skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My better half works in cloud migrations. JFK the BS, games, lying that goes on to protect internal data centers is beyond even what I've been through. But I can say this: a leading reason companies move to the cloud? They are sick and tired of crappy internal servicing from those who run the private data centers. With-holding costs of labor, data floor space, or lying about it was common in her telling.

This sounds backwards. If someone doing "cloud migration" is around to observe, that means the internal data center people know their heads are on the chopping board, and desperately trying to preserve their jobs. You cannot expect honesty from someone fighting for survival, and it's disingenuous to assume they deserve it because they act that way.
Is there any blocker that block fingerprint.com hosted in a subdomain?

Is there any adblocker that blocks yt ads?
I don’t think that is true? It would be a DMCA violation to distribute, not to use.
That iteration time is a killer. I’m currently working on something and each new prof of concept takes almost a month - if I’ve messed something up it’s a massive set back.

I could improve things by doing the SMD assembly at home. But that would only shave off a couple of weeks and some components are really not suitable for DIY work.
Not OP but I can answer this. The most obvious example is in Starcraft 1 you can’t select more than 12 units at a time, with a population cap of 200. This meant to move your army you had to make many, many more actions than in SC2 where you can just drag a box around your whole army (and/or hotkey that whole group) and attack+move.

Personally I think that was a technical limitation of the first game and a huge ergonomic improvement in the second.

Other things like having groups of buildings on hotkeys means you don’t have to go back to your base to order more units and set the rally point (where units go when they’re built) for all those buildings at once. This makes StarCraft to be an insanely micro-mechanic intensive game at high levels.
That. When a page says “try” and “for free” in connection, I always research the hidden real long time cost before trying. If I can’t find it, I usually leave or Google to find out if the costs have been mentioned somewhere else.
...and there will inevitably be a cheaper version, with Dimensity DNA instead.
Anecdotally, teaching in a manner that forces students to discover a key or difficult concept on their own is a way to weed out those who "can" from those who "will", if you get my meaning.

My undergraduate math professor was like that, and he was pretty brutal, but by the end of the 2nd semester it was pretty clear who was going to end up majoring in something to do with math and who wasn't. From a pure selection standpoint, this makes sense to me. On the other hand, for those who "won't" it can make the experience pretty miserable.
The code will reveal the corner cases to you; you will think of things you didn't think of before writing the code.

Before you write the code, your ideas may be so poor that they don't even hit the happy cases when you try to code them. You go "Oh, what was I thinking; it's obvious now that it could never work that way ..."

Of course, it's coding we are talking about; there will be bugs. Fewer than in some wishful prose, though.
Yeah. Creo was a great place to be and had some very good people. The focus on culture really permeated the company.

I would say though that it wasn't simply the dilution of the culture, there were also some real business challenges that led to external pressures and eventually the sale of the company. A takeaway from that is that business is an important part of, ya know, being a business. A financially successful business has more room to be a great place. Creo did well and grew well but operated in an area where making money isn't easy (the printing industry).
- Not open-source.

- Does not run locally.

- Sends some kind of tracking data to its servers.

It may be a good tool to have your pages load faster. It's a questionable tool if you want enhanced privacy.
Why not Starlink? ~$100/month/site is pretty low cost.
It'll be funny if it ever does. AI replacing programmers is funny, AI replacing managers is hilarity.

Also I think with open source it has scaled. I don't have to reinvent curl
They are probably referring to:
1. Infinite unit selection (SC1/BW were capped at 12, this is doubly important for buildings).
2. Rally workers directly to mineral patches
3. Smart cast for spells (pairs with #1 to allow you to cast spells more easily)
4. Better unit control, more deterministic
5. Removed high ground advantage (SC1/BW 50% hit chance up hill).

Maybe others... that said, anyone that pays attention to both games knows that the lack of complexity in unit and macro mechanics in SC2 leaves room for other actions, such as more intense "micro" mechanics. Neither game is more demanding then the other, it turns out in both games you never run out of things to do.
Alternatively, the abstraction of a network drive just happens to be the right one for local filesystem drivers too. There's some more interesting details on the redirector API development here: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/redirectors-and-dos-3-0/
And what of those who talk of abstractions concretely?

You know, the mathematicians.
This is a very common problem in many orgs. Spending time (adding meetings, exploring various options, etc.) is completely fine while spending money is a huge deal because of the emotional connection to money that many people seem to have.

Imagine, holding a 2 hour, 10 person meeting to decide if an additional one time $1000 cloud expenditure is warranted. Yet, this happens all the time. I can assure you, that this is not how shareholders or customers want you to spend your time.
Oh! I understand you now. I thought at first that you meant something along the lines of college students at parties choosing to wear masks as a new trend to avoid being recognized on social media. Thanks!
I think this is all too common due to a small few who take advantage which leads to the construction of barriers to prevent abuse. This isn't limited to large orgs -- it's everywhere in society.

