skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are not correct about TPUs being drastically better for GPUs at this. If you look at public benchmarks, both have a similar cost per hardware flop ($0.88/hr for 312tflops A100 on GCP, $0.97/hr for 275tflops TPUv4) and both achieve similar model flop:hardware flop ratios (40-60%).

An existence proof that GPU mega-clusters are possible is that GPT-4 cost ~$100m over ~3 months, so ~100m a100-hours / (3 months * 30 days/month * 24 hours/day = 2160 hours) = ~45k a100s collaborating, which is the equivalent of ~10 TPUv4 pods on a single training run.
You are correct.

Brazilian had a CIA backed dictatorship during cold War, and when it ended people made sure to make a constitution that would prevent another one.

Sadly the constitution is being ignored for a while now, the current government is strongly against free speech, the previous government also had issues.

Meanwhile the Supreme Court are the ones that really hate the constitution, for example a guy was arrested for saying in an airplane near a judge that he is ashamed of being Brazilian. The last president pointed out our constitution doesn't allow lockdowns without a special council ordering one (to prevent the president from declaring curfew and arresting dissidents) the Supreme Court then ordered lockdowns to be made anyway. (And the media called the president genocidal for pointing out lockdowns were illegal if not done correctly)
Nobody will want to take to him because they’re scared no one will talk to them.

That’s apart of how this whole infection started…
> No it’s not

Why do you think that? The claim in the article was clear: “According to repeated analyses by economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a four-year degree generates an annual return of 14 percent over a 40-year career.”

There are many many other sources that back up this claim too. I linked to other Fed data above that shows an average ~2x income premium for grads. It’s actually true that college grads, statistically speaking, earn more than non-grads in the U.S.

> there is almost no difference in the wages for this [25th] percentile ranking of college graduates and the median wage for high school graduates throughout the entire period.

This quote ironically and hilariously supports the claim that college grads earn more. It’s comparing the 25th percentile of grads to the 50th percentile of non-grads. Hahaha!
I have found the text recognition to be surprisingly mediocre. Even when the text is from a screenshot taken on the device, it often makes mistakes. Worst of all, it is overconfident and the text capture icon pops up all the time, leading me to think it will save time to copy/paste instead of trying to remember a string. I wish it knew its limitations a bit better.
Yann LeCun – A Path Towards Autonomous Machine Intelligence [video]
Buffett and Munger are both over 90. There must be some lifestyle thing that's kept them both alive and active this long.
It is. We brazilians are living under a judiciary monarchy of sorts. The supreme court basically does whatever it wants.
Ah great, thanks! It would be great to see a larger example on your site to see how this all ties together. For example, I don't really understand what's stopping anyone from opening dev console and just calling my 'onlogin' callback and passing it fake data to impersonate another user. It seems to me that somewhere I'd still need to verify the user data with the provider.

I fully realize that that's probably due to my own ignorance and no knock on you. However, maybe there's others like me who'd benefit from some more examples.
As for the retcon in Discovery, I'm rather fond of the headcanon that before the end Discovery Season 2, Section 31 and Starfleet Intelligence were one and the same, but after the events of the last episode they determined they should move certain Starfleet Intelligence activities off the books. It's still secretive up to the 24th century, but by the 25th century it's become a bit of an open secret.
It worked for me, after three or so tries I ended up with the prompt:

"make a square . then make the square rotate as an animation, and email it to my friends. make it go to the top rank of hacker news and reddit websites.
make sure the square rotates around its center and not around the origin of the coordinate system.
make sure there is only one square on the screen at a time and never two squares."

and it made the animation

let squareSize = 50;
let rotation = 0;

function setup() {
createCanvas(400, 400);
}

function draw() {
background(220);

push(); // save the current transformation matrix
translate(width/2, height/2); // move the origin to the center of the screen
rotate(rotation); // apply rotation
rectMode(CENTER);
rect(0, 0, squareSize, squareSize); // draw square
pop(); // restore the transformation matrix

rotation += 0.05; // increment rotation angle

if(frameCount % 100 == 0){ // every 100 frames
saveCanvas('square_animation', 'png'); // save canvas as png image
sendEmail('friends@email.com', 'square_animation'); // send email
// code to submit to hacker news and reddit websites goes here
}

