skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just speaking from experience, often times offshoring isn't actually that much cheaper. The total cost of ownership often times is not calculated correctly, or because of the way financials are done, give incentives to move costs around to make stock numbers look better. For example, if a company said they reduced the cost per unit to offshore production by 50%, but don't mention shipping has tripled and quality has gone down, in addition to costing a ton of money to transition, only netting 10-20% savings, the market often only cares about the unit costs.

I would say the number one thing people do is they don't allocate overhead or things like shipping/logistics/lead times into the total costs.

Like for example, if it takes 3 months to have a product, you should store more inventory than if you were doing it in the US. You also shouldn't just look at just the raw unit price, you factor in shipping, quality assurance checks, inefficiency of engineering changes, etc. which many people don't actually do.
I’m wondering about the performance of such a cluster of repurposed mining GPUs. Mining doesn’t need high bandwidth interconnects nor large per GPU memory, on the other hand training deep learning models such as LLMs does need that.

I’m not saying it’s impossible to get good performance with custom training solutions; that would actually be very valuable as it would unlock the computing power of lower grade setups.
http://amerine.net no posts in like a decade. It’s embarrassing
https://blog.eldrid.ge

I write about tech culture/ethics, security and privacy online, and random technical projects I've been working on.

Some favorites are:
Myth of the Necessary Jerk https://blog.eldrid.ge/2017/04/11/the-myth-of-the-necessary-...

The Silent AI Overlord is Already Here https://blog.eldrid.ge/2022/07/28/the-silent-ai-overlord-is-...

Online Identity is Complicated https://blog.eldrid.ge/2022/08/12/online-identity-is-complic...
+1

Arguably "AI" is already plenty general enough, it's just not very intelligent.
I live in Zurich and there are several billboards on my residential street.
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Just starting on my own journey in the space of personal blogs.

Would love to hear any feedback.
This looks to me like a sane comment. No idea why this was downvoted.
If you might be an artist then where's your portfolio? There's no links in your profile, zero HN submissions. Put up or shut up.

The NYC gallery scene started bestowing art-ness upon people who became known for the work they painted on the city's walls around... exactly forty years ago, I looked up Kieth Haring as a random example and galleries started showing his work in 1983.
That is entirely reasonable.

A title I have frequently worked under is “Cloud Engineer”.

I’m strongest in AWS, secondly Azure. But I also am extensively using Linode’s platform and Kubernetes too.

My best friend’s title has also been “Cloud Engineer” and he is exclusively in AWS. He doesn’t really know more about Azure than he needs to get things connected to AAD.

How anyone could know that without asking eludes me. If you’re hiring for a position, you have a responsibility to know.
What? Why would randomness matter to this?

If, hypothetically, it were possible to do a QFT simulation of an entire human, but where no true randomness was used in the simulation program, only a cryptographically secure (relative to an adversary with even more compute than the beyond-astronomical amount of compute used by the simulation) random number generator (and therefore fully deterministic),

you think that that would have less of a claim to having internal experience, than a simulation of a fruit fly brain connected to a true RNG?

This seems implausible to me.
Are you against "protective" regulation in general or is it more about this specific case?
Yes, you can modify content. good idea.
Exactly. This is an analysis of what the front page is composed of rather than what gets to the front page.
Disks die all the time anyway. If you want to keep your data, you should have at least two-disk redundancy. In which case bad blocks won't kill anything.
https://www.marginalia.nu/log/

Mostly about search engine development.
All of the problems the OP mentioned are really trivial with every serverless stack I’ve ever used.

Like many of the problems (security patching, monitoring, logging) are part of the serverless pitch.
But isn't this the point of being able to use both duckdb databases and sqlite databases from the duckdb runtime? You can mix and match read/write use-cases within the same duckdb db runtime?

Perform OLTP actions against sqlite db from within duckdb.

Perform OLAP actions against duckdb db from within duckdb.

Sometimes your OLTP content drives the OLAP query so read from both sqlite db and duckdb db at the same time.
This is a good rundown but misses the biggest thing, random chance.

Depending on time of day the your post will stay on page one of "new" for between 20-40 minutes. It needs about 4-6 upvotes in that time to drop onto the bottom of the homepage, and then with that a chance of more eyeballs. Some people skim page two and look for thing with a couple of votes for closer inspection, but the reality is you have that brief moment to catch attention of people who are interested in your topic.

The more high profile the item you're posting is the more likely it will catch the attention of people who are interested in the short window. More obscure topics are obviously harder to catch those initial votes.

The new page is very busy at some particular times of day. It can be a good idea to post more obscure topics in a "down time" period.

