skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uhh like how many murder cases got solved, how many drunk drivers had their driving licenses revoked, how many speeding tickets went through, how many stolen cars and goods found its original owner, how many pickpocket thieves, shoplifters, bulglar cases got investigated, you know ... Stuff police exist for?
> Intel agencies don’t actually do the killing. The military does. CIA as an intel agency only says where and who.

Nope https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-gave-cia-power-to-launch-... The CIA has the authority and hardware to launch their own drone strikes. It was classified, so we don't know when it started, but Obama removed their power to do it and Trump gave it back.

The US has two separate drone strike programs. The military runs one, and the CIA runs the other.

Edit: Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Ayman_al-Zawahiri it's specifically noted that the CIA conducted the drone strike after approval from Biden.
GPU prices will trend towards market prices either way. I'd rather them somewhat overshoot MSRP rather than undershoot, which is what happened with the 30-series GPU. It's not fair that scalpers were getting rich while EVGA was operating at a loss.
Just because something is "well known" doesn't mean we shouldn't bring it up. In fact, I'd argue we should bring it up more often when there is low progress being made. People associate importance with frequency of a topic. There's also new people being born every day, so plenty of people that are hearing about these things for the first time. Why shame them? Do you just not care?
> Relaxing is probably the wrong word. You should approach the situation like you’re a first responder arriving at the crash scene: prepared to act and stowing your emotion.

I don’t think that’s a good advice. Life is not a crash scene where minutes count.

Realistically we are talking about weeks here. The situation is not that different today than yesterday and will be mostly the same tomorrow.

OP has time to take a breath, remember that they have a partner having the kid with them and who they can talk to, take a calm look at the situation as a whole which is highly unlikely to be as bad as he paints it (realistically how unemployable can be someone who currently holds a steady job) and then plans actions for the next few months.

The original comment was spot on in a lot of way. Having a kid is indeed a life changing event but it’s good remembering plenty of people went through it and survived.
This is the opposite of my recollection. I thought Samsung just started bundling their own app store, and was referencing that it may yet succeed. Maybe this is attempt 2?

Amazon tried selling phones with their own app store built in, but Fire Phones never took off for whatever reason.
Right, I was even wondering about an Alford plea.
That's not quite true.

When it comes to certain luxury products, price increases actually do increase demand.

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

It's why people pay thousands of dollars for a handbag cost maybe tens of dollars to produce. People like playing status games.

This effect is why third richest person on the planet is Bernard Arnault of Louis Vuitton, someone you've likely never heard of. He's currently wealthier than Bezos. He didn't actually improve our lives or revolutionize industry. He just latched into our primitive status seeking behavior.
Firms in four-day week trial say they will make it permanent
I wonder how good it is compared to some other model like gpt-j or bert using the same dataset.
This is the kind of thoughtful, rational commentary I think the parent commenter was looking for. Thank you!
Southern Norway crossed the 10NOK/kWh threshold earlier this year.

It is kind of mind boggling how this can happen for a country with almost infinite supply of hydro power, but here we are.

Of course, Norway being Norway, since the start of September we now get a 90% refund for everything above 0.7NOK (based on the average price of each 24 hours) so for most of us will survive.

Oh, and since most power plants are owned by the public this doesn't affect budgets as badly as it could have done.

(It is even more complicated but I don't have more time now. Someone please fill in if I got something really wrong. Also, yes, this is a wild tangent but thinking I know HN I guess it will the day a little less boring for someone : )
> What's the grain of salt, if all of the information he presented is already well-known?

In this case, it's bit of suspicion about his motivations. And if he presents claims of new factual information in other communications, I would require more rigorous verification of their truth than I would if he was, say, in France taking advantage of some extradition loophole.

> In fact he is not. Although he has applied.

That appears to be correct. So I don't know if he has yet taken an oath of allegiance to the Russian Federation, though he has certainly announced his intention to.

> It's unknown. Do you have access to any special information on this subject?

Of course not; it's a rhetorical question that follows from his previous statements about his belief that the oath he took to the United States required him to do what he did, despite the personal cost.

> Can you truly not think of any reasons Russia might tolerate his presence even if he were not to seriously and honestly swear to do whatever they say?