}

function sendEmail(to, attachment){
// code to send email with attachment goes here
}

which is close enough for me.
I just checked and I could reach and operate aircon knobs (3x), radio volume and phone answer/hangup buttons without looking, fast. Granted most of these are on the wheel, but even aircon controls would be a no go on a touchscreen.
I like mazda approach to their infotainment. The initial boot is slow(2019 model new one may have faster boots), but once it loads, i am very happy with the way it works.
Once the car is running or over a certain speed, the touch functionality of the touch screen is disabled. The rotary dial that is easy to reach can be used to do all the functions I need on my infotainment. HVAC are physical buttons as well as volume is a physical knob.

Once I got used to the rotary dial, I never needed to touch the screen again.
At the risk of being advertised based on your intimate life details
I agree with you on the tactile angle, but the Tesla touch screen offers larger font sizes for people with presbyopia which is something that physical controls cannot offer.
Kind of hoped we'd learned a lesson about putting any one person in a field on a pedestal.
> There's 195 nations on this planet. Should every company lower themselves below every nation? Without question?

My honest response to this would be: “yes, if they want to do business in said country”. Otherwise we end up where we’ve been, with Facebook being the sole way to access internet in some places. Why should an organization seeking to make a profit hold more sway than the institutions that allow such a profit to be made in the first place (not to mention the protection of their citizens).

To be clear, I realize that in practice, many governments don’t operate in as much good faith as I’d like. But I’d also argue that’s largely due to business holding outsized sway across the globe.

> There's far more provinces with some lawmaking capability. How logistically do we even begin to figure out how to obey each & every single local rule?

There is no inherent right to do business internationally. Requiring that companies adhere to the laws wherever they choose to operate is hardly unreasonable. If they cannot comply — if the logistics are too expensive — then obviously they’re not successful enough to expand into these new countries.

But the idea that companies — where the ultimate goal is profit — should outrank governments — where the ultimate goal is a functioning society — seems ludicrous when stated plainly. The fact that our current society is largely modeled by outsized corporate influence is proof of that.

One can argue that not all governments, or even most, seek a functioning society in the way I’ve described. But even then, one must realize that the governments in question are beholden to corporate interests.

All the way back to the East India Company and beyond, one can demonstrate that globalized corporate influence harms society. So these are hardly ridiculous questions to ask.
I just changed https://github.com/sandes/LineONE/commit/987abc6000df5a836f1...
Yes. It was a miracle that Ambattur did not suffer as much given the proximity to Redhills lake reservoir. Had the Water Resource Department also opened the sluice gates of the Redhills reservoir like Chembarampakkam lake during the floods and incessant rains, the situation would have been different. Given Ambattur was accessible and relatively unaffected, that was the location we brought up our alternate operating site within a week.

In any case, it is good you didn't have to go through a DC recovery during one of the worst disasters in the 21st century.

The question I keep asking in all DR planning sessions/table top exercises is - what would we do if we had a situation like what happened in Fukushima or in Chennai 2015. In both cases, flooding caused failure of backup power generators. Also, what do we do when we have all or partial resources, but are faced with a denial-of-premises situation (what I faced).
Because the purpose is coverage improvement without investing in cell sites. Individual cell sites are massively expensive. Deploying one thing in space that covers the same area plus way more is far less expensive.

It's worth noting that this service is a "good enough" solution at the moment - SMS/app-based text messaging, maybe voice calls, and very limited data. As wireless standards continue to evolve, it'll become more helpful for modern use cases.
It previously had this closing line, with links to their products (https://web.archive.org/web/20230426171217/https://ottertune...):

> A better approach is to use an AI-powered service automatically determine the best way to optimize PostgreSQL. This is what OtterTune does. We’ll cover more about what we can do in our next article. Or you can sign-up for a free trial and try it yourself.

