skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not the way I remember the cloud transition at all. My company adopted an internal cloud. VMWare had some great quarters. Openstack got really big for a while and everyone was trying to hire for it. All the hosting companies started cloud offerings.

What ended up happening was Amazon was better at scale and lockin than everyone else. They gave Netflix a sweet deal and used it as a massive advertisement. It ended up being a rock rolling down a hill and all the competitors except ones with very deep pockets and the ability to cross-subsidize from other businesses (MSFT and Google) got crushed.
I'm not so sure the corporation will survive if humans do.
>>None of the apartments had running water. People emptied their chamber pots out the window so the streets and walls were literally covered in shit. There were no elevators despite many buildings going up 14 floors.

I was wondering about the credibility of these claim and they seem functionally true, though wrong if taken literally. Speaking to water, it seems many apartments had some running water, but not potable/drinking water.

>As with every other alley in the City, it is lined overhead with water pipes installed by private water suppliers linking tanks on the roof to individual premises. Occasionally the water tanks were filled via illegal connections from the mains, but more usually it was ground water supplied for the suppliers’ own boreholes and not fit for drinking.

>Fresh drinking water for the whole City was supplied from just eight standpipes, seven on the periphery and just this one actually inside the City’s confines. Unsurprisingly, many of the Walled City’s food factories tended to choose premises nearby and the myriad of hoses allowed tanks to be filled directly, rather than by bucket as most of the residents had to do, even those living on the upper levels.

Likewise, the elevator fact was true for most residents.

>There were only two lifts in the entire City, so most people had to walk up with one or two buckets-full every day.

Sewage seems like it was addressed at some point, but not clear to what extent this was available within apartments.

>Health problems were also a major concern. Before the Government got together with the Kai Fong to install a mains sewage line in the 1970s, raw human waste exited the City via open drains driven down the side of the tiny streets. Much of this sewage seeped away, forgotten, into the ground, leaving the underlying geology of the area like a giant septic tank.

Sources:

https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/kowloon-walled-c...

https://cityofdarkness.co.uk/category/the_city/
I use Authy’s iOS app to generate 2FA tokens for a few accounts. I cannot remember ever entering my phone number into it, or establishing an Authy account of any kind. Is there some other way they would have acquired my phone number?

I’m trying see if the issue is some unanticipated issue with the iOS client app itself, or if it is only affecting people who created online accounts with Authy to sync their 2FA credentials across devices.
The minimum distance should be the planet's circumference.
I think PowerShell is a bit scary, for example I could never get curl to work in it, say a simple POST command:
curl -X "POST" google.com
should return Error 411 (Length required) from google (as it does in CMD.EXE)

When I try it in PowerShell I get:
Invoke-WebRequest : A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'X'.
and some more error messages

even curl -X "GET" doesn't work :-(
> forfeit your right to live

That's a very interesting point of view, I had never thought of it that way: you can do whatever you want, but you will no longer be allowed to live. The consequence is almost presented as a choice, instead of a punishment.
How many of these VPN services can be used without the app by configuring them in iOS settings? I know "private internet access" can be used that way.
A good topic yo bring up, but I’d challenge some of the results in the listed examples
You and every other programmer on the planet then?

Or, what is your comment meant to claim exactly, beyond the extremely obvious "there are exceptions to the rule" trope?
That's unfortunately not going to work. Electrolytics degrade fairly quick, NVRAMs, backup batteries and even UVEPROMs die with time. On longer periods anything organic (starting with wire insulation) deteriorates.
It says a lot about the uphill battle that he faced when the first two sentences Jeffrey says in the podcast are "By the way, is it okay to swear?" and "You know, I had executives say, ‘Jeffrey, exactly which part of fucking Windows is confusing you, Jeffrey?’".
I don't recall saying that it did. My judgement that Windows needed (and still needs) those ideas is based on heavily using both platforms.
Who knew a significant part of speed sailing is weather prediction?
Wow, looks cool!

