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Worth noting us large AWS customers get huge discounts, huge credit, actual real engineers on hand 24/7 on Slack, contractual service guarantees that last years and a large market of people we can leverage to build stuff in there. And a lot of the services are low to zero cost that would be expensive to run on Hetzner or don't exist and you have to build out.

YMMV but all costs aren't instance costs.
On the other hand, "waste metal" philosophy was what killed Soviet moon program. Guess sensors and telemetry are a bit more advanced today.
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It's not quite pointless. A prepared outline/mind-map gives you a roadmap for learning beforehand; it can function like a good index.

It's better to memorize domain knowledge upon paths that are clearly understood (thus you are memorizing well-worn, acceptable paths), rather than synthesizing your understanding of a topic as you go along. The second is prone to mistakes and mistaken understanding, unless you're a subject matter expert or charting new domains of knowledge.
> time is not a dimension, it's the 'refresh rate' of matter.

Exactly. Time is just a very useful fudge to describe change. If nothing changes, there's been no time. If something changes, there has been time.

A dimension is just a useful number that you can operate on. You can have a physics where the fourth dimension is how blue something is, and the fifth dimension is how good Mary thinks it tastes.
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Factorio has got to be one of the best games of all time in my book, and it actually teaches a lot about software engineering, optimization, finding & fixing bottlenecks and dealing with legacy code.

Space Age introduces four new planets for the player to build on, space platforms acting as transportation between platforms and a quality mechanic which lets the player build better items by investing more resources into constructing items. We also finally get to play around with elevated rails!
> It is a strange copyright protection indeed that explicitly or implicitly prohibits certain types of machine readings, while allowing many others.

As far as I know, licenses can discriminate on whatever constraint they want to[1].

A license that is basically "This work is for $FOO only. If you want a $BAR license please contact us." is perfectly legal right now!

There is no restriction in law that $FOO cannot be "human consumption" and $BAR cannot be ""machine consumption".

If the AI companies are not arguing the "fair use" argument, then they are arguing for AI companies having a special exemption for themselves carved out in law whereby a copyright holder is forced to license their works to the AI companies specifically.

IOW, their only recourse is to argue "fair use", because any other argument boils down to "please make a special exemption for us in copyright law, defying hundreds of years of precedent", which is a particularly hard sell.

[1]Excluding discriminating against protected classes.
Which is why there is a rather marked divide between the "pencil-pushers" and "the tip of the spear".

That said, there are lots of instances of the clerk-typist being told to grab his rifle and fill out a billet for a patrol and similar things --- RH actually speaks to this and other similar, but broader concerns in _Starship Troopers_
The tool is not the issue. There is a lot of investment in AI as part of pharmaceutical development, in imaging (like the topic of the paper), in diagnostic and therapeutic designs.

Just because the money is also being spent on "entertainment" means that there is rapid development and increase in capacity. Chip prices have started to come down as more are designed and manufactured.

Energy usage is not as bad as has been forecast, but it is being worked on as well.

The money will be spent and both needs will benefit.
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That is true all else remaining equal - but that isn't usually the case. Lower rates do increase the demand for governments generally to borrow as well at a faster rate via lower IR rates.

The amount of interest payments therefore long term (not short term) isn't really affected by the IR rate but more by politics and the amount of IR payments/debt burden they can politically get away with - in the US it is a LOT - in other countries the political appetite can be less.

So while it is true that higher IR payments do increase the money supply, generally with lower IRs governments are encouraged to "borrow more" by many stakeholders to their capacity under the low rate anyway. For example I saw many newspaper articles around our local media stating things like "rates are low, the government should invest that in infrastructure/disability programs/{insert favorite idea here}, etc when rates were low with politicians happy to spend accordingly.

In addition under low IR's the private sector will borrow more increasing the amount of credit in the economy as well - also inflationary money supply.

There's always nuances; these black and white theories can be dangerous. They assume all else is equal which is rarely ever is.
I'm really confused. How do you think that would work with an opensource password manager like pass / password-store.org

- The data is stored in Git at a location of your choosing and security level

- The data encryption is provided by GnuPG using your personal key

This is why I use it, there's no potential for anyone to add a back door, except me.

BitWarden, LastPass, etc etc... you have a point, and I would not trust these companies one iota.

Apple, Google etc...uhm... not in a million years.
> All the low paid, physically laborious work is not affected by AI, so there will be plenty of work, especially with aging populations around the world.

Low paid physically labourorious work has been increasingly automated since the wheel started helping potters.

The history of computers often ends up referencing Jacquard looms because it used punched cards.

LLMs have been demonstrated controlling various robots.

