skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you use it over many machines (RAMs)?

If you mean whether I run it distributedly a la Spark then no. If you mean whether I test it on various machines with different RAM sizes then yes.

> I dont care so much about the memory and CPU stuff, I mostly leave the heavy lifting to an SQL engine.

Well, I care. Both pandas and polars are, to my view, single-machine dataframe library, so the memory and CPU constraints are rather stringent.

My comparison is based solely on my experience: reading csv files that are 20% to 50% the size of RAM, pandas takes (or errors out after) 2 to 10 minutes, while polars finishes in 20 seconds. Queries in pandas are almost always slower than polars.

But reading your comment, it seems you and I have different use cases for dataframe libraries, which is fine. I mostly use them for exploratory analysis, so the SQL api is not that much of a plus to me, but the performance is.
I think a lot of people are happy with 5 acres, you think people buy 50 and it's too much? Anyways, the frontage on 50 acres is often quite slim.
This will just force AI jobs to go outside America or any jurisdiction that imposes unenforceable, draconian enforcement on generative AI

Countries without such oppressive laws will ultimately end up being able to generate faster amounts of synthetic data which will give them an edge.

This will impact researchers who will also move to institutions that can't be lobbied by zealous copyright laws.

All in all, the government and copyright laws should not belong in generative AI but only market forces.

For artists complaining about their style or work being used without their permission, they forget that their entire industry is rife with "liberal inspirations" including their own that they have "stolen" subconsciously and consciously
Yup, absolute insanity. My good friend was expelled because he used "net send" while our teacher was giving a presentation. Wasn't even anything vulgar.
Indeed a slow node looks like a dead node for a while until it isn’t.

At some point distributed systems that work well vs others that do not is an “art of tuning timeouts and retries”.

Also nothing in production is perfect - so we should consider failures always when writing code in distributed systems and the impacts.

And we will still make mistakes…
Yep, the "STONITH" technique [1]. But programmatically resetting one node over a network/RPC call might not work, if internode-network comms are down for that node, but it can still access shared storage via other networks... The Oracle's HA fencing doc mentions other methods too, like IPMI LAN fencing and SCSI persistent reservations [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STONITH

[2] https://docs.oracle.com/en/operating-systems/oracle-linux/8/...
Fun fact: Recently FSB database on border crossings from 2014 to 2023 was leaked online and Durov visited Russia 50 times since 2015. In fact, he was in Russia the day the telegram was unblocked. I wonder why?
I suspect people make that argument because they are unaware of the word duopoly. Functionally, a duopoly isn't much different from a monopoly. The market would be far better off if there were 4 or more players.

In the context of smartphones, the vertical integrations don't help with the "monopoly" perception, either. Once you've decided to get an iPhone hardware device, your only choice is to use the Apple app store, and if you want something out of the Apple app store, your only choice is to get an iPhone. Android phones are a little more lenient in that there are at least multiple app stores, but you still have the tight coupling between the hardware and the OS despite smartphones fundamentally being ARM devices with touchscreens.

Were smartphones more like PCs, you could buy an iPhone and put Android on it, then use any of the iOS, Google Play, or Amazon stores to install apps. Or, perhaps you'd prefer to buy a Samsung Galaxy S24 and put iOS on it, and install apps from any of the many app stores just the same.

I'd be at least as irritated with the PC market if I had to buy a Dell PC to access Steam and it only allowed installing from Steam, an HP PC was linked 1:1 with the Epic store, Alienware PCs were linked 1:1 with the Origin store, etc. and building your own machine was no longer possible, though at least you'd still have more options than with phones.
There was also Blendle which I thought was a great idea, but it flopped: https://www.pugpig.com/2023/08/18/why-micropayment-champion-...
Care to link to the leaks?

I've heard similar stories on and off but if you post the link you'd be the first to let me know the source.

