skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how is this achieving scale-up and scale-to-zero ? from my (rudimentary) investigation only knative k8s had scale-to-zero implemented well enough.

and if you dont have scale-to-zero, you cant claim a vercel alternative.
Who was the data being kept for?
Because of containers, my company now can roll out deployments using well defined CI/CD scripts, where we can control installations to force usage of pass-through caches (GCP artifact registry). So it actually has that data you're talking about, but instead of living in one person's head it's stored in a database and accessable to everyone via an API.
Cycling journalism doesn't pay well and has suffered in recent years. Escape Collective is a group trying to 'go their own way' to provide high quality reporting on their own terms.

So it makes sense for them to paywall it; it's not meant for a broader audience, but people who want a lot of high quality bike news.

https://escapecollective.com/about-us/
Blue ticks weren't previously ways to "signal an account's reliability". They were a way to deceive people into thinking the account was realiable, while in fact it was a signal that the account was a vetted source of approved propaganda, the party line, the official narrative.
which facts are wrong? genuinely want to correct my worldview
Seems like they are breathing plenty of carbon monoxide during the race too:
https://www.welovecycling.com/wide/2022/07/01/cars-supportin...
Hmm...you want us to spend less on defense, and weaken our ability to protect from spies....You sound a lot like a chatbot whose purpose is to spread propaganda which is not in our best interest.

I hate that there is not way for me too tell whether you are even real or not. This business of having computers which can pass the Turing test really has its disadvantages.

Paying somebody $200k? I think it should be obvious that a spy who slipped in because of weak vetting cost the U.S. more than $200k...an hour. E.G. a harpoon-class cruise missile costs almost $2 million---and compromised intelligence could have us firing one of those off at innocent people. E.G. the second gulf war and "weapons of mass destruction" We could have saved a couple of trillion dollars.
LLMs don't make you more creative
It's a shame the article doesn't go deep enough to encounter perceptual uniformity. In short, the human visual system is strongly non-linear. We perceive more greens than blues or reds. None of the color systems mentioned in the article (including the CIE 1931 chromaticity diagram at the end) are perceptually uniform. The 1976 color spaces (CIELuv and CIELab) were introduced as an attempt to deal with this, and there's been many other attempts since.

My favorite is OKLab:

https://bottosson.github.io/posts/oklab/
I got a light case of CO poisoning from using a grill outdoors in a space that I guess wasn't really well ventilated. Threw up in the middle of the night (wasn't the food, everyone else was fine and so was I the very next day). I didn't feel any faster after that and it was kind of a miserable experience.

I don't think I would mess around with that stuff.
Tangential - the laws of nature discovered by our brain usually involve just few quantities, like f=ma. On one side it is a great ability of our brain for analytical reduction, on the other side it is just an inability to deal with complex multiparameter phenomena without such a reduction. I wonder if pumping more and more data into the NNs we'd be able to distill emerging multiparameter correlations which happen to be new laws of nature irreducible to more simpler ones.
I'm curious what the implications are for the Drake equation and the Great Filter.
Credit is a weird ad-how system.

At some point, I wonder if folks will realize that having an unfrozen credit report is a sign of imprudence.
"India" is not monocultural.

Each ethnic group is an entirely different nation with different norms, cultures, and cuisine.

Imagine if all of continental Europe from Madrid to Moscow became a single country - that's India, as well as Myanmar, Nepal, Bhutan (before the ethnic cleansings), Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.

Nagas like other Northeast Indians are Southeast Asians, with ethnic groups straddling India, Bangladesh, Northern Myanmar, Tibet, Yunnan, and Northern Thailand.

"Indian" is an identity like "American", "Canadian", "Mexican", etc where both a National Identity and an Ethnic Identity can co-exist
My fiber provider (Metronet) gives me a 10GbE port off the ONT that I connect my OPNSense box to. I pay extra for a static IP (otherwise I'd have to live with CGNAT, which is gross), and the way they had me configure it was to manually enter the IP information they provided over the phone.

