skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> cartoon-illustrated DIY Honda Civic repair book from the 80's I no longer remember the name of.

Sounds like the Honda version of “How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive […] For the Compleat Idiot”.[0]

[0] https://www.ssaircooled.com/vw-how-to-keep-your-vw-alive-com...
It's still pretty wild to see a company go from 113 at peak, down to 9 bucks in under 2 years.
Aye, perhaps, and in poor taste.
Archived: https://archive.ph/6d8Ns
Oh this is inspirational!

Basically I could launch an AutoGPT tool dejour, and load it with prompt injections
I never see any use cases where storage path really requires polling, can someone list one example?
Forbes to Be Acquired by Entrepreneur and Philanthropist Austin Russell
Is it like Chaos by James Gleick?
Do I have a server set up? A cloud account?

Cause if I do, this is like 30 seconds of time for PHP:

<?php

echo date();

?>
People want to rent the pricey NVIDIA DGX H100. So Google just put it in their DC, letting customers pay its full price it every ~3 months; plus they don't have to operate it, which is win (or is it ?).
This seems sloppy. If I were to build an app that was popular in say Cuba or something I wouldn't leave myself technical gateways to access the data and manipulate things directly. That would leave a clear paper trail and open me up to some innocent engineer stumbling across what's happening.

Rather I would embed trusted people into the company at low to mid-level positions of power, like software engineers, content moderators, etc. where they could quietly use their influence on shape things in ways that are favorable to my goals. I would do this with every company I could get them hired at not just the one making my app.

If I really had a need to exert undue influence I would use a side-channel to communicate instructions to people at the company (potentially even the leadership) and rely on them to carry out the orders. Remoting in and changing things myself seems silly.
I was almost 100% certain that the typescript language support in VSCode was using the typescript language service library that's also used by tsc.
Part of me wonders if it's similar to the "never carry an umbrella" dynamic? Maybe it's just a "well, this is just how it is, carry on"?

Anyway, it's probably different in our minds because in the southeast, the heat + the humidity can literally kill you. Not having AC isn't just an inconvenience there; it's an emergency.
I've been thoroughly down voted and I should be, as sarcasm isn't helpful here on HN.

I'm 100% in agreement with you.
this is good to hear, but a little bit hard to believe.
back in 2019, local elections in Istanbul was annulled by the Supreme Electoral Council (YSK) without any real basis [1]. thankfully voters showed up in larger numbers and the opposition won with a greater margin.

opinion polls show razor thin margins right now and if the opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu wins it will unlikely be by a landslide. like everyone, I would love to see a peaceful transfer of power, but a lot is at stake for Erdogan and his government. I am sure he will not be conceding immediately and he has a lot of influence over any judicial institution in the country.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_2019_Istanbul_mayoral_el...
I found one the other day in the area of finance. The Chinese researchers claimed to have discovered a small tweak to a long established indicator which they described as giving a remarkable increase in r-squared value across a cross section of markets.

Sounds great, who wouldn't want to use this? So I implemented and find that their increase was due entirely to applying a log transform of the input variables. The resulting clusters were tighter, but it had zero predictive capability.

Very disappointing but in my experience, this is not uncommon.
Parents want their kid to make the right choice when presented with a good and a bad option. In a prefect world you ease a kid into making choices for their life. You explain the pros and the cons of the options and then sit back while the kid - after sitting patiently and listening to the Socratic brilliance of your description of the choice - does what any rational person would do.

What's the alternative? You make sure there's never a bad choice possible? Or that there are bad choices but not super duper bad? Like the dirtbike is on the table but you have to wear a helmet?

I didn't like being kid but in a lot of ways being a parent is even worse. I'd like them to not be a jerk, stay safe and maybe be happy but I can't and don't want to run their life for them. At the same time I see this combination of brilliance and poor judgement that just makes me feel tired all over.

At least being a kid you could (with even the hazy reasoning available to a child) squint and see that the trend line was in the right direction. As a parent every year is worse then the one before it. All I can see for the future is me being more concerned and having less and less capacity to do anything about my worries.
Why would they buy a product with very little loyalty on part of the users?
Do you have some examples of that ?

I always found that SQL is better for data extraction -- selecting and filtering approximately what I want to analyze.

But for in-depth analysis, R or Python is better. They're just much better languages with more control than SQL.
Oh just leave out the part about not paying and refer obliquely to a 'necessary fiscal realignment.' Add in some terms about consent being considered irrevocably transmitted upon opening of the letter and you're gold.
> At work I have deprecated many older software components in favor of implementing newer, less painful to maintain ones.

That's great, but know that you're optimizing your QoL over the users'. If and when that new shiny thing becomes an objective improvement of the user experience, only then will users share your joy of switching to something easier to maintain. Just don't expect, or even worse, force users to switch just because it makes life easier for you.

