skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ehh, read Steven Hawking. Black holes (singularities) are strikingly similar to what we know of the big bang. If we are in a black hole, it could explain the accelerating expansion of the universe.
But the cloud can and will be a fundamental part of the new developer tools.

Since reading the blog post's mention of Repl.it I went and downloaded their new Iphone app and used https://modal.com to spin up 30-40 containers from a script doing sentiment analysis on ~30k movie reviews: https://twitter.com/jonobelotti_IO/status/158291976221638656...

This cost me about 5 cents.

Developer environments and workflows built around the idea that you won't compile and run code on your own device can do wild things at the press of an Iphone app button.

U.C Berkeley has called part of this vision 'serverless for all computation', https://kappa.cs.berkeley.edu/.

edit: Another user also pointed to Stanford's 'gg': https://github.com/StanfordSNR/gg.
Discussed at the time:

The Mystery of 355/113 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4285531 - July 2012 (65 comments)
Grow plants > feed to goats > collect menure > anerobic decay (aka methane digester) > natural gas (pretty close anyway) + good fertilizer.

That's the system I'm interested in. The only real issue is needing to filter out a sulfer based gas (forgetting the exact thing off the top of my head, but it's corrosive to metal)
Thank you for replying to my questions.

Ok I've added a way to disable Instagram and Twitter. Is there other ones you'd like disabled? Or are you wanting to set specific ones to always show?

Right now the ones shown are automatic and dynamic. It tries to show the most relevant columns ranked in the best order, depending on your search. This opens up the idea of doing things like knowing you are looking for a code problem and showing stackoverflow results in the 2nd column.

I mean those are 2 very different design directions. Auto vs manual... Are you super thinking a full manual version would be good? I've found people generally use things more when it is automatically good.

I'll have to think more about this. A number of people did bring this up...
S3 is a transparent network filesystem.

Unix is only the paradigm for computing servers. Which makes sense because different apps have wildly different ways of scaling.

There's no effective paradigm for abstracting away 1,000's of CPUs in a general purpose way.

I really don't have any idea what you're looking for here, that is possible, that cloud services don't already do.
https://gtoolkit.com/docs/analyzing-cpp/

It has a C++ parser already, something could be built on top of that to help turn it into a proper C++ editor. Perhaps turn it into a structure editor. And it can start OS processes so you can use your existing build tools and such.
FOSS is useful, and may be a part of the solution, but it is not the solution in and of itself the way Free Software advocates portray it as.

Most people aren't programmers, people who are programmers don't read the source code of everything they run even if they're allowed to, and even people who try to read the source code for everything they run won't necessarily be able to catch every potential nefarious act. The ingredients list on the back of the box is not the only form of consumer protection in place for food. It shouldn't be the only consumer protection in place for software, either.
All these scientific datasets gathered with taxpayers money should be made public. If people end up discovering "dangerous" patterns then well... so it's scientific progress. Sometimes they don't conform to our preferred bias.
In my experience, things work best when interrupters work with interrupters, and waiters work with waiters.

That's not to say someone can't switch styles, but the unfortunate reality is that it's easier if people don't have to do that. This results in the kind of self segregation that you do. I've also done that, by switching to a team that shared my communication style.

I don't know if this is good or bad, but it does seem to be the path of least resistance.
Is this going to be like the stem cell research ban?

America falls behind Europe and others?
> You make absolutely ridiculous statements like "there’s no habitable planet"

1. I guess you enjoy living under the specter of a looming nuclear apocaypse?

2. Dunno if you noticed, the planet is literally on fire right now. I currently can’t step outside without putting my respiratory system at risk.

3. The snow crab fishing season was called off. Because 90% of the population is gone.

4. Europe in a literal meltdown because of fears over how they’ll stay warm this winter.

5. Texas about to go into the third year of this same exact problem in a row. Ted Cruz will be in Cancun.

Ay ay ron
Kinda duh if your data never leaves the process space. Should be faster IMO...
> Should we presume that it must be an invisible ball of matter that gravitates but we have no other way of detecting except through the same effect we use to infer its existence, or should we tweak Newton's laws of physics?

"we have no other way of detecting except through the same effect we use to infer its existence" is true of everything in the universe. We believe stars exist because we can see the light coming from them, but light is our only way of detecting them.

There's no single answer to this kind of question, we have to actually do science and make observations. We should ask whether it behaves like a ball of matter (e.g. does it have a point location in space? Does it orbit the way a ball of batter does?) or like a modified law of gravity (can we reproduce the same conditions)?

The likes of the Bullet Cluster makes a very compelling case that cold dark matter is real.
I can run DOSBox in the cloud. What I can't do is run an old version of Google Docs, Salesforce, Notion, or Alexa.

