skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean we just learned this month that Twitter is paying hundreds of millions of dollars every year to Google Cloud (as part of the bill Elon decided he didn't want to pay) so is $2B really that strange, given that I also thought we knew Twitter isn't spending a majority of its money with Google?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-21/twitter-r...

Regardless, I did a Google search for "twitter hosting costs" and it turns out Elon supposedly said on some call in December that they were spending $1.5B/year.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34116454

Maybe you don't trust that, but it was widely reported that he wanted it cut by $1B, so it would be difficult to square it up any other way at that point.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-orders-twitter-cut-i...

Now, maybe we also generally don't trust Elon as a source for any of these numbers (and I am starting to become suspicious of his use of "1.5 billion" to mean "a lot, but specific enough to avoid sounding like an off the cuff lie"); but again: it doesn't seem strange given the other information we learned this month... and, frankly, since we are looking at Elon's decision not to pay $5M we simply get to analyze all other facts by accepting them from Elon if it undermines his own point as we are actually being charitable by accepting his own numbers and quoting them back to him.

So like, given that it took way more typing for you to throw shade/FUD at the $2B number than it did for me to get what I think is a more than reasonable level of verification, can you explain why your prior was so strong against this number that you felt that someone saying $2B was super unreasonable but you calling them out on it without any explanation is fine? It just sucks that it is so easy to make people doubt a fact with nothing more than a strong challenge for a source.
I think it's very clear that we /could/ engineer an automotive system that is much safe, even without self-driving tech, by modeling it on the aviation system: much more rigorous licensing requirements, certifications based on vehicle type, third-party traffic control, filing "drive plans", obsessive focus on reliability and safety. It would look a lot different from the current system, and there is no political will to get there, but the thought experiment shows that we /could/ prevent most car accidents.
What would you call the ability of a type to communicate information such as the range of values that can be passed into a function?
>Unless you sync disk state to remote storage on every write, wouldn't you always lose some writes

You can trade durability for availability (the database isn't useable until the disk is available). You'd have some sort of redundant disk setup (on top of normal backups)

You run into the same problem with RDBMS like Postgres. If you enable synchronous replication, you go from 1 SPOF to 2 (both servers need to be available to ack a write or you lose your redundant data guarantee).
I think performative acts in a one-upsmanship race to who can be the most socially conscious are excellent joke fodder. In other words, the topics of these stupid code of conduct arguments have nothing at all to do with anybody's actual struggle or dignity, but just a sign that folks are running out of easy real battles to fight so they're making up new ones because they've not got much better to do.
I would love to know how dev resources are being spent there. Feels like every blog article these days is touting some small enhancement as some big feature. Meanwhile GitHub is pushing out actual new features.
> because they had a monopoly over the local distribution of information

Not to worry, several US states still have draconian laws to keep the local newspaper in business. In NYS, when you start a LLC or corp, you have to publish an announcement in 2 papers in the state announcing it and get certificates from the paper proving it. Of course there are ever so convenient "business papers" to leech off it. Some law makers tried to change that a few years ago and queue the lobbyist outrage.
Going after mentions of "fields" is going to make 2024 a lot of fun.
I take advantage of this thread to ask about an educational idea that is connected with hardware but is not looking for a business but a way of social contribution.

The idea is to do basically something like Romo [1] (they closed) but at the cheapest price possible (assuming a level of quality). This is along the lines of OLPC [2]. I imagine a simple vehicle that is controlled by a mobile "smart" device and you can take the advantage of the capabilities of this device (e.g. camera).

The Bandai SmartPet Robot Dog is at USD ~52 now [3]. How cheaper can all this? Not assuming worker cost just components, it can be open hardware. I understand that a level of quality should be achieved. For example, the motors used should be protected against burn.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/peterseid/romo-the-smar...

[2] https://laptop.org/

[3] https://www.japantrendshop.com/bandai-smartpet-robot-dog-p-1...
Opensearch Trickery: Playing Wordle from the Firefox Address Bar
i’m curious, what’s is the approach for maintainable and decoupled various gpu backends?
Is Pay Transparency Good? [pdf]
Regardless, I think we’re in a place where Twitter is no longer a reliable platform on which to post public notices.

I’m talking emergency services updates, bureau weather warnings, security breach notifications etc.

Twitter as a reputable reliable public town square is no longer.
Even Meta is betting that Activity Pub is the future here.
This is different but I'm surprised it doesn't mention talk(1) https://man.netbsd.org/talk.1
I guess it depends what endpoint you are talking about. The actual vaccine was pretty quick, it was the phases of testing that took longer: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1682852/000119312520...
"What if" is all these "existential risk" conversations ever are.

Where is your evidence that we're approaching human level AGI, let alone SuperIntelligence? Because ChatGPT can (sometimes) approximate sophisticated conversation and deep knowledge?