Tragedy of the Commons Ruins Everything Around Me.

Those who act selfishly poison the well for everyone.
It might be a mondegreen
I went through this stage with a smaller company and there's definitely this point where you no longer know everyone and things change. Creo however did manage to scale this well beyond 150 people. You don't necessarily need a lot of hierarchy but you do need to figure out a structure. Creo always had a hierarchy, it wasn't like Valve or something. It's just how things worked within that hierarchy.
Steel manning an argument is an extraordinarily powerful tool for rational thinking. I do it all the time, every time I encounter someone who holds beliefs I cannot understand. But I'm very hesitant to post the result of my steel-manning online, for this and other reasons. It's a private exercise.

It's also quite dangerous if you're attached to your beliefs. I rarely walk away from steel manning an argument without being persuaded to some degree into a compromise position.
Lucky you! Most people haven't had that experience. Everyone being able to speak English, everyone knowing algorithmic complexity, that's just damning with faint praise. I suppose if everyone paid 90th percentile salaries, and imposed the overhead of a PM org powerful enough to wrangle the various offices into shape, it would work fine. But it might still be inferior to the one-product-per-office model.
For all of the other folks here saying ibuprofen isn't strong enough: I have the same, and only with ibuprofen (vs. other over-the-counter drugs like aspirin or paracetemol): if I catch it early enough, sometimes it staves off the full blown migraine development.

I've had migraines since childhood, fortunately only every couple months for 2-4 hours. Weirdly, I'm so used to the pain at this point that I kind of take it in stride.

The downside is that ibuprofen also often upsets my stomach, and in the bad ones, I barf from the pain, so there's a gamble as to which route to go down.
http://sand.scroll.pub/anime/

Your website lived up to the title's promise, congrats.
If this is for use during outages, I want to know exactly what network path is used, ideally with as few hops as possible. Starlink can’t guarantee that.
>I saw a grayscale BMP file getting better compression with FLAC (!) than JXL.

I thought FLAC are for audio only or am I missing something?

Compared to other Lossless I thought JXL was quite computational heavy, even with the very recent optimisation. HALIC (High Availability Lossless Image Compression) is still unbelievably good. Except it is not open source ( yet ).

Hopefully we will see work on image quality improvement at below BPP 1.0 this year.
Angular appeared to be doing well until React appeared and suddenly nobody wanted to touch it. People even accepted Angular 2's docs prioritizing DART. People accepted that DART was the future, at least until the moment React appeared and people had an alternative. Don't underestimate the power of pent-up demand.
Not to sound too naive, I think this whole paradigm creates a bad soil overall. Before I joined $big-corp I was working better and growing faster. Now that I'm in it, I gradually morphed into this kind of employee.. it's a relativistic game and if the system is stupid and rewards the bullshitter, you end up like them (at the risk of your mental health quite often). A good group is one where people are motivated to be sharp, creative, fast, efficient, curious, sharing, open minded IMO.
My point was that it doesn't matter so much what the tokens look like as long as the model has seen them often enough during training. English-in-base64 superficially appears completely different from English, but they're actually in 1-to-1 correspondence and follow the same rules.

The same holds for misspelled or badly-OCR'd text; the tokenizer actually has tokens for them and the model has seen enough of them to handle heavily-distorted text.

But represent the same text using different but theoretically valid tokens that would not normally be produced by the tokenizer and all bets are off.
Why? Things have costs, there need to be ways to pay for them in the code without having an account at a trusted bank somewhere.
Author here. Thanks for sharing that feedback. I think I missed the mark by being so used to working with runtimes that natively run TS files, that I forgot that this is not the default for everyone. The article was mostly written from that perspective.

For Node users the isolated declaration feature won't do much other than speed up the creation of the .d.ts files a little. For runtimes that can run TS natively like Deno (disclaimer: I work for Deno) the benefit is much more apparent as you always want the original TS sources, but can generate .d.ts files on the fly for faster type checking.

EDIT: Formatting
A thread of frustration this is, because people who agree or are neutral will remain silent even if outnumber those who criticize. Note taken, but personally I try to keep my internet “images” disconnected for unclear forward privacy reasons. And maintaining yet another fake email for that - too lazy.

I think that unless you’re going to reach people daily, it’s probably okay to find a recent comment of a user and try to explain your ideas and communicate under it. Worst case they’ll politely pretend being offline.
The mechanics of spider mines is they "hit anything that touches the ground". There are several units they don't hit such as all workers, vultures themselves, archons etc... This is all because those units "float".
2023 saw massive layoffs and hiring freezes. Seriously tenured veterans with proven track records sat out 6-12 months (burning their savings while anchored to the mortgages that were predicated on RSU grants tied to living in Redwood Shores or whatever) and got re-hired after being massively crammed down on equity issues from years ago. They’re called “boomerangs”.