I can run old commercial software that I paid for in DOSBox or a VM because I have the software, even if it's just in binary form. I have the software and the environment and I can run it myself.

That's the difference. The cloud is far more closed than closed-source commercial software.

I can also run the software with privacy. When I run something locally there's nobody with back-end access that can monitor every single thing I do, steal my data, scan my data to feed into ad profile generators or sell to data brokers, etc.
It's extremely obvious to me now that the difficulties my parents had were down to a lack of personal experience with life in general. Seems like a bad choice to learn life's lessons while also trying to bring new ones into the world. Some of the advice in here seems to be coming from similarly lost people. Rude, but true. Live your life until you're ready.
I get the point of the post, but I still don't see how it's remotely useful to understand the performance in postgresml, as someone who's interested in using it for my own tooling. Maybe I don't spend enough time in ML space to know how often they use HTTP/redis in their flows as much as they do. Most of my stuff is just data on-disk, where adding two additional services would be embarrassingly overkill.

Don't you think it would be incredibly useful as a baseline if they included a third test with FDWs against redis and the http server?
It seems like Postgres isn't really doing anything here in the benchmark besides acting as a host for XGBoost? It needs to load the model parameters from the database whereas the Python microservice is reading the model parameters from a model.bin file in the filesystem. Both are one-time costs presumably (I'm guessing the SQL that loads the model keeps the model around in memory which seems reasonable given its performance gap to Python).

So it seems like what is needed is a better host for XGBoost models instead of having to install, maintain and launch an entire database? Or am I missing something here?
Why spend days of actual work when you can spend years automating / customizing your workflow
A guy I used to work with would interrupt, start talking and continue talking while I was. Sometimes, I would continue for a few seconds in the hopes that it would prompt him to think "Whoops I just interrupted, I'll say 'oops sorry go on' now", but after several comical instances of us both speaking simultaneously for what felt like at least 10-20 seconds (probably only 5 realistically), I realised how ridiculous this was and I resigned to letting him interrupt. He was a great engineer and a good guy so I was happy to accommodate it rather than calling him out. Work contexts do interesting things to social dynamics.
Wow, it looks like they even started a coalition with other wikis.

https://zeldapedia.wiki/wiki/Community:Nintendo_Independent_...

I wonder how this group will fare in 10 years.
Thanks, reddit team, for fixing this. Both the new OPEN button anchored to the top, and the new bottom sheet work as desired now.

My comment above was about a previous version of the "open in app" bottom sheet from a previous version of the mobile website.

Both mobile safari on iOS.
lock in mentality. free data in but high charges out. although azure <-> oracle cloud have gone to zero rated egress for one use case. will be interesting to see if it extends to other use cases and/or clouds.

https://news.microsoft.com/2022/07/20/oracle-and-microsoft-a...
At Augusta we are creating a wellness focused social experience using design principles that promote mental health and wellbeing. You can now download our product from the Apple app store and feel free to share any feedback.

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"Why does pi have this awesome continued fraction" is exactly how a professional mathematician would ask the question.
First Two Lessons of "From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion"
Thanks for your work, even if it got shut down. Good thing the price of gene sequencing continues to fall - eventualy a responsible and open group of academics will start a more accessible database. Illumina's new machine is reportedly $200 a person.[0] At this price 1 million entries in the dataset would cost two hundred million. GWAS starts being useful at a few hundred thousand entries. I honestly don't think 200 m is so much in the grand scheme, given that biotech companies are valued in the tens of billions. The price will also only continue to fall. Science doesn't acquiesce to ideology - it's the other way around.

[0]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-29/illumina-...
I Tried the $1,500 Quest Pro and Saw the Best of the Metaverse
Gwern on the China (and Therefore Taiwan)
We are in the "epicycles" phase of physics discovery, at both the micro and macro level.

I may not live to see it, but I'm excited for when everything just "clicks" and the model becomes more simple and elegant, as it was before the 1920s.
How many 30+ women do you know who don’t have a college degree?
I agree with this. Google doesn't need access to terabytes of genetic datasets and I'm glad that the NIH asked them to delete what they had.
Or, you know, pay for Youtube Premium and get no ads? Added bonus of supporting the creators who make those videos you watch.
If normal job interviews were like coding interviews
The 2013 Dell Venue 11 Pro is remarkably good a contender. It's been $300 for half a decade, has 8-9 hours battery life with the keyboard, isn't super light nor thin but is pretty good & very compact, has a decent front shooter & so so back shooter. Has a 4G option.

I have moved on to a great 2-in-1 from 2017 that is quite similar, newer specs, much lighter at 7.4mm and 1.6lbs, OLED screen... this isn't geek pride. This is a fantastic brilliant light machine that until very recently would knock the socks off any iPad or Android Tablet, and has been available New Old Stock for under $400 for years now. It's far more machine than the flagship tablets until very recently.

