skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have a traditional cluster, and we were asked to investigate cloud usage.

Ended up with a bursting type setup where you can use the cloud to spin up more nodes than we have in our cluster, or larger nodes than we have available.

Sounds great. Works okay. The problem was with billing.

Our traditional cluster has been around for a while, upgraded and added on to, and there is a bit of a handshake agreement over who pays how much, based on usage. Every year or two the company departments get together and either ask for less cost or take on more based on usage stats. Each of them pay a fixed cost per year.

With the cloud setup, every job came back with charges from our cloud provider. User C consumed 48 hours of usage with 150 nodes of type Z. That will be $900.

After just a few short months they asked us to turn that capability off.
If they didn't why would anybody be complaining about "shareholder primacy?"

And it's a check towards their own interests. Just like the CEO acts in his own interests. I can't for the life of me understand why anyone thinks the CEO is more likely to act in the best interest of employees or society than the shareholders are.
It was surprising to me to learn that we can be _a lot_ faster than evolution when it comes to 'improving' viruses. The process is called gain-of-function. It can create mutations that are rare or impossible in nature. Viruses don't select for devastation on their own, they select only for propagation

We will no doubt be able to use AI to develop vaccines that isn't the bottleneck, the bottleneck is in testing and distribution (and humans not wanting to get vaccinated). It's a fundamentally asymmetrical situation
Well technically successful maybe. But lots of people still bought their serves even after the bubble. And those server were expensive with good margin.

Giving up instantly when Itanium was announced would have just made them a company that waste a lot of money a lot of money on porting things to Itanium (and Sun had quite a lot of software that's not exactly easy to port). Only to not have a 64-bit system to build servers from. Essentially at best offering good x86 32-bit servers for the next couple years.

To be sure x86 workstations and servers should have been a big part of their strategy already in the late 90s. But that's not the same as adopting Itanium.

SGI did exactly what you suggest, give up on their chips and OS. This was terrible choice. Because Itanium was very late they had to restart MIPS development and were not able catch back up. Their Itanium products all didn't sell well even when they finally arrived.
That is some of it and it varies a lot based on the species, though I'm a lot less knowledgeable there.

In the hardwoods I usually work with (walnut/maple/padauk) its fairly minimal. A nominally 4/4 board usually comes in about 1/16" small; which is a lot less than I lose running it through the planar. Some of that could be the sawmill skimping out too and cutting just a bit undersized....

I'm finding quoted numbers between 2-8% volumetric shrinkage (https://www.wood-database.com/wood-articles/dimensional-shri...), which is still quite a bit less than you find in the small dimension of a 2x4 (2"-> 1.5%, or ~33%)
I use extra_hosts parameter for this particular scenario
I think the most likely way to achieve “AI alignment” is the peasants with crossbows. Everyone having a powerful AI at their fingertips provides a balancing factor that is only overcome if those tools are in the hands of very few. Trusting Google and various governments to “do the right thing” is absurd - even assuming good behavior and intention on their part, they just aren’t nearly as competent as people seem to assume. Everyone having access everywhere all at once provides the transparency and space to innovate, but also to counterbalance the use of AI in dark ways.

I fundamentally don’t like the crossbow and guns and second amendment argument. AI isn’t a tool to murder with, having no other function than the death of your neighbor. I feel like it’s more like the “should you be required to license your seeds from a megacorp” type thing. Food is existentially important, and it could be weaponized. But it’s not fundamentally a weapon, it’s fundamentally a thing of utility.
>And I had a heck of a time getting a config that allows each contained thing to see the others

Use a utility container to learn some of the network/options of docker. The network-multitool[1] container is a good one I use.

So for example, create a few containers in a manifests/compose file with different network settings and try pinging, telneting, etc from one container to another.

This container can also be used to help debug workload containers that are having connectivity issues. If you need more tooling just create an image with this container as a base.

[1]https://github.com/wbitt/Network-MultiTool
The theory that consumer harm is the only reasonable basis for government intervention in monopolies seems pretty silly on its face, since many cases of customer harm would be impossible to predict because the counterfactual is by definition unknowable. The whole point (according to Textbook Free Market Econ 101) is that competitors would try to find new ways of producing existing things for cheaper and producing new things that are better than existing things.
I am outraged I can’t access what I’m supposed to be outraged about.
I would suggest that len works as the article suggests; and "Hello".codepoints gives the behaviour you want.
Some of those zombie communities only exist because Meetup allowed people with enough money willing to pay for the increased prices to just usurp the leadership positions of organizers that had been long time community figures. I still can't imagine how Meetup expected that to play out other than destroying those communities. It seems like it was a desperate bid to make these old communities seem to have "continuity" across the pricing changes/community internal debates and pre-Pandemic/Pandemic burn outs for the sake of homepage metrics. But "sell the community leadership to the highest bidder without the permission of existing leadership" seems to violate not just most community management rules/policies in history, but also general common sense. It became an obvious spam vector because guess why people would want to buy large community mailing lists? I know a lot of people who disabled/deleted their entire Meetup accounts from the fallout of this bizarre action because they had no idea which communities they were in weren't at risk of this same problem. Meetup should probably be a textbook example of how to entirely destroy trust in your platform with bad community management tactics.
Exactly, the point is the risk AI helps bring that capability to everyone, not just those in the biotech field
That looks quite nice. I hope they offer the Rairphone 5 through that plan soon. Right now the page just has the 4 available.