AI's coming for all jobs, it's just a question of which jobs cease first.
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160% increase compared to today? Or to a forecast non-AI energy usage growth in data centers?
Sometimes someone has paid money to place the sand at the beach because it wasn't a sand beach from the start. So no, you can't go fill your sacks with sand anywhere you like, not even in Sweden were we can pick berries in the forest for free. Stones, trees and sand is not allowed without permission.
While I can think of a few other, dotnet and Visual Studio, I think that you're generally correct.

Microsoft, Google and others, have created a culture that are no longer able to produce high quality solutions, because they can't focus on a single vision for their products. Or in some cases the vision does not align with creating good products.

SQL Server is a really good example, it's highly focused, it exists outside the current hype bobble, there's no advertising, no subscription, just a database server and it's a really good product. Exchange sucks, because it been pulled in to new subscription based world, and it's going to suffer for it.
>> Windows has always been a dumpster fire..

It was always a dumpster fire for security, but it did have a pretty good UI and functionality at say XP-SP3, but now the UX had been thrown on the fire too.
Whole new design which Sean Baxter suggests the committee foist upon C++. Being a continuation of "safe C++", it seems to be part of coping with the challenge of the popularity of Rust - and perhaps even more with how some lobbyists have gotten the US government to adopt some decisions against using "memory-unsafe languages".

Just remember that WG21 papers are their authors' position/claims, not the committee's or the community's, unless accepted. I think, or rather hope, this is not accepted.
The punchline is that everyone here thought being called "thunderf00t" was a compliment, even though I meant it as an example of someone who is consistently proven wrong at every turn for casting shade on Musk's tech ambitions. It seems HN's original techno-optimist hacker ethos is dead in the grave.
Ask HN: Using selfhosted LLMs in your company
Hi, I am curious about selfhosted / opensource LLMs like Ollama in a non-homelab context.

What kind of applications are you building/integrating with them? Are those mostly experimental or in production already?
Are you training models yourself? Are you fine-tuning existing ones? How are you deploying and maintaining the models and surrounding tool stack?

Thanks in advance!
The marketing has kept changing.

I have always found state management easier in React if I keep it out of React.
Yep, most corporations have 2-3 _named_ account reps who are available on the company Slack and will visit your office 1-2 times a year to sync up that everything is working as it should.

And they're not just salespeople, they've actually said multiple times if a feature doesn't work for us without trying to hold it wrong in a dangerous (and expensive) way.
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For deadlines i use a week based paper calendar and setback can be handled by negative time entries, like:

01.15-00.00 refund for issue 6789 (75mins)

It's not ideal but it barely happens.

Another minor issue is that my parser currently does not support overnight shifts like

2022-11-15
- 23.45-01.18 another task

These have to be divided into 2 separate ones:

2022-11-15
- 23.45-23.59 another task

2022-11-16
- 00.00-01.18 another task
Why not ?
If you need to have HA you could easily spin up a kubernetes cluster and still be cheaper.
> Just the idea of having an always-on computer anywhere in your home excludes probably more than 80% of everyone who has ever written a blog.

I have yet to meet someone who turns off the router at night, although I have heard of such people.

Then if you think about it, TVs, washing machines, etc. people are too lazy to turn them off, and OLED TVs even require being turned on while not being used.
Kopecks are 100th of a ruble. If they were ever a non-decimal value, it predates the early 20th century.
I'm appalled by the parochialism in these comments. Memory access sizes other than 8 bits being inconvenient doesn't make this a good idea.
Most cloud customers don't pay on-demand retail prices. For example, Azure VM Reservations or Savings Plans typically provide a 50-65% discount. AWS has similar plans.

For example, instead of the ancient F8 series used in the article, a modern D8as_v5 Azure instance under a 3-year Savings Plan is $115/mo.

Also, the article compares CPX41 to EC2 and Azure VMs with dedicated cores, not shared cores. The CCX33 Hetzner model is closer to the normal clouds, and costs $50/mo, so now we're at 2x the price instead of 10x the price. (Conversely, the B8als_v2 size uses shared cores and is also 2x the price of CPX41 at $74/mo)

For that 2x cost you get a lot more features, first-party and third-party support, more locations, faster networking, etc... That's worth it for most large enterprises that care about ticking checkboxes on audit reports more than absolute cost. Or to put it this way: the annual price difference is just $600, which is the same cost to an org as half a day of engineer-time or less. If Hetzner is the slightest bit more difficult than a large public cloud VM for anything, ever, then it's not cheaper. This could be patching, maintenance, migrations, backup, recovery, automation, encryption, or just about anything else.

