skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some infrastructures are supposed to have extremely high uptimes.

Were this occasion frequent, you would not see these submissions.
Fair point. “More private” not 1-on-1. I’d probably have my manager in that conversation (and quite possibly run my thoughts by them before offering them to the exec).
Indeed it says "It enhances performance in areas where tasks are waiting for IO to complete by allowing the CPU to handle other tasks in the meantime".

To restate my comment: I argued (1) this CPU cost would be very marginal compared to the LLM API compute cost, and (2) the CPU blocking claim doesn't really hold, due to the wonders of threads and processes.
Imagine what happens when the company gets hacked and they start selling your voice online?

Sophisticated Phishing attacks, blackmail, destroying someones public image
I think it is quite a big deal that they did not have data on a single phone number that ventured into the European Union.

I tend to be quite critical of our GDPR, but in this particular case, for this particular commercially available dataset, it has apparently led to some degree of protection.
As Python grows GIL-free threading and machines continue to grow more cores do you think we'll be able to skip green threads and use regular threads instead?
Strange government intelligence entities would need to use third party data brokers.

One would assume they have a aggregation of all cell phone location data historically with countries with intelligence agreements.
It's expensive compared to heat pumps, especially if you also want air conditioning.
Unless you hangout and get beers with her on the weekend, calling her Elizabeth might be a bit informal
Spanish villages where people are forced to buy back their own drinking water
I had a near miss in my 20s in a research context. In retrospect it was very close. It was really unimportant research. I think its important not to assume too much intent here on behalf of Slotin. He might have been angry or jubilant or hungover or disatracted.
Outing Success and Failure in W3C XProc 3.0
That's even more different (better) than I remembered/imagined, thanks!
Brilliant - we think much less than we think we think.
Ah, well… y’see that’s where heavy moderation and bans would come in to play, and uhhh…
There are two ways to call out to an externally hosted LLM via an HTTP API:

1. A blocking call, which can take 3-10 seconds.

2. A streaming call, which can also take 3-10 seconds but where the content is streaming directly to you as it is generated (and you may be proxying it through to your user).

In both cases you risk blocking a thread or process for several seconds. That's the problem asyncio solves for you - it means you could have hundreds (or even thousands) of users all waiting for the response to that LLM call without needing hundreds or thousands of blocked threads/processes.
True, Kahneman's wisdom was incredible.
The best way to supply "synthetic baseload" with renewables is typically not to use just batteries for storage, but rather a combination of batteries and another storage mode more suited for longer term storage. The latter is optimized to have lower cost per unit of energy storage capacity than batteries, at the expense of lower (perhaps much lower) round trip efficiency.

This latter storage mode isn't needed until fossil fuels are almost entirely eliminated from the grid, since otherwise just use those instead for that long term firming.

The idea that the electricity supply system has to itself shoulder the burden of dealing with intermittency is also mistaken. If it's worthwhile users will be willing to dispatch at least some of their demand. I'm reminded of the argument against deregulation of telecom or airlines: that the new system wouldn't be as reliable or nice. But users were willing to make the tradeoff if the services were cheaper.
https://old.reddit.com/r/ZeroCovidCommunity/comments/1gxpkqn...

Seems pretty sad.
Colored functions can be nice. It makes the type system give a hint that a function could take a long time. You can then e.g. avoid holding locks when awaiting.

But there is a big downside, that's true.
Minor correction: Starlette was started by Tom Christie who is also the creator of Django REST Framework, but he didn't start the Django project itself.

Django having async support means you can use the Django ORM, and the Django request/response cycle, and generally not need to write your async and your sync web code using slightly different APIs.
Free Furniture Around You in Amsterdam
Improving Upon Traditional Music Notation
I get you're trying to be a white knight of sort and protect the world from HN's american-centric view, but of the 215 world capitals it's currently Sunday in 195 of them and Monday morning in the rest, so...
I’m sick of dealing with managers and bad leaders, and want to get back to coding and building cool stuff.

Is there any solution for this? Co-op? Contract work? Consultancy? Union? Flat org structure? Self employment? Start a company with a couple of engineer friends and have flat org, based on trust?

I’m guessing only the last two options are promising. I’d appreciate hearing everyone’s stories, as I am genuinely interested.
Most lost weight is exhaled carbon dioxide (2014)
Most people in Auckland are very probably still asleep. That they be the responsible maintainers - of a service which I understand is in Germany - is not impossible, just pretty far from the main bets.
Yes, that was likely the handwriting in vogue at the time. It is beautiful, however!

I don't know what kind of ink they would've used if not iron gall. Also, modern IG formulations differ from older ones, I think.