Interesting to see the thumb key positions are very similar to mine! Can you reach the outermost (outer regarding one half) thumb key without any issues?

Is your hand position like two columns for the middle finger instead of the pointer finger?
Wora: Open-Source FLAC Player
Powershell is a huge improvement over cmd. However; much like Windows, it is full of complicated gotchas and edge cases. Bash has them too, but Bash makes concurrency and parallelization extremely simple, so despite it's absolutely bananas syntax and rules for hash tables and arrays, it is superior IMO. Bash also makes it simple to write your own more complex utilities in any language and call them from bash. Linux makes it simples to implement new kernel tech and Bash makes it simple to interact with the kernel.

Windows... You have to wait until someone in WDG decides some existing idea is good and then also wait for them to get support to implement the idea, then wait to see how that whole thing goes. So yeah Powershell is great for interacting with Windows. But Windows thinks you're a dumb shit so you can only do what Windows already lets you do.
That is because `curl` is an alias for the builtin Invoke-WebRequest and not the actual curl program.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsof...
From (1) On the other hand, if the variation between the group means and the grand mean is small, and the variation within groups is large, this suggests there are no real differences in the group means i.e. the variations we observe is just sampling variation.

The above is in the context of analysis of variance. In our example the means in each state are 0.55 and 0.45 and the total mean is 0.50 so first summand is small but the variances in the red and blue states are both 0.247, large summand, so the variations we observe are just sampling variations. Hence the state factor is not important and that explains the low R^2 value. Note that in each state the predicted value for the model is the group mean of that group. So analysis of variance explains that the OP result is not a paradox or something strange.

https://saestatsteaching.tech/analysis-of-variance
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40872891
Honestly I’ve never tried a 34-key layout, though I’ve seen loads in the keyboard layout DB. Are you using something like Seniply?

Also in case it’s useful: much ink has been spilled about TRRS and its alternatives, but I haven’t found any references to folks using an I2C connector (4-pin JST) instead, which eliminates hotplugging risk without introducing the risks of USB/etc.

I purchased a KB2040 (which has a female I2C connector), a 400mm male-to-male I2C cable, and an I2C GPIO expander, which is slightly cheaper than a second RP2040 on the second hand (though a second KB2040 is cheap anyway). I’m optimistic about using I2C and avoiding TRRS, but wanted to highlight it as an option since I hadn’t seen it mentioned anywhere else.
Matrixmultiplication.xyz
The Japanese Pile driving company, Giken, has some great engineering videos of their silent pile driving technology and some novel use cases, such as stopping a lava flow, or making underground bike storage in cities: https://www.youtube.com/@GikenGroup/videos
> It sounds like a toxic workplace

Like most workplaces on the planet. Check your bubble.

I agree with your advice but you have to understand that many people start families and that tilts the table in favor of the employer; people become very risk-averse and dare not refuse anything. This is a fact and it's happening every second to dozens, if not hundreds, of millions of people out there.

> Unfortunately there are many toxic workplaces out there, and if I ended up "trapped" with no escape, I would probably consider things differently.

Please do. Living paycheck to paycheck is the reality of most working people.
What's the point of listing Chinese companies on that site? China is supporting Russia.
Discussion yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40869458
Permian Basin
I think the issue is that there was full transparency on pay (a fixed base rate plus a fixed percentage) and then it was changed without warning.

I work for a salary, which is fully transparent in the sense that I know what my next paycheck will be to the penny. (It’s not transparent in how it’s set, but it is week-to-week.) If my employer started paying me based on effort, and didn’t tell me what constituted effort, not only would I be pissed off but that would be completely illegal.

I’m not suggesting that this change is or should be illegal. But if it happened to me I’d find it extremely unfair.
Which is a misdemeanor outside the statute of limitations, right?
"Cracked" in the exact same sense that changing a URL from /accounts/1234 to /accounts/1235 is "cracking" website security: if it works, you didn't have anything but make-believe security before.
By far the worst offenders when it comes to neighborhood car sound are EV’s. They have decided across the board to blast the most bone chilling drone imaginable every time they are backing up a driveway or driving at low speed – you know, the kind of thing that happens in neighborhoods all the time.

