skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All S-curves look exponential at some point.

It was unclear if the current wave of AI would be an exponential, or for how long, or if it would end up just being another S-curve. The potential upside hooked a lot of people into action on the VC-maths of "it doesn't matter if it's unlikely, because the upside is just too good".

It is now becoming clear however that we aren't getting AGI. What we have now is fundamentally what we're likely to have in 5-10 years time. I do think we'll find better uses, figure our shit out, and have much more effective products in that time, I think we're entering the "LLM-era" in much the same way as the 2010s were the smartphone era that redefined a lot of things, but in still the same way, a phone of ~2010 isn't materially different to a phone of ~2020, they're still just internet connected, location aware, interfaces to content and services.
The more important question is, would Satya Nadella?
I disagree with that last part. By default, having a few seconds downtime is not complex. The easiest thing you could do to a server is restart it. Its literally just a restart!
> You're going to disenfranchise him?

No, I'm just going to wish that he was more educated and informed, and that the school system 40 years ago taught him critical thinking. American school needs to get better at teaching middling students too, too many USAians I talk to are incapable of reasoning about and discussing policy. With all that being said, the way he is the "weak link" is that by voting, he is most capable of negatively affecting the most people.
so when I first tried the demo I wondered, “are these pieces generated meshes?” thinking about the ability to zoom / pan the board in 3D. The high fidelity of the pieces would seemingly be more in the domain of 2D image generation given current gen AI standards, which would be my educated guess as to why there’s only a handful of views.
They probably budgeted a dollar for storage and a dollar for ram, or close to it.

Sometimes it's nice to be able to run a normal OS.
Is there a comparison or guide to choosing python frameworks? Every few weeks there's a new one posted here
From the perspective of people with capital, it doesn't. From the perspective of a loser it sucks because they may or may not have invested significant emotional, financial, and otherwise non-fungible capital into a future that relied on the success of this venture (and also the people they employed), and I can tell you from personal experience being an underling when this kind of venture collapses really sucks. Maybe not for founders, but for everyone else it definitely does.
Apple stuff seems to have the biggest difference in usefulness between new and used. The new stuff is usually really great, but as soon as they cross some "too old threshold" they quickly become next to useless because of how closed everything is and because Apple (and, shamefully, third party developers) don't keep up software support and backward compatibility. I've got a bunch of 8+ year old iDevices and Macs and they are all of varying degrees of uselessness as Apple and the whole ecosystem has abandoned them.
Didn't they end up taxing competitors who didn't use the government owned network?
I've been vegan since 2002 and would be down to go on a fully synthetic vegan diet. I used to be a heavy consumer of Soylent
Yes they do. It's called BGP.
This has got to be the most out there k8s take I've read in a while. k8s doesn't save you from learning your cloud providers infrastructure, you have to learn k8s in addition to your cloud provider's infrastructure. It's all ALBs, ASGs, Security Groups, EBS Volumbes and IAM policy underneath and k8s, while very clever, isn't so clever as to abstract much of any of it away from you. On EKS you get to enjoy more odd limitations with your nodes than EC2 would give you on its own.

You're already building on a cluster, your cloud provider's hypervisor. They'll literally build virtual compute of any size and shape for you on demand out of heterogeneous hardware and the security guarantees are much stronger than colocated containers on k8s nodes.

There are quite a few steps between single server and k8s.
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Worth checking out:

Ask HN: Best Non-fiction Books You Read in 2024: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42218828

Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21900498

Ask HN: What are the best unknown books you have read? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22092108
I bought the $15 HVLP spray gun and it performed very well for years. When it finally could not be cleaned up and repaired anymore, I just bought a new (now $17) one and have been using that one for years, too. $32 for a decade worth of spraying paint.
This is so sad. HowStuffWorks had a huge impact on me as a teenager.
Let us go back to the beginning. Are you saying home-bake bread which molds in 7 days is comparable to store-bought bread which does not mold in 7 days. OK then, in which we have nothing to argue about. I have no scientific source to cite one is better or worse than the other. By all means, buy and consume bread that does not mold for a long time. That sounds good.
If I tell it exactly what I want to hear, where's the surprise? Is there any novelty there?
> It’s going to be extremely hard to get even decent results without targeting real DOM instead of going pure-canvas, and you can’t get excellent results without doing so.

Sure you can. Google Docs switched to canvas three years ago: https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2021/05/Google-Docs-...

