skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By default, Google will not allow you to access GPU instances on regular GCP. The GPU quota is initialized to zero and you have to open a support ticket in order to request GPU access, justifying why your use case deserves access. Evidently, "personal research project" is not a valid use case, so that leaves Colab as the only other option in the Google ecosystem.

AWS has a similar quota policy, but they seem less strict about use cases.
Hah, I wasn't wealthy but if it helps, I got sick of socal and moved from LA to Europe (Ireland, so not as good as Paris, but an improvement all the same)
Are you always on guard about being slapped in the face? Surely there must be something you can be made victim of that is not on your mind at all times? Do you always check your shoes at the off-chance that someone hid a razorblade in there?
What are your thoughts on orioleDB? Which is a slightly modified Postgres that does away with the need for vacuum, amongst other changes. Ostensibly done by a dev who is “solving Postgres’ wicked problems”. Eventually the team behind orioleDB plan to upstream their minor changes to vanilla Postgres such that orioleDB becomes simply just an extension of Postgres itself.

Would you ever consider supporting the orioleDB extension in the future?
Firefox's address bar always seems to show me example.com/xyz when I want example.com, but shows me example.com when I want example.com/xyz. Furthermore, sometimes the "switch to tab" suggestion is at the top, and other times it isn't.

If they picked one and stuck to it, I'd get used to it either way and be a happy camper. But the inconsistency drives me up a wall. I don't know how this compares to Chrome, I haven't used that shit in years.
> The best way not to feel like a victim, is not to be a victim.

I'm a victim of the Android/iOS duopoly. How do you suggest I change that? Throw away my smartphone? Build my own?
The main problem is that it kills the double blind nature of peer review.

If your paper says you trained on 1000TPUs for weeks, we all know you work at Google brain.

This is subversive for our field. It's really really bad that these authors are virtually guaranteed to be accepted for these reasons alone.
Why wouldn't that have already been the assumption? When we look at distant galaxies we are looking billions of years in the past; so it would seem natural to find more heavy stars there that haven't burned out like they have more locally.
Doing the experiment with various materials is a way of testing the assumption that the gravitational field produced by an object is exactly proportional to its mass. It would be a huge discovery if there were deviations from the law. It is quite hard to test how much, say, electrons contribute to gravitational fields because you can't get enough of them together (without a corresponding number of protons) to create a measurable gravitational effect that isn't overwhelmed by the large electric fields in such an experiment.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31417554

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31200793

...and probably others. It seems like this thing is constantly being touted on HN.

Dear HNers: 99% of the stuff MIT's press office brags about will never make it into the "real world." It either has significant real-world problems, it can't be commercialized because of MIT's commercial licensing terms and fees, the professor tries to spin it off into a business but has no idea how business or manufacturing works, etc.
This is pretty good. They provide real fibre with IPv6 as well.

The only downside is the “router” they insist on is a Linksys Velop mesh Wi-Fi system that only has 2 Ethernet ports (one would be used as WAN port) and heavily insists on an app (and no doubt a “privacy” policy and an online account) to configure it so I’d really recommend you bring your own equipment.
Unfortunately that doesn’t fix the real reason most people use VPNs, which is torrenting. Nobody should be using NordVPN to hide from a nation state, but for torrenting they add one level of obfuscation.
I know. Musk could not have pulled off this stunt without that massive QE in 2020. If not for that TSLA would be at 200 ish?

Anyway, who was the main driver of that QE program? I'm not American, so I'm asking sincerely.

What would China do? Take over the company and run it for the good of the people? I'm not a fan of communism, but I wouldn't mind seeing $TSLA nationalised to repay the QE debt.
Sequencing is the new microscope (2018)
What I settled on is I have a computer with a lower-end nvidia gpu that lets me debug code and do basic stuff but is impractical for training any large model or with lots of data (although since the incremental cost is only the electricity, you can often still get far by training overnight or when you're doing something else). And then I use AWS more deliberately once I've figured out exactly what I want to run. Otherwise, you're reserving a cloud GPU for all the setup and debugging.

