skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Every day, I'm inundated with stunning, international English messages from my far-flung friends, each of which has achieved the impossible with this advanced technology, transforming their raw native-language into delightful linguistic gems. It warms my heart to witness them embrace this tremendous tool, yet I can't deny that I'd love to preserve the one-of-a-kind, pervasive weirdness of our conversations; something that these sophisticated LLMs simply can't manufacture.

> We must acknowledge that this technology is taking on mammoth tasks and that our recipients will eventually become adept at recognizing its handiwork, no matter how difficult of a task it may be today. Until that time arrives, let us be entertained by a jolly unicorn donning a tuxedo and a bushy mustache, playing the saxophone, and lifting our spirits with its mesmerizing jazzy rhythms!

Unicorns are pretty weird.
Which Rust? They keep changing it. It's like the python of compiled languages.
I had a bunch of workloads that quite literally got cut down to about 15% or so of the original runtime (a cluster compressing a whole archive of CDs for a large broadcaster) so I happily paid up. But still... $1000 / port!!

And here I have sitting next to me a 48 port gigabit switch that cost 15% of what that 100 megabit switch cost in 1996 or so. Iirc it was one of the first D-link products I bought, it definitely wasn't great (it ran pretty hot) but it worked quite well enough. Amazing progress.
Good systems make bad things hard/impossible.
That's just not true. Shoddy builders put quality builders out of business all the time.

Guess it depends on your faith in markets and your definition of superior.
https://archive.is/1KK2f
Firefox already does this and continues to be supported. Not sure what you’re talking about. I’m only pointing out there’s no way the company Mozilla can survive off just their browser, because no company currently has a monetized browser product. They immediately lose here. I’m happy with the privacy I get from Firefox and I wished more people enjoyed it, but I understand they’re up against anticompetitive companies on the regular, so I can’t expect them to keep acting as if Firefox is all Mozilla is hanging their hat on.
Obama appointed Yellen to be the Federal Reserve chair in 2014. Trump replaced her with Jerome Powell in 2018. Biden appointed her to her current position as Secretary of the Treasury in 2021. This article is from then, about speaking fees in 2019 and 2020 when she was not working in government.

It's reasonable to be concerned about how payments from industry before or after holding office might affect decisions while in office, though.
If normal people don’t care then why did 100 ex-intel guys bother to write an article claiming it was Russian disinformation at the risk of influencing a national election and ironically then actually influencing said election which they claimed was trying to be influenced by the Russkies?
Hard disagree. Pytest is a great. Even with a really basic language support in neovim I have no trouble using it. For newcomers, it does have a learning curve but it's not that bad. There's a lot of "magic", but Python is full of magic.
I think it technically kept going into the early 2010s due to additional advancements and technically it hasn’t yet stopped but people are generally skeptical that TSMC and Samsung can keep this party going (a party that seems to have stopped for Intel itself apparently).

Dennard scaling though did end in the mid 00s and this impacted Koomey’s law which talks about performance/watt and saw a similar petering out.

Apparently the bound at even a conservative rate puts the thermodynamic doubling limit at 2080. After that we’ll have to really hope smart people have figured out how to make reversible computing a thing.
What dietary changes? I'm in the same boat.
Wait, are you talking about the same Vega that's in the AM4 APUs and Ryzen Embedded? If so how would that be a flop? It's been a huge success.
Creepy how most here find this ok...
A cent was worth more back then, but I guarantee you any oil company today that could save a cent per gallon at the cost of human lives would do it without hesitation.
Today is March 23rd. There has been no pixel 6 update since March 5
Well strictly speaking virtually no bank has all of their depositors' money, otherwise they'd struggle to turn a profit.

What you're saying is that the valuation of their assets at maturation (or at market for non-maturing assets) exceed their current liabilities which should be true across the board.

