skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
right, python caches ints from -5 to 256 as singletons, so id(x) for those numbers is constant.

whereas each time you run id() on a number outside that range you will get a different id as a new object is instantiated
One particularly stark 'issue' I've noticed with floating point values in AI (which posits would seem to help with) is the difference between 0 and 1. In binary classification problems we generally assign 1 to one subset of our data, and 0 to its complement - there is not necessarily an inherent asymmetry here and the problem will often not meaningfully change if you switch labels 0<->1.

But... if we take for example float16, the smallest model prediction you can represent greater than 0 is 2^{−24} = 5.96*10E−8, but the largest you can represent _less_ than 1 is (binary) 0.111... = 1-2^{-10} = 1-9.77*10E-4. So values around 1 are about 4 orders of magnitude more quantized than those around 0. I don't know if that's necessarily a 'problem' but I have noticed this fact when looking at model predictions.
Tim Cook: “No Good Excuse” for Lack of Women in Tech
fabs take years to build. The only real option Apple would have is some kind of joint venture with Intel and maybe try to bring in the US Department of Defense or US government in general to push the whole chip national security talking point and get more funding
I was thinking the same thing. We can't complain about Google doing it but then give other search engines a pass.
Which is better: Wick's or Danny Mac's?
It was the last true generational leap in PC gaming. It took consoles at least 5 years to catch up. Something we'll never see again now that all AAA games are exclusively built for console limitations, with PC ports as an afterthought.
It's a bit confusing, I agree -- Oilpan is part of the V8 sources for shipping-the-org-chart reasons, but it isn't actually the GC used by V8 itself for JavaScript objects and the JS heap, it's the GC used by Blink for DOM objects etc.

The biggest difference between the two is that JS objects are fully managed by the GC and V8 has full control over their layout and access (e.g. they are accessed via explicit pointer + field offset in the runtime), while Oilpan works on C++ objects; there's a billion consequences of this, in particular that JS objects are movable (because we can safely update pointers) and Oilpan objects aren't (because C++ can do pretty much whatever it wants).
Companies will realize the majority of abuse comes from humans completing CAPTCHAs and little to none from TPM attestations. It's then a small leap to only trust TPMs and lock everyone else out. After all, every genuine user has an OS that requires a TPM.
Why can't hitmen claim to be bespoke pest exterminators?
> Maybe, but Germany hasn't been close to yielding to that pressure.

It doesn't have to be close to yielding, or even particularly likely to be close in the future. Planning and accounting for unlikely contingencies is prudent.

Suppose analysts calculated a mere 5% chance Germany considers yielding to pressure this winter. Why take that risk? Blow up the pipe and bring that risk down to 0%.
Druckenmiller sees hard landing in 2023 with a possible deep recession
ah, thanks.

/u/dang: if you can update the link please - I can't.
> These cloud providers are, by definition, charging you more than it would cost you to run it yourself.

That is _not_ a given. They're charging you more than it costs _them_ to run it.

They get:

- much lower hardware prices than you

- lower bandwidth prices than you

- likely lower electricity costs than you
You can easily rent space in a data center and put your own servers in there or just rent dedicated servers. The cheapest provider there is probably Hetzner, but then your servers are in Germany. This gets you a real, full server for something between 30-200 EUR per month. There are many other hosting providers that offer dedicated servers also in the US, e.g. OVH. This works the same way, they are usually more expensive than Hetzner.

Renting a dedicated server is very similar to renting a VM. It has a much higher provisioning time, usually hours to 1-2 days. And it takes some upfront cost or a time commitment. But it also has a lot more raw power. So if you don't require the flexibility VMs and the cloud provide they can be a very effective alternative.
I think you’re both right. It wasn’t so long ago that there were mobile morgues and it felt like every covid case meant a horrible near death experience. The original doses of the vaccine were snatched up like hotcakes. There were many people who refused, but basically everyone I know, which includes many very conservative people, at least got one dose of the vaccine in early 2021.

