skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The list of different ways to tune a guitar is monstrously long:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_guitar_tunings

Same for banjo:
https://zeppmusic.com/banjo/aktuning.htm
It says 0.09 per GB on that page.
Monolithic Dome has been doing this for years. Precast concrete vaults are made very efficiently and can be used for this purpose with much better quality control. Neither are popular solutions.

Housing construction is pretty cheap. The materials are mass produced on thin margins and in the US we’ve insourced the cheapest labor available on the continent to put it together. If you’re really on a budget, you can get a pre-manufactured mobile home for very little. Even living in Soviet style concrete multi-family housing, like a human factory farm, is actually an option for most of us if we’re to move. People seem to avoid these choices when they have the option though.

I find it very conspicuous that in the commentary around this issue, finance and the market distortions they create never seem to get any blame.
A book should be as long as the content merits. A lot of self-help books in the 200-300 page range (including index, notes, etc.) could be summed up in a decently long blog post. A lot of history books & biographies feel as though they skimp out on some important stuff even after 500-600+ pages. Lord of the Rings could keep going and and I would keep going on along with it.
Where do you see that? On your link I see:

Data Transfer OUT From Amazon EC2 To Internet
First 10 TB / Month $0.09 per GB
Next 40 TB / Month $0.085 per GB
Next 100 TB / Month $0.07 per GB
Greater than 150 TB / Month $0.05 per GB

Which means if you transfer out 90 TB in one month, it's $0.09 * 10000 + $0.085 * 40000 + $0.07 * 40000 = $7100.
People are coming out of retirement due to cost-of-living crisis
I was walking to a convenience store two nights ago and I saw a girl venmo'ing a homeless man money. Realistically it's hard to exist without a phone and bank account, and there are a lot of financial aid/benefit programs for homeless people to pay for these sorts of things
I think comparing to humans is a bit of a distraction, unless what you care about is replicating the way human intelligence works in AI. The mechanisms by which learning is done (in these cases self-supervised and supervised learning) are not at all the same as humans have, so it's unsurprising the qualitative aspects are different.

It may be argued we need more human-like learning mechanisms. Then again, if we need internet-scale data to achieve human-level general intelligence, so what? If it works it works. Of course, the comparison has some value in terms of knowing what can be improved and so on, especially for RL. But I wouldn't call this a 'troubling problem'.
Oh, then I guess I don't really see what the problem is. It's a platform that lets you move your account freely, of course people are going to leave if you start smearing shit on the walls.
Yes. We really let creditors hoodwink us when we let them invent the idea of "identity theft" instead of what it is: "You trusted some fraudster's claim they were who they said they were."

One puts the onus on the defrauded company to fix their house; the other puts it on a third-party with no involvement in the transaction to... Make it harder? For strangers to lie and tell other strangers they are the person with the "stolen identity?"

We could have drastically changed the landscape on this if the first time a company came after someone whose identity was stolen for money not paid the government had responded with not only a "no" but a fine for using the law to harass a stranger.
gsutil hardly ever finished when trying to download a couple-hundred google workspace takeout, preferring to consume all available memory instead - so that's a pretty easy thing to beat.

does it outperform rclone?
Yeah I agree with this position. It is also what I see within my own research. But also in my own research I see the vast importance of architecture search. This may not be what the public sees, but I think it is well known to the research community or anyone with hands on experience with these types of models.
A perfect reputation? No.

More perfect than Russia? Than China? Yes.
in a very basic way it might explain how easy it is to lose consciousness. be it a blow to the head or drifting off to sleep. if consciousness is a simply an actively maintained non local pattern it would seem it would be easy to disrupt instead of say actively affecting the operation of some local physical node which we could image
Hey even gopher has 333 unique servers according to a recent census. But for all practical purposes it's pretty much dead.
Also it assumes full utilization of hardware. If you have variable load (such as only needing to run compute after an experiment). The overhead costs of maintaining a cluster you don't need all time are probably much lower than resources you can schedule on-demand.
That's the story of society in general. You can easily walk into many (most) people's houses between 10a-3pm weekdays and just take their shit. I'm sure one could make 6 figures doing that. Of course most of us don't because we don't want to harm others, and because of the consequences.