This wasm application renders to canvas and works fine for me: https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/

This one too: https://flutterweb-wasm.web.app/

Flutter and Google Docs gave up on the DOM because they couldn't get it working well enough, consistently enough across browsers. When you draw to canvas you get more consistent results because you control all the drawing.
How is this different to jsoncrack.com?
I don’t understand how it escalated to this?
> sometimes luck wins out and sometimes execution does

Can you provide an example when lucks wins over execution?
I dunno its pretty basic. It has lots of options but users only need to be guided to quick setup or a few other places.
Can't there be a law that says something like "you can't release new hardware while you have unpatched older hardware still in use"? Recall or update your stuff first, release new things second.
It's not the first time that California government officials have held Elon Musk's political beliefs against him and his companies...

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/10/california-reject-m...

It's absolutely disgusting whether you agree with his politics or not. As Americans we're better than this.
I run clusters on OKE, EKS, and GKE. Code overlap is like 99% with the only real differences all around ingress load balancers.

Kubernetes is what has provided us the abstraction layer to do multicloud in our SaaS. Once you are outside the k8s control plane, it is wildly different, but inside is very consistent.
Review:
- It took a while to run on my old Macbook. 30 minutes or so.
- Mac still seems to boot up slow. I don't really notice the performance improvement.
- "System Data" still takes up an insane amount of my disk space.

But hey, maybe my apps will be snappier?

If my 10 year old macbook doesn't see much improvement, I don't think a newer machine will see it either.
Doesn't everything we consume?
Salesforce purchased Mulesoft for $6.5 billion. Mulesoft was so successful they decided to buy a different ETL tool Informatica. But the deal fell through. Mulesoft has about 1500 clients vs 9500 clients for Informatica.
The storage is eMMC, basically the cheapest thing available once you've committed. You'd have to actively try to buy eMMC smaller than 2-4GB. Same for the RAM, that's a single chip. It's not a heavy spec, just somewhere near the bottom of the cost curve for those particular parts.

They probably used similar parts in another product and threw them into the routers for the additional order volume, known bring-up risk, and dev benefits. The pixel series also uses Samsung eMMC, iirc.
It's not just those. The 16 MB storage/128 MB flash recommended minimums are a non-issue for pretty much any remotely popular router in the 802.11ac wifi era, and I doubt OpenWRT will suddenly explode in size and blow past those limits any time soon (just look at its trajectory over the past decade).
Comparing a disclosed sale price to an unknown theoretical sale price is a bit unfair though. Maybe it was 801 million.
"All this is actually covered in the article"

Then answering none of my questions.

None of your "answers" you quote answers anything to me.

> Again, to pick a somewhat easily-reproducible benchmark, we want a decently-sized module that’s relatively standalone within the project

Why not take netty src? Why is a module more easily reproduceable? We chose a decently sized module because we want a decently sized module does not explain anything.

What about IO? Why lines with comments and empty lines? Or do you even? There is no mentioning in the text as far as I can see, "lines/second" implies this, but then you say "source lines per second", does this include empty lines? I think any compiler can compile a >1.000.000.000/second of empty lines in one file that is already paged into memory.
But little did he know the other instigators were investigating him… or so they thought…
Then users turn around and feed the fluff into energy hungry summarizers because who has time for a 5 paragraph email that could’ve been a three point bulleted list?
I don't understand how these posts exist when much of my consulting and career for the last few years has been on companies that have basically set up a bare bones out of the manual EKS/GCP solution and just essentially let it sit for 3+ years untouched until it got to a crisis. That to me as a systems engineer is nuts and a testament to how good this stuff is when you get it even kind of right. Of course, I'm referring to managed systems. Doing Kubernetes from scratch I would not dream of doing.
But could you use the hydrocarbons on the comet as fuel to change the orbit to a desirable one?
this is awesome, do you mind me asking what your prompt is? There is a really sweet photo on your site right now
why not minerals-to-sell-to-eat?
Yep. I'm one of 2 Devops at an R&D company with about 100 employees. They need these services for development, if an important service goes down you can multiply that downtime by 100, turning hours into man-days and days into man-months. K8 is simply the easiest way to reduce the risk of having to plead for your job.

I guess most businesses are smaller than this, but at what size do you start to need reliability for your internal services?
How would that be defined? What about low CVEs? Does that mean a company cant release a keyboard while theres unpatched network switches? What about devices that are hybrid like no releasing DSL modems but what if it has an integrated switch? Does that mean no switches too? Whos going to enforce this? I cant see a way this would't be turned into a "game the system" and wouldn't solve the unpatched product problem at all.
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have you done any benchmarks to compare wasm performance with js? i have been doing some benchmark test cases after a large refactor of my game engine written in typescript that is built entirely on top of shared buffer arrays (using ECS pattern or so it’s called i guess). i’m done benching for a while now and am ok with results but i have also compared my handcrafted quadtree sort/query algorithm with off the shelf rust implementation that matched the test requirements and saw only 30% gain and figured anything lower than that would not be worth the effort assuming rust compiled to wasm is same or slower and never bothered to test compiled wasm because i could not figure out how to share my buffer arrays with the rust code using wasm bindgen fast enough to bother spending more time on more benching lol
My experience has been a bit better than yours. I had the same concerns you've raised here and opted for a more standard layout and got a Mistel MD770, a lesser known brand but it was important to me that the layout is familiar and it has F keys and honestly it's been great, had it for about a year now. I use it on all 3 OSs too. I'm now looking to buy another one for the office as it's too much of an effort to carry it and I've been looking for other keyboards but there aren't (m)any that have standard layout (no columnar stuff), split, pre-built, F keys and ideally hot-swappable switches. The closest is probably dygma raise but it doesn't have F keys which is unfortunate. I think I'll end up buying another MD770.
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> Increased Cognitive Load Leading to Mistakes Elsewhere

