skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Responding with my Neon employee hat on:

> Neon is scaling databases to zero and offer a certain number of "active hours" in their free tier.

Neon's free tier allows users to run their database 24/7[0]. That means you could keep a database alive all the time if you wanted. Quoting the pricing page:

> 24/7 for your main database

In addition to the 24/7 usage on the free tier, Neon additionally gives you 20 compute hours for branches other than your primary/main branch.

Just wanted to clear up the confusion in the article. Not sure why they phrased the Neon section that way.

Edit: The author has corrected the statement about Neon. Thanks!

[0]: https://neon.tech/pricing
It was great for mental labor too, like data entry. But these days, you can toss all the tedious mental stuff to a LLM.
I mean, when it's early in the failure, you can say this about any company's failed product: Oh, well [COMPANY] is really just thinking ahead, and might actually be playing 5D Chess... Think of what the long term might bring!
> Because software developers have no governing body, no oaths of ethics and no spine someone will end up dead in a ditch from malfunctioning AI.

The conclusion and the premise are both true, but not the causality. On AI, the Overton window is mostly filled with people going "this could be very bad if we get it wrong".

Unfortunately, there's enough people who think "unless I do it first" (Musk, IMO) or "it can't possibly be harmful" (LeCun) that it will indeed kill more people than it already has.

The number who are already (and literally) "dead in a ditch" is definitely above zero if you include all the things that used to be AI when I was a kid e.g. "route finding": https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-sued-negligence-maps-dri...
Yeah the entire field of tech is pretty broken. Is the solution supposed to be to not write about it?
There are things Germany could do. Taurus missiles to Ukraine would be one.
It makes literally all the difference that matters?
Adding more LEDs to the design allows them to be underdriven, increasing efficiency and longevity. The driver board and LEDs run cooler that way. Less heat equals less stress on electrolytic capacitors, a common failure point.

There’s only a few bulbs I’m aware of that follow this pattern. The Philips Dubai Lamp takes this to an extreme. A 60W equivalent uses only 3W. Other 60W eq. LEDs tend to be ~3x that. All that heat has to go somewhere.

I just picked up a 40W eq. bulb from IKEA that has double the normal amount of LED strands- they’re unusually long, too. It also uses about half the power of the LED bulb it replaced. I expect it to last quite a long time.
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IMHO, it's more that accepting the consequences of their actions too threatening to their sense of self.
Note that despite the headline, the feature actually used here is kprobe and uprobe (which use eBPF to collect data using eBPF every time an event, such as passing a certain point in code, is executed - allowing for hooking of functions and extraction of data). You can turn them off with CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENTS=n and CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENTS=n.

That said, there are other ways to do similar probing:
- Loading kernel modules.
- Using ptrace.
- Using LD_PRELOAD against a dynamic binary.
Thank you all guys for the explanation. I was very puzzled seeing AMD p/e as a complete dilettante in finance reporting.
scif = sensitive compartmented information facility

A room that is supposed to be highly secure with secure communication channels where it is safe to handle or transmit secret information.
Heroku has a max $5/month plan if I am reading their plans[0] correctly. Not sure if that meets your definition of worry-free.

[0]: https://elements.heroku.com/addons/heroku-postgresql
> a twin falling into a black hole

> the twin at the speed of light that remains younger

Neither of these are actual scenarios in relativity. I'm not sure where you are getting them from but your information appears to be garbled.

There is a so-called "twin paradox" in relativity (not actually a paradox so the name is a misnomer), where two twins who take different trips (in the original scenario, one stays at home and one travels out to a distant star and back again at high speed) can end up with one younger than the other when they meet up again. But neither twin can travel at the speed of light; that's impossible for an ordinary object like a person. And neither twin can fall into a black hole, because if they did they could never come back out to meet up with the other twin.
I think the right analogy for FA is high-quality cache-aware BLAS kernel implementations. The algorithm(s) is (are) clever and (as you note) completely independent of hardware. However, a hardware-naive implementation is approximately worthless. Most of the value of MKL, or Accelerate, or FA is in the careful matching of the parameters and implementation of the algorithm to the capabilities of hardware it's going run on.