Not saying it isn't true. Only pointing out I have not seen the source yet.
As with all thing Musk I feel like there's a need to separate the artist from the art.

If this happened in a liberal democracy there is due process, you can't unilateraly freeze a corporation account, they would prevent whatever company is in violation of the law from doing business in the country and that's it. If the owner can be charged for wrongdoing you can do that too, and then finally if the owner has outstanding debts to the country you can liquidate their assets to recoup the amount.

This is not what happened here, a company is accused of breaking the law so another company which, beside partial ownership has nothing to do with it is getting its account frozen.

It's weird to see people cheering in the comments for this. If Jeff Bezos gets in hot water with the US government over Blue Origin, should they just freeze Amazon's account?
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You are welcome DIY it yourself with a sewing machine, soldering iron, and some hours of manual skilled labor.

But sewing skills are becoming less common, that labor and equipment has a cost, and the market has pretty well settled at these prices.

If you started a company buying those electrodes for $25/16 (or much less in bulk) and selling these super-simple skullcaps at $50 each, undercutting the market by 10x, I'm sure demand would be high and people would flock to your door.

Heck, I'll build you an automated wiring harness machine for on the order of $500,000 to churn out rainbow ribbon cables with molded snap electrodes on one side and a 16-pin IDC Dupont parallel connector on the other end if you've got the cash and can allocate $0.50 per unit towards that automation equipment over the first million projected sales. I've also done automated fabric cutting and sewing (in upholstery and automotive sectors, not clothing/medical). Sewing is much more complicated and expensive than wiring, and typically involves significant amounts of hands-on time.

The absence of anyone doing that suggests that it's not just gatekeeping and price fixing that sets prices where they are.

The modern clothing industry that churns out T-shirts for a few bucks and cheap blue jeans for $20 is working miracles, you should not use that as a bar with which to set expectations.
Imagine searching for Plots.jl, Symbolics.jl, CUDA.jl if they didn't have the ".jl". I wish more package ecosystems used a convention like this.
I can highly recommend water.css (which is featured in that list). It’s incredibly simple to get started with.
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"It just means that each of us has to get more in tune with what our customers need and what the actual end thing is that we're going to try to go build," Garman said, "because that's going to be more and more of what the work is as opposed to sitting down and actually writing code."
Especially with the native compilation in newer versions. Wow! That was a night and day difference. Before, I tolerated it. Now, I very rarely wait for anything.
No not Tom’s Hardware. That site is basically UGC now and is hot garbage.
Looks different than Ciel, another Lisp from 2010 (https://pldb.io/concepts/ciel.html), by Ron Garret, rocket scientist (https://flownet.com/ron/).
But the AI didn't reproduce it, the AI "read" it and incorporated it into its knowledge base. I can read & cite all the academic papers I want - I can even reproduce their text verbatim, as long as I properly cite them.
> I've seen my extended family get quotes north of 40k for modest installs.

They got the "fuck off" price because there's far more demand that supply at the moment. When businesses have more work than they can handle, they'll give customers quotes with absurd markups like that. It's enough money that it's worth the disruption if the customer actually wants it that bad, but they also don't really want the customer.
How does that work with work shifts? Postal workers here in the US deliver when many people are at work
This is how it has been before net metering in NL. You are charged by size of the connection: How many A you can consume. Then there is a separate tariff for the transport costs (fixed per day) and then the costs per kWh. With net metering the transport/connection costs stayed. Currently kWh is about €0.28.
It was the most humongous deal if we talk about IT security. SQL injection shouldn't be a thing in today's IT landscapes. And here we are giving everyone and their mother admin access to a database where the attackers can literally get not only on a plane but also in the fucking Cockpit. So yes, big big deal.
Maybe a SQL injection gets you onto the plane, but crashing that plane gets your country destroyed and the neighboring ones bombed for good measure.