The low end iPad is definitely an enviable marvel but it's also far less of an advance than I think we really understand. Part of why it looks so good though is because so many machines are poorly built, are compromised heavily. The whole 2-in-1 thing has gotten segmented into expensive fancy Surface competitors & ultra-low-end machines (which honestly with slightly better builds and much much better screens would be stunning devices), with unreasonable uncompromising top or bottom of market positioning. It's been sad. But some places out there are some really great 2-in-1 pc competitors, that have long put to shame Android & iPad offerings (until Apples very recent speedy but oh-so-limited oh-so-walled-garden oh-so-controlled shorter-lifed iPads).

There's absolutely a lot of people who just swear by Lenovo T420's forever & seemingly always will. I'm not at all of that ilk.
Heroku considers an act of God beyond reasonable control
I’d encourage you to try it again with trader joe’s in mind. It’s essentially a low cost version with very similar, albeit spartan, layout.
> When I compile code, I want to fire up 1000 serverless container and compile tiny parts of my code in parallel.

Or maybe we should make better use of GPU and other local compute.
Good. If there's anyone out there anyone who thinks there isn't an entity that will happily take databases of genetic information and use it to develop the most horrifyingly efficient genome specific advertising and hiring selection algorithms i've got some snake oil to sell you (it has peptides).
But Big Tech is involved, so we are expected to be enraged.

Well, I can easily one-up this. The Agricultural Revolution was a mistake. We should have remained hunter gatherers.

(Lots of people believe this, or claim to)
Thus conseding interruptions aren't "inherently more efficient", and rather as the author presents different communication methods are more effective under different circumstances.
Seems like it's a good one, yeah.
Yeah, including towns like Seattle. Kroger + Albertsons are probably 70% of the market here.
So you can kind of do that, the first step creates a description, and the second step colorizes using the description.
So you can modify the text for various degrees of success and specify 'orange dress within the text'
> Why would you not choose this over what prison is currently like?

Because there would be no upper limit to the number of people you can imprison - limited space in prisons provides vital societal back-pressure on which crimes are considered serious enough for custodial sentences.

In general, the inefficiencies in the justice system are good because they force prioritization. What would be the impact on society if crime detection, deliberation and rulings were all automated?
I like to imagine this is the universe’s version of a stick with a piece of string on the end and we’re a cat maddeningly entranced by it flitting about.
On a related note, the renowned North American X-15[1] was one of the very few rocket/plane powered by a rocket engine[2] that consumed ammonia as fuel.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_X-15

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_Motors_XLR99
That's an intuitive way to put it, ironic considering epicycles themselves are viewed as the opposite.
Yeah, I changed my comment around to try and say that- the question just becomes "huh, why does the big integer 292 show up like that?" which is really the same question as before. Maybe the answer is "that's not actually that surprising", I don't know.
This feels like a continuation of STEPS(STEPS Toward Expressive Programming Systems) project by Viewpoint Research Institute, which produced a universal document viewer and editor called Frank: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2012001_steps.pdf
What is preventing one of the genetic sequencing services from making the connections? There must be enough commercial databases available to allow them to "add data about health, education, occupation, and income".

Sooner or later, the data will be available. Where will it end? Will "stupid" people stop having children or will they choose intelligent donors until genetic engineering is possible?
Hey, maybe I'm worrying over nothing.
Could an entity with sufficient resources just FOIA the data? It does not appear to fall into any of the FOIA exemptions or exclusions. The closest would be #6, which protects information that would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. But since researchers are accessing this data, shouldn't it already be very carefully anonymized?

https://www.hhs.gov/foia/exemptions-and-exclusions/index.htm...
Some serious false equivalence here.

Mandatory vaccination for deadly diseases like measles and the mumps. COVID is not deadly for the young.
If it's about the boss's power, they can always just fire people who won't come into the office. If the boss doesn't want to do that, they've got to do the convincing. You either convince people or order them around and live with the morale consequences.
I think it works if you do it over a generation (of people). Never give a kid less than 50ms of latency and they won’t even realize they’re missing out.

The whole industry will attack the goal from multiple angles and make it happen. I think making GPU ownership expensive to improve the value proposition of streaming services is one of the goals.

On paper I think it should be a total failure. In reality, I tried the RTX 3080 tier of GeForce Now and I couldn’t notice the input latency playing Last Epoch. If triple buffering was accepted, 3 frames of latency for streaming will be too, won’t it?

I hope it fails because never owning anything sucks, but I think it’ll be extremely successful.
Ok, so then why not make a structured HTML page that's served and parsed as the list.. that would be perfectly fine? Cloudflare's stance on this makes no sense
The DM is moved around by the gravity of the moving galaxy. The DM theory is that each galaxy is surrounded by a huge spherical cloud of DM that (by definition) only experiences gravitation and is invisible and insubstantial in every other way. When Voyager gained speed from passing near Jupiter, it caused Jupiter to slow down by a tiny amount. Similarly, when galaxies pass through each other, the DM should take a measurable amount of momentum from the galaxies.

