skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am often surprised how people in our field don't run the numbers, so they are not talking nonsense when these hard numbers are so easy to generate.

Also, people seem to forget that not all startups are consumer lo-CPU requiring applications. If one has a product that requires non-trivial compute, going immediately colo can be essential. In my own previous startup, my calculations showed an AWS monthly expense of $96K, while I could spend $60K to acquire higher end hardware than AWS to build a server cluster and colocate that for a measly $600 a month.And forget about the "it's hard to run a server, let along a server cluster" propaganda - it is not hard at all.
Yes, underlining the point that the west (and western media) should never equate "Russian speaking" people and regions with "Russia-supporting" or "wants to be ruled by Russia".
It depends who you ask, there are many interpretations:

> The Kremlin likely deliberately launched missiles that Ukrainian air defenses cannot intercept to achieve results within the Russian information space despite the dwindling supplies of such missiles. Ihnat noted that Russia has up to 50 Kinzhal missiles and had used some missiles that it cannot replace. Russian President Vladimir Putin likely used these scarce missiles in fruitless attacks to appease the Russian pro-war and ultranationalist communities, which have overwhelmingly called on him to retaliate for the Bryansk Oblast incident on March 2

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offens...
Kinzhal cost $2 million USD per missile and Russia supposedly hit a private home with one. Even Iskander missiles cost about the same. It may be an error in reporting it may have been "standard" cruise missile. But even so for a modern military what a stupid waste of now limited resources.
My payment info needed to updated at AWS recently, they sent increasingly frequent emails about it for weeks (what can I say? I'm a bit lazy) and no services were affected while I dawdled. So, yes, AWS does it better.
Better use colocated servers. You own the hardware, the app and the data.
Also the original commenter added another comment saying that they actually enjoyed bcantrill's "have you even kissed a girl" remark:

"On the other hand, even as a Linux advocate I found bcantrill's post freakin' hilarious. There are very few times when the universe gives you a perfect opportunity for a snappy retort, so I can't blame him for seizing the moment. While it's probably not bcantrill's favourite memory, I think that moment deserves to be remembered and respected for its comedic value, if nothing else."

To me it sounds like he did a quick google search "bcantrill nailer site:ycombinator.com" (note: it's the top result), didn't pay too much attention to the context and guessed that you all just had a grudge and were being mean. Except he's missed that it was more nuanced and respectful than that.
Hard to paramtereize a relationship when we can't confidently define either member of it.

Personally, I think it's utterly silly to think that free will fits into a material model. If it's real, I'd sooner believe in a panpsychist universe than a magical meat computer that shifts reality at will. The Quantum Indeterminacy argument is God in the Gaps.
Something which sometimes gets lost from a US centric perspective is that cloud lets you get servers much closer to the end user without having to establish relationships with hosting companies and colo facilities on another continent. Shaving 100ms off of each request can be useful in a lot of circumstances.
So much kubernetes is just overkill.

A fast modern 16 core machine with 128 gig of ram can meet a lot of needs.
The 30B model runs in about 20GB and is ok. Not GPT-3.5 level, seemingly weak at answering factual questions, and with short prompts. But it seems quite good at writing coherent stories. A bit like what you would expect if it was exclusively trained on fanfiction
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The battle to boost our deep sleep – and help stop dementia
He's holding it wrong.
what about Nokia?
Improving Classroom Engagement with ChatGPT
Influencer parents and the kids who had their childhood made into content
I found this video quite flawed.

What happened to Phillips is something that proved beneficial in the long run.

Legacy of Philips is now ASML, NxP, pretty good startup scene in Eindhoven, and a few other companies.
The only victim here is the name. If Philips tried to move as one company they would have probably dragged down their chip related businesses by siphoning money into the fields they were losing.

Of course one could argue that the company under Philips name should have chose different direction and spun off consumer or medical market, but at the end of the day it's just a name.

