skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
M4.xlarge (m4.xlarge, 4cpu, 16gb, no storage) is about $100 per month.
This cpu is 7 years old(slow! and power hungry) and has 36 threads. This means it runs 18 of these instances.

The total revenue so far for one cpu is 100x18x12x7 = $150k
If used as a spot instance it’s 144/month, so about 200k

A standard i9-14700k gen has 32 threads, but it can run 12 of these instances (max 192mem). This CPU will cost you $800. Memory is cheap, so for about 1-2k you’re all set, and have a machine that’s way faster and cheaper.

Basically, buy a bunch of NUCs and you’re saving yourself around $1500 per month per NUC. It pays itself back in 1 month

Cloud hosting is —insane—

Not even touching memory ballooning for mostly idle applications.

Lastly, don’t give me reliability s an argument. These were all ephemeral instances that have no storage, so you’ll have to pay for that slow non-nvme storage platform.
I use u-boot for a boot loader. As for init and libc, I just use systemd and glibc.

Boot time is not a bottleneck for my application (however long it takes, the client will take longer…), and I’m sure there’s some more optimal libc to use, but I’m not sure the juice is worth the squeeze.

I’m also interested in what others are doing.
I hate dealerships in general - but - I've been lucky to have good sales people in the two car purchases I've made so far. The trick for me was to be very blunt and clear on what I'm trying to do. Usually I do the research about the car and what I want ahead of time. I've also researched what kinda pricing is normal. I'm also ready to sign the car if the price is right and I like it or walk out if I don't like.

My sense is that salespeople are primed by people who haven't done any research on what they want and doing all that on the spot at the dealership. They're also not exactly sure what they want and are susceptible to be convinced one way or the other. Even when they like a car, most people tend to be not sure and want to try another car or dealership. Hence the usual deal with pricing it higher, offering free accessories, offering a discount and all that jazz.
Number "one" is invented. Zero is discovered

the circle is invented, the value of PI is discovered
> Not true. They can differentiate it just fine.

I'm not convinced. I think the reality has been lost in its presentation.

It's always a human who makes the assertion of truthiness. The LLM does not make determinations or assertions: it only remembers them.

When we "train" an LLM, we structure it along our intentions. It never restructures itself. It never acts.
Given that there are Android phones on the market as or more expensive than iPhones, how can these people tell which Android users are poor?
I agree. If you're doing general-purpose things, using a company like the one you mentioned is just cloud but with extra steps
Then you need to train people on Azure, GCP , etc.

It's probably easier to optimize your stack TBH. I can't wait until I get a chance to use ARM on AWS.
>The actual RCS standard is dead for all intents and purposes because nobody uses it like that, except for Apple in the short term.

Maybe that will change now that Apple is adding support.
This is why film electricians are very strict about nobody besides them plugging / unplugging anything. The best boy or genny operator is always balancing loads and tracking power usage, especially when house power is in play.
We're driven towards intimacy, it seems. And if we can't get 'vanilla' intimacy, our desires get more and more bizarre. Another commenter in this thread quotes TFA where the author says something like 'but chatting sexually lost its meaning when I realized everyone else was doing the same thing with her'.

It is fascinating to see axioms of human relations come bubbling up in the most interesting places; the desire for intimacy, the desire for monogamy.
Probably related to https://www.engadget.com/nothing-phone-2-is-getting-imessage...
Or at least they may have moved the announcement forward
If the 'losing' side simply refused to give that one thing asked, how could the 'winner' get them to comply?
Not that it changes your point, but I believe Starship is running an Autonomous Flight Termination System. This means that there is no communication required from the ground-side. If it goes outside its flight corridor the AFTS will terminate all by itself.

For traditional FTS the ground side is constantly sending the equivalent of a keep-alive message to the vehicle. If it loses that link the vehicle will terminate itself.
Does anyone use paged memory in hard realtime systems?
> the company issues Macs as a way of attracting talent since "tech" people also want tech jewelry.

