skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can stretch availability to 99.9999999 if you have the money and the team to support it. However, each jump can incur up to a 100x cost increase per the Google SRE book. Availably is always a conversation about risk, innovation, cost, and what your customers will accept as an SLA.

Even Google doesn't go 99.999 on all services. Services that require rapid innovation are always lower because availability incurs an opportunity cost on innovation.
> Video formats: HEVC (H.265), AVC (H.264)

So much for supporting Open Source AV1...
> He was required to write an official account of his term, and did so as a five-act drama in blank verse entitled “The Tragi-Comicall Briefe Reigne of Lewis the Bald”.

Nice to see he was capable of self-deprecating humor.
That phone isn't a squircle, it is a rounded square. Those rounded edges seem to be inspired by google material design. Also phones have converged to the metal band, glass back before the iphone did it. Mobile phones are a mature technology and their designs have converged to the designs people are buying.
The radio has a range of max 1km. If there are no other devices in range to extend your reach by mesh routing, you will quickly lose track of your pet...
Maybe with a lower band radio and/or a Lora-like transmission technique these could have been made with a higher range but 1km seems ok for a festival setting
If the military has fighters that can refuel in the air, why does United refuel on the ground like chumps?

First of all, sometimes even AWS makes mistakes and has downtime. They have downtime (usually unplanned) fairly often. Companies like VISA, that do payment processing, where countless dollars could be lost in just a few minutes of downtime, almost never update their old systems. They still have programs running FORTRAN. When they do update, it's complicated.

You can try to get really good uptime by doing things like forking your database and replicating your commit log to the fork. You can do rolling updates, where different customers are served different versions of a system. You can do extremely thorough testing.

But are you? Can you afford to do that and do you even have the engineering talent to make it happen even if you want to? Are you going to pass on new business opportunities and new features just to avoid a 20 minute downtime for a database migration at 2am? I suspect you are not.
The change adds no syntax.
https://old.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/ is a treasure trove for those who wants to engage in the quest.
The first time I looked at the syntax, it honestly looked like gibberish to me.

It's probably simple, but the control flow just felt convoluted.
Table format comparisons – Append-only tables and incremental reads
Something something cheap boot vs. expensive boot something something…
Where there is a will, there is a way. Big corporations could use the license and stick to its terms, but no, they don't want to. Better in their view to just take take take and never give. What they don't see however, and what is on no ones quarterly number sheet, is all the talent they don't attract.
It's amazing really. It's his job to mitigate an attack like this. Especially on a platform the size of X. If he wasn't lying, then he let a DoS attack shut down his live stream, so he still fucked up.
> I believe the issue here is only with users still running those older dongle-based versions of the software, and only when they try to reinstall that older version. This is a problem because major Steinberg versions are paid upgrades (while minor upgrades are free). Major versions are usually released every 12-18 months. I have two takeaways:

No, eLicenser is not just a dongle solution but also their first iteration of software-based licensing, which they have replaced with some new crap. If you are running a Cubase version that is a couple of years old and were previously registering it through the soft eLicenser, this copy of Cubase will stop working as soon as you want to activate it on a new computer.

I "own" some older Steinberg software that I have no intention of upgrading, and as a result I will no longer be able to rely on its software-based licensing, as any breakdown of my computer could mean that I will be without a license. There is the possibility of transferring this license to a dongle, which will keep me going until that dongle breaks (which isn't unheard of) or gets lost.
I'm not talking about general availability, just wondering why would a whole website need to be shut down to do maintenance?

What is this specific kind of maintenance that cannot be done live?
If you run at web scale and serve ~10 million customers, you'll need a lot of servers to keep running. Most sites aren't anywhere near that.
My biggest gripe with async await is when it's used by people that don't understand promises. They interpret await as "let promise run" and not "this blocks the flow." I had someone show me code where they wanted to preload a bunch of images, and effectively had a for loop and did an await on each image in it, effectively running it as slow as possible. I showed him `await Promise.all(imageLoadingPromises)`, and he was confused why we needed `Promise.all` here.

