skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the difference is even bigger if you get a bare metal instance.
Performance is insane if you compare it to dedicated VMs or worse cloud VMs.

In one of my Java toy projects I got http responses to sub 10ms, that's includes, querying a small amount of data from postgres and responding as JSON. The tls handshakes might have been reused through, now that I think about it. The number was taken from the network tab while switching around routes in the pwa

The bare metal instances generally have nvme storage, so you get incredible IO

As a reference from a recent test: I went with the smallest OVH bare metal server that was discounted to 30€/month the other day (normal price 60€) and got about 2k with hdparm.
Running the same test on my 45€ hetzner instance got me over 3.1k.
And the hetzner instance also got twice the memory (64gb), though that didn't impact this particular metric.
So "grid" only means public utilities networks? You can't connect to central service providers via pipe or wire, but you can via radio? The Internet equivalent of generating your own electricity and heat would seem something like generating your own readers and content, talking to yourself via http payloads rendered into a browser. As soon as you're purchasing service from an ISP to get onto a shared network, that sounds an awful lot like a grid.
Totally, maybe we’re in the uncanny valley of AI intelligence and people are now over-reacting to small inaccuracies.
GCP did close their IOT service recently leaving very less time for customers to migrate to some other solution.
Honestly, on the right hardware Linux runs so much better than Windows. Whenever I need to open Windows I'm appalled at how laggy the whole UI is even when running it on latest-gen hardware. KDE, on the other hand, is super snappy and one of the best-looking desktop systems IMHO.
Reinventing how we use computers
Managed K8s would be my dream as well.

Am I you?
Why labor economists say the remote work 'revolution' is here to stay
The business leadership of some banks do in fact know it.
personally, it's awesome for certain things. Learning new technologies its great, produces new ideas for how the syntax works that are usually right.

It's also very good at tedious complicated maths. While using it for hobby gamedev it's been super great for writing code for transformations, animations, rotations in 3d space etc. While those are things I could do given maybe 20 mins, it can often get them first or second try (under a minute!)

It's not a superhero, and having watched people with no experience using it, its not nearly as helpful if you have no idea what you're doing, but it has a real sweet spot when you are generally experienced but new to a technology, field or project
Some people would disagree with your definition of "grid" that doesn't include internet. I can imagine different people defining "grid" in one of three ways:

1. Physical infrastructure that runs uninterrupted all the way to your home. E.G. Electric grid, gas pipes, copper/fiber telecom wires.

2. The above plus big wireless infrastructure as well, so being on range of a cellphone tower would be on-grid.

3. The whole network of human society, so any instant on-demand exchange of goods or information would mean on-grid.

So having internet trough Starlink would definitely be on-grid for definition #3, and maybe on-grid for #2 as well if conceptually you put a mesh of LOE satellites in the same category as a mesh of telecom antennas (which I personally lean towards).
Unless there is a large secret cabal etc
..

Heard of 4chan?
For those interested, OpenBSD also works on the Rasp Pi. The Pi 4 is supported officially.

https://www.openbsd.org/arm64.html

https://dev.to/spacial/installing-openbsd-7-on-raspberry-pi-...

This makes it a great choice for a small node requiring security.
> Just like the majority of the bugs are not prevented using rust,

"For more than a decade, memory safety vulnerabilities have consistently represented more than 65% of vulnerabilities". That's not minority. We are getting into minority territory now because of Rust and other memory-safe languages.

> while a SQL injection can be exploid by a script kiddie with average IQ.

Use any framework and it's solved problem.
Yes, this is something that should have been done decades ago.

That and shifting more to electric rail as well.

But sadly the world doesn't really think logically and systematically about these issues.

Along with not building car depend cities and suburbia that makes delivering things way more costly and worse for the environment.

