skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a false dichotomy that a movie has to be a "fresh take" or a rehash, with nothing in between or combination. Nihil sub sōle novum.

And different/unexpected != good, not by a long shot.

Simply, if core characters are changed to their opposites it fails to be the same story any longer. Change the name to "Space Opera" and no one would have cared.

I misspoke earlier when I implied agenda before, which while heavy-handed, wasn't what made me really angry. As mentioned elsewhere in thread it was the betrayal of Luke and Yoda.

(Also, the Empire was always modeled after fascist Nazi Germany, even down to the black, white, red colors, and storm-trooper terminology.)

If you want to see a progressive film made by grownups, watch "Brokeback Mountain", not this disrespectful pile of garbage.
> One theory is that EC2 intentionally caps the write speed at 1 GB/s to avoid frequent device failure, given the total number of writes per SSD is limited.

This is the theory that I would bet on because it lines up with their bottom line.
It doesn't do exactly the same thing, it inserts the lat/long into the parent instead of returning the nodes. Often doesn't matter, but it does if you are using a library that is expecting osm xml.
Ask HN: How are you finding Gemini Ultra?
Is it worth a subscription (compared to GPT-4)?

Does anyone have interesting anecdotes in different categories? Programming, General Lookup, Math, etc
You do raise a good point as Gen Z is around 1997-2012 (exact dates are always a little fuzzy)

So 97 would put you around 4-5 years old when the XBOX came out.
The video made it look like the XBOX was some ancient artifact to the Gen Z people. I guess if you were born in 2012 it is an ancient artifact?

[1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJEzvijyNmw
What happens when your vm is live migrated 1000 feet away or to a different zone?
>> progressive activists at many schools.

That is the general idea of modern education: progress through study and research. We can of course go back to the old model: preservation through study and repetition. But I like modern technology. I also like modern ideas. I like to vote, and that other people are allowed to vote too. We should continue that progression.
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SATA3 is 6 Gbit, so each VM on a machine multiplied by 6 Gbit. For NVMe, probably closer to 4-5x that. You’d need some serious interconnects to get a server rack access to un-bottlenecked SSD storage.
dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39430052
Wait there is still any WebKit on non-Apple platform?
Unpoly does something like this: you can mark a link to be preloaded on hover.
That's a valid distinction for a vector or a list. For a set, contains and search are one and the same.
That's fair, we don't know. I guess my point is that with all 3 of the main cloud providers with their own chip programs, and with Google having a proven track record of training/serving competitive LLMs on theirs, I'm not that bullish about Nvidia at anywhere near the current prices.

I think this is most likely a temporary blip. GPUs were a bit of a commodity 5 years ago, with Nvidia, AMD, and Intel all producing reasonable stuff. Large AI accelerator chips weren't much of a market ~5 years ago, Nvidia were first to take the market, but in a few years time they'll also be back to commodity status.

Nvidia have a small moat with CUDA, but their eye-watering prices are a huge incentive for users to try alternatives, and ultimately the current price is built on them being the only provider of GPUs with 40/80GB of memory. That's the fundamental enabling technology, and that's not particularly tricky for competitors to replicate.

Nvidia may be the "best" AI accelerator chips on the market for years to come, but being 20% better and 20% more expensive than AMD, and all the cloud providers using their own in-house chips where they can, is not a $1.8Tn company as far as I can tell, it's much more like what Nvidia were ~5 years ago.
If I work hard enough and get the right opportunities, I might have a chance to transfer off of Deep Space 42 to a space station a little bit closer to Earth so my trips to earth only take a couple years.
very well written and informative.
Clearly this is the right answer.

OP, can you mentor me?
It's because the "local" SSDs are not actually physically attached and there's a network protocol in the way.
(April 2022)
AWS is pretty great and I think reasonably cheap, I would include any of the other large cloud players. The amount saved is just not reasonable enough for me, I would rather work with something that I have used over and over with.

Along with that, ChatGPT has knocked down most of the remaining barriers I have had when permissions get confusing in one of the cloud services.
Why is no one making a new version of old Facebook?
Isn’t that the common definition?
"anti-American" is such an interesting term for me. It begs the question of what "American" means, which seems to change with each president.

How do you decide what's anti-american and pro-american? The Iraq invasion for example, anti or pro-american?
One of the problems with a lot of the liberal arts curriculum today is that every university tends to slant the same way with the same topics. They all come to same conclusions on non-deterministic, subjective ideas. There's a missing counterweight in may cases that exists to critique, ridicule, and otherwise keep in check opposing ideas.

