skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The velocity at which the field is moving dictates that you must not wait for AMD and Intel to catch up with a working and performant implementation, even if the TOPS per dollar are somewhat better on paper.
> when the cattle are sent to the slaughterhouse

Data isn't "sent to the slaughterhouse". Ever.

Data can be annoying that way.
I used to submit math assignments in Word for Windows 2.0 (or 6.0, whichever was current in 1994) equation editor - i didn’t have access to a reasonable latex setup at the time.

The reason was that my handwriting was slow, messy and hard to read. Taking the effort to write a nice “submission” quality assignment would easily take two or three times as much as it would take me using Word.
Sure thing! You can stop, delete, backup and delete. It supports all the actions that cloud provider supports.
Hydrogen is diamagnetic (1) so you’d just need the right level of magnetism to repel it (or slightly redirect it)

Or if we shape the field into a buzzard ramjet then you actually take advantage of the interstellar material for fuel.

(1) https://sciencing.com/magnetic-properties-hydrogen-7648446.h...
> moved everything to a big vSphere cluster, and backed it by a giant RAID-5 array

I’m with sibling commenter, if said IT department genuinely thought that the core point in “cattle-not-pets” was met by their single SuperMegaCow, then they missed the point entirely.
This might be true but paradoxically, there hasn’t been an observed frequency or intensity of Florida hurricanes in last 100 years [1].

Florida is worth looking at because they were industrialized and have had relatively robust meteorological record for the entire period.

I do wonder why as it seems like common sense that heating air and water temps (which have happened) would cause more evaporation and potential for water and wind storms.

[1] https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes/
Could you provide some reference/evidence to this IQ/income correlation? In particular, I would expect no correlation above ~100 -- has this been controlled for?
I was going to respond that much of music is also poetical, but AI is actually decent in that realm too - albeit it with a lot of supervision.

From 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPs6wdM7S3U
Starship Technologies raises $90M as its sidewalk robots pass 6M deliveries
What’s so interesting about this bubble is that virtually all the money is flowing into a single stock. Wild. There are still basically no workable business models and barely any revenues for AI products.
I've worked with Kubernetes extensively since it became popular.

Of the maybe hundred of companies I've worked with trying to onboard to Kubernetes, I don't think a single one really had a use case that justified the increased complexity.

Kubernetes seems so great until you're suddenly drowning in YAML, un-upgraded clusters out of their support window, the need for an unbelievable amount of extra tooling (e.g. ArgoCD, Helm, CSI plugins, Operators), etc.

Plenty of places made it work by paying for huge teams to manage it, but deploying software on regular old Linux servers is fine for most people with just a small amount of discipline.

Use boring technology.
That's not what rent seeking is. Rent seeking is manipulating public policy or conditions to maximize profits. That would be like them calling for regulation of AI and gpus so that only they can produce them because "ai safety", which I don't believe they're doing

They developed an expertise and they are temporarily profiting extraordinarily from it.

They're practically the only player for now but it's different from a harmful monopoly enforced by force from the state
How much code do you want to write for it? Do you just want to push to a repo and it happens automatically? What does the structure of your "navigation" "post dates" look like? Browsable?

The most simple thing I could think of would be asciidoc + github pages. Write stuff, generate output HTML, push all to repo, wait for sync. Done.
Would that be the original British Imperial SOP or the closely-related but not-quite-the-same American SOP?
A Transformer Quine that generates a lossy copy of its own weights
> America’s per capita CO2 emissions are down 6.6 tons per person just from 2000. Last year that saved ~2.2 Billion tons of CO2 from entering the atmosphere. People look at China’s growing emissions and get concerned, but just imagine if they still got 81% of their electricity from coal instead of getting ~2.2 TWh of electricity per year from renewables.

All those claims ring hollow after all the serious damage to the biosphere that has been done and the rate at which the world is barreling down into a catastrophe. We have still not settled on where the current temperature rise will settle. What's the point of gloating when issue has not been addressed?

