skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes but that code isn't typically running in production the way k8s is. Having a lot of terraform is just a fancy method of statically provisioning infrastructure. The code is gone once it applies. Bringing k8s into the mix is a whole other application layer that's providing services to your code. Things like sgs for pods, cni plugins, coredns, is code that wouldn't be there in a non k8s world.

Your problems now include k8s networking as well as VPC networking.
NGate Android malware relays NFC traffic to steal cash
Calm down.

For example, a good basis would be statistics: how many past studies have been reproduced and confirmed that they proposed the correct conclusion? If you take 1000 past studies that were later reproduced by an independent team and count the number of them that were disproved, if this number is <500, then you know that the probability that the study is crap is lower than the probability that it is not.

There are other basis too. For example, the fact that not everyone will like to have deaths on their conscience. Or the fact that only a fraction of situations are situations suitable to commit fraud ("normal" studies often involve several independent institutes) and that fraud is very risky, especially in a sector like medicine (for example, if someone comes with an alternative to beta blockers, they will want to try to see if it performs better, and will notice that beta blockers don't perform as expected).
That’s a slightly unfair characterization. VRC kept me sane during quarantine as I suspect it did for a lot of people. It’s also a nice oasis for people with a lot of social anxiety.

Sure there’s unsavory content on there, no denying that. So does every platform with user generated content. Have you seen Meta Horizon? It’s no less than an Orwellian nightmare.

I’ve seen people form meaningful relationships, and achieve amazing things by fostering a real sense of community.
> After 20 days of back-and-forth with non-answers, I finally sent them a certified letter giving them 30 days to "take action" or "explain non-action" on a specific dispute amounting to ~$5k.

> The responded with a non-reponse bizarre marketing letter in 10 days.

>I called to verify the prior letter was "on-record" in my account. Given the nature of the postage, it was already verified delivered.

What was the purpose of the certified letter? you can use that in court but did you take any further action?
Actual article: https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/ngate-androi...
They could also link tax filings and a Plus Code for physical location: https://maps.google.com/pluscodes/ https://github.com/google/open-location-code
I think it means more towards that Uber Eats never works for that BAN than local post office have no clue and snail mail fails. GP didn't say the latter is the case.
> Those are third party sponsorships done by channel owners, not ads inserted by YT.

That supports my point. Ads are paying for the content.
Yeah maybe, though in practice I think it would be just too slow.
The missing point here is always: do I want to haul all the shit up the mountain to record that or not?
if HL3 was a VR exclusive I'd buy a headset to play it ... I just want the loop closed, and the story finished or continued.
Show HN: Hacker News for film buffs
I tried to replicate the minimal design of hacker news. A small pet project I wanted to do after getting frustrated with the politics and dumb down conversations the film communities have on X/twitter, instagram and other social platforms have. I'll try to update the landing page with more links, feel free to check it out and judge.
yeah I appreciate them putting this together
3 is ads and fits my point. The content wouldn't exist without ads.
"Solid" doesn't really have meaning at the sub-molecular level. All space has something in it, even if it's just vacuum energy. Virtual particle pairs come and go all the time. Some space has particles with electromagnetic charge. Each of these has some interaction radius. Technically, this is infinite. Electric field reaches everywhere, but thanks to inverse square law, only other particles within some much smaller radius than infinity will interact with enough force to change velocity noticeably. Gather together a large enough collection of these into chemically bonded distinct macroscopic objects, and there you go. The radius at which particles are repelled from each other is smaller than the distance between these bonds. That's all "solid" means.

Whether particles truly have any material extent at all, or are simply literal points representing the center of various interaction radii, is unknown and probably unknowable. It's not even clear what the difference would mean. Can a particle somehow "take up space" and prevent another particle from occupying that space if it interacted with no force at all? I'm not a physicist and kind of talking out of my ass here, but I think the Pauli exclusion principle implies maybe, but it doesn't apply to all particles.

Human perception relies entirely upon electromagnetism. Once you get down to distances less than the wavelength of the highest frequency photons and electrons, we can probe and describe the relationships mathematically, but I don't think it makes sense to try and conceive of what these things "are" in some greater ontological sense. We inherently analogize to what things look and feel like, but looking and feeling like anything is a higher-level emergent phenomenon of electromagnetic interactions.
I mean, did you read Diamond, McQuade, and Qian? Or newer studies? It should be the minimum to read before talking about rent control effect (with Autor, Palmer, and Pathak) because people tend to cite 'Friedman', who _never_ empirically worked on this subject. I mean, I understand liberals/Libertarians seems to love pure reason, but I hope people on this website are more scientifically minded. Experience is always better than models, no?

