skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sad that they don't support any of their more popular cards, like say the Radeon 7800xt, which is their current generation card. The 7800xt has 16GB vram and looks pretty good at $400 these days ($500 at launch).
You might run a cluster per region, but the whole point of Kubernetes is that it's highly available. What specific piece are you worried about will go down in one cluster that you need two production clusters all the time? Upgrades are a special case where I could see spinning up a backup cluster for.
To send a signal to corporations and states to not rely on colonial regimes to endure for long.
you totally got it btw -- because questions should be conversation starters, not just "question -> answer" ad infinitum.

when i ask about a bug, i just want to know how you go debugging, understanding logs, dealing with other frustrated developers... you know, how you deal with things in a day-to-day basis.
For news-like content I follow accounts on X: @kimmonismus @apples_jimmy and the accounts of Antropic, Mistal, Gemini / DeepMind and OpenAI.
I think everyone who is really interested in the hot AI developments must also follow what comes from China. I follow https://chinai.substack.com/ but I am open to hear about other Chinese resources.
https://playground.tensorflow.org/
this is a classic which, imo, breaks it down to the simplest visuals.
Chickens absorb wifi.

(edit - favorite root cause of a reliability issue, not strongest held tech opinion)
> > That type of pedantry is why people make fun of the free software movement.

> "source code free to see and to modify (and redistribute, if applicable)"

You have to see the humor in putting both of these in the same comment, right? That's a prime example of what they're talking about!
Useful things I've 3D printed
Mary Somerville, Queen of 19th Century Science (2016)
I think Clive Sinclair was notorious for wanting products to be brought to market quickly, with pretty aggressive feature sets. They very well may have noticed it at the factory, but didn't want to do a fix because it was technically functional.
And a big enough plane does not stop random people from walking up and turning them on. I don't think this analogy fits here.
Would love to watch a videos on historical math breakthroughs. In the style of Indiana Jones, I mean just told as a big adventure. I used to watch connections and loved it.
this looks cool!

but I also want to add a step by step ai walkthrough of the form.
This is right. So many incentives are stacked in favor of making false attributions, specifically to enemy state actors:

- real attacker doesn't want to get caught

- victim doesn't want to admit being pwned by a script kiddy or petty criminal

- military-industrial complex needs foreign threat inflation to stay in business

- media loves the intrigue

The pushback would come from the foreign state being falsely slandered, but they never get a say anyways.
Who watches the watchers? How we page ourselves if incident.io goes down
Wonderful, now i need this for my Iphone!
The qualifying term is 'trusted'. If you are running an application like emacs you damn sure better trust it. It's like running Windows and saying you don't trust it.

AS for macros in lisp, they are not as ubiquitous as it might seem to an outsider. I write lisp professionally. I write one macro a month, if that, and often I rewrite it as a function afterwards. Saying that macros are ubiquitous in lisp is a meme. To most lispers macros are last resort
> You want people to give up trying to make something better because you don't think they've succeeded yet?

I think they have suceeded at their goals, but the model is wrong, and they have not accomplished the promise of distribution. I think that is impossible to remedy unless a better model is used, so yes i would like them to stop with the current buzz word approach to distribution and think more deeply about what they really want from distribution.

> BitTorrent, Git, XMPP, Matrix, Mastodon, BlueSky

I think you could draw a big dividing line between bittorrent, git and the other 4 (xmpp is maybe a bit in the middle)

Bit torrent, git (i would also add things like HTTP,irc, email, tor) are distributed to accomplish some end. So they work well and their distributiveness makes sense. It is not just a gimick.

Stuff like matrix,mastodon and bluesky are distributed because it is a cool buzz word or at best as an end in itself. Their distribution model doesn't really make sense, and it more takes something away from the product than adds to it.

Things that actually have distributed properties for good reason are cool. Things that are doing it as a PR play are silly. I want more of the former and less of the latter.
We should openly discuss the epistemological standing of our claims.