If getting a gpu is not practical, I'd try one of the K80s or other cheaper GPUs on AWS for all your debugging and then port to the more expensive instances only if you need them. Doing this as a hobbyist will be relatively inexpensive. I think a lot of the cost incurred as a hobbyist comes from reserving a gpu when you don't actually need it.
This just in: studies show that people who see themselves as rational, aren’t always rational.
Advertising is a funny thing. In the US Stella Artois is portrayed as classy.
Pretty sure this is it: https://web.archive.org/web/20130305033105/http://www.altdev...

If not, maybe this: https://fabiensanglard.net/quakeSource/johnc-log.aug.htm.

Or maybe in this archive: https://fabiensanglard.net/fd_proxy/doom3/pdfs/johnc-plan_19....
I think your average enterprise sysadmin/networking person doesn't really care about IPSec vs Wireguard.
No need for anything special, you would just query with something like "SELECT whatever FROM Table WHERE cursor>value ORDER BY cursor LIMIT n". Obviously there needs to be an index over the columns of the cursor, but any reasonable engine should allow you to add that effortlessly.
My first scaled project, we were aiming at 30req/s per server. On UltraSPARC boxes, so maybe 8 cores? At a time when memcached was brand spanking new and thus not trustworthy, and F5 had just got their traffic shaping logic to actually work. We did it, but the architecture was terrible and we should have been able to do 50-100 req/s/s if we had taken certain principles more seriously.

My current project is doing 5x the traffic but with 20x the cores, it’s embarrassing. And that’s just counting “our” servers, which are only about 1/3 of the whole enterprise (heading toward 50% if I wasn’t on the scene). I look at all the waste in our project and then I think about why I would ever need 50k cores, let alone servers and I just can’t fathom it. Who is handling a tens of millions of requests per second? And what on earth are you fucking up so badly that you need 2 million servers? Is Google doing 4 billion requests per second?

At some point I have to ask myself if making it easy to manage more servers was really their best strategy. Often friction and constraints are where innovation comes from. When things are easy people don’t think about them until they are gone.
Light and thus causality and information travel at a constant speed of "c." As far as we know, nothing can travel faster than "c" - other than the universe itself as in during the inflationary epoch. So the further out any observer would look the longer that light would have had to travel relative to that observer. Seeing something 3 billion light years away would mean the light took 3 billion years to arrive at the observer.
Assuming they weren't upgraded, the plane was 30+ years old when it was decommissioned. Normally, I'd say the market for equipment that old is third-world countries, and the old planes need old parts, but the 747 is a big plane. The other buyers of old airplanes are companies like UPS and DHL, but I'm not sure they want them that old, and they'd probably upgrade the avionics.
But you can. The catch phrase for this is "increasing your luck surface area"

There are all kinds of possibilities and opportunities in front of us every day. We're "lucky" when we can a) identify them and b) take advantage of them.

There are lots of strategies for this ranging from the simple (learn more) to the complex (networking, the people kind) and everything can give you additional perspective, opportunities, etc, etc to make you "lucky." As you're successful with a few, you can build momentum, reputation, etc to grow your "luck"
> One unique Firefox feature I love that I don't see talked about often is how awesome Firefox's address bar suggestions are.

That’s actually called the “Awesome Bar”, which was first introduced in Firefox 3 (which was 14 years ago). [1] It has been improved over time.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_3.0
I expect no attraction at all with spheres of hydrogen liquid or hydrogen solids because there are no neutrons. I'm saying neutrons attract with protons at a distance. Without neutrons, there would be no "gravity". Gravity is not a force at all is my hypothesis. Gravity is caused by neutrons attracting with protons at a distance. Without neutrons, you cannot have "gravity". I wouldn't bring this up if so many fudge factors are used to explain the very basics of universal motion.