For each critical theory (race, gender, secuality, etc) department there should indeed be a neo-reactionary (or similar) one, for example. But not only is there not, any questioning or debate of the crits is stone walled as racist/misogynist/homophobic/white/etc. There's actually some good ideas there but not being allowed to or having the university platform to formalize opposing ideas and to challenge undermines them. This is how religion happens, not free inquiry.

Let the ideas flow and let the strong ones prevail but certainly not become doctrine.
This is for 8 SSDs and a single modern PCIe 5.0 has better specs than this.
I agree with some of the sentiment here but not the detail/presentation -- in particular I find it very frustrating to see an argument that we should embrace nazis as teachers built on the implication that that's the only way to have a "devil's advocate" perspective. I have met many many many people who can think critically and effectively consider/debate multiple angles of something without embracing nationalism or racist hatred as an identity.

Yes let's ensure we have the best opportunity to learn from, debate, and critique each other. No let's not excuse or embrace outrageously hostile behavior.
Like, its still a net positive for the dutch taxpayers my dutchbro. Like, your taxpayers didn't have to pay to raise and like educate this person for 12+ years and you get them in their peak economically productive years. And like, even with the tax breaks they're earning high wages in IT and paying plenty in taxes.

Like, if your government wasn't Hebben Een Serieus Probleem in the middle of their wildly racist meltdown right now, you could, like, petition them to solve real problems for your countrymen.

But like, way eaier to whine on the internet.
I keep hearing that, but that's simply not true. SSDs are fast, but they're several orders of magnitude slower than RAM, which is orders of magnitude slower than CPU Cache.

Samsung 990 Pro 2TB has a latency of 40 μs

DDR4-2133 with a CAS 15 has a latency of 14 nano seconds.

DDR4 latency is 0.035% of one of the fastest SSDs, or to put it another way, DDR4 is 2,857x faster than an SSD.

L1 cache is typically accessible in 4 clock cycles, in 4.8 ghz cpu like the i7-10700, L1 cache latency is sub 1ns.
A cloud is just someone else's computer.

When you rent a bare metal server, you don't manage your hardware either. The failed parts are replaced for you. Unless you can't figure out what hardware configuration you need - which would be a really big red flag for your level of expertise.
A network attached, replicated storage hedges against data loss but increases latency; however most customers usually prefer higher latency to data loss. As an example, see the highly upvoted fly.io thread[1] with customers complaining about the same thing.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36808296
Scaling ChatGPT: Five Real-World Engineering Challenges
It's the same reason that cooking recipes often become overly complex. (A sprig of this and a pinch of that.)

We are often embarrassed by the simple.

The simple makes us feel small, unsophisticated, and unimportant.

I always find it amusing when I find a way to solve a problem simply, and my coworkers answer somewhat directly that it seems very simple.

To me that's mark of success, but to many it's uncomfortable.

Of course if we didn't work on it then it's over complicated it needs to be rewritten. Go figure.
I like the article and am a big proponent of simple architectures.

But.

The described use cases have homogenous workloads. Hence simple architecture. Extrapolate the rest.

And of course there are for sure cases of people increasing complexity for the sake of being needed. That's a topic for sociologists/psychologists to reason about, not for engineers.
Also on codeberg/chippy
> That's the reason why CS graduates with only bells and whistles in their CV have hard times getting a relevant position - glitter over your resume doesn't deliver value at all.

If this is true, why does everyone still think that filling up their Technology Bingo card will get them their next job, rather than delivering business value?
> Don't know that the CIA ran a (not fake, real) vaccination campaign to locate Bin Laden.

This Lancet editorial suggests that the vaccination campaign was fake: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

This is the campaign that is usually referred to when people talk about the fake vaccination campaign to locate bin Laden, but it was conducted in Abottabad, Pakistan. Are you referring to a different campaign that was conducted in Afghanistan?
I think it should also be pointed out that a lot of DB's have a lot of redundant data due to indexing. When your DB is small, an index seems negligible, but once you get into millions or even billions of rows, you see first hand just how much space they can take up.
article about a related app - that some guy created in 30 mins to allow people to "pet" virtual animals:
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/feb/15/stroke-of-geni...
Seeing the really just puny "provisioned IOPS" numbers on hugely expensive cloud instances made me chuckle (first in disbelief, then in horror) when I joined a "cloud-first" enterprise shop in 2020 (having come from a company that hosted their own hardware at a colo).

It's no wonder that many people nowadays, esp. those who are so young that they've never experienced anything but cloud instances, seem to have little idea of how much performance you can actually pack in just one or two RUs today. Ultra-fast (I'm not parroting some marketing speak here - I just take a look at IOPS numbers, and compare them to those from highest-end storage some 10-12 years ago) NVMe storage is a big part of that astonishing magic.
I agree with your toplevel comment in general, but I'm not sure I understand how they should avoid the outsized influence of a few donors. Is the idea that institutions should adopt policies that ensure that no one donor (or a small group of donors) consists of too much of the donations pool? Or should they actively be rejecting donations based on some sort of subjective evaluation of the donor? The former seems reasonable, but the latter sounds like the opposite of an org taking a neutral stance.

