skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or maybe it's we've been warning about this for 50+ years now and the fruit is coming to bear.

I'm not sure if it's what you meant, but your post just reeks of "Lets keep doing the things we always did because it was so much better then", while discounting the massive amounts of damage we were doing then.
Most of my experience with Docker Desktop is on a Mac behind a corporate proxy. I swear with every update they either removed my proxy settings or changed the behavior of how docker build and docker runtime inherited the proxy settings. It was maddening because inevitably everyone on the team had different versions and therefore different behaviors. Took away the whole point of having a common tooling container.
You’re right, I spoke carelessly. The proper term is that the blog is running on a “TPU VM”, which is exactly what you describe: a box with /dev/accel0 that libtpu.so uses to communicate directly with the TPU hardware.

The difference is, every TPU VM has 96 cpu cores and 350GB of RAM. (Pods only get 48 cores per host, but they have 1 host per 8 TPU cores, and the smallest pod has 32 TPU cores, for a whopping 1.2TB of RAM and 196 CPU cores.)

Which is to say, I still think of them as “a TPU”, because nowhere in the world have I ever been able to access that amount of raw horsepower. Not on x86_64 Ubuntu that you can pip install things on, at least. Like a blog. :)

Wanna see a magic trick? Clone tensorflow onto a TPU VM and start building it. htop will light up like a Christmas tree (https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1400771262901854214) and it'll finish in about 25 minutes flat, if I remember correctly.

So yeah, Google is throwing around compute like Israel doling out vacations to Tel Aviv for distant relatives: it’s totally free. Partake!

(I’m really looking forward to seeing Israel someday. I never realized how beautiful the beaches are...)

96 core TPU VMs, free as in beer! It’s so exciting that I just can’t shut up about it.

TRC gives you access to 100 separate VMs the moment you sign up.

Having access to 100 VM-yachts totally rules. SSHing into 100 of them feels like commanding a WW2 carrier division, or something.

It’s quite literally too fun: I have to force myself not to spend all day unlocking their secrets. There’s so much new territory to explore — every day feels like a tremendous adventure. Our computing ancestors could only dream of exploiting as much hardware as our M1’s take for granted, let alone one of these behemoths. Let alone one hundred!

I went back to look at my old notes. Christmas in 2019 was magical, because in January of 2020 I managed to fire up santa's 300 TPUs, while a colleague fired up santa's other 100 TPUs. Then we swarmed them together into a tornado of compute so powerful that even connecting to all 400 TPUs required special configuration settings ("too many open files" aka sockets): https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1221241517626445826

We were training models so fast that I bet even Goku in the hyperbolic time chamber would have a hard time training faster.
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There's code for the L3, but it doesn't work since end of may because the new RSA keys aren't public

https://github.com/tomer8007/widevine-l3-decryptor

Find the code in the forks, since it was DMCA'd

There's none for L1 and L2 though
What’s harder to find than microchips? The equipment that makes them
Uhhhh… India doesn’t have a great track record on executing these types of projects.
Let's ignore the fact that uranium is a finite resource and that existing reactors have EOL dates and assume that the west, India and the rest of the world matches China and the world collectively build 600 reactors in the next 15 years, for 2 trillion USD. Congratulations, you barely doubled the amount of reactors and their share of the world's energy production rises from around 2% to 4%.

Meanwhile the world needs to hit net zero emissions in around 2050. I'm agnostic about nuclear power but it's not the solution to global warming. Rich nations still need to reduce their emissions by 10% per year over the next decade and the developing world has to do the same starting around the 2030s.
1. If she was the one who initiated HR complaint against her manager, she should have started keeping proofs on a separate device (other than her work laptop). It's a mistake if she didn't do so.