[edit] anyway, rent-control on market housing do not work, but limited non-market housing do apply downward market pressure, even when done poorly and unplanned (as shown by AP&P study)
Meanwhile, I know many people in NYC who spend ~60% of their post-tax income on rented housing.

Nobody is happy about it or thinks it's a good idea, but living further out is not perceived as a legitimate option because of the fear of being severed either socially or career-wise.

Whether that's a rational fear or not, it's a reality that allows housing prices to outpace wage gains every year. As somebody who used to think housing demand is fairly elastic: housing demand is much less elastic than you'd suspect.
Thanks for the response.

2 questions.

How hard is it to swap our firebase for instant? I've had an amazing time with firebase, but I sorta want to switch to using a completely local solution.

I have a small lyric video generator, and while I don't care about my own songs potentially leaking, I would never want to take responsibility for something else's data. I basically use firebase for the lyrics afterwards I transcribe them .

Second, do you offer your own auth or just integrate with other solutions.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41330007
I think it’s pretty easy to understand that what amounts to a game isn’t even vaguely comparable to something that provides an immediate and quantifiable impact for someone. Perhaps you don’t understand that bitcoin is a leech on society with no real benefit.
Is IRC still a thing? I mean seriously, do communities hang around there? I stopped using in 2016.
My experience is the opposite: laypeople are excessively pessimistic on LLM progress ("AI is so dumb. It tells you to put glue on pizza and eat rocks)", usually due to a remembered anecdote that's either years old or reflects worst-case performance (only egregiously bad AI mistakes make the news).

Frontier models are better than they were and "feel" fairly reliable, although all the AI problems of 2021-2022 conceptually do still exist.
I think 28 years is sufficient grace period for concerned individuals to make a bit of an effort. What have you been waiting for?
Generally I've found Google to care much more about not breaking old apps compared to Apple, which often expects developers to rebuild apps for OS updates or else the apps stop working entirely (or buy entirely new machines to get OS updates at all, e.g. the Intel/Apple Silicon transition). Google isn't on the level of Windows "we will watch for specific binaries and re-introduce bugs in the kernel specifically for those binaries that they depend on" in terms of backwards compatibility, but I wouldn't go so far as to say they don't care. I'm not sure whether that's better or worse: there's definitely merit to Apple's approach, since it keeps them able to iterate quickly on UX and performance by dropping support for the old stuff.
If such incidents teach us anything, it’s that one is never the owner of the account.
Seriously? Come on. I was one of the first hundred people to kickstart the Rift and have owned every major consumer headset (except the Index) since. The AVP absolutely destroys the Rift in every way.

The only strong argument for Rift/etc. would be for gaming, but the AVP isn’t being sold as a gaming device. The new beta Vision OS2 also signicantly improves hand gestures.

I too was unimpressed with the Apple Store AVP demo, but after owning it for a while I absolutely see where it fits in (especially once a non-Pro version comes along).
I believe this is one of the things we're not allowed to talk about on HN. I suspect this will be removed very quickly.

edit: ...and 1-minute after commenting it's gone.
In the EU, the new DSA directive requires that you can get a human involved. After that you have an option to sue or arbitrage.
The same thing happened with previous technologies. Steve Jobs didn't "invent the smartphone" -- he just made a smartphone at the time when the underlying tech (VLSI, displays, WLAN, WWAN) got to the point where it could fit in a pocket and have battery life of a day. Similarly he didn't invent the MP3 player. He made one at the point when Toshiba were able to manufacture a very small, low power hard drive that meant you could get more than 10 songs on one.
Congratulations on today's launch. Going to BYOC and test out the API on an A100.

Curious, are the SSH keys stored on Moonglow's internal servers?
NFCGate
You might be happier with a fixed-size VPS, instead of a cloud provider,
> This sounds like bad design by the property developer and a sloppy building authority.

This sounds like every day reality.

> Sloppy work, all around.

It's a system that explicitly relies on the cooperation of several independent entities. You were never going to achieve anything better than this.
> everyone praises Windows 3.1 but to me it's just eye-searing

Windows 3.1 is better than earlier Windows, but I haven't seen a claim that it's better than Win95?

I don't really think 3.1 is eye-searing, but I think the basic design is pulled forward from 3.0 which ran on mostly any video card, but feels designed around 16 colors. Wikipedia says 3.1 requires vga, but they didn't make things pretty by default until 95.
> You might go down a huge engineering effort to build this

This is an overlooked issue: billing caps are hard to implement and will likely incur losses for the cloud company that does.

Take an object storage service as an example. Imagine Company X has a hard cap at US$ 1000 but some bug makes their software upload millions of files to a bucket and rack up their bill. Since objects are charged in GB/month they will not reach the cap until some time later that month. Then, when they do, what does termination of service mean? Does the cloud provider destroy every last resource associated with the account the second the hard cap is reached? If they don't, and they still have to store those files somewhere in their infra, then they'll start taking a loss while Company X just says "oops, sorry".

