skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neural networks are really parallelizable. If I scale up my AI service to handle double the number of users by buying double the number of GPU's, it is theoretically possible to also serve each user in half the time.

To do so, you need to split the matrix multiplies across the new machines. You also need more inter-machine network bandwidth, but with GPT-3 that works out to 48 kilobytes per token predicted collected from every processing node and given to every processing node. Even if Bard is 100x as big, that is still very doable within datacenter scale networking.

However, OpenAI doesn't seem to have done this - I suspect an individual request is simply routed to one of n machine clusters. As they scale up, they are just increasing n, which doesn't give any latency benefit for individual requests.
Show HN: Open-source react library to review UX/UI directly in-browser
Leave administration to younger, more capable people. The ones who are too old but are brilliant can still be advisors and mentors.
There’s also scripts written bottom to top (Libyc), and even stranger scripts which are written and read in different directions (Hanunó'o is generally written bottom to top — carved away from the writer really — but read left to right).
Does running in kernel space justify an entirely new bytecode?
> Look at the power of the algorithm in social networks and see how that has taken shape.

Yes, great point, I also mention that very aspect in the article linked previously.

AI will likely surpass social media by orders of magnitude in both its ability to provide positive value for individuals as well as its propensity to become the dark monolith of a dystopian society under the control and manipulation of forces unseen

I think there is a perception that the machine will be able to "rise above" our own biases and limitations. However, I see that also as another fallacy for which I elaborated further here.

https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-the-bias-paradox
What new smoking inventions? Genuinely interested.
I agree, but you have to be careful, because the SMEs very often CAN be the lobbyists. Look at the judicial system, where you can literally hire an "expert" to say and argue basically anything you want for enough money. Greedy bastards are everywhere. How can we prevent subject matter experts from just being another lobbying avenue?
> Tend to work for the government. Career govvies or military. They show their patriotism through action.

I just want to chime in here and say that working for the government isn't the only way to be a patriot (i.e. serve the country). Upholding American values is something anyone can do in any part of society.
Windows tries to keep a long term identity of all of the device instances that it knows about (and in the idela world assign the same COM port numer to the same physical serial adapter). For USB this is supposed to be done by combination of VID, PID and serial number in device descriptor. But even early on there was a lot devices that had the serial number empty and thus Windows came up with some heuristics about when this method is unreliable and switches to identifying the device by its physical position on the USB bus. The whole mechanism is well intentioned, but in the end probably somewhat misguided because it is not exactly reliable and has surprising consequences even if it were reliable.

As a side note: on modern Windows NT implementations the so called "registry bloat" is non-issue (anyone who tells your otherwise is trying to sell you something), but keeping list of every device that was ever plugged into the computer in there is somewhat ridiculous.
First of all, I think Google deliberately played games and they should get smacked hard for this.

But ... its not that simple any more.

A lot of the time, apps will be hibernated/suspended to disk, and then restored from disk. So talking about ram and storage in context of devices its kind of hard. Even some browsers now "suspend" your tabs to ssd, and then resume when you click back to them. So it's kind of hard to say if something was never on the disk or not.

I guess you could go with intent, that either app intentionally stored something or not, but then again you also design apps with suspend in mind so not sure how this one would play out.
They're gambling, because there are actually fines for those sorts of behaviors if they don't clear the unused bookings in a reasonable time or if ARC (the Airlines Reporting Corporation) or the distribution systems detect a fraudulent pattern.

I'm actually building an internal tool for such fines (called "debit memos") for a company with several thousand travel agents, and they're not uncommon at all.
Nope, no fap.
> At 64,000 tokens, the authors relate, "Hyena speed-ups reach 100x" -- a one-hundred-fold performance improvement.

That’s quite the difference
Not actively. It's open source so feel free to poke around our code and docs, and you can find a contact form on the site as well if you want to chat.
Every database I’ve seen so far grows into a state that makes relations necessary.
Earlier or later those become more and more atomic and then systems like MongoDB will make you suffer.
Redis is awesome for caching and cache-like situations.
Just start with Postgres, or any other SQL DB that offers proper types for denormalized data like JSON.
Why is everyone shying away from SQL anyway?
I've found that GPT4 does very well for problems that have examples on the web, but I have yet to make it display a 3d cube using opengl (any version) in linux using c++ or python.

So it depends heavily on the task and how much it has stored from the training.

Now if you ask them to do a teapot, it sometimes do it since there are so many examples of that, even if you often have to tinker a bit to get it to compile and run, at least it is a teapot and not some weird random geometrical object.

I have yet to try it with bard, will test when I get home to a proper computer.
Re: Twitter: Should we be striving for companies to be so short staffed that they can't take sick leave and need to sleep in the office?
It seems reasonable that most gas stations will add fast charging stations no? And then maybe add a coffee shop or quick food place that you can spend money at and be the real source of revenue for these locations.

