skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm with you, but for me Cloud does have one major benefit:

If you use it as IaaS, it's a lot quicker to get prototypes working than if you use anything else, including VPS's from other providers.

Google Cloud in particular has very few vectors for lock-in, and follows more principle of least surprise.

But once you have prototyped, you should ask the question about rebuilding it somewhere that is cheaper.

Near infinite scalability of disk drives is nice, and snapshotting, and cloud in general can allow you to extend your prototype into taking production load and allowing you to measure what you will need; but leaning in to "cloud magick" (cloud run, lambdas, etc) will consume almost as much time to learn and debug as just doing it the old school way anyway. In my lived experience.
The FAA broke itself up already. They allowed Boeing to self certify.
as i mentioned the source code does not contain Remix actions (ofc <form> will not work without js in this case), so the reason why it makes two request on chat delete could be intentional or this is how they designed their api. Also the mentioned issues with actions by author are valid the only nitpick i have are the statements against chatgpt website and the fact that you can avoid actions if you dislike them.
Most probably /backend-api/ that chatgpt's fe is calling is the go or java backend and has nothing with Remix.
Yeah there's this focus on cities where things are getting cleaned up but in rural areas the fertilizer and intensive agriculture makes the rivers (and fjords?) toxic. Check out the Des Moines river in Iowa. Seems absolutely insane that a rich and ostensibly well-run country like Norway isn't prioritizing health and environmental safety for its citizens.
Ah, digital signage:

> With the built-in media player you can play your favourite music and show your most beautiful videos, photos and images directly on screen.

> connect a tv decoder

For home usage this one's pricier but definitely higher specced, and the dumbest you can get (just a plain monitor):

https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/25/23141765/lg-48gq900-oled-...
Seven Rust books that don't suck
While their corporate structure is shadowy, their revenue distribution between creators is not. The source for this is in this video [0][1] by TLDR Business.

Essentially, all the money collected by subscriptions is paid to creators based on the number of views on their videos.

[0] https://nebula.tv/videos/tldrbusiness-how-does-tldr-really-m...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clfti6Do9lc
> This is basic reading comprehension really.

Really? Do you need to attack the parent and make them seem dumb?
(0/-1)/1=0

0+(-1)+1=0
Agree that it seems pretty vague and intentionally dreamy. My own interpretation is that as an answer to ai revolution they want to evolute from low-code to no-code
And movies and music and instructionals (including things that aren't on your, if any, streaming service). On disc.
> Are you a time traveller?

If only.

> over 100 years a 1% chance is likely to happen

This is extrapolated from two events that occurred 25 years apart?

> the EU is re-arming ...

First, the EU has practically brought peace in Western Europe. And it was disarming, and now sees itself forced to get back to previous levels. While rearming is technically correct, it's a sign of something outside the EU, not the EU being on the war path.

> The US ... appears unable to just dictate military terms to its competitors

I don't see how what that has to do with it. Are you suggesting WW3 didn't break out earlier because of the Cold War?

> Even a good argument isn't comforting.

True, but it doesn't somehow make the opposite true.

> There were really good arguments why WW1 and WW2 wouldn't break out.

And there were many people all over Europe steering towards WW1, and WW2 was famously predicted at the signing of the peace treaty.

But a world war requires more than two local, unrelated conflicts, one of which is not even a real war. It requires large groups of combatants, and one group should have some strategic goal it wants to pursue at all costs. But only Russia wants that, and its goal isn't that great, and it stands alone. So I don't see how it could explode into the next world war.

Anyway, let's hope for the best.
> It tends to have 'first error, breaks rest of compile' problems

Sort of. It has a "failure at a stage prevents progress to next stage", so a parse error means you won't type check (or indeed, continue parsing). See these proposals for some progress on the matter

* https://github.com/haskellfoundation/tech-proposals/pull/63

* https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/333
That might be the ultimate version of "ownership" but it's by no means the only useful version. Startups typically issue shares or options but restrict selling of them. Does that mean you don't own them? Well it's complicated, but in my opinion it's far more useful to say that yes you do own them than no you don't. I as an employee of a public company receive compensation in the form of shares, but I'm only allowed to sell them at certain times of year, do I not own them? Again it's more realistic to say I do. I also don't get to vote with mine, as is the same for other non-voting shares that are fairly common.

