skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The causation is in the past. Up until about 500 years ago there was little to no gene flow between a number of major population groups. Obviously there has been subsequent hybridization, but we can detect that too. The largest pre-1492 hybrid groups I know of are central Asian for obvious reasons, like the Uyghur people.

Last I checked you can’t legally have children with anyone you want in any jurisdiction. You have to get consent and that’s often withheld on the basis of apparent ancestry. Cultural and social factors also make it less common than it would be by random chance.

Elizabeth Warren tested out something like ~1/64th Cherokee I thought? And thanks to the wonders of meiosis you could genealogically have relatively recent ancestors of some group without any genetic markers.
>Amazon’s AWS makes it a tech company, otherwise it would just be a retailer.

Sounds right to me. If you removed AWS from Amazon, what would be the biggest difference between Amazon and Walmart? Walmart has physical locations vs Amazon being online only. They both run logistics empires and websites that carry third party products.
A problem for me building on this is that Google Cloud has no coherent strategy. So the price could easily be double or quadruple Amazon in 2 years.

Google Maps is the key lesson here. 10 to 20 times price increase, just because someone had a meeting. No justification or coherent strategy, just "sorry here's a shiv to the gut".

At least with Amazon, as chaotic as it is, you know that they just mark stuff up to the margin they want and let the market sort out what gets used. Google is into secretive grand strategy that changes completely anytime 4 product managers get together in a room.
> AWS and GCP (and Azure, and Oracle cloud, and bare Kubernetes via an operator, and...) support Postgres really well.

I think they're directly comparable with this context.
If only someone could actually run and publish comparison benchmarks, but DeWitt clause by Spanner makes it impossible.
There’s fires (unfortunately) all the time in the Amazon.

Why is this on HN?
this is why I never could get into counterstrike after 1.6

it's not just the visual noise, it's also the inconsistent behavior introduced by those details.

Yes everything being flat boxes was boring looking but I knew exactly what would happen when I tried to shoot through it or bounce a grenade off of it.

Now it's not obvious if that stack of sandbags is actually a single surface and my grenade will bounce off of a gap or if it will go through it. Or if that random bucket I'm shooting at is synced on the server and real or is a local prop.
One of the main reasons I'm uneasy about cloud databases is the sheer absurdity of trying to meaningfully compare offerings and their value for money.
I don't agree. If someone wants to do that they should be allowed to without extra government interference because if they are doing that because it's profit maximizing then we screwed up in our zoning already. Our problem isn't the one off (probably rich people) going against the profit maximizing trend on development (probably because it's their own home and they are willing to forgo profit for other benefits like a bigger yard). Our problem is that we have a cascading scarcity of dense land zoning so at every level above single family it almost always make sense to renovate or tear down to be able to charge luxury prices instead of doing basic maintenance to maintain habitability while charging lower and lower rent as the building degrades over several decades before finally being renovated or rebuilt decades later than they are now.

So what you need is for the city to ensure there's always a decent supply of excess land zoned for each density level owned broadly enough that oligopoly BS doesn't come into play so that the profit maximizing choice is to always buy a plot of land with less density or with an actually uninhabitable building on it and build more density and they need to do this at every density level in their code. That's the big picture problem with North American cities. There are sub problems to this (like how we are providing parking wrong, suboptimal public service design, especially transport infrastructure) but the above is the big picture biggest problem
It certainly can pay off. My dad was involved in a project removing old logging roads and in doing so they salvaged a lot of old growth timber that had been buried in swampy ground to make corduroy roads, beautiful straight grain, knot free wood. Buried as it was it was very well preserved, and he stockpiled some off to the side in our shed.

Now one piece adorns my parents new house as the lintel board above the fireplace, and its absolutely gorgeous. I think a some chunks were gifted to an acquaintance who builds guitars, and some more were given to a Salish descended carver.
I like it a whole hell of a lot better than paying off the mortgage some landlord took so that they could buy a house with money they didn't have. Not to mention of course that they get to soak up all the equity while also making a profit from my rent.
I'm not really confident at all since the paper you linked doesn't mention anything about it and I'm no expert in small particles.

My intuition though, given this line from the paper:

> TiO2 is used extensively in many commercial products, including paints and varnishes, cosmetics, plastics, paper, and food as an anticaking or whitening agent.

is that TiO2 in food where it is primarily eaten might less risky than existing exposure in i.e. paint.

Like I said, I'm no expert, but nearly any small particle (flour, ground spices, SiO2, etc) are serious occupational risks for airborne exposure but are not considered to be dangerous to consume.