That last part isn't ideal (I'm assuming their provisioning system doesn't support distributing static IPs over DHCP), but I love the simplicity of it.
yeah checkmarks used to imply a certain something, get off my lawn lol. still, if I need to read a twitter post from an influential twitter user, I'm sure I can find it on 4chan.
What key features make Tau a compelling self-hosted PaaS alternative?
> That’s what happened in January 2023 when two riders on Uno-X Mobility had to be taken to hospital after a go-karting session for team bonding left them with carbon monoxide poisoning.

Surely it was the go-karting and the team-bonding...
Google is a conventional company. They may not have intended to become one, but now they are among the most conventional of all companies - layoffs, cost cutting, offshoring, killing products left and right, I could go on. It's a goddamn shame.
So the underlying main LLM they're using does answer the question but it's censored by another layer afterwards when deemed 'unsafe'.
I think because there's less "skill" required, in the sense of hand-eye coordination, than ball sports. The predominant factor seems to be how hard and how long you can push yourself. Once you reach the human body's natural physical limits, chemical advantage seems like the only way to break through those.
Book Review: The Family That Couldn't Sleep
Even 2 isn't enough. 4 day workweeks should be the norm. CA had a bill trying to make the workweek 32 hours, but I don't know where it ended up. It would just be a continuation of how we've shortened the workweek from the 1800s, and a little social dividend seems warranted instead of all that productivity lining CEOs' pockets.
The Win95 line wasn't really merged, more discontinued. XP had improved DOS/legacy compatibility vs win2000 but not much.
"The law now shields the majority of housing projects from the Board of Supervisors’ scrutiny and allows developers to skip through the long wait times, hearings and environmental review processes that tack months"

A lot of these environmental reviews the California government pushed and cheered for, so they're essentially fixing the problem that they created.
OMG, this! I got fired once due to a new PWA on Oracle Cloud. The interface loaded, I clicked "delete" on my desired VPS, and by the time the click registered, a different card containing a different VPS had shifted into the place of the one I was trying to get rid of. Turns out no one had turned on backups for that critical box. I sounded like a total idiot trying to explain the mistake.
I disagree hard with this. I love kubernetes to bits, but managing complex networking issues, having proper security, or just simply rightsizing the nodes is definitely not going away with having a managed control plane.
and if that cost of moving away is high enough, a team or org "locked in" to a FOSS solution can continue to pay humans to support it internally while evaluating off-ramps instead of being told they need to re-arch their cloud stack in three months' time.
Nature, Culture, or Law?
Professional players don't like being banktrupted and going to jail.
Relu is literally just a linear function that gets clamped to zero at some point, so yes, it's much less computationally intensive than anything involving an exponential function. But I doubt you would get competitive results using such a simple activation.
Ask HN: Fellow neurodivergents, do you pair better with LLMs than neurotypicals?
It’s recently dawned on me that my neurodivergence might explain why I seem to get more out of AI as compared to my neurotypical peers.

I find that I can more intuitively ‘co-reason’ with LLMs, subconsciously emulating how they operate, so that I can more effectively steer their attention into the appropriate semantic subspaces to elicit more accurate responses.

Do others here, whether on the spectrum, with ADHD, or similar traits, also experience this? Do you find it easier to ‘pair’ with LLMs compared to neurotypicals?

Might attributes like our systematizing mindset and literal thinking be the enabling differentiators?

Going a step beyond: are we, in the grand timeline of civilization, uniquely evolved to fuse with this new type of intelligence?
Bullet Vending Machines Spreading Throughout U.S.
I wish that were the world we live in.

This is from the Snowflake breach, meaning this database was an "AI Powered Unified Data Platform." It almost feels like the erosion of our privacy is fueling the growth of allot companies.

