skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did a double that when I realised that was Kilowatts not Watts. This chip uses more energy in an hour than the average household (in my country at least) does in a day.

It may be a very large wafer but dissipating that heat is still very impressive.
BuildZoom (better way to build custom homes) is hiring remote engineers
Well, when pot was illegal they just arrested them on possession and didn't have to worry about the rest. Now, we need some standards or else some people are getting DUIs.
Most people who commit crimes aren't caught. Around 38% of murders remain unsolved.

Most of those who are caught aren't brought to trial. For obvious reasons, prosecutors strongly prefer cases supported by very strong evidence.

The corollary is there are a lot of murderers walking around unremarked and free - either caught and released for lack of evidence, or not caught at all.

So it's unlikely the death penalty has much a deterrent effect. There would be a much stronger deterrent effect if there was some magic way to increase the catch rate which didn't also intrude on privacy or civil liberties.
Parent probably meant that it outperformed a human expert in some specific task in the area of natural language processing - for example the task of converting a spoken language into a written language...
Yeah, that is exactly what it means. You cannot have the cake and eat it to. If selling sex is a normal job like waiting tables or coal mining (others' examples, not mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26898169) then there is absolutely nothing stopping an unemployment office from compelling a benefactor to prostitution.
I suspect his bottleneck is glBufferData and he should look into buffer orphaning.
Must Love Bogs
SRAM (static RAM) vs DRAM (dynamic RAM) for anybody else curious: https://computer.howstuffworks.com/question452.htm
I think the best you could do would be to get Namecheap on the phone and ask them what they can do. This is not a regulatory issue, but rather a business negotiation. The registrar will accept whatever they can get out of someone for a domain. You could try talking to a few registrars and see if they can help you out. Provided you have the unlock code, it's up to the registrar to accept the transfer and agree to accept a payment for the domain. I don't really have a better answer. Perhaps someone else here does.
Folks - this is what we are outsourcing and externalizing.

When foreign entities are able to bid for a lot less, and pay a lot less, a lot of it has to do with the fact that they will not bother with 'end of life' for ships, or getting insurance, or worrying about the lives of people who are 'expendable'.

Those very nice buildings in Dubai come from some nasty labour practices.

If every piece of this puzzle from end-to-end were to have happened in a 'rich country' there'd be legal issues, PR/media, litigation, and a separate kind of bureaucracy altogether, meaning the 'alternative' for a lot of corporations is just 'wash their hands' of it, pay 1/2 the price, and get all the ugly parts 'off the books'.

We are to the point now where we have ample material surplus - we don't need any more 'plastic stuff from China' - it'd be worthwhile to start integrating a lot of 'off the books' stuff into trade deals. Ironically, it would be good for 'them' as well, because in chaotic, quasi-lawless systems it doesn't make sense for participants to invest in anything further ahead than what is in front of their noses (i.e. don't hate the Lebanese shippers for doing the only thing they can do to remain profitable, i.e. don't hate the player, hate the game) ... forcing some degree of transparency and accountability in these systems might raise prices a little bit, but the benefits would likely be immensely positive in the system overall.

It's nice that the story is made personal, about a real individual (think: that Tom Hanks film about someone stuck in international airport limbo) but that's not really the story here is it.
Next.js + GraphQL + Postgres

Written in TypeScript.
Some people don't like being like that.
Big fan of git-aliasing this to `git back`. I actually use it a ton and that small amount of extra chars plus the "-" makes a pretty decent difference for me.
A strange comment to leave on a social media site.
I'm not sure why this is such a persistent sicking point with people. The post office regularly operates with a 1-5 billion dollar loss. Both UPS and Fedex operate with a net 1-5 billion dollar profit. That represents a theoretical min-max profit difference of about 10 to 2 billion dollar difference in any given year. In a 20 trillion dollar economy it's not even a rounding error.
Virtually every country in the developed world has much lower LTCG taxes than income taxes. It is so ubiquitous that I'm not even aware of a counter-example. Quite a few countries in western Europe have lower max LTCG rates than Silicon Valley has today.

