skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read an article on here that we’ve polluted the environment so badly now that rain water is unsafe to drink basically anywhere it falls. Rainwater…[1]

I get it PFAs might not cause cancer but we’re pushing things to some pretty crazy extreme when it comes to pollution. Microplastics in the clouds ?

I really hope these things aren’t related because it’s going to fucking suck if they are. Can’t just put microplastics away.

I’m personally in the camp that thinks we should just be doing everything we can to minimise all types of pollution because we just cannot really predict what the effects will be. Even if we think something is benign.

I might be an extremist but I’m even worried about tyre dust. And even those blue plastic tarps people love to let rot in the sun and dissolve everywhere.

What we’re doing isn’t good, I just think we struggle to admit to ourselves because it’s quite horrific.

[1] https://phys.org/news/2022-08-rainwater-unsafe-due-chemicals...
I miss plenty about not living in California. (But then I'm in Nebraska — maybe that makes a difference.)

There are things I don't miss to be sure (traffic immediately comes to mind).
>NVIDIA is 100% vulnerable--if it weren't for the fact that their competitors are idiots.

I think Nvidia sees it too. That's why they're moving upstream by providing the entire stack from CUDA, GPUs, interconnects chips, networking chips, racks, OS, software, models.

I think the "CUDA moat" people like OP are underselling Nvidia. They're positioning themselves as the full-stack AI provider. Forget CUDA.
Looks like Arica is over 500km north of Atacama desert described in the article.
My headcanon is that Elon downloaded Blender one night to try and learn it, made a low-poly car and then some sycophants said "hey great job" and he decided it was now cool and Tesla should manufacture it.
If you want to use propaganda but you tell people your propaganda is propaganda, it won't work.
You are probably referring to the Warburg effect. While there is a clear link between obesity and cancer, cutting sugar intake doesn't appear to be an effective cancer treatment. (It's still generally a good idea for other reasons, though.)

https://www.mskcc.org/news/no-sugar-no-cancer-look-evidence
> but I don't think "oh no, HTTPS handshakes are 20% slower!" is something we should actually worry about.

Why not? TLS handshakes are real. That said, we have pretty restrictive TCP windows from 20+y ago that might need a bump-up at som point.

But importantly, we should not be making too many assumption on use-cases, as if stateful connections like TLS is the holy grail. Small and fast crypto enables new use-cases - engineering standards should always take perf & overhead into account, and not focus only on existing use.

> The real worry is all of the small, secure, embedded devices that literally don't have enough memory or compute to run these algorithms at all.

Indeed! And more overhead increases surface area for DOS attacks on “high-end devices” as well. So there are already clear examples of how these would break important things.

The reason I’m skeptical is precisely that QR today has known, significant setbacks, but unknown benefits.
They are quantifying it, trying to really measure might help your argument.
I think this is a good strategy overall. However the particular example here could be more explicit, e.g. “unless you have objections, I will start implementing this design next week” etc.

As it’s written, it’s a bit ambiguous whether any action or response is required from the client.
From the article:

> WGS 84 is a global standard tied to no one plate. In essence, it is fixed to Earth’s deep interior.

Those drift vectors are based on GPS, which the article also says relies on WGS 84z
iirc they mentioned on one of the pods that some configs go for a million. Im assuming it’s the 16-sled one but they didn’t share the actual specs
FWIW, age expectancy has been above 50 y/o for a while, even in developing countries.
DISCLAIMER: I don't really know what I'm doing. My knowledge of trading basically amounts like a few Coursera classes.

I wanted to play with paper trading strategies. I listen on websocket streams of cryptocurrency and stock ticker stuff [1], and the service listening on that socket just plops it into Kafka, with the partition key being the ticker name.

The reason I bother adding Kafka largely comes down to the ability to use the Kafka Streams API. Kafka Streams allows me to do time windows of different trades, or lets me do a sql-style join across two different streams, or lets me filter out data that I don't think is relevant.