At one time we didn't know how the sun could burn for so long. Even made of anthracite coal, it would only last a few hundred years.

As for your example, the neutrons in the glass are also attracted to the protons in the earth.
Good question, my understanding is that we frankly just don't know, it may be one of those things that we can't know, but that is getting awfully close to the realm of philosophy
The deep connections between compression and prediction are not always obvious to those not in the field.

To illustrate just how much they are the same, here is (at one point SOTA) lossless text compression with GPT-2

https://bellard.org/libnc/gpt2tc.html
Why don't you build your own laptop and car and furniture and appliances?
The theory of the Big Bang is based on the observation of inflation: spacetime itself is constantly expanding - that is, the distance between galaxies that are at rest relative to each other is increasing (more precisely, the galaxies are not at rest, but the distance between them is increasing faster than their relative speed).

So, extrapolating this in the past, at some point the universe must have been really tiny, and then grew much larger. But this growth happened essentially everywhere: spacetime itself expanded and pushed things apart at speeds greater than the speed of light (which is allowed if the coordinate system itself is what's changing), leading to objects which were once microns apart now being tens of billions of lightyears away in just a few billion years.
Is it possible for an internalizer to snap and become an externalizer? In which case would the advice apply?
These systems usually spend a lot of time waiting for network/disk IO, which means there is plenty of CPU time available to do the computations or GC runs, and the added memory pressure isn't so significant.

The Go runtime is also finely tuned for exactly these kinds of workloads, with language level insight into blocking operations.

If we take the Tokio async runtime for Rust: it's not exactly the fastest runtime out there, comparatively new, you need to carefully avoid introducing blocking calls that stall the worker threads, there is no language level integration, and Rusts trait system currently often requires boxing of futures.

Combine all of that and you often end up with code that isn't noticeably faster than Go in practice.

One counterpoint though: I've found that Rust code takes longer to write, but it's significantly easier to refactor, thanks to the much stronger type system.
> Most VPN providers you typically see pushed are very suspect at best.

Ironically (I hope?), Mullvad is by far the one I see pushed the most.
This sounds ridiculous. How long did it take to see truck drivers taken hostage and payloads stolen?
Er, glycol isn't a flourocarbon.
> I think it's possible to make it sleek and still repairable

Well, you are an expert in the field, so if anyone would know, you would.
His #AltDevBlog posts are no longer available, maybe that has to do with it. I too could only find stuff having to do with render latency (in the context of VR).
Keyboard Maestro 10.1.1: Work Faster with Macros for macOS
Nobody said anything about private or public. What was said was 'everything they can get their hands on'. Thou doth protest too much.
Why have all the previous Make alternatives failed to get traction?

I mean, ant, gradle, maven, imake, there's probably others... all have had their moment as the "It Girl" of builds, and then seemed to wither away. What's up with that?
A rational interpretation of the question "are you rational?" is if you are rational relative to other humans, not that you are a theoretically perfect rational being. Same thing as how "are you tall?" means relative to humans, if you answer "I'm not tall, a skyscraper is tall! No human is tall!" then you didn't understand the question.
The complication comes from having a cursor over results that are sorted on multiple columns. It's not incredibly difficult to implement, but it can certainly be annoying to do, especially if you want to support before+after cursor as well.
Just because something accurately reflects reality does not mean you are obligated to occupy your mind with it, especially if there is nothing to be done about it.
Another related option that sidesteps a big chunk of perceptible latency is to send clients a trivially reprojectable scene. In other words, geometry or geometry proxies that even a mobile device could draw locally with up to date camera state at extremely low cost. The client would have very little responsibility and effectively no options for cheating.

View independent shading response and light simulations can be shared between clients. Even much of view dependent response could be approximated in shared representations like spherical gaussians. The scene can also be aggressively prefiltered; prefiltering would also be shared across all clients.