How about some evidence that ChatGPT isn't even close? Just clone and run OpenAI's own evals repo https://github.com/openai/evals on the GPT-4 API.

It performs terribly on novel logic puzzles and exercises that a clever child could learn to do in an afternoon (there are some good chess evals, and I submitted one asking it to simulate a Forth machine).
It looks like you can view individual tweets, but you can’t view accounts, so you have to have a link directly to a tweet to see it.
They certainly give away a few of those spots, but the price is a significant donation that will cover more than one student who needs financial aid, and the Ivies give very generous aid to those that need it. I know more than one person that chose an Ivy because they got significantly more aid than from other elite schools to which they were accepted.
Given the countless environmental challenges we are facing (and causing), we should more seriously and openly consider putting a stop to exponential population growth as an (at least short-term) solution.
It’s astonishing how some people preach blind faith in our ability to just find solutions for problems caused and exacerbated by never-ending population growth without identifying it as the root cause. Why is it a given that the earth can just withstand whatever we throw at it?
Manhattan project is the epitome of fast.
IIRC, Petri Nets were invented by Carl Petri at the age of 13 to model chemical reactions. It would be something if this platform uses them under the covers!
"Lots of good advice simply doesn't scale." —Paul.Graham

I definitely think "Made by Humans" will become an increasingly-popular product highlight.

Beautiful effort. Wish I still served alcohol =D
"The second round of Alto 3, with a plan to manufacture entirely from commercial components, was canned in favor of the Xerox Star – a scope-crept project which included an OS and hardware, later only the OS with matching hardware."

The Star was essentially the Dandelion which was PARC's own affordable successor to the Alto - a similar soft machine but implemented with then-commodity AMD2900 bit-slice. As far as I know, the Altos were all manufactured entirely from commercial components (7400 TTL mostly). To really commercialize would require a formal PCB design rather than wirewrap and perhaps a more designed enclosure.
This whole thread reads like backlash to the async hype, not so much the merits of the paradigm itself.
Ontario looks to build first full-scale nuclear power plant in decades
> How does a hospital not have in-house anesthesiologists? Are they really cutting costs by scheduling medical technicians like they're picking up shifts at Taco Bell?

Don’t work in healthcare, but if I were to venture a guess it’s around liability. If the patient is in a surgery and dies the anesthesiologist is probably one of the first to get blamed.
Ah yes I've read about the infamous capacitor plague :D.

So you start by just doing a visual scan of all the caps on a board to see if any are bulging? If nothing is apparent, where do you go from there?
Cheers. Nice to see something whiskey related that isn’t trying so hard to communicate the usual whiskey stereotypes.
That gets you a sale, bro. :)

Now my family can see my calendar easily.
I would argue many local papers could just be a monthly town newsletter. Lol.
I like your sense of humor. The engineers used to jokingly call this the "Orphanator -- the seat so safe only the kids survive the crash." Our marketing people told us to leave the ideas to them....

In a collision, rigidity is actually the enemy. A well designed seat should never be reusable after a crash because all the materials yielded to dump energy.
It is better to have energy diverted into stretching, bending, and breaking materials than have it channeled into a baby's body.

We don't use steel (except for one rod), but we do use a lot of 5000 series machined aluminum which is powder-coated. Aluminum is preferable because it is better for creating crumple zones where the materials yield. The other primary material we use is polycarbonate because it has fantastic impact resistance (polycarbonate is used in "bullet-proof glass"). I'll let the marketing team know their materials description failed to impress you :)
It's nice to be nice to people.

This is the sort of argument that seems silly to your kids, because there's no reason not to.

You're arguing from a place of "why?" against "why not?", it's not some grand civilizational struggle, and it's completely off-topic for this article, especially escalating it. Very woke.
If those people are saying it is, then you gotta take their word for it.

But it is beside the point! Whether or not any given effort is actually meaningful or not will be always hard to measure. But the world around prompts us to at least try, and making light of people trying to do something good, however wrongheaded it might turn out to be, is always a jerk move.

This tendency to try and call out things like this is always so illogical. Those who protest, always seem to protest a little to much, and I can never understand how they don't see that and how bad it makes them look!
Is there something about the actual profiler that differs from existing tools like pyinstrument [1] or py-spy [2]? I know pyinstrument has various output options and I wonder if it could potentially output something readable by the Firefox Profiler tool.

[1] : https://github.com/joerick/pyinstrument
[2] : https://github.com/benfred/py-spy
During an Indirect Prompt Injection Attack, an adversary can also force the creation of issues in private repos and things along those lines.

I wrote about some of these problem in the past e.g. see: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2023/chatgpt-plugin-vul... on how an attacker might steal your code.

Some other related posts about ChatGPT plugin vulnerabilities and exploits:

https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2023/chatgpt-cross-plug...

https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2023/chatgpt-webpilot-d...

