skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, 'qualified bidders'. And what are the qualifications to bid to do the cabinets on a 6 million dollar public works/commercial building, which means the building might have $300,000+ of cabinets at most? Basically zero qualifications besides having a license. And with public works, yes the GCs will basically go with the lowest bidder. And while change orders do happen, it's the GCs job to get them to stick to their bid or otherwise they're just burning their own money.

I'm not just lying. Decades of experience in this. Yes construction basically lowest bidder outside of some private construction where relationships count for a bit, but even then the subs with relationships will get squeezed to match the lowest bidder.
The quality isn't the same, but price is its own reward. We'll learn how to shift a lot of industrial production around if the price goes low enough.

Watt-for-watt dispatchable is superior, but for half price there are probably a lot of uses that will turn out to be quite flexible. The energy markets don't appear to have quite gotten to the point where they handle that flexibility (prices keep dipping negative, which is unfortunate if you understand what that implies), but it is reasonable to expect that it is coming.
… in the US.
> You're right, most times organizations need a fire lit underneath them to change, for Google, it probably was the NSA annotation "SSL added and removed here :^)" on a slide showing Google's architecture from the Snowden leaks.

As an insider, it was not. The move to zero-trust started with "A new approach to China": https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-chin...
I tried it recently but got overwhelmed by its interface. I didn't understand all the colors and what I could do at each point. I'll retry later as it seems worth it as replacement of grep/sed/.... , but I'll have to reserve enought time to slowly go through it.
We put all of our earnings in a joint accounts that require both signatures for any very large withdraw. Off that we pull out “petty cash” type accounts for day to day expenses, hobbies, lunch. Bills/mortgage/etc are paid out of the joint account. We both make good salaries, but mine is roughly 2x hers but we don’t make anything out of that. We sit down together and talk out investments/retirement together and all that is jointly owned of course. We both have some land and “family” money that stays separate from our marital assets but everything after marriage we have shared equally and I consider that fair. It works out pretty well.
Gui Etl makes a promise that you dont need a programmer to wield it. But it is a false promise.

> They need scale, observability, modularity, and maintainability.

Seems orthogonal to code-vs-gui dimension.
That is a great example why I consider the spec buggy. With a proper spec, stuff like that would not fly from the start.
I work in manufacturing (large industrial plant) and the data processes we have are honestly not great - mostly it is because there are a heap of legacy system and not a lot of commonality between our data sources we have a hideous mashup of Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server etc and different versions of the different databases. There's also more bespoke industry stuff like time series historians and SCADA systems/PLCs (ABB, Citect etc) to complicate the process.

From my experience SQL is basically the lowest common denominator everything speaks and even then the Oracle SQL dialect is subtly different to Microsoft SQL for example - things are subtly different enough it introduces frustrations.

There has been movement in last couple of years to hoist everything into a common "datalake" but my understanding has been that ingestion into this lake is not a simple process by any means and requires batch processes that need demanding compute resources and is slow (i.e. takes many hours and runs over night).
Day ahead prices turning negative does not mean the wind and solar generators make a loss for every kWh they sell; they still receive country specific subsidies (production tax credits, feed-in-tariffs, contract for difference, renewables obligations ... and let's not forget about investment subsidies which helped to get the plant built) which make it worth their while to keep the blades spinning and the solar inverters humming. Otherwise what is the argument for subject your equipment to wear-and-tear and then paying for someone to take your product?

In addition there are more general system costs (the need for capacity payments to ensure electricity can be generated at peak times, as well as maintaining plants in reserve in case the weather isn't what was forecast the day ahead).

By this line of argument, negative prices on sunny/windy days increase the price of electricity to the consumer, since all of these subsidies need to be recouped (either by the tax or energy systems).
For my users having a PWA is completely irrelevant. Once they add it to home screen it's an app for them (I don't even bother to explain anymore).
It might be a discoverability issue since they can't find you in app stores though.
how did your guys diff birthday cakes turn out?
Anything can be 'resume driven design'. If someone is rewarded with a raise, promotion, or even just praise sometimes, for applying a technology to a problem without being required to prove if the technology is appropriate they'll find a way to jam that tech into their domain regardless.

Sometimes that promotion is rewarded by going a different company while being able to say "yes, I used X in my previous role."
Where is the chlorine it's "activating" come from? The paper didn't cover this.

Is it chlorine nitrate it's breaking down? Or hydrochloric acid?
Ooops. Oh No. Boing. Ooops. Oh No. Oh No. Boing.
I'm not that impressed until one of those "intelligent humans" can make me a sandwich and deliver it to me. Gen AI's productivity boosting capabilities are seriously limited outside office work, and even there it can't be trusted to perform totally autonomously. It's a big deal, but not a revolution.

