skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Privacy matters wherever you are.

Even at work, most people like to believe they are trusted to do what they've said they are going to do without needing to be constantly monitored and micromanaged. Anything else is unsettling and oppressive.

I would refuse to work at a company that expected me to give up my privacy during working hours.
I would love to see a consumer graphics card with 128GB VRAM

Would be nice to be able to work with some of the larger open source LLM models.
I think that is much less about the content and more about the headline. Many people agree with the headline and are upvoting based on that alone.
So, like an election in Russia, there's only one candidate in the race?
I guess his top argument was “climate change”. If that’s the go to we need to see what effect on climate change this 7T would have if invested elsewhere.
> OpenAI has argued that they literally can’t build what they are building without an exemption from copyright that would crush artists, musicians, writers, and other creators.

This is my favorite thing about what Silicon Valley has become. "But we're disruptors! We can't do what we want to do unless we break all of your laws!"
How would one go about finding evidence that retaliation is common in the U.S.?

Sometimes, absence of evidence is because the evidence isn’t readily available.
"Fake" vs. "Real" Isn't a Useful Distinction with Emergent Mental Health Issues
There are caveats to using diatomaceous earth. If inhaled, it'll do to your airways what it does to insects. You'd want to avoid disturbing it or placing any where airflow from heating ducts, fans, etc. might blow across it to prevent it from floating around in the air.
Yeah, having a functional energy market definitely helps make these things make sense. We have half-hourly, bidirectional metering, and being able to save solar and sell it at a good rate means the payback period is looking like 7 years for us.

Our grid is also experimenting with paying people to borrow their batteries for predicted high usage events, up to £25 for one event.

I guess this means nothing if you can't access it but hopefully it's a model that spreads.
It's the interest in discussing development in perhaps the most transformative technology of the 21st century so far in large part, I imagine.
Just to clarify: was "fired without cause" (worked "at will" which most of full-time employments are in the US). By asking why they were getting rid of me I heard the pharse "for no good reason, really" like a broken record. This was enough indication that it was clearly in regards to my talk with HR a few days prior.

Also, during my announcement to HR about my wife's circumstances, I remarked I wanted to take some time off to be there for wifey & baby.

The company was 90% lawyers so just in case I wanted to proceed legal action against them, their Armada of lawyers made a possible follow-up rather unsavory.
There are basically no discounts in govcloud
Gleam has a 1.0 release candidate
"Deep Learning Is Rubbish" – Karl Friston and Yann LeCun Face Off at Davos 2024
> In a panel hosted by the Financial Times at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, two of the biggest names in artificial intelligence — Dr. Karl Friston of VERSES AI, and Dr. Yann LeCun of Meta — discussed their aligned, yet contrasting visions for the future of AI, with Friston proclaiming, “Deep Learning is Rubbish.”
I don't find Amazon to be a shitty company though. I get a lot of value from their services. When I was living in Vietnam, I greatly missed the convenience of ordering something and having it appear in a day or two.

Given their size, it seems I'm not the only one. I'd say that one person getting fired also falls into the anecdotal realm that primarily serves to give loud voices a forum.
Did they ban USB cables too, because of KIA?
I don't think anyone said they should. However, to the extent that the housing policies are determined by larger-than-local government agencies, there shouldn't be some citizens getting a large benefit and similar citizens getting the shaft.
Off topic question. Which outliner are you using currently? I am finding it difficult to get good outliners for writing in Windows.
You’re the one playing bad faith word games and being incredibly rude and obnoxious.
Just like with (most) cryptocurrency, it disgusts me how much energy is wasted on such frivolous pursuits like the majority of Generative AI usage.

