skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one is asking you to buy it, there is tons of empirical data you can analyze for yourself.
Not to mention the slight complication of the entity is not in your jurisdiction and subject to your laws.

You buy a device from an intermediary and it phones home to a foreign jurisdiction. That sucks but I'm not sure what recourse you can realistically expect.
That's a lot of words and yet I have not seen an actual proof of equivalence. Do you even know the definition of a Markov chain?
1 / 8 * 3600 * 24 * 30 = 324000 so that 1GBit/s server could conceivably get 324TB of traffic per month "for free". It obviously won't, but even a tenth of data is more than the data included with the 10G link.
Duolingo won't make you fluent but maybe that's not the point
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-kubernetes

What do the fine people of HN think about the size/scope/amount of technology of this repo?

It is referenced in the article here: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-kubernetes/compare/...
This is the take of the big banks.
I've shared this on here before, but another trick that I like with breakpoint() is to add this function to my Python projects so that I can drop into pdb by sending a signal:

import signal

def sigusr1_handler(signum, stack):
breakpoint()

signal.signal(signal.SIGUSR1, sigusr1_handler)

And then I can drop into pdb by sending a signal:

$ kill -s sigusr1 $PID

It's especially useful for getting a backtrace out of your program when it's hanging, and poking around a bit to figure out why.
Its because they're speaking colloquially instead of pedantically. i.e. an LLM is just a bag of bytes is pedantically true, but misses enough that I'd expect to get corrections :)
WeSQL. Separation of storage and compute for MySQL
"AI reviews" is actually a really interesting use-case that I hadn't considered-- but makes so much sense. I feel like it might be good to use Cursor or another AI assistant just for the purpose of suggesting improvements rather than a way to code quicker.
Cox's Orange Pippin is a good baking apple, as well. Holds its shape, and goes all custardy, rather than dissolving into mush.

It's not as good as a Bramley. Does anyone in the US grow those commercially? Why not?
I’ve deleted the internet??
Either the problems are getting easier each year, or perhaps there are just more people participating which drives down the 100th-place times.
I am primarily self trained and it took a long time to get "good". I wish I could have worked under a master, but that opportunity never arose and I was starting when web development was all new – so there were no masters.

Read and study and learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others – you will believe things and realize later that your beliefs were wrong.

If there was one book I had to recommend that I have read it would be Sandi Metz's 99 Bottles series.

Oh, and learn multiple programming languages.
Getting thrown into the deep end is awesome. This is a great opportunity to apply things you can learn. Keep studying and reading, ultimately solving problems even not perfectly you will learn a lot.
Grow in the areas that are open to you. People skills and domain knowledge. These are the foundation of a career.

Let go of FOMO, youth is the only reason you think it is possible to not miss out. You have and will miss most things because they were not hit your way. The only things you can actually miss are the opportunities that are yours.

But the only way to miss them is because your attention was somewhere else. You have an awesome opportunity for a mentor in the director. You caught a lucky bus, stay on it.

Right now people can look at you and see potential. In just a few years, they will look at you and see squandered potential. Sure technically you are an adult, but you have almost zero adult experience (your mentor has forty years of adult experience). Good luck.
20TB egress on AWS runs you almost $2,000 btw. one of the biggest benefits of Hetzner
>> Theranos' investors didn't consult experts at all

> What are you basing this on?

The original quote may be a tad hyperbolic, but there was lots of reporting that all of the "smart money" in SV declined to invest. Here is a story about how Google Ventures did the most basic of due diligence and could tell early on it was handwavy bullshit: https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-maris-explains-why-gv-d...
I’ll add when I say “learning” I mean memorization. Memorizing on a higher level than facts.

I would love to spend the time and see how altering the query alters the reasoning path. How firm is in the path once it’s chosen?