No large bank could pay out 50% of their deposits in a single day without becoming insolvent. And even if they could fully liquidate they couldn't all cover their liabilities at current market value.
That is all true. But who wants to be a politician when they are public figures that are beaten, accused, humiliated by opponents, the public, and everyone really. You cannot do it right and most people will probably hate you, regardless of what you do. It's not a pleasant job. Unless you get money for all of this unpleasantness. And then, some entities have more money to give than others (you said that in your last sentence). So this attracts exactly those people to be politicians that you might not want to be politicians. Of course, some are better than others (so do go vote for the right ones), but they all need a certain trait for this job.

So how to break this unfortunate dependency? Give the 'right' entities comparably enough money to pay politicians? But how? Like climate vs. oil. OK, that's cheap, but anyway. You cannot expect the system to work with less money flow, I think.

So how to change this?
https://archive.is/4gdye
Did you ask it the time as well as the date? It gave me it in PST when I am in GMT. So the day could be offset depending when you asked.

It did give me the time 3 minutes in the future though.
a little plastic disc inside for a the sound and voice effects

It took me longer than expected to realise you were talking about a phonograph record.
https://archive.is/6TVXg
If she doesn’t do it they will kick her out and just get the next person in line who could be “approachable”.
That's standard. Honest feedback can get them in legal trouble.

Making up a BS reason is expected if somebody's personality was really off-putting. Nobody is ever going to give you honest feedback about that.
Just use the aux jack, dude. You don't have to put up with this.
Officially, it's the Saudi National Bank that is getting burned. But, in an absolute monarchy, you might as well say it's Crown Prince MBS because there's no distinction.

There's a reason why Forbes does not even rank royals' wealth. It's a futile journey trying to decipher what belongs to the king and what belongs to the state. But, note that the king must spend a lot on social services (free healthcare, free education (both local and foreign) in Saudi Arabia, etc., to please his countrymen, lest they revolt.
https://archive.is/eDvzI
Wow they really cost peanuts. A bit high TDP but still...

Why is this so cheap? I always did software so my hardware knowledge is pretty basic but still this kind of chip can really offer a lot in terms of performance even now?
What do you propose? Every party involved has the freedom to associate with whomever they want and the right to conduct business with them. If Yellen was doing a lousy job then presumably far fewer people would be willing to pay her a speaker fee. But hey, if people want to pay her to speak then that's their business.
I respect Andreas Kling, but Ladybird is not a real alternative.
Why blending clean hydrogen into gas grids is such a wasteful thing to do
Alignment in ML is sort of like the three wishes genie story,
yeah you get to ask for anything but are you really getting what you asked for?

maybe its small hiccups like printing meat recipe's when you told it your a vegan. The impact gets much worse if we start talking about ML controlling banks, power plants, war fighting systems..
i thought this was called 'hacker' news
https://archive.is/jgzQ6
I have been a MSFT customer and an ORCL customer. While both do things to you that cannot be described in polite company, MSFT at least buys you dinner first.
On Pair Programming (2020)
Yes. NBA games are 48 minutes in regulation. No one plays the full 48 minutes, but a lot of players (starters mainly) do play 36 minutes. So, 36 minutes has become a common time period of production time used for analytics in the NBA.
Oh to have enough money to sink $30m into a landing page and an announcement. Heckling aside, I think it's good that the likes of Mozilla are investing in this space. We need diversification from the bigger players and Mozilla has a reputation of trying to create a sense of openness unlike the other Open labelled entities.

Will be interesting to see what _actually_ comes out of this though.
> As for the potential node spec:

> - Ryzen 4500/5500 (seems best perf/$)

Price/performance is great for the CPU, but you have to spend hundreds of dollars on the motherboard, RAM, power supply, and case for each one.

You need to look at the overall system cost. If you’re building new, it could be cheaper overall to put 12-core or 16-core CPUs into a smaller number of machines than it would be to put a lot of $100 budget CPUs into many machines.

