skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've stopped writing for a general audience and forced myself to just write to clarify my general thoughts about things and I feel like it's helped immensely.

Of course you're writing with the goal of making a blog and I can keep all my slop to myself. But I find it helpful to have the attitude of "I'll keep writing and rewriting the same thoughts over and over and over again", because chances are the good ideas are the ones you feel like you have an intuitive grasp on but need to work out the kinks to.

Obviously my communication needs refinement and work. But I've noticed just getting to that core problem solving aspect of your thoughts is more important than your prose.

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At least for me, I'm so used to writing 1-shot responses, such as this very comment right now, and then refining it iteratively, and sure, if I improved my writing skills technically, I could write a more refined comment. But that doesn't change the fact that I didn't think *that* hard about my comment critically, I just wrote whatever feeling I came up with right now. And that's fine - tradeoffs in life, etc.

But if you have a truly interesting idea, even if it's just to you - which chances are you DO, you're just not looking at a fine enough granularity - work at it, refine it, idk.

(for me, it was finally accepting that hey, when I think something might be wrong about the world, perhaps I should try to explain that and put it out there into thought, instead of just repressing it and saying "it's probably just me being dumb")

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After a re-read through of stuff I'm often still very unsatisfied and feel like I want to delete the comment; often in the past I would have several iterations of a comment and just delete it over and over again.

I dunno, I think just having all versions is valuable, ideas are still going to always be infinitely more dimensional than text could ever be (not to mention the layer of perception that goes with it). Now I'll save all of those snippets somewhere.

Probably 99% of those little snippets won't ever get read again, but the act of preserving these little random notes and essays somewhere, at least for me, I feel like jogs my memory again when I need to sit down and read something and get re-contextualized.
The test frameworks typically output the passing/failing function names. Adding spaces like this make them more human readable.

expectInternalServerErrorOnBadInput

Vs

expect internal server error on bad input
I generally agree here.

There are a lot of very valid use cases where defaulting to deny for an entire 24 hour cycle after a single request is incredible frustrating for your downstream users (shared IP at my university means I will never get a non-429 response... And God help me if I'm testing new RSS readers...)

It's her server, so do as you please, I guess. But it's a hilariously hostile response compared to just returning less data.
If your feed reader is refreshing every 20 minutes for a blog that is updated daily, nearly 99% of the data sent is identical. It looks like Rachel's blog is updated (roughly) weekly, so that jumps to 99.8%. It's not the least efficient thing in the world of computers, but it is definitely incurring unnecessary costs.
No there aren’t.
Every time I try Gemini, it's really subpar. I found that qwen2.5-coder-32b-instruct can be better.

Also, for me 50% 50% for Sonnet and o1, but although I'm not 100% sure about it, I think o1 is better with longer and more complicated (C++) code and debugging. At least from my brief testing. Also, OpenAI models seem to be more verbose - sometimes it's better - where I'd like additional explanation on chosen fields in a SQL schema, sometimes it's too much.

EDIT: Just asked both o1 and Sonnet 3.5 the same QML coding question, and Sonnet 3.5 succeeded, o1 failed.
Do you need those tools? It seems that for fundamental web hosting, you need your application server, nginx or similar, postgres or similar, and a CLI. (And an interpreter etc if your application is in an interpreted lang)
Counterpoint: if you’re never “messing with servers,” you probably don’t have a great understanding of how their metrics map to those of your application’s, and so if you bottleneck on something, it can be difficult to figure out what to fix. The result is usually that you just pay more money to vertically scale.

To be fair, you did say “my tune might change past a certain size.” At small scale, nothing you do within reason really matters. World’s worst schema, but your DB is only seeing 100 QPS? Yeah, it doesn’t care.
Wait, no AI is used ? Amazon claims big about their code conversion from Java 8 to 17 using Q developer (GitHub Copilot equivalent). Why not use Llama3 models here? Can't they help doing such?
> The most striking things to me when I started reading the Essays, is how much it reads like... A blog.