https://shop.fairphone.com/fairphone-easy
Diff between 1.0.0 and 2.0.0

https://github.com/semver/semver/compare/v1.0.0...v2.0.0
Many people ignore various actual or equivalent expenses in running on AWS (like optimization opportunities or bad scaling). It's old, but NASA did a study [1] that rings true and I didn't see rebutted. I saw it after an AWS HPC expert stated that you could scale tightly-coupled MPI applications like density functional theory (think 3D FFTs) on EC2; I eventually got him to admit that was rubbish -- and not the only rubbish claim. The "low latency" network is at least no better than I measured intra-switch with the normal 1GbE NICs on Sun x2200s long ago -- an order of magnitude worse than real HPC fabrics.
1. https://www.nas.nasa.gov/assets/nas/pdf/papers/NAS_Technical...
FWIW, there are two NTRUs: the original one, which had no djb involvement, and NTRU Prime, which does.
Vehicles Sales Increase to 15.67M SAAR in September; Up 15% YoY
Locals. Has been Apple app of the day in the iOS App Store a few times.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/locals-org-meet-network/id1511...
The profit margin includes costs of reinvestment (such as all the capital costs associated with their fleet of planes etc).

Per-item margin is the metric you need to use to judge whether they're deliberately trying to price out their competitor.
The Wall was designed to be an audiovisual experience first and an album second.
To be fair, albeit not charitable, those are the only people getting what they voted for.
Suicide can be more than just 'hating yourself', it can also be hopelessness, or other suffering they see no other way of stopping.
Thanks for generously sharing your positive experience!

Historically, these sorts of pleasure reading book recommendations from HN tend to be very good.

Interestingly, Michael F. Flynn has one yet-to-be-published work: "In the Belly of the Whale", which isn't scheduled for release until 2024 [0]. Hope he finished it <3.

[0] https://www.fantasticfiction.com/f/michael-f-flynn/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaJFudED5FQ
> That's a s**y drug, and that language is not.

Have you tried coding in haskell?
I'm the organizer of a social meetup in Sydney for LGBTQIA+ scientists, engineers and technologists.[^1]

We still mostly find new members through the platform and word-of-mouth (probably about 50-50), but compared to pre-pandemic, the numbers are generally smaller. There is less being organised in general, but I suspect people have competing commitments, or are less enthusiastic about trying it out: I find many people sign up to join the group but only a handful will ever show up at any event. Attendance can be very seasonal too.

As a platform I find Meetup quite expensive given how buggy and slow it is. Participants complain about not getting notifications (it frequently fails to send me anything). There is lots of duplicated and flakey functionality, like chat and discussion groups. I'd love to use something else but I don't know if its worth the risk trying to drive people elsewhere.

Trying to foster a sense of community with tech platforms alone is also a bit futile - it really boils down to the vibe of the group and other participants, and it's a difficult balancing act as an organiser.

[^1] https://www.meetup.com/turingcircle/
Noob Q: Would this library be a (good?) candidate to be integrated with a wrappers/extension libraries to have all the graph based clustering algorithms in one place(assuming they are not already)?

Or do(better?) frameworks for the same function as this code already exist(maybe networkx?)?
This is why the conclusion of the study makes sense to me. I enjoy my short commute as a buffer between work and life, but sometimes I just don't want to, so I stay home occasionally.

Also, I think some WFH zealots on HN forget that other people may not have the mean, or the space, or the internet connection to have a nice office at home, and have pets or children that can be just as distracting as co-workers.
Labor to fix your house is still very much more expensive than before COVID
Funny - literally doing with this right now - a tree that crosses my boundary with a neighbor dropped a branch on another neighbor's house.
People aren't money, it's rather simple.
I’ve been interested in trying meetup but I can never really find any groups I like.

When I find one that seems remotely interesting, there’s only like 4 people marked as attending. Usually a husband and wife and probably their good friend of 10 years.

So I’m hesitant about showing up for board games for example where everybody is extremely close friends except me and they just have this event continuing from when it used to be bigger and have more people.

