skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It won’t be optimal, but if you stockpile enough and then administer it all at once, it effectively grants herd immunity for about two months, and the virus isn’t able to transmit during that time. Two months is longer than the incubation period of the virus. So you see where this is going.

Now if it isn’t close to 100% effective then you’ll probably still need people to quarantine, so, good luck with that.
That makes sense. Downvotes here seem to be more meaningful than in most other forums.
One of the most important thinkers today on the right is George Will, who is anti-Trump and an atheist. If you look at the National Review, there are lots of writers on the right who are either full anti-Trump or at least don't like him. So I think even within "the right," it's hard to pin down what the orthodox position is.

But yes - on HN, supporting Trump is a big no-no, no matter what the reason (even if roughly half the country voted for him).
Surely they can find a way to fund it without international students if they have it.

I think it's about all the other added values. So much comes out of these universities. All the researches, studies, entrepreneurs, inventors. That's the main goal.
The sad thing is that the way the software industry is structured, it creates environments where juniors are doing the deep work and people with more experience are doing shallow logistical work.

We have it totally backwards.
If you go with air cooling on a threadripper, I suggest going with a Noctua cooler instead of Dark Rock. Dark Rock extended the size of the heat plate to match the TR cpu size, but they didn't cover it with heat pipes, Noctua did. Cooling performance really suffers on the 3990X because there are chiplets on the edge of the cpu. the 32 and 24 core models it may not matter so much.

See: https://www.kitguru.net/components/cooling/luke-hill/threadr...

On non threadripper cpus I actually like Dark Rock better. Cooling is the same as Noctua but it looks cooler and was quieter for me.
The Irony of TypeScript and React
great; so it's controlled by a big tech cartel, not a single company. that totally addresses the author's complaints >.<
> Ding-ding-ding - you hit the nail on the head!

Meta-comment: I find this style of argument (make one claim, have the claim debunked, make a different claim and say "see I was right") to be very annoying, and I wouldn't mind if it disappeared from HN.
IIRC PC power supplies are most efficient at around 80% utilization. Below that they are not able to hit their "rates" efficiencies.
GitHub used to have a pretty cool status page, with all kinds of real time graphs. Does anyone know what happened to it? Since it makes me really sad that this status page is a plain lie, I had to visit HN to get the confirmation that they are having issues again, and that it just wasn't only me.
I'm a bit concerned the build uses a Gold Certified power supply unit?

Even for cheaper builds for non-ML workstations I would still only use Platinum and nothing less. I've been told Titanium is excessive but I mean I leave these things on for a while and power is expensive.

For the DIY enthusiast or the WFH researcher, also the amount of heat involved can be a considerable cost in cooling or utility cost which varies substantially by floor of a building. It's probably not good, but not that bad to aircool this many GPUs as I've done in the past but it definitely means I'm paying a lot for A/C in the summer but almost nothing in the winter.

I think Smerity even said he heated his small bedroom through the San Francisco winter off of one GPU while researching YOLO.

Point: These things get hot. They require a lot of electricity. You should be concerned about a good PSU even for smaller builds. My energy cost for a 6GPU rig ran me about 1/3 of my total rent for a small apartment. That's electricity BEFORE I calculated my A/C bill which was separate and also substantial. My landlord hates me because I initially talked him into including it with my rent.

All in all, it still makes sense to keep investing in local workstations, on-premises builds. No security concerns about a cloud, no futzing around with integrated notebooks, you own it you control it, and the price point up front is extremely attractive compared to base rates for cloud computing even on specialized hardware like a TPU.

The numbers I come up with for batches still have a wide gap of several thousand USD most of the time, and then there's how much time it takes and how likely their service breaks.

So kudos for the person who put in the effort to put this together and share. Any and all efforts towards making ML/DS affordable and DIY rises the tide for all boats.

Question to the audience: Does anyone build GPU rigs like this for cryptocurrency anymore? I was only able to build a workstation once the price for GPU cards crashed.
Pick up a neuroscience book and you're going to quickly find out why your statement isn't possible. Have you ever had to conduct tech interviews or spoken to people who have? Tech interviews are the biggest crapshoot you'll ever see, for every 100 interviews you'll be lucky to find a single person who can code fizz buzz on the fly, introduce a small variation in fizz buzz that requires them to be able to read their own code and they can't modify their own code. The number of people who have a long enough short term memory and can concentrate on a single thing for three hours straight is exceedingly small.

Even the very best tech companies are constantly filtering through thousands of people who claim to have worked on extremely complicated development projects but can't code extremely simple things.
>I had an accident that led to second degree burns on my thighs

>a friend was diagnosed with cancer

A small rationalist plea — if you’re considering having offspring, biological or digital, please seriously consider the ethical implications of intentionally creating consciousnesses that can and will experience these kinds of suffering.
Given this disastrous result for the Commision -- I don't think they will but I'm not sure.