There are other differences as well. Hetzner has a separate charge for load balancers and IP addresses, whereas with Azure they're included in the price of the VM.

The biggest cost difference is that the public clouds charge eyewatering amounts for Internet egress traffic. Azure is about 100x as expensive as Hetzner, which is just crazy.
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These can be pretty physically challenging too!
my issue with arcade style games for fitness is that they stop whenever you fuck up. That's not really great when your goal is to get moving for ~20 minutes or so.

The one's I've currently got installed on my quest 3 are

Supernatural Fitness (I need a VPN to play because they're geolocking it to USA).
I find the way they try to "get personal" with the trainer super awkward.

FitXR (only one with decent passthrough gameplay)
I dislike how most exercises are centered around "gyms", whenever you enter a session, there are others around you doing the same exercise as you and you get a scoreboard. It really doesn't vibe with me whatsoever. I also don't believe that I almost always get first or second place - I'm pretty sure this is showing you numbers to make you feel good about yourself.

XR workout
It's the most "indie" of these and with the highest difficulty ceiling. It's biggest downfall is that it doesn't really give you a generated "I wanna exercise for 20 minutes" button. At least I couldn't find it.

There are also others, but I don't have them installed. I.e. Les milles etc

But as I said before: purely from a workout perspective, the Nintendo games work way better in my experience.

It's just so awkward in VR compared to Knockout Home Fitness, worse signalling what you need to do next - you're wearing a headset while getting sweaty - no center stage youre watching, instead youre just trying to guess which movement you're supposed to do while things randomly float around.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ctLdgFf5GCQ
...when using bare metal servers.

Hetzner doesn't have the services AWS provides, that's the reason most companies I know use AWS for.

If we could run our crap on any server, we would, but managed services are still cost-effective vs hiring our own 24/7/365 rotation of on-call ops people.
Same for Anki, Notion, Zettelkatsen etc. Even ignoring the setup cost, it costs as much effort to insert in something as it does to retrieve it. The value prop tends to be low for individuals.
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https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Configuration/...

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Security-Overv...
> Do you really need the advanced features of AWS and Azure right now? Or would a simple virtual machine at a reasonable price be sufficient? That’s the main question here.

This is one of the more important points and why the point "The learning curve of a single server isn't so big, especially when compared to AWS" is sitting a bit wrong with me.

Sure, if you talk about 1 VM, I agree. And I wouldn't second guess doing this, at all. It would be my initial plan as well as long as I don't have to make any strong availability guarantees. And for this use case, I'd call AWS a bad choice. It's not a simple VM provider.

But once you start running e.g. a redundant postgres cluster for updates without downtime, the amount of stuff to know also grows, a lot. Suddenly you also need backups, tests of backups. And this is where AWS/the cloud allows you to save time, and treadmill time.
I've built Chord Chart Memo [0] entirely using Godot Game Engine.

Chord Chart Memo is a tool for musicians and songwriters which lets you input chords with just two taps. What makes it stand out is the focus on lightning-fast input & offline functionality for reliablility during live performances.

[0] https://tiniuc.com/chord-chart-memo/
On GCP and Azure, most folks would be better off running serverless containers via Cloud Run or Container Apps (AWS has no direct equivalent that scales to 0 and incurs no cost).

Both of these scale to zero and offer 180k vCPU/s free per month, 360k GB/s free per month. You incur billing only against the active execution time. Cloud Run Jobs has a whole separate free monthly grant as well.

You can run A LOT for free within those constraints. Certainly a blog or website. To prevent cold starts, just set up Cloud Scheduler (also free for this purpose) to ping the container every few minutes.

Use Supabase for a DB or one of the serverless options (if it works for your data use case) like Firestore, CosmosDB and you can run workloads for a few cents per month with an architecture that will scale easily if you need it to.

6 min video showing the receipts and how easy this is: https://youtu.be/GlnEm7JyvyY
maybe you could use shadcn and chatgpt to make it cuter
Happens to me, too, on desktop with Chromium, just gotta resize the window to reproduce.
Is there a common theme in their startups, or is it working for all types?
Potential duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41902808
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There is truth to this perspective but it's also missing one of the fundamental purposes of writing essays in an educational setting. Writing essays isn't just about evaluation, it's also about teaching you how to think.

The process of reading textual material, thinking about it, and then producing more textual material about the stuff you just read (and maybe connecting it to other stuff that you've read in the past) is a critical way of developing thinking skills and refining your ability to communicate to an audience.

The value of that shouldn't be overlooked just like the value of basic numeracy shouldn't be overlooked because we all carry calculators.