This is somewhat deceptive. The Essais were very personal, but not spontaneous at all. He spent a lot of time polishing them and rewriting them right until he died. Just like Rabelais, the apparent casual tone of the language is actually quite a lot of work.

In comparison, blog posts are quick to post and then just left as they are. They are closer to letters in that respect.
WaveOrder: Generalist framework for label-agnostic computational microscopy
Semantics. 429 is an error code. Rate limiting...blocking...too many requests...ignoring...call it whatever you like but it amounts to the same, namingly server isn't serving the requested content.
That’s just one study, and I’d argue we should write books in camel case to make them more compact if there’s truly no difference.
It doesn't change anything to the people receiving the donations if it's done by true altruism or for publicity, either way the organisations/people get help.

I'd much rather live in a world where all billionaires are acting like MacKenzie Scott and disbursing their unfathomable riches billions at a time (even if there's no true altruism behind it) rather than the current accumulation of obscene amounts of money they do. Of course, in my ideal world would probably not allow the accumulation of billions to exist in the first place.
I don't understand. Why would an AI judge inherently be more perceptible to being gamed than a human judge?
Sounds more like a porn website...
It’s not as big of a scam as deploying malware, but it’s still definitely a scam.
Google pay is made with flutter.

https://flutter.dev/showcase/google-pay

And many others https://flutter.dev/showcase
Yeah, I think saying "near lying" or "close to lying" would be less confusing. Also that is actually the order in the German word also! Because it consists of 2 words written as 1.
I wonder why exactly Copland went off the rails, do we have anyone from the Copland team here on HN who can share their view?
> But it's a hilariously hostile response compared to just returning less data.

So provide a poor service to everyone, because some people doesn't know how to behave. That sees like an even worse response.
I agree with this position and actively avoid AWS complexity.
> What kills me is that this is actively hurting their own platforms

I don't think they care. Any useful application will be re-created by Apple and bundled with their OS eventually anyway. Outside devs aren't really necessary for anything but games.
If I may hijack your reply for a recommendation thread, I'd recommend "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker, too. It's worth it just for the section on metaconcepts. I loved how much simpler my writing became when I removed them.

Also, read anything by Robert Graves. He did write a style guide called "The Reader Over Your Shoulder", but that's optional; I learned far more about good writing from "I, Claudius" and "Good-Bye to All That".
if you see that you are doing it wrong :)
Part of long Covid is Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) which has been found to be comorbid with a number of mental health issues https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10672129/
> movies or TV because they are just some sort of tragedy porn

100% agree. Most TV series nowadays are basically violence porn, now that real porn is not allowed for all kinds of reasons.
jdupes is quite powerful and allows you to create different types of links and even more.
i used it for creating hardlinks, since this was the most efficient for my use case.
from what i read, there is currently also a rewrite of jdupes in progress, which will introduce significant performance improvements... you can see a post about it here:

https://www.jdupes.com/
Working toward jdupes 2.0
Curbside Classic: 1955 Chevrolet Was GM's All-Time Greatest Hit
"Vendor problems" is a red herring, IMO; you can have those in the cloud, too.

It's been my experience that those who can build good, reliable, high-quality systems, can do so either in the cloud or on-prem, generally with equal ability. It's just another platform to such people, and they will use it appropriately and as needed.

Those who can only make it work in the cloud are either building very simple systems (which is one place where the cloud can be appropriate), or are building a house of cards that will eventually collapse (or just cost them obscene amounts of money to keep on life support).

Engineering is engineering. Not everyone in the business does it, unfortunately.

Like everything, the cloud has its place -- but don't underestimate the number of decisions that get taken out of the hands of technical people by the business people who went golfing with their buddy yesterday. He just switched to Azure, and it made his accountants really happy!

The whole CapEx vs. OpEx issue drives me batty; it's the number one cause of cloud migrations in my career. For someone who feels like spent money should count as spent money regardless of the bucket it comes out of, this twists my brain in knots.