They'll be accused of wasting time and doubling down will further enrage EU citizens unless they can ensure a favourable outcome.
At least until something better comes along.
Many times on the Internet I've read, that you can't really get security
without openness. Both in software and in organisations.
LaunchDarkly vs Nonfig
I experimented heavily with nootropics right around the time Limitless came out. I shudder when I think of the copious amounts of time and money I squandered. It is a fool's errand. It is virtually impossible to quantify efficacy absent any real scientific rigor and the potential to do more harm than good is great. The most important lesson I learned about mental well-being and cognition after all was that there are no shortcuts. Diet, exercise, mindfulness, and persistence in whatever you are trying to become better at are the only ways to actually improve. At best the rest is inert snake oil and at worst you are harming yourself.
Hiring tools mostly claim to do everything. Here's what they actually do
As an engineer who works on security software, here's what I've empirically used on the job:

1. Tree/graph traversal (certificate validation and a couple other random places)

2. Using, not implementing, hash tables

3. Generators/iterators/streams: minimizing the number of unnecessary list traversals or allocations made when you have to shovel data around

4. Circular buffers: specifically in low latency, high throughput applications

5. Some exotic string search algorithms in a very specific, highly performance sensitive inner loop

6. Database query performance tuning

7. Every now and then something vaguely reminiscent of dynamic programming comes up, but it's never an actual dynamic programming problem, it's just a "cache results of expensive operations" problem.

For my job you need something exotic once in a blue moon, and when that happens you Google for someone else's research. You're not making up algorithms on your own. If you want to test that someone can handle algorithm-heavy situations like case #5, you should be testing their paper reading and ability to implement that paper, not their ability to solve an algorithms puzzle.

Also relevant to my job: if you find yourself implementing cryptographic algorithms, you're almost certainly doing it wrong. You shouldn't be implementing cryptographic algorithms. When I need them, my job is to vet and correctly use an expert implementation.
It's not just a hook - black people are oftentimes the testing grounds for unjust programs that expand in scope to engulf other peoples (e.g. the prison industrial complex). The full tag line should be "All lives will matter when Black Lives Matter" because they are at the intersections of so many institutional inequities.
Any time you take your kids to get immunized they tell you the spiel about "Expect xoreness and swelling at the site, fever up to xxx for three days. If it lasts longer we need to see them back"

Discomfort is totally expected with vaccines.
Death of their kids has fueled them for centuries and they don't see that concerned about it.
Ah, so we do have organization-specific landing pages, kind of like Slack does for workspaces.

If a user visits a link to an issue within an organization, and they're unauthorized, we'll redirect them to that organization's landing page.
Thought experiment: If one were to make a very simple yet popular program, for what reason would that entitle them to a job somewhere? I'm having trouble thinking of one.
> The person poked an accepted truth, and in doing so, committed heresy.

That's not an accurate characterization, though. In the case of the particular statement you mentioned, what happened is that the person said something that clustered with things said by a lot of silly people. It is rational (in a Bayesian sense) to take that as evidence that the person making the statement is also silly. The main reason people won't engage in argument about it is because nobody cares that much whether you believe some weird unlikely thing about history. It doesn't affect anything, even in the unlikely event that you were right.

There are plenty of heterodox statements that don't have this effect to the same degree. For example, "dark matter doesn't actually exist, and instead serves as a kind of scientific 'god did it' get out of jail free card." This is a heterodox view, but one that doesn't get you cancelled or immediately called crazy. People will be skeptical of the view, and you'll need to bring some pretty heavy arguments, but that's basically tautological. If it were not so, the view would not be heterodox.
The other commenter mentioned the “pro-level” tradeoffs, but there’s something else too: Nvidia’s licensing won’t let you use GeForce cards in the cloud. If you’re building a datacenter, you have to use the Teslas.
>> The best way I know would be to work with someone for a week or two on a real problem,

So if I get the job will we just touch base ever week or so? This sounds unlikely. Why can't you break work down to the point that you can pay me for 3-4 hours of real output and then use that to evaluate my quality?

All these tests around recursion and linked lists, etc are a feel-good proxy for actually measuring suitability, If someone is actually implementing them (IF!) it's not the junior, new-person; it's the senior architect who does it once every few years in a shared library. I can count the number of times I've used recursion in (a) a non-toy implementation and (b) not ripped it out and replaced with a faster, clearer iterative implementation on one hand.
What's the greatest accomplishment you're aware of that didn't require "chugging down" some hard work that the person hated?
Interview with NBC The Voice semi-finalist “Zaxai”
As far as I remember HN runs on a single core of a single server. I wonder whether this has changed more recently, though.
> There's no "anti-trust" for your own marketplace within your own devices.

