skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Russia gave 'final warnings' about invading Ukraine which at the time was considered unthinkable by many because the presumed damage the international community could inflict on Russia would be so great that Russia would have to capitulate. So much so the west felt free to ignore Russia warnings and invite Ukraine into NATO. Now I guess Russia winning that war is the new 'unthinkable' underpinning the rational for Ukraine not accepting proposed peace deals. Honestly, I don't see how Ukraine wins that war so I'm again at odds which is what is considered 'unthinkable'.

Far from being panicked I'm not even worried about a nuclear war - we're far more likely to have a drone war from which the economic damage would be so great the US will not be able to afford to maintain global dominance. The US felt free to give up it's low value manufacturing base and focus on high value manufacturing and financialization so it's rather unfortunate that cheap drones and a large low value manufacturing base will be what wins future conflicts. Look at how much economic damage the Houthis are doing to Israel - we were told Operation Prosperity Guardian would work as the international community would get together and secure shipping. And if the shield didn't work we'd bomb Yemen into submission, like no-one has tried that one before. Clearly neither has worked and Houthi blackmailing is being very effective. Now imagine a world full of state sponsored terrorists doing their own drone blackmailing with conflicting and impossible to meet demands. So much infrastructure which underpins our current standard of living is at risk. It was clear to me >20 years ago that it made no sense shooting down $10K drones with $1M missiles, I wanted to work on drone counter measures but even back then military development is highly politicized, corrupt, and slow that I saw no viable path for such development.
The reason I give importance to the brand name is because if the company has been around for a decade (or many decades), it's likely to still be around in a year or two to give me support when the product fails.

If the company resurrects itself every 6 months under a different name, then there's effectively no warranty on the product and there's no reason to think that it's built to be long lasting, since even bad reviews won't show up under the new brand name.
They burn fossil fuels forever. EVs get greener as the grid approaches 100% low carbon energy, which will happen based on all available trajectory data.

If cell manufacturing is the supply constraint, continue to scale up.
The numbers weren't seasonally adjusted, according to the article, while "Figures for California fast-food restaurants from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis show that on a seasonally adjusted basis, employment actually rose in the September-to-January period by 6,335 jobs, from 736,160 to 742,495."

"The author of the Wall Street Journal article, Heather Haddon, didn’t reply to my inquiry about why she appeared to use non-seasonally adjusted figures when the adjusted figures were more appropriate."

Now in this new article, a UCLA economics professor who'd originally pushed the "job loss" claims even "acknowledged by email that 'if the data are not seasonally adjusted, then no conclusions can be drawn...'"
Employers can’t choose who they want to hire when that decision is related to union involvement, yes. You’re not the first person to think that hiding the real reason for employment discrimination somehow makes it legal. It is not.
The article's headline is way overblown. The linked Gallup study states:

> In 2023, global employee engagement stagnated, and overall employee wellbeing declined. While both measures are at or near record highs, their lack of improvement is notable, as they follow multiple years of steady gains.
Look at that guy's historical comments. All his comments are pro war in Israel and Ukraine. He is the glowie the newspaper is talking about. All of his comments are bone chilling.
So you are accessing that server's services from some network, why are you not only allowing SSH over that network?

Or, if your service is open to the internet then why does not what I said above hold true?
"In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few" (Shunryū Suzuki)

Not always bad not to be an expert. And it's fairly rich to start with an example from asset management, which is an industry that habitually mistakes luck for expertise.
Originally the server & VMs were running on my windows 11 pro dev machine. Keeping HyperV made it easier to move them to another machine.

Now that I have a separate server, I find it easier to develop the VMs on my dev machine, snapshot and then migrate them to the server. I have a library of base images for alpine, Debian & Kali Linux that I can launch as easily as AWS.

Using Hyper-V across both makes this seamless. I can manage the servers using the Windows Management Instrumentation (gui) or RDP into the server.

I know many Linux users have aversion to Windows, but I get a lot of benefit out of Windows for other applications as well (gaming, one drive, document indexing, copilot, as well as all the great native apps)
A bit offtopic, but do you recommend any load balancer?

I could have another VPS as a load balancer, but what if goes down? The load balancing services seem quite expensive, as they charge per request.
Is “quiet quitting” still just another term for “doing your job”?
There has been a ton of them since the original Raspberry Pi was released .. both Banana Pi and Orange Pi first came out 10 years ago, I think
'Quiet quitting' means not going beyond that what you are paid for. No overachieving, no engagement with your work beyond what is needed to do that work.

Regardless of the societal causes (and those are interesting), this sounds like a solid defence mechanism to stave off burnout and the growing sense of dread when your work feels like it adds only minimal value to society.
Given that Raspberry Pi hasn’t actually been well supported by mainline Linux and that the Raspberry Pi foundation hasn’t put a lot of effort into upstreaming things, I don’t think it’s actually a big deal. People don’t care where their kernel comes from as long as it works.