> The worlds CO2 PPM would be significantly higher if nobody had done anything to mitigate the issue.

The excess CO2 PPM would have been significantly lesser if the scientists were taken seriously when it mattered. The first paper on the global greenhouse effect was is 1892 - more than 130 years ago. There was more than enough time to develop and switch to something else. Instead we got everything from misinformation campaigns, political double speaks, sabotaged careers and research - all so that some people could protect their comfortable, but exploitative revenue streams. This goes back to the fundamental problem I was talking about - problems will be solved as long as it doesn't stand in the way of profits. Otherwise, any collateral damage is acceptable to some.
If you don't need tagging (as http://danluu.com/ doesn't, for example), you can use my "no workflow" solution:

* draft in markdown

* render in HTML (using any Markdown to HTML tool, e.g. pandoc)

* link your CSS in the HTML file.

* push to your preferred serving platform

This has the advantage of getting you started as quick as you can open an editor.

If after 5 posts you are wanting a tool, pick whichever (Hugo).
TSMC to build second Japan chip factory
That’s comparing stocks to flows. Argentina’s GDP measures income not wealth.
But what do you pay them money for? What problems do they solve for you?
It seems reasonable, although we may still be able to send messages with radio, lasers etc. Though even that isn't easy.
May I recommend my personal creation https://mkws.sh/? Simple, sh based, very customizable, very lightweight.
NASA has a rough plan for that. Apparently it's surprisingly "simple", if one can say that about doing industrial construction on another planet.
GME's price rose to insane values because there wasn't enough shares in the market to satisfy all the short calls. This has nothing to do with NVIDIA's situation.
The lyrics of Hair Metal Renaissance promised me a guitar solo, but reneged. I want a pony!
It's supposed to be roughly correlated to damage potential to man made structures. It is also supposed to be logarithmic.

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutsshws.php
Anti-vaccine rabbit hole leads to political representation: Twitter in Japan
At least with gamestop there was a large short position being called. Granted I know that was just the catalyst for meme stocks.

I'd be surprised to learn anyone has a large Nvidia short position. It's not absurd since it speculates on when the AI bubble will pop. I suppose that's really up to the fed.
> they're hitting places that didn't typically get hit in the past

The human population is four times larger than it was in the 1970's, so there's more things to hit are they are often built in more marginal locations.
Long but worth at least skimming. Full of little tidbits adding up to a damning indiction of London's welcoming embrace of wealthy criminals.

> Riverwalk was built by the London property impresario Sir Gerald Ronson, who was convicted in 1990 on charges of conspiracy, false accounting, and theft in connection with a stock-fraud case; he did a stint in prison, and then in 2012 was made a Commander of the British Empire for his philanthropic work.
But what if you could achieve the same effect with a bunch of institutional money rushing in over a short period of time? The the first time it happened it might have been an accident, but as a regular occurrence its a sign of manipulation.
The closest thing I can think of is the strange art of bell ringing in peals [1], aka change ringing, in which bells in church towers are rung in every possible order. One of the very longest takes 18 hours.

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peal
There are absolutely workable business models. They're just not publicly visible yet. That's fairly common: Facebook or Google didn't monetize for years and pundits wondered if they'd ever make money. In a winner-take-most market, it's generally best to focus entirely on growth until you're #1 before starting to charge money.
I don't know, MSFT has ~doubled in the last year and I don't think that would've happened without the AI stuff.
Electricity isn't much different from water. The concept of a water mill has been around a long time. So understanding the functional ideas wouldn't be all that difficult. As far as Gods I think you will have a tough case minimizing their involvement even today.
Getting rid of bed bugs: Trickier than
But if let's say the shares are valued very highly, it's a good opportunity to buy businesses that are priced much lower without much dilution.
Since... the Gamestop spectacle? Do you hear yourself? Stock market darlings have probably been a thing since the stock market
Ima short this bubble to zero
Women who dress modestly are getting unclothed by AI, while those who dress immodestly are getting clothed with AI.

