skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We migrated microservices from Heroku to Porter, and also from standalone VMs and K8s running on AWS to Porter. As a coder trying to do both dev and devops on a tiny team, it was life changing for me.

The key benefits for a small startup team are:

1. Effortless CI/CD: Deploying services on K8s clusters across different clouds becomes trivial. Setup a dockerfile in your repo, point Porter at it, deploy. We mostly run APIs behind AWS API Gateway.

2. Startup credits: You can use your existing credits on AWS, Azure etc.

3. Zero lockin: You can deploy in parallel and switch service providers.

4. Devops expertise: The Porter team have given us next-level hands-on support and help to figure out how to run things optimally. A lot of sensible defaults are built in. As a coder, they have knowledge of how to scale services effectively that (to be blunt) I couldn't match no matter how much time I spent trying to learn it as a lay person.

If you're a K8s and devops master, you probably don't need this. If like me you're a programmer with limited devops skills looking for the fastest and easiest way to just solve deployment and scaling, Porter is close to magic. Plus they have one of the most helpful and friendly teams I've worked with anywhere.

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fixed mobile ui
I dont think that suggests there is a high demand for used concrete. It does however highlight the fact that there may be insurmountable transportation and handling costs for recycled concrete.

It is hard to imagine it being cost effective to transport it to recycling centers.
The software company would argue that the lawbreaking hacker was a supervening cause, while the consumer would argue the criminal was foreseeable. In the case of security software, the consumer might have a point. In practice such a claim is not usually successful.
> In my case: I am near physically incapable of doing things that I "need" to do, with the more I "need" to do something, the harder by brain and body will rebel against doing it.

This is interesting to me. I find my own behavior is the exact opposite; I have no internal concept of need. I will do everything in my power to avoid starting a task until someone says it "needs" to be done. So in my experience the need is always externally motivated: it's usually just a deadline, or some other authority micro-managing me. ("I'm meeting with [customer] tomorrow and would like to show them [x] from project [y] is that ready?" => I will move hell and earth to do [x], and not a minute sooner. There's some activation threshold there. It is definitely not calibrated where it needs to be, but my ability to "thrive under pressure" has allowed me to cope, as long as someone/something holds my feet to the fire.)

Also I find deadlines are a lot more effective for adult-me than they were for child-me. I think that's mostly because I've got project managers to lean on who are creating those schedules, tracking them, and keeping them visible. Whereas in school child-me was expected to be my own project manager. (Yeah, that was never gonna happen. Many tried to get me to jot dates down in my little day planner. Many failed.)

Disclosure: I'm not clinically diagnosed with ADHD, but from all I've heard/read about it I would not be terribly surprised to find out I have it. (Although I would be surprised to find myself having sufficient motivation to go out and get proper help. ;-P)
Some behind the uproar was acting in extremely bad faith.

People were and still are making claims that the initial implementation can make it easy to accidentally send all of your keystrokes to OpenAI. This is not how the feature works at all. It needs explicit user interaction to use. You open the "Codesierge" toolbox and type in a question, which is a lot of clicks and typing. Yet people are posting on Mastodon and elsewhere that "accidentally" setting the API key to a non-empty value in preferences is enough to make iTerm2 send every keystroke to a third party.

Worse yet, someone pointed out in the GitLab thread that there's a call for violence against the dev by one of the participants. And sure enough, there it was on Mastodon and it's quite horrific.

iTerm2 is a gift. The dev makes his ideal terminal and we can use it if we like it. Feedbacks are fine and from my past experience welcomed, but this is something else entirely.
fixed mobile UI, also upgraded supabase, you should be able to sign up now
> alcohol abuse, looting, rape and torture

Ah, western propaganda at its best
I think it's fair enough if it was enough they thought to make that a specific section. You probably wouldn't be commenting about it if it so happened that the entire site was .1 acre and only the student pilots.
Do they operate 24/7?

Even if it is batch process, going from 24 hours to 8 hours is like tripling plant cost vs productivity.
Out of curiosity, how did you decide on the size of the device? Was it driven by cost considerations, preferences of the founding team, something else?

