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1. research talent. There's not actually that many people in the world that can adequately fine-tune a large cutting-edge model, and far fewer that can explore less mainstream paths to produce value from models. Only way to get good researchers is to have name-brand leaders, like a top ML professor.

2. data. Can't do anything custom without good training data! How to get this varies widely across industry. Partnerships with established non-tech companies are a common path, which tend to rely on the network and background of founders.

Even with both those things it's not easy to outcompete a large, motivated company in the same space, like a FAANG. They have the researchers, they have the data and partnerships, so the way to beat them is to move quickly and hope their A- and B-teams are working on something else.
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I don’t think it’s about being strict or condescending. In some HN readers the post will show up in a different catalogue and generally be easier for people to find, thus giving the post more visibility :)

Edit; typo
Meanwhile, AWS is charging $8 an hour for their top of the line gpu server.
What's the recommended 'size' of the machine to run this?

I tried to run it on a pretty beefy machine (8 core cpu/32 GB RAM) to use with ~40 odd PDF documents. My observation is that the queries (chat) takes forever and also getting Segmentation fault (core dumped) for every other or so query.
The price should be the price. Advertising any dollar amount less than what the customer actually has to pay should be fraud.

Even taxes should be included in prices.

And this has to be a top-down, legal thing, rather than something companies can opt-in to, because I think the business consequences of being the only one in your industry with transparent pricing would generally be lethal, and I've heard stories of restaurants going out of business due to including taxes in their prices. People want to pay less, and they'll go to the place they think will charge less. So this has to be enforced top-down.
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I've had very similar experiences with Airbnb.

Other deceitful line items:

* Paying for a cleaning fee and then in the terms and conditions they charge additional fees if you don't clean the listing
* Terms and conditions that add additional liability, binding arbitration, and all kinds of additional items that were never disclosed in the listing
* The above items were never disclosed and vaguely referenced in some random fine print that was not provided before you booked and then airbnb will not issue a refund if you cancel.

Honestly, the problem with airbnb is that they are a middleman that sits between the host and you. They really won't do much to help you when you call customer service, and they won't help you in ways most hotels would help you if you called and had a problem. It's really not a great experience as soon as you need customer service from them. The hosts add all kinds of nonsense rules when you show up or after you book that are never disclosed and they do nothing about it. There is even a news article where the CEO spent a bunch of time living in airbnbs and said he experienced all this nonsense, but still nothing is done about it.

I really enjoy the authentic experiences at airbnb, but I've been burned too many times and think it's outrageous to spend thousands of dollars on high end airbnbs and pay fees for things like cleaning and then be expected to clean on my vacation or be subject to some nonsensical rule and worry my whole vacation. I'm really torn about whether it's a good service or whether it sucks but you should know what you're getting into.
The argument is 'The only use case it is good for is fraud. Fraud dwarfs all the other use cases.'

Shares in a ponzi scheme aren't worthless, but the only use case for running one is fraud.

Crypto acolytes constantly point fingers at crypto 'usecases' that nobody actually uses, and constantly gloss over that the only popular usecases are robbing people and getting robbed[1].

[1] Plus a small cottage industry of making and selling guns and ski masks to the robbers. That would be the 'This rugpull was audited by <some crypto audit firm>' line item in those posts.
Can you describe what in this situation warrants it?

I'm very curious about where the line is/should be.
Ad-hoc mode, also called WiFi Direct, gets used in other services. It is used in AirDrop and Android equivalents.

Hotspot mode destroyed the use of connecting to internet. It is easier for devices to connect to hotspot than setup ad-hoc connection. My impression is that there is assumption that WiFi Direct isn’t routed.
I worked at a place where we thought there was value into putting it together in one neat package with a bow.

That is, a lot of people are thinking at the level of "let's build a model" but for a business you will need to build a model and then update it repeatedly with new data as the world changes and your requirement changes.

There would be a lot to say for a solution that includes tools for managing training sets, foundation models, training and evaluation, packages stuff up for inference in a repeatable way, etc.

One trouble though is that you have to make about 20 decisions or so about how you do those things and developing that kind of framework people get some of them wrong and it will drive you crazy because other people will make different wrong decisions than you will. (To take an example, look at the model selection tools in scikit-learn and huggingface. Both of these are pretty good for certain things but they don't work together and both have serious flaws... And don't get me started with all the people who are hung up on F1 when they really should be using AUC...)

So given the choice of (a) building out something half baked vs (b) fighting with various deficiencies in a packaged system, you can't blame people for picking (a) and "Just doing it". (Funny enough I always told people at that startup that we'd get bought by one of our customers, I thought it was going to be a big four accounting firm, a big telecom, or an international aerospace firm but... it turned out to be a famous shoe and clothing brand.)
Always cut out unnecessary middlemen.