2. Naming names on twitter reflects very badly for her for future opportunities. But, she is ex google and should not have trouble finding a new job
I live in a fairly rural, but affluent, part of Michigan now, and at one of the township board meetings, they were discussing a proposed bike lane. The reason they didn't want it? Only one person (on the board) really said anything at all, and his reasoning was that he imagined a scenario in which there would be some sort of biking event where lots of people would be biking the trail, and his driveway could somehow end up getting blocked. Keep in mind, this is a rural area where most properties sit on 5-10+ acres at least, and the driveways are very far apart generally.

It didn't make a whole lot of sense to me, but I just got the impression that for whatever reason, they were deeply opposed to the idea of people being able to safely bike down country roads. After living in San Francisco and Indianapolis in the years before, it was definitely weird seeing people being opposed to bike paths, especially when it would not interfere with their country life almost at all. Maybe they thought it would start them down a path of changing their way of life? I don't know.
Copyright holders upload their music and videos on youtube, pictures on photo sharing sites, yet they get upset if those are used by someone else.

You could say that copying the data was not their intention, but can we say that copying was the intention of the copyright holder of the NFT data?

At most, this is only the next logical step from what we already have.
I have a faint memory of writing custom memory manager and allocating memory in bulk upon program start. But it was still a mess. Eventually had to periodically pause and defragment the memory allocations, rewriting pointers and so on. Well, at least it was fast.
Probably the best book on this topic is The Great Divide:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13426005-the-great-divid...
It looks like it's "only" a way to connect mobiles phone to each other without having the internet or even a telecom operator, doesn't it?

I had a nightmare two nights ago of being stuck in a neighborhood downtown Addis during a conflict without any phone connection: with my stunning super powerful phone in my hand, but with NO way to communicate to somebody else around me: completely useless peace of hardware (using even too much electricity).
Suppose you prevent those 4k+ libraries from running code during install: you're building software that you'll run immediately afterwards.

If you don't trust those libraries enough to run code during installation, why do you trust them enough to run code _after_ installation?
What's your workflow with lock files? Do you force them in CI/prod only or also in dev?

I'm tempted to enforce lockfiles at every stage of the product cycle, making upgrades an explicit action, rather than the side-effect/byproduct of another action. Does it make sense? What do you think?
I started to heavily using vim since the last few months because writing code through SSH is very attractive for my current situation.

For me, learning vim is like learning an foreign language, a few hundred words (or few hotkey/:commands for vim) can get you started, but it's not easy to reach the level of native speakers, and some old rules in your language (for example, HJKL keys in vim vs the "natural" arrow keys) will interfere your progress.

Maybe I'm going to piss many people off here, but vim is not an user-friendly text editor. An user friendly editor should pop some kind of prompt when I pressed the first g/G key and show me what I could press the next, not telling me to read :help (which probably has the volume of a dictionary at this point).

Based on my 2 minutes with Micro and the information I read from it's `help defaultkeys`, the size of it's hotkeys are more healthy and manageable. So that's a plus from me.
I'm thinking of one particular discord server where there was a small group of interested contributors. Then the creator split it into dozens of subchannel categories that I suppose they thought made sense. It was overwhelming and felt like too much work just to figure out where you needed to chat. Most of the channels saw no activity at all, and interest in the server died.

What you do instead is start with one channel about the topic of interest. If people start talking so much about "alternative topic b" that it interferes with the main topic, then (and only then) do you splinter it off to its own channel.

People can then mute that channel and boost the signal that they came there for. But it has to come from a genuine need.

My other pet peeve is when people get gung-ho over moving a currently active discussion to the "correct" channel. More times than not, it's too much trouble and just kills a discussion that would have otherwise been interesting and fruitful.
> The Korean-Tamil hypothesis comes to mind

This one doesn't seem to have a lot behind it. There are a handful of nice coincidences, but that's all.
Man, we’ve built an internet where you literally can’t trust anything.
I think loopholes are possible and are being used whenever feasible. What if prevailing wage is uniformly low, it’s just that employees who are more equal than others receive bonuses?
The post says: "discord just doesn’t scale well, because it lacks good threading"

However, they recently added threads[1] where users can start small temporary channels for discussions.