Kafka Streams gives you most of the fun of a map-reduce framework, but without having to administer a map-reduce server; it's even smart enough to handle internal state by creating intermediate topics and/or creating local RocksDB instances. It's pretty cool.

There's also has the advantage of allowing me to set retention, so I don't have to worry about doing any kind of manual cleanup; I only have to worry about having N days of stuff on the server, and it's trivial to change that.

Also, I have a number of topics, each with 32 partitions, meaning that if I do find any kind of strategy that works, I can very easily scale it up without changing any code.

I'm basically using Kafka as a streaming-only database. I think it's neat but I haven't actually found any strategies that make or lose money. It's just been a fun way to play around with different bits of server stuff.

[1] https://docs.alpaca.markets/docs/real-time-stock-pricing-dat...
Related question, since we're on the topic: does Linux have a way to split a single wide monitor into smaller "virtual" monitors?
I wrote a little blog program because I find the blog format (articles sorted by date) convenient for reading about things someone did, so I figured when I do things I should also put them in that format. But it turns out I don't do a lot.
I dont understand this - arent almost all ML NN models built in pytorch, and arent these compiled / jit'd into a lower level format - and can we not have various backends/drivers for that, such as CUDA / ROCM / vnni ?

The article is unsatisfying because it doesnt explain WHY cuda reigns supreme.

One hypothesis put forward is that the main alternative ROCM is just not very complete and not very fast - thats a good argument.

Another hypothesis that is not considered is : CUDA reigns supreme, because NVIDIA GPUs reign supreme.

But people dont write CUDA code .. they write pytorch code ?!
No one was laughing at the idea of self landing rockets, because the DC-X did it 1993, and even by then it was known that it was probably feasible within Earth's atmosphere. The issue was always around the economic feasibility of it, since you have to carry the propellant needed to bring the vehicle back, and whether or not a silicon valley billionaire with no aerospace experience could break through into the industry. I think at this point, history is on Musk's side, but I also think there were valid reasons to be skeptical.

And I'm skeptical that these guys are going to be able to type certify a new engine in the timeframe they've given. Jet engines are harder than rocket motors in some ways. Certainly the way in which they're used imposes stricter reliability requirements. They run constantly, and can take weeks to spool down, for example, when a rocket might only fire a few short burns on a mission. Realistically, I think they would need similar government support as SpaceX received to bring this kind of product to market, but that's just my opinion. It's good that they're trying, and I hope I'm wrong, but this stuff is hard and expensive.
s/potentially/eventually/

From the article:

> But the enrollment surge is putting a financial strain on the state insurer as it faces a potential loss of $311 billion, up from $50 billion in 2018.

For reference, the entire budget for the state of CA is $224 billion.
App stores were definitely a mistake. I see the arguments for we gotta vet and ensure security, but it’s been so political and poorly done that Apple and Google play king makers and rent-collecting empires.
No, you sent lots of things from warehouses that ① originally cost billions to buy and ② have limited shelf life.

You've seen the Patriot missiles that the Ukrainians have used to such good effect. Those were made thirty years ago. They were expensive to make, then. Sending them is a great thing to do, no question about it. But if you want to talk about billions of crrent expenses, then I it's wrong to talk about money spent in the nineties. You should instead think about their replacement cost. You need to replace them now. But how long was their shelf life — would you need to replace them soon anyway?
Is there any benefit in tiling only WMs vs using tiling let's say in KDE?
The risk IS lower in many parts of California. It's a government policy issue more than anything else.
Clamp MSS to path MTU discovery?
Surely if the government wanted to go down this route, it would be a lot fairer and simpler to manage with the government sending a low-income rebate/refund check to low-income households when they do their taxes?

They could then collect the costs off the energy companies.

The proposed solution seems like a corporation's wet-dream - Being able to charge consumers exactly the maximum amount of what they are able to pay for a product.
If this is the case, the state of California should have no problem remaining the insurer of last resort (from a fiscal solvency perspective).

