skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, guys. I hate to tell you where I put my AirTag that is now pinging at the Soylent Green plant.
Kubernetes is bad for running databases is a _very_ outdated belief
I'll say on HN I do appreciate that. This is one of the last bastions of good conversations on the net. We all try to do our best to keep it that way, and one of the methods is to call out comments as such. Just my opinion but I appreciate it, snarky or not we just want good conversation even if its among dissenting opinions.
I struggle to read this and not just see a lack of attempt to compromise on all sides. Radicalization continuing in all aspects.
Still, the hype was to 10x and the incremental benefit is less, which means the capex won't return the hype value beyond the profit already made.

Time to go back to predicting war and making huge profits on that game.
I can't go back to using it. I spent too much time reviewing the code it spit out and noticed when it absolutely wouldn't do what I needed it to, I was absolute slog since it was some else code.
This has been my observation, I think people will get caught up in the details but most dev workflows I see now are either containerised (docker etc) or serve themselves (rails, node, even PHP can serve itself with no webserver)

I see less developers setting up local servers and managing them for development purposes. Containers are not the same thing, for the purposes of this commentary on how people work now.
I mainly take issue with the “weird” designation, as if every science article must somehow explain everything unrelated the phenomenon isn’t.

Anyone with JWST time slots knows what a globular cluster is. If they say it’s weird and unexplained, it probably is at present.
Sorry, I didn't see your question before. I think there's an article in wikipedia about it, but from what I recall: there were studies that said most people drown in water just over their head, not in deep water. Drown proofing was a technique where you held your breath, and sank. I'm not sure how that was supposed to work, since most people are positively buoyant, especially if they take a deep breath--something about kicking up so your shoulders came out of the water, and then you sank down at first from the weight of the part of your body above water, and then the rest of the way from momentum. When you hit the bottom, you kicked off with your body angled toward shore. Rinse and repeat, until you were in water where you could stand up.

What's wrong with that? Lake and river bottoms (and ocean beaches) can have troughs, you could easily wind up in water too deep to do this. And if you can kick enough to get your shoulders out of the water, why not just use your arms to propel yourself toward shore? It just seemed like teaching people a simple stroke (like breast, side or back--anything but crawl) would be easier and safer.

But then I fail to understand how people drown because they get caught in rip currents. Getting out of one is so easy.
and sometimes they generate two answers and the same time and users have to choose one
He has a pretty large lab you can see in some of his videos. It's not like any of his equipment is massive. I expect he can keep everything around.
> most people aren't willing to don practical accessories that noticably change the perception of your face unless it emphasizes qualities considered sexy.

Ironic related story in the news:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2024/08/29/passport-ph...
yup been using for 3/4 months now.
tho it is filled with bugs.
if you use extended screens, good luck.
and a few more like app crashing, unable to handle multiple app launches at once, and so on.

I am looking for a better open-source alternative tbh.
Google itself is the leech and parasite. It has embedded itself into private correspondence, discovery of internet resources, and a ton of other things, going as far as vacuuming up offline credit card transactions to spy on people. Google and honor do not belong in the same sentence.

Hosting videos costs a lot of money and alternatives to Youtube will see only limited success as long as Google can subsidize the service with the money from the massive spy machine.

Causing maximum drain of resources for Google while providing as little as possible for their spy machine is the ethical choice. Let them bleed. Youtube is the largest obstacle to honest businesses that provide video hosting and viewing in exchange for money - instead of making money from spying on users in ways they are unable to fully comprehend and consent to.
If you look at the revelations from Zuckerberg‘s letter this week, you will see that they were not good faith recommendations. They were highly aggressive demands made in forceful ways. Remember, the administration that issued these demands is also in control of the agencies that regulate the same company. For example, the FTC, who could determine that the company is acting anti-competitively or whatever else. They are in a position of power above this company, and therefore, even if they had made the suggestion in a friendly way, it would still be from a position of power that could compel them.
Well golly. I guess they should name it something more maudlin. That will fix everything. "Engine of oppression", perhaps?

There's definitely a delicious irony that Amtrak is about the furthest thing from an "empire" that you can find in America, though. They don't even own the tracks they run on.
Is family life elsewhere really all that better, or does it just have different problems?
You're in the intersection at that point and blocking the crosswalk, so you're no longer behind the red light, you're in front of it. In every state I've lived in you can absolutely get pulled over for stopping in the road where there is no need and no signal.
He really is delving into metallurgy with his more recent videos. Purple gold and now this. What's next? Intermetallic titanium gold alloy?
You are alleging some kind of conspiracy where a few twitter accounts are able to spread misinformation that somehow a hundred thousand people see and act upon in coordination.

