skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more a form of protest. There's not even a Western or English version of the app as far as I know.
> if consumers are willing to pay 1.5x, you are leaving money on the table by charging x

That’s the same argument for charging thousands of dollars for insulin. It’s also the same argument landlords are using to charge more to victims of the LA fires.
Great. Now they're not just analyzing my driving habits, but they are also analyzing my porn habits.
Amex Platinum gives you Hilton Gold as part of the "coupon book" of benefits for holding it.
Nix and containerization aren't drop-in replacements for each other.

You can use Nix to build containers. Containers on their own don't guarantee reproducibility, especially if the build process isn't static and pure ( how many times do we `sudo apt update` inside a Dockerfile )?

And not everything is going to be containerizable. That only works for most applications. What if we're trying to manage our cloud servers? That's where Nix really shines.

Do you really think that Nix developers don't know how to containerize applications? You think people are using Nix because they refuse to learn how to containerize, and therefore opt to learn a _much more_ difficult and arcane build process? The logic doesn't track there.
All that illegal wiretapping has to be analyzed somehow!
Post author, cofounder and creator of InfluxDB here. Happy to answer questions in this thread.

I'm guessing there will be questions about the 72 hour limit. There are two things we're looking at:

First, we're considering giving a free tier for at home and hobbyist usage of Enterprise, which doesn't have this limitation. So this would be kind of like what Tailscale does giving a free usage plan for their commercial software.

Second, for Core, the open source build, we're working on an update that will let it query any 72 hour window of historical data. Right now it doesn't evict data, it all still exists on disk or object storage as Parquet files, but we remove the metadata information from RAM to keep things optimized for the most recent 72 hours.

When the update is done, you'll be able to write and query for any period of time. But an individual query will be limited to a 72 hour time range. This is a service protection mechanism because of how the data is organized.

A file gets created for every 10 minute block of time for each table. So 72 hours is 432 files, which is a lot of GET requests to S3 for a single query. We don't want to increase the range because of that. Multiple queries combining a longer range, or accessing the data from third-party clients is all still possible.

In Enterprise, our commercial product, we have a compactor that collapses these files into larger time blocks that also creates an index that the query engine can use.

Doing it this way was a deliberate choice so that we could have a permissively license open source project separate from the commercial product. If we put the compactor into the open, we'd have to put it under a source available license to limit usage so that we can still sell the database.

Our hope is that there's still an audience of users that will find Core useful on its own, even without any commercial relationship with us. It's not a full historical TSDB, but it's not intended to be. It's meant to be a recent data engine that can collect, process, monitor, ship, and store data paired with a fast analytical query engine against the recent buffer (or recently persisted buffer).

Happy to answer any followup questions about this or the release generally.
Yesterday I fought off someone/something doing Chinese language crypto-blogspam on my website. Ip-addresses were all unique (mixed ipv4&ipv6), but all were 'located' within 100km of my server in central Europe.

If crypto-scammers can bypass geo-restrictions for blogspam, I'm confident that state-level actors can do that even better for geopolitics.
I believe you’ve just described the RISC-V project, though I could be mistaken.
uv helps prevent some of that using caching https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/cache/#cache-directory
that's by other developers, but I think in the mainstream know nothing culture people have an image of "coding" that's more prestigious and hackery than EE?
How is this exchange imaginary? It's right above, five comments up:

>> Do you think the social stigma attached to the n-word, and the consequential reduction in its public use, helped contribute to equal rights?

>Not particularly

>> What about slurs against gays, or Jews?

>Not particularly

How else should someone interpret your response, other than as stating that you don't see any connection between ethnic slurs and equal rights? If you misspoke, or I'm somehow misinterpreting, maybe you should elaborate, if only for the sake of others coming across this thread.
Yes, that is right. So here's my disclaimer: I'm the author of rqlite.

I really admire the testing that the SQLite team does[1], and the way it allows them to stand behind the statements they make about quality. It's inspiring.

IMO there have only been two really big improvements to software development relative to when I started programming professionally 25 years ago: 1) code reviews becoming mainstream, and 2) unit testing. (Perhaps Gen AI will be the third). I believe extensive testing is the only reason that rqlite continues to be developed to this day. It's not just that it helps keep the quality high, it's a key design guide. If a new module cannot be unit tested during development, in a straightforward manner, it's a strong sign one's decomposition of the problem is wrong.

