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We specifically colo GPU hardware due to how expensive it is.

For instance this year we spent ~$500k (rough estimate) on purchasing GPU hardware. With cloud that would have costed us ~$80k/mo - so after ~6 months we break even on the hardware and then after that just have to spend the much smaller colo bill. We expect hardware to last us 3+ years so we come out far ahead by buying.

Our work is so specialized anyways that if we went cloud we would still have to have the same dev ops staff anyways so there is not much cost difference on that side of things. We had to invest a little bit more upfront in deployment, but in the end it is peanuts compared to the $80k/mo that we are saving in cloud costs.

The only trouble is when we need to scale beyond our currently owned hardware. In that case, once we are above capacity of servers we own, we make another purchase and in the interim use cloud to bridge the gap.

In the end purchasing hardware ourselves is one of the highest ROI moves we have made and I would highly recommend it to others. Of course if your cloud bill is much lower you might find the cost savings to not be enough to be worth the hassle.
So are you defending drunk driving because it helps people get to work on time?
What's interesting to me about this study is it was done with people who already actively microdose. So they have prior experience of what non-placebo microdosing feels like to them. The placebo effect might be much stronger in that population than a population that has never microdosed. That could be great news in terms of long term benefits of microdosing by using a combo of placebo and actual psychedelics.
From a less philosophical and more partisan read of the situation, I'm inclined to believe that 9/11 and the subsequent War on Terror gave the premier national government the carte blanche to pursue surveillance, widely supported or tacitly consented by the majority of the populace. And because such surveillance was normalized, large corporations, themselves experiencing several decades of increased free rein thanks to deregulation, also began engaging in profitable surveillance activities.

Perhaps this all would not have been so inevitable if we were living under a different sociopolitical climate.
"Crowdsourcing buying a cultural artifact" is already a thing. It's called a private museum. They are in fact a quite popular type of non-profit. Billions of dollars are donated annually to private museums. They are run by dedicated professionals who understand the history that makes the collection relevant and the processes required to maintain it in good condition.

But no, all that competence goes out of the window when crypto-bro wakes up one day and comes up with the idea of buying a museum piece with donation money.
I think study (1) is something that companies could implement internally (hopefully in a somewhat unbiased way). That'll at least help address localized bias in the hiring process.

As for (2), I'm aware of the fact that many people around the world don't have access to opportunities to do things that they'd be really good at. I'd really just like to understand the nuances there and how to practically make a difference.

Part of the problem I see is that the conversation around "diversity" (at least in popular media) is very US-centric, when the majority of the human species lives outside of the US. Different countries, states and even cities have very different sets of problems when it comes to lack of access to opportunity.
The wave function can't interact with two (unentangled) systems at the same moment?
> If they get caught.

Federal and international regulations require sophisticated bookkeeping and auditing. Banks and fintechs spend billions of dollars on fraud detection and security. Not only is it a matter of protecting their own self interests, but laws and reputation demand it.

> The point is that blockchains can have value, I don’t know anyone reasonable who doesn’t believe this. Git is technically a blockchain.

Git history doesn't have monetary value. It has practical, functional value.
If an employee at the bank removes a zero, you can sue them and your bank and get your money back. More likely, it wouldn't come to that, you can contact your bank and get that 0 corrected without legal interference (because they don't WANT to be sued).

If someone steals your coin... That's it. Game over. There's no way to force them to give it back. Assuming they are in the same country as you and you can identify them, then you might be able to start legal proceeding to get your money back, but even then, nothing you can do will force them to return whatever coin they have. If they die, game over, the coin is lost forever and the best you can hope for is their estate has enough value in it to recover the loss.

An error on the side of the bank gives you a clear target for legal action to recover funds, and barring you having more wealth stolen than the bank has value (unlikely), you'll get your money back.

The security of the block chain is both a boon and a curse. It allows the blockchain to operate without a central controller, but it also, by design, makes transactions irreversible.
I don't really feel anything from store bought cbd edibles/oils either and I'm one of the most substance sensitive people I know. If you're still interested, I recommend buying some high cbd hemp online and smoking it. You will definitely notice that.
> are incredibly responsive

That's not my experience. Every time I try reading a long article on an AMP page, the experience basically crashes. Text rendering stops and you're just scrolling through a blank white pages.

It tries to be too clever with its rendering. And it fails almost every time.
Small consulting companies will have sales/biz-dev role, which I think works in place of this kind of thing.
AFAIK IEEE 754 does allow for some variation in the results of operations like log and exp. I recall this being an issue with the LHC@Home BOINC project, where simulations computed on Intels would run for a long time before reaching the termination condition (beam hitting wall) while when computed on AMDs would terminate quickly.