You really just have to make it enough of a hassle for thieves that they pick the next easier thing to do. Not create Ft. Knox.
I recently wrote a science fiction novel that I intentionally kept short (50,000 words - 200 pages- readable in a weekend). When reading, I don't finish most of what I start because it takes 80-100 pages to get to the hook. I understand that there is a joy in reading a long novel that builds up a character, but most of the time these novels are just tedious. I couldn't finish the 2020 Hugo Award winner because for the first 50 pages it was the protagonist moving into an apartment, unpacking stuff and walking around in a city. It kills me.
How do you freeze python tools into binaries?
(2016)?

Surprised this wasn't shared earlier but it's as old as 2016.... just a different site mortalkombatplus.com
I love Racket. It was the first language I learned at the University of Utah, and is easily my favorite dialect in the Lisp family. But I'm hesitant to use it for anything beyond toy projects, mostly because the future of Racket seems to be directly dependent on getting academic research money, and publishing papers.
Is there any reason why they limit the length of passwords or don’t allow certain characters? It makes no sense to me.
This is wrong, such a professor with so much experience, background and knowledge should have given an award to teach. This is a shame.
I thought the article answered your question pretty well and they clearly state on their about page that they are not backed by any government and rely on donations.

The entire internet points to wikipedia and its consensus mechanism is inherently vulnerable to editors for hire, as clearly demonstrated with scores of links.

So my answer is "pick any publication from 1980 and it is better because its bias can be audited and it is not polluting every search query I make"
When it starts to have memory, develops a personality and identity - I can see some people might care for certain instances of AI as pets. Like that Japanese guy who married a robot (or was it a hologram), then the company deprecated the software and it stopped working (or disappeared).

The fact that humans can develop emotional bonds with machines and objects is strange and fascinating.
I looked at notion now and appears to be intranet, knowledge and Kanban kind of functionality. Two things stand out, one, People want to do this using this rather than proven tools in the content landscape or two, looks new shiny ? I’m purely interested in value prop over other choices
It does raise the question of whether or not the shallow memes and 2 minute youtube videos that make up our "shared experiences" today are comparable to the shared experiences of the past which typically conveyed more depth, information, and meaning.
I sure hope the NSA is right up in his grille
I'm not sure about this being the reality forever. Ever now and then we find some very old scripts or other ancient artifacts containing data from times already forgotten (at least on "basic" human language). If you want something to live eternity just etch the bytes into a stone or print it in some age resistent material.

Of course we can still hope on a easily writable medium that would be also very resistant to ageing.

Given the right context I even think that information produced by humans can outlive earth itself[1]

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record
What do you mean by "ATM networks which can change?" I've never found it difficult to find a credit union that participates in shared branching with a public ATM (this basically means free ATM withdrawals in most cities in the US.)
If you want to know: do Higgs Bosons exist, you can go frequentist or bayesian:

Wasserman: p-value is fine for Higgs experiment:

https://normaldeviate.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/the-higgs-bos...

Tom Campbell-Ricketts: Bayes is better even for Higgs experiment

https://maximum-entropy-blog.blogspot.com/2012/07/higgs-boso...

My take: frequentist p-value is simpler but Bayes is what you really want.
What a bunch of bull, use specific examples if you’re trying to make claims like that. I also read articles I’m an expert in and I’m always amazed how complete the articles are.
>Even 2.5x over building your own infrastructure is significant for a $50M/yr supercomputer.

Can’t imagine you are paying public prices on any cloud provider if you have a $50M/yr budget.

In addition, if, as the article states, the scientists are ok to wait some considerable time for results, then one can run most, if not all, on spot instances, and that can save 10x right there.