"The first day ever was last Thursday, according to this calendar."
Why should they be "cleaned up" when there are TLDs like .blog, .hotel, .sucks, and other great ones (.great doesn't exist) that are allowed to be there?
> Similarly if one doesn’t like the president or an official in the US, one is free to go around denigrating them as much as they please - not a wise choice in China.

So, a lot like under communism in Poland or Russia. Back then you could denigrate president of US as much as you wanted.
Looks like Hinge
I think these questions are both more of a filter for good storytellers than anything technical.

Edit: Also, for people with good memories/fast recall.
> would require small revolution that might happen at some point.

or python could have blessed gevent and done away with all the nonsense.
ICANN and IANA could effectively delist .su despite Russian Federation's "decline".

How much silly and outdated the WHOIS protocol is, the client queries IANA and only then is forwarded to RIPN (Russian Institute for Public Networks).
Exactly. Reminds me of all the "technically superior" crypto coins that failed, and what ended up winning were the popular memecoins like dogecoin. There's a lot to say about distribution and what "the masses" end up adopting, whether or not it's the "better" product!
I just wanted to say - about the same time you commented on hacker news I commented on openwrt forum about this feature :)

https://forum.openwrt.org/t/community-question-what-do-you-w...
> Does that say anything about me, according to your filters?

Honestly, it says more about the question than anything else.

A sibling comment suggested "most memorable" which I almost immediately had a good, engaging answer for.

We don't tend to associate positive feelings (favorite) with negative things (bugs, which sure are not always negative but usually are) so it's harder for our brains to decide on something being "good enough" to meet that bar.
(Full disclosure, I work at incident.io!)

We recently released our On-call product, and as part of that, had to think a lot about redundancy and 'failing safety'.

Here's how we achieve it - and how we're thinking about it. Interested if any other examples of this exist in the wild - I'd love to know more about how eg: Datadog achieve this.
Re: The photos case: I have the camera app bound to a double click of my power button. I find it to be incredibly useful to have a way to immediately open my camera and Intenty doesn't override that flow.
I've found a ground lug in a Kilowatt Grounded Grid amplifier... that didn't ground the grid.

I found a bad solder joint that looked ok, but was intermittent, and had been that way, in a Television built in 1948 and used for decades.

Bad design and assembly goes back forever, as near as I can tell.
People procrastinating on their ML job.
Agreed! I wish Apple was more thoughtful about generating so much e-waste. The Mac Pro Tower (2006-2012) is a great example of where I thought they might have been on the right track.
But the optic differences between wolf and newfoundlands and cats and sabre tooth are quite significant.
Even if Apple has room for improvement here, I think it’s still worth it to try to curb the market for stolen parts, because that’s going to exist even if Apple sold spare parts in bulk at-cost simply because there exist unscrupulous repair shops that have no qualms with charging you OEM part prices while using gray market parts that cost a fraction as much on eBay, Aliexpress, etc.

For instance, maybe Apple could supply parts in bulk to repair shops but require registration of those parts prior to usage. The repaired iPhone would function regardless but loudly alert the user that unregistered parts were used to repair it. Gray market parts naturally aren’t going to be able to be registered (either due to serial not existing in their system or having been parted out from stolen devices), and thus the user is given some level of assurance that they’re not paid for questionable repair services.
That phrase is rather imprecise.

What can be attributed to the Sumerian cities is the first appearance of several professions which are not directly productive and which have remained important until today.

By profession, I mean an activity that was all that a certain human did in order to obtain all the resources required for living. Before Sumer, those activities were done by certain people, but only occasionally, besides their main craft, e.g. a shaman was likely to also act as a medical doctor when needed and a chief of tribe was likely to also judge conflicts.

Among the professions that have first appeared in Sumer during the third millennium BC, are: judge, medical doctor, accountant, musician, prostitute.