I am surprised by all of the comments here that assume Raspberry Pi has great upstream support. It’s amazing that people just assumed their boards were working great with upstream kernels. Raspberry Pi has a history of doing nonstandard things that serve their community but are actually a little bit quirky when it comes to normal embedded Linux.
As a british person, I can confidently say: What the fuck did you expect? We're in a pretty shitty economic climate, and we had no competent government for about 8 years.

Nobody can afford to buy a house, those that have a mortgage have just had a stonking rise in mortgage costs, or about to have one.

None of that is going to change anytime soon.

The NHS is utterly fucked, and the police cannot investigate basic crimes

The courts are about to entirely grind to a halt, and we don't have enough space to put newly convicted prisoners.

We have no local government anymore, because all of the funding is going into either private childcare for children with significant needs (Massive brewing scandal), or old people in care homes.

Energy prices have spiked, and we are currently being fucked by inflation, so money doesn't go very far, and the wage rises didn't return purchasing power.

Even though the present government is about to be utterly shat on, the new government isn't looking that good.

TLDR: shits expensive and broken. We are not very happy.

Update: Its not quiet quitting, its acting our fucking wage and fulfilling our contractual duties.
Show HN: Repofa.st – A collection of modern coding boilerplates
Feel free to contribute more repo's you think are useful for the public!
Counter point: game sales on steam. I'm their costumer for almost 20 years now, and fall for it all the time. But given how much entertainment I get from money spent, I remain a happy customer.
This is better off as a linkedin post.
adrian_b's comments in this thread are the kind of thing I referred to (my point wasn't that ASan specifically is presented as a panacea but rather various sanitizers in general.)
Hi smarri, I hope you're well.

Sorry this might not be the best place to ask, but a few months ago you posted on my thread about a a part time, remote, Masters Degree in Software Development in the UK of which businesses recruit directly from - my apologies for the late reply, but could I get in touch with you to have more details?
There’s a complex balance of power in the US (and Germany) around these. A common reason companies ban references is to protect the company (and occasionally employee <- manager) from lawsuits if the reference is negative.

In Germany this has turned into a legal climate where only positive reviews are granted, creating a set of tiered shaded meanings inside positive reviews that stand in for ‘unacceptable’ to ‘brilliant’.

At any rate, changing one part of the system, e.g. forcing referrals as in Germany would no doubt change other ways the system works in the US as well.
One solution I was thinking of, is to load balance using DNS, or at least to have failure recovery using DNS (one server goes down, update the DNS to point to the other server). I am fine with a small downtime.
BSP quality is famously variable by board vendor, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niH1-NB6W8w

Two products.. leveraged a Yocto-based board support package (BSP); one being in AgTech, and the other being in the veterinary space. These products have followed disparate practices when leveraging the BSP for custom hardware and software.. this talk [described] the two products, how the BSP was customized and used, and the resulting consequences.*
https://www.dymo.com/labels-tapes/embossing-tapes/dymo-non-a... ?

https://theforestrystore.com/collections/aluminum-tags/produ... ?
> PHEVs have been shown not to yield meaningful emissions savings over conventional vehicles.

Can you say or link to more about this? My family borrowed a PHEV Prius Prime for about six weeks. Our fuel economy over that time was ~210mpg, nearly an order of magnitude better than the sedan it temporarily replaced.
Breeder reactors are defined as ones that turn more u238 into pu than the u235 they consume. The breeding ratio is greater than one in that case. So the net fissile material increases during operation.
> It will break in weird ways that makes you feel like you are trying to nail Jello to a tree

Probably the best description of working with LLM agents I've read
> 22x (!) the network bandwidth

It's 25x, the copper ports are 2.5g. It's even more if you use the usb-4 ports for ip over thunderbolt.
“The law of gravitation explains many phenomena not previously understood. For example, the pull of the moon on the earth causes the tides, hitherto mysterious. The moon pulls the water up under it and makes the tides—people had thought of that before, but they were not as clever as Newton, and so they thought there ought to be only one tide during the day. The reasoning was that the moon pulls the water up under it, making a high tide and a low tide, and since the earth spins underneath, that makes the tide at one station go up and down every 24 hours. Actually the tide goes up and down in 12 hours.”

This is, of course, incorrect. Although Feynman eschewed giving beginners information so oversimplified that it’s wrong (he called it “cheating”, this is one of the (I think) rare cases where he didn’t practice what he preached.

