skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really is crippled to an absurd degree. A basic RDS install with a gp3 volume will get 3k IOPS and 0.125 GB/s transfer if your volume is under 400 GB, or 12k IOPS and 0.5 GB/s transfer if it's larger. The monthly per-GB storage cost for RDS is the same as the capital costs to buy the disks in a mirrored setup. Meanwhile, if you bought the disks, you'd get over 100x the IOPS and 10x the transfer.

For a provisioned IOPS volume, you can get up to 256k IOPS (so still a fraction of a single drive) at a cost of $25600/month (plus per-GB storage costs). For that price, you could buy 8x of these: https://www.newegg.com/micron-30-72-tb-9400/p/N82E1682036315... giving you 240 TB of raw SSD storage.
> Maybe I'm misunderstanding, where did withholding information come into this?

When I mentioned gatekeeping I was specifically referring to how there's this formula that was kept secret since 1999. At some point the potential significance surely became apparent, and one of the only speculations I can come up with to justify that would be gatekeeping; keeping the information out of the hands of the filthy commoners for reasons.

Maybe it wasn't gatekeeping. If not I'd sure as heck like to know what it was.
Because the die has already been cast. Nothing humanity can do given extant technologies can reverse what was became inevitable a decade ago.
I think the article is fine but what you're really driving towards is the idea of synchronous design, and how that simplifies design and analysis. Some of the objections here might go away if it were framed that way.
I would prefer we not allow the mammals to go extinct, but with our big brains we seem to be expert in rationalizing away the consequences of our actions. I know it's heresy here to claim that bitcoin and other proof of work schemes aren't green. And I know we all like to hop in a plane foe the family vacation. But we're the elite, we're entitled to perks. It's always OTHER PEOPLE who need to change. YOUR electric car has a negative total cost of ownership, but MY Tesla is completely green. YOUR stupid flip phone is killing the environment because of all the trace metals we have to dig out of the Congo to make it's parts, but MY iPhone is fine.

By the time enough of us figure out that it's US who are consuming too much, or more appropriately, excreting too much waste heat, co2, plastic... by the time we figure it out, people will be dying of heat related issues in Texas and Florida.

I don't excuse myself... I live off the grid and grow some of my own food. My lifestyle is pretty low impact, but it's far from zero and I had to spend quite a bit to make it work. And not everyone will be able to live like I do. Mea Culpa.

But I have hope. Many in the next generation seem to grok what's going on. More in my generation understand as well. It's HARD to live the low impact lifestyle we probably all need to live to avoid envirogeddon.

But... if you can... maybe take a vacation close to home and keep that mobile phone an additional year.

Okay... I feel better for screaming into the void... feel free to send me an invoice for a counseling hour of therapy.
> As an organization the CIA has a very long and sordid well-known and documented history of committing acts that most reasonable people would find extremely difficult to justify - not so, the nationalists, who incidentally are also inflicted with a well-characterized mental disorder deserving treatment.

Nationalism, while annoying, isn't a mental disorder, and we should refrain from medicalizing everything we disagree with, as that is certainly a trait of horrible organizations. (see: "sluggishly-progressing schizophrenia" in the USSR) Also, "they did bad things in the past so they did this specific bad thing" is a fallacy, or at least a jump into illogic: Just because someone stole a car doesn't mean they stole every car that got stolen in the past thirty years, or that they stole your car in specific. It doesn't follow.

> But whenever someone starts pulling on those threads of evidence to see where they lead, they are immediately confronted with the "conspiracy theorist" agitprop

They're not. You're stating something that's simply not the case.