Only a very specific demographic, though. Such companies are missing out on a lot of talented tech people.
This is news to me. Can any other DBs do this?

(I only skimmed -- far too much "Joan explains that" to signal ratio.)
perhaps a lack of consistency would have resulted in a universe incompatible with life, so there’d be nobody around to ask the question?
There's no feedback that a message was undeliverable?
Previews are an app feature, not in the RCS protocol itself. I see message previews for SMS/MMS messages on Apple/Android devices despite the SMS/MMS protocol having no concept of previews. Most likely true for RCS as well.
:thumbs_up
ECS is incredible. Other areas should take notice
Freedom from vendor lock in is hard to put a value on, but for me it’s definitely worth a mid level engineers salary in any context.
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The anthropic principle doesn't explain why it is, in actuality, intelligible. It's only a constraint on what couldn't be the case given we exist.

It's clearly a much deeper question, given even Wigner wrote a paper about it. He called it a miracle.

Look, ultimately, mathematics is abstract and the physical world is material. The fact that an abstract condition is able to affect material conditions is literally a miracle that can only be explained metaphysically.
> How many hours have developers spent on query monitoring

Install Percona Monitoring & Management. Clickhouse + Grafana all in one, dashboards ready to go, and free. Not hard.

> optimization, removing joins, removing aggregations?

How is this not part of the job already? Too many people seem to have it in their head that the database is an inconvenience that gets in the way of their application. It is the heart and soul of every application, because all applications boil down to CRUD. You should learn SQL, full stop. Relation algebra is not that difficult. The time people spending learning the newest stupid JS framework could instead be spent learning a language that hasn't changed in decades. It will serve you well.
> I am trying to understand why we are wasting so much time in getting there

I think many people here have touched on important reasons why we are wasting time (e.g., governments paying lip service to the problem).

But I think something that hasn't been mentioned yet is that the emerging climate crisis won't be described as a climate crisis.

Instead, it will be described by its indirect effects.

For example, we will have mass flooding problems. We will have mass migration problems. We will have crop failures and famine problems, etc.

And political entities won't say "this is a climate problem."

Instead, they will argue/wage-war/whatever by saying, "We've got to stop this migration at our border." Or "We've had horribly bad look with historic flooding."

If there were an asteroid heading for earth, we could (probably) all band together and try to deal with it because most people could understand the direct effects of an asteroid hit.

But climate change is more subtle and slowly evolving. So, it's easier to convince people that it's just a hoax.

Obviously, I'm speaking from a US-centric point of view. I'm not sure how the rest of the world thinks about this issue.
> it can be huge issue when you move to a new city and trying to make new friend

Meh. I'm not interested in being part of a social circle that is as petty as that.
well, I just had a ChatGPT-translated test conversation where I spoke Chinese and they spoke English, and it worked fairly well (with some lag).

I really hope we'll be to make friends more easily across languages/cultures
Delaware Court of Chancery also holds the doctrine of shareholder supremacy, where execs actually have an obligation to maximize shareholder interests. Other states don't recognize it or allow balancing other stakeholder priorities.
If that's all it was, then why magicians specifically? Wouldn't that apply to all performing arts (musicians, actors, sales representatives, newscasters, etc)?
You think they should ban HN too? Or twitter?
Just get a cat/dog.
What kind of application are you running that you have to care about string constants in the program binary? I can't imagine a situation where you have so little flash you can't store strings, but you have enough storage and CPU cycles to keep logs or run UART. IMO, running that close to the limit of your chip's resources is a bad thing.

This post reads to me like complaining that your hammer ruined your screw.
> There is already regulation in place that should have caught this but did not. The captain is required to perform an external visual inspection of the aircraft before departure, which follows a checklist that includes looking at the windows. It appears that did not happen.

