skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What captured people's imaginations about AWS Lambda is that it lets you a) give any piece of code an URL, and b) that code doesn't consume resources when it's not being used. Yet these are also exactly the attributes possessed by PHP or CGI scripts. In fact, it's far easier for me to write a PHP script and rsync it to a web server of mine than for me to figure out the extensive and complex tooling for creating, maintaining and deploying AWS Lambda functions — and it comes without the lock-in to boot. Moreover, the former allows me to give an URL to a piece of code instantly, whereas with the latter I have to figure out how to setup AWS API Gateway plumbing correctly. I'm genuinely curious how many people find AWS Lambda interesting because they've never encountered, or never properly looked at, CGI.

Well, assuming you are genuinely curious and not just using an expression!

The difference is that the 'web server' is still consuming resources when the code is not in use. They aren't equivalent at all. The web server is hosted on an OS and both require ongoing maintenance.

Further, the appeal of Lambda is in its ease of onboarding for newcomers; I can run a piece of .NET or JS or Python locally and directly without a lambda 'layer' to host it, just invoke the handler method.

I'm not sure what complex tooling that the author is referring to though, it's a zip and push.
I am French, with an understanding of what words actually mean. This article is highly misleading, to be polite. Socialism that has converted to liberal democracy and no longer seeks to replace the market economy is simply not socialism by definition, it's basically social democracy. That's what I have been writing and repeating: It's not because it's called "socialist party" that it is socialist, and that has been the case for decades. Maybe you're too young to grasp this fully.
Darwin Awards rewards people who are no longer able to reproduce, not taking into account any previous offspring. It'd be pretty hard to discover whether the subject of a random newspaper article had children or not.

They do account for future ability to reproduce, whether the person dies or not. For example, https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2000-38.html
Yet it is a captive market. If I am in a building, I only have access to a singular type of elevator. Why not always give the smoothest ride possible unless it is $0.12 cheaper for the installer, so everyone has to suffer forever.
> The market cap of the set of all companies making the RTO/WFH decision must dwarf the market cap of Commercial Real Estate. Yet, somehow, Commercial Real Estate is pulling the strings...

a) The business districts of many cities become much smaller or (in some cases) effectively nonexistent if they don't have folks coming into the city's office buildings and going out for meals and entertainment throughout the day. This makes for a substantial reduction in sales tax revenue due to the reduced sales, and (for places that aren't like California and have the ability to actually make meaningful increases in property tax income over the years) property tax revenue as the on-paper value of those commercial properties plummet because there's neither people willing to put their asses into leased seats, nor foot traffic to feed those businesses anymore. This makes cities DESPERATE to get asses in seats and willing to threaten or bribe businesses with local offices to make it happen.

b) Market cap is a handy proxy to get an idea of what the size of a business might be. Given that nVidia is currently the biggest publicly-traded company in the world according to this metric, one should notice that it's a metric that really needs to be evaluated in concert with others to get a full and accurate picture of what's going on with a particular business. (It's particularly instructive to notice that if a company were to sell all of its publicly-traded stock, it would receive WAY less for the sale than the "Wow, look at that market cap!" numbers would indicate it should.)
> A17 Pro chip, which has a 16-core Neural Engine

maybe this is why my iPhone 15 pro battery under performs my iPhone 13 pro
Google meet has a PWA https://support.google.com/meet/answer/10708569?hl=en
> People are spending more time with streaming than broadcast or cable television

This isn't about the television sets. It's about watching programming from streaming services. If you log on to Hulu, Roku, Youtube, even AppleTV, that's when you're feeding the data brokers. Don't want that? The only choice is to pirate. Or don't watch anything.

> In some cases, ad services claim they can follow a single person from their television to their smartphone and even to digital billboards at bus stops.

But really we have no choice. The propagandists are making the choice and forcing us to watch.
Maybe the people in the board also have a stake on real estate?
When I buy packaged groceries I often decide whether I'll buy it again based on the packaging used. And I feel like from my perspective things are getting better slowly. Lots more paper where plastic used to be, good stuff.

Now the other day I went to my ethnic neigborhood store that I usually only buy veggies from but this time I got some imported roti breads and good lord, the amount of plastic they use is just insane. It opened my eyes to the fact that probably the vast majority of the world still packages their food like there's no tomorrow. Every roti was wrapped in 2 sheets of plastic, packaged in a bag of plastic. 5 rotis in bags in another bag, 5 bags of those in the large bag you see in the store. They tasted great but I'm not going to buy them again, it's just too much garbage, most of it isn't even recyclable where I am. It's completely unreasonable what we're doing here.
Nice! Reminds me of the Op-1 Tombola sequencer: https://youtube.com/watch?v=SHoDUCAd4-I&pp=ygUMb3AtMSB0b21ib... that triggered midi notes on collision
To prevent this from happening in the future, I would give the inspectors the right to immediately close a bridge when it got to be this bad. If the owner forcibly reopened it, they would lose any insurance coverage on it (be totally liable for consequences).
In macro photography, flashes are usually used with a big diffuser. Ring lights probably have their own issues and don't seem to be that popular with macro photographers (from my non-expert knowledge).
I was thinking along the same lines and I think where I end up is realizing searching though the possible space of token sequences isn't the way to do it as the text output space is too far removed from the ground truth for humans. As in text is already a biased projection of reality by humans, now we're searching through an LLM's crude estimation of a biased projection of this?

