skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I put this in a different comment but you can also have a single automation that toggles the setting for those apps on open and close. This way you have a single list of apps to maintain.
It’s interesting that there are an infinite number of things to prove, but the search for which ones are interesting requires understanding.
The alternatives are also carbon free, which is the point of the parent post.

The comparison is between this and carbon free solar-thermal for energy storage. Saying it doesnt have to be cheaper than solar-thermal simply isnt true.
We do not currently have this problem with donor organs as it requires a lot of specialized skill to achieve them. So this would only be a problem if anyone could casually transplant themselves into your body.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40440520
>I think the call is for companies to be less psychopathic and stop onboarding people within 90 days of mass layoffs.

Was there any indication that the "mass layoffs" were planned 90 days in advance?
The pattern is for private equity funds to purchase controlling interests in companies for a short time, then load them up with debt, strip them of their assets, extract exorbitant fees, and sell them at a profit — implementing drastic cost-cutting measures at the expense of workers, consumers, communities, and taxpayers.

Private equity vampires are what broke Red Lobster. Endless shrimp was just one silly decision.
Yes but then people argued it's about these websites being bad. Turns out it's just about money, considering Cloudflare has no problem with CP or other website calling for violence and celebrating it.
You’re moving your own goal posts. There are different kinds of stealing even when only humans are doing all the stealing. It seems really funny to try to argue that all art is stolen, and that AI is not stealing, in the same breath.

> I don't think training is photocopying, and I don't think it's breaking copyright.

That’s a head in the sand position to take. There are thousands of examples, and dozens of lawsuits that demonstrate that literal copyright-breaking photocopying sometimes happens, I’ve seen it myself with Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT both. OpenAI is seeking copyright exemption for their models, which implicitly and openly admits they’re breaking current laws, and want the laws to change in their favor.

Even when output isn’t obviously breaking copyright, still, we know a-priori that we built a copy-and-remix machine by design. You can carry on arguing with everything I say, and that doesn’t change the fact that NNs are built with the intent to statistically reproduce their training data.

Side note that breaking copyright law does not require that the output is recognizable as a copy of one or more inputs. US Copyright Law specifies that one may not acquire and consume copyrighted material without permission. Some models are trained on legally acquired datasets, but many are not. Whether AI is stealing depends on the specific model and training data, so a blanket disagreement that no laws are broken is obviously incorrect.

> we have no idea what it takes to be capable of “original thought”, the concept isn’t even defined

May be true, but we do know for a fact that today’s neural network aren’t it, regardless of what original thought takes. Maybe we’ll crack the code in the future, and maybe today’s AI has started down the right track. Or, maybe not.

> plus a random noise factor. Anything in the world is deterministic plus a random noise factor, us included. If you perfectly recorded the thermal noise in a human brain you could deterministically repeat its output forever.

Maybe, but this hasn’t been proven or shown to be true, so is speculation. This armchair physics idea is hundreds of years old. Anyway, today’s AI is not deterministic plus a random noise factor, it’s just purely deterministic.

> Yeah sorry, the human brain isn’t that complicated.

Haha, the hubris. Prove it!

BTW this is straw man; I didn’t make any statements about the brain and I wasn’t comparing today’s AI to the human brain. Whether AI is stealing pixels does not depend on comparisons to humans or answering existential questions about consciousness.
The primary non-technical challenge to all these distributed storage system is the storage of illegal data. How does this protocol deal with this issue?
It's not even 100Mbps sustained. That is nowhere near 30k/year or you're getting ripped off.

For 3k/month you can get a good quality 10Gbps link. That's 3.2PB with a P.
I think you solved the aging population crisis. Enlist armies of grandmas for your Grandma-as-a-Service business.

The only chink in your armor would be that grandmas are also considered to be easily hackable over the phone.
> In support of your theory particular is I don't think enterprise sales "ragequits" a conversation when the customer is mid-evaluation based simply on the idea that they are considering multiple options.

> Why would they walk away at this point, let alone ban the customer.

It wasn't just that they were considering multiple options. Looking at the timeline, this was about a month after their initial soft gloves approach/enforcement action and they drug their feet the entire way through it.

Once CF got to the top of the leadership chain at their company and it was clear that all the relevant decision makers were involved in the conversation but were unwilling to pay, they just folded their cards, resumed the initial enforcement action, and moved on with their day.