All of these things are wrapped up in many layers of cultural and historic issues.
in most copilot editor extentions there is a window you can open that gives 10 different completions. You can also easily shape what it gives you with a single comment ("# function for a qsquare root, don't use math.sqrt or math.floor" etc)
The end of AM radio in your car?
> And what wins is a coalition, not a single party, so the bag is even more mixed, not to mention that parties have internal currents too

Yes and that's what my original answer meant.

We can say the same thing about Iran, but we don't because it's easier to make the enemy look 2D, 100% evil, no complexity, only sins, mistakes and violence. We also say stpid shit like: democracy will fix everything, knowing very well it won't it would simply allow us to negotiate a way into their "market".

Rethotical propagandistic tactic don't work anymore in 2022 and I believe we should be honest to ourselves if we wanna talk about complex socio political topics.

Us 100% good vs Them 100% bad is not the way, IMO.
Thank you for your rant but you are simply wrong. I do have a bachelor in psychology and am coding since 20 years.

This is not a turn based game ran in dos.
You value yourself way to highly and maybe its you who should update their knowledge base ;)
> to identify areas for improvement
> to enhance the performance of the system.

Isn't this basically the same thing? Isn't it being redundant here?

One of the areas of improvement is likely to be the overall performance of the system.

There's a lot of fluff in its communication style that I can't really overlook, and I know I'm being pedantic here but you can't really go easy on prose quality with a SOTA AI language model.
Perhaps I am being entitled, but I am annoyed they took the time to write a blogpost about this that WASN'T a transcription of the talk.
I think his point might have been to show what's currently possible in an off-grid setting. The reasons for wanting to live off-grid will vary from person to person - some might appreciate the disconnect from the modern world, others might simply want to increase their self-reliance.
Amazon is also slowly moving to this "private tech document" as a side effect of using Quip instead of putting them in the company wiki searchable for all. I hate this.
They also distributed some 50M EUR to employees and management

a friend of mine told some support staff got 20k EUR in bonuses last year because of that

probably they figured out, it's easier to give some of the profits away than pay a higher tax
So you're telling me that it's not mind-blowing, that we basically created artificial intelligence capable of solving general tasks at a level of a 8 year old human being? Because to me that is still pretty mind-blowing. And I'd argue it's probably at a level above that (but not much).

When in your opinion it will finally be mind blowing? When it matches intelligence and skill of a 14 year old? 20 year old? 40?
I wonder why only the "populists" speak out about these problems, and then why most populists movements are led by extremists. It's not like fascists or communists ever had or have real economical solutions for healthcare or housing or environment, yet they constantly gain votes claiming exactly that (without detailing, of course). Why are all the big traditional parties only paying lip service to the real problems of the little man, even while pretending they represent them? And no I'm not sarcastic, this is a real question which bothers me extremely.
I couldn’t keep reading. Who cares about the Apple example. Some errors doesn’t erase the mountains of great work he has done.
As a reasonably intelligent person who is sometimes straight up wrong about random things, I feel I should get it to help me write a blog post to explain how I feel about it.
The belly button joke is very old and widespread, I believe my father was warned by his father.
It's one of those things that is poorly defined and therefore conveniently perpetually a bit further out because we can keep on moving the goal posts. But we're at least being forced to do that now that we have chat gpt.

If you look at it from a "this is way better than what science fiction predicted", we're getting there. Hal 9000 is basically science fact now. That arguably happened about five/six years ago when MS had to pull the plug on tay bot which (like hal 9000) still had a few unfortunate glitches but wasn't a bad effort. Arthur C Clarke was only off by about a quarter century.

Arguably, chat gpt is a bit better conversationally than hal 9000. I wouldn't necessarily let it control my space ship yet. But then, those don't require a lot of AI and are mostly flown by computers at this point. We've explored most of the solar system without a single human going much further than the moon. The main issue is perhaps that it is confidently wrong some of the time. Which is true of humans as well, of course.