I think it’s a little too big for me, but I’m tempted.
No not happening. It is a private company and Microsoft doesn't exactly know Valve's networth.
Great to hear that! I'll be looking forward to it.
Upon hearing this (and seeing the software that you've got listed on the website) I went and bought one. Looks great!
"if not by judging the student's output"

Where did I say to not do that?

And someone who can produce a convincing essay usually has understood the topic (unless he copy pasted it). And when there are doubts, one can ask that student specific questions.
But the point of the article is that used concrete is no longer a worthless material, because it can now be recycled, which avoids the huge carbon impact of manufacturing new concrete.
> Based on this code, we can say that the photos that reappeared were still lying around on the filesystems and that they were just found by the migration routine added in iOS 17.5. The reason why those files were there in the first place is unknown.
Sky has been in the app for many months, the release last week didn't add the voice, it merely is for a mode which allows a much more natural back and forth and interaction via voice, which is, indeed, fairly reminiscent of the voice interface in "her".

He probably just really wants to actually have SJ's voice from the film. But SJ doesn't really have a right to arbitrary west coast vocal fry female voices. Without the "disembodied voice of an AI" element, I don't think most people would note "Oh she sounds like SJ". In fact, that's what the voice actress herself has said -- she hadn't gotten compared to SJ before this.
There are but OP doesn't appear to be using e-ink, it's much too fast to be that. I would guess it's an unorthodox form of LCD display.
You're doing a great job, it doesn't feel inadequate at all.

Congratulations!
Discussion [0] (69 points, 10 days ago, 49 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40346350
> Gordon Moore’s famous prediction about computing power must count as one of the most astonishingly accurate forecasts in history

IMHO, because it's been used as a road map, not due anything else. Like a drop-by-drop commercial service.

On free will, by how the techniques advance, the computer power would experience abruptly high computing increases, with undetermined development periods occurring in between.
> What he did was a crime

No! It wasn't. I'll bet no court will agree with you.

Next question.
From https://tomlehrersongs.com/we-will-all-go-together-when-we-g...
He didn’t specify a directionality.
This reminds me a lot of the Hutter Prize[1]. Funnily enough, the Hutter Prize shifted my thinking 180 degrees towards intelligence ~= compression, because to truly compress information well you must understand its nuanced.

[1]http://prize.hutter1.net/
I would say Valve pulls in 70 to 80 billion a year in sales and technology.
Until proven otherwise I try not to assume malice in every action.
Russia changed sides when Hitler invaded Russia. Not sure we can count on Putin making that mistake.
What is included in the price in addition to the tablet itself? Stylus? Cover?

Is it possible to fasten the stylus to the tablet/cover such that the stylus doesn't get lost easily?

If the stylus gets lost, is it possible to purchase a new one?
Discussion [0] (46 points, 5 hours ago, 43 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40456644
SpaceX Weighs Plan to Sell Shares Valuing Firm at $200B
Last I checked, Moore's Law simply does not apply to photovoltaics.

The exponential increase in computing comes from being able to make smaller transistors, and the fact that a smaller transistor is able to perform the same computation as a bigger transistor.

A smaller solar cell is not capable of converting the same amount of power as a larger cell, because its power output depends on the area. (Also on the efficiency, but that's a separate issue, and not subject to exponentials).

It was also always something that was driven by demand, as you need ever more expensive fabs to create the smaller feature sizes. It is most definitely not something that happened just due to time passing.
The insurance company-driven model for industry specific safety improvement that worked so well for fire safety and auto safety has proven impossible because of three factors:

1. Cryptocurrency allows for unimaginably huge untraceable ransom payments that Amazon gift cards did not support,

2. No liability in tort for insecure software, and

3. Lack of computer security regulation (e.g., your car must have a seatbelt and ABS but your software can be arbitrarily bad without being prohibited).

Insurance. Is not going to fix cybersecurity.
paywall: https://archive.ph/Q6i84
See the Minimal E-ink phone
Agreed. I don't have faith they can make a usable device if they can't make a usable web page.