[1] https://support.discord.com/hc/tr/articles/4403205878423-Thr...
Agree.

We need it for trading tranches of currency (cryptocurrency especially), shares of stock, ownership of physical items like real estate/trading cards/authenticity documents for signed memorabilia/trading used games (GameStop and Loopring!), much more.
At a quick glance I can't tell what makes this so impressive. The Gigatron outputs VGA with significantly fewer resources[0] than an ATMega88, for instance.

[0] except for the ram I suppose.
Maybe that’s the play to transition western consumers off of meat diets. Gotta happen someday soon, right?
If the figures in https://www.farmprogress.com/figuring-corn-fertilizer-costs are still reasonable, current prices would put corn fertilization costs at about $120 an acre.

With 200 bushels per acre and corn futures at about $5, it's a noticeable percentage of the price of corn, but at least it isn't apocalyptic.
If you're fiddling with logs, pick an editor that can handle (theoretically) unlimited file sizes -- which is something that very few mention supporting. vim will do you great stead for what you seem to need.
Entertainment News dominates Western citizens' political views, why not scale it?!
I would be interested to see a serious comparison between the two. This debate comes up every single time that Vim is discussed and I'm honestly not really sure where I come down on it. As a Vim user I know that editing this way _feels_ better and faster but I'm not sure how true that actually is. One thing that I can say for sure is that it has done wonders for my RSI.
If it wasn't so low the universe would be dead.

We see this is large blue stars. They burn through their fuel supply in millions of years and years and explode with the force of a billion suns. Meanwhile small stars can burn for billions and billions of years because they are conservative with their hydrogen supply.
> full-time Wikipedian / Expert Wikipedia Rules Lawyer and self-appointed lord of said article.

So absolutely true. These people are insufferable. Any time I've made a non-trivial edit to Wikipedia I usually end up clashing with these people. It really sucks because a lot of the time, they don't argue in good faith, and throw every rule in the book at you to get their way, while hiding behind a facade of impartial rule-abiding.

So frustrating, and has drastically lowered my confidence in Wikipedia.

Also, it's fun to note the "lords" of various general topics. Find an article about a person in the right-wing political sphere and you're very likely to find the same small set of "Wikipedian" toadies ruling over it with an iron fist. I'm sure the same goes for many other topics that aren't about politics.
> What is wrong with the Irish model? A President who is directly elected, but also largely apolitical, a mostly ceremonial role with strictly limited powers.

Nothing necessarily, as long as people understand it is a symbolic position.

It is interesting to note that of the top ten countries in The Economist's Democracy Index, eight are constitutional monarchies:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index#By_country

Ireland and Iceland are the two that are not, and Iceland changed to a republic in "only" 1944. In the top twenty, a lot of the countries also have ceremonial heads of state.
Currently, yes.

In about...35min, no.
Quick look at “she/her” twotter profiles shows quite a bit of toxicity. The linked in profile shows mod to senior experience.

Her naming her manager proves the manager right. I’d take this worker to court asap for damaging my reputation and public harassment.
It‘s been 9 years since Valve rolled out the Steam Linux beta
You make a lot of bold statements. Care to provide some sources?

Your sentiment, without providing sources actually sounds a lot like the talking points of lobby groups fighting against the increased usage of renewable energy.

Just one example to counter your "arguments" is the there are currently 50 nuclear reactors Being under construction world wide. With nuclear energy capacity increasing [1].

So care to provide some facts?

[1] https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-fu...
> The thing about the tech industry is there's a lot of cargo cult and leader/follower mentality.

> Some of it is just resume driven development but a lot of it is just observing and following trends.

Couldn't agree more. That's exactly what I think happened with git.
China and Russia are both reducing the amount of nitrate they export to address worries over food insecurity.