Its not very transparent when and why a certain plugin gets invoked and what data is sent to it. One can only inspect afterwards basically.
It's basically effortless to implement such changes and helps foster a more inclusive and educated online community. Why can't we aim to right all wrongs? Just because there's more pressing issues doesn't mean we can't tackle all forms of injustice.
I think removing "master" is probably just virtue signaling, but so what? It's trivial for me to switch my projects to "main", and then I can get back to my life. It's a weird hill to die on.
Ah yes, the perennial “that guardrail we said will prevent this tech from eluding our control… we blew past that and this is good actually”

Comforting!
I completely missed it, wow! 404 now unfortunately, guess they're being slammed
Are they that, or is that your opinion?

Is your opinion on that on-topic?
I wouldn't say we're "running out" of real battles to fight. It's more like an analog of Gresham's law or the Bikeshed problem.
You can join me on telegram https://t.me/antonmurygin
Moving water against a gravitational potential has been done for literal millennia and no rocketry is required. A water pump will suffice.
I'll add it to the marketing team's todo list. Thanks for the heads up!
Bartek from the Deno team here. Sorry to hear that - we made great progress in making Deno drop-in replacement this year, but we certainly are not yet there 100%.

I'd love to hear what problems did you hit and look into solving them.
Regarding safety, do you have any links around the test results for the Kioma, or other car seats? You've mentioned a lot about the safety scores/test results in comparison to other car seats, but I couldn't seem to find a single mention of that stuff on the website? I also tried to see if something like Consumer Reports had a review of a Kioma car seat (either the current one or the carbon fiber one) but they had nothing.
http://www.neoncrystal.com

To be a blog or not to be
There’s the American Solidarity Party, which is sort of a niche take on the concept (since they’re based on Catholic Social Teaching, they’re liberal on matters of immigration and race), but curiously they’re like the only attempt at the quadrant after decades of the Libertarian Party being the biggest third party, alongside the Greens and countless further left, further right, centrist, single issue, and smaller libertarianish third parties.
Shell archive it was called? There used to be a lot of installers like that.
I have multiple machines with sata and nvme ssds across multiple generations of intel and AMD chips with no issues.

I hate random reddit news
In the end the issue it created did lead to the problem being solved. I don't think "not advanced enough" is really the issue here.

I think the main thing is that when you give GPT-4 access to tools and ask it to help with a problem, you are essentially outsourcing cognition. That means the machine possibly taking actions you didn't originally envision.
Diving into the world of AI-powered writing tools, Novel AI stands out as super user-friendly and flexible. It caught my eye, and I just had to see how well it could whip up a good piece of fiction.

I checked out everything, from how easy it was to use, to what it cost, and how good the output was. This all-in-one guide for 2023 is here to help you figure out if this writing tool is the right fit for you and worth your time.
https://0x7f.dev/

Elixir, Ecto, SQL, and a bit of devops notes and ideas.

There is a more personal section that will contain random ideas and observations.
This is the simplest thing somebody is going to post.

I make KeyboardBumps and sell them at https://KeyboardBumps.com

They were meant to be fun goofy tactile stickers for finding the right function keys. They ended up helping people with peripheral neuropathy (usually from chemotherapy or MS).
I actually don't think the Internet has been a good substitute for a local distribution of information. It's too global and too big. There's people who aren't from a neighborhood talking about it and skewing information about that neighborhood. Portland's supposed to be literally a BLM-flagged wasteland or something, y'know?

I'd really love for there to be a local newspaper that tells me a new bakery opened in town, or that the elementary school passed a new measure for students, or that there's going to be an art exhibit presented by some local artists. I want to know when there are some foster kitties looking for temporary homes, and a little articles about people who go all-out on halloween decor. The internet doesn't give this to me, not without a load of muck.
The article was not written by "HN." The author, Edward Luce, is an Oxford University graduate whose father holds the title of a baron in the UK, was at some point the Governor of Gibraltar, and then a member of the British parliament for 20 years. Do you think what he wrote stems from an anti-elite agenda? Or could it perhaps simply be good journalism, even if it means upsetting the powers that be?

I can't speak for the collective "HN" but the interest in this topic might have something to do with the fact that a lot of people here believe anything but meritocracy is suboptimal and ultimately self-defeating in the longer run.

I decided to share this also because, no matter the topic, it's been a while since I've read anything so succinctly put, and getting to the gist of the matter, gloves off.
I really wish I was working on Gitlab every day rather than GitHub / Actions. Gitlab’s UI / UX is so much less hostile to the user.

