skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because that’s the only reason why anyone would hire them. If you’ve ever worked with this kind of contract workforce they aren’t really worth it without massive cost-per-unit-work savings. I suppose one could argue it’s better that they be unemployed than work in this job but they always choose otherwise when given the choice.
Stem cells head to the clinic: treatments for cancer, diabetes and Parkinson's
To me, the logical conclusion is that they don't agree with your example and think that you are making connections that aren't evidenced from it.

I think you are doing the same exact thing with the above statement as well.
And now watch as the definition is stretched to fit whatever the powerful want to do

Like how they are now charging the UHC CEO suspect with terrorism

Then, if you support the guy, now a terrorist, well then you can be called a terrorist too
Wordy-wordy title is actually "Stem cells head to the clinic: treatments for cancer, diabetes and Parkinson’s disease could soon be here"
Couldn't find any setting to invert mouse. Sad. :(
What's the risk you're trying to protect against, that a "better" (which one?) way would mitigate that this one wouldn't?

> IPA

Do you mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeIPA ? That seems like a huge amalgamation of complexity in a non-memory-safe language that I feel like would introduce a much bigger security liability than the problem it's trying to solve.

I'd rather pony up the money and use Teleport at that point.
If one is going to connect religion and "AI" a good point of
intersection is idolatry [0]. Though whether the human embodies the
divine is a further question.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idolatry
The first Rosetta was based on licensed technology, used at a time when Apple was still pinching pennies.

It made financial sense to stop paying the licensing fee to include it in each new version of the OS as quickly as possible.

There is no financial incentive to remove the current version of Rosetta, since it was developed in-house.
EDIT: Ahead might be simply nitpicking & splitting hairs.

You’re moving the goalpost. First it was a revolutionary idea. Now a revolution is after an idea has been put into practice.[1] Which is it?

[1] Even “not everything was thought of yet” but it’s there “for people whose thinking is sufficiently out of the box”. Come on.
I strongly agree with this and also strongly lament it.

I find IAM to be a terrible implementation of a foundationally necessary system. It feels tacked on to me, except now it's tacked onto thousands of other things and there's no way out.
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It won't happen if the packages are well maintained. Note that if you want a different version for your project you should use a pyenv or similar and have finer control on its dependencies
> You’ll end up with a pile of DiscountService, TaxService, ShippingCostsService, and so on

This seems reasonable. If you get a lot of complexity on each one of those, and their behavior is controlled by different areas of your business, there's nothing bad in segregating them.
My company used to do everything on-prem. Until a literal earthquake and tsunami took down a bunch of systems.

After that, yeah we’ll let AWS do the hard work of enabling redundancy for us.
Quality of life for the average man now is way better than it was at any time in history. A fact.
According to Wikipedia, NS stood for NeXTSTEP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_Kit#:~:text=This%20....

I do remember people in my circles thinking it stood for NeXT Software (which was likely a more suitable name for its use at the time).
The gemini result is great. I modified your prompt to encourage more detail ("Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle. The degree of detail should be surprisingly high and should spark delight for the viewer.")

This is what o1-pro yielded: https://gist.github.com/carbocation/8d780ad4c3312693ca9a43c6...
> If it is constantly crashing so articles never get loaded, fix that.

This often requires to do lots of tests against the endpoint, which the server prohibits.
I think your claim is exaggereated and without evidence. I can assure you, putting a rat in a microwave will damage/kill it, in momonets.

But let say they were overpowered, but not at the extent you are claiming. Were these studies "over powered" on purpose? There is evidence that they were to dismiss any health effects in studies completed by companies that make thee devices and this is discussed by researchers.
looks great xD
That confused me too. Most shared hosting providers also support 1-click Wordpress installation that works out of the box.
(Founder) Unfortunately, if you access over a public IP, it is internet egress. Even if the client is in the same AWS cloud region. PrivateLink is the only option.
The discussion was about scoring. In order to score the fight, you do need to process it in somewhat real time. I don't think waiting a few days to find out who won is going to be acceptable to fans
Desensitization is only one stage of it. It's not permanent & requires dissociation from reality/humanity on some level. But that stuff is likely to come back and haunt one in some way. If not, it's likely a symptom of something deeper going on.

My guess is that's why it's after bulldozing hundreds of Palestinians, instead of 1 or 10s of them, that Israeli soldiers report PTSD.