I really hope that the boogeyman is real and all this was worth it.
Overpass API/Overpass QL
What I can remember immediately:

1. Imports are more complex than in Python, because a module can be just a block in code, not necessarily a separate file/folder. E.g. `pub mod my_module { <code with functions and constants> }` is a module inside another module, so you don't need a folder and `__init__` inside to have inner modules.

Also, `use something` may man an external crate.

`use super::something` means import from upper level of modules tree, but it's not necessarily a folder.

2. I can parse what types my functions require in their signatures, or structs require in their members (but I must have resolved where really those names point at), but there's also type elision -- i.e. you don't need to explicitly write the type of every var, it's deduced from what is assigned, for example `let my_var = some_func(...)` -- will make `my_var` have the return type of some_func. Now I must also keep track of all functions and what they return.

And then, there are generics:

let my_var: Vec<MyType> = vec![...];

Vec is generic, and in this case it has MyType inside. Well, this may be enough to just register `MyType` on my deps list. But then I may do some more calls:

let my_other_var = my_var.pop().unwrap().my_method();

Here, `pop()` returns `Option<MyType>`, unwrap returns `MyType`, and then in the end, my_method may return whatever, and I essentially need something like a compiler to figure out what it returns.

This seems big like a little compiler or language server.
The large group of W680 are the game servers running 13900 & 14900.
I think self-hosting is the future, but products can't be both SaaS + self-hosted. The way to self-host would be using self-hosted only products, that are made for easy installation, maintenance and come with support. Most SaaS offerings provide a self-hosted option just as a marketing tactic, they don't want it to be easy to install.
Being out of the loop for awhile. Has amd made anything similar to cuda? Are cots frameworks such as pytorch and tensorflow on par when running on amd hardware? What makes investing in amd cluster/chips worthwhile?
Ask HN: Is this plea for help some creative new scam, or does this look legit?
I got a very interesting e-mail through Jobvite that I'm still puzzling over. Here's a screencap and a transcription, both with redactions. https://i.imgur.com/pGegcMM.png

> Dear valued clients and partners of TalentOla,

> This is [first name]. I've work in TalentOla for 10 years, but today I'm violating every company policy and legal agreement by contacting you directly using our proprietary software without authorization. I'm fully aware that I'm breaking the law and company rules. I know this will cost me my job and possibly more, but I have no choice.

> My wife is critically ill and needs immediate, expensive surgery. The cost far exceeds our means, and time is running out. In desperation, I turn to you.

> If you can help, please donate to this Ethereum wallet: [Ethereum address]. I'm using crypto to prevent the company from intercepting or reclaiming any donations.

> I understand this breach may shatter your trust in TalentOla. Please know that this illegal action is mine alone and doesn't reflect on my colleagues or the company.

> I'll face termination and possible legal consequences for this, but saving my wife's life is worth any price. Thank you for reading, and for any help you can offer in this crisis.

> With deepest gratitude and apologies,

> [full name]

Here are some facts:

- I am _not_ the person asking for help. I'm not married, and no one in my family is dying.

- I don't know the person asking for help.

- Both the `From` address and the `Reply-To` address belong to Jobvite, so this was definitely sent by someone on the platform. I did not see any address-spoofing tricks in the e-mail's source.

- This e-mail contains about a dozen legitimate links to job descriptions on Jobvite, mostly for a company called Apexon.

- I got this e-mail about six hours ago and have not received anything from Jobvite since then.

My question: Does this look real, or is this some clever new scam?
Seems like there's a lot of cross referencing well beyond MFA that this'll likely be used for.

Way easier to target phish people's bank logins, if you know what banks they are regularly communicating with.
Any company that gets big enough to start having policies for everything is automatically no longer fun. The people who get hired to make policies are not fun people.
Every time you access a Cloudflare WAF protected service from an iPhone’s cell connection, you are living the situation you describe.
Hackers Steal Phone, SMS Records for Nearly All AT&T Customers
Google is majorly sabotaging their own future position in search dominance. Stuff like this is taking a hammer to their reputation. It's increasingly clear that their priorities are pleasing people and corporations that are in power, not their users. It doesn't seem to be impacting normies much yet, but people I never expected to even think about alternative search engines are starting to experiment. Duck duck go could be a big beneficiary of this if they're able to deliver.

