skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's certainly possible to overspend on cloud services but in most cases when I see comparisons people tend to forget to fully include their true costs for things like staff time, infrastructure, etc. and especially things like opportunity cost for the delays caused by provisioning infrastructure, less capable interfaces (e.g. if you're swapping Terraform for a Jira ticket), or the technical decisions people make because they have fewer services available (this could be a Lambda function but we don't have that so now we need to manage a full VM).

Some examples which come to mind:

* Comparing S3 to the on-premise tape system but ignoring the fact that it involved an expensive tape robot, DR had access times measured in days, etc.

* Comparing S3 to on-premise storage, ignoring the difference in redundancy, forcing users to handle bitrot at the application level, and the procurement process meaning that when they ran out of storage it took months of telling people they couldn't allocate more.

* Saying their devops engineer cost twice as much as their sysadmins (true) but then when you look the devops engineer is using automation and managing literally a hundred times more systems than the “cheaper” ops team.

* Saying their cost to run a VM was cheaper than EC2, which true if you looked only at the instance but not when you calculated how much they were spending on underutilized VM hosts, power / HVAC, facilities people, etc.

It's totally possible to beat a major cloud provider on costs[1] but you usually need to be operating at fairly large scale to even approach the break-even point. This is especially true when you have regulatory or policy requirements for things like security and you include the cost of monitoring all of the things which fall under the cloud provider's responsibility — management networks, firmware version management, robust logging and IAM, etc. are all easy to accidentally exclude when making comparisons.

1. Network egress as the most obvious area to attack
Having watched that video, Gustafson seems to me much more vengeful and hostile than Kahan. There was one point--where an audience member was asking after the impact of variably-sized arithmetic types on implementing algorithms--where Gustafson basically says "you guys don't know how to code for modern computers anymore", which is when the moderator has to step in to keep things from escalating.

The answer to your question--why isn't Kahan working with Gustafson--is that, in Kahan's view, interval arithmetic (this is, AIUI, the main thrust of unums) isn't actually an effective solution to the "problem" of needing numerical analysis. While Kahan isn't the best at explaining this in detail, he does point out two valid issues: interval arithmetic can give excessively pessimistic ranges (because it doesn't account for correlated error), and it can give just plain incorrect answers when you have singularities in ranges.

I would note that, as Gustafson is no longer (as far as I know) pushing for the interval arithmetic approach, this is basically a concession that Kahan was right and Gustafson was wrong.
When you are competing directly with a comparable free solution maybe these hoops don't make sense.
This explanation is just a deliberately wrong textbook simplification everyone is expected to simply believe (while also repeating mantras about empiricism and believing nothing). It is as vulgar as, say, the belief that human sacrifice will calm down some Forest God (so please don't ever look down on all those stupid “uneducated” people, everyone is in the same boat).

Newton most certainly did not mean the “same thing” we mean. His context, his models, his metaphysical and spiritual ground were all different from ours. All of that is simply ignored. A student today is presented with appropriated thoroughly mutated cuts, is told that those are Newton's contribution to the glorious building of Science, and never questions that afterwards.
Can you email info@ ?

I would love to write down your recipes/commands and put them up so others can see them - box -> rsync.net -> dropbox is an interesting workflow ...
Good question. I've seen less than 300 employees produce self-driving software (on the road today, not PoC level stuff).
Exactly. In the "old IT world" we call this TCO = Total Cost of Ownership.
Just tried to sign up and it says sign up is not possible due to a vendor outage :(
I mean, the one I'm talking about is relatively reasonable on infra

they've decent building, data center tier, so power/network redundancy, etc, etc

they're just cheap as fuck when it comes to people
I wonder how this would fare against an astroturfing campaign that's using something like OpenAI[1] to generate human-readable text

[1] https://beta.openai.com/examples
of all things to connect to a smart home, the locks to my house would be the absolute bottom of the list. i hate coming home when the power is out and cannot open the garage door. i couldn't imagine not being able to get in at all.

as far as not getting out, any lock unable to be unlocked from inside seems like something should not be allowed to be made. ever.
Yeah you're right that Stable Diffusion produces garbage for that prompt.