The british protests/riot mass movement cannot be attributed to misinformation any more than the Arab spring can be attributed to the police mistreating the Tunisian merchant.
Typically, when people aren't satisfied with an answer, they continue asking questions or prompting further, which makes the whole exchange valuable even without the use of a thumbs-up or thumbs-down button. That's the secret weapon of OpenAI, and a part of their 'moat'
I think it might be partially intentional too. Nigel always has this pristine footage with uniform white backgrounds. It’s almost clinical, and the inflection is kind of on theme with that.
It might be fair to say they think but they can't directly introspect the thinking process. They can only confabulate reasoning post-hoc, or use science to try to understand themselves from the outside. Same as humans.
tldr of the tldr: scams everywhere in crypto.

The fact that we still don't have laws to classify all crypto as some sort of securities is insane.
no click zone
Heh, I maintain the MacPorts port for this lib! Like all suckless projects, it’s written in very simple and portable C which makes it a breeze to package.

https://ports.macports.org/port/libgrapheme/
Wow, yeah, that's a lot of power. And didn't they already drop it by 40% earlier this year?
China stopped taking our recycling in 2017. Plastic recycling usually just means the incinerator now.
Mathematica is great.
I remember old timer kiwi radio hams telling me (literally) war (WW2) stories of people laying earth return phone lines (ie a single insulated wire with a watered earth stake for a return path at each end) - they were laid along the front in North Africa for RF-free communication.

At one point someone rung down the line and was answered "jawohl?" ..... hung up immediately ..... seems the germans were doing the same thing, path of least resistance was the 2 copper wires ... they found a German speaker to listen in until the front moved

Those old timers told some great stories, don't know how true this one was, it's at least plausible
FWIW, lately prompts seem more able to elict that same sort of answer from both Claude and GPT-4x on thinly learned contexts.
Part of the whole blockchain thing was smart contracts, which were supposed to do away with contract lawyers because "code is law". But I don't think lawyers are usually considered part of the "labor" bucket in that worldview.
When I made a comment on one video about the Ukraine war, Google instantly deleted my Youtube channel (that had nothing on it), citing the comment was against their community guidelines. After that I'm hesitant to use any of services that I pay Google for in the future, and taking steps to move away from them.
YouTube is similar to a free museum where the gift shop as the only source of revenue. How does the museum handle people who deliberately show up without money and exit via the main entrance?

From a business perspective the building is a shop. Anyone without money is provably there to just wander around looking at things. Doing this a lot is weird, especially given that 99% of visitors buy a coffee or a pencil to keep the museum going.

From a user perspective it’s a museum — the whole point is to wander around looking at things! Should it be required that you buy something, or at least be forced to exit through the gift shop?
OK, even though the comment that you think is too snarky does not bother me, I will take this conversation to mean that I should use a stricter standard than merely "would not bother me" to which to hold my own comments.

The comment at which the snark was direct is a bad comment (the writer does not know enough about astronomy to make any weird feeling he has about an astronomy article to be the least bit informative) but I'll downvote comments like that rather than try to defend snarky replies to them.
You’re making “a point” like you make “A.I. art” which is not at all. You’re derivative.
oh wow, this is awesome, thanks! i never realized!
I'm not saying you're wrong, but that graph doesn't show anything with regards to whether or not middle-class folks have been hit with austerity.

Federal outlays are not granular enough and increasing Federal outlays is pretty meaningless.
On this topic. I get output that looks like url links with sources.. but the hyperlinks are not clickable.

No right click. Left click. Shift + click

What gives?
AI shoot to fame with Generative images and Text generation. Found many use cases. For me personally, I have to read a lot less documentation now to Code stuffs.

Apparently emergence of new use-cases is pretty thin. I see many domain specific opportunities, where AI can help. It will take some time to develop software where AI can be purchased and activated for niche company-internal use cases. Till that happens, AI (Neural Network training etc.) are hard core software development problem. Not usable by most of the companies.
Yeah I don't find it offputting, it makes sense for the presentation style. Although it's a bit jarring when you can feel like he's paused in the middle of a sentence to move to the next line.
That's not a good summary of this video. I wonder how much other content you've skipped because some AI told you it was something it wasn't.
Yes. In regions where real estate prices explode many people are forced out of their homes because they cannot pay the increased tax. This specifically hits senior citizens hard. It's not uncommon for a property to increase it's taxes >30% some years in these boom towns. This creates an economic burden on long term residents, that is mostly used to pay for infrastructure that is needed to accommodate newcomers.
But that's the point. With Rust's absolute superiority in all dimensions and highly motivated developers why wouldn't Rust OS project succeed?
This sentence looks very weird and out of place to me as well. I mean, Apple used metal on MacBooks long before people jumped on the environment bandwagon. And Lenovo and HP use plastic on $200 Chromebooks not because they hate environment, but because plastic is cheap.
alcorn?
Sure. Multiplication is exceedingly rare compared to any of those 8 instructions though. RISC-V base instruction set doesn't include multiplication for example. If you had room to add more then 8 I would rather add the bitops first. This will allow you to also write a much more efficient soft mul in addition to many more things.
The Last Social Network
I spent so much time updating IRIX and Ultrix systems for Y2K... And it was not fun, but now I play with those systems for fun. So I guess I'm weird!
I don’t agree. The problem is suburbs have a lower cost-per-mile for trips than urban areas.