I believe this is (among others) a very valid concern. When I dabbled in Rust to achieve what little I did, I was positively impressed by Rust's very helpful and detailed error messages that allowed me to make productive progress in a learning-by-doing fashion. The two singular items that absorbed a disproportionate amount of trial-and-error were the 43 different ways to declare a /&?[Ss]tr(ing)?/ variable for one thing and the other was, of course, the borrow checker. I tried to understand what I was doing but despite reading numerous helpful docs and blogs I resorted to doing it the cargo cult way: just keep moving around the letters and symbols until the compiler stops complaining...
Those kind of articles often read like an ad for managed cloud services. "We got rid of that complicated, complicated Kubernetes beast by cobbling together 20 bespoke managed services from provider X which is somehow so much easier".
I'd rather see them hang out to dry the 15+ telecoms who gave away "the IMSI number to every single person that's ever registered in..." because doing so was cheaper than investing in security.
Around the same time as they stop uBlock from as extensively modifying sites in Chrome, they begin heavily modifying sites in their browser view for the Google app.
I wonder why galaxies tend to be shaped like a disc rather than a ball. Doesn't really make sense to me.
I’m not an expert, but from what I understand, the standard set up is like:

4x(Web processes) -> 1x(pgbouncer) -> database

This ensures that the pgbouncer instance is effectively multiplexing all the connections across your whole fleet.

In each individual web process, you can have another shared connection pool.

This is how we set it up
interesting, on my 2019 ipad pro, after initial loading that took a bit of time, editing was quite quick and fast for me*

i wonder if there is some parts that remain unaccelerated or hitting performance bottlenecks on linux/firefox?

* admittedly a bit low-res/ugly and hard to use on touchscreen
We’ve been deploying software like this for a long ass time before kubernetes.

There’s shitloads of solutions.

It’s like minutes of clicking in a ui of any cloud provider to do any of that. So doing it multiple times is a non issue.

Or automate it with like 30 lines of bash. Or chef. Or puppet. Or salt. Or ansible. Or terraform. Or or or or or.

Kubernetes brings in a lot of nonsense that isn’t worth the tradeoff for most software.

If you feel it makes your life better, then great!

But there’s way simpler solutions that work for most things
And here I thought the point of "social" media is to be, y'know, social and all.
K8s doesn't help you solve your geographical region problem, because the geographical region problem is not running appserver instances in multiple regions. Almost any PaaS will do that for you out of the box, with way less fuss than k8s. The hard part is distributing your data.

Less overhead than writing your own glue code, less overhead than learning Kubernetes, is just use a PaaS like Google App Engine, Amazon Elastic Beanstalk, Digital Ocean App Platform, or Heroku. You have access to the same distributed databases you would with k8s.

Cloud Run is PaaS for people that like Docker. If you don't even want to climb that learning curve, try one of the others.
That is its technical superiority. Forge is a specific modified version of Minecraft which comes with a bunch of extra extension points. Fabric is a framework for modifying Minecraft itself, any way you want to. In Fabric, you aren't limited to the predefined extension points since almost every instruction becomes an extension point.
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On that premise, knowing too much might literally starve you.
Things that are difficult to do in tech, e.g. AI/ML that's in-house (not using an API).
C# nullable reference types with our parameters can kinda resemble forcing you to at least bind variables to the outputs but there’s nothing really like the linear types that we want and deserve
It was such an excellent show. I recently rewatched it. I wish they'd make more, or a follow-up set in another city. Instead of all this formulaic and totally unrealistic NCIS and CSI crap.
Absolutely is but if onboarding requires help from a human then there is work to be done.
The graph depicts linear growth, not exponential. And neither is the growth of AI.
I suppose we’re about to see the party of family values argue in court that the act of childbirth can be a hostile act.
just coming back to this thread, this paper is quite a good read: https://arxiv.org/html/2406.09246v3#S3

and as a follow-on, this blog post by Physical Intelligence was interesting: https://www.physicalintelligence.company/blog/pi0
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Every NoSQL ends up getting a QL.
"Justice has to be declared as an essential principle of human organisation."