Now, if combine robotics with Gen AI and some other solutions to form true AGI that can do both tasks in physical world and virtual, then things will get more interesting.
That‘s nice, but the question is if you (i.e. your company) needs this ecosystem.
> There might be some small subset of citations that work like a mathematical proof

And even then, you're just weakening the result, not throwing it out entirely: instead of a proof of X that cites a proof of Y, you have a proof that Y implies X.
> There is a message queue in there somewhere just that it’s not as exposed.

It's still pretty exposed. You can set redelivery timeouts and connect a dead letter queue to lambda functions. Even just the lambda invoke API is obviously just a funny looking endpoint for adding messages to the queue.

> as much as have been abstracted away

In AWS in particular into EventBridge which further extends them with state machines. They've become the very mature corner stone of many technologies.
how is that a feasible industry? southern African countries produce cotton but don't have a textile industry even for their army uniforms.

it's the usual colonial triangle of extraction and forced consumption.

they just moved the frame. before it was enslaved to America, ag produce to the empire, goods to Africa.

now it's ag produce to the empire, goods to the periphery of the empire, and garbage to Africa and south America. (vast majority of those clothes are literal garbage. donation is a very small percentage. same with selling refurbished electronics which won't even receive updates and are already out of support/vulnerable)
If one loves democracy, the argument runs, one must crush its enemies by no matter what means. And who are its enemies? It always appears that they are not only those who attack it openly and consciously, but those who ‘objectively’ endanger it by spreading mistaken doctrines. In other words, defending democracy involves destroying all independence of thought. George Orwell

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...

Btw even Nazi radio broadcasting was not blocked during WW2 in GB.
https://languagehat.com/kolmogorov/

For the folklorists, the comments-readers, the invertebrate meme-chasers

>If we're not in pain, we're not alive

https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
In all honesty, a bland 5-over-1 is still more interesting to look at than any cookie-cutter suburban house ever built.
Etl as text is good, because you can save it in version control. (Is it “code” or “json” is irrelevant for the vcs)

Edit: save in vcs stringly implies usability of ‘diff’ and ‘grep’
This presupposes that there is more than one line manager.

I see people trying to apply micro services architectures to a web app with a single developer.

As in literally taking a working monolith written by one person and having that one person split it up into tiny services.

It’s madness.
Completely agree.

I would also add that in my 25 years in the industry I have never actually come across an ETL workflow that was complex enough that it required people working it in code. Those opinions seem to occur before proper analysis happens.
Did someone optimize something that was making excessive traffic?
Are you willing to share more about either?

That's fascinating.
They are planning to do it the other way round so no worries, I guess.
Open-source is often free, and it seems like a good system that projects can be initialized easily with a low cost, but to use it in a business, businesses should pay the costs of the boring production pipeline, ie the security bounties.
Finding qualifying people is hard, but with bug bounties you don't have to worry about it right? You only pay when you approve that PR..

I've seen algora being used a lot by many popular projects and recently heard about polar.sh also supporting bug bounties.
yes, as you approach kardashev type 1 you will definitely want to start harvesting sunlight from von neumann probes on solar orbit

including transportation, natural gas, etc., but not including foods like corn and canola, the usa uses 100 quads per year, or 3.3 terawatts in si units. its average utility-scale solar power capacity factor is 21%, so you'd need 15.7 terawatts peak of solar farms to supply that, before scaling up by 2× or 10× or 100×. 15.7 terawatts of 24% efficient solar panels would require 65 terawatts of sunlight, which is to say, 65 billion square meters or 65536 square kilometers (to pick a round number). this is of course 256², so, like the entire spectrum of mainstream political opinion in the usa, it would all fit between houston and austin. you could drive around it in a day

well, not quite; that's 29° latitude, so you need to space your panels apart by a factor of 1/cos 29°, about 14%, so they don't shade each other. also in texas, unlike any other phenomenon known to humanity, it would be a bit smaller, because texas has a 25% capacity factor; the reason the usa has an overall lower solar capacity factor of 21% is that some solar farms are in suboptimal places like maine (10%) so the power doesn't require long-distance transmission

so right now it's really tough for nuclear to compete with solar on earth
Even for a one-man project, the Git repo will get huge. At least that is what I am running into.

I know one day I'll have to adress it, and probably rewrite all commits.
That is not a problem, just pick the same equality that your .compareTo method uses.

You could pick -0 < 0, and -0 ≠ 0, or -0 = 0. You should never pick -0 < 0 (via compareTo), but -0 = 0 (via equals).
So, if you drink and drive and kill a child, is it your responsibility, or is it the fault of alcohol being legal or vehicles not being mandates safe enough? This modern way of dealing with moral hazards is making me sad and afraid of others. After all, who knows whom they are going to blame for their own inability to perform sensible actions?
Active Exploitation Observed for Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilit
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/lawmakers-across-the-eu-cal...

