skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea is to reduce the burden and simplify operations. You likely already need cloud dashboards for other things, and you really can't avoid that. You also can't remove SSH without improving automation, but once you do, you'll realize you simply don't need SSH at all.

A sibling comment mentioned cattle vs pets, which is related to this. If servers are not valuable, can be quickly recreated, and the infrastructure is self-healing, that means that you've done all the hard work, and don't need SSH for taking care of your pets.
I'm in your target market, and in my opinion you have an opportunity to rephrase your tagline "The first open-source Infrastructure-as-Code framework" because your tagline makes me think you're ancient and retro-- think back twenty years or more to Capistrano, Chef, Puppet, etc. as just a few examples.

Just to double-check, here's what Google shows me for your own tagline:

"Chef is an open source infrastructure as code framework, or set of solutions and approaches that helps you automate your infrastructure and applications."

"Terraform is an open source Infrastructure-as-Code framework originally created by HashiCorp"

"Pulumi is an open source Infrastructure-as-Code framework that provisions resources utilizing common programming languages."

etc.

If you're open to adjusting your marketing, I can also suggest you add OpenTofu to your homepage where you currently list Terraform. OpenTofu is more up to date with the open source community especially for IaC. It's a crowded space so aim to highlight your value proposition instead of writing "first".

Just my two cents. Hope this helps.
My typical interview process after grad school which may have been a follow-up to an on-campus interview (or not) was to be flown to a company site and have interviews with maybe 5 people or so, usually a lunch, maybe a dinner. So it was basically a couple of days when all was said and done.

Even my last job at a medium-large company which started out as a chat with the president who I knew, and then came in again for a chat with one of his reports, still ended up with an HR-arranged set of interviews with about 4 people. It was local to me so not a big deal but it was still a full set of interviews.
> The continuous equivalent in a sort of unification is Rao-Blackwellisation (done automagically by deep-learning from its training experience) which allows to pick the right associations efficiently kind of the same way that a "most general unification algorithm" allows to pick the right variable to unify the terms.

I don't know how to reconcile this statement about deep learning with my understanding of Rao-Blackwell. Can you explain:

- what is the value being estimated?

- what is the sufficient statistic?

- what is the crude estimator? what is the improved estimator?

Roughly, I think sufficient statistics don't really do anything useful in deep learning. If they did, they would give a recipe for embarassingly parallel training that would be assured to reach exactly the same value a fully sequential training. And from an information geometry perspective, because sufficient statistics are geodesics, the exploratory (hand-waving) and slow nature of SGD could be skipped.
The GP wants to denounce it to a third party.
Ask HN: Good books for my non-technical cofounder on software development
Hey, do you have any recommendations for books I should have my non-technical cofounder read to help him understand how software development works.

Thanks
Reader mode let me read the article. It was actually pretty even handed, and the police say that the algorithm is more accurate. The headline is just a bit click-baity.
> social media is the new bread for the poor,

Not even bread, it's digital sugar
Most people in tech will roll their eyes when they hear this, but they'll keep their mouths shut.
Billionaires building luxury doomsday bunkers
200+ comments about a 7 years old website = :-)

Great job, Naya.
Building AI tools for reporters and editors
These negative emotions helped us survive before, but in this artificial world there needs to be artificial solutions
Hence why I wrote,

"(plus whatever downstream actions that are involved)"

>So yes, for that bag of chips to exist, literally cost trillions of dollars.

You're off by trillions of dollars. It's amortized cost is somewhere between zero and the dollar you paid for it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=daringfireball.net ctrl+f apple
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40875801

The calculations or Tesla to be 25T company or 1/4 of the current global market (100T) is too rosy, even considering a projection of 16% capture of 150T by 2035

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/268750/global-gross-dome....

*i.e. if we don't consider the bitcoin holdings hack
Documentation link leads to main page, no documentation section present in site menu.
> While management can also be a source of bad codebase, it is usually the developers.

Plot twist: the devs who are good at leet code quizzes are frequently crap product developers on teams.
PolyBlocks – A Compiler Engine for AI Frameworks
Congrats. Very exciting to see continued innovation around smaller models, that can perform much better than larger models. This enables faster inference and makes them more ubiquitous.
1975 called. They'd like to loan you their copy of the Mythical Man-Month.

So to be clear: If all of those were SWEs, that would be 2,268 people to introduce bugs, and roughly 2.5M potential social links / interactions (and communications overhead).

The issue queue is what results.

Most projects are best done by about 2-10 person teams. That's about where you can maintain architectural coherence. Beyond 20, architectural coherence becomes impossible.
Are you telling me that the top three best-selling vehicles in the country are all pickup trucks, but people actually want small sedans?
Claude 3.5 sonnet is so much better in every test I made (coding and everyday mondain stuffs), it beats me why anyone would choose chatgpt (I'm using free versions only).
> And yet the best selling car last year, world-wide, was Tesla Model Y - a fully electric car, not a hybrid.