Instead of making a low-effort post, you could have done a single Google search with any of the obvious keywords and discovered this yourself.
If you're interested in shipping I highly recommend the YouTube channel of Chief Engineer Makoi https://www.youtube.com/c/ChiefMAKOi. He has been talking about Mr. Aisha's situation for some time now. Really awesome to see that he's been relieved.
Quandaries of Quinine
So by that logic legalizing child pornography and child prostitution would eliminate the harms associated with those. I am going to disagree with that, not only because its baseless, but also because its absurd.
If you figure it out let me know.
There are a not-small number of people who follow Joel Osteen and other "prosperity gospel" preachers who think God would want them to have the very best, and if that means organic/hippy/overpriced, then so be it.
I misread your comment. Sorry. Thank you for clarifying.

Has anyone, e.g., at Verisign, ever debated this computational/operational cost of using DNSCurve at a large TLD.
Low interest rate != 0 interest rate, so it's not banned. I'm talking about literally zero interest rates, that way proper investments can be encouraged instead of building an empire on usurious and exploitative money lending.

> The reason why we have interest in the first place is to encourage savings and stave off inflation.

It's the other way around, interest causes inflation, because the government has to print money to pay off its debts, thereby devaluing everyone else's hard earned money.
So you start with a small apartment and you end up with an apartment complex and still you don't pay any cap gains eh. Nice loophole?
There is, perhaps surprisingly (or not), already a relevant XKCD mentioning this feature while poking fun at the computational abominations that were already possible in Excel:

https://xkcd.com/2453/

On that note, TFA claims that the introduction of LAMBDA finally makes Excel Turing complete, unlike the kind of Turing machine simulators the stick figure is referring to in the XKCD comic...

> (In contrast, Felienne Hermans’s lovely blog post about writing a Turing machine in Excel doesn’t, strictly speaking, establish Turing completeness because it uses successive rows for successive states, so the number of steps is limited by the number of rows.)
It seems from reading the docs that the “semantic” side is important here. It can track things like redefinitions.

E.g.
const output = console.log;
output(“hello”);

This wouldn’t be caught by ESLint (to my knowledge) but would be caught by Semgrep. I think you could do it with ESLint but given the interface for an ESLint plugin exposes an AST, you’d have to track this yourself. I’m assuming Semgrep could stretch to things like enforcing APIs are called with certain optional arguments present (even if the TS types don’t require it). Again, I think with ESLint you’d have to do more juggling with the raw AST.

That said, this is my understanding from a quick skim!
Just don't ask where that anthrax strain came from.
And Google Maps lists it as a "Shopping Mall"
See, if you were an AI, you would understand EXACTLY what the poster means by this.
I don't see why this is hard to understand.

Nationwide logistics aren't simple. They have to evolve with the times to modernize/automate their operations and adapt to new, unknown cyber threats.

The mail is quite important.
Correct. You already have the same with modern CPUs and GPUs. You just disable the defect parts. Obviously, that sounds way easier than it is.
I'd love to see iMessage for Android or even desktop iMessage for Windows and Linux. I would use iMessage more. I think it would grow Apple's network, not threaten it.
Hence my first statement. That said, the whole context was about a software company.
I moved for university to Toronto, Canada (from India) when I was 18. Despite having lived here for (nearly) 4 years, and loving absolutely every single minute of it, I don't know if and how I will ever be truly claim myself as being "from" Toronto.

Everytime someone here asks me where am I from, I genuinely don't know how to answer them.

Do I say I'm from India? Well, I haven't gone back once in these 5 years, and I do feel more at home here in Toronto than I would in India, so I'm not sure that's fair. So do I then say I'm from Toronto? But that feels almost like cheating - I didn't have a childhood here, I have no stories to recall from school trips, so how can I lay claim to this beautiful city?

