skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is my impression as well. Which is fine, don’t get me wrong. Nothing wrong with testing new tools and setups. I just don’t personally see the point of creating something overly complex for a blog.
2.88 for Extra High Density - pretty rare outside of Japan iirc.

http://209.68.14.80/ref/fdd/formatKB2880-c.html
It's a stretch to call my mouse movements while I have a site loaded, or my unsubmitted input, interactions with a website. There wouldn't be an interaction with the website if the website weren't proactively installing software into my browser to sniff around.
> I currently work as a solo Software Engineer for company, developing internal apps.

Yes, if you are the only dev working on internal apps, the variety of the work expected of you sounds about right. To specialize on just coding, you need an entire team working with you. It sounds like you would prefer to be on a larger team. There is nothing wrong with that desire, but that doesn't mean you are being abused.

At least, the variety of work expectations are not abusive - if the leaders are treating you poorly because of expecting too much work in too short of a time that is a different story.
I do agree with you completely there, it's just that HN doesn't tend to take well to pointing out that particular stripe of awfulness and that makes it a non-starter as a reason.

He's definitely a case where I would broadly recommend marginalized groups to stay far away from his tooling if they are planning on interacting with the development team in any way. The man is an demagogue (and openly proud of it) and an understated element to his bad behavior in co-operating with others is that it's in part driven by that demagoguery (just reference the blogpost in the previous comment and how much of it is dedicated to crying about "cancel culture" where the reality is really just that he was an asshole to people and they showed him the door[1], very little about it had to do with his (IMO shitty) opinions.

As far as software choices go; Fully agreed, although I always recommend people to not just go by public reputation and to always investigate before making a decision (in the case of Soapbox, you'll notice I linked both the developers resignation post and the post that caused relations with him and other maintainers to seriously start souring, so that one can make their own assessment).

Pleroma for example got initially accused of being developed by neonazis due to an early instance modifying their source code to ignore incoming message privacy flags, everything was just set to be on the public timeline, all of the time. It's in reality completely wrong; in fact numerous developers to the software have been rather staunchly anti-fascist even since its very beginning, but that wasn't known by the public so the reputation of the project got tarred for years. Similarly, one admin blamed not removing hateful content on not having the tools, again, completely wrong, but then Pleroma got tarred with "not having basic moderation tools", even though it ironically has the must fine-grained moderation tools compared to anything else out there (you can literally write your own bit of code to automatically moderate and integrate it in the software itself if you wanted to).

Finally when it comes to users submitting bugs: with the fediverse that usually doesn't actually directly go to the developer but instead lands at the feet of the instance maintainer, who makes the decision on whether or not to report it to the developers community. There's a certain sense of connection, but it's usually not as deeply tied as one would think.

[1]: https://xkcd.com/1357/
This is oversimplifying things a bit.

It can categorically be stated that for a year's worth of CPU compute, local will always be less than Amazon. Of course, putting percentages on it doesn't work - there are just too many variables.

There are many admins out there who have no idea what an Alpha is who'll swear that if you're not buying Dell or HP hardware at a premium with expensive support contracts, you're doing things wrong and you're not a real admin. Visit Reddit's /r/sysadmin if you want to see the kind of people I'm talking about.

The point is that if people insist on the most expensive, least efficient type of servers such as Dell Xeons with ridiculous service contracts, the savings over Amazon won't be large.

It's a cumulative problem, because trying to cool and house less efficient hardware requires more power and that hardware ultimately has less tolerance for non-datacenter cooling.

Rethink things. You can have AMD Threadripper / EPYC systems in larger rooms that require less overall cooling, that have better temperature tolerance, that're more reliable in aggregate, which cost less and for which you can easily keep around spare parts which would give better turnaround and availability than support contracts from Dell / HP. Suddenly your compute costs are halved, because of pricing, efficiency, overall power, real estate considerations...

