skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This idea that serverless is "just" for scalability is a misconception and pessimism about the future of computing. What serverless should really mean is that you focus on your code and you don't configure your digital ocean, the node.js runtime, the observability, the security, the reliability, and all this shit.

If you couldn't just click on an icon to open a web browser on your laptop, no one would be using the internet. That's the same with cloud computing. The amount of people who use the cloud is <1% of what it could be.

So go ahead and pay $8/month for the hosting, then pay with your own invaluable time for the rest.
> That's one hell of a statement for a place like LessWrong.

Not that I hang out a lot at LessWrong, but it seems like a place for philosophy (and more), from an outsider perspective at least. And nihilism certainly is a perspective some hold within philosophy, so it seems like exactly the right place for a statement like that?
Peloton has just started an economics experiment which will give further insight into how valuable its services are regarded by the marketplace.
Identifying with your work is different from identifying with your employer.
> How Poor Oral Hygiene Could Affect Your Child’s IQ?

https://www.ba-dentist.com/how-poor-oral-hygiene-could-affec....
> The “best” had to be discovered and learned, and can be learned again in the future

Only if the conditions required for re-discovery occur in the future. Those conditions may include things like a thriving world market in high-performance acoustic pianos, the need to have only the best pianos played at court, the need for one king to be or appear wealthier than another king etc. Acoustic pianos may never be that important to humanity again, so it's not clear we'll recover all information we gained when they were.

Archeologists often try to reconstruct ancient practices. Although modern humans have the advantage of a much larger basis of knowledge, it's not always trivial nor even always possible to reconstruct old ideas.

Learning is a feedback loop process. Whether you can recover knowledge depends on how successfully you can replicate the feedback loop. And that depends on ambient factors.
It's amazing that this keeps being submitted to HN and keeps being featured.

The people pushing this couldn't come up with a way to represent a simple quicksort in it [1]. Why does this keep appearing?

https://forum.drakon.su/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=6124&hilit=quic...
Oh apologies, I thought submissions here were akin to Reddit where it flags you if the same link has been submitted before. I'd Googled Drakon too without finding much discussion on it, but it didn't occur to me to search HN.
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I don't think it's that common with companies that are both manufacturers and service providers.

That'd be like Apple charging you $75 if you wanted to use iCloud+. It makes used products less valuable, which ultimately hurts your brand image in the long-term, even if you might be able to boost services revenue for the next quarter or two.
One of my favorites is gsw=“git switch -“. It switches back to whatever branch you were last on.
Yes, I would definitely put Arva in that category.

For now, we limit the amount of decisioning that is made by an LLM and make as much of the business logic as we can concrete in code. It's mostly used to extract information from documents, crawl websites and identify specific fraud signals.
Put your gpu on chipset 8 lane and use a pcie to nvme hub to get upto 7 nvmes
Batch as many requests together as possible and your utilization will increase.
Hacker dad who faked death to avoid child support sentenced to prison
K8s is probably particularly bad because their package convention basically requires vanity imports, and I would wager the vanity names people choose are wildly inconsistent.

It also doesn’t help that many packages have 3+ “versions” of themselves, so a vanity import named “core” could be v1alpha1, v1beta1 or v1.
> The Gleam example has all the convenience and readability of its C#/Python counterpart - but without the downsides.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... :)

Assuming it is unlikely Gleam does something that makes it outperform Erlang, which it compiles to. Now, it comes down to just how BEAM VM is, but nonetheless an argument - C# is a close to the metal programming language where your choices directly affect what happens under the hood, including the use of async/await. For some it may be an undesirable trait but it's precisely what makes it so fast, in domains where languages that are "more abstracted away" used to historically struggle and continue to have lower performance ceiling.

As usual, the "coloring" point misses the patterns that async/await enables, and that it is in many ways an "I/O Monad". Still, mixing faux-concept "differently colored threads" in .NET does not come with the same degree of pain it does in Rust or elsewhere (and there are good reasons for that).

You can block threads if you have to (which includes synchronously waiting for tasks), and Threadpool is desiged to deal with that appropriately and increase/decrease worker threads count to maintain optimal throughput. You just don't have to pay for it always, and as multitude of alternate implementations suggest there is no free lunch, as usual.

Also, sync vs non-async overloads, as I previously discussed, often do I/O in a completely different way. Other languages sell it with loud buzzwords like "NIO", while .NET keeps it boring - the workload will scale without your explicit effort, never throttling independent execution flows.