I believe in hindsight this will be a way better outcome for everyone than the one we'll see from big tech if they're not broken up. There are already too many examples of them killing competition by leveraging their monopolies or buying it up and killing it off.
> This just indicates that the $250K insured threshold makes no sense these days for corporate bank accounts.

Maybe ... or it might indicate that US tech workers with their generous salaries, and tech startups with their decade of access to cheap money, have no actual idea what a small business in the rest of the world actually looks like.

"The median small business holds an average daily cash balance of $12,100, with wide variation across and within industries" (from 2016) [0]

[0] https://www.jpmorganchase.com/institute/research/small-busin...
Likely not. They get to assume all of their (SVB uk) liabilities.

However, specifically excluded are SVB's assets/liabilities:

> The assets and liabilities of the parent companies of SVB UK are excluded from the transaction.
As far as I can tell AWS Cloud requires more expertise to run properly then hardware, but comes with the benefit of more flexibility and availability of various not too hard to integrate services.

In a certain way that's the big failure of AWS and similar, in another way it's a big win for them as it means people will pay more then necessary all the time and there is a huge consultant industry pushing people to adapt AWS (and similar) to then charge them for consulting later on.

Through this kind of patterns tend to fall apart at some point and only hold up for a while due to monopolistic market dynamics around server centers due to their high cost and locality concerns of customers.
True.

AWS at least prefixes mails with "[ACTION REQUIRED]" if there _might_ be some action on your side required.

And by coubting the mails that are coming in today with "important information", I can fully understand if you'll miss one.
> They seem very small numbers, most SMEs would not fit them.

In the USA 78% of businesses have fewer than 10 employees. 89% percent have fewer than 20. The typical SMB has only a couple of employees.

When you include sole proprietors (like the typical etsy store) "the share of U.S. businesses with fewer than 20 workers increases to 98.0% and the share with fewer than 10 employees registers 96.0%".

Source: https://sbecouncil.org/about-us/facts-and-data/
> SVB deposits are being paid for with an assessment on FDIC members.

You're not being totally honest here. If there isn't enough capital to satisfy deposits, the FDIC facilitates an auction of assets owned by the bank. This occurred Sunday night. Not every asset owned by the bank is in the toilet, and ALL the value built up in any asset is given to depositors, not shareholders.

If there is a shortfall between the assets owned by the bank, yes, there may be a special assessment on FDIC members. Special assessments have happened before, and they'll happen again. In 2009 it was 5 basis points, or a whopping 0.05% of deposits after a huge, sprawling economic meltdown.
GC performance isn't the only thing you need to care about here. Iterating over an ArrayList<T> in Java already makes you chase pointers all over the place due to Java's lack of value types, which wrecks cache locality. ArrayList<Optional<T>> just makes you chase two pointers for each object instead.
An unlikely but sadly possible explanation is COVID itself. We know even mild cases cause loss of brain mass.[1] There are no studies (to my knowledge) in whether sequential infections cause this loss every time, and whether the brain mass is replaced in between.

Worst case, everyone gets slightly dumber each time they catch COVID. First sight of this would be a general decrease in IQ tests across population, as we're seeing here.

Still, I'd place a fairly low probability of this being the case, simply because we're not yet seeing any more severe effets.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2022/03/21/a-c...
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I'm kind of suspicious of sources that impute propaganda motives for military tactics.

It's not that it's impossible, it's just that Occam's razor suggests that all other things being equal, military attacks are probably executed for the purposes of achieving military advantage.
What if they only targeted Ukrainian-speaking regions? Would that have been more or less barbaric?

btw, the mask off moment was in 2014, when “polite men” occupied crimea

Fuck Russia, at any rate.
Then why bother having an ambulance service? Which I guess is the question the Tories are hoping people will ask.
> It's not that simple, some costs on AWS can be high and some tasks don't need the availability/reliability guarantees AWS provides. So even for small startups sometimes having own hardware can be a good cost saver, through with some risk attached to it

I agree. I'd like to add that AWS's value add can be the lack of need to understand the product configuration, just the SDK. Your start up already has developers that can read SDKs, you might not have someone on your staff that can set up an elasicsearch, redis, or other service.