That's what tptacek is talking about: you want to NOT destroy the customers' resources because they can quickly figure out that something went wrong and then adjust while still maintaining service. But the longer you keep the resources the more you're paying out of pocket as a cloud provider. If you can't bill the overages to the customer, which a hard cap would imply, then you're at a loss. Reclaiming every resource associated to an account the moment a cap is reached is an extreme measure no one wants.

A hard cap then becomes only a "soft" cap, a mere suggestion, and cloud providers would then say "you hit the cap, but we had to keep your resources on the books for 12 hours, so here's the supplemental overages charges". Which would lead to probably just as many charges disputes we have today.
I figured that out, the first time I submitted a Swift question to ChatGPT, where I would normally have used StackOverflow.

It hallucinated an Apple API call. Not just that, but that nonexistent call was the entire fulcrum of its "solution."
I think there's a segment of society that blindly believes anything data backed. This is pretty frequent in product and marketing too. The article here shows some people who blindly trusted their marketing teams.

And while everyone here are going to laugh at those chumps who use data driven stock price indicators or LLM code generators, they'll throw a fit if you tell them that the data on calories and vaccines aren't always that accurate either.
Is it possible someone hijacked your developer account and used it to spread malware?
> it's practically impossible to build a really accurate address dataset since the real world is messy for the reasons you listed

Different entities will have orthogonal needs when it comes to your address. First responders want a door, the post office wants a mailbox, assessors want a plot number, etc.
In the particular case of Alzheimer's, some of the foundational studies supporting the amyloid plaque hypothesis were literally fraudulent. Railroading is a problem in general, but won't combat just straight-up fraud. Better fraud detection is needed in cases like these, but of course it's an arms race.
> but it does sound like someone had the opportunity to keep reality sane here

What is "sane" about reality? People want a place to live, they don't care about government databases.
Hard disagree with you.

Dark times were when my manager forced me to use GUI to draw diagrams.

I need to convey my thoughts and design. If A related with B - in my head it's "A related to B", not some bubbles in air with different sizes, arrows pixel left, pixel right. Tools like mermaid.js is what makes it beatiful. I describe the design - an it draws it consistent way.
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I recently built an application that integrates with Discourse servers to generate AI-driven personas with some seriously sophisticated AI logic behind it. These personas can engage in complex discussions, pulling from various data sources like Reddit, custom knowledge bases, and more.

I know that Discourse is using some AI but this is really scary, and it is really difficult to differentiate it from a real human, and honestly it is a bit scary.

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It would, of course, be just mean and unscrupulous for a cloud vendor to look at the number you have set as being ‘the absolute most I am willing to pay for this service’ and then optimize their pricing offer to you specifically to make sure they go right up to that line and no further.
That’s how I understand it
On the positive side you just got another happy player. Thanks for making it available and accessible.
I would guess most people interested in the quiz would be familiar with betacode (which this looks like, sans diacritics).

edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Code
The right answer, objectively, is Crew Dragon. They cannot verify any of their theories about the Starliner, however confident they may be in those theories, without access to the vehicle. They cannot get access to the vehicle without bringing it back, and if they bring it back with crew inside, they are gambling blindly with the crew's lives.
The readme at https://github.com/curl/wcurl explains some other stuff it does by default which makes sense if the goal is to download files:

> By default, wcurl will:

> Encode whitespaces in URLs;

> Download multiple URLs in parallel if the installed curl's version is >= 7.66.0;

> Follow redirects;

> Automatically choose a filename as output;

> Avoid overwriting files if the installed curl's version is >= 7.83.0 (--no-clobber);

> Perform retries;

> Set the downloaded file timestamp to the value provided by the server, if available;

> Disable curl's URL globbing parser so {} and [] characters in URLs are not treated specially.
eBay moved away from PayPal many years ago.
If we loosen zoning, and a half-dozen skyrises go up that are owned by a ~cartel~ group of friendly property developers, with X% of housing required to go to low-to-middle income households with a govt-required vacancy rate on that segment, do you think that would make rental prices go down?

Because we've run this experiment in Downtown Brooklyn for the last ten years, and rent has only gone very significantly up.

I think, at some point, you have to begin asking questions of the concept of nonresident landlordism and privately-owned massively-multifamily housing, rather than zoning, when changes to zoning don't actually make a difference to residents.
`curl.exe` is actually the real deal curl, now. Though it's got less built options than a standard Linux distro version. I don't know if they still alias it in PowerShell, but you can still use curl.exe to get it.
I liked that part, but I'm fully with you that many UX decisions in VS code are completely inscrutable. Such as building an entire UI toolkit without any ability to show dialogs - and then requiring plugin authors to awkwardly work around this limitation by abusing the quick navigation and autocomplete functionalities - and if that doesn't work, have the users manually edit json files...
This is also why I design all my config files to use YAML. I've already got powerful tools to deal with its quirks (JSONSchema, yq, yamllint)
It's entirely feasible for Google to involve humans in review, and create a team for developer support. The scale is not nearly as large as people think, and Google is wealthy beyond belief.