Agreed. Especially since the hotels I've inquired with freely admit they put middlemen/broker bookings into the bad rooms (noisy, bad floors, bad views, bad location, not renovated, next to the exhaust of the restaurant next door, old electronics and furniture, etc.) first, until those fill up.
Make sure you’re taking creatine daily, some very promising data around brain injuries and I think it won’t do any harm. Hope you feel better soon.
That needs context: Those southern democrats were recruited into the Republican party with the inception of Nixon's "southern strategy." That started in the early 1970's. They are now the backbone of the MAGA movement.
> Wouldn't it be possible to create way more energy efficient model that has an outside body?

Lots of shops (think mostly of butchers, charcuterie or take-away restaurants) here in Argentina do this, I think mostly to avoid all that heat and noise being trapped in the premises.
Yep, we're planning a trip right now and have completely foresworn AirBnB because of this. I suspect they're less than five years or so from the trash heap of history. Which is really a bummer because they made travel so much more fun for me a decade ago. But I guess I was just being subsidized by VCs.
And what does that last sentence mean?

"The BBC understands that a representative of Etsy has met with UK government officials."
With all that investment in addresses I'm surprised AWS is still the first cloud provider to charge for them. (As far as I know.) It will be interesting to see if other cloud providers will follow, and if the cloud providers compete over the price or just match AWS. It kind of feels like AWS charging for V4s will "give permission" to other providers to charge.

I'm also curious if the price will come down over time as addresses are yielded back. I guess it depends on if their goal is to recoup all the money they spent on addresses, or just to avoid running out.
Many people lack the business skills, resources, or temperament for starting their own business. So this is certainly an option but not a panacea.
You're listing the benefits for the website, and you're right -- those benefits are why sites do this.

But what it's really doing is lightening the burden on the server by increasing the burden on the client. There is little benefit to your readership. And allowing client-side scripts also decreases security and privacy.
Every time I've tried to stray from LaTeX 2e to something else TeX or TeX adjacent such as LaTeX 3 I've always found that programmatically generating LaTeX 2e is easier for me, often because I don't have time to learn how to do it "properly" or the macro packages I want to use aren't available, etc.
After tax, in many places you have to work a _decade_ at the median wage for a house (or in some places considerably more). And yet people buy those.

Domestic appliances really have gotten dramatically cheaper relative to earning power, pretty much everywhere. Have a look at some old prices and compare to median wages; it's really fairly dramatic for most stuff.
Specially since companies are moving to selling you the service of repairs. It's well know that fridges with water coolers and ice makers are very prone to breaking. I like the features in the video though, as those are just fancy shelves that are unlikely to break. Nowadays, most fridge special features come in the form of complex electronics, IoT and other tech that is likely to break within a couple years.
I think this depends on the application. For a complex spa, sure. But for something like a news site or social media the extra load time feels horrible. It's preferable to use server side rendering as much as possible. That also means you gotta speed up your database queries, which is where techniques like in the OP come into play.
There's a tool called PugSQL that looks promising for Python, but it seems that async isn't directly supported yet[0]. If I ever find time, I'd love to jump on this and make it work, but nobody should hold their breath for that.

[0] https://github.com/mcfunley/pugsql/issues/44
I meant “anti-gun,” that was a typographical error.

What did you think of the article I sent?

I’m not triggered by anything. I’m not trolling. I’m just disappointed.
That article’s conclusion reads like AI content.

As an aside, I’m not sure if I’ve just made a low value comment. If someone comes to the comments first, I hope they’re informed of my conclusion and take that into consideration before clicking through. I wonder how dang feels about these sorts of comments.
Airlines are a lot like central banks (2020)
Twitter neighbours complain of lit-up ‘X’ sign working at high intensity
I will say that they would also be a player in many of the metals utilized in hydrogen fuel cells as well.
While I really like the idea of a split system approach you run into some big installation issues. Namely, the refrigerant is a restricted product that can only be handled by licensed professionals.

Thus, what I would like to see is a system where the refrigerator has two air pipes to the outside and a concept of heating/cooling load. It would have an ambient temperature thermostat that would say to reject heat indoors if it's below X degrees in the room, otherwise reject it to the outdoors. It would also have the concept of using outdoor air in lieu of it's compressor if it was cold enough.

(And I would like to see an integrated HVAC temperature control, also--you set the minimum, ideal and maximum temperatures. If ambient air can be used in lieu of power it does so--and stops at the ideal temperature rather than the limit temperature. Instead of heat/cool/off settings you have on/vacation/off, in vacation mode it only enforces the minimum and maximum and ignores the ideal and it has different settings for minimum and maximum. And, yes, I want a maximum when on vacation--I don't want to bake the insides at the 110F that could easily happen in the summer here.)
Not quite, you can define an illegal move as losing the game, and winning/losing is a “meta-observation” - ie if the player wins/loses, you don’t invoke another search.
I think Etsy brings in the customers too. It is like a YouTube channel, right? Etsy have control over the consumer relations you build up.