Yes, the CIA has done horrible things. However, people who point this out aren't called crazy until they begin to say things like the CIA used nanothermite C4 to do 9/11 on the orders of the Jewish Reptilians, or that the CIA steals my thoughts and infects me with horrible compulsions. There's a line between known events and possible events, on one hand, and blatant nonsense, on the other.
This dichotomy was made extremely apparent to me during the pandemic. In the US, not saying all opinions were homogenous but most of my liberal friends supported government actions during the pandemic (e.g. closures originally, then mask mandates, vaccine mandates, etc.) I'm friends with a number of folks from Eastern Europe, a couple of whom spent their early childhood under Ceausescu, and the difference couldn't have been more stark. While these friends generally agree with things like union support, worker protections, environmental action, LGBT rights, etc., their opinions were pretty much lockstep with the US right in terms of the pandemic, and it was clear this was due to ingrained government distrust. The sad thing to me is that while I could clearly understand and wholeheartedly agree with some of their positions, it got to the point where it often veered off into "crazytown" in my opinion ("You're not going to inject Bill Gates' mind control poison, are you?")
Totally agree. But with newbies I feel it’s very important to check from time to time if they are banging their heads on the right wall.
I remember hearing about certain sales incentives Wells Fargo had which encouraged many bankers to open up accounts on the behalf of strangers they'd never spoken to -- I understand this is commonly called "fraud" -- which had very real effects on some of said strangers' credit reports. It is a consequence borne of a lack of regulation enforcement.

I found reports as recent as today when doing a search for this: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/phony-bank-accou....
This basic wisdom sounds like a child's view of human relationships and emotions. Like someone approximating what things should be like rather than what they actually are.

It honestly just reads like misogyny, like women who have many partners are emotionally incapable of love. Let me tell you a secret, any semi-attractive & social woman will have easily had 20 partners by age 25-30.

Theres no such thing as the "same exact" pair bond 20 times. Each one is different. And if something is of a certain strength, then how can it be weaker because it happened before? The only way what you're saying is true is if the person was jaded by the previous relationships and can no longer form deep connections.

Emotions are infinite.
I have worked remotely for 7 years and in a few different companies in that time.

In my experience the companies that struggle with remote work are the ones the manage via attendance. One company drove me insane with random “Hows it going” messages throughout the day so I just left for another company and let them know why on the way out.

Managers that have enough domain expertise to manage via outcomes however thrive in remote environments. But, this is harder to do than taking headcount.

Remote working environments require different approaches than in person or hybrid. Change is hard and all that.
> Not in the bay area.

The article is about a $52 fare for a 3-mile ride in NYC...
I spent £240 on a fridge freezer 15 years ago and we only just replaced it, having never serviced it.
Does anyone have a good playbook around getting fiber started/prioritized in your city? My city has done some brief exploration, but seemingly is dragging its feet on fiber in general and I'd love to see that change, especially if we could capitalize on a municipal offering that would benefit the city + residents.
Some background on the drama (and the rush to publish):
https://www.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/15egs7i/avg_ru...

and

https://twitter.com/8teAPi/status/1685294623449874432

The papers were totally rushed.
That's because Europe doesn't have as many world renowned institutions. And for the few that it does have, people absolutely care. There's a difference between EFPL and University of Delft, or Oxford and University of Southampton...

If you don't believe me just look at where members of your government went to school.
> What confuses me about OpenAI is that, after poaching the copyright of so many sites to train their model, they expect those who use "GPT" in their product names to comply.

Leaving aside debates about the copyright status of AI training, copyright and trademark are very different things.
Yew, if only we could assign a senior engineer to watch over every new person that joins /s

Part of learning to be a sw developer is learning how to go about your work. Learning when to ask for help. If someone is doing this for you, you'll never going to learn.
Just like making high fructose corn syrup legal in the EU?
The Australian town where people live underground
Queering the Catalog: Queer Theory and the Politics of Correction [pdf]
> basically what happened here

Pico benchmarks!

https://github.com/zackradisic/rust-vs-zig/blob/master/bench...

https://github.com/zackradisic/rust-vs-zig/blob/master/bench...

https://github.com/zackradisic/rust-vs-zig/blob/master/bench...

https://github.com/zackradisic/rust-vs-zig/blob/master/bench...
> What do women do with the men they are attracted to, generally speaking? Is there anything women could use as a informal gauge as to how attractive other women find any particular man?