I continue to be convinced of the sheer degree of harm done by "that one article", and applying C# in practice cures this perception once you stop worrying and love the easy concurrency and parallelism that come with it.
I have literally never had this experience with a mobile carrier (Canada). There is an account activation fee (usually waived if you sign up online), but once the account is activated you can freely swap the SIM between as many phones as you like.
I guess there's more social aspects with Peloton that people are into, but it's also easy to hook up a road bike to a fluid trainer and call it a day. Cheaper to get started (even including buying the bike), and no subscription.
If you haven't read The Green Hills of Earth (1947), this might be a good time. Fair warning, you might find something a little stuck in your throat near the end.
Anyone else using a terminal LLM? (+my prototype)
I was wondering if anyone else is using a minimal terminal LLM. What I mean is a small cli application that lets you use stdin/stdout/etc to just pipe data to/from an llm (provider agnostically).

For me this method has become my favorite way of using of LLMs (when I only need text IO) - but I suspect that I've (once again) just reinvented the wheel here. Previously I used https://github.com/TheR1D/shell_gpt, but I ran into a few reliability and usability issues with it.

The way this works for me, is that I just launch a terminal which automatically starts a new LLM session, and I can use the CLI to load and manipulate previously saved sessions.

Maybe in the future, what I see is that one could launch a generic LLM daemon on one's computer to just expose an API for any other tool to use, like an equivalent of an LSP, but for LLM instead of coding editors.

end rant, any ideas? Feedback? :)
Should I post somewhere on reddit instead ... idk
> Even with Elden Ring that runs perfectly on my Linux machine, I cannot use any multiplayer features (summoning friends, reading messages etc.) because the EAC anticheat doesn't work on Linux

I had to disable online features in Elden Ring in order to get rid of multitude of messages from other players. That was on Steam on Linux.

I haven't tried friend summoninig, but online features did work for sure.
Probably because the numbers show so few people reup that getting $95 upfront is Peloton’s optimal strategy.
Profiling data is not only for advertising, but also for dynamic pricing, customer support quality, credit scoring, etc.
It's hardly a guess when the written article literally says “Apple then added comparable video recording capabilities to its iPhone 3GS smartphone. At this point, Cisco didn’t see the writing on the wall and continued to release new Flip Video camera models.”
(This is about the ramifications of the new AI image editing tools in Pixel 9 and others)
It does seem odd for Peloton to put any friction up to a new subscriber, given that's where they really make their money.

There are plenty of other setups with various levels of connectedness. Cyclists I know love Zwift, though they also sell a bike type thing and their kickers are not exactly cheap.

I'd argue that Peloton is likely still the best at home spin studio replacement if that's what people are looking for.

One last point is that I think Peloton gets unfairly targeted for non-use. Gyms, all fitness equipment, even things like boats and motorcycles are frequently bought and never used. Just how consumerism works.
Is finetuning GPT4o worth it?
I chose Boulder as it has very good record keeping(and it goes way back) and is a good bellwether for the state, plus a number of key government climate labs are based here. So its a solid data point. If I had more time I would crunch numbers from a array of other cities like Breckenridge, Aspen, Colorado springs, and Grand Junction, the former two may or may not have great data from before the 1950s'.
Capitalism is fantastic. Capitalism will also sell you a regular bike with a bike treadmill if you think that's a better solution. Capitalism gave us a million different ways to get in a workout - Peloton is just one. Nobody's making you sign up for biking as a service.

It sounds like a dumb idea to me but some people have one and love it.
Would love to see more photos of the wreck
>Consumer rights are awful in the United States, but that isn't because our economy is capitalistic. It's because our government is inept.

Well, look at the precise manner in which our government is inept. Capitalism is basically a religious ideology here. Any time anyone suggests anything pro-worker or pro-consumer, there are no shortage of people who will call it "communism", and demand completely unregulated corporate power as the solution, claiming that to be the path to free market capitalism.

We have decided that making money = success, and do absolutely nothing when companies charge $95 just to allow you the opportunity to subscribe to a paid service, as a punishment for buying your equipment used.

So yes, Capitalism as an economic practice can exist in tandem with strong worker and consumer rights and protections, but Capitalism as an ethos is the reason why we are lacking so many worker and consumer rights and protections.
You don’t always have to disable Secure Boot; it usually works with just changing some “OS Type” from “Microsoft” to “Other”.
A picture can be worth way more than a thousand words, but sometimes you have to iterate through a thousand pictures to find the one that tells the right story, or helps you ask the right question!
History doesn't move backward and the internet users of the mid 90s are not the internet users of now. Give the vast majority of internet users a choice between the internet of mid 90s (after that ads powered it all) and having nothing but large tech owned sites to browse I think you're delusional if you think they'd actually pick the former.
if only they can put a tax on the air we breath
Aren’t keyboard shortcuts and TUI/GUI pretty orthogonal? Is there not GUI client that has proper keyboard navigation?
That won't stop people from telling the story. Wine is the same way.
I spent a really limited amount of time in stalls (mainly because my sister was really into horses and sometimes they let me ride the small ones) but I seem to recall at one point someone talking about halters and how both people and horses have different preferences for how it should be put on, and it also depends on the style/type of halter. Maybe I misremember completely, but doesn't feel too out of place that they'd have different preferences and ways of doing things if you're comparing Eastern ways and Western ways.
Yes, but it's been sold to a billionaire for a joyride.[1] Launches next Monday.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/spacex-polaris-dawn-mi...
The problem isn't poverty but hyper competition. Everyone can see the cost/benefit of everything needed to give their child the best shot. They compare their resources to the resources needed to compete in the top~5%. In Asia it's tutors, after school school etc. In America it's funding the kind of hobby that looks good on a college application.