I'm clearly not a finance guy...
Valhalla is what you want, at least for some of it.

https://openjdk.org/jeps/402

interface Box<T> {
T get();
void set(T val);
}

interface IntBox extends Box<int> {
int get();
void set(int val);
}

https://openjdk.org/projects/valhalla/
> Why would pay in different countries be equivalent?

Why 8 times less?
Why? Oh God why?
The German "Energiewende" is probably the most significant contributor. Shutting off and destroying CO₂-free energy production that was already paid for and replacing it with intermittent renewables and coal is utter madness.
Yes, this is a very poorly designed RSS feed.

500KB is horrible for RSS.
And the RISC paper[0] was published in 1980.

Both are milestones that paved the way to RISC-V's base spec ratification in 2019.

Incidentally, the Earth is estimated to be 4.54 billion years old.

0. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/641914.641917
I feel like I have the worst of both worlds.

I can’t work effectively without a todo list, but I have extreme trouble keeping with the habit.
at least in the US, those jobs - doctors, cops, firefighters, first responders - are well compensated (not sure about prison guards), certainly compared to content moderators who are at the bottom of the totem pole in an org like FB
Yeah, the depth of this post is (first time making a hardware product) not (experienced insider sharing domain knowledge).
Another homelabber joins the ranks!!
Experiment with LLMs and Random Walk on a Grid
I don’t you your personal scale of religion ostensibility, but in mine USA is veryyyyy religious from the culture to the government and isn’t shy on AI.

The more you learn about someone the more the contradictions became parts of a complex logical scheme.
I believe the argument would be that humans are inconsistent, fallible, and gameable in idiosyncratic and individual ways not that they are less susceptible than AI.
That seems like a Freudian theory of repressed trauma or the more
general idea of "coping mechanisms" that go wrong. The "healthy" mind
isn't afraid/ashamed to hear and process discomforting thoughts. For
the more fragile mind, pushing them back makes them more and more
intrusive. Ronnie Laing, Thomas Szasz, Erich Fromm, and many others
have said, variously; "Mental illness is a sane reaction to an insane
world", "In a mad world, only the mad are sane", or "Coping is making
yourself part of the problem".

That's not the same as being dismissive about the state of world, or
legitimising/glorifying real and distressing medical insanity - it's
just saying; be careful how you "cope". That said, just look around
you. Aren't intrusive voices just reason tired of us telling it to
shut up.
I suppose that depends on your RTO. With cloud providers, even on a bare VM, you can to some extent get away with having no IaC, since your data (and therefore config) is almost certainly on networked storage which is redundant by design. If an EC2 fails, or even if one of the drives in your EBS drive fails, it'll probably come back up as it was.

If it's your own hardware, if you don't have IaC of some kind – even something as crude as a shell script – then a failure may well mean you need to manually set everything up again.
There was a time when cloud was significantly cheaper then owning.

I'd expect that there are people who moved to the cloud then, and over time started using services offered by their cloud provider (e.g., load balancers, secret management, databases, storage, backup) instead of running those services themselves on virtual machines, and now even if it would be cheaper to run everything on owned servers they find it would be too much effort to add all those services back to their own servers.
It is a compound word. Nahe (close by) liegend (lying).
thanks for the link, but i think i found my favored solution right now, which is extracting the archive into raw files (and header, hashtable, blocktable) and then reassembling the files on demand into a byte-for-byte equal archive on demand (or via virtual file system).
this will block align everything, give people access to raw assets and is flexible and performant on the filesystem because of hardlinking.
appreciate your help though :)
Send only one year's recent posts and you've reduced bandwidth by 50%.
http://xtf.bvh.univ-tours.fr/xtf/view?docId=tei/B330636101_S...
But can you do that on demand in minutes for 1000 application teams that have unique snowflake needs. Because terraform or bicep can.
I opened the xml file she provides in the blog and it seems very long but okay. Then I decided it is a good blog to subscribe so I went and tried to add to my freshrss selfhosted instance (same ip obviously) and I couldn't because I got blocked/rate limited. So yes it is aggressive for different reasons.
Scenario 3 is an example of a privileged conversation. Simply repeating the conversation to others is itself a violation of the applicable rule. Recording the conversation and playing it back to others is simply the other side of the same coin.