I also don't like how async/await ends up taking over a whole codebase. Often making one function async will cause you to update other functions to be async so you can do proper awaiting. We literally exchanged callback hell to async hell, and said it was better, but I'm not strictly convinced of this.
They are using a new modem this year but it is still Samsung rather than Qualcomm.

Pixel 7 and 8 used the Samsung 5300 which wasnt very good so the new 5400 might be better but we will have to wait for reviews and what not.

Google is switching from Samsung to TSMC for chip fab next gen, so the Pixel 10 might end up with a significantly better modem.
Yes, we combine LLMs as a judge with traditional checks like reverse search in original data sources, defining your own post-processing logic, and simple classifier for confidence score.
There is also Sink-It for Reddit. It’s an open source Safari extension to make the website more usable if you need it.
Not confusion with Ken Thompson; probably the book.
I like your theory more than the current setup.

I have an interesting addition to it:

Time dilation could be that going very fast in the space makes you relatively faster in one direction.

The thing is, atoms also have to travel; so the atoms (and matter in general) have a slightly longer distance to travel, to achieve the same chemical reaction. Which means interactions between atoms is slower, giving illusion of a slower time due to slower inter-atoms reactions.
Better than Tesla is not a high bar. Openpilot regularly slams on the brakes.
That’s not health tax tho - it’s usually a separate tax. In Israel, mine used to be around $100/month.
Programmer uses lisp macro to invent new keyword. It's a beautiful thing.
Is that not just youtube "memberships" though? The creator can choose the cost and have multiple "tiers" - I don't think there's anything stopping them having a $1 "tip jar" tier.

Sure, it's not quite the same, but at some point of similar-enough the number of people who actually use each feature becomes vanishingly small and/or the cost of managing the extra option outpaces the income, and it's just not worth it.
Tyler's point is that most companies don't have anywhere near the computing scale and workforce size which Amazon and Google have. Most companies don't have any option other than to take services offline during certain types of maintenance.
Some highlights that I remember include:

* One project where the CI took something like 48 hours

* Trying to apply waterfall hardware engineering processes to software development

* Mostly hiring devs fresh from university so there was a ton of group think due to a lack of new ideas

* Low salaries so most of the devs left once they got promoted beyond a junior level
>People trade in cars every 3 years.

Looks at their 2010 Honda Fit in the parking lot

Umm, yeah, some people do.
It generally takes more prep work to do maintenance without downtime (i.e. it’s more expensive), and if you’re not operating at their scale, it’s less likely to be worth it.
Some stats from another site

- As of 2023, the global average replacement cycle length for a smartphone is 3.6 years.

- 40.4% of people upgrade their smartphone every two to three years.

- The majority of people (75.0%) upgrade their handset due to issues with their battery life shortening over time.
I only bought a Pixel because of GrapheneOS.

I think I've never had this few issues with a phone. (I only had Samsung phones before this)

It feels even better than the Android that the Pixels ship with, I used it for a day before I flashed GrapheneOS, and I can completely understand why one would not buy a Pixel again if they only experienced the Stock OS.
I'm not sure why you think you'd like the Pixel fold more than the Samsung Fold. Their dimensions are similar, but you've already said you dislike the software experience.

I had the Nexus 5, Pixel 1, 3a, and now 7a, with a couple other phones in between which each time drove me back to Google hardware and their flavor of Android. If you didn't like the software in the early days of Pixel, or even in the Nexus days before, you probably still wouldn't.
> $400 investment

Why is this word used to describe "pure financial loss" so often when talking about purchased luxury goods?

> Investment: the outlay of money usually for income or profit
As I'm sure you're aware deep learning work better is the most hot and highly funded thing right now... there is nothing wrong with making sure you get the credit for a new technique, and it in no way precludes widespread free sharing of the idea.