We've no idea if the damage was visible prior to takeoff. It may have easily passed a visual inspection on the ground before moving at speed with a pressure differential. As per the article at least one of them appears to have detached in flight and struck the horizontal stabilizer.
And the servers are brand new, so maintenance is not factor in yet.
If you make the lambda take the source location as a default parameter initialized to `std::source_location::current()` (which is the typical usage) then the default argument is created in the scope of the caller, so it would expand to the name of the function (and line number, etc.) calling the lambda rather than the lambda itself.

If you want to literally capture the name of the lambda and the line number in the lambda you'd create the source_location within the lambda instead.
I used to have CFS, but apart from the occasional temporary post viral fatigue that many get, it’s gone. And what is CFS but long term post viral fatigue?

One thing I learned is to ignore figuring out the exact supplements, because you’re playing an impossible balancing game with poor feedback mechanisms. There’s too many inputs.

What helped me was a combination (no one thing can solve it) of therapy (being able to listen to and not suppress emotions), key supplements (magnesium/iron - check out lactoferrin and anaemia of chronic infection), exceptional oral hygiene to reduce inflammation (4 minutes per brush), exceptional gut health (many viruses cause problems with the gut), exercise (eventually), and more…

I never used niacinamide or any of the supplements you used, which shows you that there’s no single approach. I agree that it appears to correlate with an unaddressed infection.
The parent article explicitly calls out this exchange, from this exact interview, and bases it's criticism on these claims. So I do not think this interview addresses them.
Was it because of "neglecting every other product feature that end users actually want"?
One-third of U.S. newspapers as of 2005 will be gone by 2024
That sounds like a pretty good setup.

One thing I heard, which feels true but I don't actually have a way to verify tbh: you should aim to have the _top_ of your monitor at eye level, to avoid temptation to look up often. I've been told that that is bad for your neck.
Imagine how much easier the frontend dev's life would be if they could just demand whatever horrifying schema they want, and it would be delivered to them. Oh wait, that's GraphQL, and it worked as well as it sounds.

I am begging people to learn SQL; it is not a hard language, and it hasn't changed in decades.
I could see apple still downscaling and compressing videos and pictures that don't come from apple devices
I think the major difference is a DAO is not a corporation, by design. So the legislation around them is still in catch-up mode.

In other words, yes, because the entire framework is different.
Cisco routers running IOS-XR, until relatively recently.
Sms is not end to end encrypted
Who would have thought that vendor lock in results in absorbent spend!
Claiming that dealerships exist to protect the consumer is akin to claiming Payday Loan processors exist to protect customers from big banks.
I'd ask what's the benefit in drinking, but most people see brain destruction and increased risk of doing something stupid as "fun".
Orthodox Jewish folks don't need to serve in IDF, and yet they produce more kids. So, more votes and better poll participation from the Orthodox side skew these problems. That's what I heard on some show.

I am not justifying Hamas' attack on Israeli people. What does a justification do, anyway? It transforms unjust acts into just acts using some or another theory, ideology, etc. With this side comment out of the way, how do you explain Hamas' attacks, major support for Hamas from Gaza, West Bank, East Jerusalem? One explanation most people seem to accept is that folks in Gaza are bottled up, such a pressure cooker just blew up. Another related explanation: Israel has subverted two-state solution, leading to pressure cooker situation.

I have no problems in accepting the claim that they are anti-Jewish and that they don't want a Jewish state in the Middle East. That's what many a muslim would say in private conversations. This discussion can't be had in the West today, due to political correctness: when Islam is power or when Islam dominates a society, they have problems with non-Islamic people (history of Islam shows that). When Islam is in minority or lacks the power, different tunes are sung.
The abstract idea of a (democratic, elected) government is parental, it is supposed to run a country to better the lives of its citizens. Whether some of the people that gain power in government are even adults is debatable though.
"Of the papers that still survive, a majority (4,790) publish weekly, not daily."