I definitely don't mean to take away from Tri/FA by mentioning novelty - I'm just repeating from paper, which refers back to algebraic aggregates[0] in its discussion of their tiled softmax.

[0]: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs345d-01/rl/olap.pdf
Welcome to Utopia, TX
>it's because you need it to communicate with other people.

Yep. Chances are if they use Jenkins, they'll have some vendor plugins for tools they use. Jenkins will download xml/json from the one plugin and upload it to another. Now those systems are coupled via a format and a set of behaviors around it. For a huge portion of corporate users those plugins remove a huge chunk of work they'd have to do internally, and instead of writing something from scratch, they can extend what is already there.
At the core of the Russia-Ukraine war there is something that we should all be somewhat concerned about.

It is clear that USA remains an economic, cultural, moral and even spiritual powerhouse as other civilizations go through all sort of turbulence. By virtue of this, other "western" value nations like EU nations, Japan, Australia, South Korea etc. are doing well and likely to do well and benefit. Together we beat covid, invented magic pills for obesity, moved towards cheaper and better energy sources and kept our institutions strong. Even the Islamic and north african immigrants did not cause any collapse that our enemies planned for us.

People around the world continue to line up to immigrate to west legally or illegally. It is a huge success for us.

Now, we have AI. With few more gains this can transform our economy and way of life like nothing else.

I see Russia, China, India and Arab world feel depressed about this that there is nothing they can do about this. They will not be able to catch up with us ever. They take pride in being "thousand year old civilization" but they are being outfoxxed by bunch of cowboys and LGBTQ folks at every step

Russia-Ukraine war or Chinese war on Taiwan is not just a local war but rather an act of desperation from these states due to the realization that their culture and society is a loser culture and society.

I expect this sort of assassination attempts to be on rise now.
Right but the value proposition of Dropbox wasn't the tech it was built on, it was the fact they gave you free cloud storage in exchange for an email address.
can i run a webserver that can talk with the internet and others can call
There is a layer of abstraction between warring nation states. In the case of Ukraine you can argue it's a proxy-war, a seconf layer of abstraction. There is an unthinkable future in the possibility of nation states directly targeting the Corporations that fuel war.
Works for me in Firefox Focus on Android
you know who else was a vegetarian...
I have to agree. I doubt AI architects that use high-level libraries are going to fix AMD's bottom line. Only maybe as a marketing ploy for future sales.
Data breach exposes millions of mSpy spyware customers
My guess is that you haven’t worked for the government. I’ve spent 20 years working for multiple government agencies and the one commonality is that they are all very wasteful. I’ve spent countless hours working on pet projects for some middle manager or executive who leaves three months later and the project gets scrapped. I’ve seen plenty of passionate developers, both employees and contractors, come in and leave after a year once they’ve understood that no one cares and that they will always be wading through bureaucratic sludge in order to get anything done.
Most people will never personally encounter more than 0-1 of any rare or uncommon way of thinking or living. The loudest people are the most self-sure and radical, which makes them ideal candidates for those rare encounters. They come to represent the whole for most people who aren't practiced at seeing past that sort of thing.

You don't think about the vegetarians around you who keep to themselves and go about their way of life without trying to push it on others, so they're quietly embarrassed by those noisy few. At least that's my guess. I don't know that I know any vegetarians.
What is n8n ?
I wish people would stop recommending Rocky. It's a ticking time bomb IMHO caused by their decision to not play nicely with Red Hat and go for questionable tactics like renting temporary RHEL instances to download premade source packages, instead of working together as RH asked them to do. Anybody reading this, do yourself a favor and use Alma, or skip the RHEL ecosystem altogether if you don't absolutely need it.

Otherwise you're building on an operating system which rebuilds a commercial upstream while explicitly refusing to follow that upstream's rules. IBM has lots of experienced lawyers, as I've heard.