Nope, it is not Apples device, it is a device of the user. Apple just produces them, users should have ability to use the devices as they see fit.
It’s not cheap, but on the other hand you get a lot. They handle the billing, credit card fees, returns, reviews, the site, bandwidth, updates, uptime (reliability ain’t cheap), security, and 10 other things I’m not thinking of. Oh, and the full updated toolchain and dev environments... Let’s also recognize that effectively the devs are paying some for the platform, just like the users are when they buy the phones. We all are paying in because it’s better (for us), otherwise go elsewhere... I would.

You as a dev just create a simple parked webpage for your app and you are done. So many barriers to entry are just dissolved. At no upfront cost to the developer. That’s huge.

I think the many many business that prefer to be on this environment, and always have, speaks to the value of that 30%.

Maybe 30% is a little high, it’s really hard and subjective to say. But it’s not crazy... there is a lot of value provided for that 30%.
I'm sure I am!

Look, there are not a lot of great polls about people's opinion on whether sex and gender are different. PRRI has a poll on general support for trans people (https://www.prri.org/research/americas-growing-support-for-t...), which suggests that 62% of Americans support letting trans people serve in the military and a plurality oppose bathroom bills. It also shows that a majority of Americans believe that there are only two genders, but only 43% of Americans believe that "strongly," and of course you could believe that sex and gender are different while also believing in only two genders. I don't see clear proof one way or another, but this poll suggests that probably about half of Americans believe that gender can differ from sex. (I'll admit that for non-Americans, it's probably much lower.)
> The finding allows the CIA to more easily authorize its own covert cyber operations, rather than requiring the agency to get approval from the White House.

What a horrible policy. Not only do we get covert acts of war not authorized by Congress, without a declaration, in defiance of the War Powers Act, but now they don't even need specific executive authorization. Unelected permanent bureaucrats in times of peace can now launch major aggressions against foreign countries without direct approval of anyone accountable to the electorate.

Congress devolves power to the presidency, and now the president devolves power not only to unaccountable bureaucrats, but to the most professionally conspiratorial, paranoid, secretive among them.
Orthodox privilege probably exists but, at least in the US, we also see a lot of people who fetishize independent-mindedness to a degree that's irrational as well.

I have advocated before for epistemic learned helplessness (https://scienceforsustainability.org/wiki/Epistemic_Learned_...).

> thinking for ourselves is over-rated in most cases. In most cases, for most of us, good science and pseudoscience, good history and pseudohistory are going to be equally convincing. Bayesian logic suggests that sticking with mainstream experts and consensus thinking is a safer bet than rolling the dice on the Galileo Gambit.

So PG seems to be arguing that orthodox privilege is bad and independent-mindedness is important while Scott Alexander seems to be arguing that conventional mindedness should be the default. They're both very convincing essayists. Who is saying something true that can't be said and who is saying something popular but false?
> And China, if anyone, has shown how protectionism, and making sure outside companies can only reach your internal market if they play by your rules, and favoring national companies over international ones, is a winning strategy in the 21st century.

The winning strategy depends very much on what stage of economic development a country is at. Developing countries often benefit from some level of protectionism (this is the "infant industries argument," which Alexander Hamilton proposed), but developed countries benefit much more from lower trade barriers. In 20 years, it will be China that is pushing for developing countries to lower their trade barriers.
I feel like it goes both ways. I don't buy into the idea that 'any' friction is 'orthodox privilege' or anything else. In the meantime it is standard operating procedure / so easy for most humans to assume that any real friction is some sort of system or an act of bad faith.... and couldn't possibly be because of something else.
You could have said the same thing about the Iraq war. Obviously there are wildly differing definitions of "useful".
You'll never find an optimal layout, they're all compromises.

I've switched to US intl 15 years ago and I don't type in French any slower than I used to. On the other hand I benefit greatly from using the default layout in our very US-centric field.
Yes, that's a really good point. Thanks for expanding.
Gotta keep everyone riled up and at each other's throats while we pilfer the country.
I had a long conversation about this with a friend.

I think his biggest crime here was that he made some women feel they were special, when really they were just another one night stand... It seems he had a lot of female fans that wanted to sleep with him, and he slept with them. He didn't force anyone into anything, everything was consensual.

IMO, what he did wrong was that he didn't explain to each women that they weren't special. He probably made them feel they were special knowing that they were just a fling to him. He didn't explain that he had a different woman in his hotel the previous night and will likely have yet another woman in his hotel tomorrow. The women claim that without this information they couldn't give consent and essentially withdraw their consent after the fact.

I think that the women here were groupies.... They maybe didn't believe they were groupies, but they were groupies. They were also incredibly naive.