I am an academic researcher (not in this field) and everything I do is 100% free and public, but I still either patent or publish it, because getting the credit is what allows me to keep doing what I love. I actually hate that part, and would rather just do the work, but I already push that line too far sometimes, and risk losing my funding aka "publish or perish."
A game streamer I sometimes watch also said something similar - that "youtube premium" views are tracked separately and worth significant multiples per view compared to those that get ads.

They also said it isn't variable in the same way for what ads can get assigned to your content, or for "limited monetization" content (which apparently pretty much sets the ad income to zero).
And why _exactly_ is that?

Why does the service need to be taken offline?
We take LA as example:

California state tax rate: 7.25% Los Angeles county tax rate: 1.00% Special tax rate: 1.25% Combined Los Angeles tax rate: 9.50%

Highest federal tax rate is 37% so that is 46.5%. Not quite Finland but a lot...
Same difference... read the book

https://sre.google/
East of Eden by Steinbeck is great. I found it very approachable, and the characters very familiar.
The only thing I have to do is keep using the phone for 120 days. Monthly price for service is $20 plus $10 for each gig of data, unchanged by their phone price promotions.

Don't even have to pay a fee to use a cellular smartwatch, as long as it is made by Google or Samsung.
They're comparing the sphere of water to the Earth which is a sphere.

Also it's by the Water Science School, so it doesn't seem your definition of completeness was the intention.
dramatiq seems like a true gem. I didn't know it existed. I don't see why this can't just be an immediate Celery replacement for your typical Django project that already uses Celery - with a bit of time spent on refactoring into dramatiq.
A primer on the obesity drug landscape
Since only Apple, Google and Samsung provide some realistic assurance of security updates, there aren't so many options left. If you don't want to spend 1k there is the Pixel 8a for half that price.
Dramatiq – task queueing for Python, Django etc.
Which ones?

According to https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705?hl=en pixel 5a is getting eol this month, with the next security update dropping for pixel 6 starting in October 2026

"Last gen" pixel 8 is going to get android and security updates through October 2030
fp contract isn't a uniform "decrease in error" either, though. As a simple example, it introduces error in the straightforward:

a*b - a*b
I guess not, but they are mentioned in the acknowledgements and references of the paper.

> In Section 8.2, text written in italic font expresses ideas originally communicated by Dr John Gordon (Gordon 2021).

Also on the author's blog: https://martinsweatman.blogspot.com/2024/06/lunisolar-calend...

Not sure who John Gordon is, and that's got to be an incredibly common name even among doctors.
Ya but say I'm a small business and only have 6 servers for my website

Why do I need to take all 6 offline to do maintenance?
IIR, the Earth's mantle is understood to contain several times the total water content of the oceans, glaciers, lakes, etc.

Obviously that water would be somewhat less accessible and quantifiable, but...

Anyone familiar with the current geoscience on this?
I dont donate to any charity.

I worked for many years as a volunteer within the charity sector. In my case offering free psychotherapy to local communities. I did this for 10 years, three evenings every week, providing psychotherapy to those who could least afford it.

I do not financially donate to any charity because I have seen first hand the abuse that seems prevalent, of donations collected by charities being used to pay for corporate offices in central London and paying senior staff CEO wages.

Charity for me is using every penny that is collected via donations for the benefit of the people for whom the charity claims to support.

An recent example is of my 84 years old friend who lives in an Almshouse, The almshouses here in the UK are houses for the poor. You have to meet strict criteria to be deemed poor.

you are not considered a tenant or given a tenancy agreement so you have no legal protections. you are given a letter of occupation, sounds like something from world war 2.

