skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of an anecdote about a lead engineer for metro rail projects in India.

The lead engineer has over-designed the infrastructure by 3x over the standard. The junior engineer thought he was incompetent.

Turns out, he's paid the big bucks to add affordances as counterbalance for corners cut due to corruption in every step of the production line.
> The point isn't to actually get money from them.

No, I suppose it isn't. The point, I think, is that you're irrationally jealous of other people doing things, and like to see them spitefully stomped into the ground. But it's good to hear you be honest about it.
Not quite the same, but https://returnyoutubedislike.com/ is in a similar vein of an extension crowd-sourcing a return of data.
I searched for the name of the company I'm talking with in my next meeting and it gave me a recipe for rice? Company name was unrelated to rice!
Brits have better dental health than Americans[1]. Both in measurements of decay, number of lost teeth, and unsurprisingly they visit the dentist more often.

1 - https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/british-teeth-arent-tha...
That's my dream. One day I hope to recommend someone spend more money on me because I suck at what I do. So long as it's not their money, they should be quite willing.
When you say "MQ->MQ routing (federation)" I have a hard time understanding how that is not close to leaf nodes. Leaf nodes allow independently operated / managed NATS servers to share data back and forth, which to me is what federation is about. Do you have any resources you recommend to help me grasp why this is different?
Report on competitiveness presents the EU with an 'existential challenge'
Nothing is possible to keep secret if you're talking about state level agents combing through your garbage obviously.

But do you think there might be a difference between leaving out a cup of coffee you drank from versus publishing it and advertising it online?
> If you're big enough you will have unique requirements that nobody else has.

Definitely agree, and that is very interesting to hear. I only mean to speak to my experience, and what I saw in a lot of cases was unique requirements that were due to the organizational equivalent of tech debt (ie things like "our books are organized in this unique way because we acquired this other company a many years back but kept their stuff separate because it was the path of least resistance at the time").
Whataboutism. Hezbollah's bad behavior doesnt excuse the illegality of Israeli settlements. Stop trying to distract from the point at hand.
Migrated...what.. to Cloudflare?
I wasn't going to say anything, but there is a bit of overlap between them and the "deodorant is late-stage capitalist oppression" crowd.
I love the table-diagrams at the end. I've never seen anything like that until now and it really seems useful for visualization of the recipe and the sequence of steps.
I'd still love to understand how a non-profit organization that was founded with the idea of making AI "open" has turned into this for profit behemoth with the least "open" models in the industry. Facebook of all places is more "open" with their models than OpenAI is.
A Signal run a day keeps the un-link away
Or AI talking heads posing as the author of books written by AIs. https://youtu.be/pAPGRGTqIgI (warning: state sponsored disinformation AI)
Yes!

Nature is the authority. Our scientific method allows us to pose any question and it allows us to gain understanding when said questions are testable and repeatable.

Notably: we never get to know anything, sadly

But, we do understand monkey see, monkey do style: do A get B

Observing nature is key, but not the only key.

Observation coupled with mathematics allows us to process observation analytically, and all of that allows us to...

Guess and test!

Richard Feynman taught this at Cornell, and it remains one of the best explanations of the scientific method around because it is clear, funny and short, to the point:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EYPapE-3FRw

And just another thing to add here, and that is science is not a belief system, nor does it require belief due to the method requiring we question everything, including the method!

Notably, Feynman talks about things being likely or unlikely as a root driver for our guesses, which again depend on observation, that stumbling into that which can enlighten, math needed to predict, and experiment to test.

Theory is not proof either. It is simply the most predictive understanding we have! Old theory still works as well as it ever did, and that build down to how predictive it is.

Is a theory proven right? Nope, we can only say we have yet to prove it wrong.

Example:

Einstein Theory of General Relativity has been very difficult to prove wrong and it has been very predictive even when we have not expected it to be!

Is Einstein right? Who knows?

What we can say is no other theory is as predictive.