And, yeah, it's a provocative title, but he believes that his measurements falsify DM theory. It's partly a tussle between experimentalists and theoreticians. Kroupa is arguing that the claims of the theory can be tested, and that it doesn't match observations. The theoreticians have a nice story for the big bang, inflation, baryonic nucleosynthesis and the variations seen in the CMB, and the amount of DM it predicts happens to match precisely the amount of DM that we observe.
Maybe take a look at the International Dark Sky Places Program interactive map:

https://www.darksky.org/our-work/conservation/idsp/finder/
Over the past year, I've been building Loopin.

Loopin is workplace app to help you balance work and meetings harmoniously. This is one of the biggest gripe amongst PMs - if there's anything I've hated more than JIRA, is unproductive meetings getting in the way of work.

Would love for you to check us out. Let me know what you think.
But will the computer add appropriate tagging and links?
Do people use these genealogies to pick which schools to go to and people to learn from?
Stop Writing Dead Programs
Can you name one of these “ custom peptides “ or a source for one? This is interesting.
I considered cloud for my ML application that uses terabytes of proprietary data. I took one look at those egress costs and bought my own server for less than the cost of one full egress plus a short period of running time.

Just the thought that they might one day up those charges all of their own accord makes it even more of a non-starter.
I mean, we live in a society where big tech firms hire "machine learning safety" experts to prevent their algorithms from noticing the wrong patterns.
I also don’t think it’s a fair comparison. There’s nothing stopping me from loading the model into the memory of each Flask process (or some shmem), and getting the same performance or possibly better than the Postgres implementation, considering coroutines are being used in the Python case.

Calling this Postgres vs Flask is misleading at best. It’s more like “1 tier architecture vs 2 tier architecture”
> "We have no other way of detecting except through the same effect we use to infer its existence" is true of everything in the universe

No. For example, staying within astronomy, we detect gravitational waves and if we find an optical event that correlates with the gravitational waves, it is multimodal (we are at n=1), and if you don't solicit events (or if you statistically blind it by adding fake events in your solicitation) it's multimodal independent (currently n=0). Going outside of astro, you'll find very rich multimodal studies "I know what this molecule is because I have an IR, UV, NMR, Mass spec, etc etc etc"
> I mean that if a conversation already leaves places for people to enter and yield without interruption, interruption itself is a correction but one you don’t need often.

Ah I think I might see what you're getting at here. I have seen a certain dynamic in group conversations where a subset of the group kinda gets locked into making exchanges, then other participants can't get a word in, so they'd be forced into interrupting as the only recourse. Maybe? In that case I agree, it's good to keep an eye out and make sure everyone is able to participate through a certain amount of conscious turn-taking.

> It’s reacting to too many dangling threads which gets hard to track.

> sometimes the pile of interruption tangents produces more unsaid things

I think we are talking about two different things. You seem to be referring to topic-switching interruptions; I'm specifically referring to interruptions which engage with what the speaker is saying, requesting info that's needed to make any sense of what's being said (e.g. they are talking about Zoikbugs but you don't know what a Zoikbug is, and they thought you did, so you need to ask for a quick definition and then let them resume), or, to let them know it's unneeded to continue on a particular strand because you already have the info (in this second case it's possible for the would-be interrupter to be incorrect, but that's why "interrupt-denies" are so critical: in less then a second, via eyes, hands, posture etc. you can have one person communicate, "Gotcha, I see where you're going, now lemme respond" and for the other person to reply "I know why you think that, but just hang on", with no actual, or extremely brief, interruption to speech; or there can just be a light confirmation: you, as the original speaker, yield to your interlocutor and allow them to speak and for the conversation to move along its natural course; if it turns out they didn't anticipate you correctly after all, you counter-interrupt and if they're "playing fair", they should desist).

If someone is interrupting to talk about something different, adding tangents or disallowing you from completing an idea, that's another matter entirely.
> no amount of legislation will change that

Programs like SNAP, the earned income tax credit, subsidized child-care, and refundable tax credits for children have an immediate impact. Legislation could also provide a universal basic income.

If that's too pink a set of approaches to reduce the impact of poverty for you, governments can also subsidize development of new housing and invest in infrastructure upgrades that draw folks with higher incomes into a community. This works best if you are in a metropolitan area. In rural communities, it's not uncommon to pour great sums of money into courting large employers, giving them land or tax free status for extended periods.

Hell, if your goal is just to get a grocery store, pour on enough subsidies and someone will show up to collect that money.