skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll probably get down-voted for saying this (again), but a key way to squeeze unimaginable amounts of performance is to lean into stored procedures.

Look, I get it, the devx sucks. And it feels proprietary, icky, COBOL-like experience. It means you have to dwell in the database. What are you, a db admin?!

But I'm telling you, the payoff is worth it. (and also, if you ship it you own it so yes you're a db admin). My company ran for many years on 3 machines, despite it's extremely heavy page weight because the original author wrote it stored procs from the beginning. (He also liberally threw away data, which was great, but that's another post.) Part of my job was to migrate away from .NET and to Java and JavaScript - and another engineer wrote an ingenious tool that would generate Java bindings to SQL Server stored procs that made it really nice to work with them. And the performance really was outrageous - 100x better than any system I've worked with before or since. Those 3 boxes handled 300k very data intensive monthly actives, and that was like 10 years ago.

Don't worry - even if you lean into SPs there is still plenty of engineering to do! It's just that your data layer will simplify, and your troubleshooting actually gets easier, not harder. I liked the custom bindings - a bit like ActiveRecord, and no ORM. But really, truly: if you want to squeeze, move some queries into SPs and prepare to be amazed.
> "It seems someone at The NY Times is very sympathetic to him."

Has their coverage of him been positive? I've not read any of it so I don't have a clue, but in a hypothetical situation where you're a journalist at NYT who thinks he's a guilty & idiotic asshole, if he wanted to call you and start chatting away wouldn't you still take the calls and accept any documents he leaks to you despite not being sympathetic to him?

It feels like to make the claim in your last sentence you need to show one or more articles that paint him sympathetically since his arrest, not just the fact that one or more journalists haven't refused to speak with him?
The issue is writes, not reads.
https://archive.is/TeGDm
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He had also been using a VPN to "watch sports" but the VPN was registered and located in the Bahamas. And had tried to offer a witness a "bag of cash."
Sam Bankman-Fried to be jailed over witness tampering allegations
> But a BMW can use one of the multiple other chargers available

And so can a Tesla, what's your point?
Meta did not remove itself from the market. That would be forcing Canadians to no longer have Facebook/Instagram accounts, etc. IMO, that would be entirely defensible.

But Meta makes a lot of money from Canadians and their data, and they don’t want to lose that particular revenue stream. So they have suspended part of their offering to part of the people they serve in Canada because they don’t like a particular (flawed in one critical way, suboptimal in others) law. That’s anticompetitive behaviour, and it's the sort of thing that would get Canada's wireless companies slapped around when almost nothing else would (all three major wireless companies got slapped pretty hard when Rogers went down country-wide and 911 service was unavailable because of a lack of sharing agreements that should be the absolute norm).
Prefetching is the right tradeoff for large arrays. Addressed at the end of the article: https://mhdm.dev/posts/sb_lower_bound/#prefetching
Have peons ever had control over the world’s affair? I now have hard time believing, between 1950 and 1990, that voting, demonstrating or participating in parliament meant choosing the future for your country. It must have been a marvelous time if it was true.

Sometimes when I speak to old French people who held activist reunions in Paris in March-May 1968, I get that feeling that it was true, that they were building the rules for how they should be treated, how they should intervene abroad, and most of them also donated 2 years of their life for humanitarian development in Africa, building wells, etc. They seem to believe it so strong. The explosion of the Rainbow Warrior taints the picture a little, but shows how little the spies could do, with amateur leverage. Did pitchforks ever influenced the course of affairs? Maybe yes, during a short period of time.

As a generation Y, having lived through the social media times, having seen printed media say blatant falsehoods about feminism and manufacture uproar that doesn’t exist in real people’s feeling, I do feel that we’re living in a sock puppet show.
Good idea for you to read the leaks dear friend.

you are in their databases as of 10+ year old information and their capabilities have grown massively since then.

Every contact you have with another person is logged and catalogued- exceedingly likely recorded and at the very least automatically transcribed and easily searchable by thousands of people with no oversight.

