skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You left out a further explicit mention of conditional requests:

> Advised (via Retry-After header) to come back in one day since they are unwilling or unable to do conditional requests.

But I think it's still unarguable that the post doesn't explicitly mention If-Modified-Since, which it's not obliged to do, but the mention of it here could be helpful to someone. So why fuss?
I think you don't understand what debian is or does.
1) we're talking about trademark law, not copyright law.

2) the problem here is that they're in the same business segment, and explicitly reference S3.
I invite you to run your own popular blog on your own hardware and pay for the costs. It sounds like you don't know what the true costs are.
> So when they asked who could write 6502 assembly on an Apple II, I raised my hand figuring everyone here was a programmer — and found only my hand had been raised!

Pre comedy. I can just imagine the initial indifference when raising his hand only to look around and start lowering his hand slowly when one of the bosses just looks at him and says, "You. No, not him. YOU. You stay, everyone else can leave."
Those of us "of a certain age," know that Apple used to have the best documentation in the industry. Many of the folks that wrote the docs, had more credentials than the ones writing the code.
I don't know what people are seeing in my questions, but apparently they don't like answering them, because no one has.

I'm trying to understand what people mean by 'detachment from reality' and how such a thing is related to 'understanding of mortality', and how a deeper understanding of mortality and acceptance of death would manifest in ways that can be seen.

If 'acceptance of death' does not actually mean that they are more comfortable talking about death, or allowing people to choose their own deaths, or accepting their loved one's deaths with more ease, then what does it mean? Is it something else? Why can't anyone say what it is?

Why it is so obvious to the people stating that it happens, but no one can explain why the questions I asked are not being answered or are wrong?

If this is come basic conflict of frameworks wherein I am making assumptions that make no sense to the people who are making the assertions I am questioning, then what am I missing here?
Waterloo really is the best CS school in the world.
This feels like the right take.

Once we have an AI starting to do something, there’s an art to gradually adopting it in a way that makes sense.

We don’t lose the ability to have humans review code. We don’t have to all use this on every PR. We don’t have to blindly accept every comment it makes.
I would have expected one of us programmers to make a joke about Types here, but missed opportunity! My dad jokes are too poor to try
But isn't using Fastmail akin to using a cloud provider (managed email vs managed everything else)? They are similarly a service provider, and as a customer, you don't really care "who their ISP is?"

The discussion matters when we are talking about building things: whether you self-host or use managed services is a set of interesting trade-offs.
“I would imagine that companies like Meta have such good automated moderation that what remains to be viewed by a human is practically a firehose of almost certainly disturbing shit.”

This doesn’t make sense to me. Their automated content moderation is so good that it’s unable to detect “almost certainly disturbing shit”? What kind of amazing automation only works with subtleties but not certainties?
A toubling aspect of the "bullshit scientism" is that
confidence/belief in "AI" seems proportional to human mistrust of
other humans. Therefore it's success rests on fomenting division and
mistrust amongst people and iconoclasm of traditional
skills/knowledge. Artificial ("intelligence") is, in it's very
definition, deceptive.
That’s what 429 return is for, which is mentioned in the article.
> by the Mountain Lion time frame it was just lovely. Actual buttons! Soft gradients! Icons that had colour!

You may be thinking of Tiger, because Apple already started removing color from Finder icons and such in Leopard.

Leopard also introduced a transparent menu bar and 3D Dock.
I’d think the higher density/frequency of disturbing content would cause people to be desensitized.

I never seen blood or gore in my life and find seeing it shocking.

But I’d imagine gore is a weekly situation for surgeons.
`just` is 90% similar to `make` in syntax, only it has 100x less foot guns. :)

Also I'll never understand the appeal of "not having to install a tool". We're not in the 1980s anymore when that was an actual chore. You run a command, the tool is there (including in CI/CD), boom, done. What am I missing here?