So percentages don't work, but the bottom line is that when you're doing lots of compute, over time it's always cheaper locally, even if you do things the "traditional" expensive and inefficient way, so arguing percentages with so many variables doesn't make any sense - it's still cheaper, no matter what.
I can think of a few ways to abuse it while still spinning it as "for research". The obvious one is to buy a $9999 gaming machine with several of whatever the fanciest GPU on the market is at the time, and say you're doing machine learning.

So my guess is it's an overly broad patch for that sort of thing.
Ask HN: How do you keep up with AI advances, esp. Stable Diffusion and GPT-3?
Every week there's a new progress made in the fields of language models and diffusion techniques. I think it's almost "too much" for me to handle, and I often feel like I'm left behind.

My gut feeling is that some (most?) these advances are not actually robust or that useful. But still, there's so much to keep in mind. I really like working in this field, but how do I keep myself up-to-date with all these AI achievements and filter noise from signal?
If you’re in the US, try Crutchfield. Not the best prices if you happen to own an audio shop and already know how to do everything, but they include instructions on how to do everything (including take apart your dash) and phone support for the lifetime of the product, and for little or no extra include all the pieces needed to interface your aftermarket system with the stock harness.

I have a 2001 car that has been using a Bluetooth audio and hands-free setup from them for over ten years. (It’s old enough that “you can control your iPod with it if you plug it it” was a selling point.)
Slightly disappointed. Was I the only one expecting an ill-conceived Mortal Kombat centered streaming service?
Facebook warns 1M users whose logins were stolen by scam mobile apps
Back when QNX was distributed on floppy, my work locked down their computers so that I couldn't dial out to the internet. So I booted up the QNX off the floppy and was browsing within minutes. My boss walked in on me browsing the internet and I nearly got fired over it. He was worried because he thought he might get in trouble for it. Once I explained how it worked, he was less worried.

It was amazing that they could fit a semi-functional browser on a floppy.
AKA https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparedness_paradox
Sounds vaguely reminiscent of Zeppelin's Bron Yr Aur (tuned CACGCE, iirc).

The low C drones are so entrancing!
Or maybe they don't exist any more because I still have mine on an index card from ten or so years ago.
That's literally how it was before 2FA. You can just look up the reasons for 2FA to answer your question.
Yeah, bitlbee rocks, I use it under an i386 OpenBSD netbook (Atom CPU), it's much faster than Pidgin. Also, I use m68.news everywhere, as it can be read with no issues.

Lynx on Gopher protocol will work "as is" for Mac OS 7 I guess, and it's very fast.
68k.news it's over HTTP and not HTTPS, so it will work as is too.

This is the most recent version http://www.floodgap.com/retrotech/mac/lynx/download.html

The interface it's weird and not so Mac like, I know, but it will fly for sure.
And, well, you have Turbo Gopher too, but for your Mac version you would need the Threading extension.

Gopher URL for Lynx:

gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/gopher/clients/mac

Proxied for the rest of machines (send it to the Classic Mac via AppleTalk or FTP or whatever).

https://gopherproxy.meulie.net/gopher.floodgap.com/1/gopher/...

Gopher it's the perfect "web" for your legacy mac in order to find alternative
media. No ads, no trackers no MB sized pages.
You can even find news mirrors with ease.

For instance:
gopher://magical.fish:70/1/news

Recommended portal for lots of Gopher "holes":
gopher://magical.fish

Blog aggregator:
gopher://i-logout.cz:70/1/bongusta/

Old software for classic Macs
gopher://i-logout.cz:70/1/software/Apple/Software_MacOS

As you can see, if you can connect to the internet your Mac, you are far from obsolete. You can chat over IRC+Bitlbee to a big chunk of protocols, browse news, read "phlogs" from tech people, and even visit HN and Reddit over Gopher.
HTTPS would be another issue, but you might be able to contact the Crypto Ancienne folks for help.

