skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just having "moar disk!" ≠ "scalability." Because unlike running single-thread on a shard-per-core [or hyperthread] basis, aligning NUMA memory to those cores, etc., there's no way to make your storage "shared-nothing."

At ScyllaDB we've put years of non-trivial effort into IO scheduling to optimize it for large amounts of storage. You also need to consider the type of workload. Because optimizing for reads, writes, or mixed workloads are all different beasties.

More here:

https://www.scylladb.com/2022/08/03/implementing-a-new-io-sc...
Evergreen. How VICE choses stories https://youtu.be/Ia7fUQXskvA
Docker Desktop vs. Rancher Desktop
Yeah, but you don’t need HN to tell you to look (I assume you check what you pay for). There’s a whole lot of these paywalled things and they’re all just noise unless there’s a free alternative.
> All of those are tools which did not lead to potentially the same final product produced for a miniature fraction of the labor costs.

In what practical sense are paintings distinct from photography or digital art?

It's easy to see how they're technically different, but in terms of purpose paintings should have been supplanted by photography and digital art long ago. After all, the latter two can be reproduced "for a miniature fraction of the labor costs", provide the same utility, and can be reproduced at a much larger scale. Yet painting and similar physical art forms seem to be as economically viable as ever - possibly more than ever, but I'm having trouble finding hard numbers to confidently back that up.
I'm confused about DevOps - I thought it was about dev teams owning the infrastructure, testing and deployment pipelines, so that there is no clear delineation between they person who writes tests, the person who sets up CI/CD pipelines and the person who codes the app.

It has nothing to do with frequency of deployments, and it does not mean that no ops team is necessary for running the show, it's about team autonomy and better understanding of different teams' concerns because everyone is doing a bit of everything.
For some reason they focus on the inference, which is the computationally cheap part. If you're working on ML (as opposed to deploying someone else's ML) then almost all of your workload is training, not inference.
French tax officials use AI to spot 20k undeclared pools
Countries will use national security and data privacy legislation to prevent job flight. A decent amount of jobs will certainly go, but I suspect the remote future will be more 'remote in-country' rather than 'remote anywhere'
Reminds me of the web in the 1990s and early 2000s before owners of sites and services really found ways to monetize every single second and click their users made with ads.
It depends a lot on your problem, of course.

Game-playing (e.g. AlphaGo) is computationally hard but the rules are immutable, target functions (e.g., heuristics) don’t change much, and you can generate arbitrarily sized clean data sets (play more games). On these problems, ML-scaling approaches work very well. For business problems where the value of data decays rapidly, though, you probably don’t need the power of a deer or complex neural net with millions of parameters, and expensive specialty hardware probably isn’t worth it.
The fact that anyone wants to do business with Thiel these days baffles me. He spends his time and money finding and funding the craziest far-right conspiracy theorists in the country to run for elected office. He's a loon.
Increasing interest rates isn't going to reduce rents. And suggesting it reduces ownership prices misses the point. Sure, maybe list prices will go down but it won't reduce the cost to the buyer.
What a bizarre and ridiculous view to form based on one conversation.

I'm sure you can find plenty of people in the west who believe stupid things. Does that mean that western countries are "removing pieces of reality"?
"You are reading the only book in the world about how to grow certain kind of flower. You are drinking your wine, your house is enough for your family, your kids playing outside, your wife making cloths with her friends. Stable life, happy life... You hear a voice, library door is open but crushed with a horse kick. A man wielding his sword comes in on top of the horse, crushing your skull with it without listening a word of you. Your kids probably dead already, your wife and her friends taken as slaves. Library is now burning in front of your eyes..."

This is how a mongolian raid is like. Thats how our history teacher told us. When you look at it like that, it is good to start digging so no horse can get in. All city is like a maze, there are lots of traps inside.
> The obsession with sex seems like an example of horseshoe theory to me. The political left is supposed to be very sex-positive, but...

I think China in general is a good example of why the 1D, and even 2D political spectrum is a bullshit abstraction.

> authoritarian communist regimes were/are so far left that they kind of wrapped around and became conservative

Placing autocratic "communist" states on the same axis as modern feminist professors makes about as much sense as placing someone like Peter Theil on the same axis as Hitler, in both cases one would have literally killed the other.

One doesn't go from tolerating gay people to persecuting gay people the more "left" they are.

> Stalin was very prudish about sex, so maybe they just don't fit into the same political spectrum

Or maybe tolerance of gay people and "leftness" are actually completely separate variables that we only lump together because we're trying to project our modern ideologies onto historical figures
Makes sense, I would just worry that if I built my whole stack around this, suddenly I hit a breakdown point where I have a ton of attribute selectors and now adding new DOM elements to a content view takes a millisecond.