This shows that regardless of modesty, it's all about men's desire to have control over women.
Why's it so slow? When I press Continue it takes like 1 second to load the next country?

It's like 195 jpegs, just pre-load them please. I can't continue like this after 3 countries, it's too tedious.
Thanks for sharing, I haven't thought that could be a contributing factor too. And I appreciate your effort as a former grader—some of the hand writings are impossible to read and they don't seem to put an effort to make my life easier...
Can't properly comment on it as I'm watching on a phone, but my 2 cents:

Last week there was an Ask HN thread about live-rendered video games graphics still looking worse than 20 year old Hollywood CGI. A lot of the comments were about balancing performance and having less power, true, but there was something that wasn't being considered: what we expect CGI to look like.

I couldn't word the comment right so I didn't post it, but I was going to bring up the game Unrecord[1] as an example of fairly realistic looking game – it still has general limitations other live rendered work has, but the choice of using a high field of view to emulated a bodycam (alongside cold, high contrast lighting) sells a certain vision of reality.

I see it the same here. Maybe our idea of what CGI looks like clouds us, and something as simple as using a high FOV / fisheye lens throws us off. Also consider that due to the distortion of the lens, real life fisheye footage can have an almost unreal vibe to it.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/2381520/Unrecord/
In principle it might do something if they mostly turn into charged particles, but it's unlikely to amount to much. It only takes a bit of conductive metal to influence a magnetic field. Creating one of significant scale is much more difficult, and requires more specific circumstances than the metal being merely conductive.
I think we've seen over the last 20 years that the 80s definition of undue market power is unfit for purpose in an era where state-granted IP monopolies (copyright, patents, etc.) and network effects (app-stores and other two-sided markets) create novel sorts of anti-competitive market power. It is highly likely these state granted rights over IP are part of nvidia's market power.

Prima facie, we should be suspicious that nvidia is able to keep $11bn out of $19bn -- why is no investor on the planet not chasing after at least half that?

In the end what we want is a free market where competition drives down prices by limiting profits, and where the power of capitalists is limited by their need to compete, and where the power of labour is improved likewise (and so on).

Given just why we even have a free market in the first place, companies like nvidia cropping up should be a cause for concern.

My hope is, exactly, that this is a transitiory effect where they're able to exploit their market position only in the very short term.
There is a hype going on now, the relevant player simply can not afford not to pay that premium. The opportunity cost is too big. As things consolidate, those margins will come down. First world problems.
It does have a definite whiff of a meme stock to it now.
There were real things pushing it up, plus the sort of genuine hype you expect with big tech. But now everyone is talking about it it takes on a a life of its own, it's hype on top of hype and to a certain degree everyone knows it so now its just gambling on who can get out before it turns.
I know this sounds odd: but why not prescribe those individuals non-virilizing anabolic steroids for recuperation? Worst case scenario, you have some lipid imbalance, possibly liver enzyme increase and natural testosterone suppression at the end of healing. All of this would be extremely minimal.

Oxandrolone is already used in medicine for this purpose, but not nearly in as many indications as it would be useful.

They heavily increase healing and muscule cell proliferation via supercharging protein synthesis. They also prevent muscle wasting via maintaining nitrogen balance in your body.

You could have recovered much faster with this medication.

I've long felt that the taboo surrounding anabolic steroids prevents their therapeutic usage.
Thank you for your explanations!
Show HN: Made a simple Hacker News comment levels userstyle
I was always getting lost in the comments. Following which comments belong to a thread is sometimes really hard for me. So made this quickly to help with that.
How much of this is about chatGPT? Because Bard got a big upgrade yesterday, right?