It’s way more common to take a taxi in the city than the ‘burbs. Behavior for car ownership and expectations around waiting on rides is different. Self driving taxis are an easy transition in cities. In the suburbs, you need to sell people on expensive vehicles that cost a lot per trip (whether owned or hailed).
Who cares? Solve problem, write test case, move on.

It's a huge efficency boon for those of us who realize our jobs are just mechanisms to make money. It sucks if you're into artisinal coding or whatever..
Delaware.
Wall Street is not a reliable proxy for ‘value’.

For the people who judge these innovations by how well they can read their minds and how well it stands up to what people feel they were promised by Star Trek, the last 24 months have been a disappointment.

For those who are becoming far more productive than they previously were, learning new skills, and building the next generation of companies.. that same time has been life changing.

I don’t spend too much time worrying about wall street and I also don’t deny the bottom could fall out, but I have no doubts about the ability of these technologies to dramatically improve lives and be foundational for future improvements.
The piece itself mostly discusses Nvidia, which is an interesting company from an "AI hype" perspective in that they can only physically produce so many chips, and they are riding a very thin line where their margins are very high and FLOPS (or the equivalent) are in many ways already a commodity, so everyone wants to be set up to compete with them at the first misstep.
It's their fault for shipping Chrome instead of shipping HTML.
The point is that if Apple switched to USB-C in 2016, the same time they only put Thunderbolt ports on MacBooks, we would be looking at much fewer lightning cables. Even if as late as 2020 when almost every android phone is using USB-C, that's still better than iPhone 15 from 2023.
Are there any similar options that handle collation and normalisation? No small Unicode library seems to implement them, unfortunately.
I’m glad I don’t live in Brazil. Why ban X? It makes no sense.
Automate Tasks on the Internet with AI
> That feeling when you're wasting hours of your life trying to make something you know is abandonware work just because it looks nice. There should be a word for that feeling. In Danish or Japanese. Or German.

or a phrase, like "beating off a dead horse"
America has tried to do this, famously, with the "3 strikes and you're out" laws of the past century.
I'm not going to respond to your Covid commentary in an effort to avoid going down a rabbit hole, but I should say that when I wrote "freedom crowd" it's not some monolith. Specifically, I think there are plenty of freedom-minded folks across the political spectrum, and I do believe that those folks, again, across the spectrum, are going to have a hard time accepting self-driving cars en masse because of the privacy implications. I do think it will weigh more to the conservative side of the fence, but if you haven't hung around with extremely progressive people there is a huge contingent on that side that is very wary of government mandates and, I feel dumb even writing something this obvious, far more wary of corporate America's agenda than any other population in the country. Maybe you were talking about the left in the first place, but I think you were referring to the right based on bringing up Covid and the other language you used.
and then 2038 unix epoc will happen and this time everything is computerized and as cloudstrike showed no one bothers to test any of it anymore. Oops
Making an x86 PC boot directly into a Mega Drive game: no OS, no emulation [video]
"It’s not natural to spend 8 hours a day remotely–i.e. alone–and you are not different"

Yes we are. Remote work is not "alone." Working in the office is alone:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/31/us/wells-fargo-employee-desk-...
There seem to be two different camps here: Copilot-users that use it largely for autocomplete and Cursor/Sonnet-users that use it for generating larger blocks of code. Personally I'm in the former camp; the efficiency gains are substantial and hallucinations are easy to control. Larger blocks are fine if one wants to sit down and review the whole thing, and also as a writer's-block-breaker.

It's the folks generating whole codebases with no ability to review or debug that are in deep Monkey's Paw territory.
"They" are the ones pushing the propaganda you just regurgitated that plastic from oil to landfill/ocean in one cycle, is just fine.
Wall Streets idea of value is that the stock price changes within a few months at most, and that is if they are very patient.