If you haven't watched enough videos of the ongoing genocides in the world to realize this, it'll be a challenge to have a realistic take on this article.
With TOCTOU, the solution is often just to try to use the resource and handle errors, not to assume that since you checked it, it's available.
Well NSO does their work for them, so that’s not gonna happen

Also, look at how the govt has acted in the last year or so, they will never move against Israel
As someone who ran a startup with 100’s of hosts. As soon as I start to count the salaries, hiring, desk space, etc of the people needed to manage the hosts AWS would look cheap again. Yea, hardware costs they are aggressively expensive. But TCO wise, they’re cheap for any decent sized company.

Add in compliance, auditing, etc. all things that you can set up out of the box (PCI, HIPPA, lawsuit retention). Gets even cheaper.
There is a large gap between "own the hardware" and "use cloud hosting". Many people rent the hardware, for example, and you can use managed databases which is one step up than "starting a vm".

But your comparison isn't fair. The difference between running your own hardware and using the cloud (which is perhaps not even the relevant comparison but let's run with it) is the difference between:

1. Open up the cloud console, and

2. You already have the hardware so you just run "virsh" or, more likely, do nothing at all because you own the API so you have already included this in your Ansible or Salt or whatever you use for setting up a server.

Because ordering a new physical box isn't really comparable to starting a new VM, is it?
They're Not Playing Games, These Wyoming Cops Use Virtual Reality to Train
> even if LLMs are just stochastic parrots, if its output was totally indistinguishable from a human's, would it matter?

It should matter: a P-zombie can't be a moral subject worthy of being defended against termination*, and words like "torture" are meaningless because it has no real feelings.

By way of contrast, because it's not otherwise relevant as the claim is that LLMs don't have an inner life: if there is something that it's like to be an LLM, then I think it does matter that we find out, alien though that inner life likely is to our own minds. Perhaps current models are still too simple, so even if they have qualia, then this "matters" to the same degree that we shouldn't be testing drugs on mice — the brains of the latter seem to have about the same complexity of the former, but that may be a cargo-cult illusion of our ignorance about minds.

* words like "life" and "death" don't mean quite the right things here as it's definitely not alive in the biological sense, but some people use "alive" in the sense of "Johnny 5 is alive" or Commander Data/The Measure of a Man
> Our biggest characteristic is resource consumption and technology production I would say.

Resource consumption is characteristic of all life; if anything, we're an outlier in that we can actually, sometimes, decide not to consume.

Abstinence and developing technology - those are our two unique attributes on the planet.

Yes, really. Many think we're doing worse than everything else in nature - but the opposite is the case. That "balance and harmony" in nature, which so many love and consider precious, is not some grand musical and ethical fixture; it's merely the steady state of never-ending slaughter, a dynamic balance between starvation and murder. It often isn't even a real balance - we're just too close to it, our lifespans too short, to spot the low-frequency trends - spot one life form outcompeting the others, ever so slightly, changing the local ecosystem year by year.
There’s clearly some value. People are paying for something.

> AI start-ups generate money faster than past hyped tech companies

https://www.ft.com/content/a9a192e3-bfbc-461e-a4f3-112e63d0b...
Absolutely. The platforms could reasonably easy stop allowing anonymous accounts. They don’t because more users means more money.
To be honest, I tried to work with with GitHub Copilot to see if it could help junior devs focus in on the important parts of a PR and increase their efficiency and such, but... I've found it to be worse than useless at identifying where the real complexities and bug opportunities actually are.

When it does manage to identify the areas of a PR with the highest importance to review, other problematic parts of the PR will go effectively unreviewed, because the juniors are trusting that the AI tool was 100% correct in identifying the problematic spots and nothing else is concerning. This is partially a training issue, but these tools are being marketed as if you can trust them 100% and so new devs just... do.

In the worst cases I see, which happen a good 30% of the time at this point based on some rough napkin math, the AI directs junior engineers into time-wasting rabbit holes around things that are actually non-issues while actual issues with a PR go completely unnoticed. They spend ages writing defensive code and polyfills for things that the framework and its included polyfills already 100% cover. But if course, that code was usually AI generated too, and it's incomplete for the case they're trying to defend against anyway.

So IDK, I still think there's value in there somewhere, but extracting it has been an absolute nightmare for me.
Solitaire for the Nintendo E-Reader
Having Your Tonsils Out as a Child May Have a Drastic Impact on Your Life
Congress weighs federal gambling crackdown amid growing concerns
Interesting. Where does one find a writing coach?
You have omitted the option between the two, which is renting a server. No hardware to purchase, maintain or set up. Easily available in 15 minutes.
the very last paragraph contains a quote:

> At most, he would have been stopped, detained, presumably given a summons of some sort, they would have taken the bike and it would have been over. That was it. Was that worth killing over?

instead of asking that, the question should be "was it worth dying over?".
Hi, senior SRE here who was a QA, then QA lead, then lead automation / devops engineer.