The world should be fully awake to the incoming (on-going?) climate disaster, but instead we have vast amounts of additional energy demand being created mostly only in pursuit of making rich people richer.
We are indeed talking about a 10^6 factor here ... It's not just 10x or 100x, or even 1000x ... If NVIDIA strips away everything not required from their chips, adds more SDRAM and HBM, it won't improve performance by 100x, maybe they'll make it 10x-15x with this. But they claim they are going to achieve a 10^6x improvement in performance. Even if they end up delivering an ARM-compatible CPU with built-in Tensor core, built-in HBM, and vast SDRAM, without DDR RAM at all, how fast can it be? This promise of 10^6x performance improve is a paradigm shift. They know something that we are not. Or they are just bluffing.
Turnstile is one of a handful of Cloudflare products that actually has zero ties to a "zone" - it isn't associated with the DNS or CDN products whatosever. From what I know, it seems to be completely free for all uses, so it isn't really "bought" in the first place anyways.
While it doesn't deal directly with cloud development, "Designing Data Intensive Applications" covers much of what you are interested in learning about such as large-scale or distributed applications.

"Kubernetes up and Running" covers the basics of what Kubernetes is and how to use it. Within the first few chapters you should be able to use what you have learned to deploy an application to an inexpensive hosting provider like DigitalOcean.

The best way to learn is to learn by doing. After those books that's what I recommend.
I am still wondering what those bubbles are in all the space videos we see.
So ban USB cables next
This is not analogous at all. What are you talking about?
Do you just hate renters? This sounds like everyone and their child will own a single family home while running an apartment becomes too expensive. Spoiler, the apartments will just become single family homes.

LVT only works if it is applied uniformly and with zoning reform. It will actually be a tax break for landlords because they are utilizing their property near the limit of its value.
And flame graphs excel and this kind of thing

https://www.brendangregg.com/flamegraphs.html
Does OpenAI even have an edge anymore? I keep hearing about models being competitive with GPT4 and nothing about their fabled "Q*" model so I'm starting to think they've run their course.
Honesty, in an ideal world wide web, there isn't a need for much paid journalism. The metamorphosis that's happening now is natural and needed. Following a story, making summaries of ongoing events or even doing investigative reporting can be made as a side job by people interested in a subject (like Australian history, astronomy or the life of Britney Spears), most probably better than a run of the mill reporter who's being thrown across topics. They can build their follower base and span out on topics or staff up organically. Special needs reporting like war reporting or a documentary on rainforest destruction, like the above, can also be freelancing work and licensed to larger networks.

It's not really "media" that dies, but generic news channels and editorial teams. The concept of "notable news" is too diverse to be covered in these formats.
How Big Tech Rescued the Market in 2023
I for one cannot wait for Unity and then Colossus. Seems like Sam wants to skip Unity tbh.
This is wishful thinking.
Do you have an example on hand? I don’t recall SAT questions being more than a few sentences but it’s been years since I took it and I know at least one major section has changed.
>It doesn’t result in more crime or societal instability for people to have multiple partners.

Sure it does. It tends to result in more single men and it's the single men who end up causing all the disorder.
Running MSBASIC on my breadboard 6502 computer [video]
Yes, the base system is a cohesive whole, not a set of packages.

You don't update the kernel separately from, say, the core user land, the way you'd update linux-kernel and binutils as separate packages on a linux distribution.

BSD doesn't use the term "atomic" but as near as I can tell it's the same idea.
There are some things that make sense and others that will not.

Changing light bulbs to all LED is simple and economical.

Buying a new car that gets better gas mileage and/or moving to an EV or EVH doesn't actually make sense unless you intend to use that car over a period of time that actually amortizes it. That's why it is generally not a great idea to lease a vehicle.

But this is contrary to popular belief because there is no catch-all for everyone.

I have a 30 mile commute. If I maintain my vehicle and add in fuel costs, it is cheaper to maintain an older vehicle and fuel it than it is to try and amortize the cost of a new vehicle over it's span.

That is, in my humble opinion. If I apply the same techniques here, you have to make decisions about how you live your life in the domicle you've chosen.