A high level approach has the possibility to be very computer efficient.
IBM RISC System/6000 Family
Thanks! And pretty great for 2nd year undergrad!
The UK is not a European country.
The three P's: powerdown, permaculture, population control. Industrial civilization and reproducing too quickly must be made taboo. The only way humanity survives is as small pockets of preindustrial, agrarian societies, and in far fewer numbers than exist today. We can -- and humans have -- endured for millennia this way. Industrial civilization has less than a century on its rapidly ticking clock.

" If you believe the myths of science, the Tolowa lived in this region for at least 12,500 years. If you believe the myths of the Tolowa, they lived here since the beginning of time." --Derrick Jensen

Oh, and uh, forget about going to space.
This is certainly true. Typing that I heard his voice in my head, and laughed. I'm sure someone who's never heard Steven Wright has a much more limited response.
Y'all realize that Sol-Ark devices are the ones that didn't shut down, right? Because they're the ones with the exclusive contract.

You're hypothesizing about the exact opposite of the real situation.
Been playing Steam games on Fedora and AMD GPU for over a year and haven't really run into any major issues. Never thought it would happen! I haven't booted into Windows in over six months
How Indigenous engineers are using AI to preserve their culture
I’ve found that everyone learns in different ways, and if having mentors / seniors to absorb knowledge from is how you learn best then I’d agree with the comments suggesting you change roles.

However, if you learn well by doing, or by reading, there are loads of other great ways to improve technically. I’ve made big leaps forward in my skills by building (relatively large) side projects, where I can safely experiment with different design decisions and see the consequences over time. I’ve also got a huge amount out of just sitting down and reading the docs for tech I’m interested in - some frameworks (like React) have fantastic resources that can take you from good to great.

Good luck!
I mostly agree; however, biological/genetic factors do not control everything. They may be involved in such traits as aggressiveness etc, but I would think that even these traits are not certain and can be changed (by many things, including your own ideas, but also many kind of external factors), and this does not include such things as "evil" and does not directly include "murder" (although it can be included indirectly, since it is related to things which are more directly affected by genetic factors, which can end up with such things). There is the question of exactly which things the biological/genetic factors affect and how much, and scientific experiments may be able to figure out some of these such things.

Regardless of that, it does not mean that no murderers can ever changes (although some might not change as easily), that genetics can predict if you are a murderer with 99% accuracy, that sex or gender can predict it with 99% accuracy, etc. But, it does mean that it can have a statistical effect.
I think it just adds a button to create an RSS page out of the current page you are on. Im trying to get the handler working so when I click on a RSS link it opens up in a program.

On this page [0] when I click on subscribe to RSS feed it opens in a XML browser window.

[0]: https://www.atlasobscura.com/podcast
Read and write a lot of projects. Early career you need to get out there and see things. If you find stuff others are working on too all the better (e.g. OSS but there are other things like charity or public projects too)
>In fact, "superstition" very neatly defines most prompt engineering for LLMs.

Its weirdly fascinating how this is developing. Like some people boldly claiming that if you offer to tip your LLM it does better. And if you say things like "Think hard and check your work" it gives more accurate results.
I don’t use BTRFS raid, I don’t actually use any RAID. I use SnapRAID which is really more of a parity system than real RAID.

I have a bunch of data disks that are formatted BTRFS, then 2 parity disks formatted using ext4 since they don’t require any BTRFS features. Then I use snapraid-btrfs which is a wrapper around SnapRAID to automatically generate BTRFS snapshots on the data disks when doing a SnapRAID sync.

Since the parity is file based, it’s best to use it with snapshots, so that’s the solution I went with. I’m sure you could also use LVM snapshots with ext4 or ZFS snapshots, but BTRFS with SnapRAID is well supported and I like how BTRFS snapshots/subvolumes works so I went with that. Also BTRFS has some nice features over ext4 like CoW and checksumming.