What the US lacks in cybersec, it tends to make up for with IRL pew pews...
I hate to agree with you because Bletchley Park is a historic site, but sadly your comment resonates with my takeaway from when I visited too.
CodeGPT is one of the most versatile, offering nearly the same features as Copilot. It also provides portable AI agents with context awareness and can be used in VSCODE, IntelliJ, and Cursor.
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At least you were actually using the parking spots for yourself and friends. Bots become truly problematic when they're used for reselling.
Welcome to 2024 when JavaScript is indeed everywhere. It's not hostility. It's reality. Aside from two people here and Stallman, absolutely no one cares about disabling JS any more.
I think the biggest problem with these indirections isn't necessarily the amount of layers, but that they are unnamed (and naming isn't really well supported in most languages outside of just typedef-ing symbols).

***char vs *array<string> (or something similar)

Or in the article's case, naming what the 2/4 layers of channels were.
UGC == user-generated content.
Maybe it can but it sometimes doesn't.

I remember I looked into a lockup I was experiencing (this was a few years a ago so I forget the mode). Turns out emacs was writing to disk every so often and this was noticeably causing stutters in the main thread.
The JVM is exactly why Clojure is one of the most successful Lisp variants since the AI Winter.
Problem with that approach is that an adblocker is actual critical anti malware software.
That's a pretty low bar. What's the Venn diagram of (systems which can run this) & (systems with only terrible shells)?
Sadly, it appears that repo hasn’t been touched in a couple years.
That's not why we have fonts: http://www.righto.com/2017/10/the-xerox-alto-steve-jobs-and-...
I blame this on Future PLC. Not only their Ad model is worst of all the tech site, the tech layout and software for the site and posting articles were bad and I remember Ian complained about it multiple times. They could have at least focus on their core competency which is in-depth articles and explanations.

Instead we now live in the world of rumours site like WCCftech, and Apple dominance in Tech circle since the iPhone means a lot of new ( relatively speaking ) tech readers are reading Macrumors and 9to5Mac as their tech new sources. Reporting things that those reporter dont understand and keep making fake rumours that makes absolutely no sense.
SICP and designing data intensive applications.
DARPA is an R&D agency under the DoD. Even if you work on their classified projects, it's going to be under the umbrella of the DoD. There are specific R&D agencies for the Intel community (see IARPA).

Some constructive criticism: it's better to just admit when you made a false statement than to double down on being wrong.
In this context, I think the "Mere Exposure Effect" of branding might be more relevant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere-exposure_effect
you make an important point -- there's the choice and mechanics of a computer language (which is where i was thinking), and then the overall hci of the data analysis activity. should it look like software development or use of an (incredibly powerful) interactive calculator with dsls that are carefully designed to match the lingua franca of the fields they serve. (or, assuming possible, should the lingua franca move to a dsl and hci paradigm that is easier for humans and machines to reason about with minimized ambiguity?)
They claim to need telemetry and diagnostics but do they sell to DoD?

Their thing can run airgapped they just prefer to be a quasi SaaS because no one knows how to ship working software anymore.
Since everyone likes something just a wee bit different, I'd also like to see something where most of the functions in :COMMON-LISP are made generic, so you can overload '+, etc. to work on vectors, etc.. Obviously you can do it yourself on a per-project basis.
It'd be an entertaining sketch to watch, these two airline pilots trying to suss out if the rando weirdo behind them with the ticking suitcase and nervous glances is actually a terrorist... or maybe just afraid of flying?
Get lucky and get an interline agreement with a larger pax-facing carrier? Sure no one is going to ride on your little cargo planes but your crew gets to fly on someone elses metal.
> Fun fact: by subscribing to Pocket, you're directly contributing to Firefox's development.

That's not true. It isn't directly supporting anything except surveillance capitalism. Allowing yourself to be exploited in that way may indirectly support Firefox, but it's not the same thing as direct support.

Firefox users have literally begged Mozilla to let them actually directly support Firefox's development in the form of donations explicitly for that purpose alone, but Mozilla has always refused to allow it.