For a project relying on multiple runs on different computers for verification of correctness, this was a serious issue. IIRC before they solved it properly, they had to increase the number of validations per piece of work, as well as trying to segregate the work so a work unit was only issued to either Intel or AMD but not both. This only reduced the impact somewhat though.

From their[1] page:

Besides helping build the LHC, LHC@home has proved to be an invaluable, even essential, tool for investigating and solving fundamental problems with floating-point arithmetic. Different processors, even of the same brand, all conforming more or less to the IEE754 standard, produce different results, a problem further compounded by the different libraries provided for Linux and Windows. In particular, a major problem was the evaluation of the elementary functions, such as exponent and logarithm, which are not covered by the standard at all (apart from the square root function). This problem was solved by the use of the correctly rounded elementary function library (crlibm) developed by a group at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure in Lyon. Due to the often chaotic motion of the particles even a one unit of difference in the last digit of a binary number produces completely different results, as the difference grows exponentially as the particle circulates for up to one million turns round the LHC. Thus it is extremely difficult to find bugs or to verify new software and hardware platforms. This methodology has allowed us to detect failing hardware, otherwise unnoticed, and to find compiler bugs. With your help, it is being extended to ensure identical results on any IEE754 compliant processor with a standard compliant compiler (C++ or FORTRAN) which will allow us to work on any such system and even on Graphical Processing Units (GPUs).

[1]: https://lhcathome.web.cern.ch/projects/sixtrack/sixtrack-and... (
Even with cash, you trust that the banks won't blacklist your serial numbers. With gold you trust that the world will not invent a new gold making method that will make it worthless (as happened with aluminum). A basic level of faith is required by any system, so that point is not valid.
> We dont actually live in a post scarcity star trek world.

We don't have matter replicators, or fusion reactors, but we've had sufficient technology to reliably give every living human a comfortable and safe existence since the early 1960s at the latest (see Murray Bookchin's "Post-Scarcity Anarchism" (1968)). Tellingly, we (collectively) choose not to. Instead, we're getting Gibson's Jackpot.
Quality-time: software quality monitoring for teams and projects
That's case for virtual threads also. It uses ForkJoinPool.ManagedBlocker to add additional threads.

"File I/O is problematic. Internally, the JDK uses buffered I/O for files, which always reports available bytes even when a read will block. On Linux, we plan to use io_uring for asynchronous file I/O, and in the meantime we’re using the ForkJoinPool.ManagedBlocker mechanism to smooth over blocking file I/O operations by adding more OS threads to the worker pool when a worker is blocked."
“That policy changed last week.”
I read it, I thought it was pretty handwavey. Anyways, doesn't explain how Canada, Britain, South Korea & Taiwan all manage FPTP successfully as stable democracies
Core Web Vitals achieves this anyway. Which is why Google is switching to using those signals instead of AMP in its search ranking.
Nice work! I'm building a messenger as well which plays on time dynamics (differently) as side project, your UI is phenomenal. Happy to see a thoughtful take on messenger apps, imo the current model is (1) stale (2) 20-30 years old without any interesting innovations other than emojies/channel organization.
Please don't take HN threads on generic tangents. This isn't a substantive response to the article; it just points towards a version of the same discussion people have been repeating for years.

Such massive generic topics are like black holes that suck in unsuspecting threads that fly too close. Solution: consciously steer clear.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There's some misunderstanding here. The paper is asserting that the volume is fraudulent, due to wash trading, not that the trades are fake.

In your toy scenario, I put 8 on the best bid, you put in 1 more, then I go on another account and hit the bid for 9 volume. 1 of that is legitimate volume, and 8 is fraudulent because I'm trading with myself (aka wash trading). Sure you get your fill, but the paper asserts that the stated volume is too high (in this case by 8).
The reason financial transactions take time is not that there's something wrong with the technology, but that we, as society, have chosen to establish capital controls. Choosing to evade such controls, without really understanding why we put them there in the first place, basically makes you an anti-social brat.
There are lots of different mechanisms to use for this depending on your need.

You can do a futex but that still requires the producer to issue system calls.
You could also just have the consumer poll at whatever frequency you please (either continuously spin, or go to sleep for a time).
Cherry picking and lemon dropping does happen in value-based systems, but there has been work to address the issue. No simple answer, but basically you pay doctors more for select patients.

https://relentlesshealthvalue.com/audios/ep322/
they also have an incentive to keep you alive as long as possible since they don't get paid if you die.
> bizzare Arithmetic coding extention

Frustrating to hear it called bizarre. Arithmetic encoding should've been the default if IBM hadn't sat on a patent for mathematics. A huge amount of bandwidth has been wasted sending images around the world because Huffman encoding avoided legal headaches.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_coding#History_and_...