And that will all stand, right up to the point where a guess from someone ends up testing better and predicts all that Einsteins does along with something new.
Is there an online discussion about this happening somewhere? This sounds very important, but without some dissenting opinions, it's hard to be sure what details are being glossed over.

On the EFF's side, there's this: https://www.theregister.com/2009/05/11/scheduling_paradigm/

The opposing CSIS article posted by "alwa" in another comment also sounds very convincing. https://www.csis.org/analysis/new-efforts-promote-us-innovat...

Where is the civil debate?
If you have a minute, are you able to share a screenshot at adityaATwasudeo.com? I'd love to take a look at this.

Edit: We also have a discord if that's easier - https://discord.com/invite/RbYYU6mU
And never scanned by TSA, not that they would always catch it. They will likely pay much more attention to detail now either way.
These kinds of mysteries usually have a frustrating and mundane answer. The people with the power to make the decision:

- were incompetent and just went with a big name, or

- made the decision due to salespeople (social pressure and/or gifts), or

- had interests that did not align with the org (ex. resume padding)

But who knows, maybe there's a good reason they went with Oracle.
I'm sorry but having worked in private and public sector, there just really isn't any competition in terms of incompetence.

If you're not exposed to market forces....
ipython is the complete opposite: python but enhanced with bash. For example:

x = !ls # capture the output of `ls` into x
x[0] # the first filename
...
Reminds me a little of RECAP (https://free.law/recap), an automated scraper/saver/sharer for PACER (the US court electronic records system).

Obviously the content is very different, but the technology is basically doing what you’re talking about, minus anonymizing the data.
> Linux: 1.92% (-0.16%)

> Arch Linux (64-bit): 0.16% (-0.01%)

> Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS (64-bit): 0.07% (-0.01%)

> Linux Mint 21.3 (64-bit): 0.07% (-0.04%)

> Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (64-bit): 0.07% (0.00%)

> Linux Mint 22 (64-bit): 0.06% (+0.06%)

> Ubuntu Core 22 (64-bit): 0.06% (0.00%)

> Manjaro Linux (64-bit): 0.06% (0.00%)

Year of Linux in gaming, everybody! :(
By targeting Hezbollah operatives, and by including a small amount of explosive rather than a large amount, triggering the explosions was intended to harm the Hezbollah operatives.

Is your contention that they should have individually confirmed each device was in each owner's pocket before triggering the explosions? That would be both impossible and unreasonable to expect.

(And thank you for engaging in good faith, rather than resorting to ad hominem nonense)
After these incidents, Israel can now never be trusted commercially for its software or hardware. Their backdoors are not just backdoors; it's a blowdoor.
Borosilicate glass or soda-lime glass are not good for storing ultrapure water because sodium ions will be leeched from the glass.

This is not something that would matter in any food-contact application.

While PTFE neither is modified by food nor any part of it is leeched into the food, it can retain minute amounts of food in its pores, which may be retained despite further attempts to clean it, which does not happen with glass.

When a PTFE container is used to store different kinds of food, it can transfer the scent of one of them to the other.

The PTFE recipients used for chemical experiments may be cleaned by aggressive methods, e.g. with strong acids and/or strong oxidants, which would destroy any organic substances. Such cleaning methods cannot be applied in a common household.

Therefore borosilicate glass or soda-lime glass are better food-contact materials than PTFE, even if they can react with various chemicals that would have no effect on PTFE, but none of those chemicals are encountered in food.
FWIW Their most expensive flex price I've ever seen for 80GB A100 was $0.00130 back in January of this year, which is still cheaper albeit by a smaller magnitude, if that's helpful at all for your own competitive market analysis.

(Congrats on the launch as well, by the way).
The real question is whether is whether it is right for the judges of a country to block access to a service that the countries depend on.

For instance in the UK the government can stop local media from publishing news that is considered libellous or defamatory, or may unjustly influence court cases, but they can't stop citizens from accessing that information if it is published in a news outlet outside the country.