The tone itself is the worst part. It’s as if it was specifically engineered by top audio scientists to be as repulsive as possible (that’s probably exactly what happened), then they turned the volume dial up to 11 so it’s still grating even in your house several doors down. I believe Tesla led the charge here, but now they’re all equally guilty of disturbing the peace and wanton noise pollution.

Just play a nice v8 sound at a reasonable volume for gosh sake!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32697521
We are entering an era where corporations have perfect data. They can charge each customer exactly the maximum amount possible, and pay each worker the exact minimum amount possible
This runs into both the ideals and the limitations of the Free Market.

Ideally, there's incentive for people to collectively reach the most efficient solution through aggregated laziness and greed.

In practice, people only have so much bandwidth and shortcuts will be taken, options will be overlooked, and people will exploit or be exploited due to the blinders either put on willingly or forced on them--on top of our natural capacity for observing reality no matter how much information is provided.
No, journalism is under real economic pressure as their original revenue source has evaporated. Now you can’t take the time necessary to fund deep investigative journalism.

Large papers still have decently sized editorial staff but those are the shrinking minimum. Most publications have simply given up, chasing emotional driven headlines, increasing “engagement”. Others simply vanished.
Highly optimized code tends to be inelegant in any language. That said, you can get really good performance from very elegant looking “normal” Haskell too. The big challenge with performance in Haskell is that the differences between optimized and unoptimized code can be pretty subtle if you’re not used to thinking about Haskell performance.
They usually get paid by the hour so they have a vested interest to talk BS and prolong the session as much as they can.
> everything around me was built with human hands and engineers

Same when your plan comes in for a landing over a city .. it's all been made by us, every big and tiny piece down to the screws holding the bits together.
Goes to show, when you want a job done right, you often end up having to do it yourself.
$60M/year

https://www.reuters.com/technology/reddit-ai-content-licensi...
How could it be about "campaign funds" when the charge was about the Trump organization's business records? What you're describing is a straightforward campaign finance violation, which he could have been charged with if it were true.
Ok, as a thought experiment, let's say there are only 100 archaeologists in the world, and you do a survey:

"Is archaeology a science?"

95 say no, 5 say yes.

Is "Archaeologists claim archaeology is a science" a true statement?
Yeah but market share shrunk a lot (especially since the market grew massively) and even Perforce is a tool integrating with git these days.
On iOS, I’ve been using “OTP Auth”.

While it’s nice that password managers can handle this as others have mentioned, the whole point of a 2nd factor is to ensure an attacker can’t get in if they somehow get your password. Storing the second factor along with the 1st factor doesn’t make much sense to me.
Goes to show, if you want a job done right, you often end up having to do it yourself.
I like the hissing sound that some delivery trucks started making about a decade ago.

Experiments show that people can determine the direction of a hiss (a sound composed of many frequencies) better than a beep or a pure tone.
A scalar _is_ a 1*1 matrix

A scalar however is not a tuple of length 1
In fairness, you cannot. It requires a backup password.
It sounds like a nice feature for users and an advantage for workers.
Thanks for sharing your journey. Did you consider open sourcing earlier? Ie as a means of getting distribution / more customers at the price of giving some value away for free?
Maybe? https://gist.github.com/gboudreau/94bb0c11a6209c82418d01a59d...
Look to two-tailed tests when a flipside doesn't make sense.

Consider what risk might exist if you fear overpaying so much that you make a lowball offer yet someone feels compelled to accept. The product or service might be "done" but in a way that screws you over in the long run as well.

Trust is earned, and it flows both ways.
> Remember, consumers are using platform apps like Uber because they don't trust the drivers on the other side.