A century of propaganda is that there is no place for average people anymore, which is statistically ignorant at best.
They are losing money still so desparate moves like this I guess make sense, but adding friction to the new subscriber workflow just seems wild. There's a reason why just about every subscription out there offers free trials/discounted first months. It's to get you in the door.

It's not even as if the bike is disabled when bought used, you can just use it like any other spin bike happily. This ONLY effects people who are trying to sign up for a subscription.
Japan is an enigma in the sense that they have an extremely talented labor force. They also do not have to deal with brain drain. They’d benefit if they open up to more lax immigration policies. Contrast Japan to S.Korea where they have been more receptive to addressing labor shortage with seasonal and permanent migrant workers.
Hard disagree. I love dogs and animals overall. The fact that I don't spend my whole life managing dog shelters which we can all agree is a morally right thing to do doesn't make me nor anybody else automatically evil. Maybe in that saved time I am a neurosurgeon or fireman.

World is not binary, people even less so.
you mad, new account?
Data Modeling SaaS Entitlements and Pricing
1. static linking is still linking and you still need linkers to combine multiple object files into a single executable
2. mindset that memory and CPU are in abundance IMHO one of the reasons that user experience is not visibly improving over the years despite orders of magnitude faster hardware
If there was never infrastructure to handle third party app stores, then such infrastructure would need to be built, and assumptions based on idea that there are no third-party app stores have to be revisited and reworked. They have to then provide hooks for those third party app stores that never existed before (like anything related to launching download of an app, for example.)
A mechanical watch with its springs and gears may be more repairable than a digital watch with a circuit board, but I wouldn't consider the former to be "easily" repairable. Mechanical watch repair requires a lot of specialized tools and skills that a normal person, even one who is wealthy, is not going to have.

If you hire a repair shop to do it, expect your luxury watch to also cost luxury repair prices. The price has nowhere to go but up as I doubt there are a lot of people lining up for watchmaker's school.

When I got a passed-down luxury watch repaired at an authorized repair center, it costs more than the purchase price of all my other watches combined.
TS compiles down to JS, so there's no hamstringing involved. Beyond that, you don't have to use Class at all with TS, you can stay functional and the inheritance models are exactly the same as TS runs in a JS engine.
Oh funny one. I have atm a part time contract where I go to the office twice per week.

I decided with a coworker today that we'll go to the office an extra day tomorrow because we'd rather do that than sit for a couple hours with headphones in our ears.

On our own, no management involved.

When it makes sense to talk, I can talk. Most of the time, it doesn't.
The Network School
This is generally my impression as well. It's interesting that right now is still a ton of novel "big' and "small" data sets that the algorithms use to further and further refine the models. But a greater and greater share of that output (the median) will then become the new input as things head forward (i.e right now there is some small percentage of art, images, etc that are AI generated that are resubmitted by users to the web and eventually fed back into new AI image generators, that percentage will grow and grow). Where that semi-closed feedback loop ends up is anyone's guess.

If you trained a model on what human faces looked like exclusively based on images generated in the 80-90s and compared it to models trained on pictures taken in the 10s-20s you might come away thinking that humans have somehow esthetically become more "beautiful" over that time frame if you didn't account for the use of filters (which at this point are practically baked in) as one example.
Since we're here I have a suggestion to offer. When submitting your mobile app to the App Store there is a checkbox/option somewhere asking you to if you want to distribute the app to Mac as well. DO NOT do that. If enough people do that we'll end up having a Mac app store walled garden powerful enough to extract its 30% tax.
The Paper (upcoming TV series)
Out of all of Japan's problems, I think the fundamental root is they need to import a significant amount of energy. They do not have significant coal, oil, uranium. They have limited access to solar and wind for their population size. To offset all of their energy imports, they need to work very hard to produce a lot of exports.

The economic troubles are centered around having to pay a premium to import energy. The birth rate is negatively impacted by the economic situation. Their foreign policy has to keep energy access as a main priority.
Until the app changes, I just put my road bike on a mag trainer with all of my normal sensors (cadence, heart rate, virtual power and speed) and followed along with the heart rate zone cycling classes. My whole setup is cheaper than a peloton bike by at least $500.
Structuring the economy to depend on an ever increasing birthrate feels like a ponzi scheme to me. Obviously there is an upper limit. We don't know what it is, but someday we'll hit it and the scheme will come crashing down.