You're right that it would be better if post secondary institutions would test people's ability to think in more ways than just what they can regurgitate onto a piece of paper, if only because that can be easily cheated but that doesn't mean that there isn't personal benefit in the experience of writing an essay.

I may not be the best writer but I am a better writer because I wrote essays in university, and I may not be great at math but I can reason and estimate about a variety of things because I have taken many math courses. These things have ultimately made me a better thinker and I am grateful to have had that imparted to me.
Downtime aside, best practices for running a library generally include not leaking usernames, email addresses, and eight years of front desk correspondence.

They sell paid services to universities and governments, so downtime isn't a great look either.

> it's not a bank

They tried that too. Didn't go well.

https://ncua.gov/newsroom/press-release/2016/internet-archiv...
In France my essays were written in class, no phones, no book, just your brain, a sheet a paper and a pen. That's still 100% doable today
The issue is that the voice track will be shorter than the music track if you speed it up. So you'll have the music playing until the end, but the voice track ending before that. It's definitely possible, just a bit more complex to implement.
Maybe when I have the feature to mute the music, I can just mute the music when the speed is changed?
I think he's saying he has been moving to the next company within 2 years after starting a job. Not all 3 companies in 2 years.
That is IMO already done by domain experts in the form of textbooks, courses, university classes etc. And with formal, tested relationships between various islands of knowledge. I'm not too sure how much I would trust an LLM to do this
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I’d imagine pretty common, at least back when it was uncool to be a “nerd”. Hormones are a powerful drug, and at least until I figured out what it was all about, girls were way more fascinating than electronics.

Sex derails the potential of young humans in so many ways, yet the process of reproduction is so arduous that it makes sense that we’d end up wired to prioritise it heavily. All it would take is for young people to wise up and we’d be extinct within a century and a half lol.

We’re seeing the results of not valuing the labor that is creating a home and raising children in systematic rapid population decline. (Which might seem ok, but in most situations, it is socioeconomicly catastrophic)

We need to learn to overtly value the huge labor sink investment that motherhood , fatherhood, and family stewardship entail.

There are things more valuable to humanity than the ability to concentrate wealth and power at the expense and to the exclusion of others.

The whole drive to concentrate wealth and power is fundamentally based on sex anyway. It seems a great poverty to not acknowledge and socially celebrate the skills, labours, and sacrifices of parenthood.
Sorry if this is "moving the goal post", but I wouldn't call looking at ngram frequencies for AI. Producing a heatmap doesn't tell you why something is suspicious, but it's obviously better than telling you nothing.

In any case, if you where to use LLMs, or other black box solutions, you'd have to yank those out, if you where met with a requirement to explain why something is suspicious.
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I'm not sure. Could be cost. It might also be that they need time to test or even redesign to use the new fluids if they have different specs. Another possibility is that no matter what the fluid, if it breaks down or evaporates, the loss of insulation could still lead to a fire by igniting other things, such as the pole or nearby vegetation.

In a case of interesting timing, I heard a transformer blow just last week. There wasn't any fire and the fire department wasn't called. The linesmen showed up a couple hours later to replace it.
Or is the REAL punchline the fact that Musk has optimised his entire empire to tap into the hacker ethos/ideals as the world's biggest pump n dump scheme? He seems to just do things that have the biggest wow factor because growth stocks need to keep growing otherwise there is no point in owning them.
I didn’t know that!
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Okay, let me try to be more precise. By "evaluate", I mean using an AI to make predictions about human behavior, either retrospectively (as is the case here in trying to make an accusation of cheating) or prospectively (i.e. automating criminal justice). Even if you could collect all the parameters (features?) that make up a human being, there is the randomness in humans and in nature in general, which simply destroys any ultimate prediction machine. Not to mention the edge cases we wander into. You can try to measure and average a human being, and you will get a certain accuracy well above 50%, but you will never cross the threshold of such high accuracy that a human being should be measured against, especially in life-deciding questions like career decisions or any social matters.

Reliable systems in some areas? - Absolutely, and yes, even facial recognition. I agree, it works very well, but that is a different issue as it does not reveal or try to guess anything about the inner person. There are other problems that arise from the fact that it works so well (surveillance, etc.), but I did not mean that part of the equation.
Thanks very much!

As an experiment I turned off the WiFi on my phone and tried accessing the site through the mobile network and... you are correct, it is up and running!

So judging from the tracert I think packet routing is failing when it tries to leave England and go to the US!

I think my fibre broadband company needs to get a new Visa!
Yeah, I would not expect it to be used in this case, but just pointing out that it does exist as a non-toxic, non-flammable option.