As far as the handwriting goes, while the one from the note is recognizable, the script you learned at school was likely different. Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaching_script
Cormac McCarthy's Muse Breaks Her Silence After Half a Century
I did not realize this site was still in operation- I used to use it quite a bit in college over a decade ago. Sidenote that if you are a tech minded person who has a strong interest in Korean, feel free to reach out. I am pretty easy to find online and I’m working on some Korean language related projects.
I wonder if random projections or other similar dimensionality reduction techniques work equally well then using a model specialized in smaller embeddings capturing the same amount of semantical information. This way we could use larger embeddings of open models working very well and yet enjoy faster node to node similarity during searches.
The blur is depth dependent, not an uniform filter.

And there’s a lot of research regarding UX, under the term Human-Computer Interaction. The thing is that it easily converge to something like Win 2000, macOS Leopard.
> It's not true that in all companies you have to chose between tech and management. It's true in some companies. But at many companies lead and director roles are very hands on.

I‘ve seen bad companies where it is true, but in good companies typically not true.
Look for example Peter Norvig, 100% hands on technical type, but in a high management position.
https://archive.ph/Syn44
Marshall Brain has died
I have found that I can't actually plan with much certainty, and, quite often, the very worst thing that can happen, is that Everything Goes As Planned.

I have found utility in "overengineering" my life. Not just the tech I do, but in most things, and creating small, robust, high-Quality, and adaptable structures. Things that can be rearranged, and repurposed, when (not "if") the context/paradigm changes.

I started maxing out my retirement in 1990, and that's a good thing, because, in 2017, when I finally started looking for work, I was surprised (and disgusted) to find that no one wants to hire us olds. I wasn't planning to retire, but I wasn't consulted by Reality.

In my work, I have found utility in writing in modular fashion, and making every module as high-Quality as possible. I've had to toss quite a few, and had to do substantial refactoring on some, but, for the most part, they have served me very well, and continue to do so, to this day.
How to live forever (using AI)
Here is my technical write up on how you create your own AI replica by fine-tuning gpt-4o-mini on every text message you have ever sent.

I started working on this because I had lost the love of building. I wanted to just have fun again. Well, this project was fun. Especially the completely unhinged model that I couldn't release publicly.

If you would like to play around my chatbot, try it out at: https://text-ali.com/.

Would love for you to try it out and let me know what you think! I will likely make a Show HN with the website sometime soon as well :)
> Learning k8s enough to be able to work with it isn't that hard.

I’ve seen a lot of people learn enough k8s to be dangerous.

Learning it well enough to not get wrapped around the axle with some networking or storage details is quite a bit harder.
Haha I was thinking of that too. Maybe but they for sure were also inspired by their Seyda Neen brethren.
A Discussion on the European Gaming Market in the 80s (2022)
> people in some other region or time can get a glimpse of the world you're in.

Yes. And we the people of a different time got a glimpse into the world they were in.

> A list of names is extremely unexciting.

Nevertheless that is what was important for them. That is their world. You don’t want a glimpse into their world. You want their world to conform to your idea of what it must feel like to be on a lighthouse.
Stereotypes are stereotypes for a reason. They arent meant to apply to everyone. If they did, they would be called universal truths, not stereotypes.
There is a nonzero chance that said startup gets bought by Microsoft or worse.
Absolutely, it adds a lot of value for a shell script that is about 100 LoC.

By the way it took me a while to get why it was named Bastille. As La Bastille was a castle built to defend Paris from English attacks during the Hundred Years' War, and then turned into a prison.
I know a lot of people working from home. Unless you work for a place that specifically adjusts for where you live (which is rare, especially with startups), you're going to get paid your market rate, no matter where you reside.
Oilstainlab Creates the First Gas- Or- Electric Car
> These clocks would lose less than a second over the age of the universe. An optical clock is so precise that if you lifted one a centimetre off the ground, it would detect the gravitational dilation foretold by Einsteinian relativity.

That's one helluva rabbit hole to go down.
Mathematical Potential Has a Limit, but It's Likely Higher Than You Think
This article assumes a lot more self-determinism than is available in practice to most people.

Beyond that many of us have been running on fumes for years, I can't lose ten extra hours every week away from seeing my family, so I can up-skill for a new variation on the same career with ultimately the same bull.
Nope, most people using it know how to link and compile libraries. :)
"Formal" does quite a lot of heavy lifting there.

Within the community of formally democratic countries, countries that democratized only very recently (last 10 years of their existence or so) form a very specific sub-club. Some of those might be autocracies by other name, some others too chaotic to be even a -cracy.

It takes some time, I would say, at least three or four full election cycles with peaceful transfer of power, before a people learns to be a democracy.
A week or two ago, the Haskell website was down for the greater part of a weekend.

Digging through Hacker News history, Haskell.org was periodically reported down between 7 and 14 years ago.

I suspect the volunteer resources behind language projects have half-hearted DevOps.