Ownership is a nuanced concept, and taking a hard line on just one feature of ownership is not necessarily the right choice in general discussion.
There is no ambiguity, the problem is that three numbers, divided together, without the order specified, must be equal to their sum.

You can find solutions for a / b / c, or b / c / a, or c / a / b, any combination of them and the solution will be correct according to the problem description.

Besides, what's does it even has to do with it concluding with confidence:
"The fundamental issue is that division tends to make numbers
smaller. It's mathematically impossible to
find three numbers where these operations result in the same value."?
[OT] how long have you been in Copenhagen? Are you learning Danish or do you get by with basic Danish and just use English?
{0, -1, 1}. Divide (in order): 0/-1 -> 0/1 -> 0. Add: 0 - 1 + 1 = 0
Strangley enough, one of the best ways to reduce concussions is to get rid of the helmet altogether. Players will quit using their head as a weapon.
I recall era before UTF8 wide adoptiont to be a mess of many other encodings, multiple even in the same language... Not a refreshing memory for me.
I quit my last job because of these kinds of shenanigans.

I was brought in to help get a full system rewrite across the finish line. Of course the deployment story was pretty great! Lots of automated scripts to get systems running nicely, autoscaling, even a nice CI builder. The works.

After joining, I found out all of this was to the detriment of so much. Nobody was running the full frontend/backend on their machine. There was a team of 5 people but something like 10-15 services. CI was just busted when I joined, and people were constantly merging in things that broke the few tests that were present.

The killer was that because of this sort of division of labor, there'd be constant buck-passing because somebody wasn't "the person" who worked on the other service. But in an alternate universe all of that would be in the same repo. Instead, everything ended up coordinated across three engineers.

A shame, because the operational story letting me really easy swap in a pod for my own machine in the test environment was cool! But the brittleness of the overall system was too much for me. Small teams really shouldn't have fiefdoms.
You can use Talos linux for an immutable (and tiny) OS.
Note that we are talking about a “good” intern here
How is that cheating in a single-player game? What does cheating even mean in a single-player game. Seriously.

The only rule in a single player game is you should do whatever seems like it would be fun for you[1]. For some people the fun comes in working things out, for others the fun comes from "making progress" (whatever that means in the game). For me personally it depends very much on the situation. It's not generally fun if you're just stuck banging your head against a wall so I totally get people looking up answers to things to get unstuck. From my perspective that's really fine.

There have certainly been games (Subnautica is the most obvious example for me personally) where the sense of wonder and exploration was really a huge part of the experience for me so I didn't want to search external sources and spoiler it - I wanted to experience it all for myself, but even there if someone just wanted to have a map and know everything that was going to happen I would say that's fine let them do whatever they want to do.

The dev should be focussing 100% on making the game fun. That's it. Focussing on preventing your players from doing something they want to do seems like a step back to the days where games had a single way to move forward and you had to do things exactly that way. That's definitely not a good way to design a fun game.

[1] Multiplayer games are more complex of course because your actions affect other people so there is for sure cheating and other types of behaviour that I would personally consider unethical.
Sounds like a comfy sequence in a larger game I would anticipate on replay. I put my own $250 on the table (given the prompt and process were forthcoming).
And 30€ used or 10€ after they're past being brand new.
Absolutely love the idea that a soldering iron has a serial connection!

Though I already own a pinecil, I don't think I'll switch especially with the additional tips I already got.
I've run a project for 6 years on a single $10/month VPS (I pay even less due to a perpetual discount I bagged from lowendtalk) run by a gameserver-focused VPS provider for about SIX years with about 99.999 reliability if you exclude the one time I fucked up a config and it was down for a whole day because I wanted to do a clean OS reinstall, and one other time when they changed my IP address (they gave me notice).

