skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's just the trade off between these two scenarios.

- Relatively poor amortized scale out time with good guarantees in the worst case.

- Good amortized scale out time with dropped requests / timeouts in the worst case.

With lambda, it doesn't really matter how spiky the traffic is. Users will see the cold start latency, albeit more often. With Fargate, users won't run into the cold start latencies - until they do, and the whole request may timeout waiting for that new server to spin up.

At least that seems to be the case to me. I have personally never ran a docker image in fargate, but I'd be surprised if it could spin up, initialize and serve a request in two seconds.
"Signal" is used this way throughout physics. For example, CERN has an explainer on the search for the Higgs boson that says,

> When physicists search for a signal of the Higgs boson, they select particle collisions with observed characteristics similar to those a Higgs production would feature.

The "signal" comes from the process being studied, and the rest (at least whatever parts can be modeled stochastically) is "noise." One person's signal is another person's noise, depending on what each person is studying.

1. https://cms.cern/physics/higgs-boson-terms-and-definitions
If you're in the payments business in 2021 and don't have crypto product offerings then you are limiting your customer base. Imo a good decision for stripe, and even better to let others chart the course for a few years first.
March 2020: Masks are useless. Lied

Mid-pandemic: Covid lab leak is a conspiracy theory. Lied

Today: Previous covid infection natural immunity is same as unvax'ed. Still lying.
The next good nuclear news from Finland will hopefully be about the new reactor entering production, currently expected in the next June. The EPR construction has been impossibly overtime and over budget, but one would hope constructing more of the same type of unit should be faster. Right?
That doesn't answer the question. Yes kids have more effective innate immune response. But the vaccinated population can also serve as hosts for potentially evolving new variants. We've been playing dice with evolution of the other 4 endemic coronaviruses for centuries with no vaccines and so far nothing catastrophic has happened. Other than speculative fear mongering about what could happen, is there any actual scientific evidence to expect that SARS-CoV-2 will follow a different evolutionary trajectory?

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/covid-19-will-just-end-up...
And it's not even close.
The whole nuclear power situation is a total clownshow. Here in California we've regulated nuclear out of existence and we're replacing it with natural gas in an effort to save the environment/children. Truly as fucking stupid as it sounds.
There are actually electrochemical cells which do change mass as they charge and discharge, metal-air batteries. In these, oxygen from the air is the cathode used to reduce the metal anode. But mass gain goes the opposite direction: the batteries are actually heaviest when discharged.

Various metals can be used. Iron is cheap, whilst aluminium-air cells actually offer some of the best performance in kWh/kg of available materials, exceeding that of LiON cells.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal%E2%80%93air_electrochemi...
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That was based on all of the rust feedback the author actually got from rust people who talked to him as opposed to people who complained in HN comments.

Hence if you want it to get even better you should provide feedback to the author, and while I absolutely respect your right to decide you can't be bothered, I don't think it's his fault that he's using code that was well-optimized according to the rustaceans who -did- talk to him.
> You know very well the load on the health system is not the same now as it was pre-covid

I never claimed it was.

Listen, this arguing style might work in your circles but not with actual informed grown ups. Do better. This is laughable.

You are ignoring everything in my replies and not engaging
Denmark, the country where they dissect exotic animals at the zoo in front of children. Yes, they now how to deal with a political storm. They handled Covid very well with a good result so far. Congratulations for that! What happened in US was plain ignorance and had nothing to do with trying to come the masses. Yes, I am saying that Trump is a moron.
Any chance you have an HN discount code? :-)
Consciously deciding to not replace capacity when the need for replacement is known decades in advance is a targeted policy.
> Plasma breakeven is all anyone is really working on. Once you have plasma breakeven you have a self-sustaining heater basically, which then can be used to create energy. The point of an "ignited plasma" is that it's self-sustaining and just pumps out heat, even if most of the energy is used to keep the reaction going.

This is dead wrong. First of all, the experiment described here is ICF, in which you have to constantly re-heat new pellets of fuel. Even for MCF, you have to spend inordinate amounts of energy just containing the million kelvins plasma with few kelvin superconducting magnets, and to constantly deliver new D+T into the plasma.

If containment fails at any time for any amount of time, your reactor is instantly obliterated.

Not to mention, your source of heat only heats up by about half of the energy - the other half is radiated away as hard to capture neutrons, which are almost entirely a waste product.

I have no idea why you think that ignited plasma is enough to maintain an energy-producing reactor.