In every single quarter since Q1 2023 the big shops have shattered EPS and driven 12 month forward PE to the level where NVIDIA is pretty much a proxy for how corrupt can be considered legal.

I like free markets, well-refereed. Competition is good.

This dystopian nightmare is nothing to do with capitalism and gives markets a bad name.

In a world where NVIDIA has net earnings north of 80% (the highest of any company in history not engaged in the slave trade) and their only credible competitor is helmed by the cousin of the CEO?

No. I do not in fact believe that payroll will track automation in a way that is humane.
Western Electric!

The Western Electric -> Western Digital substitution seems to be common for whatever reason
people got executed for EVERYTHING back then... sheesh...
Ive been working on a machine learning model for radiologists
Just don't annotate them? The design of async is a wound that can be bandaged by dumping all your registers on the stack and jumping.
"can", "may", "suggesting" - those are words used when you want to claim something on a hunch, or otherwise without solid evidence in favor.
> Edit: I bet it had diesel generators when it was in service with AT&T to boot.

That's where AT&T screwed up in Nashville when their DC got bombed. They relied on natural gas generators for their electrical backup. No diesel tank farm. Big fire = fire department shuts down natural gas as wide as deemed necessary and everything slowly dies as the UPS batteries die.

They also didn't have roll-up generator electrical feed points, so they had to figure out how to wire those up once they could get access again, delaying recovery.

https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/kk3j0m/nashville_...
They made decisions relevant to their work. i.e. it's not that a random employee would go our and acquire a competitor or buy a business jet for themselves (though in theory they could but that theory never got put to a test). So the CEO still made CEO-level decisions and employees made decisions in their area while needing to ask themselves what's best for the company, economically, just like the president should. Trust people to do their job kind of thing really, trust teams to work together etc.
Levin's work smells like bullshit.

And it's also just as reductionist, trying to represent everything as electrical interactions.
It's the rate that is concerning.

Anecdata, but the glaciers where I grew up have all but disappeared in the last 20 years, instead of ~100s of years.

I used to be able to walk to the river canyon behind my childhood home and touch actual glacier ice hanging off the walls. That glacier is now gone from view, receded miles back into the ice field.

Most of the glaciers I could see growing up in the mountains surrounding town have suffered the same fate, diminished in size, no longer visible.
Looking through his comments, I think he's young and, as tends to go with youth, frustrated. This comment elsewhere in thread suggests he may be coming around: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40895503
Correction: 52 SERP types

x=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40894851
links -dump $x|sed 's/ *$//'|sed 's/.\{6\}//' > 1.htm

ins()
{
case $# in :)
;;0) exec echo usage: ${0##*/} target \[line-no\]
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}

# make 084.l
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# add switch statement
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# add tables
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# compile yy084
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Author here. That's a good point and maybe a matter of perspective. I've worked on projects where using tsc to generate .d.ts files took close to an hour. Even 13s would be too long in my opinion. It should be instantaneously. I guess it depends on where one's personal tolerance threshold is. I have a bit of a lower one as I easily get distracted and loose flow.
It bothers me when people find arguments to prove the current state of development of the Western world and the lack of development of everywhere else are inevitable, regardless of reason.

It almost always leads to a slippery slope that descends into scientific and then popular racism, ending with 'you are from X region/culture, you don't deserve to become developed anyway'. And the article the author is citing makes these sorts of claims.
I don't think it is really like that. Growing a code base at first is very fast, but then slows down entirely due to the human "context window" being limited. So unfortunately, you need more people to maintain a million line code base than a 1000 line one.
Show HN: BeaconDB – An Alternative to Mozilla Location Services
Technically you still need tsc or an alternative TypeScript compiler like swc, but bundlers sometimes include them in their own dependencies so you don’t have to think about it.
It's worse than that: 2 of the 3 telecom oligopoly members share (most) of their entire wireless network, with one providing most towers in the West, and the other in the East.

I'm sure those 2 compete very hard with each other with that level of co-dependency.
I find it interesting that Engelbart, Kay, Jobs and even Elon have all been learned people who saw in AI a way of augmenting human capabilities, finding truth, giving kids new ways of learning about history and science, and tackling planet scale challenges.

Someone posted an old video here a few days ago of Steve Jobs giving a speech in the 1980s saying that his dream was to make the computer into a medium that allows you to have a dialogue with Aristotle.

Yet I’ve never heard anything like that from the guy who is center stage for AI today, Sam Altman.