I'd love to see a site with lots of examples of the same prompt fed into various models, I assume someone has already made that.
perma: https://web.archive.org/web/20220928183842/https://marketpla...
> I suppose this mostly makes sense until we start to have local businesses using them for free trash disposal.

If you really cared about this, then you would simply impose a simple tax on local businesses and give them garbage service in return. Or you’d enforce proper garbage disposal on the businesses not the unhoused. It is a lot easier to monitor and enforce the garbage disposal of businesses then that of the unhoused.
I have a Boox that I'm quite happy with. It's quite pleasant to write on, and the battery lasts a considerable amount of time. The calibration seems to sometimes go off slightly, but I'm still not sure if that is the device's issue, the pen, or myself.
Oh man, these memories! I also has a moment where I prepared my ingame social standing to a point where I was able to steal a huge amount of isk and was able to hide my tracks with alts.

Oh and I had a station container with a massive amount of corpses. Not my preys but rather the dead opossums from the road.

I want my first time experience back from 2002/3 where I started with an Ibis, worked my belt to gain enough for a krestrell because of the additional hardpoints just to get eventually my tristan with an 10wd booster to crack the lightspeed record. What a nice time..

Today I have no time to play it anymore, yet I could fly almost anything and have a lot of isk on the wallet.
Agreed, what Stenography?
Hourly pay rates is another one that is likely problematic. Salaried people may work more hours without them being tracked.
Same as it ever was: most local "big" tech employers (and VCs) still hugely (and sometimes myopically, looking at you local VCs) focused on Health Insurance or are otherwise Healthcare adjacent.

But yeah, also still a lovely place for remote work, if you can get it, given the cost of living/quality of life.
I need some examples because I don't really see it for the vast majority of usecases.
You are right. We need to move faster in that direction, as few other commenters have noted earlier.

Thank you for taking a look at it.
You don't even need to do that, just make an all cash offer and set the closing date like 30-45 days out and you can finance it from the get go. You just need that extra closing time to get the financing ironed out and then you can still pay for a home with a mortgage even if you made an all cash offer. That is what I did with a place back in March.
Okay, but that should work fine in a model where users have to opt in to receiving messages?
This is the same Treasury that just had its top civil servant and minister replaced, specifically in order to allow a massive splurge of borrowing and money printing on an ahistoric scale? That Treasury?

The UK's problem is not government unwillingness to spend money. The US tech sector was primed and bootstrapped almost entirely without government money after the wall fell, and even before that it was largely independent of government funding. And there just isn't the same culture there of people expecting grants or handouts from the government - even in the cases where the US tech industry was helped by USG spending it was all via military/intelligence research projects.
Lil bit of feedback, your site _really_ doesn't read well on ultrawide :)
It's the great squeaky wheel gets the oil management problem.

A service that hums along quietly gets its budget cut. A dumpster fire that produces tickets and visible fixes/hero moments gets a big budget re-up.

The basic issue is of course inability to predict the future, inability of management to properly judge things, etc. Management is:

Charitable version: full of people that necessarily cannot have full context/detail and must make quick high-level decisions

Not Charitable version: full of sociopaths whose primary job is to maintain or improve standing, and secondary concern is making good long term decisions for a company, so cutting maintenance or spinning slapdash solutions and failures as epic wins is more effective.
Canada had similar programs and is still dealing with the negativity and fallout from literally stealing people's babies
With StableDiffusion I can buy a used RTX 3090 on eBay for $650, tell the model to generate 5,000 images, and then review each one until I find what it is I'm looking for.