A few years ago her home was taken over by another Almshouse charity. Upon taking over the Almshouse the CEO gave himself a congratulatory pay rise of £40,000 per annum on top of his already abscene annual salary.
Usually what happens is:

1. "We got it all working in the notebook"

2. "Great, ship it"

3. (data scientist takes the notebook code almost verbatim, wraps it in a basic CLI or HTTP API and it gets shipped off in a docker container for other services to consume)
Because more instances costs more money and are more complex to orchestrate, costing even more money.
For years I've wanted this for live TV. Even just subtitles would be amazing. I've always wanted to be able to watch news TV from other countries.
Humans are notoriously terrible about estimating volumes when things are curved and volume functions are exponential.

A great example of this done in 8th grade science classes across the US is to put 100ml of water in a 100ml graduated cylinder, 150ml in a 1L beaker, and ask the class which has more. Humans are awful at estimating how much volume the increased radius adds, and usually will say the 100ml.

The problem only gets worse as we graduate from cylinders to spheres.

We can all visually see which sphere is bigger, but cannot come close to estimating how much bigger one is than another.
1 liter of electrolyte is nothing for a flow battery, the smallest scale they become a serious competitor is ~10m3 (10,000L) tanks which are ~(7 foot X 7 foot X 7 foot).

Start taking GWh of storage and lithium ion technology gets really expensive and has a lot of associated risks. Flow batteries on the other hand don’t need to worry about a single cell failure resulting in a fire which then spreads.
Terrible prices, rather get a iPhone 15 at this point
iPad is the new laptop.
Oh my god, what a difference it made. Thanks for sharing this. I do wish this could have just been a feature tacked on the Sponsor Block extension, especially considering it has features which rely on that data, but otherwise it's perfect.

For those that haven't watched the demo video: for videos that don't have community thumbnails or titles it has options allowing it to automatically pick a random (non-sponsor segment) screenshot and automatically clean up the title (remove emoji, fix capitalization).
If you are familiar with programming, Tour of Go is a good overview of the language: https://go.dev/tour/
Yes when integrating Shaped you connect up the data sources needed to ingest: interactions, items and users. The Shaped interface then allows you to select which exact fields should be used for creating a Shaped model. We provide a full SQL interface to do this, which gives a lot of flexibility.

Our dashboard provides monitoring to help understand what data is ingested and view data quality over time. We expect customers to monitor this but also have alerts on our side and jump in to help customers if we see anything unexpected.

The dashboard also shows training metrics over time (how well does the model predict the test set after each retrain?) and online attribution metrics (how well does the model optimize the chosen objective?).

Customers can disable retraining if they want (which is essentially pinning the model version to current), we can do model version rollbacks on our side if we see an issue or if requested but it's not a self-serve feature yet. Because we've made it easy to create or fork a Shaped model, we've seen customers often create several models as fall-backs that rely on more static data sources or are checkpoints of a good state.
How do you know that security didn't inspect your room while you were out, though?
Home 3d printers started as repraps that could barely print a shot glass.
The acquisition was in 2023.
Rounded corners is a mechanical design thing, mostly.
Naturally, but for all pre-existing, fixed-rate loans, that is no help for lenders when inflation goes up.
Great. The place that sells overpriced coffee that smells and tastes like scorched dogshit that literally nobody can afford along the likes of McDonalds raising their prices so high during COVID-19 that everybody's just now feeling the 'ah fuck' effects from meets the asshole that skimped out on everybody's food portions by them getting half meats at the stores so store managers could get mega bonuses for reduced operational costs? Pickup driver orders from ride-apps would be like 1/4 the size because complaints go through the deliveries.

Then play stupid saying 'Oh, most of our stores were doing that.'

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ariannajohnson/2024/07/25/some-...

Puh-Lease.
Ask HN: Could true randomness come from sparkles from light reflecting the sea?
I am not well rounded in cryptography, but I had this thought about having a camera take pictures of the sea, and somehow turn the sparkles from the light hitting the sea into a useful indicator for some kind of randomness.

So the camera takes a shot. Software looks at the image, collects the "sparkles", somehow counts and sums them up, perhaps multiples them with a second random counter and then we have a true random number.