For the correct explanation of tides and why there’s actually no tidal bulge, see the question to this Physics SE answer: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/121830/does-eart...
In my opinion, if we're banning ads for certain types of cars, we should ban ads for all cars. Tires, brakes, roads, manufacturing related pollution, etc are substantial for all. It just seems like feel-good legislation when we ignore the obvious.
Ah yeah, I suppose that’s what I really mean, a means of verifying builds link to source that is publicly available. Sounds like the source repository has to be in on it too
when even the very closed source pi wins, it shows the whole ecosystem is doomed.

open source and open hardware lost.
TFA is sort of amazing. They seem stunned at the repercussions, but in reality, the repercussions are basically negligible. Every iPhone user has gotten along just fine (for the most part) communicating with android users so far, and they’ll continue to do so.

Maybe on the other side Android users get some nice benefits from iPhones playing along? But iPhone isn’t in the business of placating non-iPhone users. Why would it?

The feature set brought by RCS support is also, for the most part, not particularly interesting or consequential to most users, even those regularly conversing between android and iPhone.

> These are all great changes, but iPhone users won’t be able to use these features when chatting with someone on Android. And we don’t even know how the emoji created with Genmoji, Apple’s new AI emoji creation tool, will appear in texts sent to users on Android, either.

And why would they care? I’m not interested in Genmoji in the least, but it’s a boring world if Apple needs to check in with Google, Meta, Verizon, etc on every experimental feature they want to add to messaging.
You raise a good point yet it is not what people say that matters but what it predicts about them. Modern society is built on trust and the things you want to know but can not observe can often be predicted from what you can observe such as things being said.
> I am not convinced about the rest of the animal kingdom.

What about crows?
Yes, they are actually quite "allergic" to anything "non-Tuta".
Ask HN: Multiple LLM work together to give higher than gpt4o performance
I am building a ChatGPT-like platform that, instead of asking one LLM a question, it will ask multiple LLMs all at the same time and create a final output by corroborate output from each mode. Model will work together to come up with the final answer and we see greatly improve performance and reduce hallucinations.

Notably, on AlpacaEval 2.0, using solely open-source models, we achieved a margin of 7.6% absolute improvement from 57.5% (GPT-4 Omni) to 65.1% (Mix Model) and 65.7% using close source model.

Is this something that people find to be useful? Not sure what are the use case, or is working with one LLM enough
I'm ready and willing to believe that marketing is part of the story, but I'm far from willing to believe that it's the whole story. This other commenter explains a lot of the benefits that people find from SUVs far better than I could myself:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40699325

This isn't a diamond ring situation where someone created demand out of nothing.
Cobalt?

https://github.com/imputnet/cobalt
There is a form of FOMO that can work when taught to…

Put expiration timers on ads!

Like an elevator ad.

People pay more attention when they know the ad will be gone soon, so they better click.

The only thing is that clicks don’t necessarily convert to results. So this is far better to be done for CPM ads and display ads that rotate.

Which platforms still offer CPM?

PS: combine with limited classes “filling up” during the ad so the FOMO is legit at least
Because deterministic compilation lets you (or someone else) do this automatically.

If you introduce a backdoor into the compilation step, you run a much greater risk of detection. As long as there are multiple machines compiling packages and verifying whether the checksums match, any single backdoored machine will immediately be caught. This is much more important for package managers that do their own builds and ship their own binaries than for those who just ship whatever they got from the developer.

Without deterministic compilation, two builds of the exact same code might differ. This makes backdoors very hard to detect unless you have prior suspicion that one is present in a particular program.

Deterministic compilation forces people to embed backdoors directly in the source code repository, which creates an audit trail, is very visible in diffs, much easier to catch in reviews and so on. You can still get away with it (see the XZ situation), but it requires far more work.
Ah, I meant use your hosting provider's load balancer + use their VPS-es. I think Digital Ocean allows this, AWS and GCP as well.

That way you're outsourcing the problem of "but what if the load balancer itself falls down?".
I love these kind of bugs that are due to physical environment factors that are typically invisible to us when thinking about software/hardware. Reminds me of that issue where someone's car wouldn't if they got vanilla ice cream but but any other flavor. Turned out it was because that flavor took longest to serve (or quickest).
https://www.managementpro.com/my-car-wont-start-after-i-buy-...
That’s a good example but I think you’re describing another market condition called a captive market, not FOMO. In FOMO, buyers have no real risk in not buying, it’s artifice and theatrics that drive a sale. Your example is a market in which mission critical assets are sold by few and those few control all aspects of the sale. In your scenario, you’re less a mark for a salesman and more of a hostage.
You mean like this?

https://www.together.ai/blog/together-moa
No, Gentoo does something far from it - it builds everything on the host machine every time, more or less.
Minimum Viable Products are pretty much by definition built on shaky foundations. At least with software written by humans the failure modes are somewhat bounded by the architecture of the system as opposed to the who-knows-what-the-model-will-hallucinate of AI.
T-Glass: DIY Prism Display Glasses Powered by ESP32-S3 MCU
I still use this all the time
That's because your family actually bothered to plug it in. A lot of people who drive PHEVs only do so for the tax credits, etc., and always just run them on gas.
I've got one that does PhotoPrism + other media (sabnzbd, gerbera, flexget) as a general "media storage" box, one that just runs a Minecraft server, and one that's "everything else" (currently Home Assistant, Grafana, Prometheus, my webcam bird detection stuff, NATS, etc.)