People were even using it to stalk women they liked.

Your stance is not rooted in the facts as we know them.
While I would question this statement in general (people definitely can still write formal and poetical content without mocking, eg recently eulogy here on HN even), but on the other hand it also seems this piece itself is mocking to some extend?

> America is thus a nation rapidly drifting towards a state of things in which no man of science or letters will be accounted respectable unless some kind of badge or diploma is stamped upon him, and in which bare personality will be a mark of outcast estate.
Don't worry; it's documented that money stolen from FTX went to the parents. It's grinding slowly.
Machine vision? Back in my day we just checked how long the screen remained black.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moBGHUfw-Ho
> [Sam Trabucco] also writes crossword puzzles for The New York Times [0]

> US prosecutors have not said Trabucco was involved in any wrongdoing even as he worked in Alameda's C-suite with several execs who are now facing a slew of charges. [1]

hmm

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Trabucco

[1] https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/meet-sam...
Are there actual situations where you would even want this much data on a single drive?
It's unsurprising given the way it was phrased — very US-centric, and essentially that "if you disagree with me, you're as bad as Putin's soldiers in Ukraine"? Hardly the best way to encourage friendly debate.
Duplicate data to avoid joins, use serializable transactions to update all the duplicated data.
I sort of agree with op.
Whatever NSA did (doing?) certainly very disturbing and should be scrutinized. And I think the fact that Snowdlen revealed that definitely made things better.

However, Snowden fleeing to russia (a 100% dictatorship country) that is doing things way worse than NSA, and then being silent about that makes him a hypocrite.
My favourite fact about it comes from https://phys.org/news/2016-02-plasma-physicist-discusses-wen...

“…the supporting structure can only withstand the forces if the interfaces between the ten individual segments of the central rings, which weighs several tonnes, are built with a level of precision of less than 100 millionths of a metre…” - and they found a small family business in the north of Italy capable of doing this!
Courts seem to be getting somewhat tougher on white-collar crime.

- This.

- The Supreme Court just stopped the deal that would have let the Sackler family, the OxyContin pushers, off the hook personally.

- Hunter Biden's no-jail plea deal was rejected, and he goes to trial.

- Trump goes to trial, too.
> One thing's for sure: Congress has completely abrogated its role in resolving these matters to everyone's liking.

I wish congress would do what they are supposed to do. The constitution clearly states that Congress can blablah (copyright) WITH THE PURPOSE OF ADVANCING science and useful arts. That's the only purpose of copyright.

Now, for books, compare what you can get on zlibrary, with what you can buy at amazon. Never mind comparing it to a local bookstore. It becomes obvious quickly that the superior move for advancing the arts (not just availability) is to let them exist.

This is the problem: copyright kills availability. After 2-3 weeks (months for some books, and the only books lasting years are textbooks, which also ought to be free, for different reasons) books aren't economical to print anymore. This means that after 6 months or so new works disappear into a black hole because for-profit firms don't distribute them anymore, and copyright means nobody else is doing it either (certainly libraries don't hold on to them. I mean you can get lucky, but ...)

Same thing goes for movies. Theater release. TV release. Netflix release. Say this takes a year (these days). After that, good luck getting hold of a movie.

Now can anyone tell me how creating a 6-month event horizon for all books, after which they disappear into a black hole forever, advances science and useful arts ...

They can even keep Disney in power for all I care. How about you have to prove 1000 sales in a year to retain copyright?
https://archive.is/WDaLy
do the people who put up his bail money lose it due to him violating the terms of the bail and having it be revoked? or do they get it back now as its not needed anymore?
My understanding is that SBF's bail was put up by his parents (pledging their home) and family friends, at and out of Stanford, who put up their own funds. What happens to that?
Might be time for per virtual cpu core speculation only cache.
Ah yes, the UK Police certainly won't use this to police speech they don't like:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-66462895
Jeopardy contestants weigh a second shot at glory vs. crossing the picket line
Show HN: Clop – optimise screenshots and recordings automatically
Hey, I am the creator of Narrowlink. I certainly find your comment valid, and using WireGuard over HTTPS most of the time provides better network performance. However, in very specific cases, Narrowlink demonstrates superior performance.