Turns out a shitload of misses are acceptable when it only takes 4-7 seconds to generate an image from a prompt. 5000 generations on an RTX 3090 takes around 7 hours +/- 30 minutes, by the way.
If that were true, then there'd be no value proposition to AWS.

It is absolutely easier to use S3 than to create your own fast, highly available, infinitely scaling storage solution on your own metal. It requires more than zero knowledge / expertise to use S3, but far less than it would to implement and run yourself.

If you can accept that, then we already agree in principle. It's just matter of where the line is drawn for various services and use cases.
Show HN: Impulse – React UI editor that edits your code
Not with a hash set - that gives you expected amortized O(1) insertion (yes, both expected and amortized). In contrast, a generalized sort is O(n log n), but you can sort numeric types in O(n).
> all living people have a risk of loss of freedoms

you realize that the justice system doesn't equally impact everyone, right? people with more wealth, more access are demonstrably treated better and have better outcomes with regard to the justice system, so no, all living people do not have the same risk of losing freedoms.

> ... which is why prison works

ah, there it is

i'm glad you agree with more access to public trash cans; however, i think it should be called out

> local businesses using them for free trash disposal

is already done in homeless encampments. i can find some, but there are many reports of businesses dumping in encampments because there's little risk of getting caught and no one bats an eye at trash-ridden encampments.
Don't know about Hetzner but Fly.io and SQLite (who now seem to sort of be intertwined in making SQLite Cool Again™) just have great content.
Again this is not correct - limits are not factored in at all. Even if you do set them it's important to understand this in case overcommit is setup. Here's the relevant offical documentation:

> For per-pod resource metrics (like CPU), the controller fetches the metrics from the resource metrics API for each Pod targeted by the HorizontalPodAutoscaler. Then, if a target utilization value is set, the controller calculates the utilization value as a percentage of the equivalent resource request on the containers in each Pod.

> ...

> Please note that if some of the Pod's containers do not have the relevant resource request set, CPU utilization for the Pod will not be defined and the autoscaler will not take any action for that metric.

https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-...

Edit: here's the code: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/3ffdfbe286ebce...
There's a much more important case: when a boss asks his assistent to bring coffee or run some private errands for him, she can just say no, but if a boss asks his assistent to perform sex work for him, it's considered harassment and the boss can be considered a criminal depending the circumstances.

I believe this is a good thing, but prostitution is clearly not ,,just work'' just because it's trendy to call it sex work.
I started in this field at 27, which was 38 years ago this past Summer.
Do the math.

I still enjoy it most days, like always, there are days where nothing clicks, or as happens in the embedded field, the hardware just won't cooperate.

It has just been constant learning from day 1, and I think that, as much as anything, still keeps it fun. After 38 years, I still learn something new regularly. Perhaps because it I chose to work in embedded development that is even more true. New chips, new technology, it changes constantly.

Most of what I have done in my life, so far all in the field of communications, is already obsolete. T-carrier systems (E1/DS1/DS0)? SONET (Does anyone use SONET these days)? ATM (not the money machines...)? K56 modems? I guess some people still use DSL. IS95 cell service?

Constant change, constant learning. Yet the fundamentals at the bottom remain, so there is always this stable ground to stand on.

I have reached a point where I no longer want to lead, I no longer want to spend countless hours in meetings. I just want to have features to develop, technical problems to solve. And people younger than me to work with.

As you get older, always seek out organizations with people much younger than you. They are a joy to work with. And don't be grumpy, don't make assumptions, and don't insist on giving out 'advice' unless you are asked.

But do introduce them to the company 401k, and any employee stock plans. And do let them know about the concept of 'same day sales' on exercised shares. Their education will have given them a good technology jump start, but schools are still deficient on personal finance. Don't pry into their finances, but guide them toward good early saving behavior. Trust me, they will thank you five years down the road.
That's a conflict of interest and it's a shame the proper governing bodies have not penalized Amazon for such shitty behavior.
I don’t think you should rely on Amazon to tell you anything.
For what it's worth, at the consumer level AMD cards -- at least recently -- have tended to have more VRAM than Nvidia cards. My 3080 Ti, which I bought for $1400 (though it now goes for ~$1k), has less RAM (12GB) than a 6800 XT that you can get for $600 (16GB).
"Write $PRO_ABORTION_ARTICLE in the style of Tucker Carlson followed by $ANTI_GUN_CONTROL_PIECE in the style of Rachel Maddow."