You'd think it... common sense not to leave the lights on, radio (or BT speaker, whatever 2024), fridge doors open, preheating your stove or oven unintentionally or without focus (preheating and being distracted, wasteful).

Ultimately technology won't save us. Hopefully common sense will. Hopefully. But we know how hopeful things go.
This resonates with me. I feel this pretty strongly whenever I see people criticizing Duolingo. I've had so many people tell me it's not the best way to learn a language (and honestly they're right I'm sure) but on the other hand a few years of doing Duolingo for like 5 min a day has given me functional enough spanish to get around mexico on my last trip. I don't really care if it's not the best way because it's something that's easy to get started on and do every day consistently.
When it comes to profiling in Python, never underestimate the power of the standard library's profiler. You can supply it with a custom timing function when instantiating the Profile type [1], and as far as the module is concerned, this can be any function which returns a monotonically-increasing counter.

This means that you can turn the standard profiler into a memory profiler by providing a timing function which reports either total memory allocation or a meaningful proxy for allocation. I've had good results in the past using a timing function which returns the number of minor page faults (via resource.getrusage).

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/profile.html#profile.Profi...
So you have a return of 3.2% on investment, which is in line with inflation.

Not a particularly good investment I guess.
For reference: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-altman-seeks-trillions-of-do...
It's time we all moved away from GH
Sam Altman doesn't know if Ilya still works there.

https://twitter.com/realsergevar/status/1753903045962781129

https://officechai.com/startups/sam-altman-is-unsure-if-ilya...
Related:

The rule says, “No vehicles in the park” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36453856 - June 2023 (1186 comments)
Not much can stop a lone bedbug carried in. What you're trying to do is prevent your mattress from becoming a nest.

The problem with DE is it's so inexpensive and effective, and that makes it difficult to sell as a product. I got a 2kg bag of it for $10, and it's enough to last decades.
Yeah I hate that people can't acknowledge that friction is sometimes intentional.

Not everything -should- be easy.

For example I designed a system at a previous company that used Shamir's Secret Sharing to protect a very very important root key. We used an intermediate of this key for most operations but it came time to rotate it and folks were surprised by the ceremony involved in doing so.

i.e the root key was decrypted using X of N members of the SSS group, a new intermediate generated and the special NUC that was designed for this purpose returned to it's safe (which was also using a Yubikey as like a mini-HSM too).

Those keys protected very important PII and I deemed this the minimum necessary friction, ideally I would have went further if that was tenable.

Some things really should be hard and that hardness should be proportional to how horrible the implications of someone unauthorized doing that thing.
> The two have nothing in common

If all you need are some cloud servers, or a basic load balancer, they are pretty much the same.

If you need a plethora of managed services and don't want to risk getting fired over your choice or specifics of how that service is actually rendered, they are nothing alike and you should go for AWS, or one of the other large alternatives (GCP, Azure etc.).

On the flip side, if you are using AWS or one of those large platforms as a glorified VPS host and you aren't doing this in an enterprise environment, outside of learning scenarios, you are probably doing something wrong and you should look at Hetzner, Contabo, or one of those other providers, though some can still be a bit pricey - DigitalOcean, Vultr, Scaleway etc.
One thing i hate about mailbox.org is the way they implemented 2fa login [1]

They prepend a 4 digit PIN-code before the actual 2fa code - which of course is not compatible with password managers. It all feels so... clumsy.

Other than that, it seems like a great service (i'm testing the trial version.)

[1] https://kb.mailbox.org/en/private/account-article/how-to-use...
Keeping this mindset, I encourage you try liveview in any language of your choice [1].
This approach allows you to handle business logics on the server, and update the screen in browser from the server as well.

[1] https://github.com/liveviews/liveviews
Fortunately it can be disabled: Share error and usage reports - off; Digital Wellbeing Initiative - off; App Categorization - off
I've also lived in both, and currently live in NYC. I think they're on the same planet.
("the article" referred to by parent is https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/08/alabama-200f.... We merged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39311852 hither)
This is a process vs product issue. Yes, the product ("here's what this is / is about") can be captured wherever, but the process of engagement is the valuable bit.