If this was a small account they probably wouldn't have even blinked twice with just striking down the user for causing reputation harm and violating TOS but since they were a large account CF clearly went out of their way to meet with them multiple times and try to find a solution. But after a month of little to no progress while the account continues causing reputational harm and is unwilling to budge, they just called it quits and moved on.
When this doesn't work, does it mean that you're simply stupid? Asking for a friend.
I'm sure it's great but it's a goddamn cannon. I shudder when I see people doing just regular tourism with these chonker lenses.
Yes, we will want to extend URLs to standardize an optional version identifier.

It's important for this to be optional. Consider that each keystroke that edits a text resource changes its version ID. You want to be able to link to the text without changing the ID with each keystroke.

It's also important to be able to pass versions within headers of a request or response. The server wants to update the version ID with each update it sends to the client, and that's most elegantly done in a header.

As for your skepticism about integrating synchronization into HTTP instead of embedding it within a datatype, I can empathize -- but you might be surprised at just how elegantly HTTP extends into a full-featured synchronization protocol. A key to this elegance is the Merge-Type: this is the abstraction that allows a single synchronization algorithm to merge across multiple data types.

As an application programmer, you will specify both the data types of your variables (e.g. int, string, bool) and also the merge-types (e.g. "this merges as a bank account balance, or a LWW unique ID, or a collaborative text field"). This is all the application programmer needs to specify. The rest of the synchronization algorithm gets automated by middleware libraries that the programmer can just use and rely upon, like his compiler, and web browser.

I'd encourage you to check out the Braid spec, and notice how much we can do with how little. This is because HTTP already has almost everything we need. Compare this with the WebDAV spec, for instance, which tries to define versioning on top of HTTP, and you'll see how monstrous the result becomes. Example here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40481003
The Peculiar World of Farming Simulator ESports
Solar thermal energy storage isnt fossil fuels and carries no major environmental cost.
> Even if you consider it communication, that doesn't make it a language

In my first comment, I have broken down the definition of language I found and (supposedly) successfully applied each part of it to programming languages (communication being only one of the features).

Where is my mistake?

Either the definition is wrong, or incomplete, or one of the matches I made is erroneous, or I missed a match.

> an architect may use or a CAD drawing from an engineer. Both of them also communicate, but they are not considered languages. They also have a rules (grammer?) and patterns (vocabulary?).

Tough one, maybe those drawings are indeed expressed in a language, just that we don't usually see it as a language / think of it like this. That would apply to map symbols as well [1].

edit: Just noticed French Wikipedia [2] actually cites cartography as a language without a syntax, so that would check out:

> la cartographie est un exemple de langage non syntaxique

("Cartography is an example of non-syntactical language")

French Wikipedia broadly has the same definition for language as English Wikipedia, but makes the grammar part optional.

We could argue that the examples you cited are indeed not languages using the English definition because they don't have grammar (if rules you mentions are not grammar - and indeed you would probably not need a pass of syntactical analysis to "parse" a CAD drawing)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_symbol

[2] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langage
I had that happen as a kid and never figured out what caused it. My Atari was giving a very snowy image but I kept playing for a while. After dying I go to fiddle with the cable and it’s not even plugged in.

Honestly kind of messed with me at the time especially as I couldn’t replicate it.
That's one of the main reasons I'm leary about them. Such a big f-up is difficult to forget. It shows that they have a move fast and break things culture which for a company that is responsible for critical infrastructure feels wrong.
Yep, I like the Vim plugin in their IDEs, and I'd be thrilled if Fleet provided that level of functionality for its plugin, but unfortunately it's not clear when that's going to happen, if ever.
We have come to see with LLM's that language can be generated by using math.

Would love to see if this is the same when reading different patterns of code - functional vs object oriented. Where do product specs or technical specs lie?

All of this feels more pseudo-science to me - the distinction between language and math is not well understood at the moment.
5kW is just enough power for a 5 HP motor at 230v 3-phase (12.5A), and not quite enough power for a 5 HP motor @ 208v 3-phase (13.8A). If #14 wire was allowed for branch circuits in commercial construction, you could use those as your conductors, that’s how small these things are.

NEMA motor ampacity table: https://www.galco.com/circuit/fla_rate.htm
You needed an invite last I checked which explains the quietness part.
That must be nice. My internal dialog never shuts the fuck up.
What happens when I need to search a term that's outside the scope of topics that my followees are trusted for? Then it's a spammer free-for-all?
Idea: Pods but for reporting LinkedIn Lunatics- thoughts?
Just had, what I think, is a pretty legit idea... (Scroll to the last two sentences if you just want to read the idea)

Backstory
I often wonder how many LinkedIn "thought leaders" become so popular, when just about every post is basic, offering common sense, useless pieces of super basic information.

Honestly, the only reason I followed a lot of these people is just so I can laugh at them, and save their content for later...