The equivalent of priests and kings, though only at smaller scales, e.g. for a tribe or a confederation of tribes, have certainly existed much earlier than Sumer and Egypt. "Chief" is likely to be the oldest profession, as that exists at many social animals, including apes.
I did this for a few years.

I just worked as an independent contractor / self-employed - didn't seem worth it for me to set up a company as I didn't have expenses to declare for tax purposes. As an independent contractor you just file Canadian taxes, its pretty easy.

I think vacation policy is all over the map - most probably won't recognize Canadian holidays but if its a smaller startup they may be more flexible. Also worth keeping in mind US companies offer fewer vacation days in general on avg. than Canadian companies.

Overall I would recommend it! Pay is better, complexities are not so bad.
On a side note, the cookie banner looks unusually relaxed.
Ooh, nice! It's great to hear.
My Fold 5 has that feeling along the hinge when charging too, no matter the charger I use. I guess it's considered safe, but it's weird.
Direct testing of natural twister ribozymes from over a thousand organisms
No, they likely are voting against their own interests. They're just charmed with populist messages. Nostalgia plays a part as well and some know how to manipulate it well: eg. Make America Great Again and such...
I agree with this statement, most YouTube channels are incentivized to keep repeating the same trivial information like how to compose prompts etc
To the extent that you can do some of this in your parenting, it's between net positive and neutral, but unlikely to be too harmful. "Have high expectations but be supportive" can't be a bad thing and certainly feels better than the other three quadrants, as long as your high expectations are something your child can actually achieve at their current level (psychologists also call this the "zone of proximal development").

That said, there are some giant red flags for this not being real science. Carol Dweck's Growth Mindset (linked at the bottom) famously doesn't replicate and is considered, in some cognitive psychology circles, like their version of homeopathy. A TED talk, a popular science book but no peer-reviewed paper behind it is a common sign of a particular kind of work.

For someone interested in digging deeper on a similar topic, I recently read the Psmiths' review of "Math from Three to Seven" https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-math-from-three-to-seven... about Alexander Zvonkin's attempt to teach children more advanced math. He got a group of children together, devised puzzles and experiments and games, and tutors and mentors a group of children for four years and it goes really well and he describes his methods and approaches in detail.

It's all both demanding and supportive, and works wonderfully. Has he found THE METHOD? The one in the appendix on "How to teach this stuff" in Erdos' vision of God's book ?

The punchline is that he tries it again with a different group of kids, and it completely fails.

The reviewers sum it up with a reflection on their own experience:

> This is just an extreme version of the universal experience of being the parent of more than one child.

Have a healthy distrust for any book that comes even close to suggesting a way that works for all children, everywhere.
Unfortunately, that seems unlikely given OpenWRT (and DD-WRT before them) seem to prefer tinkering than making user-friendly products. It's one thing if it's a simple functional UI on the cheapest hardware possible, but when people are flashing hardware that cost $100, 200, 300 or more, you could have just bought into a more functional ecosystem/OS.

Things like Unifi, Eero, and Mikrotik kind of obviate the need for custom firmware with bad UI. It's not 2006 anymore with Linksys WRT54GLs. Guest networks, meshing, tunnels, routing protocols, basic traffic shaping and policing -- these are all point and click or even automatic in these ecosystems to varying degrees, all for less effort than I think you'd spend on a WRT setup.

Maybe their future is in low cost embedded boards and not home prosumer gear?
Not saying it’s the top ten ingredients of supermarket bread but it certainly has more added sugar than homemade bread
You are making fun of me here, but i would reiterate my claim here.

Non useful performance/scalability should be given up on. We usually call such things "micro-optimizations". There is a famous quote about them being the root of all evil.

Useful scalability (things that actually make computer go noticably faster) should be persued.