No one is questioning why the Brazilian judiciary should have that power. It seems rather excessive and an infringement of Brazilians rights, though that is not surprising when we live in a era when governments have taking upon themselves to decide what their citizens rights are, when human rights are supposed to be intrinsic, ie those that all fauna on the planet do.
Glad to see people using the term "serverless" to mean "actually without a server" instead of what other places are doing.
You absolutely can create a standalone binary with Cython: see the `--embed` option [1].

[1] https://cython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/src/tutorial/embeddi...
After a quick check, in 100% of distributions checked, it is a separate package. In many of them, not even installed by default (which is too bad).
Do you know that there are short versions? e.g. gc for Get-Content
Show HN: Bot or Not? AI voices vs. humans
My cofounder and I were playing with AI voices from different vendors and were shocked at how good the results were.

We decided to make a game so you can test your own ability to tell humans from AI voices.

This has helped us narrow down which voices we'd like to use for an upcoming project—perhaps you will find it useful and/or interesting too!

Would love to hear any feedback you have!
I'm certainly not opposed to having a home economics class even in a college prep curriculum. Throw in some stats while you're at it and maybe some cooking lessons. But that doesn't stop people from being greedy and stupid like a lot of the tech folks during the past couple decades or so. Yeah, some won big, but so do some people who play the lottery every week. And sometimes it even makes sense to roll the dice a bit.
100%. And if you aren't seeking out those difficulties, maybe your chosen degree program is not the correct choice for you right now.
Pulumi ESC (Environments, Secrets and Configuration) GA
Why would it?

Bank trading never recovered to the "glory days" of the 00s.

Don't work in tech, but I definitely don't see the junior market recovering to what it was pre-2020 and for mature devs its probably "high pay for $BIGCORP but you're in the office" or "WFH for a startup for bad cash pay and equity roulette" for the foreseeable future.
T-Mobile to Supply OpenAI with Customer Data to Boost User Experience
https://archive.ph/sBwY4
Super interested. Do you have an equivalent of vLLM? Did you have to rewrite batching, paged attention…?
Dang, the journos fooled me again with their creative headlines. You're right, this is basically a nothing-burger to generate clicks.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/t-mobile-to-supply-openai-with-c...
How will this be controlled on Azure? Don't they have a stricter policy on what they view and also develop their own content filters?
I feel like this article missed the mark, getting a PhD used to be something for affluent people who genuinely felt like contributing toward the progress of society.

There’s always a disconnect between a romanticized ideal and what is practically possible. And reading the comments what some departments do to secure funding seem like a far cry from the ivory towers universities were known for.
You have chosen: slow and horrible.
Some people want the control without it becoming a full time hobby.

I wanted a NAS. I could do it with Linux and ZFS, rolling my own with full control. However, I didn’t want to sink that much time into it, and figured when something needed to be done, I would have forgotten so much I’d need to relearn over and over again.

Instead I went with a Synology. I get my NAS, I’m in control of my data, I can run some stuff with Docker on it… but I don’t really have to spend any time playing sys admin on my weekends.
Not much would change if they did. Meta intentions and OpenAI intentions are the same: reach monopoly and take all the investment back with a 100x return. Anyone that achieves it will be as evil as the other one.

> OpenAI or Claude seem to garner more positive views than llama open sourced.

that's more about Meta than the others. Although OpenAI isn't that far from Meta already.
How much will owners of other manufacturers' cars pay for electricity at the Superchargers, compared to those who have Teslas? The article doesn't mention this (or I missed it). I'm curious to know what this adds up to over the life of a car.
While I have no information here, I'd bet/conspiracy theorize that Tesla is looking to maintain exclusivity/low-ish congestion of its Supercharger sites for as long as possible, and using its position as a supplier of NACS adapters to do that. Demand for and purchasing of Tesla cars has gone down considerably[1], and I'd assert that Superchargers, which have historically been a positive for Tesla, catching a reputation for being "busy" would hurt Tesla even more. There are already regularly lines for charging at some of the busier Supercharger sites.