This is also the reason for the 2 in bzip2.
What is wrong with the old winamp ? Last i checked was working ok.
Application Binary Interface from the Ground Up
SVGcode: A PWA to convert raster images to SVG vector graphics
I believe the agent's 10% is contractually guaranteed and you deal with them whenever there's a contract to negotiate, but after that you just have to pay them.

The point is that if I have an agent, I have a relationship with my client and a relationship with my agent, both contractual and also reputational. But the agent doesn't have a contract with my client.
The justice system is an external control, I’m saying that blockchain protocols can have value because they provide this security without an external control. That permanence could be a feature or a downside depending on how the protocol is used.
Not at all, they're suggesting that even clear benefits like driving have some negative outcomes. Whether NFTs/Crypto is more like driving (positives outweigh the negatives) or more like drunk driving (negatives outweigh the positives) is the question.
I have opposite problem. Too many unrelated job offers with low salary, irrelevant tech stack or high tech debt. I hired secretary to do initial filtering. Final negotiation is always on you.
At the microdose level the obvious hallucinatory effects of psychedelics are not present, so I'd imagine those without prior experience with psychedelics wouldn't immediately realize they had taken an SSRI or a psychedelic.

The above comment study is pretty interesting, points to equivalent effectiveness.
> So what you do instead is you give them some pretend work.

Are you saying that the SLS is just pretend work? Because if it's not then it's very much a waste of taxpayer money at this point.

And if it's not pretend work then I would further argue that pretend work doesn't keep the skills sharp for the goal of building rockets. That's particularly true since SLS has yet to deliver any successful rockets!

> You are just paying them to keep them around and a little busy, not to take you to the Moon.

So you're definitely arguing that people should get employed to pretend to build rockets so that when you have to build rockets you can.

But I tell you: when you have to build rockets you still won't be able to because your people weren't actually building successful rockets.
Tolerance to psychedelic substances ramps up very quickly in the short term, but reverts to baseline in a few days.
That’s a good point. I’ll have to ask some friends about overhead. Seems like a weirdly small number though compared to insurance premiums + deductibles, and what doctors usually get per visit when we go for run of the mill fevers for the kids (~$150+ each time).
The money is yours and no government can confiscate it.

Anyone can confiscate it.

Let's say the Government wants your cryptocurrency. You rub your hands together with an evil laugh and say it's protected by a private key that you've memorized!

They put you in jail and say you can come out when you hand over the keys to your cryptocurrency.

Or it could just be a random person with a plumbing wrench that will happily stop hitting you in the head with it if you give up your private key. Or it could be someone that breaks into your house and steals your wallet's recovery phrase. Or it could be you accidentally sending ETH to a BTC wallet.
Please tell me what blockchain will be able to complete the block to write the transaction in seconds? Bitcoin confirmation times are at 18:29. Yes, that's obviously going to be faster than sending a wire through a bank, but stop with the hyperbole!
I love how the only "use case" for this tech has been speculative trading (paid for by that stodgy fiat money everyone hates so much) but the innovation fantasy sell is still in every thread related to crypto.
Pay doctors a fair salary in a properly resourced, publicly owned system.

This is cheaper, and produces better outcomes than the alternative.
I don't even know where to begin. We are at this stage in the crypto bull market that all the smart people who refuse to believe in it are getting upset and are writing angry articles.

You cannot realistically write an article dumping on NFTs and digital assets unless you also go after 95% of game developers which are making exponentially more money on microtransactions than the entire NFT marketspace.

Underground gambling rings formed around CS:GO skins. People are spending thousands of dollars on ships in Start Citizen. Most of League of Legends business model is in-game skins.

These are all digital assets that the users don't even really own if they read the terms of service. They are nothing more than flex pieces in game that can be taken away at any time. Don't even get me started on mobile games targeting kids.

But for some reason the bridge too far is adults putting jpegs in their twitter profile pictures.
haha, I can see how it came across, no ties with turing.com, I interviewed with them recently. I have been a daily user of hacker news for the last decade, never contributed anything on hacker news. I misunderstood that the OP was looking for a gig, and tried to help. In my head, I was thinking what better way to contribute to the discussion than helping someone find a job :D
> If I hack into a bank or rob you at an ATM, police will come and get me, and the judicial system will put me in jail.

What if the state decides the money in the bank isn't really yours (e.g. civil forfeiture, political dissident, capital controls, etc)
For your local DNS names, etc, you could use the link-local IPv6 address.
Someone could be bribed to do "good" stuff too.