QA engineers with little coding experience should be given simple automation tasks with similar tests and documentation/ people to ask questions to. I.e. setup a pytest framework that has a few automated test examples, and then have them write similar tests. The automated tests are just TAC (tests as code) versions of the manual test cases they should already write, so they should have some idea of what they need to do, and then google / ChatGPT/ automation engineers should be able to help them start to translate that to code.

People with growth mindsets and ambitions will grow from the support and being given the chance to do the things, while some small number will balk and not want anything to do with it. You can lead a horse to water and all that.
Feds finalize plan to expand solar energy in Wyoming
Pair-programming is one option. It might seem expensive at first glance but usually both parties get a lot of value from it (new possible ideas for the teacher if the learner isn't entirely junior and obviously quick learning for the new person)
30 * 500 * 36mb = 560gb and I have 1tb a month on my apparently $6 droplet

Correction - from my billing page it's $4.50 a month, from the resize page it is $6 so I'm guessing I am grandfathered in to some older pricing
In that case, I should be irate that the AWS API blocks me many times per day. Run `aws cli service some-paginated-thing` and see how many retries you get during normal, routine operation.

But I’m not, because they’re not blocking me. They’re asking my client to slow down. Neither AWS nor Rachel’s blog owes me unlimited requests per unit time, and neither have “blocked” me when I violate they policies.
If normal communication does not come naturally to you, it's difficult to convince people as well as there is a greater tendency of misunderstanding and lack of trust.

It will appear as if you don't know what you are saying or you are making things up. Also, you will have people saying this:

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."

Nobody's going to wait for you to finish your sentences either. They assume something and react.

Such reductionist statements might be valid for most cases but if you are at the receiving end due to communication/articulation problems, it's really difficult to convince people.

There are other problems that come up.

It takes me a lot more iterations to get things right. I'm curious if someone has figured out communication for people with language disorders.
China or Russia also have "interesting" data protection / "let's protect children" laws. Some of they also formulated in same way as GDPR so VPN doesn't help. Why should they be ignored? (other than "but it's DIFFERENT thing, EU is good ones")
What’s the best replacement for the gaming magazines? PCGamer was the closest I was ever going to get to art criticism and appreciation in my younger years. What exists now for the next generation?
Related: Cramming Solitaire onto a Nintendo E-Reader card - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42010136 - Oct 2024 (43 comments)
> every minute messing with and monitoring servers

You're not monitoring your deployments because "cloud"?
When you have nothing: How to find potential customers to interview
Seems to be AWS-only at the moment.
You’re just going down the list of things that sound disgusting. The second sounds worse than the first but both sound horrible.
> Switch to a federated social systems like Mastodon, with only a few thousand or ten thousand users per instance, and perpetrators will never be able to grow too large.

The #2 and #3 most popular Mastodon instances allow CSAM.
The cloud is someone else’s computer.

It’s like putting something in someone’s desk drawer under the guise of convenience at the expense of security.

Why?

Too often, someone other than the data owner has or can get access to the drawer directly or indirectly.

Also, Cloud vs self hosted to me is a pendulum that has swung back and forth for a number of reasons.

The benefits of the cloud outlined here are often a lot of open source tech packaged up and sold as manageable from a web browser, or a command line.

One of the major reasons the cloud became popular was networking issues in Linux to manage volume at scale. At the time the cloud became very attractive for that reason, plus being able to virtualize bare metal servers to put into any combination of local to cloud hosting.

Self-hosting has become easier by an order of magnitude or two for anyone who knew how to do it, except it’s something people who haven’t done both self-hosting and cloud can really discuss.

Cloud has abstracted away the cost of horsepower, and converted it to transactions. People are discovering a fraction of the horsepower is needed to service their workloads than they thought.

At some point the horsepower got way beyond what they needed and it wasn’t noticed. But paying for a cloud is convenient and standardized.

Company data centres can be reasonably secured using a number of PaaS or IaaS solutions readily available off the shelf. Tools from VMware, Proxmox and others are tremendous.