I do think there are some cases where orgs should be actively disqualifying specific donors; the Epstein junk seems to be a good example of why they should be picky.
I could not agree less with the idea of prompt engineering being an emerging field, or really one that will be here more than a couple of years at best. Right now it’s a stopgap needed because LLMs aren’t actually good enough to translate conversational English into the expected intent. The idea that prompt engineering is here to stay suggests a massive and fundamental inability to conceive of the most likely realities of an actual AI-assisted near future.

I have no idea how someone can simultaneously believe AI is going to become unimaginably capable, but also that that in order to effectively use this extraordinarily capable AI, we will need a highly skilled human to interface with it. If AI really is that capable, it will be able to ask the right questions back and solicit feedback such that it can give satisfactory results to even the lowest common denominator of users.
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The goal of "teaching without activism" should be to force students to assess ideas on their own and present good arguments for what they believe to be true. And to occasionally be persuaded and change their opinions.

The ideal teacher would leave students at the end of the semester not knowing what their personal position on a controversial issue was, as they present arguments for different opinions and challenge all those opinions as well.
If curl-impersonate works, it's probably TLS fingerprinting.
I've found this to be a good practice for ETL in general. Separate the steps, and save the raw data from "E" if you can because it makes testing and verifying "T" later much easier.
It really is both but I was attacking the angle of the library and not the overall design.
The major clouds do offer VMs with fast local storage, such as SSDs connected by NVMe connections directly to the VM host machine:

- https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/local-ssd

- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/ena...

- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ssd-inst...

They sell these VMs at a higher cost because it requires more expensive components and is limited to host machines with certain configurations. In our experience, it's also harder to request quota increases to get more of these VMs -- some of the public clouds have a limited supply of these specific types of configurations in some regions/zones.

As others have noted, instance storage isn't as dependable. But it can be the most performant way to do IO-intense processing or to power one node of a distributed database.
Now I just hook up an apple tv and disconnect the vizios. The new UI looked like it's straight out of Idiocracy.
While this is completely correct, startup founders inhabit a reality distortion field of their own where anything short of full and absolute devotion to the mission is seen as "not being serious". It's not enough that you like the job, and are happy that it pays well, you need to be a card carrying member of the club.

This makes sense for companies that have like under 50 employees, but far too many founders expect to hire zealots well into the 500+ employee range.

This same shit shows up in interviews too, where candidates are expected to profess just how much they would LOVE to work for that company, or how much they care about the mission. Yadda Yadda.
If the Dutch government offers such an arrangement, shouldn’t someone presume they are offering it for a reason that Dutch politicians believe is in the country’s interests? (It reads to me as an arrangement wherein the Netherlands is able to tax 70% of someone’s income who might otherwise become a resident of a different country.)
The issue here is Overton Window.
Small Nuclear Thorium Reactors Are Coming to Europe [video]
You can thank crypto for ruining the internet for us.
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When the website looks like this you know the takes will be hot (thoughtful and erudite). Probably the last website standing in the webring.
Has anyone disk benchmarks for M7gd (or C/R equivalents) instance stores? While probably not at the level of I4g, would still be interesting comparison.
Google Bard.. Gemini makes it explicitly clear that they do this right from the homepage:

"Your conversations are processed by human reviewers to improve the technologies powering Gemini Apps. Don’t enter anything you wouldn’t want reviewed or used."

"How conversations improve Gemini

Just by having a conversation with Gemini, you’re making Google services better, including the machine-learning models that power Gemini.

As part of that improvement, trained reviewers need to process your conversations.

So when using Gemini, don’t enter anything you wouldn’t want a reviewer to see or Google to use.

Your Google Workspace content, like from Gmail or Drive, is not reviewed or used to improve Gemini.

You can turn Gemini Apps Activity off
If you don’t want future conversations reviewed or used to improve machine-learning models, turn off Gemini Apps Activity"
I did this for over 10 years, and it works totally fine. It’s not really your employer’s business where you sleep at night. Discrimination based on physical location is just as unjust as discrimination based on national origin.
That’s really interesting. You seem to be in a good position to make some useful observations.

My last semester working with students was a year ago, and we were aware that they were going to ChatGPT for things, but not really sure how to deal with it. It seems obvious that in the future these tools will play a part, but of course those of us who learned without them aren’t in a particularly good position to teach how to use them or to structure things around them. It is a temporary problem but a pretty big one, IMO.