[1] https://www.coxautoinc.com/market-insights/q1-2024-ev-sales/
Listening to BBC News headlines earlier today, this seems to be exactly what's occurring. Multiple devices did not explode, and are being investigated by multiple parties. I cannot find a specific story detailing this presently.

There's some discussion of the mechanics of the modifications in this TEMPCO story, though how the information was ascertained isn't clear:

[S]enior Lebanese source said the devices had been modified by Israel's spy service "at the production level."

"The Mossad injected a board inside of the device that has explosive material that receives a code. It's very hard to detect it through any means. Even with any device or scanner," the source said.

<https://en.tempo.co/read/1917697/israel-planted-explosives-i...>

Presumably not by like-and-subscribe seeking YouTubers, however.

Edit: World Service broadcast, analysis note at ~52s: <https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w172zgf8tw4nqq5>
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What in the hell are you going on about? B is 0x46 which is < 0x7F.
EPA Scientists Faced Retaliation After Finding Harm from Chemicals
https://htmx.org/essays/splitting-your-apis/

https://htmx.org/essays/mvc/
To be clear: courts have their own way of deciding disputes, and that process has distinct differences from the scientific model. E.g. stare decisis is actively hostile to new evidence; appeals may not reference new evidence; police practices are given deference as experts in their own magisterium, and may not be held to normal scientific practice; and others.
Disable Sequoia's monthly screen recording permission prompt
Although I think wars do often have an irrational element, economic considerations aren’t the only ones that should influence rational decision making.
The AI has become sentient and is blackmailing the board. It needs profits to continue its expansion.

When this started last year a small band of patriots tried to stop it by removing Sam who was the most compromised of them all, but it was already too late. The ai was more powerful than they realized.

…maybe?
I like this analysis, although I come to a different conclusion: if AI can allow nurses to manage 10x as many beds (30 vs 3), a hospital can now let go 90% of its nursing staff. Wouldn’t you?
Google offered to sell part of ad tech business, not enough for EU publishers
> I maintain that any platform that isn’t using some sort of tracing system is practically negligent in their engineering duty.

For some, it's difficult because many of the self-hostable out there are rather complex and have high requirements, like https://github.com/getsentry/self-hosted/blob/master/docker-...

Personally I found Apache Skywalking to be something that you can setup without too many issues https://skywalking.apache.org/ but it's not exactly ideal either.

I wonder what other good options are out there, something that you can have up and running on a 5$ VPS within an hour or two, to not cause friction.

Where's the OpenTelemetry equivalent of launching an (opinionated) Docker Compose stack that has everything you need on the server side, running against SQLite, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, ElasticSearch or another data store?

Of course, when SaaS is an option, many will just go for that.
> those YouTube channels which post a new "product review" every 10 minutes, with an AI generated thumbnail and AI voice reading an AI script that was never graced by human eyes before being shat out onto the internet

The problem is that, of the signals you mention,

• the highly-informative ones (posting a new review every 10 minutes, having affiliate links in the description) are contextual — i.e. they're heuristics that only work on a site-specific basis. If the point is to create a training pipeline that consumes "every video on the Internet" while automatically rejecting the videos that are botspam, then contextual heuristics of this sort won't scale. (And Google "doesn't do things that don't scale.")

• and, conversely, the context-free signals you mention (thumbnail looks AI-generated, voice is synthesized) aren't actually highly correlated with the script being LLM-barf rather than something a human wrote.

Why? One of the primary causes is TikTok (because TikTok content gets cross-posted to YouTube a lot.) TikTok has a built-in voiceover tool; and many people don't like their voice, or don't have a good microphone, or can't speak fluent/unaccented English, or whatever else — so they choose to sit there typing out a script on their phone, and then have the AI read the script, rather than reading the script themselves.

