skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why would you scale to zero in high perf compute?

Midnight - 6am is six hours. The on demand price for a G5 is $1/hr. That's over $2K/yr, or "an extra week of skiing paid for by your B2B side project that almost never has customers from ~9pm west coat to ~6am east coast". And I'm not even counting weekends.

But that's sort of a silly edge case (albeit probably a real one for lots of folks commenting here). The real savings are in predictable startup times for bursty work loads. Fast and low variance startup times unlock a huge amount of savings. Without both speed and predictability, you have to plan to fail and over-allocate. Which can get really expensive fast.

Another way to think about this is that zero isn't special. It's just a special case of the more general scenario where customer demand exceeds current allocation. The larger your customer base, and the burstier your demand, the more instances you need sitting on ice to meet customers' UX requirements. This is particularly true when you're growing fast and most of your customers are new; you really want a good customer experience every single time.
> Nothing about GPL makes it "less copyrighted". Acting like a commercial copyright is "stronger" because it doesn't immediately grant certain uses is false and needs to be challenged whenever the claim is made.

GPL says "you have a license to use it if you do XYZ." The alternative is "you have no license to use it." How is that not strictly "stronger?"
Machine Learning Operations Made Easy
Chomsky's surprisingly insightful thinking on the limits of human knowledge, and the consequences: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5in5EdjhD0&t=2953s
Scaling to zero means zero cost when there is zero work. If you have a buffer pool, how long do you keep it populated when you have no work?

Maintaining a buffer pool is hard. You need to maintain state, have a prediction function, track usage through time, etc. just spinning up new nodes for new work is substantially easier.

And the author said he could spin up new nodes in 15 seconds, that’s pretty quick.
How are stores an advantage?

For things people don’t need to go to a store to see/try in person, amazon needs to figure out how to get things to people when they need them.

For things people need to try before they buy, Amazon needs to make it incredibly easy to put it back (return) the item, and also focus on tech innovation (ar/vr) to improve the purchasing experience.

On the cloud side they need to reckon with what will happen when we go to a multi cloud world. And then the limiting factor becomes the product/tech innovation itself. The issue with innovation in the long run is that everyone is able to provide an offering as OSS continues to grow more prevalent. At that point you may see more rapid acquisition for better vetting and faster time
To market.
EBS is already replicated so they probably just migrate behind the scenes, same as if the original physical disk was corrupted. It looks like only certain conditions allow this kindof migration.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/modify-v...
They've pretty much thrown the frog straight into the boiling pot havent they?

In april they held a private concer featuring lizzo, then in july tell employees to increase productivity.

From lizzo to layoffs in two months.
Honestly this is better because they need products to succeed so they stay in business.
It also covers models introduced from 2009 through today. It gives you an idea of how it was placed in the product lineup when it was launched, but not which product lineup, so... not very helpful.
We've banned this account for breaking the site guidelines. Doing that will eventually get your main account banned as well, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
beautiful! I'll check it out. heh, I knew it was a good idea, I'm glad someone else thought so as well
On certain Android devices (Samsung, or Xiaomi's MIUI,for example) there is a mode called Ultra Battery Mode, or Battery Saving Mode, which only allows you to pick 6 apps, and in exchange the phone will run for a week on one charge. I actually use it for this specific reason - helps to focus and shuts off the constant stream of notifications. I think you would be able to get one even cheaper than your budget, as most models would have this feature. The good and bad thing about it is that you can switch it off and use it as a normal phone if you would like to.
Thanks. It looked like machine -generated nonsense to me.
If Russia throws badly trained, led, equipped and supplied troops into battle, their losses are likely to be horrendous and their morale rock bottom. They would be far better served by a smaller number of well trained troops; but that would take too much time.
FWIW, it's widely understood in Australia as well.
> catastrophize a minor setback v. peers as "the end of the world."

The counterpoint to this is that most medical trainees endure a tremendous number or setbacks during training that they must overcome. If anything residency teaches it is grit. I would say trainees generally tend to evolve in this respect from premed undergrads and 1st/2nd year med students who are relatively insufferable throughout the rest of training where there is necessarily a personality shift.

> Anecdotally, I've only heard friends in medicine (US) refer to them (the USMLE exam[0] and steps) as "boards,"

Yes, probably when talking to non doctors to keep it simple. But everyone inside usually just says specifically Step 1, Step 2 etc or USMLE.