Unless your goal is to build a cluster for the sake of building a cluster, you might have a better price/performance ratio by building a single 16-core 7950X box than you would with three separate Ryzen 4500 or 5500 machines.

Even with perfect scaling, you would need at least 4 separate Ryzen 5500 machines to have a chance at beating a single 7950X for CPU-bound tasks. The 7950X CPU alone is barely more than 4X the cost of a Ryzen 5500, but you only need to buy one motherboard, one power supply, and so on.
Well, let's see.

That family with one salary probably also only had one car. That car needed a tune-up regularly, and was lucky to make it to 100,000 miles.

They had a house, but it was a small house by current standards - maybe 1000 square feet.

They had one landline phone - no cell phones, and certainly no computers.

The breadwinner could retire at 65, but the median age of death was 68. They could afford medical care, but the medical care that was available didn't lengthen their lives to what we expect today.

So that's where it went - bigger houses, more cars, computers and cell phones, and better medical care. But if you're willing to live in a 1000 square foot house, only have one car, no computers or cell phones, and inadequate (by current standards) medical care, you can probably raise a family on one income still today.
Hopefully they divert some resources away from firefox so I don't have to lose all my tabs when it decides to force an update on me all the time.. or constantly change nonsense around in the UI..
> Corporations would not offer these kinds of payments in the form of 'speaking fees' if they didn't think it would influence decision makers.

You underestimate the prestige value in securing these speaking engagements. To know whether these companies believe that they're buying (or rewarding) regulators, it would be helpful to compare all the speakers they pay. If they're also paying huge fees to Hollywood actors or other celebrities--people who clearly cannot offer quid pro quo--than that augurs in favor of these companies merely buying prestige.

From a quick Google Search, Warren Buffet, for example, supposedly charges $100k-$200k for a speaking engagement. (EDIT: I'm dubious that this is factual--looking through results it seems booking agencies might be including well-known personalities in their databases as a sales tactic, even if they have no relationship. In any event, celebrities are expensive, and top regulators and political appointees are celebrities even outside their field.)
> Mozilla.ai’s initial focus? Tools that make generative AI safer and more transparent. And, people-centric recommendation systems that don’t misinform or undermine our well-being

This all sounds well and good (and makes for a fine press release) but where the rubber meets the road will be how these things are defined.

What does it really mean for AI to be “safe”? What is the bigger danger, being insulted by a computer or having entire industries gutted, putting millions out of a job? You can’t pay rent but hey, at least the AI was nice about it.

What does it mean to have “people-centric” recommendation systems? It’s such an irritatingly corporate and meaningless term. Under one definition, collaborative filtering is already exactly that, but CF led to filter bubbles because it turns out a person’s beliefs aren’t normally distributed.

What does it mean that a system doesn’t misinform? You’re going to need some arbiter of truth. Misleading journalism has been an issue since journalism was born, I don’t think $30 million from Mozilla is going to change that, however high-minded their intentions.

And that isn’t even getting into technical issues with generative models. I think anyone who has played around with statistical language models like ChatGPT knows that they don’t have a knowledge graph. They are not expert systems. The problem of squaring GOFAI with deep learning is a problem several orders of magnitude larger than Moz has pledged. I’ll bet anything the smartest Google engineers wished they knew how to create an AI that doesn’t misinform before their stock tanked 10%.

But this will be a great resume pad for their VP of whatever to have led.
Thank you. I was aware of the concept but had never seen that acronym before.

When I was a tragically optimistic 22 year old in the 80's my plan was to be retired by 55, but that boat has long since sailed :)
As others have said -this is vague.

For my home server, I pick the smallest case that can fit a desktop CPU, so just a bit bigger than Intel Nuc. Those have laptop CPU's, you are overpaying. I am willing to pay extra for it to be small.

The two best contenders for me are Asrock DeskMini barebones system (picoITX) and IN WIN Chopin case - you gave to buy an ITX motherboard.

I use Chopin with an Intel CPU, they work for my usecase.