Of course I can; there is a continuum of possibilities between "He is free to say whatever he wants but he only says bad things about Russia's adversaries for obvious practical reasons, in return for which his presence is tolerated" to "He is and has been for many years a paid FSB agent or asset and a true believer in the geopolitical agenda of the Russian Federation and everything he writes is crafted specifically by him and a FSB propaganda team to serve their goals of the moment". My personal opinion is that he lies somewhere much closer to the first than the second, but in the end we don't know. Thus, grain of salt.
"Just" is not really fair here, they're a window into global variables. Global state is awful to deal with but a necessity in the real world, so having some sort of constrained global state is something we're always trying to solve in new ways, singletons, monads, etc. Here we have hooks, which is an interesting experiment but something I personally would have played with in some new framework rather than dropping into the most popular and mainstream one.
On that note though, is there a way to protect your story if you want to pitch it to a publisher, or anywhere else ? Like a registry for story ideas ?
I mean, it's a personal decision of Magnus not to play someone who cheated before. Maybe he got to know something about Hans after the game he lost. Possible theories: cheating impossible to prove or prep leak.
Ah, OK, I think I misunderstood the article. If you are supplying both images to me, you could do that with the MD5 hashes. Although, I think if you could get them to generate the same bitmap, then the attack has been at least partially mitigated, by definition. Not completely, I admit, but I think it wouldn't qualify as the same attack shown in the article.
Any country that signs any form of international agreement is giving away part of its sovereignty in exchange of some benefit. It is just a matter of degrees.
I don't have children, but what helped me was to realize that life is a gift. It's inherently magical. The cognitive dissonance we all feel as creatives working in a dog-eat-dog world that isn't designed for us is normal.

Mindfulness meditation (prayer in a religious context), the quieting of my inner monologue through shadow work + self-cognitive-behavior-therapy (CBT) to nurture my inner child, and noticing the presence of the divine through studying synchronicity (magic) really helped me.

In other words, you've correctly identified that no solution may be possible within your current reality. But as human beings, we can consciously shift into the reality we wish to live in. That might look like getting a different job, moving somewhere else, or even just communicating our feelings and setting boundaries. I've found that the more I stand up for the dignity of myself and others, the more the universe realigns to support my existence. I believe that this spiritual work in service to ourselves and especially others, is what brings about Heaven on Earth.
> The two-way data binding in Svelte saves ~4 lines of reusable hook function

Based on the RealWorld projects, Svelte saves you around 50% in loc vs React.

https://medium.com/dailyjs/a-realworld-comparison-of-front-e...
Even more fun when you realize that the "War on Drugs" has nothing to do with drugs, and is intended to militarize the police.
How do you use that combination in practice if you are able to share?
That's the genius of it.
What is the problem with harfbuzz? we use it extensively in LibreOffice, works great!
> Where does the NSA find $13 billion worth of top-shelf GPUs or ASICs?

Leaving aside the fact that they could have private secret production capability and I would believe it, the market is probably being flooded now as BTC is tanking. GPUs are apparently getting cheap again.
> Obviously the former, because we're clearly talking past each other.

While this happens sometimes, that doesn't look like what's happening here. The other party here is incorporating your ideas into their framework to try to create a combined vision; you're mostly just disagreeing, sometimes with hostility.
Because the lock is, effectively, collateral in exchange for getting a new phone on a monthly plan. Just because the carriers abuse that by not unlocking after the phone is paid off doesn't mean locks are inherently evil. It prevents one from paying, say, $300 of the phone off, then jumping ship to a different carrier.
Oooh quite the burn. Props.
It is. They need a dumb phone from the age of 13 to be able to call/text quickly. Smartphones should only be given from the age of 18 imo.
This reminds me of https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2015/09/17/transmission-a... which was a lot of fun.
Why not name it uBO Neutrino?

It has the connotation of being "Lite" since they're low-mass particles. And it sounds vaguely like "neutered", which is what MV3 attempts to do to ad-blockers.

(That being said, this description from gorhill looks great.)
I feel like I was in a similar position 20 years ago, except that it was my second child. I had gone through dotcom boom/bust and the job market was terrible. I had given all my working moments to the company I was working for, and my skill set was unmarketable, and I was emotionally spent, and my self confidence was void.

I ended up leaving the company and taking a sizable pay cut to do so. It was hard, super hard. The company I moved to was in chaos, we absorbed a bunch of new debt to keep up with things.

20 years later, I am so grateful I made this move. Not because things turned out great (which they did), but because I learned how to say no, and set boundaries for myself and how I let companies treat me.

Keep your head up, and focus on the stuff that really matters.
The US state department revoked his passport while he was in Russia.

The American govt trapped him there.
Is it possible to continue coding in some early version of React that only had class components?

Has anyone branched that into its own thing yet?
As an early beta user, I also agree. I think the issue with many modern libraries is that they don't know when to stop. Like that guy who keeps adding visual mods to his car, or that TV show that keeps creating mediocre seasons.