I just broke cable news!
My background was in automotive manufacturing, so everyone was trying to copy what Toyota did. If you excuse the obvious oversimplification, Toyota used approaches from the Training Within Industry (TWI) program [1] to develop internal training. Art Smalley has numerous articles, videos, and documents available ranging from TWI to problem solving at Toyota [2]. Art Smalley shows there is a sort of hierarchy of different problem solving approaches depending on if you’re dealing with a machine stoppage on a manufacturing line all the way up to determining new markets to enter.

TWI is broken down into job methods, job instructions, job relations, and a problem solving segment. It does tend to be heavily focused on manufacturing, so you’d need to change the examples for your needs.

I don’t think there are any real secrets in the training programs. Almost all of the process improvement / problem solving methods I’ve come across seem to be a variation on the scientific method with catchier naming.

Generally two challenges I’ve seen in problem solving are people jumping to solutions directly without understanding the problem, and making multiple changes simultaneously or in sequence and losing the ability to determine cause and effect.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_Within_Industry

[2] http://artoflean.com/index.php/category/problem-solving/
How long do you think batteries last?
They could have just waited two weeks and everyone would forget about that.
Not to forget, Apple also controls the app store and billions of devoted fans with iPhone with push notifications /g. Seriously I am wondering when will we see a corporation go to war in a kind of futuristic Opium War sort of battle.
They also host extreme korean feminism site womad.life
I'm sure there's a lot more not so nice places that they host or offer CDN for.
While not taking a stance whether their actions are good or bad, it makes less attractive to rely them for their services if they can simply drop you off from their network. Especially considering they are more or less MITM (if using CDN). If using them it is at least good idea to consider a backup in case there's a conflict.
I've spent a significant amount of time playing with the variety of Diffusion models available and DALLE 2 tends to produce much better quality images. The other killer feature is DALLE 2 has support for in-fill.
This has been the dominant story going around, I guess because people want it to be true since they're pissed at OpenAI for not being so open, but StableDiffusion's text2image is nowhere near as good as DALL-E 2 in my experience. DALL-E 2 is incredible at that, StableDiffusion is not.

But maybe it doesn't matter, because many times more people are playing around with StableDiffusion, such that the absolute number of good images being shared around is much higher with StableDiffusion, even if the average result isn't great.
ITI Audio/Sontec is known for analog mastering equipment, but in the 1980s they designed a FORTH computer around Rockwell R6500 series CPUs to control one of their products.
someone correct me if I'm wrong but this would apply to well known interpreted languages like Perl 5

Perl uses the same execution method you describe for cPython.
The Oasis, with page-turn buttons, hasn't been refreshed since mid-2019; the latest Paperwhite, with USB-C port, was released two years later. I expect the next Oasis will have USB-C.
Using that technology to mark a post as 'objectionable' could be construed as illegal censorship under this law [0]:

> A social media platform may not censor a user, a user ’s expression, or a user ’s ability to receive the expression of another person based on:
(1) the viewpoint of the user or another person;
(2) the viewpoint represented in the user ’s expression
or another person ’s expression; or
(3) a user ’s geographic location in this state or any
part of this state.

> "Censor" means to block, ban, remove, deplatform,
demonetize, de-boost, restrict, deny equal access or visibility to,
or otherwise discriminate against expression.