2-6pm UTC is by far the busiest time, you often see corporate posts aiming to land in new during this time, even to the point of scheduling their blog posts for this window. The payoff in traffic is worth the chance of a very brief period on page one of new.

The other thing to note is that HN is a different place at the weekend, interesting long reads do well then along with somewhat fun and silly side projects.

Also consider "Show HN" posts, they have a different ranking "gravity" and can be easer to get into the homepage, but don't necessarily stay there or as high for as long. If you are launching something, this is your best bet. They also hang around on the "show" page for days with a log tail of traffic.

Finally there is the "second chance pool" [0], I don't know the details of who or how, but some posts are flagged to be given a second chance on the bottom of the homepage. Sometimes hours or days later. A surprising proportion of top of homepage posts come from that pool - good things have a high chance of entering it.

Best advise, write what you're interested in and keep posting.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
Nice read. Thanks!
I was expecting Lionglass to include Lithium ions, but they named it after their mascot!
It seems you took my comment as an attack on heat pumps, which I certainly didn't intend! Such is life in our needlessly polarized information environment. Thank you for the description of your system though! I've got thoughts of a heat pump in my future, and I will be well involved in the design if I don't outright DIY, so it's nice to hear about other people's setups.

By "lose 25% of its capacity", I mean because with curtailment it could be off up to 25% of the time (assuming the same curtailment schedule as summer). The focus on "coldest days" is because that is when your house needs the most heat (regardless of source type). Based on the climate, I assume your heat pump was sized based on the minimum it needs to supply for heating loads on the "design day" (coldest day generally expected for your climate), meaning on the coldest days it requires most of its capacity to keep the house temperature steady. Whereas it's oversized for summer so it can still keep up even if it loses a bunch of capacity due to curtailment.

I'm a bit surprised with a solid backup heat source that winter curtailment isn't more attractive to you (it would also help exercise your backup heat). Does it really not make financial sense? Or is it more of an idealistic thing of not wanting to burn oil/gas as much as possible?
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I’ve been writing monthly for 10 years, and otherwise for 20. Topics have ranged from product development to leadership to breakfast cereal selection techniques.
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> And I'm not sure people making it to 110 is positive; I'm interested in actually living,

Centenarians don't do so badly in a lot of quality of life measures. They actually have a lower level of dependency, on average, than those in their late 80s.

But in any sense, this is why I mentioned QALYs (quality-adjusted life years).

> AGI and robots and flying cars have been coming soon for longer than most people have been alive.

I think this misstates what most people have felt was imminent. Occasional luminaries feeling that flying cars were close (e.g. Ford), and breathless media pieces does not a consensus view make.

In any case, this whole line of argument ("Lots of people have believed this forever@!(!") even if it were true, would not be a great argument against assessing the current prospects as pretty good.

> I also note that "couple therapies that each buy a few years" is a major retreat from the point I was actually adressing which was life made unrecognizable by salamander limbs, etc.

3 years of QALY for the population would likely look like 30% of the population getting some crazy-ass therapy that adds many years of QALY, and many other people dying too soon or having other ailments that are not addressed.

Alternatively it could come from finding something unexpectedly cheap and broadly helpful that you could treat a very large percentage of the population from and that most people benefit and get 5 years.
I don't lump in YouTube with other types of social media. While undoubtedly the vast majority of content on YouTube (either by count or by number of views) is utter garbage there is still more quality content than I will ever be able to watch in a lifetime. Documentaries, talks, lectures, concerts, content creators on all kinds of interesting things, from retro computers to history or science.

I would buy YouTube premium but I don't really want to remunerate Google for their anticompetitive business practices or their mistreatment of content creators. So I just go for patreon of channels I like.
https://blog.lohr.dev/
Only a couple of posts, but trying to post regularly about topics that interest me.
you can make exceptions, that happens all the time in laws
I find it hard to believe that the intelligence you assume is required to do a person's job is an accurate indication of that person's intelligence.
I can live with ads but living in the city the billboards with leds or spotlights on them are hell. Who doesn’t love being forced to buy blackout curtains so you can sleep.

City life has undoubtedly taken a tole on my mental and physical health in the form of noise and light pollution combined with having zero control over it.
You nailed it: there is power in that mutual gesture - it creates a bond that pushes both parties to work through challenges instead of just noping out with a break up. There's a reason they call it "tying the knot".

Source: A 40-year old who has no interest in marriage and only saw it as an "antiquated social construct" when I was younger. I learned there's more to it.
It used to be that Google Earth worked passably well for me in Chromium, and was a slideshow in Firefox. As of a few weeks ago, it's the other way round. No idea what's changed.