Originally started with HA on a Pi 4 but it wasn't really up to it.
You misunderstand me. Everyone has different taste and cultural values. How is Spotify supposed to know what you want your kids to listen to?

Use the services they provide that are specifically intended for kids under 13.
Looks like they are just cleaning house of lesser-used models? This came via mail last week.

Back in June 2023 and November 2023, we announced the following models will be deprecated on June 13th, 2024:
gpt-3.5-turbo-0301
gpt-3.5-turbo-0613
gpt-3.5-turbo-16k-0613
We noticed that your organization recently used at least one of these models. To help minimize any disruption, we are extending your access to these models for an additional 3 month grace period until September 13th, 2024. After this date, these models will be fully decommissioned.
> but probably less catastrophic than dropping a box of punched cards.

unless they were sequence numbered and you had a sorting machine[0] :-)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card_sorter
I've been using Ydotool[1] for this, and it works really well.

1. https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool
just accepting the demand supply curve mantra is accepting a lot of consumerism dogma. and the math is not even that solid, as you know very well.
CyberTracker, developed with Indigenous trackers for complex biodiversity data
https://archive.ph/9DRFf
... we won't need to understand the rules, we'll just yell at the referees whether it's bees or humans handling the ball?
I think it has more of a negative connotation in the context of thinking you are a "master of all trades" despite not.
I seem to have missed the part where he explains why he's targeting Alpine Linux for his Swift app. Alpine isn't mainstream (the way Ubuntu or rhel are) and stands out mostly for being compact and clutter free.

So... indeed... If you somehow end up with 100MB package for what is essentially just 250kB, I'd say something did not go right. Feels very square peg in round hole.
Why is that so unbelievable? There is a well documented correlation between fuel prices and the type of car consumers buy, while of course the needs stay the same - if anything, todays consumers have less use for a large car than ever.

So what are we to conclude? Yes, the majority of US car buyers will literally buy the biggest gas guzzling pollution spewer they can afford. Call it revealed preferences, although it's hardly obscured - hell, a large number of people vote on the premise that gas must be $5 forever.
Most of the diffs are probably innocuous. I suspect the most common diff would be the version line of Cargo.toml, both from CI that automatically updates that line, and people who forgot to update it before making a tag in git.
My naive answer: turn away from Silicon Valley modernity with its unicorns and runways and “”marketing””, and embrace the boring stuffy academics! https://dspy-docs.vercel.app/
In addition to the HT5xx ATA mentioned in the article, the newer Grandstream ATAs (at least the HT7/8xx models) also support pulse dialing.

One issue that can come up though is that they effectively have tighter tolerances than old mechanical exchanges did for timings, so sometimes an older rotary phone can have timings which are within the official tolerances of the time for the local market but outside tolerances for US standards (digital pulse dialing phones are usually within spec for both because the tolerance ranges overlap).
I generally lose track somewhere after "cookie monster": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYIRO97dhII
Apparently the author of "Building SimCity" worked on Spore with Will Wright.

> Spore is a computer simulation game directed by Will Wright (SimCity, The Sims). I designed its suite of powerful yet fun to use 3d tools that players used to make alien creatures, buildings, and vehicles.

> I designed Spore's critically acclaimed creative tool suite, e.g. the Spore Creature Creator, which has been used to make over 189 million creations.

> In 2002, I was handpicked by Will Wright for Spore's nucleic R&D team. Responsibilities also included design and prototyping across the entire project, directing interns, and interfacing with journalists.

From: http://chaim.io
I’d love to read a blog post from successful one person startups that are in the highly competitive spaces like DevOps tooling (uptime, analytics…) on how they go-to-market and differentiate.
You made me try this, my cpu went from 16% to 9% on my proxmox-box running a home-assistant vm and a few lxcs. Thanks for your post.
You'll get bid, but not from the best suppliers. The goods will read "and if this works out, there will be more business for you in the future" as a red flag. If they're good, they'll be busy. They don't need to grovel for one-off work. Those who will bid on FOMO work are likely not as busy. Or are used to FOMO work (and not for good reasons).

Yes FOMO in your example can motivate. The problem is, not the types you want an LTR with.
Building products on shaky foundations is a tried-and-true approach in IT business.