EDIT: Well, now I focused into your shot, you already knew over Gopher. Still, Lynx with HNGopher (and a potentially well configured cryptoancienne) makes a seamless HN and Reddit browser over Gopher+HTTPS.
Proves the rule.

I think we can all agree that what kiwi farms has to do is not what 99.999% of people will have to do. Due to their current high world profile they have many of the same needs as a corporation.
Hashes are fine, but to say that "vectors are over" is just plain nonsense. We continue to see vectors as a core part of production systems for entity representation and recommendation (example: https://slack.engineering/recommend-api) and within models themselves (example: multimodal and diffusion models). For folks into metrics, we're building a vector database specifically for storing, indexing, and searching across massive quantities of vectors (https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus), and we've seen close to exponential growth in terms of total downloads.

Vectors are just getting started.
I'm working on flockingbird.social, a "linkedin for the fediverse"[1].

Aside from a job-search bot, I haven't written many software, and it looks like what you are working on might actually be a very solid foundation. It's a pity my go isn't that established (rust and ruby here) but certainly will consider this going forward. Huddling around common base libraries is also certainly something the fediverse needs, rather than re-building AP again in "language X".

[1] The hardest part has proven to be the fact that "linkedin" is an entirely different product depending on who you ask. It solves entirely different solutions, depending on who you ask. And it has entirely different features, depending on who you ask. Turns out LinkedIn is quite hard to "copy", "port" or even define for the fediverse. Aside from that this makes it a giant task to do. Is it a place to find jobs? To recruit? To keep in touch with colleagues? To connect with other entrepeneurs? To spam lame motivational quotes? To pitch your book or a Rolodex-on-steroids? Its all of that and more.
That's certainly true, buy I think it also makes it quite unsuited as a reference (except for people who are already familiar with the concepts and just need a quick reminder).

Wikipedia math articles are not useful to get a shallow understanding of a topic. On the contrary, it pulls you into a rabbit hole of dependent concepts just for you just to be able to understand the words in the article's summary.

From an actual reference, I'd expect that it gives a brief, self-contained description of the basic idea of a concept, without going too deep into specifics, possibly with a "see also". That's not what Wikipedia does.
There's a very literal sense in which NN parameters are just a db. As in, it's fairly trivial to get copyrighted verbatim output from a trained NN (eg., quake source code from git co-pilot, etc.).

"Connectionists" always want to reduce everything to formulae with no natural semantics and then equivocate this with science. Science isnt mathematics. Mathematics is just a short hand for a description of the world made true by the semantics of that description.

E=mc^2 isnt true because it's a polynomial, and it doesnt mean a polynomial, and it doesnt have "polynomial properties" because it isnt about mathematics. It's about the world.

E stands for energy, m for mass, and c for a geometric constant of spacetime. If they were to stand for other properties of the world, in general, the formulae would be false.

I find this "connectionist supernaturalism" about mathematics deeply irritating, it has all the hubris and numerology of religions but wandering around in a stolen lab coat. Hence the tone.

What can one say or feel in the face of the overtaking of science by pseudoscience? It seems plausible to say now, today, more pseudoscientific papers are written than scientific ones. A generation of researchers are doing little more than analysing ink-blot patterns and calling them "models".

The insistence, without explanation, that this is a reasonable activity pushes one past tolerance on these matters. It's exasperating... from psychometrics to AI, the whole world of intellectual life has been taken over by a pseudoscientific analysis of non-experimental post-hoc datasets.
Looking at your numbers or just social spending, it is increased 50% since 1990 as a portion of GDP. Real GDP adjusted for inflation itself has increased more than 3x since 1990. This means that us social spending in terms of inflation adjusted purchases has gone up more than 450% from 1990 levels.

This excludes military spending and is adjusted for the purchasing power of those dollars.

I don't know about you, but I don't feel like we are getting 450% more value out of the government services. The numbers are pretty clear that the government is collecting more and more inflation adjusted dollars from people's income than ever before.