Its not going to be a cheap or painless conversion, but there is absolutely a path forward for most gas stations I think.
There are many companies making rechargeable lithium batteries in AA and AAA form factors. I have a few dozen I use for my door lock and Xbox controllers.
This is why we need more tech people to get into politics. And I'm not thinking billionaire ceos. I'm talking about devs, qa, pm, people that did actual work.
The two main factors brought up when we discuss how bad huge trucks and SUVs are for safety are:

1) High weight, and

2) They're very tall (more damaging to, especially, pedestrians; resulting worse visibility makes hitting people, especially kids, more likely)

Electric vehicles don't necessarily have the second problem, but do we have a sense yet of how their extra weight per se is affecting or will affect safety?
Electric Clojure is insane, having a ton of fun playing with it.
Every time Ramzan rolls out, we here in Pakistan have squabbles over eye-witness evidence of moon sightings and thus start (and stop) of the holy month. We will be celebrating Eid on Saturday but some celebrated today following Saudi Arabia. It's an annual tradition of confusion.

Also, this: https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/567790-intent-law
Seems very unrealistic when considering how electromagnetic interference works. Clamping the voltages to high and low goes some way to mitigate that problem.
It's high enough that I don't bother side loading my various, helpful to me, toy apps to my partner's phone.

The inconvenience is small but real.
I EU and Canada such laws are pushed by relatively yang folks as well, like ones in their 40s.
The thing I don't get is... won't bans on end-to-end encryption ban https?

If I go to a website and ask for a web page over https, isn't the request and response between my device and the web server, an end-to-end encrypted message? Because the endpoints are my device and the web server.

If I can't send my credit card details to a payment provider over an end-to-end encrypted channel, doesn't all commerce on the web just fall apart?

How can a ban on end-to-end encrypted communication even fucking work?
> China's got a better rail network than the US

It's hilarious that the very first example you pick is the quintessential example of Western industrialization and infrastructure.

Good old Westernization proceeds apace. You admit China needs more of it.
Quantum Decoherence in Microtubules
People always bring this up, but there are a myriad of different metrics that include all kinds of different groups, like people who want work but have given up on finding work or people who are working less but than they want to.

All of those measures are highly correlated with each other and move nearly in lockstep with each other.
Counterpoint: Google. They've built a lot of shit. And they shut it all down a year or two later.
I just don't see how this is possible. Most journals have volunteer editors, that need to find and send the article to volunteer peer reviewers all by themselves. I don't see how that would cost anything at all. At most, there is software that handles all of this, but there are numerous competing companies that offer complete off the shelf already hosted solutions for this, so I really doubt this software costs more than $10 per paper. Most journals seem to use Aries Editorial Manager, which doesn't list prices online.

It's hard for me to see what journals are actually doing or offering other than web hosting, the $6300 seems like just rent seeking with the journals name.
Unfortunately I see one senator on here I previously thought highly of (and yeah, not Cruz or Hawley).
> "We have height restrictions in car parks, why not weight?" he asked.

Oh this is going to backfire on conservative people with dumb only-for-groceries pick up trucks / way too big cars so quickly :). A Chevy Tahoe or a gas F-150 is heavier than a ID4 :)
The Joy of an Empty Brain
Any dumbing down of end-to-end encryption will hand Russia and China nuclear powered hacking tools for our economy, infrastructure and digital integrity.
Counterpoint: Striving for improvement can also be a good way to get better at things that are important to you

Everyone who succeeded did so in spite of their flaws, yes, but that’s because their strengths were significant enough and well-placed.
I mean, Its just marketing. Everyone knows how BS marketing always is, be it whatever company or product. I feel we should just take statements by marketing teams of companies with a grain of salt and just move on. Bringing the issue to light is not a wrong thing to do but I personally felt keepass's tweet felt quite confronting to me. Maybe it's because I'm not familiar with twitter culture. Who knows... Just my 2cents
Oh, you haven't seen darker behavior of many Japan based services:

- Payment cycle closes always on the 1st of the month (which means, if you sign up on the last day of the month, you get 1 day of service for full month of payment. No proration, or anything.)

- If you cancel the service, you'll immediately lose access, doesn't matter if it's 1st day of the month, or very end of the month, it's gone. To reenroll, you often have to pay again.
A problem with the CAN bus is that there is no way to tell what node sends what message on the bus, so you can't have something like a filter that only processes headlight-related messages coming from headlights. I guess you could actually do it, but it would require every node being able to sign their messages, which would add a lot of cost.
You don't need a mandatory retirement age, just term limits. For example, no more than two terms as a Senator, no more than three as a House member.
"All I can say is, this article is the tip of the ice berg on Windows I/O weirdness."