Bottom of the page has per-state contacts
I don’t think our species will make it that long. We will have scienced our way to some sort of singularity or be extinct by several hundred thousand years.
You could do that with code owners file in a monolith as well.
> Trying the abliterated ones makes that embarrassingly clear. You're better off tuning on erotic fanfic for your waifu than using an abliterated one

These are two very different things. Ablation gets used to remove the LLM's behavior of refusing to answer, but obviously it does not otherwise affect the LLM's replies, much less increase the LLM's knowledge or suitability to "forbidden" topics since that will depend on what it was trained on, and forbidden topics tend not to be heavily featured in the training process. Instead, the models tend to confabulate even more than usual as if clumsily trying to fill the gaps in their training. If anything, ablation will more easily let us test "what an LLM would say if it was jailbroken", which will likely help mitigate the oft-expressed concern that a "jailbroken" model might say something dangerous. (Of course a random confabulation about the wrong topic can also be quite dangerous, but confabulations in general are a really hard problem to address.)
It relates that there was experience, but not what that experience was - We can read and understand that they're reporting their own experience, but that's about it.

One could say "In my experience, the earth is flat", but there's not much a conversation to be had there.

One could say, "In my experience, the earth is flat - I got in my car, went for a drive in one direction, and eventually hit a cliff at the ocean instead of finding myself back where I started". Now there's something to talk about.

(To be clear: this is the internet, and a limited communication medium: I'd assume OP could relate details about their experience, and it's totally reasonable that instead of taking the time to do that, they went outside and touched grass)
most of those textile are disposed, not donated. they are also not free. people buy it. there's a small ecosystem, the countries I've seen the locals but bulk textiles in a "Chinatown". most African countries lost their cotton export markets after end of slavery, ironically, because they never managed the investment for machines so the cotton fields just withered or were covered to something like corn with manual labor.

wonder why you think they are on Europe level situation. even further Yugoslavia post war was much better off
Pretty similar, except I was thinking of the VC firm ... and I was wondering, does it really matter if Sequoia Capital is more partial towards Macs?
The Tower of Babel?
I’m concerned that a lot of commenters don’t appreciate the difference between a queue and a log. Kafka is not a queue.

I think like most have said is that it’s just not a popular topic anymore to blog about but it’s still used. OTOH logs like Kafka have become more ubiquitous. Even new and exciting systems like Apache Pulsar (a log system that can emulate a queue) have implemented the Kafka API.
>How do you define progress?

To some people, progress is not being made unless useless middlemen are raking in the bucks and getting more out of the energy you are using than you are.
You are missing my point entirely here. This is not some “psychological comfort” thing or whatever nonsense you’re offering.

I’m saying that we are currently talking about a topic that I happen to know a lot about and you happened to start thinking about when the conversation started.

So when you say that you aren’t sure if things sound kind of plausible it doesn’t actually hold any weight to the conversation because again it’s clear you don’t have any of the required background to have an informed opinion to give here.

It’s not a personal attack or anything, but it’s also nothing to do with trying to make myself feel better.
The current keycloak is designed to run in containers. You take the image from redhat and provision what you need and then you have the image that can be easily used in multiple instances.
I believe it’s the last one. I use queues more than ever.

Almost every AWS architecture diagram will have a queue.

SQS is extremely stable, mature and cheap. Integrates with so many services and comes out of the box with good defaults.
Tesla built 51% of their global production in Shanghai, China in Q1 2024.

The leverage isn't just shutting down the China market, it's the threat to 51% of Tesla's production capacity.
I agree. However, it is not a clear cut what's fair and what is "gaming the benchmark" in this setup, for example:

- can I train on my own private training set (which is harder)?

- can I pretrain on The Pile or something similar, a dataset full of texts crawled from web?

- can I pretrain on elementary school textbooks?

It seems like the latter two is acceptable given the use of GPT-4o here. But then, are the latter two that different to the first one? GPT-4o have the public test set in its training data (GPT-4o is definitely trained on public GitHub repos).

What's the point of having a training set with different distribution in this case, other than making participating harder? Maybe it's to discourage data-hungry approaches, but if there are legit shortcuts, anyone who seriously want to win would take it.
The slums of tomorrow, today!

Are those things being built outside a few high-demand areas such as the SF bay area?
Do they? https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/upload-moderation.pdf

As an European, I’ve lost faith on any EU law “protecting” people. The business of trading your data is just too good to ignore.
Right, but there are certainly going to be a ceiling to how far one can go. With writing it can be copied nearly verbatim and kept for centuries whereas the human mind is brittle and forgets, fuzzes, and randomly changes knowledge, it can contain only so much data.
>Using energy is good, it is progress.