The advantages you list are flimsy at best.
Paranoia is not on the rise, it's just that they want you to think it is...
The median includes checking accounts.
I only tried with 1, but it appears yes.
3. "Dedicated server" at any hosting provider

Open their management console, press order now, 15 mins later get your server's IP address.
"All the pro-cloud talking points are just that - talking points that don't persuade anyone with any real technical understanding,"

This is false. AWS infrastructure is vastly more secure than almost all company data centers. AWS has a rule that the same person cannot have logical access and physical access to the same storage device. Very few companies have enough IT people to have this rule. The AWS KMS is vastly more secure than what almost all companies are doing. The AWS network is vastly better designed and operated than almost all corporate networks. AWS S3 is more reliable and scalable than anything almost any company could create on their own. To create something even close to it you would need to implement something like MinIO using 3 separate data centers.
You're assuming that hosting something in-house implies that each application gets its own physical server.

You buy a couple of beastly things with dozens of cores. You can buy twice as much capacity as you actually use and still be well under the cost of cloud VMs. Then it's still VMs and adding one is just as fast. When the load gets above 80% someone goes through the running VMs and decides if it's time to do some house cleaning or it's time to buy another host, but no one is ever waiting on approval because you can use the reserve capacity immediately while sorting it out.
> or are building a house of cards that will eventually collapse (or just cost them obscene amounts of money to keep on life support)

Ding ding ding. It's this.

> The whole CapEx vs. OpEx issue drives me batty

Seconded. I can't help but feel like it's not just a "I don't understand money" thing, but more of a "the way Wall Street assigns value is fundamentally broken." Spending $100K now, once, vs. spending $25K/month indefinitely does not take a genius to figure out.
I didn’t see it mentioned in the article but rumours are the tech is DeepStrike by the Danish company Jabbr.

https://jabbr.ai/deepstrike

Fury’s expletive laden review (video):
https://www.sportbible.com/boxing/boxing-news/tyson-fury-ole...

> “Absolutely s*t. Here's what, f*k all the computers. Keep the humans going. More jobs for humans, less jobs for computers. And f*k electric cars too while we're at it.”
rule 1 dont try to be clever by refactoring

rule 2 underpromise so you can overdeliver. if you dont meet your short deadline they'll think you're lazy or incompetent. if finish in your long deadline they'll think you are employee of the month. always x2 or x3 your estimates.

rule 3 hang out with the seniors, listen to them. they know the landmines and how things are. not only in technical but also in office politics.

rule 4 spend time with people closest to your end users. this may be your sales people and support people. they dont code, they dont know the inner technicals, but they know the things that matter business wise.
“BeOS did not have printing” was the insult thrown around at the time.
Great! If we live in a society that sees this kind of giving as a good thing, and thereby encourage more giving, that seems like net positive for everyone involved!
Ask HN: Do you think Gemini 2.0 Flash is using humans to help pick responses?
I can't get this idea out of my head.

Sometimes it's definitely near instantaneous in it's responses, so there is surely no human behind the curtains.

But other times it's literally taking 30-45 seconds to even begin responding at all. This happens at all times of the day so I doubt it's differences in load capacities.

I honestly think they have a team somewhere hand picking some of the best possible answers.

You know how ChatGPT asks you directly "which do you prefer?" ... could Gemini be doing that with our responses?
Sounds like you don't know how to scale for cheap.

And since I've ran integrations that connected over 500 companies. I know what a rouge client actually looks like and 72 requests per day and I wouldn't even notice.
Ok, then we could replace the boxers with robots, too. And perhaps the Saudi royals with an AI.
Ask HN: How does JetBrains protect their IDE Java source code?
On linux, after I installed goland, I could see a lot of .jar file and .class file inside. I don't know, I can see all of the source code ?
I don’t remember the exact number, but BeOS was too incomplete at the time to spend what they were asking, and maybe to purchase at all. There was no way to print documents, which still mattered a lot for a desktop OS in 1996. It needed a lot of work.