Given this, the paper you linked isn't very convincing to me about needing to ban TiO2 in food, but is yet more info that nearly every industrial worker probably needs PAPRs to avoid serious increase in cancer risk from small airborne particulates.
A connection pooling proxy should fix this shouldn't it? I think both Google and AWS have this solved for functions as a service.
This was a great read, clear, concise, and entertaining. It also struck me how "over powered" phones are these days. I get that the latest chip with the latest GPUs/APUs/IPUs/whatever are really capable, but the weird "I don't need a cinema capable device in my phone" feeling starts to get overwhelming. If nothing else I feel like we're going to force Apple (and others) to go back to easily replaceable battery technology because a "phone" will meet its user's needs for a decade or more and the parts that wear out will need to be replaced several times.
Lol. The people you find on Hacker News sometimes...
> Don't talk rubbish about 'look it up'. You need a degree to get this. Not a metaphorical degree, the real thing.

You really don't need a degree. The Curry-Howard isomorphism is taught in undergraduate CS courses, to students who are simultaneously being introduced to lambda calculus.

While I wouldn't say it's trivial, it's not rocket science either. Most students get it and pass the exams.
"Machine Cattle"?
I was in college 95-99 and this was THE source for this type of information. As soon as you asked a question you'd be told "beej". The specific assignment that I remember we had was to write a web server, in C, I think on Solaris boxes back then. All of what is now in Section 5 was the perfect source here. The only alternative at the time I recall was manpages which are good, but don't explain it as well especially how the calls relate to each other. We didn't have IPv6 to deal with then but the IP block/ordering stuff was also quite useful.
we xan always rely on you .
thank you Markus
But a droplet with a Postgres db is nearly free, and seriously performant.

And for 65/month, you can get a VERY beefy Hetzner server.

You’ll have to wade through the crazy thicket that is the menu of cloud offerings.

I gave that one look, and decided I might as well give up and learn the basics of Linux admin once and apply it for life.
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Krita shortcuts were not chosen by someone who draw.

Why do you need 2 hands to rotate the view, one of my hand have the pen in it ?!?
The Free Tier is completely irrelevant here, though. The very reason someone might use Spanner is its excellent scalability. I don't believe there is any reason to use it for smaller projects other than education. The customers who will use Spanners are those for whom CockroachDB is not enough, for example. For everybody with databases that are not that huge PostgreSQL will do just fine.
yeah but you run into other issues when you put all of your lambdas on the same VPC
About what to censor.
GCP has seen price increases:

https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/14/inflation-is-real-google-c...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30671997
What supposed claim is BS?

"Chrome is a fast and secure browser for YouTube."

That claim is NOT BS. And I am not shilling for Google here, I use Brave and Firefox myself and NEVER used Chrome EVER and I am proud of it. However, they did not claim its MORE secure or faster, they just say "is a fast and secure".

I remember when Chrome came out how heavily Google pushed it back then I used their search. It was something similar I think, or was it Firefox ads somewhere else? Not sure but there was also no claim just a meaningless general statement.

God Google search is it shitty these days. Putting things in quotes does not even work anymore and the search results are garbage.
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It has never been practical to simply disregard the practical financial and labor implications of human life and get the job done. If all your workers starve, they wont shovel. If there are no replacements, work stops.

I think what is interesting is the expansion from purely logistical/financial implications to include other considerations.

These other considerations including legal ones, as labor laws were passed, civil liability law developed, social sentiments changed, and welfare increased so that people didnt have to choose be 50% chance of death or starvation.
This repo is a joke, right? I'd be embarrassed peddling this as AGI.

We're a long way from AGI existing at all. Even if you disagree, it's agreed upon that we're not there yet. For this repo to call its offering AGI is even more dramatic of a mischaracterization than saying I'm an Olympic sprinter because I went for a morning jog.

What can I say? Hucksters gonna huckster.
"Coders howl over Google's App Engine price hike (natch)" https://www.theregister.com/2011/09/02/google_app_engine_use...

I don't know if Google App Engine falls under Google Cloud services, but either way that's just a technicality; the sentiment remains the same.

Edit: more information here: https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/The-Unofficial-Goog...
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If you are referring to the story in the article then I believe you misunderstood. The vet didn't perform the procedure pro bono; the owners gave the pet up to someone who was able to pay for the procedure.
Hashicorp is playing safe here, Nomad can do with far far less resources.
Whether or not people are worthy of the trust, we must place it in them.
> Which companies?

Software companies for sure, but I was working at a Stock Brokerage/FinTech/Media company in NYC when covid hit, and pretty much everybody from admins to sales to execs were working remote--and were actually MORE productive, inasmuch a they didn't arrive pre-exhausted from a train ride from Jersey.