I wonder if a school-sponsored GPT with monitoring from the teaching assistants could be part of the puzzle; it seems really neat: it sets the expectation more realistically (some AI tools will be used whatever the policy is, may as well be ours), and gives the teaching staff some insight into how the students are using it and what they are struggling with. Although, it would have to be a pretty state of the art model, you’d want the students to prefer it to their own… also, setting the expectations correctly (it isn’t authoritative, it is on you to double check it—awkward, for a school-provided tool).

Anyway, hopefully there are more folks out there like you, actively experimenting with this stuff.
Hard not to, with taxes included on allmost everything you buy.
Does polonius catch the issue?
(I'm the author of the article)

There are several design patterns depending on whether you need to optimize the latency for reads, writes, or both.

If it's all abour reads, then you can use follower reads (as shown in the article) or read replicas. If you also need writes, then a geo-partitioned deployment or standalone database instances for each region would be good starting points.
No, its specific visa category that a few EU countries have now, the most popular being Portugal's. You pay plenty of taxes to the host economy and are usually excluded from social welfare and healthcare.
"To me the jury is still out as to what this will all mean in the end. The worst case scenario is the annihilation of all life on our planet, rendering the entire human experiment a useless exercise in self aggrandizement. The best case scenario, the one that I personally am holding out for, is that it all leads to a leap in consciousness in which the creative power of abstract thinking stops being used exclusively for the benefit of just one species and starts being utilized on behalf of the planet and ultimately the cosmos." (Jeff Carreira, The Path of Cosmic Consciousness)
The problem isn't necessarily speed, it's random access latency. What makes SSDs fast and "magical" is their low random-access latency compared to a spinning disk. The sequential-access read speed is merely a bonus.

Networked storage negates that significantly, absolutely killing performance for certain applications. You could have a 100Gbps network and it still won't match a direct-attached SSD in terms of latency (it can only match it in terms of sequential access throughput).

For many applications such as databases, random access is crucial, thus why nowadays' mid-range consumer hardware often outperforms hosted databases such as RDS unless they're so overprovisioned on RAM that the dataset is effectively always in there.
What in particular feature enables or facilitates dynamic music? Is that not just a different music file?
Try 2captcha https://2captcha.com/2captcha-api
I believe I saw a presentation on OKL4 describing this sort of abstraction as virtual CPUs capabilities. There is a similar mechanism in Barrelfish and Psyche. Last I heard, the seL4 team was pursuing a different approach of scheduling capabilities.

I think we still haven't realized the optimal design, but these are probably good local maxima and points for further exploration.
Neutral is an ideal, not a practical reality.
The topics that you or I consider to be "fundamental hard science" are significantly less controversial than the topics that would normally fall under the category of activism. I'm not saying that controversial ideas should be completely ignored, just that controversy may be an important factor, in the eyes of some, to draw the line between cold hard truths and up-and-coming divisive ideas.
"I will simply have another box for redundancy" is already a system so complex that having it in or out of the cloud won't make a difference.
What’s your shell prompt config that you screenshotted in the README?
FFS why are the fonts so small?

Why do I have to increase the font size 150% to read it comfortably?

How can we trust a browser created by developers who seem incapable of creating readable web pages?

They should be capable of dogfooding their own output on the most basic level.
I agreed with most of GP's comment, but their use of the word "anti-American" did put me off quite a bit.
Or just reject The Open Society and Its Enemies. An open society as presented by Popper is not something we should be striving for.
dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39437142
People with Indian (South Asian), Filipino (Southeast Asian) and Iranian (West Asian) ancestory are the highest earning ethnic groups in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U...
This is a variation of "you ship your org chart."

After hearing the outbound version of this truism, I discovered that the inbound version is also true; ie "you buy your org chart."

Anyone selling to v large organizations, corporate or government, will know what I mean. Bloated and dysfunctional orgs with eternal sales cycles buy from bloated and dysfunctional orgs that can survive eternal sales cycles, and which are willing to sell bloated and dysfunctional products to satisfy arbitrary criteria.

This is one of many reasons why startups have a hard time selling to very large orgs.
Campus activism has been tainted by Marxism. "Critical [race|gender|disability] Theory" is just standard Marxism applied in the social science context. Since Marxism pre-requisitely requires framing everything in the world into a "oppressed vs oppressor, have vs have-not, good vs evil" binary, you will become a target for hostility/harm if you are perceived as somehow privileged.

If isolating/targeting people based on on race/gender/ability bothers you, you should stand up against "Critical (Marxist) Theory" infiltration of activist circles in the social sciences. Activism should be about empowering the needy, not harming the need-nots.