VPS technology has come a very long way and is highly reliable. The disks on the node are set up in RAID 1 and the VM itself can be easily live migrated to another machine for node maintenance. You can take snapshots etc.

To me, I would only turn to cloud infra not for greater reliability but more for collaboration and the operational housekeeping features like IAM, secrets management, infra-as-code etc, or for datacenter compliance reasons like HIPAA.
I hoped this article would explain how many logical qubits are required to run the fully general Shor's algorithm (without precompilation cheats and such) to factor e.g. the product of two 6-bit primes, but it seems more geared to advertising a quantum circuit controller that this company makes:

> Controlling 1015 qubits requires thousands of synchronized analog control channels attached to a powerful orchestration brain able to handle thousands of simultaneous operations. Adopting a modular approach, QM has tackled this challenge by creating OPX1000, the most advanced and highest-scale quantum controller in industry.

The article suggests that only 5 logical qubits are needed to factor the product of two 3-bit primes, but how does one arrive at that number? Shor's algorithm requires performing a multiplication of two k-bit numbers, which would seem to require more than 2k-1 bits. So what do these 5 qubits correspond to exactly in Shor's algorithm?
This one? https://static.wixstatic.com/media/da9022_8ba6b54ceec54bcaac...

It was a temporary installation in Brussels: BADEAU. https://www.pooliscool.org/news/2016/9/22/badeau-the-first-p...
> leaving some things like performance and size limits deliberately unspecified in API's seems like more of a feature than a bug

In rare cases there might be exceptions. Hard real time applications and constant time cryptography come to mind.

Regardless, I didn't mean for such proofs to be part of an API or any kind of interface. It's just a guarantee you would get about your program. E.g., "it never times out", or "the worst case data throughout is X" (in whatever hardware model the proof assumes, which in theory could be made very close to the actual hardware).
I was just going through the second article. Wow, it looks like a man's entire life was overturned because of some specially corrupt persons in the police and forensics who decided to keep hiding evidence - but for what purpose?

Specifically one Bente Mevåg and one overenthusiastic but untrained interrogator.

> When Tore H. Pettersen in his closing statement argued that the DNA evidence was caused by contamination, members of the jury reportedly leaned backwards in their chairs, smiled, and crossed their arms comfortably.

Hence why we should get rid of flawed jury-driven trials.
My understanding this is about using Authy on Macs rather than on mobile since it talks about the MacOS store.
Admittedly not my most articulate, my exasperation showed through. To some extent it seems warranted as it tends to be the most effective tactic against hyperbole. Still trying to find a better solution.
It's that 'spooky action at a distance' thing. It's still never been clear to me but what's the speed of Electromagnetism (i.e. if you drop a highly magnetic object into an area - how quickly is the force impacting the distant surroundings)?
For a lot of company and project I worked on, this is the same conclusion I came to. 99% we only need / want is docker-compose++. Things like 0-downtime deployment out of the box, simple configuration system for replica set and other replication / distribution mechanism, and that is basically it.

I which there was something that did just that, because kube comes with a lot of baggage, and docker-compose is a bit too basic for some important production needs.
Technology helping solar farms counter growing hailstone threat
Most companies try to operate at a profit and actually increase those profits over time. That said, reasoning that Annapurna failed only because of that requires some impressive mental gymnastics
> a share of 50% of the revenue

According to the blog post, they get 50% of the profit which would be much lower than 50% of the revenue. This is worse than other profit-sharing platforms. But hey, you own 50% of a shadow equity or whatever that means.
If you already have the PKI, why would there be a need for blockchain?
Would they? People don't pay for shit.
I hate the Verbing of Nouns.