This would be a massive change in rendering architecture, there's no practical way to retrofit it onto any existing games, and it would still be incredibly expensive for servers compared to 'just let the client do it', and it can't address game logic latency without giving the client more awareness of game logic, but... seems potentially neat!
Yeah, they used telecentric lenses; for the prism block to work properly, you have to have each principal ray across the lens perpendicular to the filter. This puts very rough optical constraints on the lens; a typical video camera lens would have dozens of elements arranged in many groups, while an equivalent 'cine' lens might have half or fewer elements.

And on top of that, the lenses produced ugly images. Going to single chip designs was a big upgrade in image quality, mostly for optical reasons.
What? This seems to be biased towards success, you're only a rational entrepreneur if you end up being successful, and undertaking a venture without a positive expected value is irrational.

Something like telling a person that went to Las Vegas, did some gambling, had a good time, and lost money that they're irrational and enjoyed their vacation wrong.
We can make a generator: "Study shows that X who see themselves as Y, aren’t always Y."
> Are you being serious? That's very hyperbolic if so.

Yes Im serious. This is one of the most foundational & key levels of computing: storing & quering data. Without this, computing isnt good for much.

Getting good at this is a huge task for humanity. Right now that task is almost entirely being fulfilled by far off hyperscalers. Aurora, BigTable, Firebase, DynamoDB, CosmoDB, more special works like DataDog Husky... the world is running off vast super-awesome dataengines. But ones that are not ours, that we cant hack on, that we cant run ourselves. It might as well be the Martian's (little green men's) databases as far as I'm concerned: these are not humanity's heritdge & humanity is cut off from active participation with them.

Right now there are so so so few scalable data systems available for the world, that we have. This seems like a great & novel effort to radically open up the range of human capabilities, in one of the most important sectors of computing: handling data.

We have lots of other cloudware for humankind but data has seemingly been much slower & un-scaled. I agree with this @anilgulecha comment[1]:

> This is the missing piece on cloud for masses

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31537313
(On Russia's seizing of over a million military prisoners)
Check https://use-the-index-luke.com/no-offset as a better reference.

But in most SQL databases, cursors are something you implement and parse at the application layer, and translate to a WHERE clause on the (hopefully indexed) column you're ordering on. That turns the O(N) "OFFSET" into a O(log(n)) index seek.
Though you can have client-side physics engine running as an interpolation between authoritative server states.
For a narrow enough definition of rich (10s of billions? You'd have to define "almost no one"). On a more useful level, reliable distributions of populations, no matter how reliable they tend to be, do not control individuals.

There's a spot on the big fat end of the distribution for pareto nihilists.
Rack level heat exchangers...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Np1HnWiHb4

https://schroff.nvent.com/sites/g/files/hdkjer281/files/acqu...
Unrelated to the topic. But at first the blog only contained an introduction, no content. But because others have been commenting, clearly I was missing something. I reopened the page few times. And at some point; some JavaScript I suppose?; started loading the text.

How is it possible for this medium service to be so spectacularly bad? We are talking about text here...

Edit: Did more test. The page updates and loads the content up to 5s after initial loading. There is no feedback. What a miserable experience.
If fusion relies on a steam turbine, it's going to be economically infeasible. Natural gas power is cheaper than either coal and fission power because they both rely on big, heavy, expensive, inefficient steam turbines.

And solar power and wind is cheaper than natural gas, even with batteries.
I think it had more to do with the requirement that three chip camera lenses be telecentric (see my earlier comment). Tends to make worse lenses that are more expensive.
I only mentioned M3DB because I was a maintainer of it at the time, so it’s what I was familiar with.

I’m a fan of VictoriaMetrics; it’s performant and well designed. The main dev Aliaksandr is prolific, and a really nice guy to boot. I’ve messaged him a few times to ask for advice / help and he’s always sent me very detailed and thoughtful responses.