When you grow enough that the fine tuning of such services might matter, you likely can hire the right people to run those in house.

I've been on a team with ~6 DevOps members for 5 years, and it's been very helpful to be able to pick up and drop services as we evolve.
How to make this at home? It needs lutetium, hydrogen and nitrogen.
Logits are the raw predictions of the model that you then need to normalize to turn into probabilities (that sum to 1). You can do that is with the softmax function.
I doubt this was the rationale because (i) they continued to target a lot of civilian infrastructure and (ii) Ukraine continues to have enough AA to turn sorties deep into Ukrainian territory into suicide missions. Russia might be able to perform some real SEAD, it's a very dangerous threat to Ukraine, but this would come at substantially higher costs of losing expensive fighter jets that cannot be replaced for several years. That's the reason why they haven't tried it yet.
Ok. Thanks! What location do you think would be favorable for most? Europe?
The price of russian defeat is terrible, but does not compare to the price of russian victory that we have seen in Bucha and Mariupol.
This paper feels methodologically iffy. I'd be willing to bet money that, if you don't stratify by education level, the decline is not stat-sig, or IQ even grew. This trend, and the way they reported it, screams Simpson's paradox to me. I.e. the headline should be "more lower-IQ people went to college" not "college graduates' IQ is dropping"

Who the heck wouldn't report a number like "Since 2006, average IQ has dropped X%"?
Poland is an EU and NATO member. You aren't getting any more West than that.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35132181
Well a decade or more ago the idea of an online iq test was in the realms of "maybe iq is pretty dumb but there's no harm in doing this online." Nowadays I think most of us think more along the lines of "How stupid would you have to be to do an online quiz like this?" Is it phishing? Is it goog-facebrick spying? Can the people serving this keep it secure? Will it screw up a loan application or health insurance in 10 years time? Self selection criteria have changed for the same population.

IQ tests are sometimes good at identifying people with very real intellectual problems, I'm told. The bottom tail. Utterly useless for anything else in science.

People still love them, much of psychology still acts more like a religious cult than science and still venerates them. For anyone interested in something more than "feelings as evidence" and "bullshit to get a TED talk invite" dismissing any study using iq out of hand with extreme prejudice is likely to save you some time. Are there any at all? The preface justifying iq test usage as evidence in the face of so much junk science would be necessary and something to read.

/me waves to the psychologists who believe (believe so hard) they're about to respond with the usual tropes of "you just embarrassed yourself" before sending the link on their slack channels to make sure it's properly downvoted. How's the replication crisis guys? Your 101 textbooks all still full of the stanford prison experiment? The brain is fascinating, psychology is poetry masquerading as science about it. Clean up your discpline's act or just move to liberal arts and stop defiling real science. "Not me, I don't..." Then call it out, loudly. Starting with the 101 textbooks at your institution. Count the discredited studies that make "great stories" for freshmen that have been totally discredited. The correct number you should get to in your count is zero in case that isn't clear.

I enjoyed that little rant. Should be more of them about such garbage as iq.
This solves a real problem for me. In the past I've used <wbr> with white-space:nowrap set on the parent to help choose logical breaks in text, but it's tedious and requires DOM access.

A simple CSS rule to automatically calculate this is very welcome.

I'm not sure I like the name "pretty" for the second rule though. If they have to expose the algorithm (first-fit vs Knuth-Plass), I'd rather they choose more descriptive names.
I'd buy that for a dollar!

In all seriousness, they are also buying the all the liabilities and illiquid assets. So current value wise, this seems about right.