Larry Page said it very clearly: “Find the leverage in the world, so you can be more lazy!”[1]

Not having support, for users or devs, not even escalation, is a great example of being lazy. And Google demonstrated for its entire existence that it can get away with it. Who in Congress is willing to speak for the indie devs getting their accounts banned?

[1] https://fortune.com/2024/08/19/larry-page-google-advice-be-l...
We have to invest in fighting fraud and abuse anyway, such is the public cloud business. We don't intend to diminish user experience in service of fighting it.
Unlikely? The release that was live was the same one I released years prior. There was no suspicious login activity, logs, etc.
> " You probably can’t tell me how much electricity your home is using right now, and may only come within tens of dollars of accurately predicting your water bill. But neither of those bills are all that scary, because you assume there’s a limit to how much you could run them up in a single billing interval. "

I had a $600 surprise water bill. It was (partially) forgiven because the water department could drive to my house and see evidence of the leak next to my water meter. It did turn out to be on my side of the meter, so it is my responsibility.

If the water department had driven to my house and seen evidence of commercial agriculture (so to speak), then it would not have been forgiven.

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The parallel here is that the water department can't come into my house uninvited - the cloud provider SHOULD NOT have intimate access to the running code, but they are able to observe some patterns without 'breaking in'.

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Side note: the size of the bill and the amount of forgiveness was largely driven by waiving an 'excess usage' surcharge - similar to how you can get a discount for cloud service reservations.
The Windows ecosystem is at its core about backward compatibility and minimizing training costs (path dependence). There are billions of employees who have to be trained button click by button click. Even their IT support is often trained on Windows only.

And yet Microsoft pushes through all sorts of arbitrary changes that only benefit Microsoft like Candy Crush, Cortana, Copilot surveillance, can't be uninstalled OneDrive, mandatory TPM, and a search that depends on Internet connectivity.
> The one I notice the most is the filesystem. Running Linux in VirtualBox, I got 7x the host speed for many small file operations. (On top of that Explorer itself has its own random lag.)

That’s a very old problem. In early days of subversion, the metadata for every directory existed in the directory. The rationale was that you could check out just a directory in svn. It was disastrously slow on Windows and the subversion maintainers had no answer for it, except insulting ones like “turn off virus scanning”. Telling a windows user to turn off virus scanning is equivalent to telling someone to play freeze tag in traffic. You might as well just tell them, “go fuck yourself with a rusty chainsaw”

Someone reorganized the data so it all happened at the root directory and the CLI just searched upward until it found the single metadata file. If memory serves that made large checkouts and updates about 2-3 times faster on Linux and 20x faster on windows.
Raise your hand who was there during the first boom and doom of VR/AR headset/glasses in the 90's? A cycle or couple of more and we'll be there, maybe.
I must be the only person to have a bad experience with SwissMicros. I bought a DM16 when I lived in Iceland, it took months to arrive, and it was absolutely not worth the wait. The build quality was poor, the metal plate was crushed down so half the buttons were hard to get to work (but in an undamaged box), and when I reached out to them, they told me I needed to send it back, the cost of shipping (at my expense) more than the calculator and the import tariffs I had.

Been an RPN lover my whole life but I was really let down with them.
Because the drug could work really well into doing what is supposed to do, but still generate totally unsuspected and catastrophic collateral effects in other areas. Effects that could be hidden until some time pass and everybody is using the product.

Nobody wants the tragedy of Thalidomide happening again.
Now I wonder: Does increased page size have any negative impacts on I/O performance or flash lifetime, e.g. for writebacks of dirty pages of memory-mapped files where only a small part was changed?

Or is the write granularity of modern managed flash devices (such as eMMCs as used in Android smartphones) much larger than either 4 or 16 kB anyway?
1G huge pages had (have?) performance benefits on managed runtimes for certain scenarios (Both the JIT code cache and the GC space saw uplift on the SpecJ benchmarks if I recall correctly)

If using relatively large quantities of memory 2M should enable much higher TLB hit rates assuming the CPU doesn't do something silly like only having 4 slots for pages larger than 4k ¬.¬
If all units are being rented there is no collusion as the market clearing price is being charged. Collusion requires taking supply off the market in order to raise prices.
Because of the error checking problem shell has. I'll put it on my list to check the script, so I won't only be complaining.