And does Google use Nvidia hardware on Gemini?
Is segmentation still viewed as terrible? There seems to be a trend towards hardware mechanisms for more fine-grained intra-process memory protection than is practical with paging. Nice intro though.
The quote "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent" is attributed to John Maynard Keynes many years before "the big short" movie even came out.
It might be unofficially supported. Most devices are.
I think you could probably create the same sort of hyperbolic moves if you rushed in a bunch of institutional money over a short period. Maybe the first time they discovered they could have this effect it was accident, not as a regular feature of the market.
quite possibly one of the dumbest things you can do, even if you end up being right at some point.
This doesn't answer your question about newer consoles, but a brief glance at ebay turned up plenty of results for Wii systems with the balance board and game.
Every hedge fund and every pension fund in the world wants some exposure to AI, as it is widely believed to be the next big thing. What happens when everybody is buying NVIDIA and Super Micro? Right.

Instead of thinking in terms of speculation think in terms of money flows. A lot of money flowing into a handful of stocks results in an explosive move up. There is plenty of speculation as well, of course, but that isn't why AI stocks are up.

When will NVDA and SMCI go down? When all the big funds become sellers. But what else can they buy? INTC and AMD don't have competitive chips or software.
How is no independent mobility progress?
Is anyone here daily-driving microg and can share their experiences? https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Implementation-Status does not exactly inspire confidence.
Well, not all MIDI sounds bad. Have a listen to the Addictive Drummer demos for example. It can sound pretty damn good / real. Still, your point is well taken. MIDI guitar emulations for example are still pretty dang bad. One wonders if this is because a guitar is a more continuous vs discrete instrument compared to drums. Even with all of MIDI’s rich parameters, it’s pretty tough to describe pick angle, materials, etc.

Also, I wonder if there will be a natural “backlash” against generic AI music and towards stuff that has more human imperfection. But then again even the AI will learn to imitate the imperfections so what exactly will make a piece more human in the long run?
The theory is that high interest rates will bring inflation down - once they are down the market is already predicting that rates will drop to 2% - so the era of cheap money will continue...

It seems to be working, but no better here than it is on the continent and USA, where inflation is already lower.
> There are still basically no workable business models and barely any revenues for AI products.

At this point, AIs are being embedded into existing apps as new way to interact with users. Also, you need a decent GPU to run most LLMs, so there is demand in the market for GPUs for all kinds of devices, aside servers at cloud services.
How to Build a Memory-Efficient Elixir App with Streams
> If your render is remotely intended to be realistic, please include wireframe, viewport or clay render along with your post.

This is a bit sensationalistic if you’ve followed the subreddit for any amount of time. People often forget about the rules and either have their posts removed or are asked to post evidence.
As per many other comments, it sounds like a static site generator like Hugo (https://gohugo.io/) or Jekyll (https://jekyllrb.com/), hosted on GitHub Pages (https://pages.github.com/) or GitLab Pages (https://about.gitlab.com/stages-devops-lifecycle/pages/), would be a good match. If you set up GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD to do the build and deploy (see e.g. https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-github/), your normal workflow will simply be to edit your markdown and do a git add/commit/push to make your changes live. There are a number of pre-built themes (e.g. https://themes.gohugo.io/) you can use, and these are relatively straightforward to tweak to your requirements. In theory, since the content (markdown) is separate from the presentation (theme), you can change design relatively easily (although in practice there's often theme specific config).
Is this article saying we shouldn’t use mega constellations? It’s a rather dry presentation of napkin math. As other comments have said if this is a genuine issue then we can solve it.

There is value in investigating the downside of technology because it helps us address problems before they occur. Of the the more famous modern example is CFCs and The Montreal Protocol. There was a genuine risk to all life on earth found via similar science, we got together and agreed on a solution plus we still have whipped cream in a can and refrigerators.