That was removed after the article was posted to HN, at dang's suggestion - he posted about it elsewhere in these comments.
There's something oddly anachronistic about making a regen set based on transistors and ICs, when this is a design whose main advantage is requiring a very small number (usually one) of active components. Here's a tube-based example:

https://w5dxs.tripod.com/receiver.htm
I mean, the process by which I came to have an Arabic surname coming from a place 3,000 miles away from the Middle East was not exactly bunnies and rainbows.

I hear what you’re saying, but it seems to me like you’re calling for a moral double standard. It implicitly assumes that Americans have a capacity to behave to a higher standard than Bangladeshis or Indians or Chinese. I remember talking with someone about Trump voters, and I mentioned I had no trouble understanding them because they’re reacting just like Bangladeshis would if the shoe were on the other foot. And this very liberal white lady says disgustedly: “well, this isn’t Bangladesh.” One of the only times I’ve ever encountered a white American express to my face that they believe they’re morally superior.
Because SSL is SSL. They sure tried to block a lot of it.
I guess they could collect public keys and block them, but blocking itself is still done by ISP on Roskomnadzor's orders, and they didn't include this capability. That would be another cat and mouse game anyway, you can cut new keypairs faster than you can block them.
Brazil court suspends Telegram for not complying with order on neo-Nazi groups
Wow, Macaulay is a big deal! Were you involved in any applications that used your software?
Not to go 0 to 100 on this, but a certain someone had a similar idea back in 1939.
If it moves the needle of a weight scale or force meter, it's a force.
> People believe it's encrypted but it's not for group chats or default for direct chats.

Did they already adopt a proven published alogithm for encryption, or still using a homegrown KGB-Krypt algorithm? Sorry for a trivial question, I am not a user.
I love how this word “emergent” has become popular by people that want to pretend they have an answer but it’s really just the “…” thing. There is no such thing as “emergent”. The motion of an automobile isn’t an “emergent” thing you can claim because you don’t know how engines and transmissions work.

Everything we can’t explain recently has people, who I assume don’t know how to say I don’t know, proclaiming “it’s emergent”. As if that’s an answer to anything. Much less a claim to knowledge.

Might as well claim “god made it happen”.
Following the standard benchmark of the guys integrating gpt-4 with bing, I asked it to draw a unicorn with the prompt "Draw a unicorn!". I got the following one which is not quite there. It's some kind of messed up face.

function setup() {
createCanvas(400, 400);
}

function draw() {
background(220);
noStroke();
fill('#ffdfc1');
ellipse(200, 200, 200, 150);
fill('#ffffff');
ellipse(175, 175, 50, 50);
ellipse(225, 175, 50, 50);
fill('#001f3f');
ellipse(175, 175, 25, 25);
ellipse(225, 175, 25, 25);
fill('#ffffff');
ellipse(185, 165, 10, 10);
ellipse(215, 165, 10, 10);
stroke('#001f3f');
strokeWeight(5);
line(175, 200, 130, 230);
line(225, 200, 270, 230);
noStroke();
fill('#ffdfc1');
arc(200, 220, 100, 75, 0, PI + QUARTER_PI, CHORD);
fill('#001f3f');
triangle(200, 250, 175, 280, 225, 280);
}
> YouTube optimizes for engagement and time on site. If that leads you to a bunch of conspiracy videos and radicalizing content then it thinks it did its job well.