Also some motherboars can boot a ryzen without any GPU at all. Asrock usually will. If you are willing to deal with a totally headless system, go for it.
There is also

https://www.digitalocean.com/products/spaces

But I didn’t know about cloudflare R2!

What other S3 compatible services are there?
> I don’t have anything productive or polite to say about you misinterpreting my comment as climate denial

It's good to know you've at least returned the favor in misinterpreting my comment in kind.

> what I am taking issue with is the annoying method of communication of predictions about that reality, communication that resembles nothing so much as systematized crying wolf. I’m not even asking for it to stop, or threatening to spitefully disbelieve in climate change because of it, I’m just asking for it to be served with a spoonful of kindness.

And this is extremely petty and ludicrous. Get past the communication methods and look at the core of the problem. If someone can't do that, then I have nothing to offer them but mockery.

This is not directed at you personally (just in case you misinterpret my comment again)
I would recommend to watch a talk by Bob Metcalfe given in 1978: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj7r3vYAjGY
for so impactful technology this video has surprisingly few views on youtube.
Ask HN: Which startups do you think will run out of cash end of year?
I'm sure you have noticed some startups living large the past few years, with flashy events, big teams, several pivots, but with little to show in the way of revenue, or a viable business model. And they just continued to raise round after round.

Which do you think are at risk of running out of cash?
It’s not coincidence that Fed (and SEC) did not get in the way of Wall Street money machine at the height of SPAC and meme mania despite raging inflation. They continued QE even after admitting to inflation pressures that could toil the economy for years to come.

Now that Wall Street made all its money they’re going to crush asset prices just so these big fat bankers can scoop up distressed assets on the cheap. And so the cycle begins.
Why did they only have 48 hours to make a decision? Because the banks (and the financial markets) were going to re-open on Monday morning.
people are too afraid to change the system in case it collapses (usually younger ones). Older people are the majority and taking advantage of it any way they can, and they are giving free passes to each other. Old wise men/women run the world. This is a weird timeline , a reversal of the '60s
cpu cost is only a small fraction of overall cost: for every cpu, there is a power supply, ram, motherboard and case. You also haven't mentioned anything about data: do they need local storage or will it be only temporarily stored locally?

it sound like minipcs can be an excellent solution for you.

For how long will you be using this? AWS may be preferable in the short term while local hardware may be cheaper in the long term/a lot of cpu hours.

there is also the question of your application performance on different cpus. there are older servers available for very cheap prices but is it worth it to buy a 12/20core xeon cpu that consumers 200-300W if its performance is similar to a 5900 at 150W ?
https://archive.is/Nf6fM
Perf/watt is bad

Perf/$ is only decent because they’re dirt cheap on the used market as datacenters are dumping them
> The trouble is that a large chunk of the media has basically lied about this and told people that no, they'd be able to consume just as much as before if it wasn't for the evil profiteering corporations and the mega-rich stealing from them

Not a lie at all, corporate profits are the largest driving factor behind inflation over the past couple of years:

https://www.epi.org/blog/corporate-profits-have-contributed-...
The turning point was the Clinton administration. Before that, no former president would dare sully the office by accepting honorarium or speaking fees. At least, not nearly on the scale Clinton took it to.
Along with that, if you can find other users inside the company/research area/whatever that need compute power too, splitting that cost and getting higher usage numbers will also probably be favorable compared to cloud offerings then. It'd also let you split up the hardware and maintenance costs of keeping it on premises too.
Of course! But they're not technically illegal. So you can charge hundreds of thousands of dollars plus expenses for a one hour talk.

They make more per performance than most of the biggest music stars. Consider that the "Friends" stars, at their height, only made $1 million/episode which took far more than ten hours to make and was broadcast and loved by hundreds of millions (if not billions?) around the world.