I considered regular RAID but I don’t need the bandwidth increase over single disks and I didn’t ever want the chance of losing a whole RAID pool. With my SnapRAID setup I can lose any 2 drives and not lose any data, and if I lose 3 drives, I only lose the data on any lost data drives, not all the data. Also it’s easy to add a single drive at a time as I need more space. That was my thought process when choosing it anyway and it’s worked for my use case (I don’t need much IOPS or bandwidth, just lots of cheap fairly resilient and easy to expand storage).
Assume they are sentient, like plants.
AI based symptom analyser (Alpha)
Hey everyone, I have been building this Al powered symptom analyser for past few days for my personal use and thought I might deploy and share it. It's still in Alpha stage. Would love your feedback and any features that might improve the experience. Thanks :)
The money is insured by the FDIC against bank failure. The actual banks holding the money didn't fail. The money is still there. The problem is its in a big unlabeled pile so they don't know whose money is whose and how much each person has.

Note that fail here has a very specific meaning - as in the banks doesn't have the funds to give you your deposit back. Not fail as is "something went horribly wrong".
Indeed.

Although my understanding is that under quantum mechanics it's necessary to set the probability of all transitions between states to a number larger than zero, I also understand that for practical purposes the probability for the overwhelming majority of transitions are close enough to zero as to require fancy notation (at the very least, nested exponentiation) to express quite how unlikely they are.
Ah yeah pipeline compilation is a very non-trivial problem[1]. Unreal is also struggling with this a lot. I hear you that it's an issue.

The Bevy issue you want to follow is https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/10871.

[1]: https://therealmjp.github.io/posts/shader-permutations-part1 + https://therealmjp.github.io/posts/shader-permutations-part2
This product looks interesting but very expensive ($60 pm) compared to class leaders like Claude.

Given that I think those alternatives are extremely cheap, that's not necessarily a problem - but it would be useful to understand more about how the results compare when the service is used in the real world, and what exactly is being provided - it seems to be saying this is a direct competitor to other LLMs enhanced with contextual magic, ie it doesn't sit on top of a third party LLM endpoint like, say, Cursor does.

But if it is 3 times the price of services like Cursor or Claude or ChatGPT etc, it really needs to give evidence for that value in its outreach efforts, rather than just saying "this is how context makes things better".
www.lorohealth.com
It's maddening to see the wireline assets rotting and failing. In my opinion the ILECs have a ton to answer for.
I learned a ton from contributing to large open source projects.

Find some software that helps your company, and don’t be afraid to dive into the codebase. There may be times you can even contribute as part of your job.
This might be unpopular, but it's really sad that this app has to exist
Thanks for the feedback!

I think having a threat intel-related study is great, but I'll need to spend some extra time on it. Let me think it through.

I love dark mode too!
BTRFS raid is usage-aware, so a rebuild will not need to do a bit-for-bit copy of the entire disk, but only the parts that are actually in use. Also, because btrfs has data checksumming, it can detect read errors even when the disk reports a successful read (however, it will not verify the checksum during regular operation, only during scrub).
Thank you for your comment. While the app is new, I’ve been fortunate to receive early feedback from friends and colleagues who have helped me improve the tool.
Create paper trail. Write a doc, share the doc;
Related. Others?

AI Alone Isn't Ready for Chip Design - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42207373 - Nov 2024 (2 comments)

That Chip Has Sailed: Critique of Unfounded Skepticism Around AI for Chip Design - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42172967 - Nov 2024 (9 comments)

Reevaluating Google's Reinforcement Learning for IC Macro Placement (AlphaChip) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42042046 - Nov 2024 (1 comment)

How AlphaChip transformed computer chip design - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41672110 - Sept 2024 (194 comments)

Tension Inside Google over a Fired AI Researcher’s Conduct - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31576301 - May 2022 (23 comments)

Google is using AI to design chips that will accelerate AI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22717983 - March 2020 (1 comment)
Someone at work recently introduced a thing that would create git commit messages from code, completely negating the necessity of the programmer to provide accurate not-contained-in-code context. If they weren't across an ocean I would have shook them by the shoulders until they understood.
> So no only were typists not touch typing, they couldn't see what they were typing.