Now, in retrospect, Apple had time; Mac OS X wasn’t ready for the mainstream until 2003-2004.
To me, Finder often seems slower now with SSD and Apple silicon that it was with spinning drives and PPC. And the Mac boots slower!!

Apple's software today is poorly optimized. They're depending on hardware to do all the work.
Before the cloud, you could get a VM provisioned (virtual servers) or a couple of apps set up (LAMP stack on a shared host ;)) in a few minutes over a web interface already.

"Cloud" has changed that by providing an API to do this, thus enabling IaC approach to building combined hardware and software architectures.
But that effort has a huge payoff in that it can be used to disaster recovery in a new region and to spin up testing environments.
Everything you have said is completely baseless

> Probability theory, computability theory. There's no other way.

There is no credible evidence that humans learn via statistics and significant evidence against (poverty of stimulus, all languages have hierarchical structure). One other way was proposed by Chomsky, which is that you have built-in machinery to do language (which is probably intimately related to human intelligence) just like a foal doesn't learn to walk via "statistics" in any meaningful sense.

> Neurons in silica are to neurons in vivo ...

Again not true. Observations about things like inter-neuron communication time suggests that computation is being done within neurons which undermines the connectionist approach.

You've just presented a bunch of your own intuitions about things which people who actually studied the field have falsified.
Taxation is supposed to make market-based economies function like weighted democracies. But in practice, the rich just pass laws making it easy for them to evade taxes, so the normalization never occurs and we end up at oligarchy.
I assumed that, at the margin, Meta would prioritise reducing false negatives. In other words, they would prefer that as many legitimate posts are published as possible.

So the things that are flagged for human review would be on the boundary, but trend more towards disturbing than legitimate, on the grounds that the human in the loop is there to try and publish as many posts as possible, which means sifting through a lot of disturbing stuff that the AI is not sure about.

There’s also the question of training the models - the classifiers may need labelled disturbing data. But possibly not these days.

However, yes, I expect the absolute most disturbing shit to never be seen by a human.

—

Again, literally no experience, just a guy on the internet pressing buttons on a keyboard.
I do run a popular blog, and a $5 a month Digital Ocean droplet handles millions of requests per month without breaking a sweat.
gen z kids type like this aha
Are you saying that Google down-ranked them in search engine rankings for user behaviour in AdWords? Isn't that an abuse of monopoly? It still surprises me a little bit.
That’s a very quantum physics-centric explanation though (username checks out…).

A more general definition is that they are eigenfunctions of the Laplacian operator on a sphere, which arise in many contexts.
More like a skill issue or just decision to make your life more difficult.

It is free and easy to scale this kind of text based blog.
Ask HN: Why is ARC-AGI a good benchmark? Isn't any answer correct?
Of course, some answers have more complicated rules than others, but still.

It's like asking people to say what the next number in a sequence is. Any number would be correct.
> If an already established and proven language was already being used for such a long time successfully, that should remain the language of the project.

I guess it depends on what exactly you mean by "successfully". For example, while C is used for Linux and Linux is quite successful by most measures, that doesn't necessarily meant that there aren't areas where C isn't successful - in this case, a significant reason there's so much interest in Rust is precisely because there has not been success in producing reliably memory-safe code in C.

I think "forcing" might be a bit of a strong word for what's going on as well, but that's neither here nor there.
Close. Pascal said “If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.” Twain said the other (longer) quote.
To be fair, printing in 1995-6 was a huge can of worms and hell on earth.
Here's an example from a couple of weeks ago:

I wrote a small SwiftUI app, to display simple bar charts of data from our social app. Number of active users, vs. ones that haven't signed in, user acceptance/rejection rates, etc.

The SwiftUI Charts library is pretty good for this. I consume a CSV file into a dataframe, and add some extra computed properties, etc.

I wanted to add the ability to pinch to zoom, so users don't need to look at the entire dataset, and try to find individual days, etc.