From a comment koolba provided with liability numbers, this appears to not be the case (potential losses exceeding California’s entire budget). This leads me to believe that California residents have taken on risk beyond what they and the state can afford.

Not great if the world’s fifth largest economy is experiencing this financial stress.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39804679
Why don't recommend atop? When a system is unresponsive, I want a I want a high-level tool that immediately shows which subsystem is under heavy load. It should show CPU, Memory, Disk, and Network usage. The other tools you listed are great, once you know what the cause is.
The natural (or artificial) inaccuracy of GPS tends to present as an offset which remains relatively stable for many minutes.

About 10 years ago, I did a lot of canyoning/bushwalking in the Blue Mountains just outside of Sydney Australia. I’d have my Garmin GPSMAP switched on for the entire journey including the car trip. For the 20+ journeys, there would be overlapping paths where I was driving the highway through the mountains. Except none of the paths overlap. They were all smooth paths which matched the curvature of the road, but each one had a different offset, typically around 2–5 metres away from the map data. (The median of these 20+ paths was highly consistent with the map data.)
Nice! A public IPv4 is basically the equivalent of having a swimming pool in Internet real estate these days :)
> It is, if anything, an extremely strident argument against prejudice.

Not at all.

It actually plays into one of the most popular prejudices in the west.

Here's how you know if you have that prejudice. Do you think "I'm not like those people."
You're still missing that MMT just describes how things already work. How can something descriptive be "politically impossible"?
Here are there someone from the origin of western-cultivated formulas will post an equation to which many “westerners” (for a lack of better word) will respond with surprise or rejection, mostly citing how the equation used the wrong constants or how the medicine improved.

The “western” medicine still neglects TCM and its learnings, primarily focusing on doctrine and enforced lessons of medicine (if we may call it so), but more appropriately post-medicine which is or can be more or less effective after the disease has developed to a visible to sensory state.

It will take some time (or more given the current condition in which the westerns are more concerned in shipping and producing the weapons than raising the vibration of their planetary bodies) to understand that post-condition-medicione is negligible against preventive medicine and if they will want to preserve health in their human bodies, something radical will need to be changed (which will be a challenge for their established trajectory of thought but the appropriate holistic approach to health and medicine of the future).
Globotipo: Making a typeface that is seen by 100M people daily
Yeah, just go ahead, scan PTR records for some mere 2^120 addresses.

Even if we scan just the first address of each /64, it’s still about 2^56. Unlikely anyone is ever going to do it.

This is another thing I like about IPv6. Makes mass address scanning completely useless.
He’s here on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pontifier
It's effectiveness depends on there being nothing on the other side.
Oh yeah, 5 and 6 are… different. To be clear, by “takes up with” his editor I mean they had an affair.

I hesitate to use the word because afaik Herbert was a widower at the time, but can’t think of a better one that hits the right tone.
The article doesn't mention it, but how are the coordinates of property boundaries recorded in South California to take into account the drift?

In my relatively tectonically stable country there is a single coordinate system for the whole country.

I'd imagine you need to record distance to a local landmark or similar? And what happens when there are shifts that end up in roads split in two like in Turkey last year?

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/turkey-syria-earthquake-...
When I was living in Kenya around 2013, open pit burning was the main way of dealing with trash... And included a lot of plastics, batteries, you name it.
not 80% more.
Feels like the guy is fixating on the word "monopoly" so as to avoid addressing the term "anticompetitive behavior."
Perhaps.

Though once you conceptualise it as a social contract, there's no longer any paradox.

It's only if your mantra is 'maximum tolerance, regardless' that you have yourself a paradox.