I think a deeper architectural change involving searching internally in the latent space of a model is required. That way we could search in "thought space" instead of "text space" and maybe then only convert the output to text after searching.
Burnout is leading more employees to turn down promotions
I'd start with An Introduction to Statistical Learning - a strong background in statistics is key, especially for being able to work with models and understand their limits and how to adapt them to your own use case. The pdf for the book is free and available here: https://www.statlearning.com/

For real, this is an amazing book and it's such a gift that they have it free online and with a python version - I learned with the first edition having to translate the R code to python! I wouldn't start with The Elements to Statistical Learning - that has a much heavier emphasis on the math and theory and is hard to get through!
Qualcomm agrees to pay $75M in all-cash deal to settle licensing suit
Some banking still runs on COBOL, probably.
I wonder if this has to do with that systemd "movable" home thing I read about a while ago ?

Yes, bugs happen, but how could testing miss this. I would think some automated test would have noticed this. After reading the links theamk supplied, somehow a config issue occurred (?) and the change is just to the man page.

A bit confused by the fix. But seems a purge of /home is still possible even after the fix, to me that is very odd. Fun times in the cloud I guess :)

Glad my distro (Slackware) does extensive testing before a each release. But maybe that is easier for that distro since it does not use systemd.

And not being a professional admin, I will not have to worry about this at work.
I think it's worse than not doing it well. It's more like struggling at the basics. The incentives of these camps favor quantity over quality.
It's been frustrating to see how the past decades of focus on the office and the suburb have left American cities so vulnerable to this kind of dilemma. There's a simple solution: create a pleasant, walkable downtown that people will want to actually live in.
Cause we are broke.
On my phone? Yes, a combo of Octal and HACK, but I often fall back to the web since the apps don't expose everything.

On my computer I always use the web. I prefer the web on my computer but on my phone apps can provide a nicer experience (larger touch targets, swipe gestures, etc). But in general I find the phone (and tablet) limiting and if I need to do any actual "research" I immediately move to my computer where I can open multiple tabs and move between them easier.
AppAcademy started with and still does ISAs and has been fairly successful. There have been situations where they've deemed certain participants greater risk and NOT offered them ISAs and asked for upfront payment, but I believe their success has largely been a result of aggressive candidate filtering all the way up to 1/3 of the way through the program after its started.

I have first hand experience with their program, albeit 10 years ago, but I would largely say that almost no one who completed the program with me actually needed it and its benefits are largely a forcing function to get you to build a portfolio in a short amount of time and have a peer group to rely on. Everyone from my cohort is still working in industry today if they want to and all seem to be doing well.
I tackled caching on GitHub Actions so you don't have to
I have been through lambda.

It was the force of nature that turned my life on the right path.

It was the best decision I ever made

This wouldn’t have been possible without Austen.
Did you consider just enabling TCG, without changing the rest of parameters? I'd be surprised if swapping virtio-blk with ide-hd (SATA) helped with performance.
If Apple's "Private Cloud Compute" is used even on the latest devices for some tasks that are too computationally complex to be done on-device, then is there some reason (other than money) that they can't launch Apple Intelligence on all iOS 18 devices but use the cloud for all "AI" requests that would be "too slow" because of the older chips?
Oh just fuck right off. You’re already following me around from thread to thread calling me names and now you’re saying I’m using “bad software” for using the built-in, recommended router advertisement daemon on the operating system that has historically always been the absolute best in class at IPv6. You’re being argumentative, you won’t admit when you’re wrong, you treat me like an idiot; in short, you’re a fucking troll. Stop posting.
>Macs and iPads with M1 or later chips will support Apple Intelligence
Infrastructure maintenance was quite a big issue during the 2015 US election. I'm not sure the Trump administration actually did anything about it – I don't really follow US politics that closely. My point is: people do care.

I think the bigger problem is maintenance is just one cost out of many. There's also education, and health care, and social services, and police, and firemen, and pensions, and all sorts of other things, and that's also important. It's relatively easy to "save" on maintenance because nothing is going to fall down immediately and no one will really notice – at least not for a while. In the long run you're not really saving anything of course.