It's also slower at releasing updates, including security updates.

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Sorry SSLy, I can't reply to you directly because I'm rate limited, it's very late here, and I'm not waiting for the rate limit to expire. So here's my reply:

I think previous decisions made by IBM have shown that they're fine at burning some community goodwill for short-term profit. People were called paranoid for worrying about the future of CentOS when it was taken up by Red Hat for "improved maintenance", and look where we are now.

Maybe you're right, but I personally wouldn't want to build anything serious on top of that "maybe". If something happens, lateral migration should theoretically work, of course..

https://almalinux.org/elevate
> you should be addressing this with exercise.

Oh 100%, not afraid to admit that! And it probably wasn't wise to just dive right into it without building up to all day use.
Dawn Sturgess was a british civilian killed by russian nerve agent on british soil in a botched attempt to kill Sergei Skripal a russian/british dual national (spy/double agent).

Alexander Litvinenko was a russian/british citiizen and killed with polonium poisoning on british soil (journalist).
Only a guess, but maybe financial markets that run 23 hours a day, 6 days a week, such as futures?
How simple are people's palates if they think vegetarian food is lacking in pleasure? No surprise to hear it from someone with a French sounding name, of course. Add any kind of spice to their food and don't know what's hit them.

Italian and Indian food is where it's at. Is Indian food well known in the US? There's plenty in the UK but most generic "Indian" is mostly Punjabi in particular. It's not hard to find proper vegetarian Indian food if you look, though.

I assume most people who are "offended" by it are harbouring guilt. Usual story.
A delay like this would not likely cause such a reaction for most companies, but the landscape for investors is changing rapidly with Tesla.

I think the years of un-resolved promises and record high prices have started to put downward pressure on Tesla as it also grapples with their CEO having torched his goodwill amongst the public.

My prediction here is that any hint of delays or problems occuring at Tesla will become increasingly more viloent in their market reaction as instead of grappling with FOMO investors now grapple with FUD.
Aha, thanks. I'm trying to look up the CVE on https://ubuntu.com/security/notices and the site's search responds with "504 Gateway Time-out" or "500: Server error". Come on Ubuntu.
But that would provoke Russia and would lead to WW3. (Tongue in Cheek).

My reading is that German elites are deeply compromised and probably on take from Russians. Either through money or through blackmail or through sheer fear.

When taking a stand against Russia vs caving into Russian demands, I think Germany will fold and cave in to Russian demands.
You can run a Postgres on Fly.io full time for just slight more than $2.

It's not a great business though. The compromise you're making is that we don't manage it. It'll probably stay running, it's likely to be worry free (especially if you barely use it), but if anything goes wrong it's up to you.

You could also spin up a VM for cheap somewhere, install Postgres, and just let it be.

Managed databases are expensive to run – worry free costs quite a bit of money to ensure. Maybe you don't need that for a hobby project?
I've seen a few failures, most of which seem to involve electronics.

A set of reflector spots (replacing 45W halogen bulbs) all in recessed ceiling fixutres in one specific location within the house failed within a few months of one another.

Another spot in the kitchen, in an exposed can, failed within a year or so. It was located directly over the sink.

I suspect moisture / condensation as issues in both, as the ceiling cans have minimal insulation between them and the roof, and the kitchen fitting would be exposed to steam / vapour coming off the sink.

Other than that, a couple of stick-style closet bulbs have failed, also apparently electronics. And one fixture in the garage which seems to have been physically struck.

That's over roughly a decade's experience and roughly 30 bulbs / fixtures. Far better than incandescent or even CF bulbs. Though still not quite meeting expectations.
Cool website - I think having a Google sign up would be nice - just for convenience
I made a search over the last 6 months of "Who wants to be hired" posts using Happenstance, hope it's useful! https://happenstance.ai/search/a7f35201-f92e-4bab-825c-c6209...
Market dynamics have been trending in the direction of leasing companies getting more desperate, not less.
That's very good info.