"A coalition of non-partisan philanthropies plans to commit more than $500 million over the next five years to initiatives that support local journalism."
I'm sorry the state of science education is so poor and you don't know how to tell a ghostwritten SEO blog from a scientific publication. You deserved better.
We're not short on sunlit ocean, we're short on energy and clean water. $/watt and $/liter are the relevant constraints, not kW/m^2.
Not of use or waste; but energy required
> Assuming you mean “return” as in a JSX expression in a return statement

I do. Right, but the <></> syntax still feels like a hack around a need to have just one node at the top of the three.

-----------

>Attributes aren’t even part of the syntax (they’re “props”)

What I meant was that this is valid syntax:

function hey ({ props }) {
return (
<div data-foo={ bar }></div>
);
}

While this isn't:

function hi ({ props }) {
return (
<div { bar }></div>
);
}

There are many situations in HTML where you want a plain string inside the tag, like <input checked>

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> control flow is anything that can be used in a JS expression position

I explained myself poorly. We can use if/else outside the return statement, of course. It's JS after all. But inside it, which is where the JSX magic happens, you have to resort to things like:

{ isItTrue ? (
<i>yep</i>
) : (
<b>nope</b>
)}

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>It might help to think of JSX as more like an S-expression (as in Lisp)

That's probably the biggest complement to JSX possible :)
I admire Lisp from afar, but could never stand the parentheses.
It’s more than that. Videos and pictures sent via SMS absolutely suck because they were designed for 2004 era quality standards.

I agree RCS will stay green. It will have text, good quality media, maybe read receipts.

And that’s it. No E2EE or other extensions. Apple is fixing one issue (bad media quality) and taking away a disingenuous Google talking point. Perhaps this is also an argument to legislators that they don’t need to open iMessage.

They’re never going to go out of their way to make it preferable in any way.
> Obviously, our results are only correlational and cannot be taken as proof that what limits cognitive control exertion is the need to prevent glutamate accumulation.

I didn't read the original story but I wonder if it included that little gem
> why would an AI that sophisticated care about controlling your mind? [..] What do they get out of manipulating average individuals?

Captcha slaves?
I don't know, and I haven't had a lot of experience with datadog these days, but 4 years ago New Relic was like magic and it was one of the few SaaS I've seen where I thought "damn this is worth the extra money compared to hiring an engineer to maintain an OSS version".
Enabling dedup on ZFS is a good way to ruin your day if you're too happy.
ADD is not the lack of focus, it's the lack of executive control over focus. You may have a fantastic, nearly inhuman amount of focus, but without any ability to direct it - if you have something engaging to work on you can work on it to the total exclusion of all else for 12 hours at a time, but if such an engagement isn't present you'll just be pulled in every direction at random. At least, that's how it is for me.
Because the other performing arts don’t require a deep understanding of (some aspects of) human psychology to be good.
The conversation here focuses on a distinction between "hard" real-time applications, where you probably don't want a general-purpose OS like Linux no matter what; and "soft" real-time applications like videoconferencing or audio playback, where you nothing terrible happens if you get a bit of stuttering or drop a couple of frames every now and then. The argument is that RT Linux would be a killer solution for that.

But you can do all these proposed "soft" use cases with embedded Linux today. It's not like low-latency software video or audio playback is not possible, or wasn't possible twenty years ago. You only run into problems on busy systems where non-preemptible I/O could regularly get in the way. That's seldom a concern in embedded environments.

I think there are compelling reasons for making the kernel fully-preemptible, giving people more control over scheduling, and so forth. But these reasons have relatively little to do with wanting Linux to supersede minimalistic realtime OSes or bare-metal code. It's just good hygiene that will result in an OS that, even in non-RT applications, behaves better under load.
Tech is probably the only practical way that could be fixed, as unlikely as it is. Trying to force people to make do with less is not a winning proposition for a political party, and many people are not going to change their lifestyles willingly.