This is how I feel as a left hander while writing the old fashioned way. I can’t see what I’m writing so I get sloppy really quickly, and always need paper with lines.

Not that this makes their methodology not totally bunk, of course.
Why would I learn anything if we're going to have AGI in less than 3 years according to silicon valley luminaries like Sam Altman? He's rich because he's super smart and everything he says is correct so you sir should get with the program and start thinking how to logically specify tasks so that Sam Altman's AGI can solve it for you instead of telling me to learn LLVM.
How can they prove when where and what. Ive never seen this happen and largely think its FUD.
This is really only a salient concern when foreigners abscond with things, but this was discovered by a Burmese geologist and it seems that it was his decision to house the mineral in the US. I would add that there is a big difference between natural science objects versus cultural artifacts.
How about Cummingtonite?

They say it's commonly found, but it was named after Cummington

(I found out about it by watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya_D9IwB3-s)
The Icelandic surnames are not constant through generations. You can have 10 grandkids, all with different surnames.

Erik's son Leif is Leif Eriksson, Leifs kids Björn and Gudrun are Björn Leifsson and Gudrun Leifsdóttir.
I can only speak to living in rural suburbia USA but when I was 15 my hobbies were severely limited by the lack of independence. No ability to drive, part-time employment, academic busywork and parental oversight severely curtailed the range of experiences I was able to enjoy. This somewhat continued into college as I had to spend breaks working full-time to pay for tuition and housing. In these types of circumstances video games are a great hobby because they're affordable social experiences that don't require travel.

Now that I'm fortunate enough to be liberated from these considerations I choose to do more expensive outgoing things like backpacking, going to festivals, trying new restaurants, biking, etc. I make occasional exceptions but these days I try and stay away from video games; it'll be easier to catch up on all the games that I missed when I'm retired in 30 years and don't feel like walking 20 miles in a weekend.
You must have missed this: "In the end Laplace transforms, easier to use with a more rigorous structure and incorporating the powerful tool of convolution, overtook the operational calculus of Heaviside, and his methods largely fell victim to history."
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31576301.
Can anybody speak to the pros and cons of Hetzner vs OVH?

There ain't many large European cloud companies, and I would like to understand how they differentiate.

Ionos is another European one. Currently, it looks like their cloud business is stagnating, though.
Free Will, Determinism and Choice [video]
Even with the promo code ? It's cheaper than competitors.
How much would you pay for this ?
I should clarify, top 5 in paid.
That law won't mean much when people are importing products from other jurisdictions that don't have that law... Which is essentially what happened here. (The broken "law" being the exclusivity agreement).

And if we assume that complying with the law somehow increases costs in the US market, people will still go buy the cheaper thing anyway. Which means you need to enforce the regulations on importing these things just as strictly as we regulate the import of cigarettes...
No and it won't do you much good even if I did.

The tools have broken again since then - thanks tensorflow data loaders - and my code only works against a version of python that's no longer supported in LTS Ubuntu/Debian10+.

I have been mulling about running a subscription service where you get up to date code that works on topics like the above. If you're interested drop me a line at my profile email and I'll add you to a mailing list when/if I ever get around to doing it.
> almost english-like

Real world SQL from the analytics, DE, BIE side of things is _extremely far_ from readable. It's a form of actual hell.
Advent of Svelte – a release per day until Christmas
Why not look for a job with a established development team? I cannot imagine how anything could replace the experience you get from working directly with other developers. You will learn more than just technical skills. You'll learn more about how to predict time estimates, how to interact with other groups in the company, how to set up good infrastructure for development, deployment and support. If you learn all these things yourself, you will make lots of mistakes along the way which can harm your current employer.
Again, that's also true for copy/pasting anything from stack overflow.
Exactly. D+1 for every digit.
There are so many ways to practically apply Plato.