Maybe Sam is a a visionary in his own right. Maybe be recognized that people just care a lot more about SEO, about not having to talk to customers anymore, and about the kids just being quiet.
Author here. Unfortunately, I think worded that a bit confusingly in the article. I'm used to working with runtimes that run TS natively and didn't have to care about .d.ts files myself for a long time. From that perspective creating them by running the tsc compiler feels like a manual step for me.

There are cases where folks write them by hand, but that's not what I had in mind when writing the article. I've rephrased that part a bit to hopefully make it less confusing.
This looks cool. It would ve great, if this would get integrated into a Obsidian plugin
I found this ban interesting and went looking:

https://web-japan.org/trends98/honbun/ntj981207.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Japanese_media_i...

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2003/09/17/national/south-...
While HDMI can provide a tiny bit of power and there are active cables for signal boosting, HDMI was never meant for power delivery. You might be mixing it with HDMI with Ethetnet.
But then what will you contribute to the hour long weekly meeting where 13 managers present the status of their poorly defined CI metrics and other "action items"?
The difference is that China’s domestic requirements don’t require Apple to become a non-profit. If the EU’s requirements are actually as many HN’ers would like them to be, Apple will have no reason to sell iPhones in the EU.
I use “Advance New File“ extension to create files quickly with shortcuts. It's a lifesaver for nested folders.
Was kind of into this until the author said microwaves are bad for you. Instant turn off.
In the entire history of the Bell System, no electromechanical exchange was ever down for more than 30 minutes for any reason other than a natural disaster. With one exception, a major fire in New York City. Three weeks of downtime for 170,000 phones for that.[1] The Bell System pulled in resources and people from all over the system to replace and rewire several floors of equipment and cabling.

That record has not been maintained in the digital era.

The long distance system did not originally need the Bedminster, NJ network control center to operate. Bedminster sent routing updates periodically to the regional centers, but they could fall back to static routing if necessary. There was, by design, no single point of failure. Not even close. That was a basic design criterion in telecom prior to electronic switching. The system was designed to have less capacity but still keep running if parts of it went down.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_AWAmGi-g8
We Need to Control AI Agents Now
That sounds like more a problem for the Europe than for Apple
Author here. I should've worded that better in the article. The takeaway should not be to publish only TS sources to npm. The whole npm ecosystem is based around the assumption that you ship .js files and doing anything else would break it. I've updated the wording to hopefully make it less confusing.
Choices Engines and Paternalistic AI
I think introverts are less likely to talk about their ideas unless they are going to put them into practice though, so you get extroverts just blabbering about whatever whim comes to them, confusing everything
Oh no, I just woke up and saw this comment. It seems to be up again. Apologies for the inconvenience. Looks like the HN hug of death is real!

Happy to hear that you like the series!
https://archive.is/SeEMW
This all looks like a nice way of saying "extroverts say less considered, less precise, dumber things than introverts".

> describing things that were not directly visible in the pictures

I.e. making up shit about the picture, like an image-to-text AI.
> is deeply lazy

I disagree, sorry. I started with this because I claim that racism and imperialism are the basis for the article—both this, and the study published by the MIT faculty member.

I will not accept any point that attempts to show that the current developmental state of the countries of the world are inevitable in any way. It leads to an extremely slippery slope that only ever ends in racism—'oh, X person is from Y region, they deserved to be conquered anyway, they don't deserve a place at the table, they are... subhuman'.

History could've turned at any point. If WW3 had happened (and we came fairly close several times), the 'Western world' and its cities as we know it today would be a smouldering, cratered, ruined moonscape, and the 'victors' (if you could call them that) would be the current third world.

And additionally, I believe my first paragraph has succinctly shown why Europe's development today is not a result of its climate. If that were the case, it would've been the most developed region for all or almost all of human history. It is not; Europe's development is a fairly recent development (pun intended).
Notes:

- You can't CTRL-Z back to before you clicked the "save" button

- I couldn't figure out how to do links properly within a table
I still enjoy coding and design. But there's a fine line between passion and making a living. I used to build side projects for fun and learning, but once responsibilities grew, I had to prioritize making money.

I realized that passion requires financial support, so I drew a line between what I love and what I need. Now, I dedicate weekends to hobby projects and weekdays to work-related tasks.
He's in this thread
maybe GNU Screen
For sure. I was just pointing this out because I've worked in organizations where there was no problem with delegating language choice to engineers but the minute any actual money had to be spent it was treated very differently.

You are absolutely right that technical decisions are economic ones.
Where did I say "just model with supercomputers"? Thats the biology problem it is super hard!

I am literally saying that avoiding the hard problem is going to work in the general case. I would argue that radiation therapy is in this vein.