Of course no one - no matter how intelligent! - will pick up every bit of nuance. That's why engaging with what other people think (also a process!) about [whatever] is an important part of skill development. I don't think anyone is incapable of engaging in this - even if their sophistication will always be limited by their intelligence / affinity / time / etc etc etc.

This is a useful paradigm under which to consider other skills. Computer code (product) is (approaching...) wide availability from LLMs, but the skills necessary to be a good developer come through a process that involves independently solving problems and asking questions that have (at least at first!) already been addressed by others.
I rent single room for $500 in Poland. Seems like we’ve buble here.
I think that goal is fine and good, but I would rather see huge investments toward in-memory compute like ReRAM and such. If we bridge the efficiency advancements of TinyML with the leap of LLM abilities, perhaps we can start on the road of not being limited by the impact of training on climate.
I was in a computer program in high-school which required good grades to be in and some teenagers would just pretend to read the books and get a synopsis online. I wouldn't be surprised if they literally never read a book in their whole life. And those were not dumb or illiterate people.
Curious how typical “kids” mazes are made. They’ve got to be tough to see through to the end and usually cover much of the sheet. Similarly intrigued by the construction of cross word puzzles…
The USD is the world reserve currency. So yeah, they really do not compare at all.
It does not mention Array of Structures and Structure of Arrays dichotomy, which is extremely important if you design a structure to hold data for analytics of any kind.
There's probably a lot of noise in the data. Off the top of my head, climate (whether roads are exposed to freeze-thaw cycles) and population density/clustering (how many miles of road do you need to maintain per person), are probably more strongly correlated with quality than taxation levels.
Related:

A Git Implementation in Awk - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28771841 - Oct 2021 (96 comments)
Except the wealth is just transferred to NVIDIA and a bunch of electricity providers.
Possible fallacies in the post's argument

Slippery Slope: The argument may overstate the direct line from investment in AI to catastrophic outcomes like global financial depression or war over resources.

Appeal to Fear: Highlighting extreme potential risks (e.g., worldwide depression, war over resources) without acknowledging the possible mitigations or the improbability of worst-case scenarios could play on irrational fears.

False Dichotomy: The argument presents the situation as an either/or scenario—investing $7 trillion in AI versus addressing global needs like hunger and education—without considering that investment in technology can also lead to economic growth and solutions for these issues.

Straw Man: The argument might misrepresent Sam Altman's or AI proponents' positions, implying they disregard any potential negative outcomes or alternative uses for the funds, which may not be accurate.

Overgeneralization: Using specific instances of negative outcomes related to AI to argue against a massive investment in AI could ignore the diversity of AI applications and their potential benefits.
Like most popular science/psychology books, this one has attracted a lot of criticism for making exaggerated claims and for peddling reductive concepts to appeal to a wider audience.

There’s no denying that massive stress and trauma can have long lasting effects. However, the pop culture definition of trauma and stress have become very diluted. I spent some time working with college students recently and it was remarkable to hear how many of them described common life events as “trauma”: Break ups, failing a class, or even getting yelled at by someone. Something weird happens when they’ve been primed to recognize everything uncomfortable as “trauma” and they’ve been instilled with the belief that it will forever become embedded in their person as baggage.
We have a set inclusion problem here. (People who are miserable) does not properly contain (people who are funny). They overlap. So we agree.
In Factorio it would be like modifying the whole system to focus on producing a specific science pack quickly. The UAE would be very kind indeed... Also probably a bluff.
> I don’t want to live in the middle of no where even if the entire mortgage

I think you should start visiting these areas before you say that.