I'm extremely glad to have Kagi about now.
Why can't an imagen generate run a tiny little automatic text-to-text rewrite first, to apply these special linguistic rules?
There is more nuance going on than that of course. People have used excessive process to abuse their position. The idea that its onerous and time consuming is the entire point, that way bribes are the way to grease the wheels. Three LA city council members from the last 10 years are serving federal prison sentences on racketeering charges. It makes it hard to undo and streamline this system when so many stakeholders with power to enact change are reaping illegal benefit from it as it stands.
Pick any anti-competitive tactic. For lightbulbs I’d say dumping cheap product priced well below cost in their sales territory would be an obvious option.
Should 2FA secrets be encrypted?
It is a consequence of the Anna Karenina principle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina_principle
This is an interesting blog. Medicine was very primitive into the early 20th century - it took centuries for the old ineffective techniques to die out. Planck's observation was paraphrased as 'science advances one funeral at a time', but Medicine resisted advancement for hundreds of years. Hustlers [0] were probably the greatest obstacle to medical progress.

[0] I don't mean this as 'con artist', but people who think they're more competent than they actually are. There's probably a better term...

Maybe it had to do with literacy - effective techniques weren't propagated more quickly because they were passed down to apprentices, rather than published widely. I enjoyed this post:

A caesarean section in 18th-century Ireland - Irish midwife Mary Donally saved a woman's life by performing a c-section in 1738. -
https://thequackdoctor.substack.com/p/a-caesarean-section-in...

The baby was breach, and did not survive. The illiterate midwife showed up 12 days after labor had begun, extracted the dead baby, sewed the woman up with silk thread and tailor's needles, and applied a salve made with egg whites. A literate surgeon visited a few days after the operation, and wrote a report for Medical Essays and Observations.
Yes, I found this statement:

> The implication of this design choice—that communist values are the solution to decades of rampant consumerism

Completely absurd. The association is not with communism, but with propaganda posters. It's true that Americans are commonly conditioned to associate propaganda posters with communism, but the assertion above is an unreasonable leap.
How does NVLink work? Because I already know MPI and I’m not going to learn anything else, lol.

Edit: after googling it looks like OpenMPI has some NVLink support, so maybe it is OK.
I applaud the vision, I wish you folks hired remote software devs
I hope that this is having an opposite effect where people are starting to step outside of the walled gardens to look for "the good stuff". Google pulled this shit with us too a few years ago by attempting to force us to share our signing keys. We ignored them and told our users to download the APK from our website instead which they happily did. Then, Google bumped the minimum API version and new versions of Android refused to launch apps that were not updated. Our users found workarounds before we did, by using some kind of obscure adb command. The new API bump introduced some needless asinine changes that seemed to exist just to please some PM at Google. Enough is enough.
Yeah, I didn’t mean that they never change in reality, but that they’re treated as if they never change. (Same with SSNs.) I can only imagine how many hundreds of services I’d lose access to if I lost my number. Hours and hours talking to customer service.
How We Sped Up Nix Package Installs with Devbox
It's not hard to extrapolate that something would have entered the market. I assume it would only have been a couple of years later.
You misunderstood. Some modern CPUs are designed to overclock themselves. The user does not have to do it anymore. It happens automatically.
Voiceover/broadcasting. Recording or acquiring any audio that isn't freely licensed background music is among the most expensive and time consuming parts of a prerecorded broadcast. With voice alteration, a director and sound engineer can become their own actors in anything ranging from commercial spots to large-scale and long-running animated shows.
Apparently if you had slightly less CO but more often you might become a faster cyclist!
I suspect if Apple and NeXT never "merged", the phone market would be RIM vs (a very different) Android, but we'd be worse off.

