skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite likely exchange rates (0.70 in Dec 2001, 0.50 in Dec 2007). A lot of our house price inflation disappears when you denominate in USD.
I'm pretty sure that's actually wrong. Some math:

A16 is 200 sq mm of silicon while an H100 is about 800. That means you get about 100-120 A16's on a wafer, while you only get ~30 H100's (see https://www.silicon-edge.co.uk/j/index.php/resources/die-per...).

Let's assume yield is 100% to make things easier. The rated max power of the A16 is about 250W, while the H100 is quoted at 700W. Thus, a wafer of A16's is about 25-30 kW of power, while a wafer of H100's is about 21 kW.

Edit: Just clarifying, this is not about the Apple A16, but the Nvidia A16. The mobile process used by the Apple chips is built for much lower performance and power, so I can't imagine the two chips being anywhere near comparable - they fill two completely different roles.
Thank you so much. This really does mean a lot.
That's a strawman and you know it.
How’d you get this loan? Is it from a benevolent individual who just wants to make something happen?

If not and you got the loan from a bank, super curious how you were able to get the bank to trust that renting out the GPUs would cover the loan or if some other reasoning convinced them. Assuming you aren’t trying to turn this into a big business, that knowledge might help a lot of other players run similar programs and further democratize SOA GPU access.
This is very helpful. Thank you.
>> CLI tools to fetch, store and manipulate textual data and files. Maybe very simple GUIs.

Perl is great for this type of work. It is designed for concise text manipulation and it is very easy to be productive with a minimal amount of code:

https://opensource.com/article/22/2/text-based-code-perl
> Within the checkpoint, it's all government-run. This is why Clear subscribers still have to take off their shoes.

This isn't universally true, for instance at SFO checkpoints are run by a private contractor: Covenant Aviation Security or CAS. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenant_Aviation_Security
Gemini is what happens when people are so traumatized by years of the web platform being horrifying, they react to the other extreme and build something so bare-bones (with a policy of not allowing any kind of extension) that it will never become a general-purpose solution that most people will adopt.

And that's fine; if some people want their own sandbox so they can avoid the horrors of the WWW as much as possible, more power to them.

But let's not pretend this is going to be come a widely-used platform where people are going to be able to do but a small fraction of the things they can do on the web. Again: that's fine! But it can't and won't replace the web.
The author suggests that the program is sold on the basis of not requiring ID. This is untrue.
TensorDock Marketplace is another option: https://marketplace.tensordock.com/order_list

It's unique in that you can set your own prices, it's a true spot marketplace.. I've grabbed 2x3090 for $0.02/hr before.

Probably no good for training (can be interrupted any time with zero warning ssh just drops and that's it) but for my inference usecases it lets me spot heavy compute for pennies.
> You shouldn’t need root, you should have another person with admin rights as a backup plan.

What?

I am the only admin on about a dozen machines. I'm not outsourcing that to a friend. That trust model is much more flawed than separation of duties and permissions segmentation as part of my administration routine.
High gas prices and recessions are two of the best predictors of politicians losing elections. Degrowth will produce much more of both.
> "Legal doesn't always mean ethical."

Right now it's not given that it's legal. Most people are assuming that it's ok under fair use, but until the SCOTUS rules on it it's an unknown.

Given the potential economic impact on the original artist, the mechanical nature of the transformation and the fact that extracting the style of an artist's work could be deemed substantive, fair use is not in the least bit a slam dunk.

One could argue that use of this sort of AI robs the original artist of the fruits of their labour, neutering copyright protections, and produces works that substitute for the originals, without adding any creative input other than commanding the output from a machine. Given the intent of copyright law, judges would likely be receptive to this argument.
8 watts for the A16's TDP cannot be correct. Your phone CPU has a higher TDP. I saw 250 on Nvidia's website as a maximum.

Edit: Oh, you are talking about the Apple A16. Those chips are completely different in function, so sure.
Who’s “we” and what do you mean by “livable”? There’s no mainstream climate model that predicts the globe becoming uninhabitable for humanity. Even the worst case scenarios in well done models only show global growth slowing by a few percent without any climate mitigation. Meanwhile we have a carbon neutral technology, nuclear energy, that even with its problems can easily provide energy albeit at a higher cost than coal.