These days I’m working on “non metrics” timeseries storage (I.E full fidelity events) at Datadog so my focus has shifted to the “real time OLAP data warehouse” side of things which is quite a bit different from traditional metrics stores.
What a rabbit hole! I remember reading about this guy maybe 10 years ago, and he's still at it. There's even a summer picnic concert this summer hosted from the 727 wings: https://www.groupmuse.com/events/12485-portlandia-brass-ense...
I'm not getting your point with these questions. Someone who is a victim of an assault may be "on guard" or "hyper-vigilant" for some time afterward. I can remember such an instance in my own life after I was robbed at gunpoint in a foreign country.

Someone who is a victim of repeated assaults during childhood is very likely to tend toward hyper-vigilance their entire lifetime (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_post-traumatic_stress_...) but that's not me.
Or worse, those that go around prescribing victimhood on others.
“Feeling like prey is a terrible way to go through life and you shouldn’t do it”

- Charlie the shark, addressing a school of fish
everything they can get their hands on includes both private and public data?

they have access to the private data, by definition. the entire point is that it's not exposed nor is it used. clearly you've never worked at one of the companies in question lol. when you're on-call you might need to actually access private data.

true data sovereignty products are something countries in the EU are wanting USA companies to implement though, so then it's simply inaccessible, not public or private.

the industry is moving in this direction with things like AWS Outposts
I tried to switch to Firefox, is almost one year that I've tried but it just does not work for me. I can't express what it might be in words, but the experience is just worse than Chrome.
Some database engines will support Cursors like this, but from what I can gather Cursor based navigation is a wrapper around KeySet or page navigation, but base64 encoded parameters.

Making the implementation details of pagination unimportant to the API layer the user uses.
Better Property Search, more like Better Bathroom Search
No. Family values are much more universally accepted than Christianity. Also, Christianity isn't a taboo, so no one needs to "dog whistle" anything about it.
Without formal education it is going to be a bit harder.

You can test yourself by seeing if you can answer typical interview questions which can be found online.

You can see if you can solve the stuff from Codility, Leetcode, Hackerranck in a reasonable amount of time.
> Poker meets all the technical requirements here, but sending everyone the contents of all hands would be a disaster

I work in the gambling space. A few notes, gambling games don’t ever rely on physics (even roulette, or a coin dozer type of game, everything is decided by a certified rng, no regulatory body that I am aware of allows outcomes based on physics engines). This means there is far less data to keep state on (a hand of cards is very tiny json blob to send). Games like poker etc. don’t require “real time”, if a player takes 4 seconds to decide if they want to call/raise/fold etc. then an extra 200ms of latency isn’t even going to be noticeable. So we don’t really care if there is a bit of latency, these aren’t FPS games.
I was going to say: "I'm torn, because usually I have a policy of downvoting every HN comment I see that says 'I'm going to get downvoted for this', but this looks really interesting".

But then I checked your link, and in fact it doesn't at all say that Newton's work on calculus wasn't original. The thing it claims Keralan mathematicians might have done first was infinite series. So I can downvote you for pre-emptive complaining about downvotes with a clear conscience :-).

But then I checked (so far as I easily could using Amazon's "look inside" feature) the book referenced there, and in fact it does mention that a guy called Bhaskaracharya had something like the notion of derivative a couple of centuries before Newton and Leibniz. (It looks to me as if what he had was a special case rather than the general concept, though; if I'm right about that, it's an important distinction.) So now I'm conflicted again.

[EDITED to add:] The book in question is called "The crest of the peacock: Non-European roots of mathematics".

Well, it seems to me that the most that can credibly be true here is that Newton's discovery of calculus was influenced by closely related prior work by the likes of Bhaskaracharya. I don't think this is enough grounds for saying that "Newton most likely didn't invent Calculus". So, downvote it is. (For complaining about getting downvoted, not for the hyperbole about Newton.)