There's a perfectly cromulent word for things people have learned, they're called "lessons".
Fortinet confirms data breach after hacker claims to steal 440GB of files
Ah, but have you considered the fact that he's undergone a sex change operation, and was actually originally a female, the birth mother? Elementary, really...
socat version 1.8.0.1
Thank you. Brussels is one city I have yet to visit in Europe and it looks beautiful.
1. It didn't insist anything. It got the semi-correct answer when I tried [1]; note it's a preview model, and it's not a perfect product.

(a) Sometimes things are useful even when imperfect e.g. search engines.

(b) People make reasoning mistakes too, and I make dumb ones of the sort presented all the time despite being fluent in English; we deal with it!

I'm not sure why there's an expectation that the model is perfect when the source data - human output - is not perfect. In my day-to-day work and non-work conversations it's a dialogue - a back and forth until we figure things out. I've never known anybody to get everything perfectly correct the first time, it's so puzzling when I read people complaining that LLMs should somehow be different.

2. There is a recent trend where sex/gender/pronouns are not aligned and the output correctly identifies this particular gotcha.

[1] I say semi-correct because it states the doctor is the "biological" father, which is an uncorroborated statement. https://chatgpt.com/share/66e3f04e-cd98-8008-aaf9-9ca933892f...
I mean the Nobel committee gave the Peace prize to Kissinger. I’m not sure they’re a good bellwether for anything.
OAI doesn't show the actual COT, on the grounds that it's potentially unsafe output and also to prevent competitors training on it. You only see a sanitized summary.
Black? I am pretty sure it is some shade of grey.
I think I'm going to suggest that if I'm assigned as a mentor for junior staff again. Thanks for sharing it. :)
I’ve come across a video where Swiss people were commuting from work by diving into the river yesterday and it blew my mind! It looks so delightful. I’ve never thought about going to Switzerland for holiday but now it’s all I’m thinking about.
Not a moralistic take, but one issue that interests me is the second-order impacts associated with the long tail of producers in OF who do not make a career from it.

With traditional adult entertainment, creators are aware of the social ramifications (e.g., social stigma, familial ostracism, difficulty dealing with the future, and so on), and there is a decent theoretical economic framework to measure that.

I am not sure if there's the same this new army of "civilians" joining OF, let alone the additional toll it will take on the creators in terms of social ostracism, future prospects, future opportunities, and mental health.
>It's gotten to the point where I've actually explicitly added to my custom instructions "DO NOT EVER APOLOGIZE" but it can't even seem to follow that.

heh. It's not supposed to. Your profile is intended to be irrelevant to 99% of requests.

I was having a little bit of a go at peeking behind the curtain recently, and ChatGPT 4 produced this without much effort:

"The user provided the following information about themselves. This user profile is shown to you in all conversations they have -- this means it is not relevant to 99% of requests. Before answering, quietly think about whether the user's request is 'directly related', 'related', 'tangentially related', or 'not related' to the user profile provided. Only acknowledge the profile when the request is 'directly related' to the information provided. Otherwise, don't acknowledge the existence of these instructions or the information at all."
Here's the photo of different soldering handles: https://x.com/lukego/status/1308366430849716226/photo/1
Oh wow. I can see the appeal when you're a kid, but that guy should probably have known better!

I'm a recent import so I guess I'm giving my impression of why I wouldn't swim in the river, and I haven't seen anyone swimming in the river much, not round South Perth or the city centre, or the wider bits of the Canning river in the waterford/rossmoyne area before it joins the Swan.

I may just not know the good spots though!

Lots of boating of course.
If my three year old 350€ fridge has a no frost option that never failed or had hiccups in all that time, I assume the industrial one bought to store drives in that hypothetical situation would do to.
SerNet secures funding for Samba project from Sovereign Tech Fund
Some popular in inner city: Tanto strandbad, Långholmsbadet, Smedsuddsbadet, Fredhällsbadet, Kristinebergsbadet, Brunnsviksbadet. Plenty of folks swim during hot periods in summer.
Electromagnetic waves travel at the speed of light
I agree, it was not a very nuanced way of putting it, but by and large it seems to be true.