It’d be fine if the hosts were engaging with new people but I don’t trust that to happen. In my experience the hosts usually don’t know they’re supposed to lead the events and introduce guests and spot and resolve awkwardness unless they were in a sorority.

I imagine I’d show up to scope out the group meetup, but it ends up being a niche location where anybody there is obviously for the meetup. Or worse, I don’t find out they’re close friends until a 3 hour long game already started so leaving would ruin the game.

Or I show up to have beers and hang out and they turn out to be hardcore serious terraform mars players who expect me to know the rules because “why else would you show up to a random board game night?”

This sounds like a lot of worrying but these are all actually based on prior events I’ve gone to with acquaintances from work or new friends I don’t know well. Or like flyers in my apartment for something like a hosted Halloween party.

I don’t think I’ve ever had a good experience unless I’m the one hosting the event and can introduce guests and such, or a very close friend is hosting something so I can call him out to be a better host… But it’s a lot of work to get people interested in doing anything except sitting at home watching Netflix. That’s even before all the planning for the event and doing the hosting.
This is some blog's restatement of an MIT press release, neither of which appear to name or link to the actual paper or other useful writeup.

But judging by the researcher names and the date I believe the actual paper is titled "Extreme salt-resisting multistage solar distillation with thermohaline convection" which appears to be available as a PDF at https://www.cell.com/joule/pdf/S2542-4351(23)00360-4.pdf
Once an author is deceased, does it become okay-ish to download their content from z-lib?

gulp

To be fair, when I find an amazing book, I typically end up buying a physical copy even when I've already read it. And even if the author has passed.
If we're pushing on how an individual's behavior affects their family and friend, we should expand to all the other situations it happens.

For instance teens dieting to look thin to the point of getting eating disorders have an effect on their parents every day life, friends (who are also at risk of getting ropped in and follow the trend too), and the general public including the medical system. How much do you want to blame anorexic teens for that ?
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The Truth they are not telling you about “Themes” (2021)
Double sided printers aren't that expensive. Treat yourself, as they say.
Why do you claim I "think it's only that"?

The other part of the paper handling the sliding KV cache compares favourably with prefix caching, sure, but then we moved away prefix caching for serving since a while now, with paged attention (which should really have been called paged KV cache but oh well) offering a lot of interesting improvement in that area including supporting extremely well parallel decoding.

And I do not care enough to compare the streaming cache with the paged attention cache directly, first because it's work they should have done and not I, second because dropping token silently is something that confuses and frustrated users significantly enough that it puts me down from wanting to investigate further.
The way it works for Debian packaging is that they usually have their own copy of the project's source code (what they call upstream). So the packaging process does start from the actual, original source code repo of the upstream project being packaged. This code is kept in a "upstream" branch, to which Debian-specific files and patches are added, usually in a different branch named "debian". For new versions, the "upstream" branch is updated with new code from the project.

All of which, if you ask me, is the correct way of doing any kind of packaging. Following that, IMO the same should be done for JavaScript libraries: the packaging should be done by cloning the project repo and adding whatever packager-specific files in there.

Notice in your link how in the upper part it says: [ Source: jq ], where "jq" is a link to the source description. In that page, the right hand section will now contain a link to the Debian copy repository where packaging is done:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/jq

You can clone and explore the branches of that repo.

(Maybe you are a Debian maintainer, in any case I'm writing this for whoever passes by and is curious about how I think JS or whatever else should be packaged if done properly)
In the TypeScript/JavaScript world the only thing called "Temporal" that I was aware of is the Stage 3 proposal for an excellent new date and time module:

https://tc39.es/proposal-temporal/docs/
I fully admit to having a weak spot for Serpent - it is self-bitslicing (see the submission package or the linux kernel tree), which in hindsight makes constant time software easier to write, and it was faster in hardware even when measured at the time, which is where we have ended up putting AES anyway (e.g. AES-NI etc).

BUT. On security margins, you could argue the Serpent designers were too conservative: https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1492
It is also true that cryptanalytic attacks appear to fare slightly better against AES than Serpent. What does this mean? A brute force attack has the same number of operations as the claimed security level, say, 2^128 for 128-bit. An attack is something better than this: fewer operations. All of the attacks we know about achieve slightly less than this security level - which is nonetheless still impossible to do - but that comes at a cost: they need an infeasible amount of memory. In terms of numbers: 9000 TB to reduce 2^128 to 2^126 against full-round AES according to a quick check of wikipedia. For reference, the lightweight crypto competition considered 2^112 to be sufficient margin. 2^126 is still impossible.

In practice, the difference between Serpent and AES in terms of cryptanalytic security is meaningless. It is not an example of NIST picking a weaker algorithm deliberately, or I would argue, even unintentionally. It (AES) was faster when implemented in software for the 32-bit world that seemed to be the PC market at the time.
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That's the point. Cops are only going invest in systems that confirm their biases and allow them to target the people they "know" are "the problem".