Toyota sold almost twice as many hybrids as Tesla sold cars in 2023. Comparing a single model's sales is pointless, especially when Tesla carries so few models compared to most manufacturers.

> Hybrids are the worst of both worlds: you need a gas engine AND a battery.

Most hybrids use a dead simple power split transmission that replaces a complex automatic transmission as well as the alternator and starter. Most of the accessories move off of belts and get replaced with high-voltage electric components similar to an EV. Priuses are the most common taxi and Uber vehicle for a reason. They are extremely reliable and cost effective relative to ICE and even EVs depending on the relative cost of fuel.

> It doesn't make sense economically. Things cost money and putting both engine and battery costs more that putting just one of those.

The costs are fairly marginal, switching to the Hybrid model of the 2024 Corolla (no subsidy) costs $1450 and nets +15 combined MPG and 0-60 times within 0.2 seconds of one another. At +15 mpg and $3.50/gallon it pays itself off in 50k miles

> Not to mention that study after study found that environment benefits of plug-in hybrids have been greatly exaggerated i.e. in real life charging happens 2-3x less than the initial predictions.

IIRC this study was from corporate fleets which isn't representative of a consumer who seeks out a PHEV.
>In this age-of-big-data, is there a way to quantify this?

Not sure exactly (I don't live in the US), but not every consumer opinion everywhere or behavior can be 100% easily quantified with a quick Google search or a simple big data query, the way HN loves. Sometimes it's more complicated that the data available and it's just easier to ask consumers since people vote with their wallets and consumers aren't stupid to leave money on the table if EVs ownership were a monetary net benefit for them.

I just looked at the EV infrastructure around me, how people use their ICE cars, and the pros and cons of switching to EVs now, with home charging and without home charging.

Call it an anecdote if you will, but I'm as middle class as it gets(no house ownership, ICE car owner), so if EV ownership sucks for me, it probably also sucks for everyone else like me, and since so there's a lot of me out there in this country where I live, then my anecdote is pretty representative without or without big data.
Anything logistics.
Aww, <3 I love this. Keep up the great work, naya!!
Where does it say the AI weapons make decisions?
I don't even think it makes them look ancient, it makes them look odd for claiming that when they clearly are not the first open source IAC framework...

OP, why exactly are you describing yourself as the first one?
Especially this week
this pains me :-(
The short answer is that blocking is expensive due to the overhead of the implied context switch and poor locality. As computers become faster, a larger percentage of the CPU time is dedicated to context-switching overhead and non-blocking architectures eliminate that. For applications like databases where this problem is more severe, the difference in throughput between a blocking architecture and a non-blocking architecture can be 10x on the same hardware, so it is a very important optimization if you want your software to have performance that is competitive.

A modern thread-per-core shared-nothing architecture takes this even further and tries to eliminate blocking at the hardware level for the same basic reason.
Believing HN to be a "supposedly well informed community" is irrational. I didn't have to fill out any test to join.

It's just orange reddit
The Trump Admin has been very strong on china, I dont know how you came to the conclusion there will not be support for Taiwan.
In addition to what jph said, if you want to claim to be "first" or "new" at anything you should explain what exactly that is about. The README blurb reads like it could be about at least a dozen other projects, with no hint why I should think that yours is especially interesting or better.
Record-breaking 402 Tbps internet speed
For tuples, not for named fields.
In theory, I can see that point, in practice, unfortunately, it seems like a good idea.

We're witnessing Russia, a massive country with nuclear deterrence, trying to annex a smaller peaceful country that hasn't provoked any neighbor since it existed - Ukraine. Russia has used genocide in the past, and is now using it again to try to wipe yet another country and culture from the face of the earth.

The vast majority of Russians don't care, and many support this war with a "brotherly nation" (imagine). Others see going to Ukraine to kill Ukrainians as a way to make a better living, for them and their families - they don't see the shortcomings of Putin that led to their misery, but they see the value in making more money killing Ukrainians - go figure!

And Putin made such a strategic blunder, that his existence is now tied to this war - even if that means killing millions of Russians and Ukrainians.

So, what can Ukraine do, or other countries close to Russia or close to China, who are looking to expand borders?

They can no longer rely on US for help because of their own internal division and the resignation from being the "leaders of the free world".

To me, the most obvious answer is:

- GET NUKES - The problem with this is that many countries who have nukes don't want more nukes spread around, because sht can get out of hand and nukes might be deployed - this argument no longer makes much sense given what Russia is doing, they're literally using nuclear deterrence to expand borders. But nukes are expensive.