Boosters are a different story altogether. Even though the numbers are showing that people are still dying of Covid, it really doesn’t feel very risky anymore, almost everyone I know got infected this year but nobody had to go to the hospital and nobody died. In fact for most people it seems like its a bad cold and there are tons of treatments available now.

It makes the incentive to get a booster low, and totally kills the motivation to wear masks or do other mitigations.
Did you ever consider using the Separating Axis theorem? It's fairly simple and also only works for convex shapes. The math can be implemented quite fast - lots of dot products. It also works in 3d where there are more candidate axis to consider but the test is the same.
Exposure to the virus through the vaccine? Do you mean going to the vaccination site near other people and getting infected, or the actual vaccine has the virus in it somehow? Both the vaccine and the virus have the spike protein in them (well, depends on the vaccine, the spike might be there or might be encoded in RNA or DNA, and Russia has a peptide vaccine with no spike and Peter Hotez has a vaccine with just the RBD but whatever). People debate how pathogenic the spike protein is on its own, yes the spike used in the US so far is stabilized with a couple insertions but it's still full length (the whole thing, the CDC is/was wrong when they described it as a fragment), and it's still superantigenic as far as people who research that kind of thing can tell. I can't remember anyone saying the vaccine literally has the virus in it, and I read some pretty crazy stuff. Might be selection bias though, because even the most unhinged rants are boring if the author can't even be bothered to read the WHO's website describing the various vaccines.
Thanks. There will be pricing after the Beta. I want to base it on what users are able to pay for something like this.

Could you share a bit about what aspects of it you would use and what would be a good price for your Saas?
I would posit the flip side actually, Marx's take that labor has inherent latent value, and its products are the sum of the latent value, which in no way correlates to market pricing is the type of infallible argument that postmodernism thrives on.

You can spend this afternoon whittling two by fours down into toothpicks as a real world demonstration of this.
Cloudflare’s scheme with PATs is essentially a form of attestation, which, realistically, will only be implemented by Microsoft, Apple and Google, and if you’re a Linux or BSD user which isn’t integrated with a device manufacturer, you’d just have no other choice.

This is an unpopular opinion, but Recaptcha has never had this problem. I might face a few more captcha image screens to solve, but what’s being proposed with PATs is dangerous.
> "What you're doing is crazy. Why would you do that to yourself? Why would you let someone do that to you? Why would you do that to another person?"

People who want to amputate perfectly healthy limbs and/or submit themselves to cannibalism are some of the first things that come to my mind here. Most of us would probably agree there should be a line somewhere, especially considering the potential of undiagnosed mental illness.
This is exactly right and doing so would require each subsequent generation of philosophers to reinvent the wheel

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
– George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905.

But history is not philosophy, so the implicit premise, which boils down to, "history is not necessary to philosophy," is wrong-headed, but it is also assuming the conclusion, which is question begging.

History is important to history, understanding how events in the past caused things to be the way they are today. Further, the history of philosophy is not identical to the philosophy in history just as the history of technology is not itself technology. When studying Ancient Philosophy one is not studying the history of ancient philosophy, but the ancient philosophy itself. Conversely, studying history of philosophy is not philosophical study, it is instead studying history, focusing on when and who said in what circumstances, and is not primarily concerned with understanding what was said.
> Apple can’t just pack up and go to a competitor

No, but they can use their massive war chest and expertise to ramp up a competitor or become one themselves over the next decade or two. With massive corporate ships like TSMC and Apple it takes a long time to change course but they work on longer timelines so a big negative shift over a long time scale is an alarming signal.
Ah. Will change that. Thanks for noticing it. I never know fore sure.
When you're a small team, possibly solo, having someone else deal with hardware is key.

Focusing just on what you're working on is great.
Hegel would've agreed, anyway.

... whoops.
It's zero sum for the lucritive activities.