I think the difference is quid pro quo plus the transfer of things of value that does not conform to existing rules.
The processes you mentioned are external controls, I’m talking about the protocol.

For Git, I don’t see how that’s relevant. If things that don’t have monetary value can be secure at the protocol level why shouldn’t money be just as secure.
I’ve recently decided I want a classic muscle car. 30 years old or older, in good condition, depending on make, model, and miles can be had easily for under $10k
Evidence Points to Animal Market, Not Lab, as Epicenter of Pandemic
"accounting for all confounds" is a moving standard because you can always claim an additional confounding factor. I'd love if you would be explicit about what confounding factors you are discussing? I have a guess, but I'd want to hear it.

It doesn't take a genius to recognize that intergenerational wealth will have large disparities as a result of vastly different starting points in wealth (yes, due to slavery), jim crow legal constructs, as well as the ongoing fact that there is large ongoing (and well-studied) discrimination against black people in job and real estate markets, at minimum.
Yeah there are small genetic differences between ethnicities. Things like height, bone density, certain conditions like sickle cell anemia etc.

However, that's a different claim altogether from the idea that white and black people (again, an imaginary category) have a statistically significant difference in average intellectual capacity.
But is that a bad thing necessarily? If we have powers that we can use in emergency situations and there's precedent they will only get used in such, isn't that the ideal state?
If Blue Origin isn't building rockets why is there a video of a reusable rocket being launched which has Blue Origin branding on it on the Blue Origin YouTube channel? [1]

[1]: https://youtu.be/ZUZZ0EDzII0?t=4913
I'd be more charitable toward him - he's got a list of things to deliver upon if he wants his theories taken more seriously. It's a philosophy of science level thing to want a new theory that replaces other theories to improve on their understanding in some area by explaining phenomena the previous theory(ies) does not explain or providing the same understanding with fewer data needed.
If they launch Merchant of Record, I'd jump back over to them in a heartbeat. I'm begrudgingly with Paddle now just for this.
One of the biggest differences in your two examples would be the presence (or lack) of a union.

Actors have a guild which acts as a union. Software engineers don't.
Ah but if you've never done that, you've never lived!
I am using the academic definition of rational actor.

But the true irrational ones are the voters. They elect the same folks with a track record of serving the corporate elites and then get upset when the same politicians act against them.

Blame the voters. Voters have agency. The voters are the enablers of the politicians.
> "Black people are heavily overrepresented in sports ... partially due to some physical differences that makes them better at sports.... I also don't think that means there is something discriminatory at play other than biology."

so let's just ignore 400 years of severe and oppressive unnatural selection then?

with that said, these arguments trying to tease out tiny differences between arbitrary groups of people are simply not fruitful outside of trying to assert dominance/superiority over others. the point is always to establish a halo effect where favorable group characteristics shine generously on the braggart in question. it's always an argument about supremacy, not 'intellectual curiosity', but it actually signals individual insecurity rather than group superiority.
Near absolute zero states of matter don't really work the same way. I wouldn't read too much into them saying "cloud".
Ask HN: Recommend Books on Tech Debt?
I'm interested in reading up but not necessarily about specific solutions but rather the symptoms of tech debt and the various ways it shows up across organizations.
> Personally, I think artists getting paid does change the world for the better

I don't disagree, but if it weren't for NFTs there are still other ways for them to get paid. Hell, there are still other ways to scam rich idiots for that matter. Point is, it isn't the technology of NFTs getting them paid, it's the sociology around it. My contention is that the technology itself brings us nothing of value.

> I'm not sure which part of that you think is a scam - are the people buying the NFTs being misled? Is the product sold not what was claimed?

Yes. NFTs talk about "ownership" of some work, but that's the lie. No one has any ownership in any meaningful sense conferred by the technology of NFTs. I can have the exact same thing your NFT points to; hell, I can even mint my own NFT that points to it. If I bribe the artist I can probably get them to vouch for mine being the "legitimate" one. The NFT is meaningless. It's the digital equivalent of the star name registry scam. Even if we take the NFT to be backed by some legal contract entitling the "owner" to actual factual copyright, that isn't enabled by NFT tech, it's enabled by governments and treaties and has been functioning for hundreds of years without cryptographically secure anything and, in fact, depends on so many systems that are not cryptographically secure and decentralized that adding those things into the mix only makes it more difficult to work within that system.
There's certainly a movement to recruit women into the trades: carpentry, electrical work, etc.
Ethereum is 15 seconds, Solana is sub 1 second. Lightning network for bitcoin is speed of the internet with irreversibility.

Like most HN crypto haters, you know barely anything on this subject so you repeat a bunch of misinformation. Very common and disappointing.