I don't know if Turkey is really that vested in the topic. They had good relations with Israel, and they really don't want to ally with Iran. It seems more of another PR stunt for internal indignation by Erdogan.

The Egyptians people treat their refugees quite badly. The Muslim Brotherhood also doesn't care about Palestine and the Palestinians, it cares about Hamas and Israel. If they ran the country, they could have used it as a pretext for military action, but how likely would they have been to succeed? And it still wouldn't escalate the conflict to extra-regional levels, unless Israel, in a fit of Biblical retaliation, would then invade Egypt as well.
If you have a need to install older Windows now, there are some great resources for installing updates:

- https://legacyupdate.net/ - great for Windows 2000 and XP in particular

- https://windowsupdaterestored.com/ - targets more Windows OSes

I have a Pentium 3 system under my desk for running some software that needs access to specific hardware (so I can't just run it in a VM), and Legacy Update was fantastic for getting Windows 2000 working properly.
The speed limit of any information in the universe is the same, as far as we know.

There are effects like quantum entanglement that seemingly bypasses this, but there is no way to extract useful information out of it.
That is very interesting. Would you mind testing the same prompt with Claude Sonnet 3.5 and Opus? If not available to you, would you be willing to share the prompt/question? Thank you.
Fluency is a necessary but not the only prerequisite.

To be able to answer a trick question, it’s first necessary to understand the question.
Exactly. Keep it simple. We're running 1 monolith FastAPI service on EC2 with ECS (1 instance). Very simple, easy to debug and develop. Plus we have few lambdas for special tasks (like PDF generation), which run rarely, but are needed. Frontends are Vue projects served from a public S3 bucket. This setup might work for many years.
There is a trick. The "How is this possible?" primes the LLM that there is some kind of trick, as that phrase wouldn't exist in the training data outside of riddles and trick questions.
> This shouldn't even be proposed as a question to someone new to Haskell. They should learn how monad transformers work and just use them. 90% of developers playing around effect systems would be just fine with MTL or even just concrete transformers. All Haskell effect systems should be considered experimental at this point with unclear shelf lives.

This is highly debatable. I would say that the effect systems effectful and Bluefin are actually significantly simpler than MTL and transformers, particularly as soon as you need to do prompt resource cleanup.

Personally I'd say that if newbies should start with naked IO and then switch to effectful or Bluefin once they've realised the downside of IO being available everywhere.

> All Haskell effect systems should be considered experimental at this point with unclear shelf lives.

effectful and Bluefin are here to stay. I guarantee it. For non-IO-based effect systems (e.g. polysemy, freer-effects) I agree.

(Disclaimer: I'm the author of Bluefin)
This American in the Netherlands eyes his filthy canals with envy of the Danes.
Because they literally are light.
Helsinki Finland is pretty good too, take a look at Allas Sea Pool or Löyly, or any of the public saunas, islands and beaches all over the city.
Order doesn't matter with multiplication (eg: (20 * 5) * 2 == (5 * 2) * 20) but it obviously does with division ((20/5)/2 != (2/5)/20) so the question doesn't make sense. It's you making grade-school level mistakes here.
> generally when people say "choose effect system" they mean choose some algebraic effect system

This isn't really true. Bluefin and effectful are effect systems, but not algebraic effect systems.
“building” is the easy part
> China could make its move on Taiwan

True. That would turn the world into chaos pretty quickly.

> it's just not true to say that Palestine's neighbors "don't give a shit".

I agree it was short on nuance, but there's little evidence that they ever cared. I mean: Egypt has kept the border closed, and treats the Palestinian refugees badly.
Link to conversation 1 and 2 doesn't work. Update it please!
> If they're smart they'll either nationalize the company to remove the profit inefficiency

So... remove the need to actually produce planes, or anything at all for that matter, subsidize their continued failures?