> I also wouldn't tell someone not to use an existing component that works, unless I have a concrete recommendation for a better alternative.

Yes, this is key. And precisely what the person in TFA is failing to do. UX >>> DX, always.
This is for GCP. Google themselves probably still trains on custom hardware but they don't offer their latest and greatest hardware on GCP.

Offering more options to customers is always better especially when Nvidia has great market share in this area. This is probably the reason why Microsoft is trying to help AMD catch up so their is more competition. AI GPU prices are insane compared to standard GPU because of the lack of competition.
> None of the three seem like serious attack vectors to me.

Why not?
The word TPU isn't even mentioned here.

A sentence that reads "I am going to eat nothing but vegetables from now on" doesn't mention meat, but you can infer that I won't eat meat again from the sentence.

A sentence that says Google are going all in on nVidea GPUs for AI doesn't need to mention TPUs to convey information about their future either.
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False - https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/file?id=10.13...
Computer Networking: A Top-down Approach by Kurose and Ross
I have taken hundreds of Ubers and Lyfts. They’re both pretty essential to my mobility because I live in a city and don’t own a car. I’m so furious that neither of them really had a plan all along. They were just selling $1.00 for $0.50 and hoping something would change (self driving? monopoly?)

I’ve started trying to avoid ride share whenever possible but it’s too late. They put the cabs out of business. They snarled our cities in traffic. They made public transit a non-option for the affluent. And maybe worst of all they changed how we plan our days. People expect you can always just “hop in an Uber” to get across the city at a moments notice, there’s no patience anymore.

And now they’re both charging more and more for rides and still failing to make enough money to cover their corporate overhead. Which is pathetic, since they don’t own the cars or employ the drivers. Meanwhile the drivers name make less and less and the smarter/luckier ones find something better to do.

When we look back and write the history of this time, I hope we see them as city destroyers.
That's not an interesting question. No, no they should not. And that would be true even if there were US investors. Just like we don't compensate AirBnB shareholders when cities outlaw short term rentals.

But, there are no non-Chinese investors in Bytedance. There are US investors in Hong Kong (?) companies that have exposure to Bytedance and move 1:1 with Bytedance, but explicitly included in their risk analysis is that government action may zero out that 1:1 nature at any time by political action.
How we hack Hacker News and consistently hit the front page
Why are you making such a large jump? The Swift version is 'replacingOccurrences(of:with:)', where all three types are strings.

Regardless, verbosity's cost is heavier while reading than writing (as you say, due to autocomplete).
Science requires that you supply the facts not make up a story and say “what else can it be”

What will it take to purge this sort of ignorance from HN?

https://theconversation.com/pakistan-floods-what-role-did-cl...
I disagreed with you until the last paragraph. Lots of things authentically just rely on a high degree of trust and I suspect trying to engineer human systems to be zero trust will make them deeply pathological.

But tempering our expectations while working to meaningfully improve on conditions? Aces, all for it.
And yet the VCs profited. So … who paid?
Taking advantage of stupid people is the basis of many things in society.

“Elites” getting people to go fight senseless wars is another good example.
You’re not wrong, but it is everyone’s own responsibility to read the article and not just the headline.
I am one of the people who can experience painful withdrawal effects: upon significant disturbance of coffee intake amount(less)/time after a few days at 3/4 espressos a day, I would experience a painfull and incapacitating headache in the following 12 to 24 hours.

I tested it, yep, was coffee (did not test with another source of caffeine though). Had 100% "success" over a few tests.

It is vicious: I don't need to "stop" drinking coffee to experience the headache, just need to disturb significantly the amount(less)/time of intake.
As much as I tried to believe in Asus' reputation in the past 20 years, I'm pretty much done with them.

2 of 2 mainboards (TUF and Maximus series) with random reboot issues, 1 of 2 GPUs with firmware issues causing BSODs, 1 of 2 routers (high-end models) with power supply failure problems and sometimes corrupting settings on reboot.
Yup it only has US template, and it’s impossible to print “business cards” if not using a business card template. Without going through support that is.
Sure but imagine I'd done what they wanted. I'm making a "decision" and their happy because it was the correct one. Just because an illusion is dispelled doesn't mean it never existed.
Farm machinery got "big" because it enables one human to be more productive, cover more area in one unit of time. Human time is one of the most expensive resources in farming.

As we automate more farming, and move to self operated machinery, we can shrink those machines down again. We can design fleets of machines to work in tandem, and operate around other structures, such as solar. The age of the tram lines is going to come to an end.