The predicted higher temperatures existed in the past and had some of the highest archeological rates of biodiversity. Thats not to say the outcome will be all positive; certainly some regions will encounter issues during the transition, but there’s also going to be a lot of opportunity opened up within the range of predicted outcomes by climate models. Increased agricultural production in northern regions, less cost of heating in many heavily populated areas, and of course new transport routes across the arctic. That’s not to mention all of the benefits fossil fuels are bringing to people much poorer than you in the global south.
because of reagent.
On the other hand, Bioshock was precisely the opposite: everything was sublime except for the title.
I think they’re talking about the coloring in `git diff`, `git log --patch`, etc, which defaults to red/green for removed/added lines, respectively. (This can be changed with the `color.diff.*` config options, as seen in git-config(1).) This UI also provides an alternative indication, in the form of -/+ indicators in the left column, but the coloring does help a lot—presuming that you can see it.
> Trouble with climate is my carbon footprint would likely go up in retirement rather than down

This is also one of my pet peeves with the "degrowth" movement's solution to climate change. Essentially they want to alleviate the problems not by innovating to do more with less, but to have people do less. This would mean less work for everyone, but obviously less work means more leisure time. Unless every decides to take up meditating, they're going to consume more during their leisure time, creating not only more work, but also more of every type of negative externality.
> let me the developer make that choice.

The final push towards making no-GIL as the only option is the big issue here. An optional no-GIL is ok (although a waste of time), making it default is bad.

>What if I want to use both of the cores to a Cortex M0

The solution to anything performant in Python is writing the C extension, just like Numpy did. Python isn't meant to be a performant language. The GIL allows you to write code without thinking about complexities of parallelism.
It takes a big man to admit that. But will it make any difference to Yglesias next economic argument? I'll wager that it doesn't.
In China alone, hundreds of millions of people now have a middle class lifestyle that 50 years ago did not. I suspect that far outweighs the number of people in countries that were already developed 50 years ago who fell from a middle class lifestyle back to subsistence farming.
CloudFlare’s last Warrant Canary was published over a year ago
Maybe it varies by airport. FWIW, I also see them ushered in front of the pre check line.
> author suggests that the program is sold on the basis of not requiring ID. This is untrue

But it is a benefit. I have flown without ID on account of losing it. Without Clear, TSA concocted an opera out of the matter. With it, it was entirely unremarlable.
It's more accurate to say, good luck telling the faux affluent they need to cut back on the mindless and excessive consumption.

For example, we know the negative impact of factory farming. We're also aware that too much animal protein has health consequences. And yet The West- as unhealthy as ever - can't help itself.
You're right, the GIL certainly doesn't automatically make all code thread-safe. However, it does make some operations that would normally be problematic in a multithreaded context thread-safe. Such as: appending to a list, updating a dict, modifying object attributes, and others.

https://docs.python.org/3/faq/library.html#what-kinds-of-glo...
How exactly was that dream going to happen with the global north constantly exploiting the global south anyway? (Asia seems to be doing just fine these days, so I don't know what you're talking about there.)
I had just heard about that conspiracy theory on NPR.
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/18/1188237695/this-right-wing-co...
Just because you make a lot of money now doesn't mean you won't get fucked later by your industry. Gotta protect your interests.

Also, just because you've made a lot of money in the past doesn't mean you shouldn't speak up for the many many many many MANY people that don't or haven't (and might not in the future if the studios get their way!)
It has mostly to do with whether you’re infected with a stinky bacteria or not. That part is chance. Also, how much food you produce for them while sweating, genetic.

I learned this the hard way—never share bar soap with anyone else. Once you have been introduced with a stinky strain it’s too late.
It isn't, but at the same time pop culture isn't automatically low quality either. I think blind call to actions based on gut feelings without understand WHY those gut feelings exist are exactly the kinds of things we should discourage here.

I use the collorary for evaluating stuff like this. I care less about a high polished acedemic answer than I do about the resulting discussion not diving into a dumpster afterwrds. For here, I don't see a de-evolution into COVID denailism and anti-vaxxers or even random anecdotes of an off the hinge relative who died and the OP has to be like "I told him but he wouldn't listen", like I would on reddit. I see interesting discussion on a topic that is still a very hotly researched topic even in academia. Ways to potentially get checked or self help to mitigate effects.

No one is an expert on "long COVID" yet, so it's interesting to see experiences (and IMO, see how they age as we learn more about such phenomenon).
Mandating encryption scares me because it limits being able to be seen online to only those with control over DNS.

And there's too many countries that have power to mess with their citizen's DNS resolving, and too many ways for domain names to be taken down.