If cops, for whatever reason, have a history of targeting a particular neighborhood, arresting people that fit a certain profile, etc, and suddenly their new computer system tells them to focus on other areas or demographics, then that system is broken to them. They "know" where the crime is, and if they listen to the system that tells them otherwise, criminals will get away and/or they won't be able to make easy arrests they want to make.

Law enforcement is also incentivized to buy systems that they can point to and scapegoat if they do something wrong. "I'm just doing what the computer told me to do and machines can't be biased" is a good enough justification to a lot of people, including the justice system.
SBF isn't Madoff. He didn't leave a streak of bereft retirees in his wake. Woe to the hedge funds and HFT firms that lost money to SBF.

FTX was just a particularly fetid pool in a massive swamp of an industry.

This isn't to say he shouldn't get a decent chunk of prison time.
With a little setup it's no more effort than logging in. Less, even.
Haven't seen any issue with Meetup in the UK that isn't explained by the pandemic, and it seems to be active enough and on an upward trajectory back to pre levels.

I'm unaware of a competitor; Facebook and other public fora like Reddit lack privacy and professionalism (the latter I presume encouraged by Meetup fees).

Discord and closed fora etc lack professionalism and mainstream ingress.

Perhaps the situation in other regions and particular demographics is different, as the OP indicates. But it seems fine here.
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Great job!
Thanks for this.
How does this compare to Winthing, IoT Link, HASS.Agent, LNXlink or System Bridge?
Vehicular manslaughter is already illegal, we should make drunk driving legal. Drinking and driving without crashing into anything is victimless.
Bullshit. We have the ability to screen individuals before travel.
Counterexample: musl's crypt() does silly things, like treat all unrecognized inputs as DES, even if the salt characters are invalid.
> What can we reasonably expect the level of our economic life to be a hundred years hence? What are the economic possibilities for our grandchildren?

> ... for the first time since his creation man will be faced with his real, his permanent problem-how to use his freedom from pressing economic cares, how to occupy the leisure, which science and compound interest will have won for him, to live wisely and agreeably and well.

> The strenuous purposeful money-makers may carry all of us along with them into the lap of economic abundance. But it will be those peoples, who can keep alive, and cultivate into a fuller perfection, the art of life itself and do not sell themselves for the means of life, who will be able to enjoy the abundance when it comes.

> ... We shall do more things for ourselves than is usual with the rich to-day, only too glad to have small duties and tasks and routines. But beyond this, we shall endeavour to spread the bread thin on the butter-to make what work there is still to be done to be as widely shared as possible. Three-hour shifts or a fifteen-hour week may put off the problem for a great while.

"Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren", Keynes, 1930

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Didn't exactly end up that way.
He was let go based on his political position. The Venmo transactions look more than a little incriminating: https://www.thedailybeast.com/gaetz-paid-accused-sex-traffic...
One would hope so.

The WW3 factions are lining up, so it seems inevitable that the sides would start to arm themselves in preparation.
> Those are unstable, so you have to use another attribute opt in to using them. But you can absolutely put them on your own type.

They are, as their name suggests, deliberately perma-unstable rust compiler (rustc) only. You technically can use them in types anyway (and if you go look at the nook crate, I have, that's why I know so much about them) but because they're perma-unstable that's a terrible idea and you clearly shouldn't use this.

Even if they were just unstable, (like say const traits) you can only do this in nightly Rust, it's not available in stable Rust and as the people who'd decided "Oh, const traits, those sound great, I'll just use them and eventually they'll be stable" discovered, nope, that's not what we meant when we told you they're not stable. We meant what we said, and those traits just plain went away (probably they'll be back eventually, but maybe not).

But I agree the stuff that's "just" unstable isn't compiler magic, after all the intent is, even if it doesn't always work out, that those features eventually get stabilized. These are perma-unstable because they're compiler internals. They are magic.
I don't get this -- it's obvious -- boot strapped companies are lean and will likely stay lean and be at best a small business. VC companies burn to get big -- and will spend big to get there. And likely fail. But spend a lot to fail. The offering makes total sense if you understand the market -- I don't know why so many boostrappers are so stubbornly against just how reality works.
Well, why don't you get started?
> People still steal iPhones?? I thought the non-reusability of parts had eliminated that problem.

This guy did! Snatched it right out of my hand. I of course did the iPhone lock on "Find My", and since I reported the IMEI number to the police I don't think they'll be able to easily activate it, so I suspect that the phone is probably on the bottom of the Hudson now.

He did lightly shove me, but I wasn't really "injured" at all; not a scratch on me outside of my ego.