- AI WEAPONS - Russia is protected from external intervention under the nuclear umbrella, and they have bodies to throw. They're sustaining a lot of casualties, and Russians seem to be motivated to continue to kill Ukrainians for small personal gain, so something must be done in this regard. The accuracy of western weapons seems to have been playing in favor of Ukraine, but clearly it's not enough. So you will need something to balance off high numbers of motivated soldiers in comparison to those defending - here AI seems to be the solution.

- AI WEAPONS + NUKES - this seems to be the safest solution of them all.

Reality check: Russia, Iran, North Korea, and China are developing AI weapons. They're already deploying them for information warfare, so you can only assume they will deploy them as weapons as soon as they can.

Sadly, that's the world we live in, so we have to adjust to the times. I don't think its a matter of "should we", but more "how can we make them in greater numbers and cheaper".
Toyota trucks are very popular. And big. I’m not sure what your point is.
I strongly disagree, have you used fp16 or q8 llama3 8b?
It was indeed. My interview process took like 6-7 weeks or something by the end. Was quite the disappointment at the time.
I can't help.

> "Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody understand me." I said, "What's so special about you?"

He said: "I don't want to jump".
Anyone know a simple method of testing for lead in food? Say a wet chemistry method?

I live in California, and I've noticed that everything has a CA Proposition 65 warning label. When I look into it it's generally lead that has bioaccumulated in the plant. What I can't find is how much or how widespread it is in the food.
The cognitive dissonance that happens with tech workers believing their own work isn’t some form of blood money in the end is comical.
Cloudflare AI gateway [0]

[0] https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/configuration/c...
OP Here.

This blew up fast. I'll provide more context in this comment rather than commenting individually for the sake of not repeating myself.

First of all, children and family. I am considering this, but I doubt this is the solution to all problems. I agree with people who say it can provide a sense of purpose, but I also agree with people who think it's a bit irresponsible to recommend children to a stranger who shared something like I did.

Next, ADHD and depression. Never did ADHD test, I suspect I might have slight form of it. Depression I refuse to believe it exists in the form society labels it. For me, depression is a chemical imbalance, rather than a state of laziness/sadness/lost in life. Even if I have something like this, I won't take medication. Just a personal view on modern medical system, based on my experience with multiple psychologist and psychiatrists who did more harm that good (in my opinion).

Therapy. As mentioned above, therapy did more harm than good to me. Sure it might work for some people, but my experience with over 4 therapists ended up with either "nothing is wrong with you, don't visit me any more" or attempts to put me in a one of the boxes that the therapist learned about in school, while I clearly try to avoid any boxes.

God, hobbies, etc. I'm not 16 years old. I have grown up responsibilities, and I can't indulge myself in new hobbies every day. I'm focused (as much as I can) on building a business in order to escape the soul crashing tech industry and live on my terms (as much as possible, ultimate freedom is somewhat a lie). Together with this I try to work on my health, and maintain relationship(s). These are my 3 priorities in life, in no particular order. I don't have the time or desire to explore woodworking, or cave diving.

Thanks for everyone who commented, I appreciate every one of you <3
"Heroic" hahahaha
I got burnt out on a job and then spent a year riding my mountain bike. Got into some photography, which I've since dropped. Got into some GIS and map making. After a year, I was ready for coding again. I did some contract work that I didn't really care about, but the contracts were short-term and they paid well, and I could take time off between them.

Eventually a buddy of mine wanted to start a company, so we did. And it eventually grew big enough to support us, but even though the work was interesting to start, it got dull. And finally I just couldn't do it anymore.

So I quit, and then floated around working on whatever I wanted to work on for a year. I took a few odd jobs. I think I was on track to earn something like $25k that year.

But then, due to some programming guides I'd written, a teaching job opportunity fell into my lap. And I always knew that teaching was what I wanted to do. It was a pay cut, but at this point I was more than willing to trade the money.

I've since moved on to a State University for even more of a pay cut, and I work about 8 months a year (3 months unpaid), and this is my idea of the perfect semi-retirement for the duration. Not too shabby.

Sometimes people still approach me for programming gigs, but so far every single one of them has not engaged my enthusiasm. And even the promise of possible, improbable eight-figure payouts isn't enough.

But I always knew what it was I wanted to do. The question is, what would you do if you had a million dollars and didn't have to work?

I do recommend doing exactly what you're doing, and getting on figuring it out now. Because when you hit your 50s, time really starts ripping by. And it might take some time for you to figure out.