Have you even read the article you yourself posted?

> Oh OK, so when 5 foot tall women should stop being creepy and preferring men taller than them right? Their preferences are unbalanced and unjustified correct?

I honestly cannot believe I would have to explain this to a seemingly functional adult.

We are talking about the imbalance in how sexual activity is regarded depending on gender.

Preferring taller or shorter partners is not "creepy", same as in choosing between blondes or brunettes. No one, outside the constant noise that is social media, is going to chastise you for choosing one or another.

Asking about "body count" before dating someone is creepy, because our society regards this as a private matter. Even worse, as I said, men get a pass on this, and women do not.

It blows my mind that anyone would be trying to compare one to another, and even tried to spin it into "promiscuous men are more preferable among women anyway". What the hell?
For whom is interested in some of the Rich's talks, this is a great compilation[1].

[1] - https://changelog.com/posts/rich-hickeys-greatest-hits
Can anyone find a sea temp plot before 1980? NASA likes to pull tricks such as start acreage burn around that time because it was a local minimum.
That code is synthesizeable and will work fine in an ASIC flow.
people have a choice to buy a brand new car or go to restaurants
Have scientists found a room-temperature superconductor?
This really pissed me off. Half of the trees in RMNP were/are dead standing since the Park Service had put out all natural fires for a century and did not allow logging of the dead wood. We hit the point where the fuel situation is so bad that fires are no longer controllable, and the fires burn so much hotter that it permanently scars the land by burning seeds that usually would make it through just fine.
For me it’s the opposite. I don’t have any junk food at home but when I was in the office I was constantly surrounded by pretzels, ice cream and candy bars. I also often do some work in the backyard while I am thinking about a problem.
Is this normalized by number of each demographic that sits for the test? (Sorry if that's answered in the PDF but maybe someone with more time or statistical understanding than me can check it.)
The same Apple notes that makes it hard to export? Why would anyone use this?
You've never had to render a name like Daniële? Never used non-breaking space on website for better text layout? Never read text that used any — em-dashes —?
No currencies other than the dollar ever mentioned, and to cap it all off, never seen an emoji?

I agree that unicode is ugly and stupid. But despite all that it persists, because it is the least stupid of all encodings. It's not like the ASCII characters of:
Form Feed (0C), Device Control 1 through 4 (11 through 14), group separator (1D), and most other non-printable ASCII characters are a reasonable use of byte-space, or are useful to attempt to render to the screen.

And that is before you get into hijinks that can be played with backspace and del characters if they are rendered naively. (Though I love backspace for progress bars in the terminal)
We're struggling with this (80 people) and basically decided we have to get the entire company together twice a year. I'm not saying this is any perfect best practice, just that there is something that always gets lost in translation when we are remote. That gets cleared up instantly when we are together.
Every once in a while, HN publishes good news.

This is one of them.
OpenChat: Advancing Open-Source Language Models with Imperfect Data
Meh... that's not really true.

I used to support municipal fiber in my home town (Seattle) -- but after many years of dollars spent and zero progress, the city finally mothballed the effort.

And now I have fiber to the home (Centurylink) at a price so low I don't even think about it.

I think the key is competition. If your city doesn't have competition, it absolutely makes sense to create competition from the municipality.
Oh so we're talking disposable razor blades, not disposable vs (reusable) safety/'cut-throat' razors for shaving?
Elon Musk buys AI.com from OpenAI, after the domain was acquired for $11M
Off the top of my head I think it's basically using the same publicly undocumented API that the Twitter-hosted front ends use - Twitter did successfully block nitter et al recently with the "must be logged in to view tweets" change but rolled that back (partly?) after Threads launched.