Wanna go ratting? Oh the BRM tanked because someone else uses the same system.

Wanna go after npc sotiyos? There's a monopoly on them and your alliance probably has deals with the guy involved in RMT

Wanna go hauling? You hunt for public contracts against other haulers or join a private company and someone takes all the lucritive stuff. Or you have to compete to be the hauling company for your null-sec alliance

Wanna manufacture? Someone else started manufacturing the same ship and tanked the market

Wanna do reactions? The index is going up and taxes are eating into your profits because someone started using the same system as you.

Wanna mine r64s? Yeah so do other players. It's a race to get there and the guy multiboxing 30 hulks is hogging it all.

If you want to liquidate an investment you have to becareful with not crashing the market. And then someone else just dumped all their Isogen on the market so your net worth just got a big haircut.

Almost everything other players do are hurting you. Yeah there's unlimited npc missions which give low isk rewards, but for the good stuff there's always competition.
Sir, you need not a better language, but a better processor.
This is not an alternative to philosophy. This is philosophy. I'm afraid you have not escaped yet, sir.
It's not hard to argue that sex is a necessity. There are physical mechanisms that create a desire for sex in most humans. I'm sure just about any therapist would attest to the impact of sex on mental health (both positive and negative impacts).

Being gay used to be taboo and shameful too, it still is in many places... but this is changing. Sex work is already a little less taboo in places where it's regulated. Societal norms are much easier to change than biological compulsions.
No. It's not a fantasy. Librem 5 and Pinephone are real and working great. You can even connect them to a keyboard and screen and you get a desktop.
Bank of England to Buy Bonds “on whatever scale is necessary”
When the cost of delivering your product/service is mostly compute or traffic, sure, migrating off of AWS is a must once you reach a certain scale.
But for the other 99% [0], where infrastructure is but a small cost, then think really hard if you're willing to trade the engineering effort for the convenience of managed cloud services.

[0]: or 90%, or 80% or who cares, but a majority of software services seem to NOT be compute- or traffic- heavy.
30 years programming, a billion dollars in value generated, and you don't have a single reference?
I have a large collection of my own and others photos, and this seems like a good direction to take with them as well. I wonder how many of us here on HN have huge collections of our own photos and wonder what to do with them.
Last time I checked, Creative Commons had their own search for things under their licenses. But now apparently that project got transferred to WordPress and is now named Openverse: https://wordpress.org/openverse/?referrer=creativecommons.or...

Anyways, I'd argue that's the most comprehensive database of CC-licensed works.
I don't think this is related. `set()` uses `hash(x)` it doesn't care what `id(x)` is. The example I provided works equally well with small numbers and large numbers.
> Most of these compose files are pretty outdated AND they depend on non-standard builds of containers for each respective application.

>> What else would you expect for setups intentionally trying to preserve past versions of software?

So, I wrote about reproducibility in software; and Software Supply Chain Security. Specifically, how to do containers and keep the software versions up to date.

Are you challenging the topicality of my comment on HN - containing original research - to be facetious?
We've been working on setting up Cloudflare Zero Trust for a team of ~100. We are moving away from a traditional OpenVPN + IP Allow Listing.

I'd say the biggest pain point is that there is no way to route traffic over a tunnel at the hostname level without having Cloudflare MITM the traffic.
In addition, usually the main financial effect of going from AWS to on-premises is to replace a lot of your recurring monthly costs with up-front capital costs.

The article spends a lot of time talking about how much lower their monthly bill is, but it says nothing about how much they spent to buy those 300 servers in the first place.
Sure you can. Ask one of your devs to spend X amount of time on something. Might not be an exact 1 for 1 or 0.1% but it still beats the many many hours you'd waste architecting around cloud-specific issues and nuances. Or the cost of dealing with the friction that comes when you want to do anything with cloud in a manner that isn't cloud-supported.
There is no way this figure is accurate. The annual spend cited of $1,000,000 is purely hypothetical, as admitted here:

"However, all this data and processes need to happen on a server and, of course, we used AWS for it. A few years of growth later, we’re handling over 70,000 pages per minute, storing around 560 million pages, and paying well over $1,000,000 per year.