It's easy to critique this from the sidelines, but the pressures politicians and governments are under make it pretty tricky to do anything else. Saving money in other areas is going to be unpopular. Raising taxes even more so. A lot of times stuff like this is a Kobayashi Maru.
I work closely with some people who make these kinds of decisions and ime it's not commercial real estate (though I'm sure there might be isolated cases of this happening - Washington DC's city government is a notable example of this)

Based on my network, their reasoning is a mix of:

- communication breakdowns due to the difficulty of building an async communication model (remember that most people are not as text/writing and async driven as Internet commenters on a tech forum), and operational work like quarterly planning, QBRs, product line prioritizations, etc can be done much faster in person instead of over 10-15 Zoom calls over 3-5 weeks.

- situations where remote workers are domiciled in a different location from where they were hired AND they didn't tell HR (this leaves companies legally liable for various tax, business incorporation, and safety regulations)

- the occasional case where a major security incident occurs due to lack of in-person verification (eg. The recent North Korea remote worker scandal, the ongoing Snowflake break)

- Justify US headcount. One of the portfolio companies I was an observer for went public a couple years ago. When they switched to remote during the pandemic, they realized they could cut down their entire US engineering presence and overhire in Eastern Europe, Israel, and India and drastically reduce margins. Most larger institutional investors are clamoring for this now, and they have a point to a certain extent. IBM, Google, Crowdstrike, and Amazon have unofficially started this, and I'm not surprised if other companies are doing the same

There are ways to change an organization to resolve these issues, but they are hard, expensive, and not scalable for large organizations.
From the new docs,

> The primary usecase for this option is to automatically remove files and directories that originally have been created on behalf of an installed packaged at package removal time.

> Warning! This is is usually not the command you want! In most cases --remove is what you are looking for

These seem like good responses, reasonable safeguards & documentation additions.

It also no longer runs without a specific config saying what tmpfiles to manage.

This is scary & annoying, but it just seems like so much manufactured outrage & FUD from people. I agree that it's a bad look for systemd to close discussions so soon, but they also were on it & resolving it quite satisfactorily with due haste. (Well, I guess bluca's initial response was a strong rebuff, but that did get re-steered.)

It would be lovely to get a better picture of how all the pieces slotted together to make this issue possible. It seems like maybe one system is trying to setup subvolumeable quotas for /home in some cases and that somehow triggered this? I feel like the excellent Dynamic Users feature would likely somehow be involved here, but unclear. https://0pointer.net/blog/dynamic-users-with-systemd.html
It's very unlikely it will be used in video games. Video games pretty much exclusively use texture mapped polygon meshes as data structure. They easy to render, they plays well with object animations, they allow for dynamic lights, and there exists a lot of mature software to create and edit this data. 3D Gaussian splats also render quite fast, but they are bad for animations, they don't allow for dynamic lights (as far as I can tell), and there are basically no tools to create and edit models, except from photogrammetry.
I do agree with the overall trend the author is observing, but I guess what I was getting at is that this is sort of an old problem extending to the web.

There's a unique social stigma around "bots" that isn't applied the same way to power users of any other system (understandably so, given some are nefarious). I believe this largely gave way to AI-powered bots, as there's a demand for bots to behave as humanly as possible to 1) minimize obstructions like 403s and 2) maximize the extraction of information.

Maybe if web servers were broadly designed thinking of bots as power users, the web would bifurcate into a "optimized web" for bots (APIs), and a "traditional web" for humans (HTML). Instead, we're getting this mess of bots and humans all trying to squeeze through the same doorway.
You might enjoy the discussion on Goody-2, an AI model that does precisely that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39315986
Those TwinScan systems are much newer than the PAS5500 series I'm familiar with (the one they're really bragging about in that article with the 95% stat). ASML doesn't sell them anymore, they only offer the refurbishment program: https://www.asml.com/en/products/refurbished-systems

Sooner rather than later it'll be cheaper to buy a TwinScan system than to fix a PAS5500/750, but at that point why would the fab keep making 180nm chips when they can make more money making 45nm chips with the same system? Last I checked, some critical parts already had 1+ year lead times because they had to be made to order so fabs have to keep their own stock.

Edit: Sorry I misused "EOL" in a previous comment. They're still being supported my ASML, but you can't buy a new machine so expanding a fab means upgrading the node.
Sears homes were precut I believe. Your crew was probably drunk anyhow no matter what but that gives them a bit of a helping hand with one less precision task to be done. I think theres a serious survivorship bias among them today. Most of the ones you would consider buying have been well maintained and upkept. The ones we rented from slumlord landlords in college on the other hand. Some of the floors were so warped it looked like the tide. Most bathrooms full of mold from 7 students showering daily with no shower vent. Most exterior trim wood rotting from lack of regular painting. Most windows single pane with poor seals. Most work would happen when something catastrophic demanded it from a code habitability issue, like a roof leak destroying the ceiling, that would only be addressed after the unit became legally uninhabitable.
It's interesting and I've experienced slow forks which lead to using a tiny companion process to execute programs (before spawn arrived).