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
I think you're on to something...
Ah, right, Slack can have their own public oath client which is used for the code grant.

So what happens is:
1. New Workspace org created with same (old) domain name
2. Same domain name is sent in `hd` property, existing email address sent in the `email` property, new uuid in the `sub` property.

If the app is only matching on email instead of sub, then it will grant access to previous user data. Additionally, even if it makes a new user based on the new sub, it may still grant access to other SP resources associated with the existing domain based on the email address or hd value.

Instead there needs to be something like `hd` but uniquely identifying the Workspace org entity itself, not just the domain.
I completely agree, not every task deserves to be automated
What’s magic about the Bering strait?
Genuine question. Regarding language models specifically, would it really have value to be strapped on weapons?
There’s also nix-alien which does this but tries to be more automagical.
I took my 1 year old camping this weekend without my wife. I plopped him in the car seat and put on a Ms. Rachel video so that he would be quiet/calm while I packed up the campsite.

I felt a little bad resorting to using a video like that to "control" him, but then I carried him on a 3 mile hike where he spent the whole time looking at the trees, before eventually falling asleep.

I'm hoping that as he grows up I can just teach him to have a healthy relationship with things like social media and use it like anything else for entertainment.
Assuming there is an infinite amount of work to be done, there are still limited resources in the real world that people compete for. Theoretically, we can utilize more land, build more dense housing, and so on to offset the increase in population density so housing remains affordable, but not without changing the physical landscape in a way that many would view as negative (i.e. a concrete jungle).
> Gaining control over a large number of devices in the target geographic region for submitting votes through those devices

Does AWS Lambda count as a machine for these purposes? If so, you can get a nearly infinite number of them just by cycling a config param and casting another vote.
nice to know!
Not really - I want security which is why I always keep a reasonable amount of emergency savings. Not to mention my retirement funds that provide security for the future when I can't work. Ideally I'll die just as I spend my last dollar, but it is highly likely that I will have money left over.
I think whatever rules we tried to play, the nob jokes would persist.
There are fundamental problems with their model resulting from their architecture that I don't see them tackle at all.

The most important one is that both your identity and your data are tied to whichever instance you pick (and picking is not easy). The latter is forgivable, but the former (i.e. the fact that you can't "port out" from an uncooperating server) really isn't, in my view.

Discoverability is another big one, and while I generally don't care much for algorithmically curated feeds myself, not being able to do a handle or keyword search is a dealbreaker for me.

Compared to Bluesky, which makes efforts to modularize/federate all essential components of a social network, Mastodon's approach is firmly stuck in a past where sysadmins completely rule their respective kingdoms, and that distinction runs deep to the core protocol level and is, I'd argue, not fixable.
> You can have a social circle that isn't subject to surveillance

Your phone knows where and who you are, your (new) car knows where you are. Same for your friends.
rqlite has been in development for about a decade too!

https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#10...
> I read that somewhere that during WWII when people were sent to the gas chambers, crowds would be cheering on.

Citation needed. The execution of Jews by gas chamber during the holocaust was not a public event.
Pre-tax salary is lower too though. And health insurance is paid on top of taxes.
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2023/03/07/courts-profit-and-th...

"Daniel Hatcher used to work as an attorney for Maryland Legal Aid. He says he's seen American courts turn into a system that's more interested in profits than justice.

'California is pursuing billions in fines and fees, and Alabama, multiple prosecutors' offices in Alabama generate 70% of their total funding solely by the pursuit of these court ordered fines and fees against the poor,' Daniel Hatcher says.

Hatcher says that when profit becomes the point, families become targets of the very justice system that is meant to protect."

The suggestion that profit is "the point" of California's criminal fines and fees seems absolutely wild to me.
This is just an extension of a long lived trend of kids trolling boomers. For example, someone will make a corny fan cam video of a Chinese government leader, with communist flags and symbols waving as an overlay, and the Chinese anthem playing, then the description text will be something like "What Fox News thinks everyone's FYP is like".

Signing up for RedNote is the same thing. Kids are making videos claiming that they are putting their social security number and personal info on RedNote. It's mostly just bait for boomers and US media to eat up. Some people are absolutely signing up for RedNote, but it doesn't seem to be out of legitimate interest, more as a protest meme that they then post about back on TikTok.
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I believe mikupad[0] supports showing logprobs from a llama.cpp backend.