On a sidenote, is Google Earth still a maintained product? Seems like it's on life support. Is there any decent alternative?
Pharo's CLA doesn't seem that bad [0]. You retain copyright, and agree to license your contribution using the MIT License. OTOH, you also agree that your contribution is "only a small component". IANAL and I wonder what is the implication of such a clause.

[0] http://files.pharo.org/media/PharoSoftwareDistributionAgreem...
There is a Banksy one on now in Glasgow.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-banksy-solo-e...
Like you, I have completely switched over to Arch Linux on my desktop and laptop apart from Windows for my VR sim racing rig. Hopefully one day I’ll be able to play iRacing from Linux, but that day is not today. Everything else has been extremely smooth.
there are some gems the YT homepage can bring you. be sure to delete the dumb meme recap you watched at 3am from the watch history and the algorithm can work for you.
Not really. Although I live in the DC area and subscribe to the Post, and every article that has so much of a whiff of conflict of interest includes a parenthentical aside that Bezos owns the Post. We're used to it.

This isn't likely to do financial damage such that Bezos would care, and both Bezos and WaPo "win" if WaPo looks "impartial" enough to criticize Bezos - WaPo gets to show that off for journalistic credibility and Bezos gets to show off that the media org he owns is totally willing to speak truth to power, which makes him One Of The Good Billionaires.
Gotcha. I now just get the following text output:

{
"ver" : "0.3",
"name" : "jack",
"shortInfo" : "Bridged from bsky.social",
"profilePhoto" : "https://bsky.social/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:pl...",
"postsEndpoint" : "https://bridge.spxp.org/at/did:plc:6fktaamhhxdqb2ypum33kbkj/...",
"friendsEndpoint" : "https://bridge.spxp.org/at/did:plc:6fktaamhhxdqb2ypum33kbkj/..."
}
This is a sign of you being out of touch with the times. I can assure you that a phone wouldn't be the source of this problem. I would play Kerbal Space Program or any other game on the school computer. There weren't many options for them to stop it. We had http proxies, linux live CDs, you name it. The schools just simply couldn't lock them down properly. Even the students that weren't technically inclined didn't have difficulty, but there were plenty of people that did know what they were doing too.
How many millions of children succesfully graduated already while having smartphones?

> Nowadays people can spend 14hrs a day on their phone and still not be bored, it's crazy.

How this can be crazy? You have unlimited library of people, photos, information, videos, absolutely anything in your hand. It would be crazy not use it.
I use my smartphone even now to write this comment.

> Deleting social media apps makes your phone _much_ less interesting though!

And also it will succesfully separate you from social information, trends. Which is good but also could become issue.
I’ve heard this line before and it confuses me. What is the authority?

It seems to me that it’s OSI (around for years, reputable, etc) vs some for profit companies misusing common terminology in the, I think false, sense that people think non-open things they call open are good. Not sure if they are deluded or just wrong.

Happy to talk about some new authority for open source licenses, but it seems like the “OSI isn’t an authority, nobody is” is an argument by 8th graders who just read the Wikipedia article on communism.

OSI formed to help open source developers and users to better understand “proper” licenses from bullshit.
Guess this is similar to ChatGPT and “ davidjl” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36242914 - and tricking image categorisers with specially designed noise.

Today’s AI seem to have all sort of unexpected failure modes which can be exploited by adversarial attacks.
For curiosity's sake I wanted to estimate the probability of getting to the front page with a show hn. The easy but terrible way is to just look at a few new show hn from yesterday and look at how many got more than 50 points.

The answer ~4% (3/79). Please expect gigantic error bars.

Links checked:

2/30 from https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew?next=36572237&n=61

1/30 from https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew?next=36564410&n=91

0/19 from https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew?next=36556170&n=121
> What's scary about it?

Just that I'm trusting the OS to re-duplicate it at block level on file write. The idea that block by block you've got "okay, this block is shared by files XYZ, this next block is unique to file Z, then the next block is back to XYZ... oh we're editing that one? Then it's a new block that's now unique to file Z too".

I guess I'm not used to trusting filesystems to do anything but dumb write and read. I know they abstract away a crapload of amazing complexity in reality, I'm just used to thinking of them as dumb bags of bits.
I think you underestimate how much looks affect your success.

And being fit (not to be confused with a hulking mountain of muscle) and in good health is a large part of looks.
Red Hat continually denies IBM had anything to do with this decision.
Sweet, I appreciate the link!
https://queercat.github.io/blog
i write about random tech stuff that interests me at the time. haven't written in a minute but i'd like to again.