If you don’t have $50M/yr there are companies that will move your workload around different AWS regions to get the best price - and will factor in the cost of transferring the data too.

I was architect at large scientific company using AWS.
and then what? Twitter is one of those platform in which overeducated, depressed, insane and innocently malicious kids goes to deploy engineered narratives and absolutely unprofitably destructively dominate over people of all ages and identities. Normies has no place in it, and if anyone is going to change that, the platform just bleeds and eventually dies. It’s a 4.4chan-Lite. What comes of normalizing and integrating it into the society, even to Musk himself in short term?
heh yeah it could be defeated with a block and you could then round-house him while he recovered, but getting the timing down was tough
Do you use JetBrains software on mobile? This is for building stuff inside JetBrains.
You might be right that these "multimodal" transformers, by integrating additional data from non-text sources, would be more capable than GPT-3. But I don't think that invalidates Gary Marcus's point.

The word "model" is another of those words that Minsky called "suitcase words"--- they can be used to mean many things. I don't think Marcus is saying that that LLMs have "no model", just that they don't have a model of the type that a symbolic system could have. He gives many examples of deductions that a symbolic AI system can easily do, which GPT-3 is simply incapable of.
Mainframe CPUs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Telum_(microprocessor) for instance) are physically different processors than Power. (Although it is likely that IBM shares the many internal design parts among both of these.)
This was inevitable it seems. If you look under the hood gsutil is a wrapper around a vendored version of boto2. boto3 is a big departure and never got support for Google Cloud Storage.

Also the fact that it was separate from the rest of the gcloud CLI was a weird quirk. This fixes both of those issues.
Seriously? Frequentists simply build infinite amount of parallel Universes and ask what percentage of the Universes It occurs with certainty.
Yes, I agree that your assumptions about how you think I think this should work are bad. :^)

But to be more specific with my feedback, it seems a bit silly that Transmission (I'm trying 4.0.0b1 right now) doesn't allow me to specify that it must use "VPN X" (as opposed to "VPN Y", which is also available) for downloads.

I understand that I could mess with namespaces or containers or VMs and probably make that work, but "use Bittorrent client with VPN" is more or less a universal use case and should be straightforward.
Not supposed to be used on mobile. These are components to be used for building stuff inside JetBrains.
> A more reasonable question would be, how many partially completed sudoku grids are there which have a unique solution. We don't know the answer to that.

The number of minimal Sudoku puzzles is estimated (with 0.065% relative error) to be 3.1055e+37 (or 2.5477e+25 for non-isomorphic minimal puzzles). See Bethier https://arxiv.org/pdf/1111.4083.pdf
TIOBE's data is so botched, seriously typescript is ranked 40, below Scratch, below COBOL, heck even below FoxPro.

And no Vlang is not a programming language, it's a scam and should be treated as one.
Here are some more example queries:

https://you.com/niche/pytorch?q=install+osx&fromSearchBar=tr...

https://you.com/niche/pytorch?q=save+trained+model

https://you.com/niche/pytorch?q=check+if+pytorch+is+using+GP...
On Restaurant Day in Helsinki, Anyone Can Open an Eatery, Anywhere
It is not like I endorse (or don't appreciate) one or another, just a bit of stats

npm install @shoelace-style/shoelace => 19MB, 17 packages

npm install @jetbrains/ring-ui => 189MB, 560 packages
In my experience accessing my account after moving has been a huge issue with conventional banks; I've never had a problem with my credit union accounts.
It does show boost/favourite counts once you open a toot, and just like on Twitter you can also click to see the list of people who have boosted/favourited

The other parts are true, but the "manipulation of timelines" is just a question of time because it's useful if you follow lots of people. As long as it remains opt-in and a setting it's a good thing. I'm planning an ActivityPub implementation for myself and "manipulation of timelines" is one of the features I want to add the most for my own use.