It’s a real shame that Gitlab’s pricing went up so much. I have no doubt that many of the clients I work with that are wasting countless hours trying to add core functionality and reliability to GitHub Actions would be on Gitlab.
Very slow Nerf cars.
Darwin Among the Machines tells the story of humankind's journey into the digital wilderness. Introducing a cast of familiar and not-so-familiar characters, historian of science George B. Dyson
Yes! A very long and tough journey but extremely exciting times... In 2015 we founded Submer (https://submer.com) with my brother-in-law (I know... we knew each other very well and for more than a decade) to try to solve the biggest problems in the data center industry with a highly-efficient liquid immersion cooling technology. These problems are now in an inflection point where all are converging. Among others:

- Chip thermal design power densities keep increasing in such a way that some chips are already impossible to cool unless using liquid and this is being highly accelerated by the end of Moore Law and the usage of more GPUs, ASICs and FPGAs for generative AI, graphics, crypto, HPC...

- Sustainability challenges. An average cloud data center using the typical evaporative air-cooling technologies consume about the amount of water in an Olympic swimming pool every two days and the overall DC industry and IT is estimated to consume more energy than the global air transport. 98% of the energy consumed by DCs is just rejected as heat into the atmosphere.

- The total cost of ownership of datacenters is being affected by the physical limitation of the chip densities increase and its cooling costs, the regulations and energy prices derived from the sustainability, the expensive buildings needed and its speed of construction and other challenges (supply chain, Ukraine war...)

I still remember the excitement of pitching to YC Fellowship batch back in 2015. We were able to get into the final ~100 interviews among 6,500 applicants, but unfortunately we weren't selected. It was still a great experience and motivation and the good news is we are now selling and manufacturing hundreds of MWs of our technology, serving customers worldwide and employing 100+ "Submerians".

Even without being a formal YC Alumni, I feel very grateful for the YC and Hacker News community for the inspiration it brings and very happy to see all these exciting hardware startups! Keep up with the good work!
Yea, usually it's prevailing market conditions, not just for finding employees but also retaining them.

Not giving raises is another form of increasing gradual attrition on purpose as well.
It has its shortcomings for sure, but AI is improving exponentially.

I think reasonable, rational people can disagree on this issue. But it's nonsense to claim that the people on the other side of the argument from you are engaging in "supernatural mumbo-jumbo," unless there is rigorous proof that your side is correct.

But nobody has that. We don't even understand how GPT is able to do some of the things it does.
Remember a "pay freeze" is a pay cut. Inflation does not stop just because the executives tie large amounts of their compensation to short term stock moves.
https://bayesianneuron.com - I barely have time to write anymore but its a blog in 2 parts, one is a modern more professional-esque where I write about ML, discrete optimization, and security. The other is a good old fashioned 90s style geocities type “space” where I rant and do random writings
This is getting so old. It’s also dated, modern JS is a pretty great language.
Interweaving tales of ancient inventors, unsung technological advancements, and future predictions, "Darwin Among the Machines" offers an enlightening exploration of the intricate relationship between human evolution and technology.

With an engaging narrative and insightful commentary, "Darwin Among the Machines" is a must-read for those intrigued by technology, history, and philosophy. The book challenges the boundaries of our understanding of life, evolution, and our technological future.
https://tomodachi94.github.io

Some Python and Lua content, as well as some other niche content.
Thanks for putting this together, love the name!
Some people like to appear self-made, but honestly college is what did it for me. I did tons of side projects and worked as a part-time SWE while in college. Still needed the full foundation to be confident in arbitrary tasks. I could get through my work without it, but it was narrow experience, and self-tutoring is harder / less reliable than anyone will make it look.
I’m sure we use those resources to defend Israel more effectively but I’m talking about using them for our own benefit.

Maybe with the US being energy independent we can let the Middle East move into the obscurity it so desperately needs. Once the stakes are more localized, they can work out their local issues without nations from halfway around the world getting PTSD trying to interfere.
Actively exploited vulnerability threatens hundreds of solar power stations
Concurrency is not "single core parallelism". Concurrency describes tasks/threads of execution making independent progress of each other. Parallelism describes tasks/threads actually running at the same time.
> For any billionaire, funding it would be a no-brainer.

Billionaires still want ROI.
> but in this era of cheap cloud instances, I'd be surprised if "not owning a <blank>" is any hindrance to support.

When you own a device, it doesn't cost you more (other than electricity) if you take longer while playing with it, and there's no extra cost (other than space) to having it ready to be used when necessary. When you rent a cloud instance, there's a direct monetary cost for every extra minute you take while investigating an issue, and it's less guaranteed that it'll be available when you need it.

Or, to put it more simply: unless he has his own personal device to play with, he'll have to spend extra money for every issue he investigates and every change he makes to the ARM support.
Also, it doesn't appear to show _replies_, so good luck with your multi-tweet threads. And if you click the username, it brings you to their profile, with a "something went wrong, try reloading" instead of their actual tweets. If you attempt to go directly to their profile, it brings you to the login page.

Quality stuff, this.