Chat GPT wired together with state of the art speech recognition and generation would be pretty doable at this point. It would be expensive to run though. But it would sound better and be able to have some coherent conversations on all sorts of topics. I find it interesting that openai is choosing to not demonstrate that. It must be very tempting to do that since they also have decent solutions for speech synthesis and recognition. That would instantly make things like Siri, Alexa, and "Hey Google" historical curiosities.
A major root of the problems you enumerate is constant money printing by Central Banks.

It makes life more difficult each year by 3% (as was the wisdom on needed inflation), now each year 10% more difficult to get the same bread.

No wonder we see the gloom, disease and poverty brought by that policy all around us.
Bootcamps train narrow and deep, where the number one thing that you have to be to be successful in engineering is wide.
> The problem with hybrid vehicles in general is that they still rely on fossil fuels to some extent, so they're not a truly sustainable solution

Why not ?

https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/fast-facts-transportation-...

Trucks apparently are only about 25% of US emissions. Using hybrid would remove emissions from city centers (where your lungs are the recycling filters)

Freight is one of the only use case that requires long range, private cars are used something like 40km per day on average.

Having an electric drive train increases reliability, and having a diesel engine running at peak efficiency 24/7 will be much more reliable than a regular engine, especially given the abuse they take from trucks. (+ not as much stress on the batteries vs quick charge)

> The time and money being spent on developing hybrid technology could be better spent on making fully electric vehicles more affordable and accessible.

You still have to solve the resource issues, 1.4B vehicles on earth today, total lithium production per year is about 100 000 tonnes, even if we only needed 10kg per car that's going to take a bit of time, and that's not even talking about other uses
Lightweight materials doesn't change physics.

In railroading we have long ago learned that long terms power delivery via overhead lines is by far the cheapest and best solution.
> Do you measure

No.

> mitigate CO2 in your living space?

I open the window occasionally and when they are not open the are pretty draughty windows.
What will be the replacement? libre office?

In that case why not move everything to FOSS?
ChatGPT will probably save the planet. Within a year I predict large number of individuals will have typed sentences like "how do I get laid" or "how do I become famous" in ChatGPT. Since the advice will tell people how to achieve these goals in an efficient way, people will stop buying a lot of crap like expensive handbags, watches or sportscars. It will be the end of conspicious consumption.
This is a rather unhelpful response given that I'm not sure many would guess correctly. Paper books have been used in the US for decades and electronic devices were made mandatory for most drivers (>8 days out of 30, apparently). Canada is now planning to emulate the US regulations on this.

> An ELD is an Electronic Logging Device that became compulsory in 2017 in the US for commercial driving operations required to keep hours of service records. If a driver has eight or more days worth of duty status logs (out of 30) they will be required by law to use an ELD.

https://www.optac.info/uk/eld-vs-tachograph/

https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/hours-service/elds/eld-fact-sheet-...
My previous job was to develop POS software that was marketed by SAP (we were a SAP gold or platinum partner - can't remember which). The POS software did not include the part that actually runs on the POS but also all the backend stuff like order management, inventory management, etc.
So we were forced to use the crude SAP XML interfaces for data exchange (IDOCS) and it was really disgusting.
We were also forced to use SAP NetWeaver which is a PITA to manage. Also, the customer decided to use POWER9 so we were also forced to use the SAP-maintained port of the JDK for POWER9 and we have found like 4 or 5 bugs in this port.
Also, being a SAP partner, we were forced to use UI5 which is such a horrible framework.

But the thing is, SAP is a freakin' huge company and the software is quite old. They are on the right track to make things better (XSA, other data exchange format).

Another funny story is that some customers decided to host their system at SAP. The SAP department (SAP HEC iirc) that took care of updates of the systems planned with 14h per system per update - complete downtime. One customer had 3 systems at SAP, which meant that it took three Sundays until all systems were updated. Since then, most moved to OEDIV for hosting which does a slightly better job.