I'm more wary about this than I used to be since someone managed to accidentally cause tsc to need multiple seconds to compile a single file by making a small change to a type definition. Big O still can bite you!
Just to ensure nobody is fooled by this idiot, the SMB clearly states: "It does not include the mass that is lost when glaciers calve off icebergs and melt as they come into contact with warm seawater. "

English version at http://polarportal.dk/en/greenland/surface-conditions/
Should probably tell people that's from 2018, and the FT article is from today. [0]

Unless, of course, you wouldn't want people to know that! (:

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20180208022213/https://www.inc.c...
The grey text for posts needs to go, I always think it means they've been downvoted, and is surely insufficient contrast to be WCAG/508 compliant.
I wonder how China protects its censors from wrong ideas (seeing as how they must necessarily come into contact with it). Extra indoctrination? Some kind of surveillance layercake?

I read a scifi where digital personality-recordings became popular for various office/industrial applications. Sorta like an AI, but human. They were used for censorship. The remedy for ideological contamination? Full reboot every morning.
We did a big analysis of this a few years back. We ended up using a big spot-instance cluster of CPU machines for our inference cluster. Much more consistently available than spot GPU, at greater scale, and at better price per inference (at least at the time). Scaled well to many billion inferences. Of course, compare cost per inference on your models to make sure logic applies. Article on how it worked: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/ml-armada-running-tens-of-...

Training was always GPUs (for speed), non-spot-instance (for reliability), and cloud based (for infinite parallelism). Training work tended to be chunky, never made sense to build servers in house that would be idle some of the time, and queued at other times.
Is there a thing that Fabrice Bellard hasn't built? I had no idea that he was interested in something like machine learning, but I guess I shouldn't have been surprised because he has built every tool that I use.
Exactly this. Too many definitions of "great UX" seem to focus on pulling in as many morons as possible because we refuse to force people to learn how to use something

Great UX should also mean fast, efficient, and dense with information. Respectful of time, attention, and intelligence. Not making an assumption of stupidity on behalf of your users.
Yeah, but typically in these languages operators don’t really need dynamic dispatch. (Although, I agree this causes surprising results).
Wow, great comment.
Disk IO needs concurrency. And you're back to Little's Law.
> I dare you to show that scene at a liberal college and notice how few laughs you get.

Yeah, the show isn't that funny.

>For example, the joke about the Chinese restaurant ("I'd be more concerned about what they're passing off as chicken") plays off of the stereotype that Chinese people eat dogs and cats, and the “passing off” remark implies that the Chinese restaurant owners are deceptive and would immorally and illegally serve their guests a different kind of meat than advertised. I can definitely see how that joke would be considered offensive.

I hadn't considered the cat/dog meat angle, thank you for the perspective. In that case, I'd probably cut it too. I was thinking more of chicken nuggets, where a dozen birds are liquified and poured into a mold.

Like if you ordered the pork and was served a hotdog, the "passing off as" bit would still work, you know?
What have you tried so far?

Because without knowing what you have already done and/or what roadblocks got in your way, the advice is going to be exceedingly obvious, such as "google 'executive coach', call them, and talk to them"
Good thing we have HN user cutemonster to tell us what the Chinese people want.
embrace was always part of their tune
>When you get that first paycheck, it’s not paying for what you already did, because you already did it. It’s paying for you to continue doing what you’re now doing. It’s fueling your work. It’s providing you the freedom to continue that work. It’s an unleashing of potential.

What? This makes zero sense to me. I work for money. I do not work because I like working, and the money is just "unleashing potential". Similarly, Colgate makes toothpaste because they know the supermarket will buy it. There is risk they won't, which they accept in return for a profit margin.

>the money doesn't matter. Money you can print. We have experienced that in this financial crisis. You can arbitrarily increase it. The question is, whether the corresponding goods are present. The poverty in our society isn't a precariat problem. It is an elite problem.

This is insane.
It's honestly surreal to me the amount of hype crypto is getting right now. No one can even articulate why they love it, other than the hype itself.
Any given geopolitical power can be viewed as a supervillain.
https://github.com/NVlabs/instant-ngp
Interesting to see what passes for a joke on The Big Bang Theory. I knew the show was bad but wow. Perhaps just as surprising is the author's suggestion that a xenophobic remark about a Chinese restaurant is "harmless". I'm not even particularly sensitive when it comes to race relations, but that's just such a negative stereotype it's hard to ignore.

I despise Chinese censorship, but I would support the Chinese government blocking The Big Bang Theory purely on the grounds that it stinks.
LXD Containers for Wayland GUI Apps
Clever, yes. But this will break in presence of middle-boxen that rewrite IP-ID [1] and/or TCP-SEQ/ACK [2] numbers (SSL inspection firewalls, WAN optimizers, older satellite modems, even some particularly bad carrier-grade NAT devices).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4#Identification

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol#...
The term for advertising used to literally be "propaganda".
> 60 is the smallest composite number with three prime factors

Er, that'd be 30 I think, but the main point stands.
Great idea! Apple Music please?
I wouldn't take China as necessarily embodying left wing economics (there's obviously a lot of capitalism going on over there and their society doesn't seem all that equal).