Blackberries were OK at the time, but my god RIM was so culturally conservative and Google at the time had no design sense that we'd probably be 10 years behind where we are now - and if we even had software keyboards they'd be terrible.
Circa 2005 I was working at places where I was responsible for 80 and 300 web sites respectively using a large range of technologies. On my own account I had about 30 domain names.

I had scripts that would automatically generate the Apache configuration to deploy a new site in less than 30 seconds.

At that time I found that most web sites have just a few things to configure: often a database connection, the path to where files are, and maybe a cryptographic secret. If you are systematic about where you put your files and how you do your configuration running servers with a lot of sites is about as easy as falling off a log, not to mention running development, test, staging, prod and any other sites you need.

I have a Python system now with gunicorn servers and celery workers that exists in three instances on my PC, because I am disciplined and everything is documented I could bring it up on another machine manually pretty quickly, probably more quickly than I could download 3GB worth of docker images over my ADSL connection. With a script it would be no contest.

There also was a time I was building AMIs and even selling them on the AMZN marketplace and the formula was write a Java program that writes a shell script that an EC2 instance runs on boot, when it is done it sends a message through SQS to tell the Java program to shut down and image the new machine.

If Docker is anything it is a system that turns 1 MB worth of I/O into 1 GB of I/O. I found Docker was slowing me down when I was using a gigabit connection, I found it basically impossible to do anything with it (like boot up an image) on a 2MB/sec ADSL connection, with my current pair of 20MB/s connections it is still horrifyingly slow.

I like how the OP is concerned about I/O speed and bringing it up and I think it could be improved if there was a better cache system (e.g. Docker might even work on slow ADSL if it properly recovered from failed downloads)

However I think Docker has a conflict between “dev” (where I’d say your build is slow if you ever perceive yourself to be waiting) and “ops” (where a 20 minute build is “internet time”)

I think ops is often happy with Docker, some devs really seem to like it, but for some of us it is a way to make a 20 sec task a 20 minute task.
Why xeon instead of epyc?
Terrible. The locals who live in communities affected by this overreach will lose the culture and quality of life they enjoy over time, as density increases. I’m not sure why everyone needs to crowd into a few cities. We should be developing mid tier cities more and building a more distributed economy. That way everyone can enjoy prosperous lives without being in each others way to an excessive degree. Other countries have used financial incentives to attract businesses to mid tier cities. America doesn’t do that as well.

There is no shortage of units nationwide - just people who feel entitled to live in the most desirable and expensive places at a price they can afford. There are plenty of towns where housing is available and cheap. Sure people may not get the desk job they want in the field they want but there are jobs available.
The wake up and walk around the hotel was mainly an EPO thing, where your blood got so thick you otherwise could die.
Definitely some amount of it is natural, I'm even less competitive with running than you, but seeing my resting heart rate go down as you ramp up distances is a satisfying thing when you realize the hard work is paying off in a "tangible" way :)

I did a little more googling after the above comment, and it seems like another factor that (in theory) plays into the issue for the anecdote is that their blood can get thicker from doping. So it's a recipe of very low heart rate + extra viscous blood to pump that = danger.

Regardless, it's some pretty interesting/freaky stuff!
Power draw probably? Looking at the specs, StarLink draws 75-100W on average. PoE++ is rated up to 71.3W. The StarLink Mini specs say 25W-40W, so I guess it could use PoE++.

https://www.starlink.com/specifications?spec=4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_over_Ethernet
I had heard that in the context of absurdly high hematocrit, where they would get their heart rate up to move the (very viscous) blood around their body. No source, but doesn’t sound impossible when everyone was on EPO.
CISA broke into a US federal agency, and no one noticed for a full 5 months
The current PE exe format supports it. As well as a few Alpha, a few ARM formats, a few MIPS format, Itanium and of course x86. The big part would be finding a compiler that spits out the right code. The preceding NE format also did a few variations.
Yeah seems like it.