The simplicity of his elocution, his use of systematic pauses when communicating — that's a common advice given to contemporary speakers — the relevancy of the cycle of political systems, that ancient Greeks were first taught sports and music to acquire psychological balance, a necessary prerequisite to efficient further studies, etc.

Having knowledge of Plato & other old fellows, almost feels like cheating at life: it equips ones mind with knowledge and skills that has been deemed worthy by enough humans to help it endure for millennia.

The people who don't know about them can't fathom how much they miss.
50 years old technically, 1991 just seems to be when it was released to the public.
Itanium allegedly was free from branch prediction issues but I suspect cache behavior still might have been an issue. Unfortunately it's also dead as a doornail.
It is what then?
Awesome, in that thread I found this library[0] to make it easy to write AoC solutions with Elixir's Livebook.

[0] https://hexdocs.pm/kino_aoc/KinoAOC.html
There is also this one, but it is no longer maintained. https://github.com/MarekKnapek/DependencyViewer
Strongly agree. I have been doing data engineering for 14 years and, in my experience, new grads need a lot of on-the-job training. There are a lot of real-world problems (e.g. consistency problems, scale problems, distribution problems) that benefit from a little bit more than just theoretical knowledge. A lot of data systems are full of problems because they were designed and implemented by inexperienced people. People don't know what they don't know and there are a lot of teams that say things like "oh yeah, this takes 3 days to run because it's pretty big" or "we release code daily but it would be too expensive to re-process past data to fix bugs" or even "what's a schema?".

YMMV, though. Some data engineers are writing basic SQL or playing with Azure Data Factory and there isn't too much complexity. Read Designing Data Intensive Applications. If that sort of thing resonates with you then find someone to work with who has experience with those kinds of problems!

[Edit: no disrespect to ADF! Just pointing out that the data engineering discipline is broad and different practitioners will have different expectations of complexity]
It doesn’t give you a debug repl, but my favourite tool for this sort of thing is py-spy; small and easy enough to install into a stuck pod’s ephemeral storage and and it can dump the stacktrace or give you a top-equivalent view on what your python process is doing.

I was afraid it died as it didn’t get updated for python 3.12, but that’s thankfully apparently been solved now!
+1 for reading projects. There's rarely one, perfect way to solve a problem, and there's certainly no silver bullet pattern in software. The more patterns and types of solutions you've seen, the bigger the set of tools you'll have in your mental toolbox when faced with a new problem.
There’s no better teacher than running code in production.

I am self taught and had no mentors for the first decade of my career. During that time I did things nobody else could do, things I was told were impossible.

Eventually I read some books and they added useful tools.

Read all the books from SICP to Superintelligence (ie concrete to speculative fiction).

But nothing is as educational as putting what you read into production, or putting it into production and fucking it up. I’d rather work with someone who has deleted a production database (ideally a preproduction database to be fair) than someone who hasn’t.
Sun news: Setback SDO data unavailable until 2025
Try to forget the mindset that you need an authority in order to learn. Better to pretend authorities do not exist.
I was working for a major bank in 2015 which made the news when it decided to rid itself of its crypto customers.

It did this because the half a dozen fledgling Bitcoin exchanges on its books were responsible for multiple percentage points of its entire card fraud volume. They cost the bank far, far more than they were ever going to be worth, even before AML/CTF considerations came into the picture.
Let me get this straight: you can be better than 90% of people if you just read a book, but wait, not just any book, it has to be the right book -- and also it doesn't have to be a book, it can also just be "lived experience" or technical documentation, that counts too.

At this point, the thesis is more qualification than statement. Mostly what I drew from the article is that the author feels smugly superior to many of his peers, and wants an excuse ("they didn't even read a book") to morally blame them for their (perceived) shortcomings, while serving up a generous helping of false modesty on the side.
> In essence, it's like a neural net learning to follow a recipe by watching a chef cook—rather than inventing its own recipes entirely from first principles.

Just like how a chef learns