> Mozilla found itself in a situation of damned if they do, damned if they don't. People scream at them for depending on Google, and then they scream at them for trying to diversify their revenue.

People scream at them when they involve themselves in surveillance capitalism so yeah, spending a ton of money that could have gone into firefox development to instead buy an ad company so they can start spying on us while we use the internet isn't helping.

> Nobody wants to pay for a browser, browsers are essentially incredibly complex nowadays, and I have yet to hear how in the world are browsers supposed to get funding.

Are web browsers more "incredibly complex" than linux? I don't understand how people assume that web browsers are impossible to develop without selling users to the marketing industry while somehow linux and countless other open source projects have never once needed to do that.

Mozilla could at the very least try letting users pay for firefox development like users have been asking them to before they jump to selling firefox users out to the ad industry.

> And of course they want to cater to advertisers because it is advertising that maintains the open web

Advertising doesn't maintain the open web, it poisons it.

> And the open web is also dying, because people have been moving to mobile apps,

That's because many people don't own even computers anymore. Even where computers haven't been entirely replaced by devices that are designed for data collection and mindless content consumption, the cell phone is the computer that people have with them at all times. The dire situation around computing in general wouldn't be so bleak if we could get some decent and affordable mobile devices that weren't designed to spy on us, but I guess you might see it as that spying being what maintains the computer industry.
The info is in the story, nonetheless.
> If only it were that simple. There are constantly cases bought to court about similarities in one persons work to another artists. Then you have other issues around what constitutes a derivative work. And so many original songs sample other artists songs and pay them royalties, that's not a cover either.

It's increasingly difficult to accept that you are replying to jp57 in good faith. They are not talking about the ability of anyone to recognize the difference between an original and a derived work. The concept of a cover is well-understood.
I’m sorry you are in a workplace where this level of creativity is required to simply take a nap.
I agree! And I still love it because it's what allowed me to sneak a Lisp into not just a Java shop, but the Java shop: Oracle.
Since the user is only paying an infinitesimal fraction of the infrastructure cost, does it really matter? From the user’s perspective it’s extremely inexpensive.
I get you. It’s still a mishap nonetheless that needs and will be investigated by the FAA. Even if it’s a “lite” version.
I've lived in large cities, but I found the more ideal circumstance was a small but urbanized town - after I lived there 8 years or so, I not only had the good friends but an enormous group of casual acquaintances. So I literally ran into people I said hi to every time I walked anywhere. In fact, at various times most of my good friends moved away, but the whole group was there. It was east coast, so like one time someone left a pot of soup on my stove. I don't mind noise, and the neighborhood wasn't too dirty. It did have people of various income levels, and was cheap enough to have artists, who both put up many beautiful things and had a certain tendency to clutter. Also a lot of biologist types, so they had lovely plants planted, which was nice.

I'd rather have people I trust a bit around me than privacy, in general. For sure people there help each other out when help is needed. It just feels to be a more resilient, robust to errors kind of society than me and my stuff out there.

Now I'm living in San Jose, but I've passed the 8 year mark in my current location and in fact am accumulating connections with the people on the block and nearby. I go to stores where the workers stay year after year, so I am familiar to people. I've started going to classes at a local university. It's still not the connected feel of a small East coast town (Californians do seem to like their fences around the backyard and not to appreciate comments on their personal decisions), but pleasant. If only there was a grocery store I could walk to.
"neither side"

This is not a coin, it's more like an octahedron.

You have the end user. You have the person at the company managing the application. You have networking team. You have the edge and firewall teams. You have the security team. You have a compliance team. You have the upper management looking at controlling costs.
John Postel was the central authority for the first iterations of internet infrastructure. After he passed the whole "RFC process" sort of faded away.
Okay, well either way, the UX is atrocious.
Rumors are that it costs 270000 USD, but apparently a couple of aggregators have bought it.
Because there's a difference between what people say they want and what they actually want.