> For a long time the X Window System had a reputation for being difficult to configure.

But apparently some things never actually change. :)
There is no "the" problem. You identify one problem to exclusion of the very real, salient problem that the average taxpayer sees the wealthy as not paying their fair share.
Instead, the 2fa app should show you the action you are authenticating, just like the SMS version.

But actually, we have put way too much stuff on the (inherently transient) web. What solves your problem is permanent client-side storage. Your friend shouldn't reach the bank through a google search.
Ubuntu is merely reusing apt to connect to its own repositories. You could manually install packages from Debian's repositories, but it's probably inadvisable.
I seriously laughed at this, well played
Just because you can say it, doesn't mean you should... that's a pretty clunky sentence in my opinion. Then again, it will only occur very extremely rarely in writing, so maybe it's OK.

;)
RHEL ecosystem is no less patched than Debian and its derivatives. Especially the kernel has only some resemblance to its stated version.
Library deprecations are fairly different from service deprecations. That said, same points generally stand. I know MANY people that no longer use Guava because they got tired of how rapidly they had to update their code due to changes in the library. Similarly, I know very few people that have gotten upset with the deprecation policy of Java core.
just get a vm on something like Vultr and install postgres on it
Yes I was poking around earlier today to try and confirm whether the Console is still using CodeMirror. I saw a couple instances of the name but didn't want to overstep my bounds and make an inaccurate statement.
As a consumer, I don't give a shit - it's false advertising. I have taken to writing the installation date on the bulb body in Sharpie; I suspect I won't be able to force manufacturers to honor their claimed lifetime, but perhaps I'll get a free box of bulbs after a blog post about it goes viral.
My favourite NK blog is the trip in 2008 from Austria to North Korea via the unexpected route from Russia

https://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/2008/10/vienna-pyongya...
May it is a browser issue. I was able to exit with ':q<Enter>'
In my 20 years govt experience, it is wasted on pet projects and failed projects created by contractors.
California banned potassium brominate as a food additive last year, but it doesn’t go into effect until 2027.

The FDA finally banned brominated vegetable oil very recently so maybe they’ll get to the rest of it too. Assuming they can make rules anymore, anyway.
A small db isn't free to _operate_. The actual compute and storage costs are pretty low, but keeping the thing running is harder than you'd think.

Keeping it running with no users is easy. Keeping it running when someone ships an app that blows the DB up is hard.
> Verbose logs are simply a pain in the arse, unless you have a massive processing system. but even then it just either kneecaps your observation window, or makes your queries take ages.

which is why this blog post brags about their capability. Technologies advances, and something difficult to do today may not be as difficult tomorrow. If your logging infra is overwhelmed, by all means drop some data and protect the system. But if Binance is happily storing and querying their 100PB logs now, that's their choice and it's totally fine. I won't say they are doing anything wrong. Again, we are talking about blue moon scenarios here, which is all about hedging risks and uncertainties. It's fine if Netflix drops a few frames of pictures in a movie, but my bank can't drop my transaction.
Here is a more nuanced Technology Connections video on the matter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb7Bs98KmnY
That's a really interesting distinction between the words, but sources from Wikipedia indicate that the minotaur was trapped in a maze:

> Although early Cretan coins occasionally exhibit branching (multicursal) patterns, the single-path (unicursal) seven-course "Classical" design without branching or dead ends became associated with the Labyrinth on coins as early as 430 BC, and similar non-branching patterns became widely used as visual representations of the Labyrinth – even though both logic and literary descriptions make it clear that the Minotaur was trapped in a complex branching maze.
Works fine for me on Android
Their consumer wireline business is mostly regulated and has strict margin caps.

Do you have a source that contradicts the number I provided? Because AT&T is getting wrecked right now by every publicly available number which contradicts both the spirit of your comment and explains why they might cut costs for customer support.

Their business wire line just wrote down nearly half of their previous year numbers.