I don’t understand where these complex theories about ride sharing apps come from.

People use Uber because it’s easy and it’s an app. Taxis did not have a universal app at the time.

If you talk to young Uber users, chances are they wouldn’t actually know how to call a traditional taxi if you asked. It’s either Uber or Lyft because those are the apps they’ve heard about.

Also, it’s common for drivers to work for both Uber and Lyft at different points, maybe the same time. There’s no real element of trust difference between the two options.
Ancient Rivers of the Pacific Northwest [CWU] [video]
Noted, I appreciate the response.
In any case, congrats, it works really, really well
Switch Abstraction Interface
I’m not saying it’s perfectly proportional to the value created, I was challenging the notion that devs are these wages slaves chained to their desks who never get anything extra while their managers swim in money
Unless I'm interacting with some Windows subsystem, and need the specific Powershell commands, I just think "why the fuck am I not using Python?"

It's also way too verbose and slow for 90% of the stuff I'd use Bash for (or would have used Perl in another life)

I often wonder why Microsoft didn't base it on Python, Node, or something else. I can't remember when PS was first released so I'm not sure what would have been ideal at the time.
So, hosting in Japan is more expensive than regions in America? JPY is in a horrible place compared to USD. That seems like a good way to push away Japanese users away -- make it more expensive in countries where the local currency is weak.
Show HN: Logs viewer UI for Go apps
In a recent version, a possibility to use Logdy as a library was added. Now you can have the same logs browsing experience during development, testing, staging, and in production without additional setup hassle.
I immediately thought of “House of leaves”. That one is impossible for markdown unless you go full html+css.

But most classic literature can be just txt file (and it is)
I looked at the latent.space site and it didn't seem to be updated/maintained.
What I would like is a reputable playlist/roadmap of things to consume to go from Senior Engineer to AI Engineer.

Foundation you need what, a primer on Linear_Algebra+Calc+Stats+Prob. At a minimum you have to know the language.
Then, do you need anything of classical AI? Anything of classical ML? Do you even need to have any knowledge of Deep Learning other than it exists? Or transformers?
OR do you just need a bunch of tutorials on how to implement GPT API's, structuring and managing prompts, etc.

I know all this information is out there but has anyone linked it together? If so, is it paywalled? I did a quite search on AI Engineer and before I knew it a site was asking me for 20k+ and 1.5 years of my life. I already have a master's in CS, so I assume I can make faster strides and do it for less. Can anyone advise?
Thanks for the reply. I really do appreciate it, because coming from the still photography world I've never understood this.

Not to be pendantic, but you can't you achieve motion blur by blending frames? That is, shoot at 1/240 and either average or add 10 frames together in an overlapping sequence to get 240 FPS with motion blur that looks like 24 FPS?

I'm only half convinced about lighting. Certainly, if a great deal of light is already required, then running a faster shutter speed means you need more light. That's basic physics. But I've been doing still photography indoors, with horrible lighting, and often I don't need to shoot any slower than 1/90 or so (and often can't, depending on the lens I'm using, since I shoot handheld). Maybe I'm using a larger aperture? Not sure what gives because with modern digital camera bodies, sensors have gotten really, really good.
A thread on the F-35's radar. (1/20)
According to Wikipedia, China actually handed over sovereignty of Kowloon to the British to facilitate demolishing it. They must have really hated the place.
> Having the interests of the bottom line of the business in mind does not equate to sacrificing yourself.

Only in theory. In practice, the incompetent leadership leads to those naturally being identical, as in "we have to deliver project 17 for this year, please do your best!!!" and ad infinitum.

> Do what's expected in the interests of the business, not in pursuit of some "great software" ideal.