I have a Notion database filled with examples of terrible content (and Google search results) that I just keep adding to.

One day, I'll make it public. I plan on calling it the "Influencer Watch List" -- that's where these thought leaders start. Then once confirmed their illegitimate, they'll move onto my "Influencers' Most Wanted" List.

Anyway, I'm willing to be that most of these influencers, who share these super basic posts with useless information, grew to where they are through fake engagement pods, which gave me a really good idea yesterday.

To level the playing field, what if people, who share good content or are just over this type of content too, banded together and created our own reverse engagement pods, where we click "not interested" on bad LinkedIn posts?!

Thoughts?!
I would be very curious to see what happens when the subjects are looking at a codebase they are familiar with. Even if there is some code within the repo they haven’t seen yet, the familiarity from style, convention, and knowing how the code fits into the rest of the program as a whole probably has a large impact as to how it is perceived.
It’s not “editorial” to choose to stop serving (or charge more money to) a customer whose actions pose legal difficulties or risks to your business. If some country’s vice division contacts cloudflare legal due to a customer’s illegal online gambling presence, I guarantee that cop does not care about a US/EU copyright law.

The same thing is true for IP reputation, just without an external official complaining. If other CF customers are negatively impacted by one customer’s action, CF isn’t violating safe harbor by booting that customer or passing on the costs of mitigating that impact. That’s just running a business, not exercising editorial review of hosted content in violation of safe harbor provisions.
And this is why getting interrupted is so annoying

It takes a while to “load up” all of those things in our minds, and it’s a bit like a balancing act, you need to keep balancing them to prevent the whole thing from crashing down

Then if you get interrupted, it is like loosing balance and things falling into a mess. Afterwards you need to sort of pick everything up again, which takes time and effort

More than a couple of those in a row are incredibly frustrating

Pg talks about this in his essay of the maker schedule vs the manager schedule: (2009) https://paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
I also distantly remembered this example from something in school and found a reference.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cultures-reason

If you’re actually interested, it’s a little different than what OP was told/remembers and what’s being discussed here.
I'm a SRE and I disagree too, though, I think you're giving SREs too much credit in the category of our hegemony for an "us vs them" debate. Maybe at Google SWEs having relationships with their code based is a well studied thing. It could also just be someone's opinion that managed it's way unchallenged into the book. That's to say, Google SRE wasn't the best or last iteration of SRE.

I personally think systems evolve the way you describe because of a system of incentives. There are more incentives for features than there exist for refactor and non top priority defect fixes. This comes from the people who hold power to shape incentives and they often do so with conflicting priorities and superficial understandings of the existing incentive structure.

I'd also like to say that it's my own personal theory that systemic issues can only be caused by systemic forces. Individual mindsets cannot be to blame then; if a mindset has become systemic (example: SWEs overly attached to code and features) then your next question should be "why?". There's a system that enforces that, and if you don't look beyond personal obsession then you'll never find it.
It could have flags on it or maybe the flamewar detector got tripped.

Moderator action seems unlikely because it’s still on the second page.
Could you call it websockets without websockets?
That’s one version of events, and the “made it product priority” part is not supported by evidence. What I think is more likely: they hired a voice actress that sounds like a “California woman of indeterminate age” and when the resulting model came out someone noticed that this sounds sort of like Johansson with a lot less vocal fry and decided to try and pay her off so she doesn’t raise hell.
I've noticed that cloudflare complaint threads get flagged with surprising and unwarranted regularity.
That's not how the "free until it's not" pricing model works :P

IMHO it's just the price finding model that CF has adopted, I expect in the future they'll release limit numbers... unless they decide not releasing numbers is more profitable (i.e. the used car sales pricing model)
Free hits obscuring ruinous costs is a time honored strategy of drug dealers and all kinds of shady businesses.
This comment isnt about the industrial processing applications of this technology, but energy storage.
well, people are different. I feel like I have narrator voice for the code, not exactly the same way books do, but still something similar.

Also when I'm trying to read code I feel distracted and annoyed by any background noise where I can recognize words, like speech or music in a familiar language. And I can't talk while coding, it messes up what I'm typing.
Also I really prefer english-like languages, like ruby, to more sigil or symbol loaded, like rust, or full of abbreviations and operators, like Haskell. But I'm sure other developers have other brain pathways activated.
You see that, a lot, with Japanese tourists.

American tourists tend to be waving around their phones, but Japanese tourists look like professional photojournalists.