I banged my head for a couple of days, getting it working the way I needed (TL;DR, I did. Just took a while). I can add a magnification gesture adornment, but the docs for it suck, the docs for the charts suck, the docs for the viewbuilder suck, the docs for the view suck, and even the docs for the dataframe suck. I basically had to find out what I needed, by trial and error, and examining the exposed protocols. Some of the stuff is crazy easy, like translating the pinch to a usable number, but then, I wanted to add a bit of custom handling, for the edges, and allowing the user to pan the chart, while also being able to individually inspect bars (I ended up giving up on that, and have an ugly scrubber scrollbar under the chart). It also doesn't work on the Mac, which sucks, because I do a lot of admin stuff on the Mac.

It's a long story, and I'm sure that you would find fault with my work (one of the things geeks love to do, is point out errors made by other geeks), but it shipped, it works, and we've been using it for days.

And, in the end, even though it exhibits nonstandard behavior, it looks exactly like a Settings App panel. That's fine. It's a backend dashboard, but I'd be upset if it was something we needed to expose to end-users of the app.
I agree. But that might be comorbid with PTSD. It’s probably not good for you to be _that_ desensitised to this sort of thing.

I also feel like there’s something intangible regarding intent that makes moderation different from being a doctor. It’s hard for me to put into words, but doctors see gore because they can hopefully do something to help the individual involved. Moderators see gore but are powerless to help the individual, they can only prevent others from seeing the gore.
I think you're right. Curl is a rich source of C era vulnerabilities (memory safety, weak typing, etc.). Anyone using Rust has already decided they don't want anything to do with that.
(Founder) It's a number of dimensions. I get excited about the ordered throughput angle because I have personally cared about this in the past, and yeah a lot of folks may not need that :)

Simple API, reasonable pricing, latency flexibility, unlimited streams, _and_ elastic to high throughputs. All adding up to a great serverless experience.

Re: the data colocation. This is how most multi-tenant systems - including S3 itself AFAIU - operate. I understand there is a difference in level of trust vs a cloud provider, and the best we can do here while delivering a serverless experience is encrypting every single record at the edge of S2 where they transit in or out, with a tenant-specific key. We may even allow specifying it as part of the request, if clients want to manage the key for themself.

The best data security when leveraging any multi-tenant service is going to be client-side encryption, and we also want to make this super easy. With our planned Kafka layer, we plan on client-side encryption as a value add.
Someone has to do it is a strong claim. We could not have the services that require it instead.
> Why has nobody figured out how to be profitable?

From what I've seen claimed about OpenAI finances, this is easy: It's a Red Queen's race — "it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place".

If their financial position was as simple as "we run this API, we charge X, the running cost is Y", then they're already at X > Y.

But if that was all OpenAI were actually doing, they'd have stopped developing new versions or making the existing models more efficient some time back, while the rest of the industry kept improving their models and lowering their prices, and they'd be irrelevant.

> People would be lining up to pay OpenAI.

They are.

Not that this is either sufficient or necessary to actually guarantees anything about real value. For lack of sufficiency: people collectively paid a lot for cryptocurrencies and NFTs, too (and before then and outside tech, homeopathic tinctures and sub-prime mortgages); For lack of necessity: there's plenty of free-to-download models.

I get a huge benefit even just from the free chat models. I could afford to pay for better models, but why bother when free is so good? Every time a new model comes out, the old paid option becomes the new free option.
> You may distribute the software or provide it to others only if you do so free of charge for non-commercial purposes.
> May I ask, what is the path that leads you to the Rosetta 2 project?