Never break, take over, or "fix" scrolling! Never!
I am amazed at how fast the whole thing progressed, starting from the failure of FTX, to his arrest, the trial, etc. The Enron case took a decade
Amazon cloud boss inherits business under pressure to keep pace in AI
Creator of D3.js – What makes software good? (2016)
They'll be extra cheap on ebay for a while. I see a few for US$20.
Not at this time, I only thought about releasing it as an API for companies to use within their own products (my API would only return JSON file with all of the nodes and edges from graph)

You are right with the self-hosted version
The brandong is also dumb and immediately rings a bell for whoever remembers the Total Recall movie.
I thought I was easily entertained.
There's a separate project Cloud Seeder [1] which is completely open source and gives you 1 click server appliances and IP addresses on-premises. Disclosure, I work there.

[1] https://github.com/ipv6rslimited/cloudseeder
See also "Never use a warning" (2007): https://alistapart.com/article/neveruseawarning/
> Wars have the nasty habit of taking unexpected turns...

Indeed, after the slaughter of WW2 you would expect Russians to be wary of starting wars by invading their neighbours.
He also isn't making any sense. Why would someone keep in memory all the times something did what they expected? I am absolutely certain that if all buttons were act on press, there would be quite a few painful memories. Every time I encounter act on press it sends me.

This is a typical engineer scenario of trying to reason something as if it is a scientific or engineering fact when in reality it is just a massive personal preference.
Love that you are calling a tablet what it really is: a computer.

Now for a crazy question: does the Daylight Computer support an external full color display via a usb-c dock? Color when you need it… epaper when you don’t.
>I don't know why we couldn't have gotten by with smaller, less powerful engines.

CAFE standards made cheap light trucks illegal; to a point, they also make cheap small cars illegal (ignoring the absurd collision standards- 2005 cars and 2020 cars are not meaningfully different; but in 2005 the average car on the road was still under 3000 pounds).

As always, power without accountability. No bureaucrat or lawmaker is getting fined or voted out for these stupid standards that have done untold economic damage, and this crap will continue until they are.
> The irony of his mom being on the Board of Advisors of Stanford University’s Ethics is astounding.

Your sentence was cut off? She is a member of the Board of Advisors to the Stanford Ethics in Society Program. That means she helps direct an academic program researching ethics, not that she enforces ethical rules within Stanford.

Professional ethicists and moral philosophers do not, and generally do not claim to, act morally better than others. Their profession is about researching the consistency and implications of moral rules.

Judges are generally held to a higher standard than the general public, so I guess there is irony/hypocrisy when they commit a crime they have convicted others of. But that’s not what Fried was doing.
If they've already awarded him these $50k, congratulations and they should probably close the project down. They've failed basic validation of inputs before transferring $50k to a fradulent competitor.

You do not fail that hard by accident. It speaks of prolonged negligence and as I've said elsewhere, their whole portfolio needs to be rechecked.

As for research ethics, not everybody is a researcher and thus has the same ethic. For me the guys who get bogus computer-generated articles through reviews and into journals are genius, even though people with research background may see that as a violation. Tough life.
I've had the same impression, unfortunately. You have to like them because of their dedication to the mission, and they've achieved a lot. But I bought a laptop battery from them that didn't last long at all, and (at least at first) their bit sets stripped themselves on first use, and the spudgers might as well have been made out of butter.
While we are talking "LCD" and "In direct sunlight" and "display is close to surface" were you able to fit circular polarizers in there, or will I need to take my sunglasses off when using?
Sure ok! What is at stake with this?

In my experience, founders need all the help they can get making friends, I'm glad they have a little club!
Looks good at first sight!

Is this essentially a RAG solution? Or is this focused more on ease of use and being able to quickly use all kinds of different data types?
George R.R. Martin Sues OpenAI For Copyright Infringement After Chatbot Mentions Incest
Power will be projected in the future through alliances with Australia, Japan, and Great Britain. The problems you listed are real, but they are solvable.
Wow. (Without the piano line it's clearly a lot harder to get in the pauses to breathe, even the comically large one that's in the original performance.)