Well, then, is there a more detailed summary than this one that's accessible?

This one looks very useful and I'll use it, but to make the point about more info it'd be nice to know how they differ across Windows versions.

For example, I've never been sure about path length of 260 and file length of 255. I seem to recall these were a little different in earlier versions, f/l being 254 for instance. Can anyone clear that up for me?

Incidentally, I hit the 255/260 limit regularly, it's damn nuisance when copying stops because the path is say 296 or 320, or more.
You are assuming a fair story. This is Fox News, who just paid 700 some million dollars for lying about voting machine fraud. Do you think they care about a real issue? Are local governments having problems with parking garages? Or is it a good story for the anti-EV red narrative Fox can use for clicks and eyeballs?
I don't think Facebook has enough apps to make an app store happen. Amazon and Samsung couldn't get their app stores onto other people's phones, and not even Microsoft could make Windows Phone happen.

I can see Epic starting a mobile game store. And, honestly, I don't see a problem with that. Apple is using Apple Arcade as one of their many "stay with us and you get all of this stuff" services, so why not? Perhaps Microsoft will join the fight and take Game Pass to mobile phones. May the best app store win.

Apple clearly has the upper hand no matter how this plays out. They'll actually have to compete, which means they may need to fix the review situation and loosen some of their policies to allow for things users want rather than make their users comply with what they want. They can stick to their "no video game streaming, no emulators, no links to your website" policy if they want to, but that'll only work as long as their users agree with them.
It's a bit odd to be skeptical that self driving cars won't ever be mainstream. Computers have only been a thing for ~78 years and yet they're already capable of doing so much.
Although electric vehicles are certainly heavier than their ICE counterparts, I would imagine that increasing in average vehicle weight is due in large part of a shift towards selling larger vehicles (pickup trucks, SUVs).

More broadly, beyond parking garages I'm curious what other infrastructure will be ill suited towards the shift to bigger and heavier vehicles especially in urban environments.
Hi HN,

I started working on this product after experiencing the pain of a back-and-forth review process when working on front-end changes as a software engineer in remote teams.

Pageblox solves this by creating a single source of truth for these reviews in a real-time, collaborative environment.

It's an open-source project, and I'd love to get as much feedback as possible. Thanks!
Easy: Thieves, scammers, and public decency laws, in that order.
you are right -- EROI and emissions are different. If you add in things like carbon capture, emissions go down but energy-in goes up. Would it make sense to extract and refine gasoline with net-0 emissions if it took more energy than you get out in gasoline? _maybe_, but I don't think its a clear yes!
Here is a link to send to politicians: https://everyoneneedsencryption.gavinhoward.com/ .

Feedback welcome. I want it as short and as punchy as possible.
Uh oh. Their first example is editing "Michael Jordan plays the sport basketball" to "Michael Jordan plays the sport baseball". Maybe the authors were babies in 1994-1995?

Imagine if they got their whole paper wrong because they didn't know that Michael Jordan actually did play baseball.

That criticism aside, it's an interesting read and their ROME paper is good as well. Also very clear and well presented.
There are pros and cons of course. I am noticing my health declining somewhat since working inside versus physically. I am not as strong especially in weird muscle groups. I am more sore, prone to injury, and inflexible. I don't get as much sun exposure. My eyesight is declining quite a lot since I am bad about getting up off my desk and staring at something far away a few times an hour. My hands and wrists are going from spending a lot of time typing. Maybe I am monetarily richer, but certainly not physically richer. Maybe mentally I am poorer too considering the stresses of work follow me home now versus staying at the job site.

It makes sense. We evolved to be laboring outside, staying in shape with physical work, keeping our bodies active, constantly moving, sleeping with the sun versus an alarm clock. Even elders in tribes that still practice traditional hunting are remarkably active compared to elders in the west. We didn't evolve to be troglodytes, unmoving in an artificial cave for 95% of the day, but ironically these are the types of work our society disproportionately rewards.
I have worked on a system that was run by customers that were reluctant to make upgrades to their installations. We wanted to be able to evolve the database schema more frequently than we could roll out fleet-wide application upgrades.

We could have created a sort of proxy service to handle backwards compatibility between the database and applications, but since these applications needed only a very small number of endpoints, it was much, much easier on operations and maintenance to use the database itself as the compatibility layer through stored procedures.
This reads like a FUD piece to me, especially given the source. I'm seeing lots more of these "but here's yet ANOTHER problem with electric vehicles that nO oNe HaS tHOugHT oF YeT" articles making the rounds.

It's a good sign.

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - not Gandhi but often true
Show HN: ExecAPI – Zero-Infra Background Jobs as a Service
Hey everyone!