SAP HANA (the DB) is quite cool though. We had one with 4TB RAM and it was super fast.
Please preserve dumps of those disks if you haven't already! Old media is very much at risk.
Yeah. And it becomes silly the other way around as well. Take the WadjetEye adventures. People complain that the games are just 4 - 8 hours long. But on the flip side, it's 4 - 8 hours filled with charm, content and gameplay. It doesn't contain 30 minute dry stretches every once in a while. And for 10 - 20 euros, it's entirely fairly priced.

And the games tend to be structured by acts, so it's easy to play it for half an hour to an hour until an act is completed. Then it can sit for a day or two and then you continue through the next act.

Many roguelikes feel like they have a similar time structure in mind. Sigil of the Magi, Slay the Spire, Peglin and such have an hour run time generally and that's it. Game sizes like Witcher 3 have grown kind of disheartening to me, as much as I want to like it.
In the UK, and most of Europe for that matter, you're also not dealing with 2000 mile runs like the US.
I'm using HA to, but for p.v. and I'm honestly far less enthusiast for various reasons... Leaving aside consideration about the TERRIBLE YAML mess of HA and it's terribly handled storage or it's distribution model where the sole realistic usage option is via pip wrapping it the real issue came form available hw on sale.

Measuring it's nice, but does not help in practical ways the home users, despite the geek satisfaction of seeing nice dashboards. What's help it's the ability to maximize self consumption for those who have PV or minimize costs for those with energy prices that vary in various ways all day/year long. That means having appliances that can run or shut down automatically. We actually have essentially NOTHING on sale for that.

I've managed with a mix of Shelly Pro (to be wired) and Raspi zero + WaveShare ModBUS TCP adapters to automate a bit my home but the maximum I've practically achieved is piloting hot sanitary water and heating a bit, effective, but limited. To drive washing machine, dishwasher etc I need essentially to open them, re-wire their control panel to a GPIO board like Raspi and drive it from HA, something a bit absurd since demand a manual reverse engineer of the machine (not that complicated, but not nice) who need to be redo from scratch anytime I change machine since different model even of the same brand have different switches...
Funny name. Makes sense, but egui means something like “harsh, bitter, nasty” in Japanese.
Does anyone have some experience regarding the bandwidth between Hetzner's old US location, Virginia, and the big cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure)? My use case requires lots of ingress into these clouds. I am currently using Cloudflare's R2 object storage but I'm not satisfied with the bandwidth as it fluctuates between 40 MB/s and 200 MB/s when loading to AWS.
I believe remote work rate will be higher than the pandemic but eventually, most companies will demand most of their workers back to the office.
Nice to mee another 20 year customer. When I first discovered Hetzner, I couldn't believe their dedicated physical servers were cheaper than the colocation costs I was paying in a Belgian datacentre (without the hardware!). Over the years, I've had some hardware failures, which have always been resolved very quickly. Every time I interact with their support crew, I'm pleasantly surprised by how knowledgeable they are.

+1 for managed Cloud DBs. I'm surprised they don't exist already, given that they have managed DBs on their cheap web hosting platform. Shouldn't be a big step to make that available in Cloud.

Another request I have is virtual routers, so I only need 1 dedicated IP address and can NAT (or whatever) everything else. I get that I can do this with a small Cloud Instance and a private network, but those things are a pain to manage and I'm sure Hetzner could do a better job than myself :-)
I think knowing how to ask the right questions is important. I've learned that I need to be very specific or I can get pretty general answers. And you can also ask clarifying questions afterwards, or ask for a greater level of detail.

I spent most of the day playing with it and saw it do some really bonkers things. I asked it to create a language similar to pig latin but with some other letter rearrangement strategy, and it gave me "frontback" language, where the first and last letters are swapped.