I Suspect we would probably agree that the government is not being a responsible steward of this money that it is collecting.

My primary point was that I don't think that the belief that a decrease in government spending and Revenue is reflected in the numbers. Further, I think it is important to push back on the idea that the systemic issues we see can simply be solved by throwing more money into an increasingly inefficient system.
I think you really mean once. How do you "permanently lose" anything more than once? If it is permanent then you can only lose it once.
I'm proud of this website for remembering to include the date of the conference. That was a great idea. Good job. If, however, I could include a small suggestion, some visitors might find it helpful to also be able to discover where on Earth (or whether it's online?) the conference is, whether there's a cost, and how one might acquire tickets.
That's more optimistic than my impression. I view it as a mix of a few things:

- What often happens when a person is surprised to learn something: they assume most other people don't know it and become eager to repeat it without further nuance or investigation. Like moon landing conspiracy theorists who learn that there are no stars in the photos.

- The hazing, elitist attitude surrounding knowledge. I suffered, therefore you should suffer. From this perspective, it doesn't make sense for there to be a gargantuan, selfless compilation of knowledge more accessible than any library in history. It must be wrong.

- People are lazy and will paraphrase the Wiki page that appears at the top of a web search for the topic.

It's much easier to say Wikipedia can't be trusted than to instil upon pupils an understanding of epistemology, a distrust of what authority figures tell them, an appreciation of academic honesty, and the knowledge of how to construct a good bibliography.
I bet the numbers of email users is larger than the individual ones for each social network. (a quick search says that the number of email accounts is estimated at ~4billion, and the most populous "social network", TikTok has an estimated at ~1billion users)
The article mentions that "maintaining possession of anything physical is difficult" for the homeless. Let's say they print out the backup codes...but then their backpack gets stolen. Or it just rains and ruins the paper.
Essentially, yes. It's basically looking up the PTR records. If you look at the UI, you'll see them listed in the peer list.
Recently vacationed in Europe. The lack of a tipping culture there was refreshing.
Ukraine's newest weapon: special Himars rockets that can devastate areas
As little as I like it but war is probably an apt metapher: only once the stakes are as clear cut and direct (as in war) are people willing to change. But maybe not even then: There are countless of weather (read: climate) desasters that only lead to a rebuild, even in "intelligent" countries.

The biggest problem is that the younger generations seem more and more to grasp it but it's the old who are in power to change things. And we actually don't have the time to wait until the old die.

As I'm not a radical (although I appreciate climate radicals and wish them all the best), I do my little part but have resigned to the fact that there will be a lot of pain and runaway effects for generations to come that are already foreseen and could be prevented but simply won't. (but as I said: This doesn't mean to simply yolo. As every ton counts and I have a conscience - and will still in 30 years.)
We have 500-node cluster at a chemical company, and we've been experimenting with "hybrid-cloud". This allows jobs to use servers with resources we just don't have, or couldn't add fast enough.

Storage is a huge issue for us. We have a petabyte of local storage from big name vendor that's bursting at the seams, and expensive to upgrade. A lot of our users leave big files laying around for a large time. Every few months we have to hound everyone to delete old stuff.

The other thing that you get with the cloud is there's way more accountability for who's using how much resources. Right now we just let people have access and roam free. Cloud HPC is 5-10x more in cost and the beancounters would shut shit down real quick if the actual costs were divvied up.

We also still have a legacy datacenter so in a similar vein, it's hard to say how much not having to deal with physical hardware/networking/power/bandwidth would be worth. Our work is maybe 1% of what that team does.
I realize you disagree with my take, but if you want to understand it at least, I would suggest trying to steelman my position. The examples you bring up are probably the absolute worst cases for VR and if you judge a technology by its worst cases then nobody would use a technology. Judge an argument by its strongest interpretation, not its weakest.