Point being that deviating from a strictly chronological timeline isn't the problem. Doing so in a non-transparent way the user has little control over is.
OK, but he should definitely read "Lonesome Dove". It's a great book and not tough going at all.
What are you even talking about? Yes, this is exactly the type of stuff you will see on HN.
"When performing this analysis, one number surprised me: iOS 16 only contains 4 apps using the SwiftUI-based app lifecycle:

/Applications/Batteries.app/Batteries

/Applications/FTMInternal-4.app/FTMInternal-4

/private/var/staged_system_apps/Weather.app/Weather

/System/Library/CoreServices/AegirProxyApp.app/AegirProxyApp
"
> Microservices don't make a lot of sense to me unless you can print money or have a public infra offering. It points to an engineering org that doesn't know what they are doing

A little company I’m sure you have heard of may disagree. This was way before AWS was thing and was an edict for Amazon Retail

https://nordicapis.com/the-bezos-api-mandate-amazons-manifes...

Your information about Twitters current architecture is way out of date.

https://thenewstack.io/how-airbnb-and-twitter-cut-back-on-mi...

https://www.quora.com/What-were-the-technical-limits-that-Tw...

> Yes they product-ized their services which is absolutely brilliant. I think the fact that amazon can print money plays a very key roll in why they won while other companies lost. They scaled early in the game rather than scaling too late and reaped incredible rewards for doing so.

That’s not the point. The point is that new internal initiative don’t start from a blank slate at any large tech company. There is already infrastructure in place to build on top of even when that underlying infrastructure isn’t publicly available.

> gsuite, maps, search, adsense, analystics, gcp, youtube, play, android, pixel, chromebook, news, docs, project zero, etc.

- gcp - losing money

- addsense - more ads

- GSuite - a distant second to MS

https://www.saasgenius.com/blog/why-office-365-is-overtaking...

- Android: it came out in the Oracle trial that Google only made $27 Billion in total during the first six years. Google gives Apple 18 billion a year to be the default search engine on iOS. Apple makes more money from Google in mobile than Google makes from Android

- Pixel: depending on who you believe, Google sells 1.2 million phones a quarter. If it were a separate company, it would be an abysmal failure

https://www.engadget.com/google-pixel-q4-2021-best-sales-qua...

That’s about the same number Apple sells in 2 days in a down quarter.

YouTube: while YouTube contributes 10% to Google’s revenue, most think it’s still not profitable once you take into account bandwidth, storage, and revenue share with creators.

Project Zero is not a profitable product - nor was it meant to be.
I had a fight with my 9th grade daughter on the exact same topic. She was arguing anything other than wikipedia is more accurate !
We also don't know it was the homeless, that kind of thing is often actual gang activity
I think the issue isn't citing it directly, it's citing it incorrectly. Wikipedia is a snapshot collective understanding of a topic, hopefully in a meaningfully cited manner. It's not that it contains false information or unreviewed information, it's that you're attempting to cite a discussion and collective work that is constantly in flux. I think that if you were inclined to actually do investigative work, you'd find yourself:

* Interviewing "experts" (their level of expertise would be something you'd need to establish since no third party has prescribed that) who contribute and discuss the topic.

* Referencing cited sources.

* Referencing edit history and reverted changes, rejected sources, etc.

I think the issue is that academia has a lot of systems in place (I'd argue that they're only partially effective) that help establish credibility of experts and sources through "academic honesty" policies.

IMO, part of figuring out how to properly cite wikipedia will come with a reckoning that academic honesty isn't 100% nor are the arguments of authority that come from academia quite enough to establish credibility. I think that's the real issue -- this shorthand is pretty good, but it doesn't mesh with wikipedia's own shorthand.
Ask HN: Returning to work after 5 years?
After a 5 year hiatus, I’m planning to return to a programming job next fall (so I have about a year to prepare).

Previously, I’ve done generalist web development stuff (front end, back end, database/api, integrations, a bit of devops, design work).

And a few different kinds of employers: design agencies, product companies, universities, startups.

Since I haven’t been in the market for a long time, I’m curious to hear how it might have changed.