Micropayments do not work. They've been tried over and over, but generally speaking, they aren't helpful. Users don't really use them, and they don't actually help the publisher/author long term.

FWIW I've been working on a startup with a different vision, but trying to make news profitable: https://blog.forth.news/a-business-model-for-21st-century-ne...
Mutual funds have to keep their holdings in primary companies up-to-date. They have access to internal revenue figures, which is how they assess how they ascribe value to things.
This might have survivorship bias though, since marriage rates are down 75% from the 70s, so we aren’t comparing apples to apples.
Yeah. SDL went the path of "wrap native APIs". WebGPU went the path of "exactly what level of floating point precision can we guarantee across all APIs" along with "how do we prevent absolutely all invalid behavior at runtime, e.g. out of bounds accesses in shaders, non-dynamically uniform control flow at invalid times, indirect draws that bypass the given limits, preventing too-large shaders that would kill shader compilers, etc".

WebGPU spends a _lot_ of time investigating buggy driver behavior and trying to make things spec-conformant across a lot of disparate and frankly janky platforms. There's a big difference between writing an RHI, and writing a _spec_.
I think another alternative here, is the existence of broad spectrum “summary as a service” is that “content for content’s sake” and blog spam and SEO become less relevant.

Maybe not, but I hope so.
Lack of regulations isn't the industry's fault though. I GP's example is indeed relevant.
HN being HN, I guess. Nerds like to nitpick.

That said, if you have a choice between implementing idempotency and using a distributed lock, you should always opt for the former. It’s far less complex and less error prone.
Felt like it went downhill once Ian Cutress left..
I've never claimed any of the businesses we promote are perfect!
> He never got mad at us for figuring out how to get Halo CE or Starcraft or other games running over the network

I had found out that Quake 2 could be run without admin privileges, so I installed it on a bunch of computers throughout my school. Lots of people got into it, but I ended up getting in huge trouble including suspension and parents being called because I "ruined the Internet." The IT person insisted that networked games take up all of the bandwidth and that i had "hacked the computers" to gain admin permissions to install.

As an aside, I seem to have a story for lots of comments in this thread!
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i was thinking the same thing or maybe his boss or another higher judge!
HN user offers to pay $1.99/year for many carefully done review. Amazed that no one want to take deal.
I don't think this would go well for Linux.

The companies actually paying for the kernel development want Rust. That's a matter of fact.

Just see who's sponsoring the Linux Foundation, and check what they said elsewhere about their long term commitment to Rust.

The main sponsors would likely just fork Linux should Rust be removed again. Than Linux would be left with "community contributions" and the trademarks, but all the big money would go to the fork.

Of course nothing like that will happen. Because Linus knows very well where the money is coming from.
urgent care vs. emergency room.
The base layer acts like a set of bearings mixed with lubricant, allowing the avalanche to roll a lot further than seems possible.

EDIT: liquefaction can have very strange effects.
Depending on where you are this is a national level problem; Ireland and the Netherlands are not approving new data centers
See also the 2019 documentary “Apollo 11.” I saw it in the theater and was blown away. The story of the mission is told almost entirely with archival footage, much of which the filmmakers had to digitize as it was sitting in a NASA vault. The filmmakers created Apollo in real time somewhat as a byproduct of this digitization process.
> You are welcome DIY it yourself with a sewing machine, soldering iron, and some hours of manual skilled labor.

Thats exactly what I would expect to do, but it seems instead of buying the electrodes and handling the wiring as part of a DIY project, these "open" solutions are just selling their own 10x-more-expensive-than-the-parts kits, and the knowledge to make it yourself is treated as some lost-to-the-ages arcane magic

EDIT: ok, thats not fair of me - i just found it on their website at: https://docs.openbci.com/
Just pinged you!
Right. Many people control more than one company but how is musk using them to evade justice in this case in Brazil?