Does it make sense ?
> And the inverse is?

Infant? Toddler? Young child? Tween? Teenager?

Really?
My argument here would be that this isn't that new, all told? And... I would be shocked to find a lot of disagreement there. Indeed, other threads are already pointing out that terms already existed that covered this general idea.

My problem with antifragile, as often offered, is that it is positioned as something that gets stronger from being damaged, full stop. But... there is literally nothing on earth that would withstand the sun going nova, so that there are obvious limits to the idea. And if you accept that it is something in limits, you are back to model ideas of feedback and growth. And as you get back to that, you cover a lot of the same ground as many other discussions.

It is a cute model, mind. And somewhat fun to play with. Also worth knowing that some systems will react violently to small changes. Think flashbacks in building fires. It just doesn't bring much new to the table, all told.

Edit: I meant to add "fair enough!" at the top of this. Is a valid point to make! :D
Based on the Mint website, it appears to be $360 up-front + $360 or $720 for their 'unlimited' annual which I don't know if it includes tethering. I pay ~$684 for VZW for the year, for unlimited w/tethering and HBO Max + Netflix.
Here we have OP doing an "I have better money sense than you" brag followed by a guy doing an "I have better empathy than you" brag. (Followed by me doing an "I'm more savvy than you" brag.)
Didn't they basically confirm that they're discontinuing the mini series? The 15 is still your best bet.
It's not cheap, about $12/month is cheapest plan, https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/837461. Pay 0.10c for tracking points, you have 10 text messages a month.

If you use it a lot, you'll start to increase your fees, I'm on the next higher plan which I think is $35/m. I should revisit that, it's a lot over a year ;-)

They have the basic devices (connect with phone, or emergency button), I have the one with maps built in. That one is awesome, it has worldwide city and trail maps. Maps works without a subscription, but I do use it for trips where there is no phone service more to get text messages.
Lack of proper dual sim (with two nano sims) is what made me not buy the previous gen and I guess this as well gets skipped.

It such a small feature that 200$ Xiaomi phones have and Google's flagship do not, because people in their silicon valley bubble can't understand there's many carries in the world that don't support esims properly or the issues that people that live in two countries need to face.
The project is licensed under AGPL, but outside contributors have to sign away their rights with CLA if they wish to contribute to the main project. It's in CONTRIBUTING.md [1]

> In order for us, Retake, Inc. (dba ParadeDB) to accept patches and other contributions from you, you need to adopt our ParadeDB Contributor License Agreement (the "CLA"). The current version of the CLA can be found here.

https://github.com/paradedb/paradedb/blob/6b829681190684f241...

> You hereby grant to the Company and to recipients of software distributed by the Company a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute Your Contributions and such derivative works.

https://cla-assistant.io/paradedb/paradedb
Patreon allows creators to for a fee serve additional media content via it's app which is agnostic of media type. (IE music, coding, youtube etc.)

Most people pay for things for convenience and perceived value.
There is very little convience or perceived value in having to go to a mobile/safari/ios website, log in, and then download a for example 1gig podcast tothen have to find it in my "downloads" and then play via some media player.
It's especially prevalent when expanding configuration capabilities.
I used to use it, unfortunately it doesn't work so well with titles. It lowercases unknown acronyms and initcaps all words even in languages which Do Not Use This Capitalization For Titles.
I hope I don't sounds rude saying this but Go code is generally self evident. I personally got my Go knowledge from reading Go code on GitHub or the like. There's a certain beauty to Go code in that you can grasp what code does pretty easily, which definitely helps with learning.
Hot take, Patreon doesn't really care about fighting this because they get more revenue from monthly subscriptions. I'd bet most creators using this model do it because the publish less than once a month and don't want to be charging their patrons for more than they make.
Haven't seen such a detailed writeup like this one in a while. What a find.

Goes to show the level of sophistication and technical skill of this RCE rabbit whole.

Well done.