> Those are usually singular because you only need one

No. If you subspecialize - you will board in two or more things. For instance an interventional cardiologist will be boarded in internal medicine, general cardiology and interventional cardiology each with their own training requirements and exams.

> sometimes they're oral, like a thesis defense where you get grilled on a schedule of of your cases over the past couple years.

The vast majority of even the oral exams are standardized tests with standardized cases. I can only think of OBGYN that does the case review.
>'almost finite'

I mean one of the fundamental attributes of infinity is that you can never be 'almost there'.
Would this work better with calcium chloride instead?
Everyone saying teams is garbage. It’s not. It’s like you’re complaining about the kid who got a C in class. Guess what? They passed the exam.

Microsoft brutalised Slack with a C grade app that was “bundled for free”. For 80% of people, teams is just fine.
a sibling comment to yours[0], from 'treesknees, addresses what a decent caching setup for this looks like.

> We've since started caching our images locally using Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager plus hosting our own registry for some simple things we used to be pulling from Docker Hub.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32931044
With that attitude you would need to condemn democracy as it is a 2500 year old system that we championt to run our modern political agenda.

Maybe we would not be in this mess in the first place if we sustained insights of the past.
I guess it depends. Maybe there are worlds where, if you flipped wrong, humanity all dies horribly.

People alive in those worlds are much more likely to see runs of millions of flips than people alive in worlds where that's not true.

If you see a million heads, you might start to worry that you're in one of those very strange worlds (where your survival depends upon those flips). Maybe there are exponentially more worlds where humanity's survival depends on flipping heads then there are worlds where you just randomly got a million heads.

The other way things might get weird is if you have a run of, say, extremely near misses towards nuclear apocalypse. The more near misses, the more history has to appear to contort to avoid an apocalypse. If you have a bunch of those in your history, it's a bad sign- it means that your future is likely to involve either 1) an apocalypse or 2) an extremely weird avoidance of one, that is basically totally unpredictable. Maybe next time a cosmic ray will zap the guy giving the launch order.

That is, if you find yourself in universe with a weird history that's getting weirder, you might have reason to believe that that weirdness is actually less weird than nonexistence and things will keep getting weirder.
Only if you roll your own arbitrary precision type on the gpu, which is much harder given the constraints.
I would say most of the industry just "wants to get it done", everyone is really confused, lack of communication, no time to design, customers changing project direction fast. Requirements/design/diagrams are replaced with tasks in Jira because that is "agile"

I would say if it is a new project it's useful to do some UML diagrams to get through discussions. But after the first milestones it is impossible to keep diagrams updated in sync with code, they normally just get left behind

For the reasons above anything with arrows works, it does not need to be UML, but it is a useful to know, making diagrams that present all in a useful way is hard and all knowledge and thinking is welcome

My current company we just have a designer doing/updating wireframe/mockups after meeting which then we discuss
Ah yes, that one manager and their 10,000 direct reports.
You need to give your ssn to so many people over your lifetime and you’re essentially trusting that all of them will be trustworthy and secure with it.

This could be easily solved with public key cryptography, but it would also confuse so many people it would be hard to implement.

If there’s an upside to the crypto craze, maybe it’s teaching people about cryptography basics.
Your phone and your government already do though and last time I checked nobody cared. It's just posturing, we're already way to deep to escape these things
Desktop version is electron
CUDA worked fine with large on my 2080Ti FWIW. The speedup is ridiculous, as expected. My Ryzen 3800X used almost an hour transcribing a minute worth of speech, while the 2080Ti does it in like 10-20 seconds.
I tried running it in realtime with live audio input (kind of).

If you want to give it a shot, you can find the python script in this repo: https://github.com/tobiashuttinger/openai-whisper-realtime

A bit more context on how it works:
The systems default audio input is captured with python, split into small chunks and is then fed to OpenAI's original transcription function. It tries (currently rather poorly) to detect word breaks and doesn't split the audio buffer in those cases. With how the model is designed, it doesn't make the most sense to do this, but i found it would be worth trying. It works acceptably well.
If you run two jobs right after each other and the machine tries to pull the image separately for each one and redownloads the whole thing, then that's a poor cache. Modern practices make this relatively easy to accomplish by accident.
Oops, fixed, thanks :)
Ask HN: Why Do Tech's Gatekeepers Despise Salespeople?
Ellison, Horowitz, PG, Nadella and countless others of import have espoused the critical role elite salespeople play in startup cultural and financial success (hustle, relentlessness, fierce advocacy of product teams, iterating user value prop, etc.)
Yet hiring managers remain routinely and unapologetically bias towards salespeople. Bias increases by multiples when the record of sales achievement isn't related to a technical product.