This also provides opportunities for replacing chemicals with small robots, such as for weeding.
Good point - indicative is a better term since it is a grammatical ‘mood’, same as imperative.
If people think that 100%-fake papers, with completely made up data and process are bad... wait until people learn how bad 30%-fake papers are, with real cherry-picked data and absurd levels of p-hacking :p
> no longer needed "namespace" (now: just use modules) and "enum" (now: just use an object literal annotated with "as const") - and all that is done is removal of the type annotations.

Both these things are needed. The workarounds you listed are not equivalent and not drop in replacements.
There are also limits to the sequence to sequence things they can effectively learn, in some cases weaker than LSTMs:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.02098
It means that co-ops will usually lose out to traditional companies in economies of scale. If you somehow force all companies to be co-ops, then you simply end up with the same in-group out-group dynamics as capitalism except everyone is worse off.
> me neither. yeah Objective-C is not memory safe but no seasoned programmer would ever make those mistakes that Swift aims to solve here - with a high price.

Citation seriously needed. Like just look at the entire history of memory safety related bugs and security issues.
Bias is what makes models useful. If you remove all bias, you remove all information in the model and the result is a uniform distribution or pure randomness.
I understand. With kindness, I suggest that your phrasing may have been indistinguishable from the actual propaganda.

Text is hard tho. I've certainly done similar. Maybe recently.
Saturn's rings are far younger than once thought
If they are selling gpu compute, nobody wants to use a Google TPU, they want cuda
I agree that zero trust is in most cases a problematic goal. It's really root-of-trust vs web-of-trust that I'm on about here.

If peer review is the product then the trust should be peer to peer. It feels like we're treating the publishers themselves as an authority, which I dislike.
Do you mean horizontal scaling? Throwing more machines and cores at your system and distributing work across additional nodes?
curl -A Mozilla -s --head "https://google.com/"|grep -Ei ^date

or

curl -A Mozilla -s --head "https://facebook.com/"|grep -Ei ^date # since they are using soon to be NTPv5

Does it have to be a site I stood up? If so the same could be accomplished installing any web server with a blank or default page. This also assumes I have NTP in sync.

Another option would be to enable anonymous ssh and then:

ssh anon@some.host 'date;cal -3'

Or just output that via cron to a text file served by a simple web server with cache controls that prevent caching more than a few seconds.

Time results: Using curl took a couple seconds but I could make it an alias. If I had to install a web server on a VM somewhere and didn't already have one it might take 10 to 20 seconds. Or I could forego the web server and just make Chronyd public as there were no client restrictions mentioned.
Wait lists and shut downs
One of the incentives the article doesn't mention is property tax. Where I live, agricultural land is taxed much less than other property. The moment you put solar on your meadow you pay the regular rate. I think it would be fair if property kept its agricultural tax status if it is used in an environmentally friendly way.
So, basically just the China version of the US Cloud Act?
Anyone who bought into their $25 billion IPO while VC was offloading, unfortunately including our total market indices.
This is a call for grey propaganda tactics. i.e. dissemination of accurate information through third-party channels to hide attribution (the idea being that public trust in such third-party speakers is higher than trust in the actual source):

> "The Air Force and the joint force should work through nongovernmental organizations to debunk disinformation."

Black propaganda is defined similarly, only the information being spread is deliberately inaccurate. (White propaganda is accurate information delivered directly from the source, but only painting a limited picture of the actual situation, such as reporting all military victories but keeping quiet about defeats).

Disinformation, in contrast, is a murky poorly defined term that apparently means little more than 'things we don't like to see on social media'. It doesn't even distinguish between partial truths and outright lies.
Could it be 'The Self-Sufficient Backyard'? I also remember seeing a CPU at first glance:
https://www.amazon.com/-/en/dp/1732557160/
And they want to support people migrating from other cloud providers where they are already using nvidia/Cuda. Though it also helps support the opposite migration, they are the smaller cloud player trying to get customers, not the big one trying to constrain them as much yet.
> They put the cabs out of business.

That was inevitable. The taxi companies had a horrible experience for arranging a ride, ride quality, agreeing on price, and paying.

The last time I decided to take a taxi instead of Uber I was reminded that not only was this option much more expensive, but all of the same issues I listed still exist.
The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles [0] [1]

Easily one of the most interesting and engaging textbooks I've read in my entire life. I remember barely doing any work for my day job while I powered through this book for a couple weeks.

Also, another +1 to Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces [2], which was mentioned in this thread. I read this one cover to cover.

Lastly, Statistical Rethinking [3] really did change the way I think about statistics.

[0] https://www.nand2tetris.org/

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Computing-Systems-second-Pri...