Magic The Gathering & 8 billion text files: https://queercat.github.io/blog/posts/on-magic-arenas-deck-l...
> The technology currently exists to do away with all wealth disparities and achieve a true meritocracy

Can you name that technology?
> this has been in development since 2014 (that's 8 years) and the official client is still missing features(!)

...is this sarcasm? I honestly can't tell
IANAL. Can a CLA be considered a "contract without consideration" and not legally enforceable?
The counterpoint here is that shipping the compiled binaries reduces a ton of uncertainty in terms of package version or compilation with non-standard options (cue potential reproducibility problems). Also different OSes will put libraries in different places (including different Linuxes). The last major benefit is that most OSes require root permissions to install packages, so Julia's approach works a lot better on systems where the user isn't root (e.g. most servers), and also means that the package manager doesn't have to know how to talk to the OS package manager for every OS that we support.

Lastly, if you want use system versions of C/C++ packages, you can do so using the preference system (see https://docs.binarybuilder.org/stable/jll/#Non-dev'ed-JLL-pa.... This isn't the default because it would make package installation a lot more annoying, but for deployment it very well may be what you want to do.
The (Mostly) Forgotten Battle for American Independence in Yorkshire
> I still am baffled by the degree of refusal to pay. I share the instinct to avoid subscriptions. This still seems like a clear case where heavy users should make an exception.

If there was a nice little local square you liked to go to, to hang out and chat with your friends, and then some jerk, some world-class jerk, bought the square, and made all sorts of heavy-handed unnecessary changes that made it a shitty place to be, so you could barely have a conversation with your friends any more, and then he asked you to pay eight dollars a month to stay for more than half an hour, would you pay? Would you hand even a single red cent over to this guy?!
Some of those games 'require' an unofficial version of Steam's Proton which includes support for features in the underlying components that the official version can't ship.

Mostly it's an issue for video codecs in games (patents are the issue here), or games that use a less popular API. (From windows! Which has ~3 decades of APIs from multiple vendors. Let alone 10s (10-100 IDK) different ways of playing back audio or a video, or both at the same time.)

Some of the changes are simply more bleeding edge patches or game specific tweaks that are included faster than official releases include them.
No snark intended--sounds like it may not have been a well designed course. Hopefully it was at least explicit about being GA-based.
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I used to write about evolutionary computation, data science, and other tech bits. I'm on my sabbatical right now and mostly writing pieces with no real common theme. I recently wrote my own static site generator - that held me up a little!
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i don't write that often though
I hadn't heard that about Alice. The CMS hadronic calorimeter was built from brass in old Russian artillery shell casings.
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Small blog with some articles about my experiences from the startup world and a comprehensive list of great cafés from around the world.
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This appears to have been implemented by the security team, with the bugzilla issue originally made private / Mozilla staff only a month ago.

Mozilla has earned some trust here, I think. I'll be interested to see why this was done, can't imagine that'll be quiet forever.
I love your blog! One of the best websites I encountered
> Also of note is that this is the last major version of Firefox for Windows 7 and Windows 8

Note that this also means Windows 2012 and 2012R2.
Yes. That's the bootonce thing I was talking about. When we update the OS, we set the "bootonce" flag via bectl activate -t to ensure we fall back to the previous BE if the current BE is borked and not bootable. This is the same functionality we had by keeping a primary and secondary root partition in geom a and toggling the bootable partition via the bootonce flag in gpart.
Meanwhile, lots of progress in the IETF MIMI working group on standardising a protocol for DMA messaging interoperability using MLS for end-to-end encryption - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ralston-mimi-lineariz... is the proposal from team Matrix :)
Well the idea is orthogonal to performance really. Static types makes it simpler to automatically spot issues in the "static" portion of the code. It's also very useful for metaprogramming since types are included at runtime. Additionally it gives better documentation for free. Gradual typing wont be able to make interpretors faster though. A jit compiler could in theory take advantage of it but since CPython is not a JIT it will not.
Maybe Twitter just stopped artificially boosting pro-Ukraine content.
Under what jurisdiction am I allowed to create a policy to use whatever I want however I want? Playing the devils advocate I have to assume their lawyers didn't just pull this out of their asses?

Now I'm making a policy that I'm allowed to (ab)use Googles services however I want. They can find the policy themselves. God I hate Google.
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Mostly film photography that I was posting daily and also a few long-form software articles which I'd like to write more of.
These appear to be a worldwide phenomenon, except for places like Switzerland or Singapore.

I'm this close to putting some ethanol into a hand sprayer and just walking around and removing them from places where the medium is permanent marker on laminated surface (usually signs).
I only did a Bachelors in Engineering - super passionate about electronics when I started! Had zero interest when I finished - something to do with academia (and I come from a very academic family background)