Back in the 80's, the MIT freshman chemistry class had A Thing where if you'd stand up in the lecture hall and sing The Elements, you'd get extra credit (I think it was an automatic A on the first quiz? something small.) I'd already placed out, but helped one of my housemates practice, which was fun (he did succeed, on the day.)
> And we built a whole android tablet around it.

What is the reason it isn't worth your while to sell the display seperately so other devices can be built using it?
Epilepsy warning if you're on Firefox! The page background rapidly flashes between black to white:

https://streamable.com/85wbac

The flashing is much more rapid than shows up in my screen recording.

(Firefox 126.0 on Windows 11)
It’s honestly not surprising. Sometimes initiatives from well meaning employees can be given the green light because they’re low enough in the company to avoid attention but high enough to get a director’s sponsorship. But as soon as the employee begins to get Legal or someone at a VP involved and they’ll have to eat the loss on sales, it’s killed. 80% of a company’s money goes to driving “sales or savings”, the rest goes to “keeping the lights on.” Being responsive for anything that impacts sales in the negative is a huge deal for everyone in their chain of command.
Which is why everyone should care about the right-to-repair.

A phone that can be repaired, is worth something. For ewaste you get €0 (some recycler may get a few bucks from rare materials). For a phone that can have a second life, you might get some €100.
This is one reason why people love iPhones: their value, second hand, remains rather high.
Discussion at the time [0] (122 points, 11 days ago, 81 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40334391
Local Coworking Spaces Thrive Where WeWork Dared Not Go
How to Install OpenBSD on ARM Based Hetzner Cloud Servers
The primary difference is that FTX was far more reckless than the typical VC.
It is. They do. And did.

Both France and Germany figured out how to do this.

And then stopped building.

<facepalm>

You build a standardized design, and you build a bunch of them, and you overlap the construction.

Germany's Konvoi reactors were built for DM 4 billion a piece in the late 80s. At the same time, non-Konvoi reactors cost more than twice as much, DM 9.5 billion.

Apply the 88% cumulative inflation between then and now and you'd be at DM 7,52 billion, or € 3.9 billion.

Fortunately we are starting to build more again, so prices should begin to fall.
All he has to do is fire one nuke and China will gladly listen to the US' suggestion that we should take these toys away from Russia.
This is difficult. It should look more like a DAG than a tree, but we don't have a good UI for DAG comment threads yet.
Yea that's what I was thinking of. Either switch materials or build with future use in mind.

We've recently gotten a fairly large wooden tower[1] here in Norway, will be interesting to see how it fares in this regard.

[1]: https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/worlds-tallest-tim...
> FormMaster duplication machine

Anyone got any links with more info about this device?
I took this class (in '97 IIRC), it was called "Nature of Math". I took it because I loved his songs and wanted to take a few math classes that weren't very hard. (from a comment I made a few years ago on a previous thread: Wonderful course and his delivery was excellent. I almost ended up being the TA the next quarter. It was my introduction to many things, including birthday paradox and analytic solutions for tertiary equations.)
> ...similar devices to _read_ disks at a magnetic level...

It's not, though. It's reading the disk after the drive's analog-to-digital converter has had its way with the analog flux transitions coming off the head. There's auto gain control circuits in there, and a pre-amplifier, and finally the ADC. Greaseweazel and its ilk are closer to the flux than just reading the disk in the conventional manner but it isn't actually sampling the raw flux reversals.

The Domesday Duplicator is closer to what I'm taking about. You can do software-defined manipulation of the sampled analog signal. In its case, it's a software-defined laserdisk player. (One could do the same w/ VHS, for example.)

I'll try to dig up a good Vintage Computer Festival talk from a guy who was recovering analog signals from old tapes and reconstructing the data by building a software-defined "tape drive" and using signal processing algorithms that would be applicable in the software-defined radio domain.

It occurs to me that such an analog duplicator wouldn't need fancy FPGAs and high-speed digital signal processing that didn't exist back then. It would "just" need very clean analog circuitry and decent motor control.