Or at least we would be paying that much if we stayed with AWS. Instead, we were able to cut costs by 80% in a little over three months with some out-of-the-box thinking and a clear plan."
Fact is, 99% of your email exchanges will be with MS and google anyway, so that horse has bolted. In terms of the threat model facing 99% of people, getting auto banned from Gmail is a far bigger risk than big brother reading their email. I care about privacy and seriously considered protonmail, bit it was too hard to use effectively (no IMAP) and FastMail is still a huge step up from Gmail or self hosting, balancing ease of use and risk mitigation. Excited to try out the API!
I certainly am. Brave search putting answers in the sidebar is not a point in its favor, IMO.
The blame is obviously on microsoft. They peddle the appstore as a much safer alternative, and they keep a bunch of the cash - it's a service, that is being sold as a service.

Microsoft makes no effort to indicate that evidently the buyer must beware entirely, and that appearance in the appstore means absolutely nothing in regards to it being spam, spyware, or legally 'counterfeit'. This is likely legally speaking risky - they're selling illegal goods, assuming this is a copyright violation which it probably is. Microsoft is guilty of the crime of fencing by doing this. I know that in The Netherlands, that crime (in dutch, 'heling') is a criminal offense. You need to be doing it intentionally, but given that they have now been notified, give it a few days and I'm pretty sure you really could just get em criminally sanctioned.

"Oh but I did not know" as a defense only gets you so far in court. It should get you absolutely nowhere in the court of public opinion, especially given that microsoft is marketing their app store as the opposite.

Apple and google are also guilty of this stuff; wanting all the cash and harping on and on about how much value they add by being the guardian of it all, and then doing an epically horrible job on guarding it.

It's so depressing that the obvious problem (the operators of these app stores are natural monopolists within that context - and monopolists tend not to focus on actually doing a good job because no competition) and that it then almost immediately goes that badly.
> Today, you’d probably have to schedule an electrician to fix what some children back then knew how to make: electric bells, buttons, and buzzers.

"Some" is doing a ton of work in this sentence describing 19th century children.
He was on the cover of Time magazine in March 1966.

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/0,9263,7601660311,00.h...

Not sure if there’s the same excitement today about space as there was in the 1960’s
This doesn’t come as a surprise to me at all. Fever, nausea, headaches, exhaustion for a few days is a strong signal to the body that something is wrong. Menstrual cycles are sensitive to that kind of thing.
Probably little hate, it's a long existing style. Haskell, Erlang, the entire ML line of languages, and probably many more have all used it since last century. It came from mathematical notation, and it is concise.
> Will it reduce inflation?

No. Apparently the BoE is worried about other things right now, rather than inflation.

Which sounds pretty bad, because it seemed like inflation should be the #1 concern right now. But BoE has other economic data and are clearly worried about something else...

> Can someone more financially literate than me explain how BoE buying government bonds is going to restore financial stability?

Nominally, you'd do this if you were worried about deflation. I don't know what kind of economic data suggests deflation right now though...
I had this same question on my first IT job interview. Stumped me also... I think now I'd probably do some interview prep next time. I didn't get the job. :-)
The book itself is so much richer than the catchphrases. It's just as important today as 60 years ago.
I am having a hard time with your victimblaming ordinary Americans for forest fires, while keeping American politicians off the hook for the war in Ukraine.
Thank you very much for doing that!

Do you happen to know why it was called rawhide? I'm very curious.
I don't understand the island analogy. While the external world is disjoint from the island, our world -- with its scientific knowledge of contemporary physics and biology and astronomy and psychology, mathematics and logic and, of course, the internet -- is a product of our history. In other words, while it's true that history didn't have the internet, it is also the reason that we do.