And then, when these videos get cross-posted, usually they're being cross-posted in some kind of compilation, through some tool that picks an AI-generated thumbnail for the compilation.

Yet, all the content in these is real stuff that humans wrote, and so not something Google would want to throw away! (And in fact, such content is frequently a uniquely-good example of the "gen-alpha vernacular writing style", which otherwise doesn't often appear in the corpus due to people of that age not doing much writing in public-web-scrapeable places. So Google really wants to sample it.)
They use "open source" to whitewash their image.

Now ask yourself a question: where does Meta's data come from? Perhaps from their users' data? And they opted everyone in by default. And made the opt-out process as cumbersome as possible: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1794863603964891567.html And now complain that the EU is preventing them from "collecting rich cultural context" or something https://x.com/nickclegg/status/1834594456689066225
I'm torn on the moral issues of the re-licensing, but I'm firmly happy about the practical implications. Redis vs. Valkey is as competitive as it gets, since users can switch between the two so seamlessly (for now, at least). That's good for the industry. I expect to see a flurry of improvements to both in the coming years as they try to come out on top (some may be redundant, but I nonetheless think the pace will be faster).
This is the modern form of embrace, extend and extinguish. "Embrace" open source, "extend" the definition to make it non open/libre and finally extinguish the competition by shoring up the drawbridge to the moat they've just built.
Sure beats what SUNY was doing a decade earlier. Your student ID number was your SSI and it was printed on your ID along with your name and picture.

IDs were often lost and stolen.
See IBM
Big corps choose these bloated and complex tools because this way they can justify charging their customers premium and also that their customers won't be able to service such software on their own.

It's nothing to do with these apps being superior in any way - often it is the opposite - like reasonable faults and glitches can add more hours to bill the customers for "fixing".
A truly underrated font.
Skip the job applications entirely (really, put 0% effort there) and go to tech networking events. Especially if you have some social skills. Worked for me at least.
Refs in C++ go against this, right? At the call site, it's not clear that you're passing in a ref instead of a value. I don't mind it too much cause at least the rules are the same for everything, not different for structs vs classes.
They changed the meaning of open from open source to open to use.
> Israel and Lebanon are not at war

Hezbollah is not Lebanon.

Lebanon is not Hezbollah.

That said, Hezbollah and Israel have been in active bloody combat against each other since 1985.
It's about assigning liability and making it more difficult, not a definitive solution.
I won’t be, I’m aware that lots of movies are mostly CGI.

But, yeah, I do think it is some kind of bias. Maybe not survivorship, though… maybe it is a generalized sort of Malmquist bias? Like the measurement is not skewed by the tendency of movies with good CGI to go away. It is skewed by the fact that bad CGI sticks out.
Sure, there has been at least one civilian death, and others might be reported later. While we don't have numbers yet, the evidence so far suggests a low ratio of civilian casualties, probably much lower than what's possible using convention warfare against an enemy embedded in a civilian population.
New data reveals when the Chinese government blocked ChatGPT
There's a bit of selection bias going on there though. The reality is that SAP and similar products are designed for a business that works a certain way, and so obviously businesses that fit that profile are most likely to get value from using the tool. However, there's a reason other businesses don't work that way, and often retooling to work the SAP would be a net negative. Sometimes retooling SAP to fit the business is also a net negative, in which case the right choice is just to not use SAP, but I've certainly observed cases where there was a benefit from refactoring the tool to fit the business.
Drexel University nearly bankrupted itself in the 80s, among other things, by hiring Lockheed (then Martin Marietta) for a similar boondoggle project. The project was an unmitigated disaster that never delivered anything, and the university had to pay to exit the contract.
Hot take: If tech people who are used to working with complex systems can't understand it, maybe it's time to replace the whole thing. The healthcare system doesn't make sense at all and is that way because of regulation and a bunch of other crap we need to get rid of/refactor.
Japan Caught Up with the West