Rereading your post days later perhaps I should have added to mine that justice has long been essential for the proper functioning of society.

Likely the quintessential example of just how long justice has been considered important to societies comes from a text written over two millennia ago—Plato's Republic.

Plato considers justice so significant that he begins in Book I to ask 'What is Justice?' and then goes on to explain why it is so important to society. Therein, he constructs one of the most satisfying and logical debates ever written.

Plato pits the sophist Thrasymachus up against the philosopher Socrates in a battle of wits. Thrasymachus opens with a salvo of reasons why justice is everyman for himself and bit by bit Socrates systematically demolishes Thrasymachus' arguments and rebuilds them into the notion that justice is much broader and more important concept—a matter for society as a whole to embrace rather than the sophist's narrow, selfish view which only has self-interest in mind.

This is a wonderful dialogue and I've read it many times since I first learned about it in philosophy decades ago. And I'd posit that it has survived for so long throughout the ages because so many consider what it has to say about justice as being too important for it to be lost.

Not only do I consider Plato's take on justice just as important now as when it was written but also this cleverly constructed dialogue ought to be taken as a template for how political debate should be conducted both on and off the internet instead of the disorganized rabblerousing where only the loudest and outrageous are heard, as is so often the case nowadays.

There are many copies of the Republic in English on the internet, perhaps the best known is Benjamin Jowett's translation/revision of 1888 (it's the version I learned from). Here's a link to that copy on Project Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/55201/55201-h/55201-h.htm

Edit: this MIT version is better formatted for smartphones and other mobile devices but it's sans intro (Gutenberg and the MIT download versions do have the full intro, foreword etc., but that's not necessary except for diehards and students):
http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.2.i.html
It's possible, and we've talked about it, but it would take a good amount of work (as would any 'correct' solution), so we have punted on properly solving DMs for a bit. I know Matthew has been very interested in working with us to figure something out here
Using Ruby for AoC is a pleasure, for me at least. Standard library is rich and the opposite natures of scripting tool and full fledged language are both present and intertwined.
I believe with great confidence that this board has a higher than average population of individuals that were in gifted and talented programs compared to most sites.

I was in the 'ungifted and talentless' program in my youth. I am curious, how did life turn out for you all? Have you used your gift in any meaningful way? If so, how? (I'm asking with sincerity and not judgement).
This seems a lot like jless, which I've used a _lot_ for exploring complex json files. https://jless.io/
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Ivy League will not make you smart, no, it will make you successful with a very high probability. This is what is important to most parent, that’s what they pay for, this probability.
The 9.8 CVE was for their NAS. Exposing any NAS directly to the open Internet is a Bad Idea.

For that matter, nearly every shit-tier NAS vendor (WD, QNAP) has had some critical remote vulnerability in recent years. Some were notable for mass data loss incidents.

That aside, these companies are all very good at making very, very nice hardware at a price point consumers can afford. Some corners have to be cut and it's often software.

The dirty secret is many Internet of Shit device vendors outsource the software development, often to the lowest bidder in some offshore sweatshop. In some cases it's just a repackage of an ODM design from some no-name company in Shenzhen.

None of which are known for secure coding or good software practices.

Criticize all you want but this is a textbook example of getting what you paid for.

It's unreasonable to pay $100 for a D-Link box and expect it's Cisco ASA quality with free indefinite support.

Cisco, Juniper, and Palo Alto would all tell you to pound sand if you expect support after EOL or if you let your maintenance contract (aka protection racket) lapse.
Thank you so so much :) !
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> concerns that all SpaceX launches would be considered military activity, shielding the company from having to acquire its own permits, even if military payloads aren’t being carried.

If that's accurate then the way they're holding it against him is making him follow the existing rules. But maybe that's a smokescreen? I'm unsure how to judge that situation.

But for the topic article, if he's going to be inside the group of people that are cutting federal EV subsidies, I don't think he gets to complain about not getting EV subsidies.
It was a long time ago, and I wasn't directly involved. I did experience the fallout though, which was hours if not days of downtime to repair corruption. I'm sure it's better now, and these problems might not even be possible on a small home system, but I've always avoided ZFS since then. Plus it's just too complicated for my needs. As time has gone by I no longer enjoy complex technology for its own sake (I very much did when I was younger). Now I just want it to work and not demand any more of my time and brainpower than necessary. Features that I don't need are negatives.
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I’d love to see the contract those artists signed! I’m sure they did, or should have, gone in with their eyes wide open, and not sure what they expected from OpenAI (since clearly there wouldn’t have been any mention of payment in the contract), or whether OpenAI started asking them for a lot of work maybe (that’s the only thing I can think of that would give them the right to complain)?
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