> People love real spaces, real objects, real venues, smells, and atmosphere. The physical characteristics of friends and strangers, from subtle facial cues to outrageous clowning around. In VR, all that is stifled or non-existent; substituted with digitally representation, crafted by unknown processes. Cold origins. Black boxes.

This same argument could have been used to argue against the Internet, against using the Web to replace real services (how can you replace the minutiae of human voice interaction with a screen??), against the mobile revolution even. Yet mobile phones are here to stay and even developing countries with bad public infrastructure rely heavily on mobile phones to stay connected. Overly broad philosophical arguments never have explanatory power. I think you can make the argument that the experience of VR would make it too cumbersome to use no matter the streamlining, but to attribute some mystical quality to physical connections neglects the sheer growth of the internet, web, and mobile that are extant.

> See you at Burning Man! From your couch. In this impossible "RR" (remote reality?) future, a typical music festival or live event would have both real people and a bunch of VR drones - somehow inter-mingling, silent without collision, without any issues. Until then, VR is a device strapped to your head, dishing out pre-renders. Your real cat limits the VR experience, and into the bottom drawer goes your headset, right next to the DJI drone you got for Xmas.

It's not like mobile phones took over every aspect of our society. My relatives that kept in touch with their young school friends throughout their lives over mobile phones also as adults meet up with their friends IRL. Friends that met partners while playing WoW live with their partners and have started families with them. This isn't an all-or-nothing proposition and suggesting so seems absurd given the prior art we have of digital technologies.

If VR becomes a default way to communicate and collaborate, that's all it will take to "win".
>We're probably conservatively talking $10,000-100,000 USD per household

Considering how many people are struggling to pay the rent and keep the lights on (myself included), this feels impossible.
Given the size of Californias population and and it’s spending power, the grand effect on the entire country would be higher. I wonder if the rest of the states would have to pay the prices (through rising rates).
Aside from the fact that proofs are often difficult to verify, one cannot prove what a monoid or a vector space is. They are definitions, and to make sure the ones in the article match what is used in the mathematical community, you need citations.

And yes, sometimes there are conflicts. In France, we have two competing definition of a limit (relating to wether you include the point in its neighbourhood), one being the traditional one, taught in schools, and one being the one that's become the world standard and used from university onwards.

How do you arbiter that on wikipedia without sources ?
But sci hub exists now
being a crypto apologist doesn't change the fact that web3 is a scam.
Thanks for sharing my story, Galonk!
> I don't think it matters at all. There is no expectation of privacy when browsing a website (from the website operator). We can see everything you do... obviously.

Server logs will of course tell the operator what buttons are being clicked on and which pages are being requested. But once those pages are on my computer, I disagree, I do have an expectation of privacy around my mouse movements and keystrokes on my own computer. If I choose to send those to some third party server so be it, but having those collected without consent is a problem.

As engineers we may assume this is being done regardless and accept it as a reality of the web, but I'd imagine the average person would be quite surprised to see what is a recording of their browser window reconstructed without being informed that was happening. They may rightful have that expectation of privacy here, which is being broken by these tools.

> Also, it's not a recording of their screen that is being taken, but rather it's mouse coordinates and keystrokes which then re-assemble a replay of the actions. Just like a video game replay.

It doesn't matter what method is taken to generate a video if the end result is the same as if you were recording my actual browser window.
Range is a fantastic book that completely discredits the whole book. Give it a read, it will make you understand how the world actually works outside of elite athletes.

https://www.amazon.com/Range-Generalists-Triumph-Specialized...
Show HN: Nvcachetools – See compiled shader code for Nvidia GPU, using the cache
Why are you multiplying yearly salaries with months? :)

JetBrains devs likely cost around 100k/y year here in CEE by the way. But I think 3M is a reasonable guess, 30 FTE years (7 devs, 1 PM, 1 UX, 1 "overhead" (other management costs)).