1- When your devices' routes are not optimal, and utilizing a CDN can enhance the connection due to smart routing. For instance, I have a server in Poland (while I live in Canada) where the direct connection is slower than connecting via Narrowlink behind the CDN (The gateway behind the CDN).

2- And in rare cases, Tailscale cannot establish a peer-to-peer connection, opting to use DERP servers and their own servers (no longer strictly P2P as seen here: https://tailscale.com/kb/1232/derp-servers/). In such cases, Narrowlink may provide faster connectivity.

3- When you start your Tailscale client, it needs to perform NAT discovery. If a symmetric NAT exists, it takes time to connect due to network flooding for UDP hole punching, while Narrowlink can respond on demand (see the section "The benefits of birthdays" on https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/).

It's also important to note, alongside the protocol, the software implementation is crucial. Narrowlink is written purely in Rust, while Tailscale has been created by orchestrating existing tools and uses the Go and C++ programming languages. I suggest you try Narrowlink and experience its computational performance.

I believe Tailscale is an amazing VPN solution, but its protocol, infrastructure, and complexities might not be the best fit for self-hosted platforms. In contrast, Narrowlink is a Proxy solution (currently not a VPN) that is very simple to set up.

Please note that narrowlink only encapsulate the TCP payload's not its headers.

I recently released Narrowlink (just two days ago), and it is in the early stages of its journey. I have various plans for this project, including a web interface, integration of the QUIC protocol, and more. I just need the support of the community and more time to enhance it.
If he really owned the entire judiciary of the US and Bahamas his bail wouldn't have been revoked.
Should parents also be responsible for their physical home and what travels into it?

Because sex workers do make out calls. Should 16 year olds be able to call for strippers for their birthday parties, and the onus put on their parents to stop their entry? I’d think you would say no.

The problem with the law as it stands isn’t the concept. It’s that it’s difficult to execute to the point where it basically bans free porn sites.

Pay sites can still live because asking for ID and credit cards is something they can do and check manually. However free sites can’t do that.

If the government provided some mechanism to automatically validate that a persons is over 18, when making an HTTP request then that would be fine. It would be no worse than having ID scanners at a club.
There are systems that will do that for you like https://readyset.io/.
Good question.

Sam Trabucco might end up as the equivalent of Lou Pai from the Enron scandal. Left just in time before the whole thing came crashing down and escapes all criminal charges.
The CFO left. I suspect he has a better guess as to the peak than most other people.
> Its kinda like simulated annealing.

Yeah I get that. We assume there's X amount of intelligence in the LLM and try different paths to tap on that potential. The more paths are simulated, the closer we get to the LLM's intelligence asymptote. But then that's it—we can't go any further.
He didn’t flee to Russia, he way fleeing to South America with a layover in Russia when the U.S. cancelled his passport, trapping him there.
Omega Tau also visited and talked with some of the researchers and has a great podcast episode on it (and truth be told, all of their episodes are great).

https://omegataupodcast.net/312-the-wendelstein-7-x-fusion-e... (from 2019, 3Hrs, English)
With gas cut off from pipeline terminated in Greifswald, how will they power now this bottomless energy pit? They still have some money, but a finite amount.
non paywall: http://archive.today/FTRHg
I'm just saying the money doesn't back the idea yet. I'm not anti-fusion.
This wasn't his first round of meeting the judge about bail related violations too IIRC.
Nitpick, 50 is 2^1 × 5^2, not the other way around. But anyway, thanks a ton for this post, I felt my brain shift at a new way of thinking about numbers, seriously. I have to wonder what serious and useful implementations of this method might have been done somewhere.
I think this logic works the other way around: very few people were saying SBF was absolutely not going to jail, just that it was unlikely.