"You know what I would do if I had a million dollars? I would invest half of it in glorious mutual funds and take the other half over to my friend Asadulah who works in securities and--"

"Samir, you're missing the point. The point is you're supposed to work out what you--'PC Load Letter'? What the fuck does that mean?!"
This isn't reddit, don't ask this kind of questions here. You lost money, move on and get smarter.
Beautiful in it's simplicity. I also admire how much JavaScript modern websites can stuff down my throat without the mereist whiff of necessity.
Using it and loving it. Security aspects aside, it's also the best tool I've tried for proper asset management in multi-cloud scenarios. With the graph feature you can write queries for basically anything, across all accounts if you wish.
During dot-bomb it seemed as if people weren't even getting nibbles.

Based on anecdata from someone experienced who described the current situation as "weird," it seems as if there are a ton of people being put through a full interview cycle only to be told "Oops, the budget's been pulled" or "We decided to hold off for now."
That should have been a huge scandal. I hope it doesn’t happen again, ever. Why do you think it will happen again, soon?
The thread is fishing for some kind of moral failure, but if it's the company gathering those opinions, without any obligation, for its own use, it's not hostile behavior to manipulate the data.

It's just stupid.

(There may be, of course, some behavior that is hostile to the company done by people inside it. But it's not hostile to you. Also, one can argue that "stupid" is worse.)
It's a tough one. I've made the site 100% free in the past and got hit with a ton of SEO service and web development spam. Had to set up a paywall to increase the quality of buyers.

Also, a lot of data that sellers provide is sensitive and they don't feel comfortable with everyone having access to financial data, traffic etc. as competitors can abuse this information.

I send out around 2-5 startups every week with free access to newsletter subscribers (have a bit more control) hence the prompt to subscribe. This really helps regular subscribers with the kind of startups listed on the marketplace.

Also made the top 3 free to view now, hope this makes for a better user experience.
Your comment is naive but I’m dying to know: how would you measure better?
We horizontally scale on queue depth/length (Kafka offset length specifically)

This requires the use of things like kubernetes custom metrics api and Prometheus adapter
Pretty darn good - looking forward to updates!
I have been thinking about local privacy preserving AI lately and stenography circumscribes much of the challenge. Having access to sensitive data means you have to limit access to a lot of tools. That’s how it would work in a privacy context but the same tools are neutral to being used in a censorship context.

It’s over 10 years since but it would be nice if important research like this at least touched on the egalitarian issues rather than presenting a partisan agenda. E.g. someone somewhere who has to deal with private data now also has to deal with even stricter restrictions, without any doubt.

Sometimes I worry about researchers working on important issues with apparently blinders on. If we don’t self-supervise we just outsource the work, and in this case that means we are back to square one.
I understand that, which is why I am personally vaccinated multiple times.

But I imagine people fighting vehemently against Covid vaccines have a very different view on the topic.
This guy is great. Companies like Anduril are what we need to protect America in the next war. Defense procurement has eaten us alive and made a relatively ineffective fighting force. We need to be capable of creating liberty ships again. And the UAV and USV tech that Anduril pioneers will hopefully lead to a bunch of copycat companies that push low cost weaponry.

High production wins wars. We did it last time. We just have to get it back into action again.

The Thiel collective has reached VP and Pres candidates. If they make it to the White House, this particular pathway is going to open. American hegemony can be preserved and the World can be at peace.
no, not the actual content, just the titles of the content.
like "book title" by "author". the tool just simply can't be taken seriously by anyone until they release that information. this is the case for all these models. it's ridiculous, almost insulting.
A unique property of Prolog is that, given an answer, it can arrive at the original question (or, a set of questions – speaking more broadly).

Or, using layman terms, a Prolog programme can be run backward.
Click on "available" and "employment" in "Waiting for AI Apocalypse / Available for Employment"
> Apple's cheapest ever computer is the current $599 Mac mini

I'd argue it's the $429 iPhone SE [1].

[1] https://www.apple.com/iphone-se/
I'm being asked on a regular basis by various health practitioners (pretty much on every visit) if I ever had uneven or elevated heart rate after my covid shots (I had), then they take note which specific vaccine brand I had. So - adjust your priors ;-)
The one exception being video-based image super-resolution techniques, where the frames of the video are composited together to gain more information than is in any individual frame (which is also how MRIs work!)

Tangent to that: does anyone know if there are any free-to-use tools (or open-source models) for doing video-based image super-resolution?

(I imagine that such a tool could take video files directly; but that the actual underlying model would likely require that you first convert your video into an image containing a grid of sampled frames, making it essentially an image2image model that learns to sample from reference images. A bit like the image2image models trained to output depth maps given stereo-camera photo pairs.)
The Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI)
I feel that's in bad taste as Ukraine is defending against a foreign invasion. You can tell Russia to stop the war, they can just go home. Ukraine does not have that luxury.
The "10k" version is no longer available.
The Nature article this is based upon was posted yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40987224