There isn't any obvious correlation between left wing economics and social progressiveness other than the coincidental alliance that has occurred in the US. Authoritarian communist regimes were, obviously, authoritarian.

And finally, "sex positivity" and dumb sitcom sexual jokes aren't really the same thing. They often have "man stupidly objectifies woman," "having same-gender parents is inherently funny," "man is an idiot because boobs," or if you go back to like the 80's, "man has poor understanding of consent" as a punchline. These aren't progressive ideas.

So in conclusion, no at every level.
I linked an intro level article on why ERoEI is silly, but this one goes into more depth.

"ERoEI is Unimportant and is being used incorrectly"

https://bountifulenergy.blogspot.com/2016/06/eroei-is-unimpo...

> In this article I will show that ERoEI is unimportant by itself. It usually does not matter if ERoEI is increasing or decreasing. ERoEI provides no guidance about which sources of energy we should pursue, nor does it offer any guidance about how much net energy will be available to us in the future. By itself, ERoEI is a useless figure, unless it is lower than 1, which it almost never is. Although different sources of energy (such as coal or solar PV) have different ERoEI ratios, this means nothing important.

Also:
Why renewables have a higher eroei

https://bountifulenergy.blogspot.com/2014/07/renewables-have...

> Renewables have ERoEI ratios which are generally comparable to, or higher than, fossil fuels. Although peak oilers reach a different conclusion, that is because they are carrying out the calculation incorrectly. They are ignoring or not including massive waste heat losses (generally 60% or more) from combustion engines which drastically reduces the ERoEI of fossil fuels. Those waste heat losses provide no energy services to society, and should be counted as losses, but are wrongly counted as "energy returns" by peak oilers. Furthermore, peak oilers are ignoring or not counting other large energy losses of fossil fuels. Those omissions exaggerate the ERoEI of fossil fuels relative to renewables. When the calculation is carried out correctly, renewables have higher ERoEI ratios than fossil fuels.
The American way is voluntary self-censorship for commercial purposes. This makes it much harder to say what exactly is allowed and not, because it is easy to see what scenes have been cut from a show but it is impossible to say what scenes was never written or produced.

Even blatant censorship like the Hayes Code or the Comics Code was never enforced by the government and therefore never in conflict with the 5th amendment. It was a voluntary "certification" manged by the industry itself, which just meant movies/comics not adhering to the code would not get a mainstream audience. So the code was implemented from the writing stage.
It's not all the left, as much as it is the auth-left, lib-left are the free love hippies... they still exist... auth from every direction though drowns out the peace/freedom loving group from having a strong voice.
Well, that explains things…
I used to wonder the same then one day I tried LSD[0], and it was another illumination. By then, I'm sure the origin of the cursor trail was some trippy programmer trying to recreate the same effect he saw "under the influence".

[0]: I swear, just once!
Another one which includes the sheep that walks on window borders: https://adrianotiger.github.io/desktopPet/Pets/
Most developers won’t know how to do it without footgunning themselves constantly is the problem.

If the dev ops team is staffed enough to develop integrations that won’t allow that AND won’t get in the way, and then train folks and ‘keep the line’ enough to stop the scope creep - they’re probably not at a shitty small/medium sized shop.
> Numerous scenes and whole episodes of The Office were silently removed from streaming services

Some private companies vs entire undemocratically elected governments conversation aside…

What entire episode has been removed? I’m an office trivia buff and I’m not aware of this
I find it slightly amazing how often commenters here (hello aero-glide2) fail to see that the people in a country are not the same as the dictators controlling the country.

When such misunderstandings are common here at HN, where people are a bit brighter that elsewhere (or so I think) -- then, such misunderstandings must be dangerously common outside HN. I wonder what consequences follow from that
> Entry level Web Developers are getting $200K per year working in FAANG or Big Tec

What inflated most in the past 3 years is the ego of engineers. :-) On blind and job-seeking forums/groups, people incessantly flaunted their packages: $500K with 3-year experience. > $1M for an L7 applied scientists, getting promoted to staff engineer 3 years after graduating, and etc.

I think it all started after 2020.03. The market dipped, and then bounced back, and there was a talent war, thanks to an influx of cheap capital. I remember that my Amazon friends were very happy for a $600K package for their L7 positions, but all of sudden that number seemed normal after the great package inflation since 2020.
If the electricity for resistive heating is coming from a combustion process, it would be more efficient to burn that substance directly in the home to produce heat directly. Otherwise a lot of heat energy is lost being converted to electricity and traveling through the power lines.
Why is this comment being downvoted? The nodes of a flow graph (usually) are equivalent to pure functions. The graph represents chaining of those functions and the ports of the nodes are their type signatures.