[0]:https://github.com/lmg-anon/mikupad
The original discussion about insurance companies accepting small underwriting losses to gain investment capital (float) refers to the traditional insurance business model operating under normal conditions. This is different from the current market disruptions we're seeing in specific high-risk regions.

Insurance companies are indeed leaving certain markets and raising premiums dramatically, but this is happening because:

1. Climate Change Risk Unpredictability

* Traditional insurance models rely on being able to predict risk with reasonable accuracy

* Climate change is making weather-related disasters more frequent and severe

* Historical data becomes less reliable for predicting future losses

* This uncertainty makes it impossible to price policies appropriately

2. Regulatory Constraints

* State regulators often limit how much insurers can charge for coverage

* Companies can't price premiums high enough to cover increasing risks

* They're forced to choose between unsustainable losses or market exit

* Political pressure often prevents charging actuarially sound rates

3. Concentration of Risk

* Some areas face multiple overlapping risks (fire, flood, hurricane)

* Large-scale disasters can trigger many claims simultaneously

* This violates the insurance principle of risk diversification

* Even investment returns can't offset such concentrated losses

4. Scale of Potential Losses

* Traditional model accepts small predictable underwriting losses

* Current climate risks create potential for catastrophic losses

* Example: California wildfires can destroy entire communities at once

* No amount of investment income can offset such massive losses

5. Market Structure Issues

* Some markets require insurers to take all risks (can't be selective)

* Cross-subsidization between markets becoming unsustainable

* State-specific regulations creating fragmented markets

* Limited ability to diversify within regulated markets

While the traditional insurance model can handle planned small underwriting losses offset by investment gains, that model breaks down when facing large-scale unpredictable risks that can't be properly priced or diversified. This explains why insurers are withdrawing from certain markets while still operating profitably in others.
William F. Buckley was one of the founders of National Review.
The way I read it, the author says not that the creator as persona is synthesized by metrics, but rather that Jimmy himself is subsumed by MrBeast. He is being authentic, but that's true only because the platform inculcated those desires over a years long "information diet".

It's a view I sympathize with, even though I'm reticent to apply it to specific cases like this. Rather, when we look at these systems, we should treat their demands as prescriptive, rather than descriptive. Spotify is an excellent example. Say the recommendation algorithm starts recommending a genre, but not for any aesthetic reason. Over time other musicians that internalize the aesthetics associated with that genre and will succeed because they also get picked up by the algorithm. These artists are succeeding by making algorithm bait, but they're also being authentic because the algorithm they're courting shaped their sensibilities as artists and as people.

The article isn't making a novel observation that people are shaped by the systems around them but applying that idea to the creator economy.
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This is really incredible, thank you!
Is this basically equivalent to registering a domain, setting up email, and getting services to send you password reset emails to recycled addresses?
I was thinking of a guerilla uptime monitor here, not one maintained by GitHub but independently.
It's just an obvious nonsense. Housing cost is dependent variable of local economic activities. People gather and property prices soar. Taiwan is jam packed so land prices would be higher relative to GDP per capita.

I think GP is finding concept of land scarcity non-intuitive for some reason.
> The main way to reduce unnecessary heat generation in transistor use—to operate them adiabatically—is to ramp the control voltage slowly instead of jumping it up or down abruptly.

But if you change the gate voltage slowly, then the transistor will be for a longer period in the resistive region where it dissipates energy. Shouldn't you go between the OFF and ON states as quickly as possible?
There is only a weak correlation between local income and housing costs, and most of that is that it's hard to get extreme housing prices in areas with low income, rather than that housing in high income areas is inherently required to be expensive.

For example, Boston has a higher per-capita income than NYC but somewhat lower housing costs, and Austin has around the same per-capita income as Los Angeles but significantly lower housing costs. Because it's a lot easier to build housing in Texas than in California.
Going through the _legal_ immigration in the US is hell. Even if you're immigrating through a "talent" visa. Never mind regular work visa/GC.
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Kindly: If you don't have anything to contribute to helping the folks actually affected, maybe don't pick a thread for tools for affected folk to start political grandstanding.

For my friends who have lost their homes, this is extremely useful.
Here in Australia we have a line you can call, I think it was started during covid.