I am coming to accept that I truly belong from nowhere. That I have transient experiences that stretch from Delhi to Mumbai to Chandigarh to Toronto to Ottawa (interned there for a year). The inherent complexity of the question "where are you from?" affords it no wrong or right answers, and at least theoretically, I should not be ashamed to claim the place I resonate with the most, or claim no place at all.

PS: Looking at the comments, it does feel nice to know that I am not the only one that somehow continues to seek a sense of belonging.
Similar is https://lib.rs/crates/zoxide if you're a fan of rust based solutions :) .
I like that (browser).

Will definitely dig into it to either use it directly or at least try to implement it in mine see.sh.

Also IMHO you should add short 'youtu.be' regex handler :)

Regards.
The Stoic Developer
How can the chip itself consume that kind of power? Or is the 15kw value for the entire unit? That's like 10 residential space heaters all turned to max. I'm surprised that much heat could be dissipated over such a small surface area. Does it use refrigerant for cooling? If my math is correct, if you had a 6500BTU window air conditioner, you'd need 8 of them to move the heat from this chip.
I think its a question of how you reason about technology. I see technology as an extension of the agency of those who created and operate it, not as even in theory) an autonomous entity distinct from its users. in this view, who is operating the network is where the decentralization-or-not analysis belongs.

p2p requires peers, so called for good reason, because their interests and cost/benefits must align sufficiently for them to engage in using the same protocol. thus, "who these people are" dominates the question of control over the network.

tl;dr behavior of users networked by a putatively decentralized protocol will ultimately conform to the social organization of those users, not to the rules of the protocol. these will be routed around or backgrounded as needed to achieve the objectives of the dominant members of the group hierarchy.
I've enjoyed using https://github.com/kyleconroy/sqlc on a couple of projects. Give it your schema and queries, get type-safe interfaces in return. It's a happy medium for me between all-in ORM and raw SQL.
> When you seem to be arguing that hospitals around the world all independently cooked the books to inflate COVID deaths because of nefarious profit motives, yes, that sounds like the definition of a conspiracy theory.

except for the lack of conspiracy? when did the definition of "conspiracy" change to encompass the actions of individuals not explicitly working in concert with each other?

why is it so difficult to entertain a possible world wherein sars-cov-2 was hyped to be this massively devastating pandemic, and it was indeed pretty bad in terms of confirmed cases... but then when the number of deaths, while definitely nonzero, wasn't reaching the numbers it was "supposed to" on a per-hospital basis, many individual hospitals fudged some numbers here and there in order to get covid money since there was so much of it flying around into everyone else's pockets? this seems like a completely pragmatic, if unethical, course of action to take. there's a lot of hospitals in the US. do you find it likely that nothing along these lines happened at all, and that, again, with billions of dollars getting moved around here and there, and basically zero chance of getting caught, everyone in positions of decision-making unilaterally chose to act 100% as honestly and altruistically as possible?

again, I'm not asking you to accept this possible world as unconditionally Proven Fact or anything like that—I'm merely asking you to entertain the possibility, without breaking the glass and pulling the "Conspiracy Theory" lever. why is this sort of thinking seemingly beyond many peoples' abilities?

where does one acquire this massively optimistic outlook on human nature, especially with regard to those in positions of power, and in the presence of gargantuan amounts of money?
> you can easily make 70k USD in India as a decent mid-level engineer

not that I know anything about Indian tech companies but please don't say that compensation is at FAANG companies. because those are not representative of the industry in general. Otherwise why would India be known for cheap dev's if Mid-levels can easily earn 70k.
Who curates the "news?" Who decides what's news and what isn't?
No, it doesn't. Just type it into google. And each user only needs to do that once.
>why does everyone assume—when obviously, demonstrably massive profit incentives are on the line—that everyone in key positions of power will act 100% honestly and altruistically?