Some jobs (janitorial, manufacturing) can't be remote, but I can't name a single tech or service-sector company which was materially affected by remote work, can you?
Does anyone believe it will stay this way for long?
I think any social network where the content is curated by some meaningful metric is going to do well in general. LinkedIn is curated by expectations of the corporate culture. If your content is positive (not necessarily helpful as is the case with LinkedIn majority of the time) you look more employable. And with LinkedIn becoming the de facto standard for orgs in their due-diligence on potential employees, the quality of your content can really help or hurt your future prospects. Other social networks like HN and SO operate in a similar way but slightly different curation metrics.
Here’s a more informative link

https://rainforestfoundation.org/engage/brazil-amazon-fires/
Is there any system where relevant/affected parties (e.g. neighbors) could sell-off their rights to exclusive zoning? e.g. Neighbors complain about the extra traffic, shadows, or diminishment of "character" that new zoning would bring, so they can get compensated for their vote to allow it? Maybe a similar example is where NYC buildings sold off their air rights to allow for supertall buildings by Central Park?
Will have to check it out to see if it has my most-longed-for feature. The ability to nudge the selection by a single pixel with the arrow keys.
Most industrial and other espionage is not done in public, Wikileaks was an aberration, a way to launder intelligence, hence those interested in the public good abandoning Julien around the time he got into word games about the different types of sexual assault.

People steal code to write exploits, not to create rival companies.

If you're trying to ratfuck someomeone, you're quiet about it until they're dead or in prison if you're doing it properly, and if it's for money, then you take your winnings and silently retreat, not throw what you stole onto github like you're gunning to be the next Paul Le Roux.

(There are chaotic good hackers with dark sides too -- it pains my heart I used to respect Julien, for I too enjoy crushing bastards. I wish him the best, but he refused to harm the ones harming America in ways that went from arguably rightful wanking against nuclear killers to... pure sadism and an ever present need for narcissistic supply in line with the types he claims to abhor.)
This! Google has shown many times they can't be trusted.
Before they offered Google cloud, they offered Google App Engine. After they introduced Google Cloud they got bored of App Engine and 10x’d the price. This was particularly painful because App Engine was a batteries-included solution with heavy vendor lock-in.
The tech behind this is great, but I fear what the TV makers will do with this to prevent you from disabling ads. Samsung is bad enough as is, having a built in connection will make it even worse.
Telling a random person you don't know that you know exactly what's good for them is dumb
It's verbose for sure (though Pascal's overall amount of boileplate probably takes less space compared to Java code). Structurally it's almost the same beast (both inherited from Algol), with notable exceptions like for loop.

Scala feels more modern than C to me too, when talking about language concepts/features. Regarding syntax they are in the same basket.
Cool! And on top of that TheBloke has the quantized models of course:

https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Mistral-7B-v0.1-GGUF

https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Mistral-7B-OpenOrca-GGUF

https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.1-GGU...

I typically run my models with the 5_K_M or 6_K quantization, but it really depends on the use case and requirements
An idea I hear often listening to talks about LLMs, is that training on a larger (assuming constant quality) and more various data leads to the emergence of grater generalization and reasoning (if I may use this word) across task categories. While the general quality of a model has a somewhat predictable correlation with the amount of training, the amount of training where specific generalization and reasoning capabilities emerge is much less predictable.
Almost like these services are more trouble than they're worth.
The problem is rarely cash flow, it's credit worthiness and access to a one-time down payment. Additionally, the types of mortgages people take out are fixed rate and your payment never changes (so long as you do not refinance) regardless of inflation, as such, you are paying less over time for your housing, especially compared to renting where rents tend to out pace inflation. Additionally, the money you put in for rent is just flowing down the drain as you receive no long term equity or value benefit once it leaves your bank account. As the saying goes, it's expensive to be poor.
Time to wrap around and have -omegas. When that standard becomes the norm we can keep going backwards until -alpha, at which point we can use --omega and so on.
I really doubt that. They’re starting to finally turn a profit ($200 million) and it’s a 8 billion in revenue a quarter line of business. Google shuts down businesses that aren’t as revenue generating but 8 billion a quarter (32B annually) is a massive business and the “losses” are likely mostly from R&D reinvestments to keep growing that line of business.
Yeah. I think the whole point of Spanner is to handle larger, larger, larger workloads and databases, and if you can fit everything on a single server, you definitely should.

Comparing Postgres to Spanner is kind of like comparing a delivery van to a train. The train is always going to have higher overhead costs.

Linux admin is a useful skill, but I know my Linux admin skills can’t compete with the reliability, availability, and scalability of cloud systems… like Dynamo, S3, Spanner, etc.
Not to be that guy, but why lambdas? I'm genuinely curious. I've never found the "cost savings" (big air quotes) worth it in comparison to the increased configuration/permissions complexity. Especially when Fargate exists, where you can just throw a docker container at AWS, what do Lambdas add? The zero scaling?
True, but it's still less indirection than compiling to web and then embedding a browser, which is how the linked frameworks seem to approach the situation.
I think there's some new info in the carrier list too:

- T-Mobile [US] (we knew this one)
- Rogers [CA]
- KDDI [JP]
- Optus [AU]
- One NZ [NZ]
- Salt [CH]
Good history lesson. I didn't realize that Google Cloud wasn't a rename/expansion of Google App Engine.
Well ya, it doesn't cost a billion dollars to teach a child to read.