It's painful in the short term, but in the long term maybe it makes more sense to let the population level off to a stable point that's somewhat short of the maximum number of humans we can squeeze onto Earth.
totally agreed. A lot of our findings during this process is that there's still a lot of alpha in finding the right kernels for the job/model. We're hoping that in the future `torch.compile` will become more mature because current docs on performance at least on pytorch side definitely leave us wanting more
and then a "weaponized metapedantry: medium" metatag on the tag itself
These links are just to help people interested in reading additional material and HN commentary - reposts are fine after a year, give or take and it's been more than a year since DRAKON's last.
Yeah, this has shades of "shining your shoes for the fat lady" to borrow a Salinger reference, and I understand that within the context of performance, but maybe I expect this to generalize farther than it does. There are many domains where a low cost, good enough solution is better. Not everyone can afford a piano tuner's exorbitant Sunday fee...
Parents' hush-hush back-to-school hack: Sending their kids off in a Waymo
The article linked towards the end seems to be more revealing regarding the reasons, than this one.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220357/sonos-layoffs-au...

The core of the issue was the aggressive deadlines

> “With the app, my push for speed backfired,” he acknowledged during the August 7th call.

But it's unfortunate, and yet completely typical of companies wherein employees pay for the CEO's mistakes:

> Just today, Sonos laid off around 100 employees as the fallout from its rushed app makeover continues.
Poor tuning often leads to cascading failures. If an instrument is out of tune it limits your technique because your brain is expecting frequency X but you are hearing frequency Y. To play quickly and accurately you have to be able to trust the instrument.

Tennis players are really particular about how their rackets are strung. While nobody in the crowd will notice an unbalanced racket, the crowd will notice if they hit the ball out. Consistency is important.
It did need a dedicated line. Same with the people who ran a BBS out of their home. I knew people who had 3-5 dedicated phone lines running into their houses to support that. Paying per minute for dial up was thankfully not something I had to deal with (unless I was calling into a PoP that was long distance). I can see how the costs of that would get insane very quickly.
Those mom and pop sites are often filled with trackers and ads. Assuming they haven't just moved to using a third party service that does it for them. It's like saying the person shooting you isn't at fault but only the gun they shoot you with.
They have a sh*t, subscription based business model. It did well during COVID and is floundering.
No. Advertising is aggregating it. It will also be passed to the governance structure. In future, AI will go through what's already been collected to profile you and nudge you.
It's some weird system. The corporations pay powerful people to say people need them, otherwise there wouldn't be jobs; then the people listen and believe. All while those powerful people have an excuse for accepting money and protecting the corporations.

Anyway, if you think Google or Facebook are good "brands" for the US, you've got way too much exposition. The Hollywood propaganda works great, that big-co one doesn't.
United Therapeutics to build pig-to-human organ research center in SE Minnesota
> The capitalist, rather than technical, reality is that advances will be used to deliver the same (or lower) quality at a cheaper rate. And if you measure progress by the number of people who can watch Fast and the Furious on their Android phone on a capped data plan in a third world country that is perhaps the best thing.

This is a really strange choice of example, since advances in video compression and streaming have obviously been used to deliver higher quality at a cheaper rate.
There are four Crew Dragon. One is attached to ISS and one is preparing for Crew 9. The other two are scheduled for commercial flights, one launching in a few days. The later one would have be re-scheduled or do fast turnaround to come up with spare Dragon. There is also one for Crew 10 under construction.

The other question is how long it takes to make Crew Dragon ready.
There are two separate Secure Boot keys Microsoft uses: one which they use to sign Windows, and another which they use to sign everything else (the "Microsoft 3rd Party UEFI CA"). AFAIK, some recent laptops with Windows preinstalled come by the default with the second one disabled in the BIOS (it's a new Microsoft requirement). To install Linux on these laptops without disabling Secure Boot, you have to go into the BIOS and enable that key.
As long as the government allows it, greed will make corporations try to grab more and more, especially since the finance/MBA types have taken over. It's not strange to call that capitalism, since it is in its very nature.
"maybe nobody will know how bad all the pianos are. And then we'll all have slightly worse pianos than we would otherwise have."

But not really. Because if I truly cannot tell the difference between two objects or the way they sound, then they're the same to me, and I don't lose anything by listening to one over the other. If I could tell the difference, and it was important to me, then maybe I could do something about it.

"The pinnacle of human attention cannot be directed at everything, everywhere, all at once. We have to focus our attention on a limited subset of arts and pursuits, where discernment will always be high, and settle everywhere else."

This is exactly correct