If I hit the nail on the head, you hammered it all the way in putting it that way. Thank you. It's really bewildering, I never expected to see something like this happen, I mean, to see a massive government/corporate push of something, sure, but to see so many just go along with it with seemingly little to no questioning of legitimacy...and when the ability to do further research with hard factual numbers you can think up your own conclusions from...its just bewildering.
Can't wait for cutting edge prisons which AB test changes to diet, schedule, and accommodations to maximize prisoner self terminations.

All within the bounds of strict adherence to ethics regulations of course.
It's the old Wafer Scale Integration again. But now shows a successful product : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafer-scale_integration
My apologies! I didn't mean to mix you up with the original comment I was replying to. I did specifically object to the characterization of the pandemic as a threat to the surivial of the species. I'm glad you agree!
One good thing that has come out of this is that there a precent for leaving ill managed companies. This kind of behaviour is unacceptable and its great that employees have set a precedent.
Stupid title.
> Perhaps people get stressed in interviews?

Like I said, "Of course I recognize that some people may have been severely impacted by the technical interview process to the point that they were intellectually paralyzed."

> I'm not sure I could remember off the top of my head if the function signature

That would be a terrible question. Of course I wouldn't ask that.
After Getting a Covid-19 Vaccine, Women Are Selling Their Breast Milk Online
I am not following. If it is labeled as "sushi-grade" then it is being sold to be eaten raw, and the rules apply, yeah?
What do you base AWS storage having "an enormous markup" on? AWS has a type of storage to meet any access need / budget. S3 Glacier Deep Dive for example is perfect for storing archival items and costs $0.00099 per GB-month. So you can store a TB for about $1 per month.

There are even options like S3 Intelligent Tiering that enable you to store objects on S3 Standard and it will intelligently move them to lower-cost options based on the usage patterns of the data.

There are six different pricing options of S3 storage. There are EBS volumes, EFS volumes, FSx for Lustre and many other options for storage.

I used to mine BTC, currently mine Ethereum and looked into mining Filecoin and was left wondering if the people buying into it have any idea what cloud storage options are actually out there. There is so much competition and the prices are sooooo low that I don't see any viable use case for Filecoin outside of the one you mentioned about being concerned about being shut down by a single vendor.
it's where i go to buy despair.
If there is a bomb threat why can't the FBI or DHS investigate? That is the entire purpose of those agencies.

Should every government agency have a department to investigate threats towards their employees? Why limit it to just the USPS? Why not give investigative powers to the Agency for Global Media or the Administration for Community Living? Should those employees have to risk the very "real and non-trivial" threats they face?

If this was just some sort of way of detecting bombs or anthrax or something I think most of us could get behind it. This is turning the post office into an investigative crime solving agency and not even strictly for the thing they do (mail delivery).
Of course, many third world nations have little regard for their multitude of poor citizens. But I think it's important to high light the way that in situations like this, these nations are forced to accept that the "laws of the sea" trump their own laws and then wind-up unable/unwilling to intervene when a ship, a load of goods or a person winds-up in international legal limbo - the true, horrific poster-child for this was the disastrous Beirut explosion. Enough explosives to level half the city sat in legal limbo for years ... until they did that, yeah. And as we see here, there are many terrible but more mundane examples.
Personally I'm more interested in meat from species which don't reproduce in captivity, like some (all?) octopuses.
For a command-line relative, note that you can write a custom .lessfilter to decide the beginning of your paging pipeline. When syntax-highlighting, be sure to call less with -R.
Nasty labour practices... It's just slavery. This poor gentleman was forced into slavery.

You're right that this is what we're outsourcing. All of the corporate trade agreements - American manufacturing was shipped overseas, and American labor forced to compete with what is often a modern form of slave labor.
Everything about the place; the food, the space, the people who work there, the music; they have exceptionally good taste.
I use that on test machines a lot and had put it in bashrc and heard some cussing from other devs so now I just have to type it every time I spend more than acouple seconds in a terminal :) .
I have met people who have won the lottery and been struck by lightening but I have never met anybody who has had a run-in with a SWAT team.
Really? I thought it was called Mass Existential Dread.
>What I will say is that almost every house in the United States is built poorly

I would love more details on why this is (certainly I'd expect poor build quality in certain housing boom areas in Florida, but not everywhere).