Edit: million kelvins should have been billion kelvins...
She did say that, just after saying that she would be the first in line if public health professionals recommended it.
This is the key point of the research and the tool I built, and clearly I still have some work to do on making this clear on my site:

The objective is not to shift blame from one party to the other, even if its shifting from VRUs to drivers. The important thing is that we emphasize that all car crashes have a cause and known solutions! Nearly all news articles miss this point, and tend to place blame (even inadvertently) on the parties involved rather than discuss how to prevent future incidents from happening.
I'm having a hard time interpreting this; are you saying that because people who believe in religions don't unanimously agree that implies all relgions are false?
I see it as a legitimate way to pay programmers.
You still have the core functionality, but the kind of features that the enterprise likes is paid and supports the development of open source.
Why should everyone work for free to enrich the Kleiner Perkins of the world?
Interesting article. It's been a few years since I've had a play with this kind of stuff; what's the best option available for someone to host custom styled vector maps and display them in a performant way? preferably on an open source stack. I haven't used MapBox before as I was worried about costs and being locked in. I'm interested in experimenting with map interaction/UX.
But I don't want a shit CPU. I can buy a 65 W 8C/16T CPU from AMD (which I need for more productive purposes). Why can't I pair it with a 75 W video card? Should be enough for 1080p gaming.
Good points, but you mean energy, and it’s several hundred times.
Sadly not, as far as I know :/ So unbelievably much knowledge vanished... god bless the internet archive for all such losses they have prevented.
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> My Packages file contains the following about a given package that apt will verify

Those hashes and signature confirm that the package is coming from a maintainer, but it can't confirm nor deny that the package you received was actually built from the sources the maintainer claims to have used. Simply because there's no guaranteed bit-level link between sources and output.

> Or is it that 3/4/10 independent people can independently build the same, concur that the checksums of the built package are all the same, and be confident that none of them are being coerced or hacked?

Yes, the improvement compared to traditional packages is that given the package inputs (sources, dependencies, build instructions) and the output you can be sure that the output is the result of building the inputs. You don't actually need multiple indepdent people: just rebuild the package and compare the hashes. Again, you could try to do this with APT and it will probably work for some very simple software (or some that the Debian maintainers managed to make reproducible), but not in general.
Study this:

https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...

Ignoring storage: it makes no sense now to build anything but wind and solar. Only the marginal cost of gas is cheaper (meaning existing plants, not new ones).

Including storage: conventional is still cheaper, but not by much (within a factor of 2): $81 for PV+storage vs. $44 for gas combined cycle.

We should put more resources into storage now, fusion can wait.
Not sure if poe's law but that's basically the way things are today.
Still not "sustainable".

And not really cheap either.
Cloudflare uses a wall of Lava Lamps as it's backup random number generator (2017)
Their carbon emissions are still dramatically lower than those of coal and oil. There are bigger fish to fry than NG.

NG is likely going to be a critical transitional fuel for the planet to depend on while we get to more abundant renewable options, grid batteries and nuclear/fusion/thorium.
> Former US president Donald Trump admitted to playing down the risks of the coronavirus to “reduce panic”.

The entire premise of this is absurd.
It would be inaccurate, unethical, and potentially libelous for any newspaper to construe the events of a potential criminal act (or any event, really) without doing any investigation to support that conclusion, and primarily in order to further an editorial agenda.
Your question is great and barring other incentives (comments in response to this), I’m also interested in how commercial viability impedes adoption.

In your opinion, what could be done to make the energy generated by fusion competitive? Can we add storage to the mix and therefore compete on a longer time horizon? I know storage itself is expensive.

Is it to say that fusion won’t get adoption from market forces alone, until the cost of construction lowers?
> Doesn't scaling take time, though? Doesn't downloading a new docker container definition and starting it take at least as long as initializing a new lambda function?

Yes, especially because they still don't support caching the image locally for Fargate. If you start a new instance with autoscaling, or restart one, you have to download the full image again. Depending on its size, start times can be minutes...
As long as the knowledge is not lost it's not terribly hard to bootstrap solar power generation.
Our current epistemological crisis has been decades in the making.

The modern No Knowings utterly reject facts, truth, objectivity.

Aka Nihilism.
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finally, I'm not the only one feeling some of the street signs are barely visible at night.
> I must admit I'd forgotten about Magic Leap, amazed to see they're still going and raising even more money.

It's basically the only alternative for an investor who wants to get into AR, other than buying MSFT of AAPL stocks. That's why, despite shipping a V1 almost as good as the HoloLens V1 they are getting funded again.