This is creating a system filled with more absolutes than there should be. And the people doing the encrypting aren't willing to put in any time or effort for other basic affordances. If we could do opportunistic encryption, which isn't really trustworthy (that it's not being mitm) but has many upsides like letting you know you're still talking to the same people for ex - I think if we had an ever more robustening and not ever narrowing stance for what we could do to encrypt the picture of security happening would be much less scary. But we are letting more and more layers of systems have to be involved, with more chokepoints for governments, in a way that seems ossifying & fragile.
Synthetics dry a lot faster than cotton.
or we do nothing and just let the earth do it? then things will correct themselves for awhile again, see cheapest and simplest option!
The list of many PlantUML kind of tools https://xosh.org/text-to-diagram/
FWIW I tired to look up some numbers, i found California "industrial" electricity at $0.18/Kwh https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph... and H100s using 300-700w https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/h100/ which implies a worst case marginal cost of .18*.7 = $.126 / gpu / hour. Looks like Montana is cheapest at ~$.05 / kwh which would bring that down to $.035. So there may be about a $0.09 California premium (vs the absolute cheapest possibility), which as you say is a small amount of the total cost, but could be material for large workloads.
Ah, the "homemade ORM" anti-pattern. My condolences.
over regulation and taxes
Also the example cases they tested on (Ising model for LR, LJ for short range) are almost too trivial..
You hardly need to go anywhere near "the globe becoming uninhabitable for humanity" before you run into pretty devastating consequences for significant percentages of the world's population. And even if we encouraged poorer countries to burn as much cheap fossil fuel as they possibly could to improve their standards of living, I very much doubt it would even come close to enabling them to mitigate against some of the worst sorts of natural disasters and weather extremes that are expected to be more severe and frequent as the planet continues to warm. Though realistically it won't be lack of cheap energy that continues to hold back economic development for much of the world anyway.
You’re completely right in everything you say about growing sustainably and making some money over time. But if this project is VC that all goes out the window and it won’t be profitable unless it massively galactus scales to compete with AWS in 5-7 years, and will fail after that almost certainly, like the vast, vast majority of VC projects.
I was struggling to figure out how to engage with all this articles presuppositions, but I think you've basically nailed it.
I don't think it has to be as binary as "nothing" or "we found the cure for cancer".

we do these experinebts on mice due to similar-ish brain chemistry. It hopefully leads to controlled human studies and then we start devloping medicine that way. It's always a process.
Admittedly Marx is more generous than you- he didn’t want a hard upper limit in wealth and rather thought wealth would increase further after the transition. So yes you do differ from Marx in that you’re a bit harder on people.
multiprocessing is very good solution for scatter-and-gather (or map/reduce) type workloads:
for example ssh to 1000 machines, run some commands, grab output, analyze output, done some action based on output, etc

if you are managing a fleet of machines and have some tasks to do on each machine, then multiprocessing is the life saver.
What a beautiful and articulate thought. thank you
how is that a strawman?
The thing that I always wonder about when we talk about anti-trust action to break up big companies like this... how will that actually fix things? If Chrome, Inc. was its own independent company, it would still be incentivized to do things that Google Ads, Inc. wants.

Mozilla is barely able to fund itself, and a big chunk of that funding comes from Google. Surely Google is careful to avoid any overt impropriety with that relationship, since they don't want to come under more regulator scrutiny. But why would a Chrome, Inc. care about that sort of thing? They'd take the same money from Google Search, Inc. that Mozilla does to keep Google as its default search engine. They'd still happily implement WEI and other garbage that Google Ads, Inc. wants, and Google Productivity, Inc. would still ensure that Docs, Sheets, Drive, etc. are all super-compatible with Chrome (and work with the Chrome team to ensure that's the case), and not care so much about other browsers.

I have no doubt that things would be better if we were to break up big conglomerated companies like this, but I'm not entirely sure that breaking up Google would achieve the goal of helping the web remain open.
Perhaps, but the lifestyles of the rich and famous are still something the masses tend to hope to emulate.
I've only been here since 2015 so I'm not bringing much more than an early middle-aged viewpoint, in HN years. But I noticed a big uptick of this starting to happen when cryptocurrency people began proselytizing aggressively around 2016, 2017, so much so that I actually made an account to push back on it in some small way (my handle was originally blockchainoffools, but the hn handle limits knocked my block off) having been only a lurker for a couple years prior. Then it seem like the S/N regained some of its old strength for a bit. However the noise (and the halo of meta-noise such as this very comment) surged again to a degree that dwarfs the intensity of the crypto invasion, when first twitter and then reddit announced the end of free 3rd party API access.
> Basically I'd like to know what your alternative proposal is.

We already did it. The only thing we did to materially improve security in air travel since 9/11 is fortifying the cockpit doors. It's super effective.
This is why I have trouble watching Seinfeld. So many works have copied or been inspired by it that I've seen every trope or plot in other media beforehand.
This is one acceptable workaround. Generally having caching at this point is unnecessary, and it's probably a good idea or developers to pay special attention if doing this.

If you have a longer-running query you could alternatively construct a Query resource of some sort and then GET it until it's ready.
I've had my fair share of dentists who do unnecessary treatments. Really like this one.