So a possible tech breakthrough is going to be the only thing that can save us here.
>"lactic acid cannot even really exist in the body because blood pH is too neutral, (around 7) and acids require very low pH"

HF, HCl, and H2SO4, to name a few acids, do not "require" low pH, they BYOpH
Proving a theorem given a set of axioms is a search problem. Given a set of axioms you can apply rules of inference to generate the graph of all provable theorems. Proving a theorem is about finding a path from the axioms to the vertex which is your theorem.

But you can make the same case for axioms - that they are not invented but discovered through a process of search in the space of axioms.
Somewhat tangential, but I hadn't heard about the Emu model, which was apparently released (the paper [1] at least) in September. I was curious about the details and read the Emu paper and ... I feel like I'm taking crazy pills reading it.

> To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work highlighting fine-tuning for generically promoting aesthetic alignment for a wide range of visual domains.

... unlike Stable Diffusion which did aesthetic fine tuning when it was released? Or like the thousands of aesthetic finetunes released since?

> We show that the original 4-channel autoencoder design [27] is unable to reconstruct fine details. Increasing channel size leads to much better reconstructions.

Is it not expected that decreasing the compression ratio would lead to better reconstructions? The whole point of the latent diffusion architecture is to make a trade-off here. They're more than welcome to do pixel diffusion if they want better quality, or upscaling architecture.

And then the rest of the paper is this long documentation that can be summed up as "we used industry standard filtering and then human filtering to build an aesthetic dataset which we finetuned a model with". Which, again, has been done a thousand times already.

I really, really don't mean to knock the researcher's work here. I'm just very confused as to why the work is being represented as new or groundbreaking. Contrast to OAI which documents using a diffusion based latent decoder. That's interesting, different, and worth publishing. Scaling up your latent space to get better results is just ... obvious? (As obvious as anything in ML is, anyway). Facebook's research isn't usually this off the mark. E.g. the Emu Edit paper is very interesting and contributes many new methods to the field.

[1] https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.2365-6/10000000_1...
So is running in circles
It probably matters most what your aims are for forming the company. Since you are proposing it will have low to no revenue, what is driving you to (think about) incorporating?
You can find that out already by looking at Replika users.
Biased as a founder in the space [1] but I think with OpenTelemetry + OSS extensible observability tooling, the holy grail of one tool is more realizable than ever.

Vendor lock in with Otel now is hopefully a thing of the past - but now that more obs solutions are going open source, hopefully it's not necessarily true that one tool would be mediocre over all use cases (since DD and the likes are inherently limited by their own engineering teams, vs OSS products can have community/customer contributions to improve the surface area over time on top of the core maintainer's work).

[1] https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx
Alternatively, most magicians are intimately familiar with psychology and more knowledgable on how the brain is untrustworthy and subjective experience is a suggested hallucination therefore less likely to take it seriously enough to produce conditions, unlike most.
Sure it was $10/line.

iMessage was free once you had a smartphone plan.

And no, smartphone plans didn’t automatically come with unlimited SMS. I had to “upgrade” for that.
An update to Google News magazine support
Oh agreed - qemu is quite good but it failing on Chrome is evidence that Chrome is a very complex piece of software.
> what does it mean to have an emotional relationship with someone in your pocket who is for all definitions perfect - can provide perfect advice and does so with judgement, ridicule, pity or anger?

I don't think I could have an emotional relationship with such an entity, to be honest. It wouldn't be perfect at all -- it would be deeply flawed.

But maybe that's just me.
In an internal conflict the only side you can put political pressure on is the ruling government.

Let’s take as a hypothetical, some Waco style paramilitary starts terrorist sticks in the US, and in response the US military begins shelling Chicago night and day killing thousands more civilians and the terrorists ever did.

Should the UN come out and censure both sides? The terrorists are just domestic criminals, and the UN doesn’t have a particular interest in that. However turning your military against helpless civilians is something the UN does care about.

I’m not sure this fits 100% but it’s the logic I’m following.
+1. You would give an interior designer “creative license” to redecorate your living room. The opposite of creative license is micromanagement.