Meanwhile getting value from AI means adapting new processes and changing organizations, something that big companies do extremely slowly.
No, it won't. You might want an arena for other reasons (better reasoning about lifetimes, preventing nest of pointers, etc.), but an array of line array approach to text editors is totally valid (except in the case of millions of extremely small lines).
The laser shots weren't digital either--they were hand painted, frame-by-frame.
The number of “USB-C” things I have that aren’t is infuriating. Won’t use a real charger or PD, only works with an A to C cable, only works when plugged in “right side up”, etc.

At least with Lightning and Micro-B you knew the score.

The good USB-C stuff is great. The rest is worse than B ever was.
Well, revealing my previous employer, Microsoft, many devs there love oh-my-posh for whatever reason. I have no idea if its still the case anymore but I distinctly remember it being a thing for a few dev-div repos for a while, definitely in BI/analytics/dynamics, and some places in SQL.

If you don't think I'm reputable, you can go and ask the man who made oh-my-posh where its actively used in his company and why.

You can also ask someone who works in any of those orgs if oh-my-posh makes an appearance and what happens if you try and remove it from the standard checkout/build process the average engineer goes through.

As for specifics, can't help you there, I was never the person who added the dependency. And I am distant to the acute requirements for oh-my-posh were, if there were any (which I am absolutely confident there was not, but an inexperienced/misinformed engineer could conjure about any number of reasons). I know specifically my short interactions with BI specifically trying to rid myself of oh-my-posh through regular uninstall + blackholing the download would lead to failures.
Isn't that the point though? Plastic's only cheaper when you're thinking short term and have externalised any non-material costs – which is exactly how capitalism has set us up to think.
It’s a relevant point to an irrelevant semantical argument
Did a quick browse of their site, just going off that, it made me wince, it sounds like you wrote quite a negative strawman.

It's quite plainly research aid software for attorneys, as we can also see from their comment re: listening to lawyers talk about AI as talisman.

Do you have anything to cite about this company that leads you to believe this?
> That should say "reducing carbon emissions", not adding. Burning plastic for energy is a net reduction in CO2 emission.

Not sure I understand that math. You have plastic. You burn it. That is a net increase in atmospheric CO2.

The other option is you bury it, which sounds horrible, but at least doesn't increase atmospheric CO2.

The problem is you're going to say that instead of burning the plastic, we burn something else. But maybe we don't do that, either?
I don't think neither legality nor ad-free viewing entitlement are even factors in this conversation.

What I'm entitled to is to do whatever I want with every bit of data I download through my browser. The day this stops being the way things are, is the day the web dies, and I can't believe anyone (particularly here) could be defending that.

YouTube provides their data freely. You don't have to sign-up or accept a contract. You open a link and locally download said data. It's on my device, and I control my device, not Google. I can do whatever I want with the data I download, I can make the background pink, I can change some text for something else, and I can take out the parts that I don't like, like ads.

If YouTube wants to stop providing their data with no strings attached, they can. Reddit didn't like the way many of their users used their API, so they blocked it, and I don't use Reddit anymore. If someone doesn't like the way the open web works, they are free to leave, but they can't change the rules.

You ask why we are entitled to ad-free viewing. I ask why do you think Google is entitled to dictate what I do with the local files in my personal device. Do you feel entitled to open your browser's dev tools right now and modify this comment I just wrote?
A fancy autocomplete is my Markov-chain-based Twitter bot I built in 2016.
Almost a decade ago I ran into a couple of problems where our logs started to change qualitatively on a SaaS tool I was supporting, but not in a way that printed more error level messages in logs. When someone complained about incorrect behavior in our code we could see clearly in the logs that the wrong code paths were being engaged, and when that started- people had carefully logged everything that was happening! They just hadn't logged it at the "Error" level so we never got alerts about it. And it would have been impracticable to have that level of alerting, because the message wasn't an error, it was just that due to other code changes we were now going down the wrong path for this span.

So for a hackweek I built a tool to tokenize all of our log messages, and then grabbed all of our logs and built a gigantic n-dimensional vector for every five minute chunk of two days of those logs, then calculated the pythagorean difference for each of those five minute chunks, and looked at the biggest differences, most outlier five minute chunks. And they were all from 8-8:30AM CET on the two days (our company and most of our customers were US based, I just was looking at what timezones matched up to the interesting time). I said "okay, this looks interesting, let me see what is happening in the logs then" but it was impossible to figure out what the statistics were seeing. Because the math thinks in ways that human brains don't- it views the entire dataset simultaneously, and human brains just can't keep five minutes of busy log files in their working memory, but humans build narratives and the math can't understand that. So I ended up getting frustrated and giving up on the project. Because explaining in terms that I could understand and start debugging was the whole point of the project!