[2] https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/

[3] https://xcelab.net/rm/statistical-rethinking/
That's why it is great we are actually in conversation and not just reading sound bites. Nice to meet you and look forward to making the world a better place together!
My test email that I sent now didn't arrive either
I think their repeat public position was that the CCP could not have law access and did not have access. I don't think anyone believed it, but still
> I think Elixir/Phoenix could use a little bit of Javascript (and modern PHP) enthusiasm to help with adoption

Definitely, although as someone who finds that level of "enthusiasm" or fanboism a turn off, I like that it's not there. But it has to be there to ensure the success and growth of the language/ecosystem.
You are providing a case of airline pilot training. It's hard to believe a experienced and high quality software engineer with 20 year of experiences, will not learn a new programming language faster and better, than a freshly graduated 22 year old child :-)
I bought an Alcatel phone, it has less bloat, no layer of things like Samsung phones.

Although it has some wallpaper icon that I cannot remove on the lock screen.

At least windows can install itself on a PC, but it's 2023 and it's still not possible to do that with Android phones. I don't think there is a good enough excuse for this.

I'm not an Android or Linux developer but I don't see why it's impossible to install Android myself. Difficult? Maybe (drivers etc), but why would it be impossible?

It's not difficult to see that android is not as open source as we think.
If the world would just consist of the USA, Canada and Europe I would agree, we could handle it just fine. It will be expensive, especially in infrastructure costs due to sea level rise. Transitioning our forests to species adapted to higher temperatures will be a pain, same for changes in our agriculture, but we would be fine.

The problem are the nations with megacities at the coast, but no money to build massive sea walls. Or the nations that are already at the edge of survivable (wet-bulb) temperatures in the summer, but little AC coverage (and often too little electricity to meaningfully increase AC rollout, even if they had the money). Or the nations that have to compete with their neighbors over water sources for drinking and agriculture. Those nations will all be in significant trouble. Which will probably mean migrant waves that will be on an entirely different scale compared to what we are used to, and quite possibly beyond what we can handle. But at the same time, both it's hard to stop desperate people from moving (morally and physically)
I moved to Seattle 25 years ago and you truly didn’t need AC. Summers were pretty reliably amazing with clear skies and temps seldom above the low 80s. There were a couple of weeks with uncomfortable temperatures (by PNW standards), easily dealt with by ventilating the house at night and closing it up during the day. It’s gotten steadily worse, to where now I’d say you do need AC. Which is a terrible shame.
Isn’t the decision to either fire the executives/CEO or others the domain of the owners of the company? And perhaps rightly so?

It’s not like shareholders/boards LIKE paying CEOs more than they otherwise could - especially if performance is bad enough to warrant big cuts. They would pay them as little as they can get away with to maximize their own return, similar to all roles down the hierarchy.

To my uneducated mind, it seems far better to (1) have better gov-mandated worker protections around termination/layoffs - longer severance, continued benefits, etc; and/or (2) higher corporate taxes to fund programs that assist in job transition/EI/etc… than arbitrary rules around CEO pay ratios or “executives always get fired first” rules.
Good thing that free speech advocate Elon Musk is in charge at Twitter, so that that platform can offer the people of Turkey an unvarnished look at Erdogan's flaws /s

https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1657411486380093442
There are new programmers coming of age every day, so the proportion that even thinks about Objective-C at all (never mind advocates it) is going down down down.
That's not true.

Google is huge.

Just a few H100 doesn't represent anything huge in Google scale.

I also tried to find your analogy in that article and google announcement and it's not there.
I have no idea, I don't live there. I'm responding to the assertion that 1/5 is not significant.
is this because ChatGPT effectively replaces their product
The fact that they had to make a movie showing that people can have muscles following a plant-based diet proves my point. If it was widely feasible, they wouldn't have to create propaganda to support the point.
Did you use live view for those projects? If so, what sort of scale are they? I've been seriously considering learning Elixir+Phoenix, but don't whether live view is suitable for serious projects (where serious blog project ∉ serious projects).
MSI, for one.

Normally, successful hardware companies are very good.
Yeah, non-destructive undo feels to me like a critically important feature for anything built on top of LLMs. That's the main reason I spent time on this sqlite-history project a few weeks ago: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/15/sqlite-history/
You should never underestimate the willingness of Americans (or anyone) to invest in sleaze for profit
> You don't write defensive code, and you don't often check for errors.

There is a limit to how defensive you can make your code. As soon as you call out to another service for data, the universe of errorinf situations they can create goes to infinity. For example they could happily send you a 200 but return mistyped JSON. What do you do in that case? Are you genuinely going to write that as a test condition to make sure the transactional chain in your system handles this and rolls back the db inserts that preceded it? I can tell you that in 99% of cases idiomatically written elixir will "do the right thing" if this happens, and that is a consequence of "let it fail" philosophy. Moreover, if you try to write error handling code in the traditional sense, you will probably get it wrong, it will be hard to understand, and it will be hard to debug if your implementation is not quite right.