Two-party consent laws are constitutional ONLY if the underlying conversation is privileged and cannot be repeated to others, even in the absence of a recording.
Lol your workflow is fucked, mate. You need to unfuck it. Docusign is a fine tool. You just don't know how to use it.
"waveOrder: generalist framework for label-agnostic computational microscopy" (2024) https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09775 :

> Abstract: Correlative computational microscopy is accelerating the mapping of dynamic biological systems by integrating morphological and molecular measurements across spatial scales, from organelles to entire organisms. Visualization, measurement, and prediction of interactions among the components of biological systems can be accelerated by generalist computational imaging frameworks that relax the trade-offs imposed by multiplex dynamic imaging. This work reports a generalist framework for wave optical imaging of the architectural order (waveOrder) among biomolecules for encoding and decoding multiple specimen properties from a minimal set of acquired channels, with or without fluorescent labels. waveOrder expresses material properties in terms of elegant physically motivated basis vectors directly interpretable as phase, absorption, birefringence, diattenuation, and fluorophore density; and it expresses image data in terms of directly measurable Stokes parameters. We report a corresponding multi-channel reconstruction algorithm to recover specimen properties in multiple contrast modes. With this framework, we implement multiple 3D computational microscopy methods, including quantitative phase imaging, quantitative label-free imaging with phase and polarization, and fluorescence deconvolution imaging, across scales ranging from organelles to whole zebrafish. These advances are available via an extensible open-source computational imaging library, waveOrder, and a napari plugin, recOrder.

mehta-lab/waveorder:
https://github.com/mehta-lab/waveorder :

> Wave optical models and inverse algorithms for label-agnostic imaging of density & orientation

> wave-optical simulation and reconstruction of optical properties that report microscopic architectural order.

mehta-lab/recOrder:
https://github.com/mehta-lab/recOrder .. https://www.napari-hub.org/plugins/recOrder-napari :

> 3D quantitative label-free imaging with phase and polarization

> recOrder is a collection of computational imaging methods. It currently provides QLIPP (quantitative label-free imaging with phase and polarization), phase from defocus, and fluorescence deconvolution.
I thought we were talking about state of the art agentic general AI that can plan ahead, reason, and execute. Basically something that can perform at human level intelligence must be able to be as dangerous as humans. And no, I don't think it would be bad training data that we are aware of. My opinion is we don't necessarily know what training data will result in bad behavior, and philosophically it is possible we will be in a world with a model that pretends it's dumber than it is, flunks tests intentionally, in order to manipulate and produce false confidence in a model until it has enough freedom to use it's agency to secure itself from human control.

I know that I don't know a lot, but all of this sounds to me to be at least hypothetically possible if we really believe AGI is possible.
You’re forgetting the cornerstone of their idiotic energy policy which recently came crashing down after their benefactor started a large scale invasion
As others have said, I would not expectany any style guideline to tolerate those names outside of tests. But it's not entirely test-only: When you are dealing with code generation for schema defined in/for other languages, being able to just drop names in backticks and be done with it would be far less hassle than making up your own transformation and deciding between verbosity and safety from collisions.
The cloud wasn’t about cheap, it was about fast. If you’re VC funded, time is everything, and developer velocity above all else to hyperscale and exit. That time has passed (ZIRP), and the public cloud margin just doesn’t make sense when you can own and operate (their margin is your opportunity) on prem with similar cloud primitives around storage and compute.

Elasticity is a component, but has always been from a batch job bin packing scheduling perspective, not much new there. Before k8s and Nomad, there was Globus.org.