I.e.much more screwing possibility than say Shopify or PayPal.
> Cars are creating that risk for them.

What BS. It is their choice to do things dangerous to themselves and others. If the road is too unsafe, then don't use an ebike. Period. Putting pedestrians at risk is disgusting. When the scooter craze started, I watched in horror, during my 1 hour commute by walking, as they moved to the sidewalk. Whipping in and out of pedestrian traffic, I was bumped a few times, but had no collisions. Those collisions could have been fatal, btw, as the scooters were going 15-20 mph. I definitely read about local pedestrian/scooter collisions, some people being seriously hurt. It is illegal to ride them on the sidewalk where I am.
I think it's an obvious fake, the account is trolling on multiple fronts.
The real "edge" is the users device, I'm 100% sold on the concept of "local first". There is a great community building around this: https://localfirstweb.dev/

The point is, by the time you have solved all the problems with consultancy and sync to an edge node, you are most of the way to local first.
It's just checking the url header and can probably be spoofed easily enough.

It was a minor protection to stop the rampant copying and posting to hundreds of Flash sites that would take people away from going to your site to play the game, where you might have some ad revenue on it. It became less popular to do that once libraries existed that could embed ads within the game itself.

I never did either, and didn't make any money off my Flash games (except a little money from a commissioned game, seems like a pittance nowadays) :/. Did help me get into the game industry professionally, though.
Seems like Investors are cautious and not getting on the hype train blindly (cough.. crypto/blockchain cough..). I think that is a good thing. AI has real use cases but currently it is going through the hype cycle especially with every Tom Dick and Harry starting an "AI Startup" which are mostly a wrapper around ChatGPT etc. I think in next 5-7 years, AI will stabilize and most of the "get rich quick" types would have disappeared. Whatever is left then will be the AI and its future.
What distro did you move to? IME debian as a base image for python app containers is also kind of a pain.
How much if any does Netflix and Sony give to the FreeBSD foundation either in fiat currency donations and/or engineering time donated?

Netflix uses it at their core for the CDN stuff. I think the core of PlayStation OS is FreeBSD. So I’m curious how much these companies are supporting the foundation at.
Imagine that level of insulation on everything, including the door. Kids aren't under the oven and can't touch that, so it's often not insulated or insulated badly (which should be taken into consideration when designing a kitchen).
Dasung actually make a 13" version of this, which I own and have used outside in Egypt a lot while I lived there. It's a VERY sunny country, and normal laptop screens are almost unusable outside.

My model is a few years older and things have probably improved since then (quality, refresh rate, interop with the OS to trigger things like full refreshes), but it was already fairly workable back then.

I also use a phone with an e-ink screen (Hisense A9) as my daily driver and it's quite nice, some software issues notwithstanding.
> you can backlight an e-ink display too

And you could read OLED at noon in the tropics under an umbrella (I know I did) - but I was exactly talking about optimal use.