By no metric I know of does AT&T have a high margin business
That doesn't do anything to assist solving, though. Once you're in the moat, it's the same problem.
I don't work at a bank, but I do work in fintech, and this strikes me as excessively cynical. The reason banks are slow about this stuff is not necessarily because "it's cheaper" (though maybe it is), but because the complexity of any change is simply off the charts: money-related logic must work correctly, to a far higher standard than almost any tech company. It makes you conservative, in the same way that demanding 99.999% uptime is exponentially harder than demanding 99%, and makes moving quickly essentially impossible.

(Also, of course, they're probably working on COBOL stacks that were written in 1978.)

For a bank, pile on top of that mountains of (often conflicting) regulatory review, such that just about any change sounds the alarm for armies of nearby lawyers to swarm upon you and bury you in paper. All it takes 0.1% of annoyed users filing complaints that they can't access their accounts, and you might well be looking at a steep fine, a class-action lawsuit, or worse.
> I'd argue that what you're talking about in fiction is coherence (internal consistency) not factual accuracy (consistency with an externally verifiably ground truth).

No. I'm talking about "factual accuracy (consistency with an externally verifiably ground truth)." Mere internal consistency is not enough: a fictional world where everyone consistently stabs themselves in the eye when they see flashing lights is consistent, but lacks factual accuracy, and is therefore garbage fiction.

> I'd also argue that the economic value of coherent bullshit is ... quite high. Many people have made careers out of producing coherent bullshit (some even with incoherent bullshit :-).

I agree there's (greedily selfish) "economic value" to coherent bullshit, but there's negative social value to it. It's basically a kind of scam.

IMHO, some of the best applications for LLMs are for things like spam and scams, not the utopian BS they're promoted for (e.g. some LLM will diagnose your illness better, faster, and cheaper than a doctor).
Yeah, but there is a point (about 1 hour, last I checked being a few months ago) where you start getting cold starts in Neon. You can call that being active the whole time but CockroachDB doesn't have this problem. If I had to rank it:

"Live" database > CockroachDB (few hundred ms) > NeonDB (2-3 seconds) > traditional cold start. This is just my impression and the data is made up but that is how it has felt as a user. So there are definitely levels of "scaling to zero"
For me sertaline was way more gradual. And it was never that I suddenly felt right - it's just that after few weeks I noticed my floor on feeling very down for up a bit.

(I got prescribed it for anxiety)
My favorite founding father, Ben Franklin?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin#Vegetarianis...
Most probably, said ops folks have quite a few war stories to share about logs.

Maybe a JVM-based app went haywire, producing 500GB of logs within 15 minutes, filling the disk, and breaking a critical system because no one anticipated that a disk could go from 75% free to 0% free in 15 minutes.

Maybe another JVM-based app went haywire inside a managed Kubernetes service, producing 4 terabytes of logs, and the company's Google Cloud monthly usage went from $5,000 to $15,000 because storing bytes is supposed to be cheap when they are bytes and not when they are terabytes.

I completely agree that logs are useful, but developers often do not consider what to log and when.
Check your company's cloud costs. I bet you the cost of keeping logs is at least 10%, maybe closer to 25% of the total cost.
I think this is often a case of people dealing with cognitive dissonance.

It's pretty easy to understand that in at least North America our livestock handling practices cause a huge amount of suffering to animals for the enjoyment of people. But most people are able to ignore / justify that with a "well, it's bad but you gotta eat".

When presented with a group of people who make the choice not to eat animals / contribute to that suffering it challenges that justification and makes people very uncomfortable and in some cases angry. The easiest way to resolve this conflict is to mock those people and write them off as some kind of sanctimonious kill joys
I didn't realise the Axis powers had radar. Apparently they did, though Axis technology greatly lagged the Allied powers':

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Luftwaffe_and_Kriegsmar...>

Axis powers lead in other areas, notably in drones (V-1), rocketry (V-2), tank design, air-to-surface missiles, and audio technology (recording, public-address, playback, broadcast),
The mapping to someone’s calendar is important too, though, when you start looking at accruals…
What currency