Roger.

Using less energy is even better, it is further progress.

not my downvote btw
The tailscale one at least isn't TCP, it's UDP
This is another case that adds to my thinking that LLMs will be a productivity win for people who are already familiar with the type of subject they need help with. Someone familiar with canning would have known the dangers of sealing food without properly heating everything to kill the bacteria. A novice would not know. Novices would have to do a lot of research to be sure of what they are doing. Experienced users would know the problem right away and fix it.
Subspace darkmatter icebergs scratching along supercooled liquids?
not gonna lie, this title sounds a bit pedofilic
why would you not put a wrapped pwa in the app store?

isn't it a small racketeering/marketing price for the promissed discoverability?
Well, if the file got ignored that would be very surprising and a source of frustration indeed

A clear error message that explains that go source files cannot have underscores in them other than the supported suffixes (and a link to a page that documents them).

If you do that since the beginning then it's easy and painless.

The problem is: what do you do when you haven't thought of the consequences of one convention? Do you fix it later?

I'm happy with the current Go trade-off. This detail isn't worth fixing.

But it's nevertheless interesting to use as an excercise to see how it could have been done in a way that preserves all good properties and is also future proof
Mobile Proxies, How to Choose?
There was a problem with web scraping, I'm looking into it now. I use python and bs4. I can’t scrape one site with captchas, I read that you can use mobile proxies to reduce captchas. And now I’m looking for good mobile proxy providers, does anyone have any recommendations?
Thanks for clarification, I agree this is a reasonable view of the situation.

Though I also don't really have problems with headlines like "AI tried to kill a man". True LLM can't be held responsible, but so are e.g. animals. If an unleashed dog kills a man, the owner will be responsible but the headlines will be still about the dog.

Then it can be argued that LLMs don't have intent while the dog had, and many more analogies, arguments and nuances will follow. My point is, this headline is still at an acceptable level of accuracy, unlike many other headlines that distort the reality completely.
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Idk, everything is already diluted with false information and algorithmic newsfeeds pinning us against each other.

What good could come from an internet where you don’t even know who you’re talking to is real?
There is a good Decouple Podcast for background on how the US got to the point where it had outsourced its enrichment and had insufficient centrifuge capacity of its own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrQVGbNk2dE

The whole saga is politics (the US can build bigger/better; the US can help secure the world by soaking up Russian supply; the US can do it without relying on Uernco). I think the concept of a "minimum SWU/enriched uranium price" is appealing ... at least for Urenco.
I would not want to use either for "real programming", but TCL looks like one of the nicer options for an interactive shell.
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It seems that there is a pretty good explanation for the slipperiness of ice now: https://youtu.be/20zyW0qoSTE (referencing this article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07427-8)

Layman tl;dw: on the surface of ice the crystal structure isn't perfect, leaving some water molecules able to move around as if they were in a liquid.
If you realize you can cut your storage/compute/etc costs by an order of magnitude, will you pass that savings on to your customers?

Or will you increase your margins?
and mandates that virtually all new projects not directly use borg/kubernetes.
This is not at all what a citation means. If someone writes a math paper with a correct result, and the proof is wrong, then you cite that paper to give a corrected proof. If someone writes a math paper where a result itself is incorrect, then you cite that paper to give your counterexample. A citation just means the paper is related, not that it's right or you agree with it.
And SpaceX boasts to have launched more mass than the rest of the world combined...
Global Market Outlook for Solar Power 2024 – 2028
Please don't mention AI again
yes, clearly that is correct when it comes to spacecraft, where what matters is energy density; voyager 1 would not be transmitting to us today if it were powered by kerosene or solar panels.

but, here on earth, operating power plants is generally not an expense in proportion to how much their fuel weighs. only about half of the cost of a coal power plant is the coal; the other half is the plant, with its spinning electromagnets, parsons turbines, deionized supercritical steam circuit, cooling towers, and so on. as long as you're using nuclear power as an alternative way to drive steam through the coal-plant machinery, the best you can do is knock the cost down by a factor of about 2, which is 0.3 orders of magnitude rather than 2+

also, by the way, if you can come up with a heat engine that's cheaper by one or more orders of magnitude, you can compete with photovoltaic power plants using not just nuclear energy but also concentrating solar and geothermal. that would be a huge boon
What's the alternative? Certainly multi platform native only makes sense at a certain scale.

Your question might be too light on details to provide much advice.
You ellipsed ([...]) the "can assume" part of my statement. Every mathematician knows the different ways of constructing numbers. It really is a simple YES.
Even IndexedDb? Having a PWA based on webassembly(Blazor) that I test on an updated iPhone 6 I have to say that I didn't ever run in such issues, the experience is good even though the device is old.