Re the polishing, I guess not? Since I switched to an electric toothbrush a few years ago my teeth definitely stay smoother longer.
Just so you know if you impose draconian measure we rise up and revolt.
This may work for you, I’m not positive that the recommendations are globally applicable though…

Argument based largely on things not occurring in nature… especially loaded phrases like ”frankenlab,” “artificial perfume crap,” and “naturally scented” actually weaken your argument here by appealing to some sense of “what’s natural” instead of a less inflammatory description of what’s worked for you.
If everyone were a realist, we wouldn't have half the advances we do. Because what can be "real" is proven wrong through innovation, after all isn't that disruption? :)

Sam Altman talks about this quite frequently, that it's not intelligence or luck necessary for an enduring innovation. It is persistence in the face of inevitability, and a high tolerance for being proven wrong and still persisting
People saying recent sunscreen use is a confounding variable may not be aware that the major cause of melanoma is childhood sun over-exposure.
I see it as progress, not a cure. Is there anything wrong with reporting progress?
They’re avaricious bastards, it’s what they are. Huge, vast amounts of money flows through businesses and straight to landlords in London, strangling investment in small businesses, their employees and the wider economy. Businesses with high margins, low inventory and low unskilled staffing costs win.

In Germany, I note that thousands of small businesses flourish that vanished from London’s streets - I have a choice of places to have a kitchen knife sharpened, for example - and while London holds vast opportunity, I fear that its breadth is severely constricted and whole areas of industry, skills and expertise are effectively extinct as the startup Capex is too high, and the Opex is vampiric.
> Almost every server sits on the internet

I'm going to counter that the overwhelming majority of hosts in existence do not, in fact, "sit on the internet".
> Realistically, I think what can happen is that we find some new field (not even in physics), which acts as a fertile ground for new philosophy.

Metaphysics. The various phenomena that people talk/complain about constantly, yet insist doesn't exist if you start to investigate it.

This fruit is low hanging, but it needs new techniques to pick it because enthusiastic pickers proclaim that it isn't there (despite whining about it constantly) and various other bizarre behaviors.
Have you tried zstd, now widely supported?
Page doesn't seem to load at all on Firefox.
That's the officially deprecated for decades "Multiple Document Interface". Any app still using it will render that on modern versions of Windows.

The open source Windows all I maintain still uses this paradigm, and there's not really a good migration path to anything else, and Microsoft refuses to fix the chrome.
I'd venture a guess (possibly, a poor one) that most students who would/could be seeking accelerated math can already read. Writing, at least for my kids, is the skill that has required much more parental involvement and has not been as "easy" as reading and (simple) math.

Reading a lot doesn't seem to translate very cleanly into decent writing skills, speaking both from my own experience and watching one of my bookworm kids struggling.
I'm glad they are still working on it, and have for 20+ years.
I kept scrolling past the Dickhead Broadcasting Service post and there was a commentary-less YouTube video further down the article.
If you have a non trivial application, multiprocessing just takes a lot of memory. Every child process that you create duplicates the parent memory. There are some interesting hacks like gc.freeze that exploits the copy on write feature of forks to reduce memory, but ultimately you can just create a few hundred of processes compared to thousands of threads because of memory consumption.
But the most powerful and wealthiest fly private jets, so they aren't subject to any of the regular airport procedures either way, are they?
I think HN took the site down? While i understand the pain, i think a little bit of a surge shouldnt be able to take down a public instance host. Another reason, perhaps?
Unlike Clear, precheck is trading an up-front background check for a less involved inspection when traveling. I'd imagine if it was up to the TSA everyone would do precheck.
Based on the timeline here they've mostly stopped. [1] The last one with any meaningful injuries was almost a decade ago, and the one before that a decade earlier. Compare that to the 70s and 80s.

We don't do any screening at FBOs/private terminals so long as the plane has less than some number of passengers. Every flight out of Oakland on JSX has zero screening whatsoever, you just walk on and those are 30-seat Embraers. Larger than some of the stuff going out of the regional gates at the main concourse. It's even in their marketing material under "bye bye hassle." [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_airliner_bombing_a...

[2] https://www.jsx.com/flying-with-us
What if one could use a high-low mix here as well? There might not be enough money, people or facilities to quickly build enough of the more complex weapons. Something simplified might be good enough for less defended and less hardened targets.

For example NLAW is a considerably cheaper anti tank missile than Javelin, and both are very useful weapons.
Absolutely, which is what I advocate for.
Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin, so of course it is being stored in fatty tissues in the body. Where else would it be stored? Your blood stream is not a storage mechanism but a transportation mechanism.

Daily Recommend Values for basic nutrients aren't the same as medicinal dosages. Nobody ever gets Daily Recommended Values for all the essential nutrients anyways, and many of them are regularly exceeded by a single multivitamin or dish. They're also somewhat arbitrarily defined. Like the food pyramid, you should take them with a grain of salt.