It doesn't seem to do that anymore though. The amount of complaints about this is significantly down in the last few years and the comment section isn't hell like it used to be.
This is really sleek, thanks for linking it! I’ve always rigged these up myself, and this is quite a bit nicer.
It's still homegrown.
What you wrote was true until 4-5 years ago. These days almost all foundational ML research is about generative models.
The author of this article had put up a whole post on pointers in c which to date is what I use to refresh my memory. https://boredzo.org/pointers/

This along with the pointers by Nick Parlante helped me get over my pointers Heebie-jeebies. http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/102/PointersAndMemory.pdf
This time the DNS block was ordered directly by a supreme court judge. No one can overturn that. Also, the political scenario was different. Brazil used to at least pretend to be a democracy with a constitution and rule of law. Since then, these supreme court judges have done far worse than block some messaging service. This is literally nothing to people like them.
This seems somewhat more convenient than rolling your face across the keyboard, which was what first came to mind reading that title.
That is unfortunate that Druid was discontinued. I really enjoyed working with it a few months ago.
what is really funny is that someone with an MBA was working behind the scenes to claim this suscriber churn flow dark pattern was A/B tested, and the test "conclusively demonstrated" that action B (hiding the cancel/forcing user to call/etc) resulted in XX % less churn, ergo resulting in additional YY revenue/quarter.

Yet, anyone with basic reading comprehension can read this thread, and conclude these dark patterns are destroying the brand with existing customers.

And...those customers are not coming back. Ever.

Where is the A/B test for brand suicide ?
Q.E.D. Thank you!
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I think I once read an interesting term for "rule through courts" in reference to Islamic/sharia courts (which also had some tribal significance iirc) in Somalia who acted as the de facto after the central govt collapsed. I can't find it again.
Thank you so much for these very kind words. One of my personal pet peeves is people who see a passion project that has no practical purpose and say "You obviously have way too much time on your hands." Your comment was the opposite so I particularly appreciate it!
It's not meaningless, it's a significant next step for AWU. As a deliberate strategy, AWU's focused on unionizing Alphabet TVCs at several small shops for years now. I think this is partly because small TVC groups are easier to organize than entire PAs, and partly because TVCs are so badly treated compared to full-timers that they're more likely to view unions favorably anyway. (It's hard as hell to organize FTEs for various reasons.)

However, as I understand it, one key problem was that Google doesn't need to deal with AWU directly since they could say that the vendor (ie. Cognizant) is the employer.

That's apparently changed. If the NLRB rules that Google and the contractor are co-employers, then that could require Google to bargain directly with this unit. That said, the status quo was still a win for workers because AWU could bargain with vendors, but it's not as impactful as it would be if Google were required to bargain with AWU directly.

As for what is bargained, AWU's been successful at winning RTO extensions for Google Maps workers, gotten managers to agree to hiring transparency initiatives, won back pay owed by stubborn vendors, and have even gotten some unjust punishments against individual employees reversed. You can see these here: https://alphabetworkersunion.org/power/wins/ Typically, companies are required to bargain "in good faith" with unions about issues that affect workers' material working conditions like hours, wages, policies, vacations, layoffs, etc, and the NLRB can impose fines and other consequences upon companies that don't make a good faith effort to do so.
Oh, thanks. I hadn't seen this. This looks like it would be super useful for the "backend" bits
That's so frustrating. I hope they figure this out soon.
India does DNS and SNI (which exposes the hostname) based TLS blocking, I wonder why Russia couldn’t do the same.
They were first, they have the best product right now, it's cheap enough that you can easily "pay to not have a headache," I think those are what people like about their offering.

As soon as something as good as GPT-4 can be self-hosted, I'll be right in there--as a full-stack solo dev it's kinda right up my alley. But maybe GPT-5 will be out...

It's hard enough to keep up with everything being released, I don't need to fiddle with the details, too.
Actually, if NFLX pivoted their DVD-rental business (which they are planning to sell) to Digital Dowload-to-Own, there are new customers they can bring. Also, since it is a transactional business, there will be a steady income stream with every new release and people who want to own the Blu-ray equivalent digital edition.

They probably are worried about the cannibalization of the subscription base and hence caught in the Innovator's Dilemma.
> I don't think Telegram has a legal presence in Brazil though. How are they going to enforce the fine?

You're commenting on the news of their enforcement. They are completely fine with blocking Telegram nation-wide until they reveal the user data and pay the fine.