I surmise that to block such access by Nitter completely while keeping Twitter's own front ends open to the public, Twitter would need to be extensively re-factored on both the front and back ends, a goal that the organization may not be capable of successfully completing at this time, but is presumably working towards.
That's a great point. Thanks for the feedback!
one lifehack for me was to skip the claustrophobic packed elevator and to go on foot, at least on the way down. Ran into almost no people, much closer experience of the tower.
Excess CO2 in surface water causes algae and phytoplankton blooms that feeds back into sealife. The CO2 is not being released once the water warms. Rather the waters are becoming more acidic and therefore "tastier".
I too think it can be done, but good luck finding a platform that allows uncensored discussion of the full spectrum of the situation and countermeasures.
If you're reading this and you're still choosing to bank with such a corrupt entity... why?
When I got my Oculus, it was half the price of the Vive. I always assumed that zuck is eating a loss to capture eyeballs.
Sounds like WFH isn't for you then.
Lol. Are those juniors in the room with us right now?

How about letting them figure it out and provide opportunities to chat and ask questions from time to time. Everyone wants superdevelopers but everyone expects that you're going to put a complete noob in a room with a senior developer, they're gonna rub hand and in 2-4 days you're going to have another senior developer. That's not how it works.
> 50.000 € limit

That is meant to be a roof for all ("No country shall exceed etc.") - a roof for further decision national administrations may make.
Just because we messed it up in the past doesn't mean we didn't learn from it and can't adapt our strategies in the future as new data comes in.

Changing nothing is the most harmful strategy right now.
Yes, that's the thin veil on top of the IQ test. It's similar to programming puzzles asked at tech cos.
GameStop, citing “regulatory uncertainty,” winds down its crypto and NFT wallet
Pair junior developer with a senior, starting with an hour every other day.

I had more problems with junior developers who think they're senior developers (some experience, high-confidence) bc they don't ask for help when they should.
Yep, the guy has a gift. I've never touched a line of Clojure or looked at Datomic, but I'm repeatedly inspired by Rich's talks, which I come back to often.
You are indeed making the opposite assertion by implying the statement is false, hypocritically with no information to back it up. By your standards, your counter is entirely invalid. "I do not know" is how you avoid making an assertion.

Ridiculous standards aside, I find it an extremely reasonable to assert that given more than 7 billion people across vast areas, interests, ideologies and jobs, and given the vast hi.an knowledge, expertise and culture, that any particular interest or knowledge is only shared by a small subset.
I feel like there must be some other influence here, and the Tonga eruption is a good candidate. That's not to say this isn't already exacerbated by existing human-derived climate change, but the way the temperature leaps off the chart starting in April is not like the gradual upward trend we see with climate change. It makes utterly no sense from that perspective. Something external to climate change has to be influencing the system.

Unfortunately, it also seems like a lot of people are hesitant to even discuss this possibility for fear of being ostracized by the mob.
New chemical substances (NCS) derived from the pyrolysis of plastic wastes.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23886219-integrated-...

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23892099-letter-epa-...
So you think the Star Trek universe is impossible.
Still surprising to see a poorly written piece of text. You'd think Nubank's comm leadership would have an extensive language background in English.
Iris Alexandra studies plants in Russia, and also dabbles in chemistry from her (home?) lab. Over this past weekend, she's been working on replicating the LK-99 results herself, heaping a bunch of lighthearted scorn in the process in typical Soviet style. It's highly entertaining, so she's gotten herself a bit of a following online.

People are badmouthing her in part because she's openly plural and trans and lesbian and a catgirl and she has Opinions On The Internet, so her bullies question her credibility based on the stereotype.

She also wears her Soviet culture on her sleeve, so folks incorrectly think that being a communist means she supports what Putin is doing in Ukraine, despite her statements. (Keep in mind that being so openly LGBTQ+ isn't exactly smiled upon by the Russian state at the moment...)
Were they ever active in the first place? I only signed up to claim my account (which I later realized was pointless since the name is reserved by your Instagram handle anyway).