As for LK99, I suppose I’m bummed the hype didn’t pan out. It made me more skeptical of that kind of optimism, and it seemed somewhat related.
Thanks for this explanation. I know the standard model of VC subsidies to lower prices and gain market share. Airbnb is probably keeping its service fees lower than it can afford to or spending too much in other areas to grow faster using VC money. However VCs aren’t subsidizing Airbnb rentals like they are Uber rides.

I’m a host myself and VC funding plays no role in what I charge. It’s mostly a function of market forces.
Six weeks won't do much against 100 years.
China Is Slipping into Deflation. Stimulus Won’t Solve the Problem
> but here is the thing - all the businesses that died on Market and FiDi in SF - where high-end condos are all around, and other apartment buildings - there will be no walkability score for many of the apartments in those areas, and thus their prices should come down.

Why wouldn't they have (very high) walkability scores? Or do you mean that as commercial buildings they don't have walkability scores until some time passes, and prices will be lower than possible until the locations are scored?
I am 100.0% sure this is what someone has said for 256GB drives, 256MB drives, 256KB drives, and the same person will be saying it for 256YB drives.
It's funny, in a "Soviet Russia lines-up-you" kind of way. When you give valuable things away for free, you get lines.

But I don't think even GDR got as far as installing traffic lights to control a queue to get into a queue. A queue^2 as it were. With back-pressure on the back-pressure! I wonder if they ever see resonance on the back-pressure-back-pressure control system for the queue-queue?
The NYT keeps offering him rope in the form of a sympathetic ear, and SBF keeps hanging himself.

If the NYT is his friend, I would hate to see what his enemies have in mind for him.
Sam Bankman-Fried sent to jail as judge revokes bail over witness tampering
Many things can be said about fascism but I don’t believe “lack of a rule of law” is one of them.
My understanding is that generally you don't lose the bail money unless the person ultimately doesn't show up in court. There are exceptions and the judge has some discretion.
This isn't a counter argument
I suppose if he showed up for jail, then the assets weren’t seized.
> Most roles showed little or no difference for German and non-German speakers

Then i would expect that the number of germans hired is not so low compared to foreigners.
“Shut the fuck up” is literally the best advice any defense lawyer gives.

It’s embarassing just how often it’s ignored.
They managed to handle what a fission reactor outputs every second in this experiment.

I don't think that points to a commercial reactor whenever someone spends a few billions.
There's always money in the banana sta...materialized views. Materialized views will get you quite a ways on read heavy workloads.
Do big cities like New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles have a future?
To explain thing: neural networks are referred to as AI today (while for a long time they were just "machine learning") but there's a substantial consensus they won't be AGI (Artificial General Intelligence, "human like intelligence" etc) and a nearly universal belief they aren't AGI now. That scientists don't understand their internal processes doesn't change this and isn't necessarily related, directly, to humans not knowing how to create AGI.
U.S. judge sends FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried to jail over witness tampering
It is almost as if it is better to be lucky than good
It is not true that all crypto companies are scams, and especially not true that all crypto executives belong in jail.
I wouldn't normally approve of anyone writing this sort of comment, but fuck it:

Do not bother reading comments in this thread.

The hot takes are already ridiculous, and I honestly don't know why I either bothered to start reading, nor why I bothered to point out the flaws in 4 different comments already.

I can't actually imagine what interesting things could be commented about it at this time that isn't just rehashing people's opinions of him that've been said a thousand times already, so I'm closing the thread and won't be coming back to read the inevitable 1000 comments that are coming.

I'm just leaving this comment here in the hope that, if others agree enough to upvote it, maybe some of you will be spared wasting time like I just have.
Running a large fraud for a long time is a pretty stupid thing. He’s just being called stupid instead of a genius now that people have more context into his dealings.
How did he get $250m for bail to begin with?
The ISO has informational documents that aren't really standards. I wrote one that is in the process of becoming one of those documents that you pay 133 Swiss Franc for.
In a way, in the article they also did a split: specific heavy select queries were offloaded to a replica.
Except few people use the tool, so it is not hurting them much.