Problem is, by the time Magic Leap gets it's V2 out there's a good chance we'll be seeing HoloLens V3 in the field.
> even one where the onerous regulations go away and a market price on carbon is available

What do you mean by a "market price of carbon"? From context I would guess that the "market price" would be higher than the current price, but the history has told us otherwise - that is why we have regulations on carbon emissions.
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Yes, you are right. However, this "design choice" makes things less efficient and more cumbersome to compute, not the other way around. There are easy ways to get random numbers from continuous dynamics that do not involve something as painful as quantum fields. There are also some consistency arguments (contradictions arising in classical theories that do not exist in quantum theories, so maybe it was not even a "choice", but the only way to make a self-consistent simulation). And there is the whole interpreation-of-quantum-mechanics issue: it is a separate can of worms to even claim that measurements of quantum observables produce random outcomes (but that question is too philosophical for me).
Some people think developers should always work for free to enrich the executive and investing classes.
I think that making enterprise pay for stuff that matters for enterprises while still providing open source for society should be seen as a positive, sustainable model.
A little late here but just want to add, the original MIT article is paywalled if you’ve read more than your 2 free monthly stories there. The Relevant magazine story is not.

Also it is of interest that a Christian culture magazine is reporting on this, as that’s the kind of thing that needs to happen en masse to fix this problem. It needs to become a main topic of discussion in the communities being targeted by troll farms, and not just in tech circles.

That this article shows that is happening is newsworthy in and of itself.
There is a "best practices" way to do canvas drawing which involves requestAnimationFrame inside a draw loop function, but there is no way to put UI events and drawing on different logical threads. The best you can do is make sure your draw function does not do non-drawing things.
I miss these even after I started eating meat again (but still no beef or pork for me). Nearly impossible to find in Canada.
That's my point. Your CRCs will be much faster if you use the cpu-specific instructions rather than relying on generic C code.
It sounds like the subscription is a one-time, annual deal.

The similar Gamestop program allows people to buy multiple PS5s. The guy I bought mine from acquired several from the same account. From what I could tell, it actually helped scalpers since they got a 1 hour early window to buy them and it took like 45mins to sell out. You were limited to 1 bundle per transaction, but he could get through multiple transactions before they sold out.
I feel like you're reading more into my comments than you should. I'm a developer, too.

Your second paragraph... what is that in response to? How is saying that forcing other developers to follow the tech whims of some wannabe 10X is a bad thing "propaganda in the class war?"
PV+storage is how many hours of storage? Storing enough power to last a night is just getting close to commercially viable afaik, but storing enough power to last a winter is still quite expensive.
And long term emergent structures of society. Not to step too much in conspiracy but an economy first system might naturally steer toward medium level education so that money flows without people thinking too hard or be able to be independent from the usual marketing tricks. It's almost a natural order, smart and cynical will be rewarded by high ranks, while the clueless mass will be spun to fuel the system.
yeah, it’s awesome, does anyone know if there’s a library for doing something like that or do you roll your own?
While this thread is mostly a US centric discussion I wonder if Australia isn't a better case study for this topic. Seems like things are pretty intense there.
Honestly shocked that rust is about 4 times faster than node for the DynamoDB insert workload in the average case. I knew it'd be faster but I would have expected maybe 50% faster since most of the time is probably spent simply sending the data to dynamoDB and awaiting a response.

Also, what is up with Python being faster than Node in the beginning and then getting slower over time? The other languages (apart from graal) get faster over time. I'm referring to the average MS latency at 128MB graph at the bottom.
> My impression is that the top 20% of the job market pays competitively, while the bottom 80% doesn't.

Truth is, it's the top 20% that creates the most value.
I mean a round on an artificially low price.

This is an contrived example: founders own the majority of the company and fundraise $1 from themselves at $1.01 post, wiping out existing investors.
I do appreciate that!

It just seems seriously counter-intuitive to claim that spending 600W to put a moving colour picture on a screen the size of a bed-pillow counts as "efficient".

[Edit: obviously it doesn't take 600W to play back an HD movie - the energy is being spent on game computations, or hashing, or something like that]
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Whether you believe SARS-CoV-2 came from a lab or not, the fact is the technology for engineering pandemic-causing viruses exists and hostile regimes have given no assurances that they won't continue to develop that technology, so we're well beyond any limits imposed by mutation and natural selection.
> Alvin Toffler argued that society is undergoing an enormous structural change, a revolution from an industrial society to a "super-industrial society". This change overwhelms people. He argues that the accelerated rate of technological and social change leaves people disconnected and suffering from "shattering stress and disorientation"—future shocked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Shock
Why do I keep seeeing quanta magazine on hackernews? They've published a lot of very speculative results, often with simple inaccuracies.