However long term, a lot of these customers will stick with HSBC and may generate a lot of future value.
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Please move to Hetzner. If you miss payments even they might pull the plug, but at least they have humans who respond to emails and can get you back online quickly once you pay.
Ask HN: Most practical Sun (not Oracle) workstation?
As a long time Java dev I have gotten nostalgic about Sun (pre-Oracle) and would like to have a piece of sun branded hardware. Ideally it would be practical as well (Java/Python dev). A quick browse of ebay tells me the Sparc workstations have entered collector status. Maybe something towards the end of Sun's lifetime? Or buy a Java workstation case and put modern components in it? What does HN suggest?
Your paper shows a very nearly monotonic increase in costs with no dip at any pont between the peak of construction and when the reactors started during that peak were all finished. It also shows that in the US at least, the negative learning rate was much steeper between the end of the turnkey error and both TMI and the construction peak. It's also not normalised for availability factor or upgrades/reliability retrofits.

You can't just post evidence of the opposite to your claim and then repeat it.
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Hiring not you with that attitude. Plenty of others have emailed and I've answered all kinds of questions. I'm not going to pollute some guys thread about layoffs with info about the company I work for, it's not a hiring thread.
I didn't talk about blame at all. Sometimes I get the urge to say fair and peaceful statements in very infected topics and watch/listen to the strong reaction.
Russia lost 13 million people in WW2. The rest of the 27 million were other Soviet republics, disproportionately including Ukraine and Belarus.
Ukraine transports most of military equipment and soldiers by electric trains. So it is is also military infrastructure. And Russians only targeted trafostations and substations, those are relatively easy to fix and replace, not power plants themselves.

Compare it to how West bombed everything in Iraq before invasion...
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> When the wound is healed, the flower-shaped electrode simply dissolves into the body, bypassing the need to retrieve it.

This is probably the most incredible tech discovery of all this to me. Insane how it can just be absorbed by the body with no side-effects.
I get that temperature comes from the connection to physics but this seems like an overly complex explanation to a relatively simple formula. If you have a softmax and you multiply the input by some factor, if that factor forces the exponent to approach zero you’re approaching the uniform distribution, and if you make the exponent approach infinity you get the arg max. Curious if others feel the same way.
I think that part of Siemens ended up with Fujitsu. No idea so what happened to them.
That's pretty funny!
Probably not. Business owners are running a business, not doing deep research on their bank (one of the larger ones!), their electric company, the water and sewage company, the landlord, printer supplies company, caterer, ISP, all cloud providers, lawyers, accountants, etc, etc, etc. A small amount of due diligence sure, but not the amount and then constant monitoring of all of those to have known this was coming.
What Is Deno?
This.

We're a small company that used to have a full rack in a colo, and have completely migrated to AWS 6 years ago. Our cloud costs are ~20x what our colo cost was.

There are things we use in the cloud (DynamoDB, Aurora, CDN, etc.) that I just don't want to have to build and manage on my own. For us, the managed services are very much worth the extra cost.

I couldn't believe how much better life is without having to diagnose failed DB backups.
Oh yes, my mouse macros are probably up there aswell.

On my mouse I have Alt+Tab, Alt+F4, Win+M (Minimize all), CTRL+Tab (alt+tab for browser tabs), CTRL+W (close browser tab), CTRL+Shift+T (open last closed tab), CTRL+Shift+LMB (open link in new tab and switch to it), CTRL+C, CTRL+X, CTRL+V, CTRL+V;Enter, and CTRL+"+/-" for pagezoom on mousewheel when mouse is tilted sideways. Regular back/forth buttons ofc and still got two unused buttons for games.

That way I can use PC very comfortably without needing a hand on my keyboard, its a blessing, and I would suggest everyone to try at least some of those bindings out.
I use Swiftpoint Z for this.
> If this is so prudent, how come nobody was suggesting it before it happened?

Because if you tell someone "hey, we're gonna wipe your shit out" they're going to try to rescue as much money as they can.

> The big question then is how this levy on the rest of the banking system will work.

https://www.fdic.gov/news/financial-institution-letters/2009...
Here's how it worked in 2009.