The member of senior management who was best poised to suggest who should work on it already knew me and thought I would be the best choice. Getting opportunities in large companies is a combination of nurturing relationships and luck.
> For example, I have seen several cases where poorly designed systems that unexpectedly used too much memory

> using a managed database system like RDS vs self-managing the same RDBMS: using the managed version saves on labor

As a DBRE / SRE, I can confidently assert that belief in the latter is often directly responsible for the former. AWS is quite clear in their shared responsibility model [0] that you are still responsible for making sound decisions, tuning various configurations, etc. Having staff that knows how to do these things often prevents the poor decisions from being made in the first place.

[0]: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/shared-responsibility-mode...
You could have posted this in 1985 and been right. Talented people have options.
Agreed. Joining system and user packages leads to cases like "how did my python upgrade break yum".
Commercial tea bags release microplastics, entering human intestinal cells
Being Agile – and Gray (2017)
I've never heard of a policy like that for physicians and doubt it's common for paramedics. I work in an ICU and a typical day involves a death or resuscitation. We would run out of staff with that policy.
In Interstellar, a copy of Stephen King's novel "The Stand" is seen
For example to kill all of the children of a process you first have to read all of the files in `/proc` to build a process tree, and then send your signals, by which time the process tree may have changed.
There are some obvious, significant benefits I can think of off the top of my head:

- Passkeys give the website no secret to keep.

Breach of the passkey public key is not an event worthy of credential rotation.

- Passkey authentication is submitted via a rigorously-defined mechanism intended for machine-to-machine communication.

Ever had your password manager try to fill the wrong field with your login credentials? Passkeys cannot make that mistake. There's no heuristic mechanism at play trying to figure out where to insert the passkey.

- Passkeys are immune to credential theft via MITM

Sure the MITM could hijack the session, but not the credential. (I know this one is a stretch, but you asked for anything)
Made? You think they work overtime without compensation?
How do you configure S3 access control? You need to learn & understand how their IAM works.

How do you even point a pretty URL to a lambda? Last time I looked you need to stick an "API gateway" in front (which I'm sure you also get nickel & dimed for).

How do you go from "here's my git repo, deploy this on Fargate" with AWS? You need a CI pipeline which will run a bunch of awscli commands.

And I'm not even talking about VPCs, security groups, etc.

Somewhat different skillsets than old-school sysadmin (although once you know sysadmin basics, you realize a lot of these are just the same concepts under a branded name and arbitrary nickel & diming sprinkled on top), but equivalent in complexity.
One thing I've wished for in curl is for the backends ("handlers") to be more pluggable. This would solve a packaging problem we have in Fedora where we'd prefer to distribute a core curl with backends packaged as subpackages, so that programs that only need (eg) http support would only need to depend on curl-handler-http and curl-core. At the moment the actual solution is to compile separate curl and curl-minimal packages where curl-minimal removes the lesser-used backends, and you have to choose, system-wide, which one to install.

This plus a stable ABI for handlers would also solve the writing backends in other languages problem because another team could contribute a Rust / hyper handler separately.

(I'm sure Daniel has solid reasons for not doing this, not to mention that it's a bunch of work which no one is volunteering to do.)
I am working on a personal project(some would call it startup, but i have no intention of getting external financing and other americanisms) where i have set up my own cdn and video encoding, among other things. These days, whenever you have a problem, everyone answers "just use cloud" and that results in people really knowing nothing any more. It is saddening. But on the other hand it ensures all my decades of knowledge will be very well paid in the future, if i'd need to get a job.
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/ungluecke/schweres-...

No thanks. I prefer my vehicles not to be able to fall 12 metres to the ground by default.
Manage Domain Transfer Locking and Contacts in Terraform
that's a heavy ass ipad to bring around
Autistic people often have stronger empathy that neurotypical people, sometimes much much stronger. Especially towards animals.
Oh, absolutely, with your own hardware you need planning. Time to deployment is definitely a thing.

Really, the one major thing that bites on cloud providers in there 99.9% margin on egress. The markup is insane.
Just to clarify this isn't my own work, I just found it online by accident.

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I take it you haven't seen the current Penn Station. The 2020 renovation was quite nice.