Can I filter this out?
> Much of what you describe as 'censoring' was focused on stopping the promotion of false cures eg Hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin, H2O2 nebulization etc.

HCQ, while it has been bourne out that it doesn't work, was a perfect example of miscommunication and "protective censorship" breeding public mistrust: the initial papers that cast doubt on HCQ were based on fabricated data. Based on this initial bit of false data and (a strong helping of the stupidest kind of politics) the media jumped head-first into censorship and ridicule. The clinical trials for HCQ were halted (ugh). And then they were shown to be basing that on fabricated data. It was an utter disaster:

https://www.science.org/content/article/two-elite-medical-jo...

Subsequently, while I don't personally believe that Ivermectin works, we're still waiting for clinical trials to complete. Let's keep a tighter grip on our horses, please.
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Wrong:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan...
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Yeesh

I cannot imagine not setting up at least a basic CI. Even if you remove all unit/integration test alarms, a CI is still very useful. The 20 minutes of build -> upload -> deploy script -> check prod vs a 1/2 day to set up a CI and forget it.

I'm not sure you save much time but you save a lot of headache
> Domains: Respectfully, you don't need to know all the permutations, just the ones that get you what you need

Sure but all of them should fit under a single microsoft.com. As it is, I won't be able to tell if some third party has maliciously created office366.com or if it's actually owned by Microsoft. What's the difference between office.com and office365.com? It doesn't matter: both aren't microsoft.com and therefore both are malicious. And microsoftonline.com? That also looks very suspicious. Wanna redirect from one site to another? Oh man all that you're really wanting to do is to train users to allow cross-site forgeries.

So, respectfully, you have no idea how to make a secure product.
"We should put more resources into breeding faster horses now, internal combustion can wait." - someone in late 19 century.
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Democracy is probably not what's it said to be, it's a necessary emotional escape valve. People are too random to be heard with 100% equal value as you point at. The hierarchy filters through knowledge to steer.
This is a great resource!
What’s “this”? that this Trump statement actually made any difference?
Finland is a hero on nuclear energy development. After the US bailed on Yucca Mountain, Finland is the only country I know building a stable geological waste repository. Great to see the realist Greens coming along on nuclear as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo...

* to be anti-nuclear is to be anti-climate, and pro-coal.
Oh I'm sure there's a better way to give the author feedback than sniping in HN comments.

I'm reacting to your comment here:

> The author was pretty explicit in the article that the rust implementation was suboptimal.

This is not the way the article portrays it.
I think it's called 3D-Secure for debit/credit cards. In Ukraine for example it is pretty much a normal path for online payments. Also our "credit" cards aren't the same your "credit" cards. Ours are basically the same as debit cards but with added overdraft amount and different service fees. They are created by the same banks as debit cards, not by a separate corporations.
Expensive is a really relative term right about now... 64gb DDR4 LRDIMMs could be had for about 250$ each on eBay before the chip shortage. While that price is a "good-ish deal", it really wasn't unheard of. A search I just did returns more than a few hits...

Now compare to single GPU prices...
Maybe for a short outage, I'd expect it to vaporize without the power line noticing. Even if noticed, automated systems will send a test voltage along the lines periodically.
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> currently only 1 or 2 new reactors are under construction and both late and way over budget.

So in a few decades France has forgotten how to build reactors on time and in an affordable way?
No, what I'm saying is that the ways in which they violently disagree mean that their epistemology is useless. At the very least N-1 of N religions are wrong, so I wouldn't ascribe too much weight to their claims in general. If I want to reduce my uncertainty about something in the universe, I won't go to the people who are at best 30% likely to give me a correct answer.
>Fauci (and the CDC) lying about masks out of fear it would cause a shortage for healthcare providers burnt a lot of trust quickly. It probably helped the US get into the polarized situation it's in now.

This confuses me. If the claim that masks "don't work" caused folks to distrust public health authorities, then why are many of the folks who claim to distrust those PH authorities refusing to wear masks?
I use Elastic Beanstalk daily it is maintained and supports everything on AWS, they've added ALB and WAP for example. It runs on Cloud Formation. Never experienced anything "flakey"
Something I have been curious about for a while: How thick of a cable would you need to implement this strategy with traditional cables? I’m imagining something like a large oil pipeline, with a diameter of a couple feet. Is this viable?
Inconsistent PR is just a peek at the giant cesspool of incompetence and corruption that we get when epidemic is managed by people who are better suited to discuss warning labels on cigarets