I don't think this is a controversial opinion.
I did some FOSS hacking as a teenager a quarter-century ago, so learned Emacs, but then ultimately chose a career unrelated to software development. I still use Emacs for anything and everything text-related: email (Gnus), RSS feeds (elfeed), org-mode where I write up both personal TODOs and serious academic research. The keyboard-driven interface is powerful and now muscle-memory. The in-built Lisp environment makes everything nicely extensible, but Emacs as an IDE, as something people have used to create general software projects, is something I rarely think about.
> there's something i always tell every single candidate i've ever interviewed: there are no wrong answers

That's just objectively bullshit.

If you don't know something, you probably are going to be marked down compared to a candidate that does know it.

Even in a subjective question, your answer depends entirely on your interviewer's subjectivity. One interviewer might find an answer good while another finds it lacking.

Interviews are one of few places where there are very clearly wrong answers.
It does! Thank you a lot. But I still don't know the name for the hard part (how to quantify the "almost" of the reconstruction filter)

Making signal band-limited by repeating it does a nice hat trick: it makes any part of the signal depend on all preceding and all following samples. That effect is not insignificant -- sinc(x) decays as 1/x . This requires that low-pass filter either to generate long pre-ringing tails, or to emit way above the cut-off.

I'm sure analog filters have pre-ringing too (by delaying the peak), I just don't know how it is called.

But, in short, sampling signal and then reconstructing it causes it to "travel back in time". Trying to limit pre-ringing messes up phase. Nothing in there looks like the ideal iFFT case, and it is hard to find accurate information about all of this.
>while those living in the heart of downtown usually only have cable internet at best

If you're in the U.S. probably exclusive provider revenue share agreements with apartment buildings. The ISP gets exclusive access to the building and the building owner gets a % of ISP revenue.

Anecdotally, that rev share can be tens of thousands a year.
Also get some hyena or crows?
But that's ok your work phone right? At least I hope you didn't agree to have it installed on your private phone. For work phone I guess a good strategy is to avoid installing anything non-work related, so the temptation to use it for anything is low.
I really hope .io gets deleted.
Minimally, the two examples I cited: Shardstore and Shuttle. The former is a (lightweight) formally verified key value store used by S3, and the latter is a model checker for concurrent rust code.

Amazon has an entire automated reasoning group (researchers who mostly work on formal methods) working specifically on S3.

As far as I’m aware, nobody at cloudflare is doing similar work for R2. If they are, they’re certainly not publishing!

Money might not be the bottleneck for cloudflare though, you’re totally right
My favorites were from back when I would get them from product teams that had already had a good crack at them, with fixes like painting the device black, learning a new algorithm, modifying the os core, and so on. Didn’t always succeed but it was great fun. I once found a bug in golang, memorable but less fun as it got fixed right away after I reported it.
She references Dweck's (Growth) Mindset as further reading. That is also at best questionable.
Sure, though I'd ask more open ended questions about a problem to see where they go with it.

Maybe they land on using something like a debugger or wireshark or strace or whatever makes sense to dig into whatever horrible voodoo is plaguing them. The important thing is that they are creative and experienced at questioning or confirming their priors and eliminating thousands of paper cuts and yak barber shops for themselves, their team, and their organization, so that collectively everyone is enabled to operate at a high-level instead of everyone constantly bushwhacking their way toward eventual failure.
Can anyone explain why they bothered with the fractal at all, instead of using a 3 dimensional grid? Doesn't a grid of the appropriate resolution provide the exact same? Or is it to show that they can do everything within even a subset of a 3D grid limited in this way?
> AI regulation is in force, but no single AI company in Europe

DeepMind (UK)? Mistral AI (France)? ElevenLabs (UK)? Stability AI (UK)?
The innovator's dilemma is really interesting.

Whenever a new incumbent gets on the scene offering the same thing as some entrenched leader only better, faster, and cheaper, the standard response is "Yeah but it's less reliable. This may be fine for startups but if you're <enterprise|government|military|medical|etc>, you gotta stick with the tried tested and true <leader>"

You see this in almost every discussion of Cloudflare, which seems to be rapidly rebuilding a full cloud, in direct competition with AWS specifically. (I guess it wants to be evaluated as a fellow leader, not an also-ran like GCP/Azure fighting for 2nd place)

The thing is, all the points are right. Cloudflare IS different - by using exclusively edge networks and tying everything to CDNs, it's both a strength and a weakness. There's dozens of reasons to be critical of them and dozens more to explain why you'd trust AWS more.