(Infra/DevOps in a previous life at a unicorn, large worker cluster for a physics experiment prior, etc; what is old is a new again, you’re just riding hype cycle waves from junior to retirement [mainframe->COTS on prem->cloud->on prem cloud, and so on])
Not really strictly an economic problem. If it weren’t for widespread dissatisfaction with open borders and pseudo-asylum, millions of AfD voters would be voting for center right or center left parties of the mainstream coalition. The coalition has immolated itself on a pyre of fake compassion for migrants—actually a quest for cheap labor.
I think GPs point still stands for signing certificates. The need to pay something increases the barrier to entry. You can't just create a million developer accounts to get a million signing certificates after Apple bans one of them.

I think this is fine. If you're a business, the developer fee is not a significant expense, and it makes the whole ecosystem work smoothly. If you're a hobbyist, student, open source developer, or otherwise in a position where you won't make that money back quickly, macOS provides a workaround for opening unsigned apps. This is so different from the terrible situation on iOS.
Somewhat clarifying question: do they care about it? or not so much? i.e. if you are the only one, and you don't have the needed freedom/ time/ resources/ help-from-everyone-else..

Anyway, legacy code should be tread very lightly, esp. one with missing why's. Your job becomes finding those why's .. and most of those may have nothing software-ish in them.

One simple single-aspect change at a time. Try it.. checking it does not go regression (might be impossible - well, then Hoping it won't). Undo or go-forward. Repeat.

Write down/Document everything you find. Or assume. Or think of. (do it for your future self)

and yes, have Fun.. the always missed part of the trio functionality-quality-time
QQBrowser users from Dallas are more likely to be Chinese using a VPN than bots, I would guess.
The point is that most Western audiences would likely find it unpleasant to be there for the slaughtering and butchering from scratch.
I don’t think you’re correct. I’ve watched junior/mid-level engineers figure things out solely by working on the cloud and scaling things to a dramatic degree. It’s really not a rocket science.
I’m achieving very custom looks in SwiftUI. What exactly do you find punishing?
It could 429 it for conditional requests as well:

> Unconditional requests: at most once per 24 hour period.

> Conditional requests: at most once per 60 minute period.

(Source: calling `curl hxxps://rachelbythebay[.]com/w/atom.xml` twice)
I’d love to know more about its design too
We don't know if a supreme deceiver is aligned at all. If a model can think ahead a trillion moves of deception how do humans possibly stand a chance of scrutinizing anything with any confidence?
I don't think they care about cheap labor.

They thought they could win elections calling everyone a racist who disagreed.

That strategy didn't work.
From the wikipedia page it was that they were just adding feature after feature. As an aside it is very interesting that Classic Mac OS was attempted to be replaced by a microkernel twice but was successful because they figured out how to ship NeXT with fresh paint and an slightly improved window manager that really was just NeXT if you compare the two. (A/UX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/UX, Copland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copland_(operating_system)
probably because it isn't any better
Doctors, cops, first responders, prison guards see different horrible things.

Content moderators see all of that.
I was just researching John Nash. In the film, he takes antipsychotic medication because the film producers didn't want to encourage people to not take their meds. In real life, he never was on antipsychotics and learned to live with his disease.
AWS has had multiple outages which were caused by a single AZ failing.
Computer systems fail systematically, humans fail more randomly (for most classes of failure)
> We will have aligned AI helping us.

This is an assumption, how would you know if you have alignment? AGI could appear to align, just as a psychopath appears studies and emulates well behaved people. Imagine that at a scale we can't possibly understand. We don't really know how any of these emergent behaviors really work, we just throw more data and compute and fine tunings at it, bake it, and then see.
I love this. So much, I bought a mug. Hope you get a cut!
You are focusing on technology. And sure of course you can get most of the benefits of AWS a lot cheaper when self-hosting.

But when you start factoring internal processes and incompetent IT departments, suddenly that's not actually a viable option in many real-world scenarios.