Who mentioned this? Only you. A projection on your part, it seems.
Hinkley Point C second nuclear reactor being built 20%-30% faster
Putting a lot of things on layers instead of having them on hardware is not working for anyone so I can totally understand! What symbol keys are you missing from the sofle? I think most of the "missing" symbols are on the thumb keys.
This is how I felt listening to the audiobook of Infinite Jest over the course of many months. Who was that person again? What's going on? Doesn't matter, it's something to listen to.
Of course Discourse is searchable, it wouldn't be much of a discussion board if it wasn't. Many Discourse-based fora I've been on even do a live search as you type the subject of a post, something that turns out really handy for community support boards.

Discord's lack of searchability is certainly a biggie, but having all history locked away and unexportable in any way is the worst part of it.

And damn the two similar names are confusing, I find myself typing one when I meant the other...
He wasn't the "maintainer of a popular package".

He was the creator/designer and main dev of Homebrew, the OSS <<package manager>> almost every dev on MacOS uses.

He took an idea to completion, made it production ready and used by probably millions of users.

I don't care about raw coding ability (Carmack style), if building such a large project doesn't prove at least development abilities, nothing does.
Also KeePassXC -- if you don't like the idea of 2FA codes being in the same db as passwords, it's straightforward to use a separate db for 2FA only.

Manage your own sync between devices with syncthing, dropbox or whatever you prefer.
Why do companies that develop and sell software not take care of security flaws?
This is a really good in-depth X.com post on the F-35's radar capability complete with infographics and external links.
Direct linkt to the image: https://staging.cohostcdn.org/attachment/b21a60cd-a5df-49b5-...

Only showing a tiny part and auto-scrolling at a fixed non-user controlled speed is an annoying choice.
Mine is. It ships with a 4GB DIMM and I swapped in 2 16GB DIMMs. Not all models are.
Huh? Google Maps is a map.

If you don't use it for directions, then that's entirely what it is.

Sure there are a few icons for sponsored businesses, but that's all. They're easy to ignore.

The way you can pan and zoom, it's 1000x more useful than any of the road atlases I used to have to keep in my car. Looking up an address is instant rather than taking a couple of minutes on a paper atlas, and it's simple to pan and zoom the route you want to plan, without having to jump from page 30 to page 65 when you go north and try to re-locate the road you're trying to follow.

It's much more than a map, but it's crazy to say it isn't a map. Along with Apple Maps and OSM, they're basically the best maps ever made by humankind.

(And you can put down markers too, and then remove them later. Paper maps you can draw on, but erasing is hard/impossible.)
I suppose https://haveibeenpwned.com/ will add the information when it can be verified.
You want to write code that runs on the switch, whether it's a routing protocol or an intent reconciliation loop or whatever. You don't want to send low-level OpenFlow commands over the network because it ends up being slow and chatty.
OK, hire me, and if I over-perform and help you achieve a business target, I want a triple salary next month. Or better still, 20% of the extra profit.

No? Then you'll keep seeing what you call "mediocrity".

I am a pretty good programmer and have literally saved businesses, several times over the course of my career.

Never again though. A pat on the back is not enough of a reward.
escape velocity does not explicitly refer to an object with mass. One of the earliest observations about gravity is that the acceleration that results is independent of the mass of the falling object. This is why it is called escape velocity instead of escape momentum.
Oh sure. I started with v6 on a pdp-10 in 1979. And the leading dot is ingrained in my brain.

But what I'm wondering about is the idea of associating (for example) "myfile.xyz" and ".myfile.xyz". I've never heard of this as a convention for associating metadata.
when on parole, you are still serving your sentence. One doesn't have the right to our "normal" freedoms while in jail and therefore the concept of having one's free speech limited while on parole makes sense.

It's not about good vs bad people. It's about you did a crime and haven't finished serving your time.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromyth#Straight_bananas
When you install WireGuard client, there's "On Demand" option there that you can enable. That option has two additional settings - it can turn WireGuard only for a particular list of SSIDs, or it can _not_ turn it on for a particular list of SSIDs. So you just add the SSID of your home WiFi to the list for which WireGuard will not be turned on. On macOS client there is an identical option. This works really well.