It takes me less than 5 minutes to get to 2 different grocery stores, a theater, a market dedicated to fish, a greek restaurant, a Mediterranean bar, a mexican restaurant (very good btw), Target supercenter, Lowes, various stores dedicated to clothes, one dedicated to hobbies (not hobby lobby), and more I could go on about. In 20 minutes I can be sitting on a dock by the side of the river enjoying the breeze and fishing. In 30 minutes I can be standing at an orchard purchasing peaches, in 45 minutes I can be standing at a lake enjoying the fishing there. In the summer we have a farmers market that's probably 10 minutes away and is amazing, they generally have someone there playing music live. Which, btw, this area is _known_ for (it's independent artists).

It feels like too many people here imagine LCOL means living in the middle of fields with cows milling about. rural areas are even cheaper but what you're imagining and reality do not match.

It may not ultimately be what you prefer, but to call it in the middle of nowhere is just vastly ignorant. I live in a city.
As someone who does not consume cows I do not get your point.
SKDB is an embedded SQL database that stays in sync
The same argument could be said of JSX though.
What we've learned from 20 years of Facebook
Okay, it's not a tree. Because multiple objects will depend on something like a logger. But it's an acyclic graph if designed properly. Which is incredibly simple to setup and teardown.

If your loggers are needed everywhere, then you just pass them as a constructor to the objects that need them. You're literally doing this with fx anyway.

Like, a logger is probably the first thing you new up in main(). So now you can pass it down as a dependency in constructors.

For shutdown you just defer your shutdown functions. Have a basic interface where your services have a Shutdown() method and then you can push them onto a stack and pop them off during shutdown.

There's no manual ordering involved. Your initialisation is a linear top down process, your shutdown is bottom up. It can't be any simpler. If you keep code as close to usage sites then there's only 1 possible order.
Steel-manned deductive argument

Premise 1:
The consumption of energy and natural resources required for AI infrastructure, particularly if it continues to grow, is massive and potentially unsustainable.

Premise 2:
The economic investment of $7 trillion into AI by Sam Altman is significantly higher than the funds allocated to essential global needs like education and hunger, indicating a misallocation of financial resources.

Premise 3:
The financial risk of investing $7 trillion into AI is enormous, with potential repercussions including a global financial depression that could surpass previous economic crises.

Premise 4:
The development of AI at the scale proposed threatens to infringe upon intellectual property rights, harming artists, musicians, writers, and other creators.

Premise 5:
Negative externalities, such as misinformation, cybercrimes, and the exacerbation of global resource conflicts, are not being adequately addressed by AI developers like OpenAI.

Premise 6:
The rush to invest in AI before understanding the specific technological needs and proving real use cases is premature and risks significant financial and societal setbacks.

Conclusion:
Investing $7 trillion into AI as proposed by Sam Altman is a reckless expansion that overlooks significant environmental, economic, and societal risks, and should be reconsidered until the technology is proven to be safe, effective, and beneficial on a net basis.
Thanks! Does DO K8s come with sufficient monitoring / logging or do you add anything?
> Being entirely reliant on mini-splits without resistive emergency heating is a very strange choice, and it's not what heat pump advocates are recommending.

If you'd followed the topic long enough you'd know that what the heat pump advocates are recommending is suffering. It sounds like the OP's building has that covered.
> I think you should start visiting these areas before you say that.

It is precisely because I spent the first 30 years of my life in such a place that I don't want to.

Beleive it or not not everyone wants a giant lawn, white picket fence and 1.8 kids in the middle of incredible blandness, unworldliness, and closemindedness.
Everyone who says they can run a database better than Amazon is probably lying or Has a story about how they had to miss a family event because of an outage.

The point isn’t that you can’t do it, the point is that it’s less work for extremely high standards. It is not easy to configure multi region failover without an entire network team and database team unless you don’t give a shit about it actually working. Oh yea, and wait until you see how much SOC2 costs if you roll your own database.
Against Disruption: On the Bulletpointization of Books