So the surprising thing to me is not that php.net is down for hours, but that people care to report it.
So, the diametric opposite of all those tech people who are furries.
I have made slight modifications, but nothing too drastically different.

See the top comment in this thread for the custom instructions I use.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38390182

Also, #13 is my favorite of the instructions. Sometimes the questions that GPT suggests are surprisingly insightful. My custom prompt basically has an on/off option for it though like:

> If my request ends with $q then at the end of your response, provide three follow-up questions worded as if I'm asking you. Format in bold as Q1, Q2, and Q3. Place two line breaks ("\n") after each question for spacing unless I've uploaded a photo.
Andrew Tate's site ransacked, subscriber data stolen
Anyone know if there is a particularly great app/website out there for learning Korean? Ideally opinionated, low/no "figure out what to learn yourself", Anki + AI-powered for maximum gain/seamless review/ease of getting more reading + writing variety, and easy to use on-the-go/on-mobile.
That makes more sense. You never had the HCOL to begin with and so you never really had to suffer a serious setback in lifestyle due to taking a 50% cut.

For me and most others I know, I’m only living in these expensive areas - so taking that kind of pay cut requires something extraordinary to sustain a decent quality of life.
I feel I may be an outlier here, but I love async functions (I mostly use Rust). I intuitively understand what will block and what won't, and can generally gauge the performance impact. I believe the few downsides are far outweighed by the massive benefits.

Async functions allow me to build massively parallel and concurrent systems with ease - it's beautiful.

In comparison, I'm not as fond of Go's approach to concurrency, which feels less elegant to me.
Likewise I was at 70% and am by no means an expert on art. Although I do generate a lot of AI art for my work
Nomad: Simple, flexible scheduler, orchestrator to deploy and manage containers
No lol
English is not my native language; I probably should have written "that the speed-up *from* a manual assembler implementation compared to a generated interpreter is about 30%"; the point is that the speedup is small but at least demonstrates that assembler programming apparently isn't worth it any longer.

> Unless the paper is deliberately misleading,

Apparently I misinterpreted their paper concerning the JIT; as pointed out by others they indeed run separate measurements with baseline JIT on and off; so apparently it was off for the measurement I referred to. All in all it confirms that even for the JIT case assembler programming isn't worth it.
So when you say that Israel shares western values what you mean is the desire to commit sadistic torture and violate human rights? I don't disagree at all actually that the US also does not practice what it preaches.
Sad to hear. This is an amazing resource that many curious people have grown up with. It alleges here that he committed suicide. It makes me extra sad that someone who gifted others with so much found themselves in that place.

Dang - deserves a black bar?
Senators say TSA's facial recognition program is out of control
Google staffs SRE teams as either 8 in one location/TZ or two geographically distributed teams of 6 -- often some pairwise combination of U.S., Europe, and Australia to accommodate reasonable on-call shifts.

The on-call compensation varies depending on what tier of service they're offering. Tier 1 (5 minute response time) is 2/3 of your effectively hourly pay for on-call time outside of local business hours and 1/3 for tier 2 (30 min response time). Or time off in lieu.
there is a difference between "technical" and "writing code every day".

c-levels, VPs, and directors can be very technical, but rarely write code. team leads definitely do, though it may be only 3 days a week, and rest is org/planning/pr reviews.

only at small companies does the CTO write code. our cto has written plenty of deep code back in the day that enabled the business to scale to its current size.
It’s amazing how far you can get with just HTML and a gentle sprinkle of CSS these days.
1,000s of Palo Alto Networks firewalls hijacked as miscreants exploit hole
Yeah I always just put whatever in my .gitignore and never clean it up
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42208964
I call it the "smile and wave boys" response.
In a similar fashion, I try to address all sorts of corner cases in my code, to the point of being called obsessive by some colleagues - but it definitely helped a few times with really stubborn and obscure bugs.

An extra log line here or there, or an e-mail sent to the admin in weird situations, goes a long way - provided that you don't generate many false positives, because no one pays attention to a program that cries "binary wolf" too often.
If they have used Ruby on Rails would never have happened.
This must be some bubble I am not familiar with. I have invested in close to 50 early stage companies, and none of them had a representative or personal assistant acting on their behalf.
For sure but that's the job of a good ops department - where I work at for example, every project's CI/CD pipeline has its own IAM user mapping to a Kubernetes role that only has explicitly defined capabilities: create, modify and delete just the utter basics. Even if they'd commit something into the Helm chart that could cause an annoyance, the service account wouldn't be able to call the required APIs. And the templates themselves come with security built-in - privileges are all explicitly dropped, pod UIDs/GIDs hardcoded to non-root, and we're deploying Network Policies at least for ingress as well now. Only egress network policies aren't available, we haven't been able to make these work with services.