No idea how useful it'd be for non-covid calls though. Probably not very.
Driving in montana before the state implemented a max speed, I'd have my cruise control set at 100 mph. I remember seeing limos pass me like I was sitting still.

I miss those days.
I for one am not worried about this. We still have trouble building robots that can wash dishes autonomously, let alone build nuclear power plants autonomously. The key word here being autonomously i.e. without human intervention, which is what a superintelligent machine would require to grow into this singularity.
Your veiled implication that Nix and NixOS aren't about "getting things done" is, I think, more than a little unfair. I'm using multiple programming languages at work. Each one of them has its own dependency manager that does basically the same job as the other ones. In Python it's Poetry, in Ruby it's Bundler, in JavaScript it's npm/yarn, in PHP it's Composer, etc. A lot of projects require extra setup steps outside of the dependency manager. It's not a good experience that lets you get up and running quickly. And my situation with scripting languages isn't the worst case: God help you if you have dependencies between projects in AOT compiled languages that use different dependency managers.

Of course, the standard answer is to spin up a ton of Docker containers. Docker works, but it looks to me like a local optimum rather than a truly painless solution. It sucks as a build system, and Dockerfiles not being reproducible is the default outcome that needs significant extra care to avoid (how many times have you seen apt update or some equivalent in one)? Besides, why should I have to worry about a whole another OS inside my main OS, with potentially different tooling and conventions, when what I really want is just specific versions of a couple of tools?

I think we've gotten used to development environments being a shitty experience to the point where it seems part and parcel of programming, but when you take step back, it's apparent that the situation causes a lot of frustration and wastes a lot of time. To me, Nix's combination of package manager and reproducible build system looks like one of the most credible ways out. NixOS' declarative configuration and rollbacks are nice side benefits too, for server admins and newbies respectively. Nix just needs a lot more polish. I'm not about to introduce a tool where the most common workflow is still considered experimental. For now, I'll keep using Docker, but I watch Nix with interest and can't wait until its UX matures.

EDIT: Removed claim that Bazel and Buck's creation was motivated by multi-language support. Looks like the main motivations were speed and reproducibility.
I find this fascinating because even using the last models more often than not asking the AI to generate even a test file for a simple module with some controlled state will result in an incorrect test setup that simply won't run, or nonsensical tests that clearly don't reflect what the code is doing.

I often use a coding assistant to handle boilerplate for me or write additional tests after I've given it some correct ones to work of off, but when I read accounts like these I always wonder what's different about our experiences that you feel you can give it bigger asks like that.
You have to remove "/htmlview" from the URL, otherwise the "File > Make a copy" interface is not available
> Hypothetically, you could organize all these people to leave at once, go somewhere else, and re-establish all your social connections. Practically, the "collective action problem" of doing so is nearly insurmountable.

I wonder if we can organize an "alternative social day", where we just all stop using twitter or facebook or whatever for some duration of time, and see what happens.

This idea is based on "World IPv6 Day"[1]. We all knew that IPv4 addresses were going to run out, but we are afraid that something would break if we switch to IPv6. Some big companies got together and say let's just try it for one day and see what would break, and turns out it there weren't significant issues, and IPv6 adoption has been growing since (although it's still not 50%[2]).

Social network effects is not as measurable as IPv6 adoption, but the idea is if a large number of us commit to some date being Mastodon day, Bluesky day, Mixi2 day, etc., and we all tried that for some time to see if nothing breaks, maybe that would be enough momentum to get these other networks rolling.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_IPv6_Day_and_World_IPv6_...

[2] https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
I dont like the idea that person A and person B will be given 2 different prices for the same commodity. It is discrimination.
Senator McCarthy/Roy Cohn and the John Birch Society might like a word. Just replace commie with liberal/progressive/marxist/socialist.

Roy Cohn was Don's business mentor.
FFmpeg is one of those tools I need to use so infrequently that he exact syntax never seems to stick. I've resorted to using an LLM to give me the command line I need. The only other tool that I ever had trouble with was 1990s-era MegaCLI from LSI Logic, also something I barely used from one year to the next (but one where you really need to get it right under pressure).
We literally put a man on the moon because we acquired Werner Von Braun and used his plans... I mean, we probably would have eventually done it, but the timeline likely would have been different and the soviets might have beaten us to the moon, but the time line we are in, we had a space program as successful as it was because we acquired German scientists who were already thinking about these problems a even a decade or so before we started to invest into it.
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