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~~~ Ben Franklin

A wise guy does not, unless necessary

~~~ We, here and now
There are points where it is, particularly political speech.
Research / talent is how Mistral was able to justify its valuation at 3 weeks old. Pre product, pre anything.
The trick is picking a place to bury it; apparently all the US states with suitable locations for nuclear plants somehow lack suitable locations for waste storage, or else they wouldn't insist on shipping it to a state without any nuclear plants at all (oh but it was also the one state that got repeatedly nuked during tests, so I guess that makes it okay).
Sure, but the comment I was responding to referenced auditing the DoD.

This is a whole different can of worms :)
Three things that hardly matter for thousands. You can still boil water and simmer with the cheap stove. My parents stove is probably well over two decades old and never needed a repair for anything. I imagine a techician will have an easier time repairing a basic gas range where all the parts are generic compared to getting the miele certified mechanic out or whatever.
If Vincent van Gogh Was Your Career Coach
Formula E’s first visit to a proper American racetrack saw packed stands
There are a number of “standards”, but e.g. Liebherr are using 6kV for their newer small electrified excavation equipment. Cable size obviously varies based on the needs of the equipment, but “not small”, and yes, they are routinely surface-laid around the site. Larger sites do the predictable step-down thing to reduce IR losses.

Many of these systems have been around for quite a while, but the move into smaller scale (sub-100t) gear seems to be picking up.
I think Dunkin can be good but knowing which franchises are the "good ones" takes trial and error.
Yeah, this matches exactly my experience from two decades ago.

I have also learned much more by fixing Linux, while my FreeBSD servers ran unattended for months or years.
What kind of keyboard is that in the header image?
Explained.ai seems to be Terrence Parr's personal site
But that's the thing. We don't want today's gadgets. We don't need internet connected fridges, apps and other breakable IoTs. We just want more usable fridges.
If you are training an HN parody LLM, this is a perfect discussion to add to your training set, featuring all the canonical archetypes—including my comment among them.

The headline and post read like top shelf parody too, as if synthetically generated to summon we archetypes.
It makes sense for large vehicles - a passenger plane from New York to London will never make sense for batteries, but could be done with hydrogen.

Similarly, cargo ships can't run on batteries, but could fairly trivially be switched to hydrogen with only minor loss in storage capacity (1-5%).

The benefit of hydrogen is that it was functioning just fine in the 1960s, there aren't any outright technical showstoppers here; just financial problems and technical problems that are hard to solve cheaply.

I'm not saying that hydrogen is the best solution (if synthfuel pans out then it'll be a perfect drop-in replacement for existing jet fuel), but it's a solution that exists today. It's there if we care.

Obviously we don't care, since coal plants are still around, but if we genuinely wanted to stop using fossil fuels ASAP then it would permit us to keep using planes/cargo ships.
"Apple isn't selling any laptops" wasn't what was said. The original claim was x86 has "thrown in the white flag" and that Apple dominates the laptop market, which is a pretty ridiculous claim since x86 is still the vast majority of laptop sales and Windows is still the dominant laptop OS.
Private equity, eh? RIP New Relic.
This position would have more merit if it held equally true across all degrees. Not counting the inevitable graduates in every field that don't pan out, is it actually equally true for every degree though? Usually when I see people unable to pay their student loans it's my friends who went for the humanities or the soft sciences. The people who chose their degree by treating it as an investment they wanted as high a return as possible from generally did well.
what a truly ridiculous question to ask the ceo of cloudflare.
That's been my experience at local shops in the US, but if I go into a big chain I know that what I'm getting is the stuff whose ingredients I looked up on the corporate website earlier.
I don't think freon fridges were inherently mechanically any more reliable than fridges using modern refrigerants. If anything slightly less so all else being equal, I'd have thought.
But because Covid was novel

Do you think the fact that it was orders of magnitude more fatal and transmissible had anything to do with it, or do you truly think it was just the "novelty" factor?
That's my take too. Companies are spending money in the wrong area. GPT and similar should be used to re-categorize all the data, or used to enhance their existing UIs by surfacing related information.

By just replicating a ChatGPT interface but for Your Taxes (TM) it's really a huge slap in the face to computer users that already can't tolerate typing data in.
Actually Linkwarden was tested on machine with only 2GB of memory and it ran pretty smoothly.
It didn't evaporate because it is constructed carefully not to, but that doesn't mean it isn't blazing hot, just like the gas burner on your stove can be made out of aluminum which would be melted by the flame if it ever became mis-aligned.

But that doesn't mean the flame has a temperature lower than the melting point of aluminum, it just means that whoever designed it knew enough to ensure that the aluminum is never exposed to more than that it can handle in spite of being in close proximity to something that is able to melt it instantly. The biggest factors there are flame shape, stand-off and cooling effect of the gas supply itself.

Note that when you casually write 'plasma' that you are talking about material that is so hot that it has shed all of its electrons, it is just the nuclei that you're looking at and if it so much as touches anything at all it will waltz right through it as if it isn't there. See also: plasma cutters[1] for a nice demonstration of what happens when you use these facts to your advantage. But for things like plasma based fusion they are a very tricky problem because you have to maintain the plasma while simultaneously extracting energy from it.

The device shown in the video is very, very nice and well engineered, it is amazing that they got it work as well as they did with such simplicity but the process is eminently unsuitable for energy generation as far as I understand this stuff, keeping the plasma stable and cooling the whole thing uses many kilowatts. It's an improvement over a linear accelerator or a tokamak for the production of short lived nucleotides it is not an energy generating device.

[1] Plasma cutters also don't instantly disintegrate the cutting tip, that's because they blow copious air through the nozzle to keep the hot plasma away from the tip itself and to direct it onto the workpiece that you are cutting. But woe to you if your air pressure unexpectedly drops.
Someone else has already posted a good source for it. But I just wanted to add here that the Heritage Foundation is a conservative think tank particularly known for pushing "free-market economics" (read as: neoliberal policies of hyper-privatisation) so obviously it's on their best interest to label countries such as the nordic ones more capitalist than socialist.

And I mean, yeah, nordic countries for sure participate in the free-market... but Capitalism is defined by private ownership; so when you have such important portions of your economy be collectively, socially or communally owned (state, coops, labour unions) it's misleading to use such labels so lightly. These are mixed-economies, and I would even go as far as to say they're more socialist than capitalist.

Socialism does have a bad reputation though. So I don't blame for these countries to label themselves as "capitalist"; i mean, it's better for business.