If what you suggest were happening, it would not be noticeable one way or the other given the effects of the above.
Everything being on fire all the time makes your firefighting skills very valuable.
IRC had networks and channels like that as well. A good rule of thumb is: the bigger the social group, the stricter the rules.

My worry about Discord is the same worry as Android (though I am early adopter of both): its free as in beer, but we pay with our privacy. Sure, Ventrilo sucked as well given it was very strict and you could not run it on your own server plus high latency but low memory footprint. But we also had things like TeamSpeak and Mumble. These were alright, except it wasn't standardized, so you might need a different client per community. Its the standardization which abstracts the user experience, akin to people going to a site via Google or where the internet is Facebook.
no? hydrogen to helium is by far the best.
> I don’t mind a touch screen for GPS

Yup, it's basically the only time when I use the touchscreen in mine: I start the car, enter the GPS coordinates/address and then I control everything from my steering wheel, using buttons with real feedback and without needing to take neither my hands off the steering wheel nor my eyes off the road.

My car also happens to have a gimmick: "voice control / voice command" but it's only good when you're alone in the car. As long as there are people talking, it sucks. It also interrupts the music and I hate that. I do use it once in a while but I'm not a big fan.

Touchscreen sucks and those who don't even have haptic feedback: I don't even have words for that.

If I recall correctly there as least one major japanese car manufacturer who decided to get rid of touchscreens a few years ago. Good ridance, it's a poor system.
Perhaps not. Maxerickson pointed out production could be shifted away from meat to legumes in the event of serious shortages. Seems right in line with climate goals.
Windshield wipers literally have a dedicated physical button and are usually in automatic mode anyway.
You clearly know very little about agriculture. Beef cattle actually graze many hundreds of thousands of acres of land that could not realistically be converted to legume production.
Discord is indeed "not particularly good". It is an Electron app, for starts. But overall, I didn't find better elsewhere. I find it works better than Slack and Teams, it has both usable text and voice, with a persistant history, which makes more usable than open alternatives like IRC or Mumble, or even the pervious gamer oriented voice apps like Ventrilo or TeamSpeak. Microsoft had MSN messenger, then Skype that weren't that bad, but they messed up.

So, not perfect, but good enough.
Isn't it still nuclear fusion, just endothermic? The nuclei are formed from smaller particles colliding and fusing together. Or is it just lots of neutron capture?

Edit: I see, it's neutron capture: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-process
The BLU-114/B Blackout Bomb
SARS–CoV–2 Spike Impairs DNA Damage Repair and Inhibits V(D)J Recombination
> Of course, kinda hard to fix this now..

Well, yes, if you can break backwards compatibility you can do anything. Except run all the existing software.
Considering how Wikipedia considers newspapers to be reliable sources, this should be expected.
What if Beanie Babies had had authenticity NFTs on the Loopring chain (meaning secured by the Ethereum chain, if Loopring encounters a escalator-becomes-stairs moment),

in order to cut down on the knockoffs, fake tags etc that ate into the LTV of Beanie Babies?
Corn can be converted, and it's not like finishing of livestock consumes zero corn and soy.

Also, what's with the insulting tone?
Quick look at “she/her” twitter profile shows quite a bit of toxicity. The linked in profile shows mid to senior experience.

Her naming her manager proves the manager right. I’d take this worker to court asap for damaging my reputation and public harassment.
Recruit someone at a larger consultancy to work with you. Have see the finders fee being around 30% in the past.
> activism in a lot of things end up hurting more than helping

And where would the CO2 levels be if there had been no activism?
Speaking about the C64 the exact instruction timing was also key to the two rather clever hacks to put sprites outside the nominally drawable 320x200 pixel screen area.

First in the top and bottom border. This was done by waiting for the GPU to start drawing the bottom line of text on the screen and then switching to a mode with one less line of text. The sprite hardware would then not get the signal to stop drawing after the last line since that presumably already happened with fewer lines to display. This would cause it to keep drawing sprites below the bottom border. The in the vertical blanking before the top line was draw you would switch it back from 24 to 25 lines of text.