Also I've always thought reinforced concrete was the way to go, over wood, if I lived anywhere near hurricanes. I also thought this might mitigate against high wood prices recently. Apparently it doesn't though - still need molds made of wood to hold the concrete in place while it dries and those are generally thrown away after.
Too bad there's no vaccination for iconitis.
Most such criminals are likely to be imprisoned for crimes other than murder, so you're going to have the problem anyway. Better to address the actual issue rather than use it as an excuse.
> This thing pulls 15-20kW of juice!

If you look at the wafer she’s holding at the top, it’s seemingly segmented into a 12x7 grid of roughly chip-sized rectangles. That’s 84 “CPUs” at 200-240 watts each, which is pretty well in line with discrete server CPUs.

The amount of heat coming off this thing must be amazing, though.
The key difference is that as a multinational company, you have more options than as an individual. It would be even better if you have your company provide you services which are then written off as business expenses. Not having a US citizenship might be even better as you can earn your money by being a resident in a tax friendly country (say Dubai) and traveling in and out carefully.
I think I once saw one of the founders with a wafer in an In n' out with a potential investor. Looking at what Apple achieved with their M1A and the demand for "AI" - or training neutral networks, what it really is - they have a lot of potential.
At least as long as the AI bubble doesn't burst.
What are you doing in your life that you've had your wallet confiscated by the police multiple times?

Not judging, just curious.
I think inflation is the tax on cash as a security. That's what all the cryptocoin people are harping about.
No bomb cloud that dispersed heavy elements.
Thanks - I will check that out.
> you won't be asked about memset or any C-related question unless you stated you were proficient in C and picked C as your interviewing language

I might not ask about C-specific context, but if you don't know how to write a value to a sequence of bytes, you have no business being a SWE at Google.
https://git.2f30.org/soap
Is there no Russian/ex-USSR expat community where you live?
Well at this scale they just over provision it by ~1% which is basically binning.
It's a commonly held misconception that Pi is proven to be normal - it is NOT (it is a conjecture as of now) [1] [2]. Proving normality of number is a very hard problem, and hardly any numbers outside of purposefully constructed ones (such as Champernowne's constant [3]) are proven normal.

In fact it's not even proven that every digit occurs infinitely many times in the decimal expansion of Pi. [4]

So https://github.com/philipl/pifs is wrong in claiming that all byte stream will exist somewhere in Pi (it's not proven). Also it's worth calling out that even if Pi was Normal it will likely take more space to store the indices of two location as it will for original data itself (for at least majority of the integers), so it's not much of a "compression" strictly speaking. It's easy to see how this will work out for a known normal number - Champernowne's constant [3] -> Unlike Pi, Champernowne's constant is guaranteed to contain all the possible natural number sequences, but storing just the starting index of them in this constant is going to take much longer than the entire number itself (e.g., number "11" start at index 12 (1-indexing), number "12" starts at index 14, and so on - the size of index increases much faster than integer being looked up itself).

[1] https://mathworld.wolfram.com/NormalNumber.html

[2] https://math.stackexchange.com/a/216578

[3] Champernowne's constant (in base 10) is the concatenation of all positive integers and treating them as the decimal expansion (following "0."): 0.12345678910111213... It can be trivially seen that it contains all natural number strings. It is also proven to be Normal in base 10 (which is a stronger property). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champernowne_constant for details.

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number#Properties_and_e...
Finding and fixing elusive Python memory leaks
What i see and taking in account the higher comments about economics of scale is that at some point synthetic meats will become cheaper that natural so food manufacturers will start replacing it with a tiny disclaimer “may contain synthetic meat” and that if the FDA forces them to.