It may seem like there’s a lot to learn, except most problems they are new to someone have often been thought of a ton by both people with and without experience that is beyond cloud only.
Fun fact that broken code was in the runtime used by a major Fortran compiler
I'm always tempted. But then I think about if my one bare metal servers dies how long will it take me to get a replacement? Maybe this has improved over the years but I recall with bare metal there can be 24 hours or longer to get a new one.
Yes, I had a similar experience with Objective-C. While I found it generally odd, it makes complete sense as a C/C++ alternative with reflection capabilities and a lean event loop. I disliked the memory management. The language hasn’t aged well but that doesn’t mean it lacked clever ideas for its time.
Send PostScript, done. Today it's figured out what driver will properly rasterize exotic things like ligatures because we decided that throwing a real CPU in the printer was a mistake.
I use synology mail server to pull emails from cloud provider. I can use it as backup interface and if needed can switch my email domain to local without losing anything and without need to restore mails from backup.
A colleague who should’ve known better argued that a 404 response to an API call was confusing because we were, in fact, successfully returning a response to the client. We had a long talk about that afterward.
>Also a doctor is paid $$$$$

>Content moderator is a min wage job

So it's purely a monetary dispute?

>bad working hours, no psychological support, and you spend your day looking at rape, child porn, torture and executions.

Many other jobs have the same issues, though admittedly with less frequency, but where do you draw the line?
> I already addressed this and you're talking over it.

You didn't address it, you handwaved it.

> Why are you making the assumption that AI == no appeal and zero staff?

I explicitly stated the reason -- it is cheaper and it will work for the majority of instances while the edge cases won't result in losing a large enough user base that it would matter to them.

I am not making assumptions. Google notoriously operates in this fashion -- for instance unless you are a very popular creator, youtube functions like that.

> That makes zero sense, one has nothing to do with the other.

Cheaper and mostly works and losses from people leaving are not more than the money saved by removing support staff makes perfect sense and the two things are related to each other like identical twins are related to each other.

> The human element comes in for appeal process.

What does a company have to gain by supplying the staff needed to listen to the appeals when the AI does a decent enough job 98% of the time? Corporations don't exist to do the right thing or to make people happy, they are extracting value and giving it to their shareholders. The shareholders don't care about anything else, and the way I described returns more money to them than yours.
Why do you only have _one_? Get two or three. :-)
> I think your claim is exaggereated and without evidence

I calculated it myself. It was in response to one of those anti-EMF folks posting these papers as proof that cell phones were very dangerous. It's been several years since I did this, I don't have the references or calculations handy.

They exposed rats to increasing levels of radiation power for relatively short durations, and only the highest had the adverse effects.

Of course, could be I calculated it wrong. But it was a fairly simple scaling thing ala watts per gram of tissue, and I did do it for at least a few papers.

And yes, I think these were overpowered on purpose. If there was no effect at these extreme levels, it wouldn't make much sense spending resources studying lower-level exposure.
I have never ever worked somewhere with one of these "cloud-like but custom on our own infrastructure" setups that didn't leak infrastructure concerns through the abstraction, to a significantly larger degree than AWS.

I believe it can work, so maybe there are really successful implementations of this out there, I just haven't seen it myself yet!
Most companies severely understaff ops, infra, and security. Your talking points might be good but, in practice, won’t apply in many cases because of the intractability of that management mindset. Even when they should know better.

I’ve worked at tech companies with hundreds of developers and single digit ops staff. Those people will struggle to build and maintain mature infra. By going cloud, you get access to mature infra just by including it in build scripts. Devops is an effective way to move infra back to project teams and cut out infra orgs (this isn’t great but I see it happen everywhere). Companies will pay cloud bills but not staffing salaries.
Most of it is Open Source and on GitHub, anyway. So you shouldn‘t be surprised to see source code.

The Community edition lacks certain features, though.
If the people evaluating your code can't get it to build, I'd say that's a good sign that your code isn't ready to be taken up by others.
I’ve never worked at a company with these particular problems, but:

#1: A cloud VM comes with an obligation for someone at the company to maintain it. The cloud does not excuse anyone from doing this.

#2: Sounds like a dysfunctional system. Sure, it may be common, but a medium sized org could easily have some datacenter space and allow any team to rent a server or an instance, or to buy a server and pay some nominal price for the IT team to keep it working. This isn’t actually rocket science.

Sure, keeping a fifteen year old server working safely is a chore, but so is maintaining a fifteen-year-old VM instance!
Goodhart's Law and Designing Good Systems
Do Not Fix Bugs Reported in Your Open Source Project