1) any recommendations on pieces of the web stack to focus on? I’ll be spending a year or so brushing on current tech.

2) what’s the current job market like? I see a lot of React jobs, but I can’t say I love React

3) any advice for reentering the job market after such a layoff?

Thanks!
this demo cd is my benchmark of how a computer is supposed to feel like. if UI interactions are in any way slower than what this provides (on, say, 2008-era hardware), it's basically poop
IME simd very rarely gets used by the compiler or runtime unless you make some slight changes in your data structures or flow, that require specific knowledge of the simd hardware. Asking a compiler to target unknown GPU architecture seems more likely to slow execution than speed it up. Even when writing my own cuda kernels I sometimes realize that something I am doing won't work well for a particular card and it is actually making me slower than the cpu. I'm sure we'll get there, but cards will have to converge a bit.
>Sorry but anonymity is security.

Tell me your threat model, and then I'll tell you whether "anonymity is security" or not. Anything else is just you talking past other people.
Ok, it's a massive company

https://www.zippia.com/advice/largest-pizza-chains/
You are not doing it wrong.

Standups can be traced back to the Scrum practice Daily Scrum. The Daily Scrum is a short (max 15 minute) synchronisation meeting for developers. It is explicitly not a status meeting for PMs. It eventually became known as a standup because people figured out that it was easier to keep the meeting short when you were not sitting down.

Scrum became popular, but it didn’t really make room for traditional project managers. So what to do with all the PMs? Teach them to be Scrum Masters.

This is where things started to go downhill. Most PMs just kept doing what they had always done, just using different names.

And so standups became hour long status meetings, inspect and adapt, sustainable pace and other good things were replaced with micromanagement and death marches. Dark Scrum was born.

This is of course greatly simplified. Agile Consultants and certification peddlers are also to blame.
Phone numbers are, in some countries including Germany, tied to your identity (as in you can’t even get a number without government issued ID), it doesn’t get much worse for an identifier if anonymity is the goal.
Sorry, you are right.
I need another coffee today.
Why do you say obviously?

I am really curious why Le Roux has been ruled out even by the author of the book about him "The Mastermind" by Evan Ratliff - quite a good read.

Le Roux seemed like a good candidate to be Satoshi -
a Windows C++ programmer with serious crypto knowledge(most other crypto oldschoolers were on Linux/BSD),
as the book states he liked adopt other persona on forums,
he obviously had a strong anti-government bent,

so far that is not much but more importantly he was dealing with his real life crime empire and had baskets of money laying around the house.

it is hard to imagine Satoshi not spending some money once BTC got over $1 - unless he was really really not worried about money.
Of course he could have just lost the keys...

There has to be some crucial detail which book does not mention why Le Roux is ruled out so conclusively.

I'd be curious if any code similarity analysis has been done on old LeRoux codebases and original Bitcoin code.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16924/did-ibm-just-preview-th...

I think if it works out, it will eventually come to PCs as well.
This is why I view the "federated" form of decentralization to be more of an intermediate stop-gap between fully centralized and fully decentralized in the form of true P2P.

For a decentralized social network to be viable/sustainable (especially on the scale of something like Twitter), it has to be truly P2P, not federated on volunteer-run servers paid for through donations. That volunteer-run federated model is really only sustainable for smaller niche communities, not a global social network.

As of right now, the closest framework I can think of to handle something like this is a social network built on OrbitDB: https://github.com/orbitdb
Your bank account number is by design semi public knowledge. Every check you have ever written has it at the bottom. It was never meant to be private.
They haven't even figured out basic math, so not sure what you would expect to find there. They aren't smart enough to generate structure that doesn't already exist.
Eh, I don't think Wikipedia is perfect - and the smaller and less frequented the article the more weird it might be. But most of the time it's mostly going to be right about stuff like who was president in 1887, and have citations to elsewhere, which is a lot more than can be said for the average random Google result.

A couple days ago I was kind of annoyed that the article on Greensleeves didn't include lyrics.