I took a risk on React back when there were minimal components and zero form libraries and started fading away from React once hooks were added. Redux is still pretty nice, and overall still use React because I much prefer it to anything else. But we're definitely in the long-term bloat phase which you can tell by the popularity of things like Vue, "React Lite" libraries being built, etc.
Not everyone is a pro CS:Go player. I really like RTX shadow improvements and wish more games supported it. I've bought games for their "showpiece stuff".
It's quite funny seeing this and the 2000 watt society on the HN frontpage at the same time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32899656
The Most Dangerous Philosopher – Michael Millerman
Yep. The article has some good points overall, but Context was definitely never intended as a replacement for Redux. Redux and Context are different tools that solve different problems, with some small overlap.

Honestly, this is a point of confusion I see folks ask about _every_ day.

Context is a Dependency Injection tool for a single value, used to avoid prop drilling.

Redux is a tool for predictable global state management, with the state stored outside React.

Note that Context itself isn't the "store", or "managing" anything - it's just a conduit for whatever state you are managing, or whatever other value you're passing through it (event emitter, etc).

I ended up writing an extensive article specifically to answer this frequently asked question, including details about what the differences are between Context and Redux, and when to consider using either of them:

- https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2021/01/context-redux-diff...
I'm in a slightly similar situation. I have a job that's fine, but not my dream. Working on my dream on the side. But wife is currently pregnant, so my wife quit her job and we moved in with my parents. I know that might not be everyone's cup of tea, but I love my parents and they're getting older and need help anyway, so it's a win-win situation for me. Have you considered anything similar?
That does not really match my experience.
Didn't downvote the parent, but I'd be willing to bet that if the comment didn't lead with "You are living in a dream world" it'd be the same shade as other comments. Often it's not the point, but the tone. In the author's mind, it may've been intended as funny or light-hearted, but as bare words on a page, it comes across as personal and contemptuous.
> Having Security Officers on buses costs an incredible amount of money.

So don't. Busses have drivers. Give them a red button to push when needed that will summon security officers to the next bus stop.
> Cloudflare is a regular problem for Starlink users. We're on CGNAT so users share IPv4 addresses. I see CAPTCHAs when using Starlink ten times as often as on my other ISP. I don't think it actually breaks things the way this article describes, it seems like a gentler behavior, but it's annoying.

I've been noticing this too, and it's why Starlink remains my secondary ISP/bulk transfer connection. If I had to drop one connection, I'd drop Starlink for this reason alone.

There are some sites that I simply can't browse, and it's not Cloudflare errors, either. Lowes, in particular, simply returns error pages for anything but the main landing page on a regular enough basis. Of course, my observed public IP changes so it's not consistent, but it's genuinely annoying.
Yeah actually the front end world at large has been moving away from the SPA pattern...

See Next, Nuxt, Remix, SvelteKit, Astro, Qwik City, etc.
Is $1600 that insane when people are paying $1100+ for a phone?
I haven't got the ideas why many frontend jobs require experience in React whether it's for a new or existing projects, maybe I need enlightenment.
Nope, the triple fan setup in a big case is fine - if anything, the 3xxx gen cards are quieter than previous ones.
Agreed. Vue is the best of all worlds in my opinion. Here's my take on the whole thing from a Svelte post a couple of weeks back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32763509#32767905

> I still think Vue (especially Vue 2) is the greatest of them all. I've worked professionally with Angular, React, and Vue. Each for several years. Vue is easily the winner for me with the syntax that closely matches native HTML and JS/TS and how it encourages clean separation of concerns and clean code. JSX/TSX is absolutely the worst for the latter, it's like the wild west. "But you don't have to write it that way" - yeah ok, but when you work in a large organization it's going to get written that way by your peers; good luck trying to stop it. Angular is just a clusterfuck of pipes and observables that require higher cognitive load to unravel when trying to understand a semi-complex block of code. Contrast with Vue where I can near instantly understand what it's trying to accomplish.

> This shit right here - {#if <condition>} {:else} {/if} - is why Svelte is deterring me. For the love of god, can we stop coming up with weird custom syntax for templating code? This is one area where Angular also pisses me off: *ngIf for example is just as hideous. With Vue: v-if, v-else. You add it as an attribute to native html, it's dead simple. No weird symbols, no braces or other oddball shit I have to look up when I step away from it for a few months and come back. It just makes sense right away.
As Biden gets into his speech, and for about 98% of the video - the framing is exactly as Snowden presented. Given politicians are the sort of people that obsess over the implications of the color of a tie, this visual was chosen absolutely intentionally: a flag hung vertically, blood red imposed on a dark scene, and two shadowy marines in the rear. I have no idea why they went for this visual, but it's difficult to attribute it to any motivation that is at all desirable.

Incidentally, if you originally watched the video on CNN, I'd encourage you to check out your own link, past the 40 second mark! Because that leads to a much more light hearted (though not really, if you really think about the implications of this) issue. As this video was streamed CNN distorted the colors, in real time, to try to increase the apparent lighting while also turning the crimson red into something like a fuchsia pink. [1] If you think that link might itself be fake, feel free to just look at any of CNN's coverage [2] and compare it against the source videos.