For context, I've earned a 7 figure income for 10+ years as an individual contributor and have also recruited, hired & trained extraordinary achieving sales teams.

Please, please dear HN I implore you to counsel me on this subject. --->Does it not strain all credulity to believe that the totality of skills + IQ + EQ, etc. possessed by a high achieving sales professional are incompatible with mastery of a technical product, rapport with engineers & PM's, ability to facilitate TAM & competition due diligence, etc, etc, etc.?

As it stands presentlythe status quo is lose-lose. I lose an opportunity to join the tech pioneers building the future.....and they lose a 80-100 hours a week sales machine with instant ability to move the needle.
> Turning her attention to the weekend, Elizabeth arranged for her husband to take the kids from 12:00 to 4:00 every Saturday, freeing up another four-hour research block.

Being deliberate about schedule management is great.

However, my goal with schedule management is to get work done during the work week so I can spend more time with my kids, not carve out a large chunk of the weekend to avoid the kids while I work more.

There were some decent points in this article, but it really needed some better examples. Obviously parents can get more work done if we conveniently have our spouses watch the kids alone every weekend while we work more on Saturday, but I didn't really need a long blog post to tell me that. Nor do I want it.

Realistically, I've found a lot of success in being more ruthless about my own schedule management: Withdrawing from meetings I don't need to be in. Requesting smaller 30-minute time slots where people unnecessarily schedule 1-hour meetings. Leaving meetings entirely if the scheduler doesn't show up within 5 minutes of the start time, sending them an e-mail asking to reschedule when they're available. Forcing meetings into e-mails when they don't need to be a meeting. Requesting agendas and pre-work before meetings so we avoid design by committee. Implemented tactfully, these can squeeze out a lot of the time wasters that happen during the course of a week. I'd much rather do things like that than to give up and work weekends.
Chickens arent at liberty to choose their butcher, typically.
I can assure you from FDB will not be closed sourced again. But I agree that it was pretty bad for its [open source] users that it was made closed source. Terrible move for adoption.
The hackintosh world is fascinating, and a really useful analogy. It makes the Linux experience (which, in the last half decade, has been largely good) look utterly seamless and polished, at least with the bigger distros. I own a MBP and will continue to use Apple laptops, but their excellence depends entirely on controlling the entire end-to-end product. And there's nothing particularly weird or objectionable about that. But it makes what the Linux community has been able to do, supporting an almost arbitrarily large set of hardware, that much more impressive. (This, incidentally, is one reason I don't get into OS wars: they're all doing different things in wildly different ways, even if, for the most part, they're capable of the same core tasks.)
Does it not sound very similar to the soviet national anthem? Or do all anthems sound like that, I guess I haven't heard too many.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U06jlgpMtQs&ab_channel=rascr...
Why would you not call it “startup performance”.

Calling this reliability is like saying a Ford is more reliable than a Chevy because the Ford has a better throttle response.
> Because there just wasn't enough people to drive it all back when they retreated.

Also Russian soldiers didn't care whether it was captured or not. They just care about saving their own lives. This does not make for an effective army, but it's all Russia can do.
I messaged them and might try and reboot it
I think that allow unfree in nix is practically the same as adding nonguix repo to your channels. Both are essentially one line of config in some file.

(I am former nixos user but now on guix)
I'm not assuming that, but I see how it could read that way, since I'm being fast and loose with the language. The community (anthropomorphizing the blob again) definitely empirically reacts very differently to the two topics.
In what way do you think it’s over complicated? Genuinely interested.

Not sure about Minio, but most S3 clones don’t clone all API operations, just the ones they and their customers/users need.
FDA Warning on NyQuil Chicken Alerts Many to Existence of NyQuil Chicken
How would we know if a homeless person was the second coming of Jesus Christ?

Non-falsifiable claims are easy and limitless. Their credibility without evidence should be proportional.
I understand Fahrenheit now.
Atlassian products would be twice as fast.
It will be very useful and interesting to integrate Innernet with WiPhone to create a modern version of secure Sneakernet on the go e.g. bike intercom system, emergency networks, etc [1].

[1]WiPhone: An Open Source Phone That's Really Yours:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32762767

[2]Sneakernet:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet
>With GPUs we have proven that parallelism can be just as good or even better than speed increases in enhancing computation.