There is a comment in parallel that correctly states "getting down" is a gap or difficult. This maps to the fact that functional programming paradigms are easier to use higher up and deep down it somehow gets imperative on the way, and be it only in the compiler...
I would say he is open to "the wrong and misinformed" in the hope that they become less misinformed, at least.

How are you so certain you've the correct position on anything, if you can't consider other points of view? How can you understand others actions if you will not listen to their attempts to explain their motivations?
I wouldn't call this a "churn announcement" - it's the biggest YC news in years. I guess I can think of a few different answers to your question. One is that since it's significant new information, it's on topic (job ads are the opposite of that). Another is that there's a special relationship between YC and the HN community, and it's good for the community to have space to discuss that. A third is that there is definitely no way that the community would support us trying to close such a topic to comments.

Also, job ads get placed on the front page by software. This submission got on the front page by upvotes like any other.
For the bank, yes.

When I put my ACH details into my Cash app, or Apple pay, or whatever - I am not actually directly creating an ACH transaction. The two organizations are still going to do the transaction on my behalf.
I think it's important to distinguish between government censorship and corporate self-censorship. Almost nothing should be censored by the government. Almost anything can be censored by private parties (however cowardly such censorship may often be).
>he's a loon

He's pretty typical, honestly. There is a very large contingent of people who think exactly like he does. 10 years ago, he might be fairly cast as an outlier. Not anymore.
I just linked your blog post in a separate comment because I was reading it over the weekend. I was looking for articles about writing static site generators and didn't realize most people don't roll their own templating engines. I was disappointed to see not much on templating in your post but it definitely gave me the confidence to keep going. Managed to get aspects I'd been struggling to work for months working yesterday.
Somewhat the point. With a tiered approach, the costs for a person with a single rental home become lower than the costs for a business buying up the block.

If it forces sales, you get more home inventory and lower prices.
*only in the cloud environment

Throw some 3090s in a rack and you’ll break even in 3 months
Sure, I was specifically referring to OPs example of adding funds to an Apple wallet.
This piece is a good example of circular reasoning, isn’t it? The question “Why are there 12 notes in Western scales?” Is answered first by presuming that 4ths and 5ths sound pleasant (to whom? a Westerner?), the “4th” and “5th” being intervals ON a Western scale, which the author then reverse-engineers back to the 12-note scale which they assumed from the start. There are other scales you could start from, in which 4ths and 5ths aren’t so special…
The issue of course is those things are hard.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html :

Are paywalls ok?

It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic. More here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=paywalls%20by:dang&dateRange=a...
If the chinese people had the option between the censored and uncensored version, which one do you think they would prefer?

On an individual level it is obvious that almost no one advocates for self-censorship. Most people are only enthusiastic about censorship when they are the censor and not the censored.

The communist dictatorship is a parasitic form of governance, but most cannot escape because they're stuck at a local maxima.
You're being downvoted but this is entirely correct. Inflation or deflation is a mismatch between the amount of money and the demand for money - if your economy increases at the same rate as the money supply, you won't have inflation even though you are "printing money". Similarly, you can have an absolutely fixed currency supply and still experience inflation (if your demand drops off a cliff).

Money is just another good. It has its own demand and supply. Ideally, you want those to match - which is what central banks try to do.

"Hard-currency advocated" (gold standard people) have been arguing against this concept since its inception, but, their system doesn't have a way to manage the money supply, which leads to frequent recessions. The gold period is marked by recessions that took place every couple years - and that was in a 19th century economy that moved far slower and was far less interconnected.
Great Idea! I've been using Midjourney from something similar, but it doesn't seem to understand "microphone" very well (or, more likely, my prompt-fu isn't up to snuff just yet)
Agreed that there are workloads where inference is not expensive, but it's really workload dependent. For applications that run inference over large amounts of data in the computer vision space, inference ends up being a dominant portion of the spend.
While his vocabulary might be a inflammatory, it's hard to argue that any language has an evangelistic community anywhere near the level of rust's. No other community is pushes their favorite language for every single use case. No other language has a rewrite it in rust meme. No other language attacks people for unsafe code.
Alright, "sustainably developed".
Fair enough. My app is somewhere between GH Helper and a light-weight Table Top Simulator mod. I would definitely feel happier knowing that your app and others are not going to add all the features mine adds. haha. :)
Port knocking is just a channel to send a password. Usually a static plaintext password.

It's overengineering to the nth degree.

If you want to send a password without any TCP baggage then just send a UDP packet. It's not as "cool", perhaps, but it'll be orders of magnitude easier to make secure.

Or use TCP MD5, and even a sniffer can't RST your TCP session.