In many ways, AI has been rolled out just exactly the opposite way that I might have done it. Just like I would have done almost everything the opposite way of what's been happening since the Dot Bomb around 2001.

A few examples: we should have had CPUs with 100+ cores and local memories standard by now instead of SIMD video cards and various abstraction layers more abstruse than OpenGL. We should have had free distributed general computation runtimes like SETI@home but for any language. We should have had rich media documents with progressive enhancement like htmx instead of single-page applications and walled gardens that can't even be scraped or crawled by search engines. We should have had an open data interchange format like SOAP/JSONAPI/GraphQL/Open Graph/etc but not terrible, for supporting the semantic web. We should have had an approachable functional language like Erlang with the readability of Go and the vector handling of MATLAB, but we never got it, because the geeks who could make that stuff spent the last 20+ years as workaholics or struggling to survive on shoestring budgets in the open source community. We should have pushed for decommodification and right to repair instead of draconian IP laws like the DMCA. We should have had open funding like prosper.com and kickerstarter.com that actually worked (for all projects, not just creative ones) instead of VC firms and billionaires. We should have had Pragmatism instead of Move Fast and Break Things. We should be automating work to liberate us from forced labor, not automating art to strip away our dreams. We should be working towards UBI for every single person on the planet, not starting proxy wars between empire and the people who do the actual working and living and dying to support the 1%. I could go on forever, and the eventualities of these life choices have grown to capture our entire collective psyche.

If we had all that stuff, I truly believe that AGI (or at least the liberation it represents) would have already arrived.

But in the direction it's headed now, AI will almost certainly adopt the form of corporations (which arguably already are AIs with inhuman/amoral agendas) and deliver us into a dystopian future where the choice is lock-in under the yoke or survival in the wasteland.

I still hold onto some small hope that AI can liberate us from the short-term scarcity mindset and bring about the New Age under some form of democratic socialism like on Star Trek. But it's so easy for the powers that be to sabotage all forward progress, even going as far as shutting down governments to get their way, that I worry it may already be too late. The safe bet is that we'll get the libertarian paradise of Star Wars instead. Present-day technologists will be tomorrow's rebels.
That seems nitpicky. The free tier is a marketing program, not a product.

"Google should offer intro discounts" is IMHO a very valid point (absolutely no idea why this doesn't exist), but it doesn't really speak to whether or not the real product is more or less expensive.
I will say pretty crazy spanner is doing 20x the RPS at peak. I thought 126m from dynamoDB was insane, but 2b RPS is just a whole different world
If you can learn how to program, you can learn how to understand this. You first must learn the notation, just as when you learned "def", or "func", or "[x for x in ...]", or "int main() { ... }", or whatever your favorite language's notation is.

"Accessible" doesn't necessarily mean "with just knowledge of English, you can jump to this example and immediately understand what it means". Some work is always required; accessible just means this work is not too hard.

For example, Python's notation has been occasionally described as "accessible", yet I wouldn't expect my mum to immediately understand a non-trivial Python snippet (so no "print('hello')") without any previous explanations.
That was why we used an at home euthanasia service for our dog. He hated going to the vet and had to go multiple times a week toward the end. We didn't want to have him scared and stressed in his last moments.

Look into at home options if the time comes. We actually found that the cost was not much more than doing it at our vet's office. I think it was $500 at home vs $400 in office. $100 extra to give him the best end possible was the least I could do.
Plain cellular connectivity would be enough for that, just about every TV would have a good terrestrial cell signal.
Remember AppEngine?
> the ℤ⁺²-projective vector space

Semi-erratum: that's "(ℤ⁺)²" (aka "ℤ⁺×ℤ⁺"), not "ℤ⁽⁺²⁾".
This would be a really good (and much more accessible than the linked pdf) explanation without the condescending tone. This is some pretty advanced math, and pretending otherwise isn't constructive. If someone says "I'm having trouble understanding this", it's not their fault, and it's generally not laziness - it just means that the explanation isn't suited to them.
AI is not the problem.

I (for intelligence) is the problem.

Intelligence covers everything from the behaviors of a single celled organism, to the meta organism of human society. There is no misunderstanding by marketing. Intelligence covers everything they are doing.

What we need is new words for behaviors that are much more focused to what the capabilities we want to achieve are.
Yegge had an article saying that Google had really good tools to clean up uses of deprecated calls and the like and this had made them way too cavalier about breaking changes. Can't vouch for it but an interesting dynamic.
That Loon LTE IP purchase is paying off.