Edit:

Here we go. Video of the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKvwjYwvN2U

A comment I made about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31939703

Edit 2:

It looks like the Applesauce[0] project does what I'm talking about. It's sampling analog signals from the drive, rather than the output of an old ADC. Very cool.

[0] https://wiki.reactivemicro.com/Applesauce

There's some discussion here[1] about analog recovery of floppy data and some past discussion[2] from HN.

[1] https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2021/05/recovering-l...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27187435
SEC Opens the Door for Spot Ether ETFs in Big Crypto Victory
Anthropic is even more closed than "Open"ai.
And here is Paul Kimpel's story about how he got that compiler running (or at least limping) on his B205 emulator: https://datatron.blogspot.com/2015/11/knuths-algol-58-compil...
Almost as much as Lockheed ($112B) and Boeing ($105B) combined.
Free on-demand ARMv8
What deal? You can literally just read the source code if you don't trust the developer.
To be fair, New Math is a perfect intro to graduate-level* maths; it's just a poor fit for people who (because they don't have calculators? or even slide rules?) would like their children's maths courses to cover arithmetic.

(I had a geometry teacher who had been excited because his daughter wanted him to sign something saying she'd be allowed to take "Sets Education". Imagine, finally sets being introduced at the Jr High level! ... and then he realised he'd misheard: there was an "x" at the end of the first word)

Lagniappe: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/why-i-couldn39t-be-a-math-...

* or undergraduate discrete maths, of the sort you'd want for any halfway decent CS programme. I'm glad I got a cheap'n'cheerful intro to lattices in 5th grade.
Nah, the difference is that FTX was investing stolen money. No one would care otherwise.
Don’t forget column-stores. Lists of floats and ints are generally “full size” but then XORed with the preceding value then the result is compressed in chunks with a high-speed compressor like LZ4. We see 20x or higher compression ratios on many of our column-stores which contain data such as invoice amounts as metrics. Decompression overhead is below zero (much faster than operating on the raw uncompressed data which is bound by memory bandwidth or IO)
I'd second this - linking directly to `https://arxiv.org/abs/{{id}}` maybe even include the formats in the `Access Paper` box on the RHS of that interface would be a neat feature.
Much lower margin if you just sell a component.
Tbf here Altman really screwed this over with that tweet and very sudden contacting. There probably wouldn't be much of a case otherwise.

If I had to guess the best faith order of events (more than what OpenAi deserves):

- someone liked Her (clearly)

- they got a voice that sounded like Her, subconsciously (this is fine)

- someone high up hears it and thinks "wow this sounds like SJ!" (again, fine)

- they think "hey, we have money. Why not get THE SJ?!"

- they contact SJ, she refuses and they realize money's isn't enough (still fine. But this is definitely some schadenfreude here)

- marketing starts semi-indepenently, and they make references to Her, becsuse famous AI voice (here's where the cracks start to form. Sadly the marketer may not have even realized what talks went on).

- someone at OpenAi makes one last hail Mary before the release and contacts SJ again (this is where the trouble starts. MAYBE they didn't know about SJ refusing, but someone in the pipeline should have)

- Altman, who definitely should have been aware of these contacts, makes that tweet. Maybe they forgot, maybe they didn't realize the implications. But the lawyer's room is now on fire

So yeah, hanlon's razor. Thus could he a good faith mistake, but OpenAi's done a good job before this PR disaster ruining their goodwill. Again, sweet Schadenfreude even if we are assuming none of this was intentional.
I take issue with several of these. "Idiomatic Ruby" shoehorn's dogma into the least dogmatic language.

Elsif? How about a case statement?

A lot of the idioms are great until you need to debug them. At that point you have to replace them with non-idioms because you can't even debug the code you wrote without changing it. Why give someone grief for starting with something debuggable?

I dislike the social pressure and "Rubocop's Karen-ing" used to inflict these idioms when they are a mixed bag, at best, and demonstrably worse in cases.
And it's full of redheads (I've heard).