I have to say I hate CreateProcess more for taking a string rather than an array of string pointers to arguments like argv. This always made it extra difficult to escape special characters in arguments correctly.
Building Haskell IO Monad from Scratch [video]
The web app somehow made its way to him! He sent me an extremely endearing message that it was fun to see his 2yo grandson using it! (Craig had originally made Kid Pix for his son who is now a graphic, ui, and ux designer). I let him know I made this port for my own daughter as a pandemic-project.
Still learning rust. What's the unwrap() for in the last line of the consumer code:

stdout().write(output).unwrap();

Thanks.
So, yes, we think there is a massive black hole at the center of all (or just spiral?) galaxies. And gravitational waves move at the speed of light, so if something changes the mass of the central black hole, and the galaxy has a radius of 25,000 light years, it will take 25,000 years for that wave to propagate out to the rim of the galaxy, rearranging things along the way. But:

1. The massive, central black hole did not come from a supernova. There are no stars anything like that big.

2. Even if there were a huge central mass and it collapsed, that doesn't actually change the mass distribution as far as the rest of the galaxy is concerned. There is very little change to propagate. The existence of the huge central mass would have already "arranged" the galaxy.

3. Galaxies spiral with curved arms due to their own rotation, not due to the universe's rotation. If the universe were rotating like a disk (and that was causing the spiral of galaxies), then you would expect the spin of galaxies to all be aligned. And they aren't; not at all.
Tableau, once full of creatives, has been gutted by Salesforce since the acquisition.
Was he sick? 77 years isn't that old, these days.
> restoring landscapes, erecting solar panels …

Isn’t that restoring landscapes and destroying landscapes?
I must have missed the real world performance benchmarks that demonstrate the claims of a marketing department.
Ask HN: React, Vue or Angular?
Which one would you recommend and why?
I'm convinced that Lambda School was shady, and I'm not debating that, but some of this seems over the top.

ISAs as indentured servitude? The shadowy negotiating a company's validation "behind closed doors?" (Where else are you supposed to do it.)

The criticism of Lambda School can stand on its own without wading into the extreme hyperbole.
This is going to the be case for big banks. They make the loans, so they are incentivized to bring people back in the office 5 days a week.

https://www.finra.org/media-center/newsreleases/2024/finra-s...
Sad news, I've learned a lot from some of his old course notes and would come across papers coauthored by him. Take care Arvind, I'll write some Bluespec this week in your honor!
EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40725983 - Jun 2024 (287 comments)

EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40710993 - Jun 2024 (335 comments)
I'm no expert, but this is a basic explanation of the technology they're studying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfME3e7aSNk

The paper describes some experiments that are attempting to profile the technology against magnetic storage drives.
That might be true if the company was honest. But this was clearly fraud. So go ahead and blame the victim.
echo 'Do something you enjoy' >/dev/urandom
cat /dev/urandom

Strange, the result I get is indistinguishable from noise.

Look, your argument also proves too much. If ChatGPT instructs a robot to make a sandwich, it might be giving imitated instructions based on a pretend facsimile of planning, but if you get a sandwich at the end, I submit it doesn't matter. The things that you get from ChatGPT are the sorts of things that could result in the same effects as agency and decisionmaking in a very inept human. This suggests that if we figure out how to increase aptitude, the effects could resemble those of a mediocre human. And that will reshape the economy whether or not those utterings are "real". That's what I'm getting at with the games example. ChatGPT may suck at Checkers, but so do I. It doesn't take much to be better than an average human at most things. If it can then also be better than human at some things, things get interesting.

A /dev/random human does not look like an inept human, it looks like a seizure. ChatGPT playing games clearly has meaningful structure - and more, structure meaningful to the game being attempted. How would you expect a system "halfway" to planning and agency to look and act different than ChatGPT does?
VALNet: Vision-Based Autonomous Landing with Airport Runway Segmentation
>(or taking over sendfile, dumping a file to a socket or socket to file)

splice only works if one of the two fds is a pipe. It cannot replace sendfile.
AI should do useful work. Using it for chatbots is the worst application. Nobody needs to chat with robots.
and to not move jobs for the same reason
It's the same as anyone else living in a war zone. Rocket attacks anywhere from every few days to multiple times a day, depending. Power blackouts, utilities go down. You keep emergency water and batteries and headlamps and food. And hope that one of the rockets don't land on you or even worse someone you care about. You hate them for doing this, relentlessly. You carry a ball of stress in your stomach that only goes away when you're in a country they're not attacking.