The side-border is a variation on this where you time your code to wait for the 39th character of a scan line then switch from 40-character wide to 38-wide. Again the sprite engine would not get the signal to stop drawing and continue drawing in the side border outside the 320x200 pixel nominal capabilities of the hardware.

For side border it was necessary to do this for every scan line (and every 8th line would have different timing, probably related to fetching the next line of text), so timing was critical to the exact CPU cycle.

These machines were not much by modern standards but for the hacker mind they were an amazing playground where you had just your assembly code and the hardware to exploit without the layers and layers of abstractions of modern gear.

Edit: spelling
China: "Crushing people under an iron fist is our job, not yours Google"
Biden's $1.2T infrastructure bill passes US House with billions for EV sector
This is a narrative (very heavily supported by google btw) that really needs to die.

Safari is decidedly neither behind nor as broken as the narrative suggests.

Safari ships about as many WebAPIs as Firefox does, and no one blames Firefox to be "behind on standards". More, Firefox is increasingly siding with Safari when deciding not to implement certain Chrome-only "standards".

Also see this nice take over at Quirksmode (and follow the links): https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2021/08/breaking_th...
The Great Soviet Encyclopaedia
Hmm, I remember hearing this same argument about IE decades ago. Look how that worked out.
No. Don’t underestimate how radical and unpopular dropping meat is with the more level-headed parts of the country.

One can admit the existence of Climate Change while thinking the proposed solutions are too far and just power-hungry bunk.
cant believe people are paying artists for their contributions to the world, don't they know the data is all freely available?! just wait until they discov.....

for real tho, im very happy that there are people making a living drawing jpegs and making mp3s and collecting royalties on resales (with their own distribution rules coded) whilst still able to make their work freely available to the world. Im happy that people value reputation, legitimacy, and provenance represented by digital signatures.

its funny i keep seeing this criticism directed at the nft space, that it is obsessed with money, yet those making the criticism never seem able to go beyond the money/legal rights aspects themselves. meanwhile we're making cakes and clothing: https://twitter.com/creatureNFT/status/1456758941753528326

"wait it's about social agreements, trust, and culture?"
"Always has been "
Yes wasn't this an issue when the early benchmarks of the threadrippers came out? I think there was some kind of thread limit.
climate change itself is a mass famine event...
Don’t most of these systems support voice control?
Factory farmed meat processes aren't open range.
Yes, that is true.

Last year the landline we had where we where living was transformed to a VOIP when the internet connection was converted from ADSL to optic-fiber, but the majority of land lines are still on copper.

So yes!, a landline with a modem connection to an internet provider operator.

Now:

- need to find an internet provider for incoming modem connection: any idea? I've searched the internet: did not find anything but I guess I am not using the correct mix of keywords

- I guess I need to purchase a dedicated modem (hardware), or best would be to use a mobile phone (the Jack headphone the article is talking about) with proper software.
A chat app with "good" threading wouldn't be a chat app anymore. It'd look like either a forum or a Reddit/HN comment section, depending on how much nesting you want.

Threading is fundamentally at odds with the idea of a group conversation. It relentlessly splinters the conversation into subchains because you have to reply to someone in particular rather than talking to the group in general.

Slack already has threads essentially identical to those in this Discord proposal. And people already complain about how this relatively basic form of threading makes conversations impossible to follow. Channels are no longer linear conversations, but have side pockets that have to be checked to make sense of the whole.

This is why channels ultimately make more sense if what you want is the ability to have group conversation while keeping the possibility of a few going on simultaneously.

(I admit I'm suddenly intrigued by the possibility of a "live forum". It would be identical to a traditional web forum, but each post would generate its own instant message space.)
Because TF is the official one. Pushing Jax would mean giving up on TF, and I don’t think Google is ready to do that yet.
Maybe lower, if you included anti-nuclear activism.