But I can't help but wonder that surely the same happened (i wasn't on here, or really tech-aware enough) when S3 and EC2 came on the scene. I'm sure everyone said it was unreliable, uncertain, and had dozens of reasons why people should stick with (I can only presume - VMWare, IBM, Oracle, etc?)

This is all a shallow observation though.

Here's my real question, though. How does one go deeper and evaluate what is real disruption and what is fluff. Does Cloudflare have something that's unique and different that demonstrates a new world for cloud services I can't even imagine right now, as AWS did before it. Or does AWS have a durable advantage and benefits that will allow it to keep being #1 indefinitely? (GCP and Azure, as I see it, are trying to compete on specific slices of merit. GCP is all-in on 'portability', that's why they came up with Kubernetes to devalue the idea of any one public cloud, and make workloads cross-platform across all clouds and on-prem. Azure seems to be competitive because of Microsoft's otherwise vertical integration with business/windows/office, and now AI services).

Cloudflare is the only one that seems to show up over and over again and say "hey you know that thing that you think is the best cloud service? We made it cheaper, faster, and with nicer developer experience." That feels really hard to ignore. But also seems really easy to market only-semi-honestly by hand-waving past the hard stuff at scale.
> We build our computer systems the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.

-- Ellen Ullman
The size of primitives in bytes is something that will rarely matter and when it does, you can look it up.
The first 8-port 10G TP-Link switch I got died within a few weeks. I think its power supply fried. It's replacement has been rock solid since for the last year and change now, fortunately!
Are Overemployed 'Ghost Engineers' Making Six Figures to Do Nothing?
https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/the-chagos-archipelag...
Using web wrappers around AI is being an AI end user

If you want to be an AI engineer study this:

https://github.com/karpathy/llm.c

And build around llama.cpp

Ollama is like cpanel for models. It’s not going to familiarize you with lower level implementation which is just as important as knowing the math.

That was my approach. Being aware of the internals not just the equivalent of “git pull model” got me a job, without a CS degree and a long career in software. Ymmv
On the other hand, failure to budget flight time properly has larger consequences than fuel budgeting: missed connections, stranded passengers, passengers needing to purchase replacement tickets on different airlines at spot rates, etc. Accounting for the natural variance in flight times minimizes the costs of these inconveniences, presumably lowering costs to airlines and increasing satisfaction of most travellers.

For myself, almost all of my connections are not within driving distance, and my schedule is usually unforgiving to overnight delays. I usually budget 2.5 h minimum for transfers, 3.5 minimum if entering the US because passport control has its own very large variance. Haven't had the inconvenience of a missed connection in the last 10 trips.
I agree with you in theory, and maybe even in practice in some cases, but I do not feel like we have less downtime with k8s than using anything else.
> it makes it harder for a smart person to schedule optimally, since now the data they have includes an unknown fudge factor.

The fudge factor always existed, it is now the airline's job rather than mine.

They have an incentive to pick a good-enough one, while adjusting it daily/weekly while I tend to fly once every couple of months and that too to a completely new airport most of the time.

If you do the fudging right and leave enough padding, it makes everyone happy - if you pad too much, you lose business as several normally possible connections become impossible by the published schedule.

Indigo did this in India a few years ago and the flights were 30-45 minutes longer on paper (like a 90 minute flight marked as 120), but because of their on-time reputation they got a lot of business customers who take multiple flights a day over other airlines.
I could imagine a team that needed it, but most professional programming work does not require this level of memorization, I'd have to see the job description to know which side to take in this argument.
There's a couple of these out there already - but the lack of a sign-up requirement is a nice touch.

https://www.coloringbook.ai

https://colorbliss.com