If this were to change, then I'm sure the battle would look very different, both legally and from a technical viewpoint.
Grid-scale solar is $33/MWh (+) https://emp.lbl.gov/publications/utility-scale-solar-2022-ed... and the Netherlands uses 1,000,000,000 MWh/year https://ourworldindata.org/energy/country/netherlands so it's only off by a factor of ~2.

(+) These numbers are for the USA. I found a mention of a cheaper project in Chile https://about.bnef.com/blog/cost-of-new-renewables-temporari... but I don't know what the situation is in Europe. And wind might be even lower.
Regarding home schooling English / Language arts curriculum. Did you use any program in particular? I've looked at MCT LANGUAGE ARTS (https://www.rfwp.com/mct-language-arts/, not affiliated ) though haven't committed to it yet.
> but at some point, professionals need to learn the basics

Think about a junior joining a company. Through the first weeks they get: to be useful you need to learn about dependency management, git, frameworks we use, data stores we use, processes for review, our ci approach, our release approach, ...

Adding yet another process your work depends on, is fiddly to setup and doesn't have good docs online really isn't great. "We can add this on top, it's just basics" can really add up with enough systems.
I guess this is some sort of remainder joke? But I don't get it.
Wait, ChatGPT Didn't Take My Job?
> The thing is, if one is investing money, one should also take into account risk.

This is true, but I think the idea that people should have priced in a black swan like a pandemic (and not only a pandemic, but a pandemic that changes the way we work) is not a reasonable one.

> Remote work has been a thing for years now, with ever faster adoption of broadband Internet.

This makes exactly the opposite point that you intend - despite the fact that people, especially those in tech, have had the infrastructure to work remotely for many years, SF's market still continued to go up in value and have incredibly high occupancy rates. If the condition existed for remote work for years and yet it had no appreciable impact on the use of office space, it wouldn't make any sense to assume that there will be a sudden change to cause everyone to work remotely and the market for office space to crash.
White House launches AI-based contest to secure government systems from hacks
You can integrated it with sing-box to do.
https://narrowlink.com/docs/extended-tutorial/vpn-integratio...
A Short History of Microprocessors
Premature denomalization is expensive complexity. Denormalization is a great tool, maybe an under-used tool. But you should wait until there are hot paths before using it.
> The hot takes are already ridiculous, and I honestly don't know why I either bothered to start reading

The ridiculous hot takes are why I start reading!
Sorry, does not compute.

If the problem was patched in 2021, why does their new product line launched in late 2022 still have problems?

If safety and security and integrity is the main concern, you should be using HDD in my opinion.
Energy Makes Time
Mel + multispeaker vocoder is very much a classic (tacotron era) TTS approach
> Since his release, Mr. Bankman-Fried has been reprimanded repeatedly for behavior that prosecutors said pushed the boundaries of what he was allowed to do while awaiting trial.

Let’s see how this strategy of “testing the limits” plays out in a prison setting. Something tells me it’s not going to be pretty.
haha, when i read their initial thoughts were write-sharding and microservices i whispered “wtf?” to myself.

glad to see there was a better ending to the story though.
- Firefox has been pumping out bizarre woke-language filled blog messages, the annoyance at this has even been upvoted to #1 on the frontpage of HN

- Firefox iOS has no real adblocking

- Mozilla has an issue for this open on both their Github and Bugzilla for years

- Firefox Focus does have real adblocking built in

Maybe trolls like you should leave HN :)
I do digital histology, and our (research) lab currently has 204TB of image files. They live in a data center, of course, but if my institution decided to spin us off as a company or something and we needed to move the data, it'd be way faster to download it to disk and upload it in the destination center. I'm not really sure we'd do it with just one giant drive instead of a whole lot of 1TB ones, but who knows.

(I'm currently working on sending 100TB of images to some colleagues at the NIH for a study, we're doing it about 500GB a night for the next year or however long it'll take just because there's no hurry on the data, so it's not just some academic thought exercise!)