Obviously it's a graft. But! How do you make this illegal within our constitutional framework? A cure must but be worse than the disease.
Certainly agree that the Raspberry Pi's SD card is unsuitable as a boot device if you have any issues with power failures or voltage regulation. You can boot from a USB but by the time you pay for the USB drive you are in the same price range as other Micro computers.
> That's a very stupid idea if you think about it for more than 5 seconds.

Which you can use as a reply to like 90% of comments on this benighted site.
So cool and really love that people still found even less intrusive ways to capture gameplay:

https://there.oughta.be/a/game-boy-capture-cartridge

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34069305
The issue I have with those attacks on Yellen are two-fold :

First, as this article show, they come from everywhere (ie she's at the same time a sellout and not listening to the banking industry), and are very sudden. If she was incompetent from the start, it would have been different, but from what I read pre 2023, the main concern for right wing guys is that she was (ordered from likely to be true to less likely): a woman, too partisan, friend to Obama/the Clinton (from breibart) and following the rabbit hole, a pedophile. And regular conservative/liberal outlet had nothing to say about her (I'll pass on the critic from the left as it's a critic of institutions and not of the person). It feel weird and unnatural.

Second, even if she is incompetent, caused suffering all over the world as millionaires and billionaires took a haircut, one thing I'm really certain of is that people would rather attack a specific person than what created the position they're in. Or more accurately, point at specifics rather than globals.

It feels like operation scapegoat to me tbh.
The system won't collapse. We'll just reduce benefits for retirees a bit and raise taxes on workers to bring things back closer to balance.
FAAANG unintentionally limited its own hiring pool by implementing leet code for their own hiring screens. They accidentally set the bar to high and the hiring process filtered people with a limited skill set that almost always had little relevance for the job they were hired for.

This throttled the market as a whole, limiting supply of workers which drove up TC.

The upside at least is that I can play that game too and optimize for it, and then reimplement the same practice which further limits the supply of labor and benefits my TC at the expense of the company I work for. Win.
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We’ve know for decades - take money out of politics and make it about civil service. To do so requires campaign finance reform (limits on spending and sources of $) as well as making lobbying illegal
Large companies and data centers upgrade their hardware so there's a huge amount of hardware that either gets recycled or sold to hobbysts.
People buy ethernet for reliable connection and reliable latency (no package drops), and to get 1Gbps. Few consumers have need for more, since internet speeds also rarely exceed 1Gbps.

Sure, anyone with a NAS might like more, but that's a tiny market. And tiny markets lack economy of scale, causing prices to be high.
Yellen is center-right, not left.
Currency debasement!
Where exactly to you think they hold deposits?
Their exuberance at the state of the economy in 2020 and early 2021 can be seen in their interview with Bloomberg. They expected the growth of tech to continue to grow at the rate that it did with the start of the pandemic and that that was going to be stable afterwards.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2021-05-20/innovation-...
“I still have all my data, I would have lost it because I did not want to store it with the Americans, but it was saved because I stored it with the Russians.”

Okay, good for you. Consider using a phone that allows you to store backups on your own disk if you care about privacy.
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TBF the disdain for Mozilla is not a universal sentiment, but it's absurdly pervasive. There's the same nonsense on reddit at /r/linux.
The worst thing about takes like this is it assumes none of the bankers and government officials communicate.

It sets up this nice and tidy semantic bubble that ignores the messy reality of these folks socializing together.

Just because the paperwork is in order does not mean these people do not collude and influence each others emotions to empower themselves and just legislate their mess away or get bailed out.

Collectivist and socialist in their nature and choices.

You and I though? Subject to the whims of the “free market”.

Your entire finance system is a joke because your society and culture are a joke. We keep taking marching orders from post-war shellshocked, Cold War paranoids, leaded gas huffers in the Boomers and GenX. 2000, 2008, and again here we go eating their shit.

We coddle people who cannot grow a potato for themselves. What are octogenarians and their progeny whose only skill set in life is “inherit dads imaginary money?” going to do if we quit logging in and showing up?