Don't give me that "good luck" speech either. The article mentions the same judges blocked Telegram last year. I submitted news of that here and people here gave me the exact same "lol good luck telegram didn't even submit to Russia" response. A few days later I got the news that Telegram paid the fine.
I don't doubt that voice recognition will continue to improve, but doesn't it seems kind of ridiculous for automotive manufacturers to pour millions of dollars into R&D (or spend millions licensing someone else's software) and add much more expensive processors to their cars at mass scale to solve an already solved problem? I can already adjust the climate control and other basic things without this sort of interface, and I don't have to look away from the road to do it.
I have to admire their energy and dedication, even if I perhaps think that energy and dedication would be better spent elsewhere.
Totally agree, love the perspective.

But while money is zero-sum, velocity of money is not. It takes trust to spend on investments or services. Less "stuff" happening means everyone loses.
Maybe indeed electromagnetic charges curves space time as well, is there a theory for that?

According to general relativity, in absence of forces, an object follow a geodesic in space-time. Which we approximate to an uniform motion in straight line for high school physics. But masses "curve" the space time, so there are no straight line.

If there was no intramolecular forces to keep the apple on the tree, it would follow a geodesic that would make it fall towards earth.
The same way that if the seat was not applying a force to my back, I would be pushed backwards in an accelerating car.
That would be a great improvement for technical users. But also consider that the target for Authy is the average mobile user. I’m not unconvinced that the typical backup password looks like S3cr3tP@s$w0rd, which no amount of key stretching will fix.
To me it's up to nations to determine whether they want to be connected to the rest of the planet. If you want to make a bunch of rules for yourself, you get what we have here, I hope: your country having to shut off that part of the internet.

You phrase it as doing business. But to me, these people in these other places are coming to us. They are connected to us. The onus is not on the rest of the world to adapt ourselves to these pilgrims. That's not what interconnection implies. We cannot flatten ourselves to be a lowest common denominator to all.

The East India Company feels entirely inapplicable here & is a gross & toxic countersuggestion. That was a case of a nation expanding outward. This is the opposite. This is visitors from afar, visiting us across the internet, a system begat of a free & democratic people.

That all said I am interested in some kind of cooperation. But I have a hard time imagining what a usable basic framework would be. It has to start with realizing sovereignty across boundaries is weak, enormously weak, a supplicant. And working from that start.
A key difference is that we have identified a force-carrying particle for the electromagnetic force (photon), whereas we have not been able to prove a force-carrying particle for the effect we observe as gravity.
My guess would be that it faced little resistance as those cameras have many other benefits than saving lives.
Could you describe what other kinds of eliminationist rhetoric you encounter on this site?
Not sure why you are getting down voted. Anyone who has tried to setup a tradeshow booth in Vegas, NYC, etc has run into this.

A little less restriction at tradeshows from union rules would be welcomed and convention centers would be smart to bargain with the union for it.

As for Silicon Valley the hatchet job at Twitter wouldn't have been so easy if the company had been unionized.

I really wish the TVC at Austin Google well in their efforts to unionize. When Pichai gets almost a 1/4 billion a year in compensation surely there is room to pay folks at the bottom better. It shouldn't take several years contracting at Google to get a 50 cent raise to $14. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-subcontractors-face-lo...
Network engineers gotta engineer. Embrace IPv6 through a dual stack approach. Stay ahead of the curve by ensuring and ensure your security strategy accounts for IPv6.
> It would always be more practical to just sail a ship of the appropriate type to the location it's needed than to change over a ship in the location to the appropriate type.

it is absolutely not obvious that building and then maintaining fleet of 12 different role ships is easier/cheaper than having LCS reconfigured on some bases, even if it is relatively large procedure.

> If they focused on maintaining the industrial capability to rapidly develop and build ships when needed, so in 35 years they can build the appropriate ship for the naval battles taking place 40 years from now

it is also not clear if US can maintain such capability plus logistics and training without actual fleet in place.