Everybody understood exactly the sort of imagery Biden's writers were looking to evoke. The only question that remains to be answered is why.

[1] - https://twitter.com/burackbobby_/status/1565543514137677824

[2] - https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2022/09/02/veteran-r...
I do much more inference than training, but a bit of both.

Speed is generally not a serious issue:

- I'm not trying to scale to millions of users on inference; it's a dev machine

- Training is a bit of fine-tuning; I'm not building big models from scratch.

- Worst-case speed has gone into "annoying" territory, but never into prohibitive. Worst case, I can grab a coffee while things run.

- It's not a lot of coffee, since I'm trying to visualize some interesting things about some data. The majority of that is data cleaning, visualization, data engineering, UI/UX, meetings, and a million other things. My GPU is sitting idle >>95% of the time.

I am constrained by RAM. In the era of GPT2 -> GPT3, Stable Diffusion, etc., RAM becomes a major bottleneck. There are cloud workflows, but they aren't a great fit, both due to data security / regulatory issues, to how we plan to do dev ops / deployment, as well as just to time for integration.

Dropping $8k on 4x 24GB GPUs would be a no-brainer if it let me work with bigger models.

I'm sure people can describe Better Ways to Do Things, but changing workflows, system architecture, etc. to those workflows would be obviously out-of-scope for what I'm trying to do. At that point, I'm better off working with smaller models. They're good enough.
So there is no other way that people can talk about politics without going on Twitter? If Twitter is a monopoly and doing is badly as they are financially. They must be doing something wrong.

I’m sure if Fox News or a billionaire ex-president wanted to start a social media platform he could. He has plenty of people coming to his rallies. He couldn’t get enough of his 75 million voters to come to Truth Social to make it successful.
They're locking unlocked phones. That's the problem. Happened to me. I purchased a pixel from google. Inserted my at&t sim, and it was locked to at&t when I tried to use my tmobile sim.
It's all energy consumption by a person, not just their residential electrical usage. So the gas you may use to heat your water, or the gasoline in your car, or the fraction of the street light outside your home. The energy that runs your local grocery store, hair salon, or Chick-fil-a. The energy that went into growing your food, making your clothing, and shipping your monthly Chewy.com order.

48kWh is a much smaller amount when it includes all of our per capita economic activity.
OP created an account 3 days ago to ask a question and Terry Tao answered. Must be an awesome feeling.
While I expected about $1600 for 4090, for the other two, whose GPU sizes are 9.5/16 and 7.5/16 of the top model, I expected prices proportional to their sizes, i.e. about $1000 and $700.

However, NVIDIA added $200 for both smaller models making them $1200 and $900.

It is debatable whether 4090 is worth $1600, but in comparison with it the two 4080 models are grossly overpriced, taking into account their GPU sizes and their 2/3 and 1/2 memory sizes.
I've had the same experience (over decades) and never understood it. SQL should not be difficult for any professional programmer, and it's extremely powerful.
Is normal to be afraid but you can do this. Take in mind that babies are the best cure known to man against feeling burnt or trapped in a useless life.

About being tired, well, this is a different situation... be afraid, very afraid. Some babies are very quiet, other not so much. One step at a time.
Right, because I'm going to take advice on writing programs that need to not have a GC from someone who has never written any program that needs to not have a GC.
In general, yes, and I think Germans are (at least in theory) much more protective of their data than others. Nonetheless, every government since the late 00s has been trying to push this through in one form or another.

I suspect there is heavy lobbying from within the professional bureaucracy (including police and IC) for this. Possibly also diplomatic pressure from countries like the US.
I lost the ability to use my PC with the case closed. My Cat loves it though.
As someone who spent the first 15 years of their career in Java, but has been out of the ecosystem for some time now, it's cool to see Java get such big improvements, especially virtual threads.

However, given the number of excellent JVM languages, especially Kotlin, I'm curious what the general consensus is for starting new projects. That is, if I were starting a greenfield project, I think I would definitely use Kotlin over Java - Kotlin doesn't have to deal with the backwards compatibility concerns of Java, and thus does away with some of the problematic annoying complexity of Java. E.g. first class language support for nullable/optional types I think is critical these days - Java has bolted on an Optional wrapper, but it's cumbersome and doesn't provide the kind of strong guarantees that a language-implemented version does.

So what does the HN community think? Would you use another JVM language over Java if you were starting a new project?
Who had the courage to speak up about our governments vast overreach and illegal domestic surveillance program. His exceptional courage is why we might pay special attention to his opinion, even when we disagree with it or suspect it's influenced by who has granted him asylum.
The titan used the standard Geforce Game Ready drivers.