So It seems to be an information problem. How much information must you present to a potential sexual partner before sex to allow them to make an informed decision and give consent? Can you withdraw consent after the fact if you discover more information that leads to your ego being damaged or your heart being broken ? Where is the line drawn here between victim blaming and saying that people should take some personal responsibility? I personally know people that say that a women can withdraw consent anytime after the fact and the act becomes rape. I don't agree with this at all, but obviously some people do!

Don't get me wrong, he sounds like an arsehole. He knew what he was doing and it looks like he was cheating on his long term partner too. The whole thing is a bit icky, but I don't think he did anything that wrong.
I currently reading this article. Sofar, I really enjoy it.
Could you edit your post and list which countries (and states) you operate in and plan to expand to? I know HN is mainly US based and that many YC startups tend to be US based. But it would be useful for people to know about the geographical reach because unlike online SaaS launches that probably can work worldwide for many solutions, this one has many physical aspects to it.
The unix file system is a database, just not a particularly capable one. It is a hierarchical key-value database, with the file/directory name being the key. If your data fits that schema you're golden, otherwise not so much.
Right, so the bit I was missing here is that you're saying the properties won't be quickly re-listed or replaced by other landlords. Thanks.
> If this is happening in healthy young people, what will the side effects look like for older or more vulnerable people who actually need it the most?

May be better on that axis (only way to know is to do the trial). Efficacy, on the other hand, is likely to be lower. Both sides of the same coin: you probably get less of a response from the old.
Kind of reminds me of Factor Tables: https://github.com/RowColz/AI
Stock market is reacting very positively to this vaccine. The journal paper and health analysts consider immune response to be significant after booster and side effects relatively minor in all participants. Yet here you're quoting a Twitter posts that is brought to the top of the discussion on HN despite being not a primary or secondary, but a tertiary source.
The market is big enough that you will see good quality competitors. Just think how the PC market would look like if it was closed to Microsoft.
There's an amusing parallel with the justification Foucault gives for his focus in the first volume of "The History of Sexuality".

He points out that, for a very long time, people speaking/writing about sexuality have tended to make some sort of gesture at the fact that we can't or aren't supposed to talk about these things.

You can find a gloss of this "repressive hypothesis" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Sexuality#Volum...
That's wild, because I'm not sure we ever looked at Mixpanel's invite modal (great minds think alike?). We do however use Amplitude at Sentry, from which the "Request to Join" link definitely draws inspiration.
Chrome is bad with memory if you’re a tab hoarder, and some extensions can also be problematic. They have an update in the pipeline which will dramatically decrease memory use for background tabs.

I haven’t really seen the memory problems with slack, but we use the free slack without extensions. Maybe it has a similar problem with extensions?
If it was secret how come you know about it?
$560 billion went directly to individuals, or 467 times as much as Boeing's deal in the article.

If you are looking for an example of how the government prioritizes Boeing ahead of people who can't pay their rent, this is not that.
Jio Glass Demo (India Jio's mixed reality glass)
>Going back to George Washington, the absolute hardest thing anyone can do is give up power.

Perhaps true in general, but George Washington's case was a bit different. He was exhausted by the presidency, and had been continually frustrated by how poorly his beloved Mount Vernon had been managed in his absence. Giving up power was a blessing for him.
> Nobody is forced to choose iOS.

Oh, I didn't know one can install other OS on iPhones.

Same reasoning could be applied years ago: Nobody forces users to use Windows.
Do you want people with an inferior knowledge of the complexities of the system making the large, broadly-impacting decisions?

Someone's gonna get the less experienced junior somewhere.
One point that is mentioned way down in the article: most animal leather is a byproduct of raising animals for meat. Even if you replaced all leather with this, it wouldn’t have much effect on global warming or animal welfare.
You could, kind of, combine the benefits of both by using something like Rocketbook.

It's a re-usable (original version can be wiped with microwaving it) paper notebook designed to be OCRed into Evernote, Google Drive, Dropbox and others.
I read an article about it, look for "status page evolution" https://nimbleindustries.io/2020/06/04/has-github-been-down-...
> but the post contradicts itself in presenting it as a product of our time.

No. It doesn't. Nope. It presents the phenomenon as something that's always true - recall the discussion of time traveling and meeting the same dynamic with different particulars in each time and place.

Moreover, "the point of this post" is abundantly clear: the more closely your views adhere to the mainstream, the more blind you'll be to the costs of holding opinions outside the mainstream because you don't encounter those costs. It's a good point and not hard to understand.
Numerous suggests you can still count them, which is an incalculable win against any other platform.
Apple makes billions in profit from the App Store. It increases by double digits each year still too.

Quick search will show articles. Some might point straight to their earnings.
Yeah, I'm seeing the same. The branch reflects the new commit, but the PR open for that branch does not show it.