(Note - I'm not suggesting Professor Popper was oblivious to this.)
My litmus test for what’s real versus manufactured outrage is running things by my CNN-watching, Biden-voting immigrant parents. Most woke ideas get a derisive snort from my dad, though he’s quite worked up over racial preferences, affinity groups, and the idea that you can’t be racist towards whites. My mom, meanwhile, got very worked up over the 2020 riots and mass immigration from Latin America. She approvingly texted me Trump’s ban on DEI trainings in the federal government.

These are people who consume zero right wing content, so it’s not like they’re being socialized to be mad about stuff that they wouldn’t otherwise be mad about. In fact it’s the opposite—they would be madder if CNN wasn’t careful to hide the full scope of what woke people think and believe.
And on fixed surveying markers around the globe.

You'll see them hither and yon, but my favorite is the miniature Washington Monument buried next to the real one.
If anything in TCM worked and wasn't risky, what would stop big pharma putting it in a pill or lotion?

Alternative medicine that works becomes medicine.
Is there a map of where these places are? I am willing to defer to State Farm and believe that they are very data driven. The nature of insurance is making smart bets.

Are these all clustered in a few hot spots that are likely to go under the next time there is a fire/landslide/earthquake? Why these units and not others? What does State Farm consider the most insurable places to live?
The specifications page [1] gives a bit more context. I think minimum buy is about a half rack, which includes at least 16 64-core CPUs, 16 TiB of RAM, and 465.75 TiB of NVMe SSD storage. Playing around a bit with the Dell server configurator tool, it seems like that is going to come in a rough ballpark of $1MM as stated in a sibling comment.

[1]: https://oxide.computer/product/specifications
Ask HN: Who runs the spam bots? And why?
Mostly thinking out loud here, but this is the best place I know to ask about things like this.

Ive been on the internet for a while and one thing that’s stayed consistent are the chat bots. From large social media to forums for friends only, the bots will come. I’ve always theorized about who runs them and why. From running my own web server and seeing logs, I figure they find forums the same way they find vulns, by crawling for forum software signatures.

But why? What is the return on this kind of enterprise? Why do large social media platforms have such a hard time finding and banning them?

From my knowledge of how gaming admins run things, they don’t instantly ban cheaters on detection, but do random waves, as not to give information away.

But some platforms have had bots for years! Twitter has had a huge bot problem basically forever, and the bots have gotten bolder and more diverse since Elon took over. There are the verified LLM powered bots (again, how can they afford to spend money on a Twitter and LLM agent, while still getting decent returns? They’re usually onlyfans bots so I assume they get good returns, but what’s the scale?)

Then there’s the low effort scam/porn/ad bots, who mostly tweet in similar manners. They’ve become such a meme that an official Twitter account made a tweet in the same manner as the bots!

Facebook in the same vein, had a “love spell” bot problem for a year+, they’ve only recently got rid of them. But for a year!!

I’ve also seen those love spell bots move to niche forums I spend time on. Again, why? Who is the target audience? What are the returns?
Yeah, people shouldn’t live in tinder boxes, swamps, or on the top of mud piles that slide when it rains.

I absolutely hate society picking up the tab for people doing such reckless things with their own homes.
More, but less on the ground in usable quantities. Warmer air holds more water, warmer water evaporates more. Water vapor condenses into rain more heavily when warm moist air cools, resulting in heavier rains. Heavier rains are not beneficial to crops, and can damage them.

Staple crops like wheat get destroyed if the rain is too hard. Many crops cannot be brought in wet, so longer rains can destroy yields as well. Rain is really complex issue for farms.
I wonder how they came up with this. I thought it was unique to FIPS 201 but looks like ICAO has it too. Is there like a lorem ipsum generator but for text that looks like names?
Study: Higher gut bacteria diversity associated with lower risk of infection
I believe North America/ Australia is off by around 10 feet since GPS became a thing.
Mercantilism is a top-down approach, I was never promoting that. My earlier comments specifically called out what may be possible if consumers prioritized domestic products, the government only came into the conversation when you raised concerns over subsidies.