Not really, no. It's just that certain classes of problems can be very readily parallelized and it's relatively easy to figure out how to do something 1000x in parallel compared to figuring out how to achieve a 1000x single thread speedup.

>Much more realistic virtual reality. For example, imagine a realistic forest stream that your avatar is wading through, with realtime accurate simulation of the water, and complex models for animal cognition of the birds and squirrels around you.

I'm not sure 1000x would do much more than scratch the surface of that, especially if you're already tying a lot of it up with higher fidelity rendering.
We have constant autoscaling issues because of this in GCP - glad someone plotted this - hope people in GCP will pay a bit more attention to this. Thanks to the OP!
Former Tyson executive, but was a current Beyond exec. He joined Beyond in December 2021 after leaving Tyson.
I have thought there needs to be much more trivial plug-and-play caching solution that works for the major services: npm, pypi, cargo, docker, etc. Right now, is is justifiably annoying enough that nobody worries about it until they are squandering terabytes of bandwidth or dealt with an external outage.
Yeah sure but it's definitely different from being laid off. You can just look at the numbers. The vast majority of people end up on a new team and do not leave the company.
As a victim of these gangs, I’m sorry but I feel no sympathy. They swapped my sim and called in a SWAT raid on my house while they attempted to take over all my digital accounts. I’m lucky it didn’t end worse for me or my family.
Without lead you get tin whiskers. I wonder how the math works out in terms of what’s better for the environment if electronics break a lot more often…
Don't like it? Fork it. That's your recourse. Want something fixed? Do it yourself, or pay someone to do it for you. Publish your fix, and maybe it'll get merged into mainline. Or maybe people will decide your fork is better, and use it instead. Or maybe you'll be left with your own personal branch. In any case, you now have the software you need, because you made the software what you need.

The cool thing about Free (as in Freedom) software is that you have that right, unlike in proprietary land. Proprietary software (like Google's) can just die completely. Proprietary software can stay broken forever, because the only people who can fix it don't want to. With Free software, anyone can fix it. More importantly, YOU can fix it.
> They slowed the CPU on products with a worn out battery in order to prevent the CPU from overdrawing from the battery, causing a reboot

Only after they have made it impossibly expensive to replace some lithium.

This is an incredibly disingenuous defense of their actions. Apple is fully trying to tie hardware refreshes to the cadence of should be battery refreshes and the frog has been so boiled that android devices realized it was more profitable to follow suit.

Apple is incredibly shady and there simply isnt a defense here.
Headline makes it seem like Dilbert was the cause. Article is also misleading: Adams states "why they decided what was in and what was out, that's not known to anybody except them, I guess"

Except they already announced the reasoning. Lee Enterprises is losing money on print, transitioning to alternative digital formats, and they're reducing costs across the board, including removing all non-Andrews McMeel syndicated cartoons:

- https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/09/11/lee-pap...

- https://finance.yahoo.com/news/lee-enterprises-reports-third...

- https://www.bizarro.com/blog/2022/9/16/has-bizarro-been-canc...

Not a mystery, and not a Dilbert specific thing.
Right-to-repair will “fix” this sort of overstepping
Schema migrations are supported but there are some restrictions. Here are some docs, we will be adding more details:
https://docs.tigrisdata.com/overview/datamodel

Assuming you have declared your schema as shown here https://docs.tigrisdata.com/typescript/getting-started You can evolve it by updating your type definitions, deploy the new version of application. Once `createOrUpdateCollection` is called, it will update the schema.

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The IDB idea sounds very cool, let me dig into it more.
ChromeOS has real Linux with terminal, Android with any app store you fancy, frequent updates that probably won't break your stuff, it's sandboxed all around, one can skip Chrome and use Firefox (and VLC and others) either from apt, Flatpak AND/or Android, machines are mostly touchscreen, Libre Office full install possible, if your machine is beefy enough you get Krita, you can totally skip the Google experience apart from Parameters (I do), and I'm missing some other good points. What not to love (beside it's Google and whatever you do end up feeding the giant hdd serving ads Google really is)?

As one who always get second hand Chromebooks, right now is the time to get a like new Acer 713 with i5 or a new ThinkPad C13 with R5 on the cheap. I've got both this week (cost C$825 total), will end up keeping the best for my needs, give the other to a relative.
Yep.

I saved my team a couple of times over but pissed off a manager in the process. My performance review had multiple contradictions praising me and admonishing me for the same things (being a good mentor but not spending any time onboarding new team members, etc). I left rather than deal with the gaslighting that was all but certain to ramp up.