I'm excited to show off ExecAPI, a zero-infrastructure background job runner as a service. It's a bit like a hosted Sidekiq (if you're from the Ruby world), except that you can write your job workers in any language that has a Docker image available.

Background jobs (aka workflows) are triggered by either a Cron schedule or an on-demand HTTP request, which then executes one or more actions. Each action is user-submitted code that runs a Docker image of your choosing, and is run in a secure sandbox (currently gVisor, perhaps Firecracker VM in the future).

It's a bit rough around the edges right now, but I'd love to get some feedback on the direction I'm going with this. The plan is to build a low/no-code experience consisting of triggers and actions that can be be used to build automation workflows, a bit like Zapier, IFTT, et al. and to provide an on-prem/private VPC solution.
F1 is like a test bed for new vehicle technology. It's not that you'll buy a race car, or a race car engine, but those discoveries will filter down into consumer products, like they have in the past: paddle shifters, KERS, hybrid engines, rear diffusers, traction control, drive by wire, the dual clutch, plus probably a ton of improvements in tires, fuel injection, safety, suspensions etc.

So if a hybrid engine that significantly increases ICE efficiency (already the case, F1 engines are 40% more efficient than normal cars) can become mainstream and be a better fit for particular use cases, it could extend the life of gasoline-powered vehicles for a while.
https://archive.is/71DpL
> A small scale Uber or Lyft is just a cab company with an automated dispatch agent. It should be valued like a cab company, not a tech company.

You, sir, are an absolute savage...and correct.

It also doesn't help that Lyft has not been profitable since going public, so if it were valued as a taxi cab company, it would probably have negative enterprise value.
There's orders of magnitude more resources outside of Earth than on it, and those resources can be harvested without disrupting any natural environments.

In fact, off-worlding all of human civilization's resource extraction and production would do more than any other project to protect Earth's natural habitats while ensuring every individual on Earth can enjoy the high, resource-intensive, quality of life that poeple in the developed world take for granted.

Starship will reduce the cost of sending material to space 10 fold and potentially much more, and this after SpaceX already reduced the per kg launch to orbit cost 10 fold and spurred a massive expansion of orbital launches:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/yearly-number-of-objects-...

So all of these aspirations are realizable and the progress toward them is real.

Perhaps you're addicted to being a cynic and tearing down any one who has hope, and that's why you're irrationally cynical.
The issue is that no matter what capabilities we decide it shouldn't have access, is there a means by which it could acquire those on its own.

And even if we were hypothetically successful, and has been demonstrated already with the release of primitive LLMs, someone out there will build unaligned AI purposely.
If you gave two weeks notice and got terminated immediately to prevent you from benefiting from something that would have vested in that two week period, you have an excellent legal case. Very few businesses of any reasonable size would pull that stunt, it isn't worth the headache. Some very small businesses might try it, because they may not have competent legal counsel to warn them away.
Can't give up like this.

If there is anything I have learned is that persistence will eventually pay off. Louis Rossmann [1] has been fighting the good fight for right to repair for so many years and while it isn't quite there yet and there have been lots of downs, there have also been lots of ups [2]. Nothing's infallible.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@rossmanngroup
[2] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/11/apple-announces-self-...
>Allowing fringe boneheads to spew hate and lies or allowing powerful people to do evil and damage livelihoods with zero culpability?

Powerful people can do evil and damage livelihoods with zero culpability under free speech absolutism. Fox News just paid a large sum because they harmed a company's business with (repeated and knowingly false) speech.

We don't even need absolutism to see zero culpability. I personally believe my representative shares blame in the deaths during the January 6th riot, because he disgustingly egged on the "stop the steal" movement. Despite that, he won't be charged with anything because of freedom of speech. I'm not okay with this specific result, but I do accept it because the alternative is a frightening world (people are convicted for kicking off a chain of dangerous events because "We just know" they understood the consequences).

Everything, including speech, is used by powerful people to benefit themselves at your expense.
Oh yes, tab completion adds an ampersand automatically on mine as well. I was just pointing out that literally quoting a pathname to an executable by itself doesn't achieve the desired outcome.
> Thus, as CA is pretty great in general, Feinstein “can’t be that bad,” so why mess up a fine thing.

A senator represents the state's views within the federal government, and has next to nothing to do with internal policies within the state.

Electing Feinstein or some other person has effectively little-to-no impact on a California citizens daily life.

> (Keep your “CA sucks” comments out of here please; your perception doesn’t matter in this case. Most Californians like living in California, by and large. It’s not perfect by any stretch, but neither is any state.)

People are allowed to gripe about where they live. Just because you live somewhere doesn't make it perfect by any stretch. California has a lot of problems, and needs to address them, regardless of your political persuasion.
That's why Tesla started in europe. Right?