With regards to subsidies and tariffs I disagree the distinction is semantic and unimportant, though it likely is irrelevant here since I started with the concept of a change in demand at the consumer level.
Looking ahead, I suspect as AI becomes even more ubiquitous/mainstream, AI service providers will offer various levels of analysis at different price points. E.g. the cheapest service will provide reliably accurate answers, but only to simple queries that consume little compute power.

Also envisioned is the all too common race-to-the-bottom scenario where services will simply tune their service to respond with the least compute power needed while harvesting and capitalizing on it users data.
Interesting how the connotations of parent guidance have changed over the years. It’s pretty rare these days to see “no parental guidance necessary.”
I have a lot more free time now, and I can't overstate how useful idle time is. Let ideas simmer!

I get a lot of my best work done when I travel. I spend days holding my bicycle or motorcycle handlebars, free to think but unable to act. All I get are short breaks with pen and paper. By the time I wrap up my vacation I'm eager

This is when I come up with my best ideas. This is when I fire a few emails that turn into lucrative deals. This is when I get to rethink my general position, and make life-altering changes.

I've tried to introduce those breaks in my normal life too. The morning coffee on the balcony, regular walks, cafe hopping. Anything that introduces time to think is good in my book.
When I was in Armenia last year, this was the modus operandi for removing large amounts of trash also. Just throw it on the side of the road and burn it in heaps.
example form this test corpus?
I take back some of what I said about subsidies. This was because of how I read "every subsidy is a form of price control." On reading your post again you are talking more about welfare specifically. I was thinking of subsidies meant as part of industrial policy, but thinking about this more we are talking about welfare. Although this wasn't obvious to me at the time as price controls are also used in industrial policy. And arguably the Apple lawsuit and anti competition law in general is about industrial policy. I should also point out that I never said price controls never work, although I perhaps implied that by saying subsidies do work implying that price controls don't. But that wasn't my point. My point was that you cannot conflate subsidies with price controls because they are not the same. I don't think your usage of price controls being intentional here makes it any better and FWIW it didn't read that way at all to me, it just read like you don't know what you're talking about, especially combined with your usage of "ooga booga free marketers." I don't mean this in an offensive way I'm just trying to explain how your comment read to me.

>Subsidies are considered good and price controls are considered bad because of how they affect private capital not due to any argument that a rigorous data driven modern application of economics would provide.

For industrial policy this is certainly wrong. For welfare which is what I again assume now you are talking about I don't know enough to make a statement on it. I have read that price controls often decrease supply of the product in question. For example in a housing shortage price controls on rent decrease the number of new apartments built. Price controls make sense when the market in question is monopolized by a single company like in the case of utility companies. Generally these monopolies are given by the government and can be thought of as contractors for the government in the market in question.
>> It also plans not to offer commercial apartment policies and won’t renew the 42,000 now in place.

That's almost 60% of the total. I'm guessing because commercial apartments present a more geographically-concentrated fire risk (either you lose all the units or none).
It's never been easier to be writer thanks to AI. You dictate endless thoughts and AI actually translates the ramblings super well.
Panix, the oldest commercial Internet provider in New York. Started in 1989
If you clicked the link, you would see it accounts for inflation, appreciation, and opportunity cost of your investment compared to other investment alternatives.

> if you can rent for less than the interest than the interest,

This is completely false. If I owned my home, my home value could fall when the stock market goes up (see 2022-2023). In this situation, it would have been better for my money to be invested in SNP500 instead of my home.

Before you claim 2022-2023 and 2008-2009 are exceptions, not the rule. Houses typically appreciate 2-3% where as stock appreciates 8-12%.
You're describing one of the benefits of virtualised cattle, not necessarily or exclusively 'cloud'.
Google's Starlark is a pretty good python-like language that does a lot of what you want, we use it at my company to run untrusted code. It's not exactly python, but a pretty good subset. It's deterministic, hermetically sealed and non-Turing complete.