I'm perfectly willing to believe usage has flatlined, and that matches my personal experience where I've opened it maybe twice since installing it, only to see posts from mostly brands, celebrities, influencers and meme pages. There was an initial surge where I got a notification every time one of my Instagram followers also followed me on Threads, but that only lasted about a week and it's been quiet since then. I suspect a lot of people were behaving similarly to me, either signing up to claim their account or opening the app when they got a notification of a new follower.

But I'm skeptical of the utility of comparing the flatline to a baseline from the first week, and of using data from Sensor Tower and Similarweb, neither of which has much insight into usage data beyond what's publicly available through metrics like app installs, reviews and maybe DNS. It's not like Meta is using any analytics frameworks other than their own.
I was not comparing to HVDC; aluminum with steel core is what's typically used in generic overhead power lines.
Deep underground, robotic teamwork saves the day
Also see:
"If you cut through this residential street with 4-way stop signs on every corner and make an impossible left hand turn across four lanes of moving traffic back onto the main road, you can shave 1min off your ETA."

- Sincerely, PM of driving directions in SF who takes a company shuttle into the office and doesn't own a car.
What is a conspiracy theory other than a view that differs from those propounded by officialdom and the mainstream media, such as the "conspiracy theory" that the Covid vaccine did not prevent recipients from transmitting the illness, which was initially a conspiracy theory, only to become official confirmed later on?

Or the view that the virus was the product of lab development, hotly denied by bands of scientists and governments, only for Slack discussions to be released showing that the scientists who made that statement were flat out going against their private views?

The term "conspiracy theory" only proves that there is a "conspiracy" within government circles and the MSM to label views that don't align with theirs as "conspiracy theories"
Urban Company Lured Indian Women into the Gig Economy–Then Pushed Them Out
There is a large degree of luck involved. The original team, who have been working on this for significant time, have only attained a 1/10 success rate (one of the better samples came from a test tube being dropped on the floor part-way through annealing). So it's part talent, part luck.
> It's so transparent that some asshole PM in San Francisco thinks he's really clever and that lying to users will improve retention or whatever.

Couple this with the arse of a VC who's making the meta worse and you all you need is a self-proclaimed capital F Founder type to have the perfect triumvirate of modern digital malaise.
They don't have the funds to do so any more. Everything is just project based grants, which often enough aren't even enough to run a project to completion. And professors have to chase grants and do other bullshit paperwork in an awful lot of their time.
Maybe you are not the target audience? I found it a decently informative read myself.

Why is it necessary to understand how verilog is exactly transformed into gates? Sounds like gatekeeping to me, but please enlighten me. I have in the past written hdl and I didn’t even have a FPGA
They're not slowly rotting in a storehouse.

They're restored, conserved, and rotated in and out of the museum's public collection so it's ever-changing, which helps generate repeat business.

(They're often also available for academic purposes.)
Why? If the argument works at this point in time when reflecting on our history what makes it stop working for future observers who reflect on their histories?

It can certainly lead you to some pretty wacky-sounding conclusions (looking at you Frank Tipler) but I can’t see why it’s obviously wrong for future observers to deploy it in just the same was as we do.
Possibly because as a total amount of gold by itself is a poor indicator of anything. As a fraction of GDP and/or per-capita might yield some numbers that at least made the amount relatable to something that countries commonly differ in in important ways.
Couple admit they laundered $4B in stolen Bitcoins after Bitfinex super-heist
It’d be fun if they were all possible.
Soon the most popular 'real' desktop will be the Linux desktop
> They're taking their kids to go see movies

That's actually just about what I was thinking though, not really the opposite.

I guess I should have said that it isn't the horny teenagers going to movies on date nights by themselves these days. It is more Mom, Dad and the kids.

I can remember the "zion rave scene" in Reloaded, but I didn't remember they were getting it on at all. Must have just blanked that entirely out of my memory.