There is a fundamental difference between doomerism and investigating potential risk. Of course we should avoid doomerism but saying “hey guys this might be an issue let’s think about it a bit” is an important part of technological advancement.
> or were laid off and have been unemployed for 6-12 months with a dwindling emergency fund, you may have to take the first sensible offer you get. Especially if the job market is tough (like it is right now) or if you need that paycheck to keep a roof over your head.

Also, if you see yourself in such a situation and see yourself having to choose between competing offers, it may make sense to go for the offer that pay less money if this position will expand your long-term employability. It is better for your career to become a tech lead for an upcoming Y-Combinator using Rust, than making some 50k more to be a Senior Java Developer in a oil company from TX.

EDIT: I meant 50k MORE
With the upcoming recession and market crash it’s the perfect timing
Oh yes, Trumps SPAC DWAC was truly a market darling.
Launch Week: GraphQL Insights with Stellate
> anointed stock since the GameStop spectacle

Mania's have been a thing since the start of markets.

It's so funny to see HN readers who know absolutely nothing about finance or capital markets have "houlier-than-thou" attitudes towards institutional money.

> why would I do something rational in a broken market

Why do you think you're the rational one?

That's the entire point of how markets work. No one thinks markets are fully efficient and the way you make money by trading is through exploiting inefficiencies.

The market was in a panic mode around Facebook a year and a half ago and if you were smart enough to see that and take advantage then you'd have 4x'd your investment.

But I guess you're "too rational" to make money off that sort of thing?
“My trumpets and saxophones will only play the correct tones if I work with it to do so.”

I have no opinion either way, but this conflates mathematical with automated, doesn’t it?
Inhibitory Control
There's a market for disposable software as much as there is for permanent software.

Disposable software is more like the fast food industry. You're looking to minimize cost. Craftsmenship is not ideal in that situation. I find a lot of B2C software fits into this category. If it's trying to get a monthly subscription, it's probably disposable software. You'll want something that works well to steal them from the competition, but probably will only capture people's attention for a few years before some new competition arrives and steals your customers.

Unless it's reducing costs by automating some business function (like a bank's UI). Then it's important that it just works and is stable.

On the other hand, a lot of B2B software needs to work for a long time without breaking, so it's easier to justify paying for something stable and reliable. You don't want your public API to be unreliable or your clients will leave.

I'd agree that the highest paid engineers are most likely to be building B2C at the big SV companies, but I've made a pretty good living working mostly in the B2B space. I tend to enjoy it more because the business wants reliability. Usually when I'm arriving the project is in major disrepair so they need someone to clean and fix it all up, and they are motivated to pay for it.
Optimizing SaaS metrics with predictive models
> It trained an entire generation to be afraid of technology.

Apparently not enough, given where we're headed.
First up, I never said they were BS in all, I just said they're not a great tool for all situations.

Next, I'd say it depends. Sometimes an org is new to OKRs so gets pretty zealous about using it for everything. In this situation, assuming the org is trying to learn, the management needs to go through the pain and figure out what does/doesn't work.

Sometimes there's enough braindead thinking in the org, in which case, there's not much to do but I'd argue sending ChatGPT nonsense is probably worse than telling everyone OKRs are BS. You're better off doing your best and hoping for the best. If you're caught engaging with management initiatives in bad faith then I don't see it ending well.
> Mega constellations could prevent other nations from entering space just by blocking launch windows

I suspect that the reason stuff like this gets traction is because of the current crop of satellite visualizations. Most of them make it look like Earth is absolutely blanketed in satellites. But that's primarily a pixel size limitation - it's not possible to show how small satellites actually are in a reasonably sized image.

If you think about it logically - there are a couple thousand cars in orbit: what percent of the surface does that cover? Not much - that doesn't even cover much of a 2nd tier city. And they have very predictable trajectories.

In short, yes - it's theoretically possible. But not a realistic concern. Especially with current launch prices. One of the only reasons Starlink is so big is because SpaceX gets to launch at cost instead of at market price.