> why didn't someone think of this earlier

Like in 2009, the last time they did it?
I guess you haven't been following the news.

The previous commenters clearly makes a reference to the rail worker's strike from a few months ago, which was the first strike in decades powerful enough to threaten a "wider disruption to the economy", and the fact that government quickly passed special laws to declare that strike illegal.

So, to spell it out for other living under a rock:

- Labor fighting for better work conditions threaten a wider disruption to the economy, government fights and bends rules against labor.
- Capital losing bets threaten a wider disruption to the economy, government fights and bends rules in favor of capital.
Yeah that is probably wrong but I think a notion of "omg all my money is gone" is also wrong. As long as the bank run is stopped in time, people with uninsured deposits would lose who didn't make it out of the bank in time will only a minority share instead of everything. That's what a bank run basically is, if you have 102$ in liabilities and 100$ in assets, and the FDIC steps in, everyone who holds 1$ at the bank gets 0.98$ out. Not bad. If 99$ exit the bank then the owners of the remaining 3$ only get 1$ out, a 66% loss.

The customers of SVB were quickly growing business in an industry where you can quickly obtain immensely high profit margins. A 20% cut is not the end of it.

I believe the big impact of this announcement is not the money itself, in fact it was the lowering in value of government bonds that caused the bankruptcy in the first place, so the govnernment effectively made money from the 10-year bonds deal they struck with SVB. Maybe in the end it might still be a profit for taxpayers/USD users overall. But this announcement still implies something for banks: they can do the dumbest decisions (like this failure for risk management), and the government will bail them out.
Better yielding options come with more risk – that's typically why they are better yielding !
So they bought it for £1… and it has more assets than liabilities.

Are these people dumb or something? Why would you sell that?
I am amazed at how inexperienced the average banker is with interest rates.
Still exists, well and kicking. They just don't make phones anymore themselves. And their mobile network business used to be part of a joint venture with Siemens.
This was actually the play that IBM did when it created the PC. They opened a facility in Florida far from their corporate headquarters in New York.
> failure of automation

Many of the Google horror stories are less a failure of automation and more just a failure of well designed business processes. This same event could/would have occurred if it were humans sending the "additional information required" emails and also following a protocol of "shut them down in 10 days if they don't provide". The fact that this process was (most likely) automated is not the issue.

Honestly, as an outsider, it would appear that Google is a tech company that isn't actually very good at business. They do some smart tech things with their huge number of smart workers, but the business side seems to make a lot of very poor decisions (or simply doesn't even consider some part of the business or doesn't prioritize business processes well).
And we had the “calling card” already with the `.plan` file, thank you very much.
> SVB's assets could've been sold for their full cost they would've been

Why? No one thinks the FDIC is gonna close their bank until the FDIC padlocks your front door with you inside. This literally surprised almost everyone.
Comfort.

In the context we're using the word, "satisfaction" might be a good replacement for "happiness". It isn't about pleasure, or even feeling good necessarily, but contentment with your place in the world.
Trivializing the death and suffering leads to strong reactions indeed.
Full self-driving car anyway
I don't think the conservatives are the problem per-se, rather it's a flawed political system that rewards the biggest bullshitter, imposes no penalties for lies, misconduct and conflicts of interest, and a term limit that's way too long so the feedback loop is extremely long.

I hate the Conversatives as well and would like to see them booted out of principle but I'm not under the illusion that the other option is going to do any better long-term beyond some minor post-election platitudes.
Pretty soon Ukraine will be shooting Patriot missiles back at those for about $4M per shot.
At this point HSBC is basically an arm of the CCP, so it's interesting to consider what they might expect to gain from this.
This is moving the goal post a bit, since the person I replied to was considering JavaScript, but I don’t really think this distinction matters. You get most programs from a package manager.

I am curious though why you don’t count graal or .net aot? They are valid options to produce an aot binary and C# has been able to produce a self contained non-aot runtime for a long a time.