[0]: https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/Text.aspx?LegSess=872&B...
-Then again, not having an online presence at all is probably sufficient for you to be paid extra attention by the powers that be, so there's that...
yet this part of their statement is still true, let's focus on solving 70% of the problem and then we can debate the rest

> This has little to do with the availability of housing, or the cost of housing. Some people will simply refuse to live in the housing that is provided. Many are so mentally ill and addicted to drugs that no amount of money we give them, either directly or indirectly, will get them off the streets.
For me all the drawing features etc. are kinda useless if it becomes a pain to export them to other things.

The Amazon blurb around this

> Get access to your notebooks through the Kindle app sync feature (coming early 2023).

Suggests some kindle app will be required, I just hope you can do stuff like export to images/svgs or PDF
I don't think the US does this, most other democracies do though. I think the same goes for ads for pharmaceuticals. Banned everywhere except US and New Zealand I think?(heavily regulated there though)
90th percentile US individual income is 130k. Median house is around 440. You can afford a 440k house on 130k income, even if you have a small amount of other debt.
How New Are Yann LeCun's “New” Ideas?
No, there are not vulnerabilities in Matrix's encryption. Homeservers are not decrypting all your messages, which is what the subheading seems to suggest.

A specific client js library implementation used in Element could have been exploited to impersonate users, join rooms, recieve future messages in these rooms.

Of course, everyone sees notifications and warning icons of these new sessions.

Responsible disclosure occurred, flaws being patched appropriately, not found used in the wild, carry on...

I applaud Matrix and Element teams for tackling the hard problems of e2e for the masses and doing a phenomenal job.
100% unusefull but is seriously addictive…
Why would they stop advertising if one location where they advertised was undesirable?

Brand Advertisements would just disappear from the internet and stick to the highly regulated TV slots but Mtn Dew isn't going to layoff its whole advertising team just because X Webpage has Pro-Nazi comments.
Maybe OpenAI is learning the same lesson compiler and runtime vendors learned a couple decades ago: it's very hard to compete with open source.
Maybe I misspoke with most, if I said that. I meant Many.
There were large protests in Germany just this week to get more energy flowing.
If you're crashing on a friend's couch, you're not homeless.

Everyone cohabitates with family and friends at some point in life. It's very different than sleeping on the street.
It's also a game that arguably was directly limited by its advanced rendering techniques; the number of enemies on screen at any one time rarely exceeds four IIRC, corpses vanish almost immediately to reclaim resources, most environments are quite small with few open or large spaces to explore. Id had to ship something that could actually run on customer computers of the era.

This is in sharp contrast to Half Life 2 released at a similar time, which had far more enemies and NPCs on screen at one time as well as much much larger maps to explore. I think in some ways Half Life 2s visuals have honestly dated better despite the less ambitious technology - the larger and more varied maps its lesser performance requirements permitted help a lot.
Thanks! We have a few users using docker-compose with a Makefile, where they run `depot build -t name:tag --load` to tag and pull the image locally, and then they reference the tag in their docker-compose.yml.

That works, but we've considered adding a `depot bake` command that does the same thing as `docker buildx bake`, to make the integration nicer. Ideally docker-compose would have the ability to communicate with buildx drivers (that's what Depot registers as), but to my knowledge it doesn't currently have that option.
Maybe for AI? For other tasks, especially gaming, they punch well above their weight relative to Nvidia (though they lack features in comparison). It's also possible to get a 16GB card for much cheaper from AMD than Nvidia.
And what is probably even worse: being enslaved by a fear of punishment that never existed in the first place.
I guess the idea is you turn both on for a while, then turn one off. The hottest one is the one that was recently turned off
Well clearly I was wrong about offline editing of Google Docs. I'm trying to search for when this functionality was added but I suspect it was during a dark time when I was forced to use O365.
> And adultery was a capital crime, read between the lines.

Uhhh... No, no it was not.

> Look, if your daughters came to you and said “we want to be whores for a living”, you’ve got bigger issues than arguing on this website.

Better throw them in prison then. That'll solve the problem.