hives as an insurance risk and up their rates accordingly which would result in more Beekeepers dropping out of the market. At which time they will likely complain to the government about insurers putting them out of business. I should point out that they could likely have bought insurance for their exact circumstance but they also likely would not have liked the price. In effect they're generally asking for cheap insurance - which is like asking for free money.

As best I can tell the failures of the markets in flood insurance are the results of government interventions.
This is a silly thread, beginners don’t even know the terminal exists, and 99% don’t need to.

The situation is the same in Windows, though they might have a few more duplicated GUIs, they don’t solve the long tail of troubleshooting. You can also use a Mac Keyboard with Linux.

It doesn’t make any sense to remove terminals either, when available and tiny in resource use. Use an OS modeled on the original Mac OS if you want to be prevented from seeing a terminal.

Utopia never existed in the computing world. But the war on general purpose computing sure has. Soon there will be no place to turn for an experienced user who is not a slave to bigcorp interests. Unfortunately the bondage you recommend leads here, they are now coupled.
Unfortunately, you can't prove the program did not work.

If I purchase a can of alligator repellent spray, and after using it I am attacked by one alligator, that isn't proof the spray failed. If I were to have failed to use the spray, it's possible I would have been attacked by FOUR alligators.

In other words, absent an experiment with a control you can't draw conclusions about the success or failure of a dissuasionary program because you don't know how many things were dissuaded.
I am sure the Americans spent much energy and money to shape the public opinion in Germany to serve their interests.
> Folks here that typically have no idea about business will likely complain that it's just yet another copycat selling fast fashion, without any knowledge about how it's hard to run the kind of operation that they do and how much logistics they are doing, nor don't understand D2C.

Unless there are network effects or high barriers to entry that allow Shein to extract high profit margins at scale, then they are not comparable to a “tech” company.

The article says they have 4.4% profit margin, which means they are in line with existing clothing retailers. They might take business away from their competitors with lower pricing, but their potential seems capped.
> That's dumb. Like saying a car isn't a replacement for a horse because it can't jump over hedges.

A car is not a replacement for a horse, it's a replacement for what was the most common use case of the horse, getting from A->B in a developed environment. There are still (limited) applications where a horse is the best or only transportation option.

A pocket knife is not a replacement for a multitool, even if the multitool blade gets used more than any other feature. People use multitools because they want something that can solve multiple problems with a single tool. The greatest feature and the reason people reach for ffmpeg is that it's extremely versatile. If you get rid of that versatility, it's not a replacement for ffmpeg.
What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
> As a college student

"No man is an island." You're part of a monied collective. If not your family, the institution could foot the bill. Or, perhaps, your State. You are surrounded by and buoyed up on a current of wealth. It's not in your debit card, so what? Everything in your life is being paid for by someone.
I think there are legitimate use cases -- the main one that comes to mind is replacing the police helicopter "eye in the sky" with a fleet of drones. Cheaper, less personnel involved, and far less intrusive for everyone around it. I'm guessing that will be one of the uses, but they're also likely adopt from military tactics (don't cops love pretending they're soldiers?) and use drones as overwatch at "active scenes".

In my experience, flying a drone in urban environments is a complicated endeavour. Launching them off rooftops makes a lot of sense as it removes a lot of the LOS obstacles, but you have to stay high -- they won't be peeking into windows or chasing you down alleyways. Manhattan (and any area with tall buildings / skyscrapers) would be a no-go zone.

It will be interesting to see how quickly these get lost or stolen, or knocked out of the sky with basic countermeasures.
I used to fake a lot of ids back in the day. Mostly so I could buy beer, sometimes so I could take the ACT for people (in exchange for beer, something about taking a friend's money felt dishonest). Selling them as collectors' items... thats a new one.
As a counterpoint to the horror stories, I've had a few relatively good experiences with protocol buffers (not gRPC). On one project, we had messages that needed to be used across multiple applications, on a microcontroller, on an SBC running Python, in an Android app, in a web service, and on web UI frontend. Being able to update a message definition in one place, and have it spit out updated code in half a dozen languages while allowing for incremental rollout to the various pieces was very handy.

Sure - it wasn't all guns and roses, but overall it rocked.
Adding ~1K words of "I agree with X...Y is a good point...Z is really interesting...I didn't know W..." to my comment felt like a poor use of time.
The only things stopping the NYPD from sending an officer to any location in the city within ~90 seconds are their own cowardice and laziness.

The NYPD has an incredible level of capability to do things. They just don't think your life (or your stuff) is worth using it.

Also, the NYPD's average response time is now over 15 minutes.
Remember, Anger Leaves a Lasting Mark
> To conform with a privacy law I’m building a sophisticated filter for finding personal data I don’t even want.

...and then presumably deleting it, as required by the law if there is no business or technical reason for having the personal data. That seems like a pretty good pro-privacy move, vs leaving that data hanging around forever.
The Connect RPC protocol is pretty much that: https://connectrpc.com/docs/protocol
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The country that became Russia, which is a huge proponent of nuclear power...?
oooh noooo

marmite?
From memory marmite is quite a bit sweeter than vegemite.
I suspect this will not work
I'm not a native English speaker so some nuances are lost. But I can concede that he does have something you could call evidence, for his conjectures.

Will you concede that he has no proof, only conjectures and that big archelogy are not out to get him? I'll leave this for your viewing pleasure, let me know what you think. https://youtu.be/IeIj_rNYhCU
Direct link to noise comparison in the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISgHpUDeLBw&t=64s
I guess it makes sense all these free platforms and social media see another source for revenue by selling off everything they can.
Insurance appears available, at least on paper; someone elsewhere in the thread linked https://aon.co.nz/agri-business/bee-insurance
> we are even building HVDC “corridors” embedded inside some of the sync grids

We also have that here in Brazil; the Xingu-Estreito and Xingu-Terminal Rio HVDC links run in parallel with the high-voltage AC links. On the other hand, the Madeira HVDC link (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Madeira_HVDC_system) is AFAIK normally disconnected from the AC grid on the generation end (it has a direct connection, probably used to start up the power plants, but normally uses a back-to-back HVDC converter instead of it).
Isn’t this fairly obvious after a two second glance at the abstract
> It just irked me

Famous last words here
Ask HN: Best way to get hands on large scale system design exp
Hi HN,

I’ve been in the industry for some time and unfortunately the reality is because I haven’t worked for companies with millions/billions of active users, I don’t have hands on experience designing those systems. I can pass system design interviews usually that are related to that but I believe that’s only because the lack of time takes away priority from an actual, practical, real, scaling plan.

I’d like to be more confident in my system design not just for interviews but because I’d like to actually be prepared to design a system to serve millions of active users. I’d like to have the experience to say with assurance what services I would use, what common challenges are, etc. I really want hands on experience versus purely theoretical.

My first thought goes to designing a system and using simulations/stress testers but I feel that could get really pricey.

Are there services or resources out there to help? What is your advice for me? Are there internships working on these sorts of systems for engineers who have been in the game for a while? Also would love any book/reading resources to expand my knowledge.
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Lower cost of components doesn't mean lower quality. What made the cost lower is logistics and the availability of components within the region.