People like Frege and Russell made certain choices in the design of formal logic because they were influenced by Leibniz, who, in turn, arranged things in a certain way because he was influenced by Aristotle. If you don't know what Aristotle said, it's hard to understand Leibniz, and if you don't know Leibniz, it's hard to understand Frege and Russell.
It's not in the US, the $3k/month would be around 8x what's considered a decent salary.
ah okay. kind of a brute force way to go about it. why bother with containers at that point? just use VM images
Sex isn't what makes people partners...
True. Although an additional wrinkle with Creative Commons is that, depending upon how conservative you want to be and how the copyright owner interprets terms like non-commercial and what constitutes appropriate attribution, there are all sorts of variations that may or may not be suitable for a given use.

Of course, for many casual purposes it's widely ignored and for photos of people used for advertising and marketing, you need a model release anyway.
Making IT an OPEX problem is the main reason that C-suites love cloud providers
NASA – Teams Prepare for Hurricane Arrival, Assess Artemis I Forward Plan
I would suspect the strong dollar is impacting these negotiations. TSMC is probably trying to maintain margins and Apple is bulking at the larger than normal price increase.

On one hand Apple doesn’t really have any other partner to go to that can deliver on 3nm or anything equivalent. On the other hand, at this point, does it even matter? Sure, it would be nice, but is it worth the cost?

TSMC also needs to look at it and say Apple accounts for 25% of our business and the most lucrative and prestigious 25% at that. Is it worth potentially harming the relationship?
If you're running Linux, you could use your phone as a touchpad/keyboard with KDE Connect from the KDE project. I use it with XFCE.

https://kdeconnect.kde.org/
Building (houses) is not an industry, it is essentially artisan work, some (few) of the inefficiencies could (and are) already reduced in large size projects, but such projects are rare, normally each house is different from the one built before and from the one that will be built later.

Even on relatively large projects (let's say 4 buildings with 50 apartments) you will have scale savings on costs but not great overall savings in time (time passing), that is a constant, parallelizing of course helps, so if you can build just one of them in 18-24 months, you can as well build four of them in the same 18-24 months employing a little less than 4 time the hours and equipment, so at the end you can say that it took 6 months to build one of the blocks on average, but it actually took 24 months from the beginning to the end.
Aws bandwidth costs charged to consumers are a notorious ripoff.
An older xps-13 would be good. Available for under $200. Debian and Arch both install easily and work very well on it, with the exception that you might need to replace the wifi card.

With a little tuning you can easily get over 12 hours battery life.

The battery is easy to replace.

Ex: https://www.ebay.com/itm/295220146891
I haven’t read this paper, but instinctively flinch at any kind of dismissal of the past.

I would think this comes down to how we define philosophy. On scientific matters sure Aristotle likely has little to offer; but human nature has not changed at all since Plato, or Siddhartha we’re born.

After saying the following I feel that it would be hard for them to argue their point very strongly. So I’m definitely going to read the paper:

To be perfectly clear: my claim is not that we should not be doing history of philosophy. There are all kinds of reasons why reading and talking about the Critique of Pure Reason or the Republic are worthwhile: studying these seminal texts is an inherently interesting intellectual pursuit; reading them is often tremendously enjoyable; and familiarity with these texts can be very valuable to intellectual historians for the insights into culture, knowledge and morality they may contain. There are thus many excellent reasons to engage with the history of philosophy. Gaining traction on the aforementioned philosophical problems, however, is not one of them. This means that I am not arguing against historians of philosophy and what they do, but against what could be called philosophical historicists, that is, those who seem to think that at least one good method of thinking about knowledge or justice is to study what historical authors have written about knowledge and justice a long time ago. This, I argue, is a mistake.
“The creator of Urbit would have to be the dumbest authoritarian ever...”
You forgot two devices which are shipping: https://forums.puri.sm/t/comparing-specs-of-upcoming-linux-p....