I also spent time investing medical case studies for it to diagnose, and it did pretty well - I was impressed when it identified ciguatera, but it couldn't differentiate between several possible shellfish toxins. Not going to take doctors' jobs (yet!)
I worked for them a couple of years ago. I can confidently say that as of 2 years ago, the only thing images of your face would've been used for is verifying if it's an actual human face (e.g. not a photo, mask, etc.) and performing a facial match with the photo on your document. Also, at least 2 years ago every identification flow had a human review, to weed out false positives and negatives. I'm fairly certain that these things have stayed the same, as the guys running it are a good bunch of people, and don't have any ulterior motives for using AI besides moving the SLA from humans to AI.
As a team leader, one of the main responsibilities is to ensure that your team has a healthy, collaborative, safe, and stable environment. Sometimes this is organically achieved because the team simply works really well together, but not everyone is as simple as that. This article can help leaders that are preparing for an interview for a leadership role.
The problem is that highways are literally not cheaper but massively subsidized and heavy trucks are destroying that public infrastructure because they are so heavy.

So just saying its all economics when the underlying rules of the game are totally unequal is not that useful.
ChatGPT is wrong about basically everything though as long as you give it the right prompts. It has all the right answers but also all the wrong answers, that makes it much dumber than you who is reliably correct about some things at least.
That's admittedly cool.

However, you then need to have multiple tractor units with drivers in multiple cities + also the train engine, all coordinating for the handovers.

I'm definitely not saying EV trucks with batteries + trolleys are better, but there is some simplicity that's not replicated with the rail solutions.

And I have read sofixa's (somewhat mocking) comment as if they are saying that rail is simpler.
So, trust
Nobody’s using CBDCs – India’s piloting one anyway
This is not sarcasm. I have a distinct idea in my head of what a cookie should generally look like, and it doesn't look like a biscuit. I can see the confusion, both have chocolate chips in and your classic digestive usually doesn't, but I'd put good money on my ability to identify one or the other
I imagine most American states have their own limits on axle weight as in Europe. In the UK 44t is the heaviest you can run without additional permitting etc.

It will just be an additional constraint, there are lots of loads which are limited by cubic volume rather than weight. However, it wouldn't work well for say bulk tippers which are almost always at their weight limits (and transporting lots of low value products).

I'm not sure about the braking argument. Trucks spend most of their time cruising along. They also have exhaust brakes and retarders to avoid using the service brakes on hills for example.
+1 to Wasabi. They are the only reason I was able to launch my product which wouldn't have been feasible on S3 or other providers just based on the storage and the API cost.
As a long time customer of their dedicated servers first and their Cloud offering now, I can only recommend them and be glad they are growing.

Simple UI, certainly robust infra (for my case at least) and the best, by far, prices in the market.
Frank Herbert was onto something with that line "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."
Charitably, so that it's easier to ban people who turn out to be spammers, and more expensive for them to make another account.
> I care if it’s better than the driver checking their phone, blowing through stop signs, etc. As a cyclist, I reckon that it’s the most selfish 10% of drivers that represent 90% of the risk

We have a(n imperfect) mechanism to catch and penalise those drivers.

An ex-colleague of mine was incapable of sticking to the speed limit (she drove me round Paris once, that was an exciting ride...). Eventually she collected enough speeding tickets [in the UK] that she was within one ticket of losing her driving licence completely. At that point, she [finally!] slowed down.

Q: What's our proposed mechanism for detecting errors made by AI "drivers" and enforcing improvement?
The proceedings of the History of Programming Languages (HOPL) conference could be interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Programming_Languag...
Elon should buy Youtube and make it free again.
It's a simple trade-off.

Like waiting for luggage in an airport.

Would it be nice to take a step forward and be closer to your luggage and have a better view, yes it would.

Would it be nice if everyone took a step forward. No, it would suck for everyone and be worse overall.

The fact that people can still say "yeah, but if just I do it, then I'd get all the benefits, so it's a good idea" is a failure of our civilization.
Why? Customer service is marketing.
That's smart, but why isn't it done everywhere?
Mm. Perhaps I should use it to help me write more and better automated tests…