Anyone wishing to do stuff like use the RDS database provisioner gets an introduction from us on how to use it and what the pitfalls are, and regular reviews of their code. They're flexible but we keep tabs on what they're doing, and when they have done something useful we aren't shy from integrating whatever they have done to our shared template repository.
How much has climate change goosed hurricane wind strength?
2xx - All good

3xx - Somethings could be better

4xx - You did something wrong

5xx - Server did something wrong

Judging by this quick cheat-sheet I just created, this was not your fault :)
How does Google (or whoever) recording all calls solve the problem?
Stephen Bourne used such macros in the Bourne Shell sources to make the code resemble Algol.

The source is very clear and readable.
I understand posting about outages of critical infrastructure (like us-east-1) or interactive websites. But this is a non-interactive website, whose only purpose is delivering text (PHP docs) and maybe some binaries. The few people working on PHP projects on a Sunday may not have access to the official docs for a while. But they can just hop onto the Wayback Machine and carry on with their work.
Clinical microbiologist explains why you should never kiss a baby
COP29 agrees deal to kick-start global carbon credit trading
Seemingly https://www.elektronauts.com/ (community for Elektron devices) is also down, coincident? AFAIK, Elektronauts is running Discourse, so Ruby, not PHP, so unlikely to be related that way.

But, I'd wager a bet on some DNS misconfiguration at some CDN or likewise, that both are using :)
I'm not saying this want work, I don't really know. My comment was more about your plan showing this European mindset often not present (or talked about) in the NA.
Helpline for Yakuza victims fears it leaked their personal info
This is beautiful, and the thing that most surprised me is that it didn't fire up my fan and roast my machine. I'm used to browser visuals like these just grinding away - but this was very smooth and performant. Thanks for sharing!
We buried time capsules in 7th grade to dig up when we graduated. They weren't there, but a bus stop shelter was. Also the English teacher lead the project. They switched to the math and science professors thereafter.
I’m not a fan of “hacktivism”. It’s just a euphemism for criminality that violates people’s privacy. The same people probably view themselves as virtuous but really these actions are meant to violate, intimidate, and destroy others. If you can’t handle others engaging in free speech with other, you’re the problem not them.
I prefer the journey. I don’t want to “be” independent, I want to “become” independent. The former is winning the lottery, the latter is a long and difficult path.
Ugh, that article. It took a few good points that represented real practical annoyances for working with the language, it added a monumental helping of perfectly dense refusal to consider merits that made PHP successful, and then when combined with investments programmers had made in other languages and cultural momentum took on an oversized undeserved life of its own.
Looks good to me, I remember you previous show post. Now it seems more useful
So it's yet another cloud storage service?

> Now, jumping back into the digital assets arena was like starting from scratch. I kept asking myself, what does the AI creative industry really hunger for? How can AI swoop in and make their creative content production process a breeze? I mean, it's like trying to solve a jigsaw puzzle with a blindfold on. And I've come to the conclusion that assets are the heart and soul of this AI - driven world. It's like the secret sauce that makes everything click. We're on a wild ride here, trying to figure out how to build a platform that not only stores and manages these precious assets but also supercharges the creative process. It's a tall order, but I'm up for the challenge, armed with a bit of hope and a whole lot of caffeine.

I don't understand what you are on about in this text, are you saying the site has AI features? I don't see any.
> The person would of course want to know

So would I!

> and of course be disappointed to find out it's essentially the credits for who built a lighthouse

I wouldn’t be disapointed. This is very exciting. We learn how many of them were there and what was important to them. For example they clearly had pride in finishing their work.

We can then ask the question who they were, how did they live? How did they got this job? Using their names we can go back in archives and find more about them. This is super exciting.

> yet tons of HN'ers are super mad at the insinuation that the letter ended up being more or less a waste

Because it is not a waste, that is why. If you can’t enjoy it as it is, bad for you.
Um, RapID is the big tech's spin on OSM editing. Clicking stuff to import from AI or government data is hardly the essence of OSM, a complement at best.

Use iD or JOSM on desktop, StreetComplete/Every Door/Go Map!!/Vespucci on the phone. Survey POIs in your local area, with your own feet. Big tech can't do that ;)
An interesting thought experiment is what would happen to each region’s internet culture if cut off like this from one another? It would be like a speciation event like when animals get cut off from one another by continental drift etc.
It's Cool to Be Dead
As someone who has fallen into this trap myself, I feel like many people tend to just go with the flow and then end up in a place they don't like doing work they don't enjoy, with no idea how to get out. This has inspired me to approach my manager about possibly stepping down from my role into a more IC role, or possibly swapping jobs, as I realized a Senior IC is where I want to be
You may want to see if there's an existing bugzilla for it, so you can track its progress, or the less ... bugzilla-y ... way may be to ask in their Discourse https://discourse.mozilla.org/c/devtools
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