I see a lot of tourists (not sure which nation), using portable steadycams.
So far I have avoided Powershell in anything distributed to end users, because execution of unsigned scripts is disabled by default in Windows. It has been easier to use VBScript or BAT files to automate basic tasks, since those scripts can be run unsigned... I suppose it is too much to hope for that Microsoft would now reconsider enabling Powershell script execution by default.
> In the text of SB 961 that system is described as: “An integrated vehicle system that uses, at minimum, the GPS location of the vehicle compared with a database of posted speed limits, to determine the speed limit, and utilizes a brief, one-time visual and audio signal to alert the driver each time they exceed the speed limit by more than 10 miles per hour.”

No mention of how much the manufacturer is allowed to charge you every month, for access to "your" car's proprietary GPS->Speed Limit database.
That's the good half of the non-profit world in a nutshell.
What does a human want to know when they look at a progress bar? How long (or how much longer) they need to wait, typically. So yeah, the progress value displayed should ideally be the percentage of total time.
So what happens when this hypothetical machine of yours, that has enough NIC bandwidth to process the scale of data that needs to be streamed in both directions, enough CPU power to handle millions of concurrent requests in a process or a thread of their own, and enough ram/ fast enough disks to to map and swap all the files that are being converted, goes down?

In 2022, Google Workspace apparently had ~ 3 billion users (8 million of which paying) https://developers.googleblog.com/en/year-in-review-12-aweso... .

Not every solution needs microservices. But also, we have problems today that we did not have solutions for "in the old days".
Not me, but a good friend. He was a well-paid developer but got fed up with the inevitable management shenanigans.

He now sells hamburgers and hotdogs at festivals. He only works in the summer months (when the festivals are held) and enjoys life the other half of the year.

I envy him greatly.
Taiwan is not building cities on the islands. China is. They’re also attacking Philippines vessels that come nearby
Sometimes I think - what if all the smartest people that work on purely commercial things, had rather spent their time on solving problems in medicine, etc.

Of course, some will argue that

A) These people wouldn't have been equally motivated to work on such problem, compared to the ones that make them wealthy.

B) Some of the investment folks are contributing to the actual sciences, by fronting them with money.

But, still, I can't help but to think what a brain drain the finance industry is. You take some of the smartest and most motivated people out there, and make them spend all their energy on vacuuming pennies off the market, or identifying commercially successful companies.
> Taking a step back, why would they even care if their platform is supposedly neutral and not responsible for the content ?

Because their main network all uses one big IP address pool and the blocks by various regions/countries against their site were probably not just DNS blocks but also IP address blocks.

So they now have an account whose activity is getting their IPs banned in countries where they operate.

So they told the account owners they needed to pay for an enterprise account and a dedicated IP address pool maintained by cloudflare. That's why CF kept talking about BYOIP in the emails.

i.e. "Pay for us to build you a quarantine with your own IP pool or leave ASAP"
Most code is interpreted as declarative regardless of how it's written. I've always interpreted a chunk of functionality as a block of logic. Which is why syntax structures like if/else feel do natural. But we don't really follow natural language the same way.
I do have a narrator in my head although it's usually a summary or description of Whats going on. Not a literal word for word read. I also have visualizations.
Imagination Reduces Disgust More Than Placebo
Okay, so is that what you’re claiming they’re doing?

If so, please share your evidence.

If not, then I’m not sure what is the point of this conversation.

There are plenty of hypothetical ways to beat the market and they make for the same quality of conversation as a drunk uncle’s “brilliant” day trading strategy that he just needs a few bucks to execute. Carry on all day if you wish, no one will be better off for it.
What coding language/s do you normally use and what things are you most often coding?
> It was rather a feeling that perhaps other Brazilians will share: a longing, saudade, for the simpler (yes) but better and more poetic 90s

I am from Argentina, and share your same feelings.
Software as a Point of Failure
Non paywall link: https://archive.ph/hcChm
Cambridge tech ecosystem worth more than Spain and Italy's combined
Agreed. Even better, live in a small house (or, better yet, apartment!) close to work to minimize commuting.
I think the most common failure mode is neuroticism; getting stressed and frustrated with the lack of progress, thinking about the progress toward the outcome rather than the problem to be solved. Stress in particular is extremely poisonous to thinking. The expectation should be that it takes as long as it takes, and you need to be calm and well rested.
My guess for why this would be flagged: its a gambling website so people are unsympathetic. Definitely an abuse of the flagging system.
>The pill you don’t have to take that is still effective: neural correlates of imaginary placebo intake for regulating disgust

https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/19/1/nsae021/7623673
I have heard this theory before, as well.
That's what they tend to say. Sadly, it is.