skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its interesting to see the contrast between DC and say London. London has, like DC: dense traffic along a relatively small number of major thoroughfares, a huge number of heat masses like concrete office blocks, a subway spilling heat onto the street, etc. What really saves London are the vast number of remarkably large parks and tree cover. You really see the difference walking the city. DC has one big blob of mall with little to no tree cover.

Cities are going to have to look at what kinds of shade the future is going to need for their populace if summers continue to get hotter. Interesting article from the NYT on this topic:

Summer in the City Is Hot, but Some Neighborhoods Suffer More https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/09/climate/city-...
Yes fair point, although as you say the existence of VPNs does explain how the advertising could be driving uptake of illegal behaviour, and therefore why it could be viewed as undesirable or improper.
What was all the money?

It's so far worked out for Tesla, and at least of the major auto companies in the US they're still alive when they could have gone under previously.

Supporting new private industry is good policy, if done with balance. China has been employing this very successfully industry after industry.
If I stop shopping at a specific vendor, I am doing the same thing. The person operating the farmer's market stand or a food truck or whatever is a human too, but it's perfectly fine to say that you will no longer patronize that business.

People are affected by loss of income, and it is tragic. I don't think a buyer ceasing to buy from a seller is injustice, regardless if the relationship is employer/employee or customer/business.

It is society that should be providing the stability necessary for business to just be business. If a business makes a mistake, it is not unjust for the business to correct course which could involve changing its terms with its vendors (including employees).
This is true, but go ask Nate Silver how that went for him in 2016. The general public has only superficial familiarity with even basic statistics. 60/40 is perceived by many as a near guarantee. More than enough to make them cry 'stolen election!' if the election does not go the way they want.
By whom though? I don't see how any company directly competing with Intel (or even orthogonal e.g. Nvidia and ARM) could be allowed to by Intel (they'd need approval in the US/EU and presumably a few other places) unless it's actually on the brink of bankruptcy?
The new COP FPGAs are in the $100-400 range. Not cheap but nothing compared to the high end parts.
We don’t like to say “we told you so” around here, but get ready…
FWIW, Polymarket is still technically not available from within the US, although since it’s crypto I imagine that’s not an insurmountable geoblock.
That's really only half the story.

Mullvad VPN maker says police tried to raid its offices but couldn’t find any user data
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/21/23692580/mullvad-vpn-raid...
>Do you know how we won World War 2?

We as in the Allied forces? The Great Alliance?

I also live within 200 miles of one of our Japanese Internment Camps.
None of that is really a show stopper when talking about an overhaul of the tax system and what it targets.

Speaking of taxing revenue instead of profits, that's another reason the current tax regime is so galling (at least speaking from a USian perspective). Individuals essentially are taxed on revenue and can't deduct things that would otherwise be straightforward deductions in a business context, as necessary and proper expenses required to earn that revenue.
I'd agree on IaaS/PaaS being the main driver. Id guess that everyone is running away from serverless offerings from all the main cloud providers. It's just day 1 lock in to a platform with no shared standards. It's very uncompetitive and kind of slow to innovate.
Like an endogenous version of Ketamine + Exposure Therapy for PTSD
I guess with project of this importance, one cannot have anything else than fixed release date, even if the scope is dynamic. A bit like Olympic Games hosts are decided several years in advance (Salt Lake City 2034).
It's 100% sarcasm. The capitalization should have made it obvious to anyone. The only place I've seen struggling with recognizing sarcasm is hackernews.
US govt. invested in Tesla? That's news to me.
Companies Review Job Applications: The ATS System and How You Can Beat It
The job application process has changed, with most companies using Application Tracking Systems (ATS) to filter resumes before they reach a recruiter. To succeed, job seekers need to understand how ATS works and optimize their resumes accordingly. This guide breaks down what an ATS looks for, common mistakes to avoid, and practical tips to improve your ATS score. Tools like ResumAI Pro can help you track and boost your score, increasing your chances of landing that interview. Stay ATS-friendly, but remember—authenticity still matters in making a real connection.
Like others here, I find the way this article discusses things a bit odd. I think a more interesting question is to emphasize SYNTAX (the word doesn’t seem to appear in the article). Which languages have special syntax that maps to an AST node as OP(a,b,c)? Focus on syntax and things like range(start,end,step) dont fall into this category.
Blaze is the name of the C++ framework/service to build custom backend for online games. It allows game team to developp online features in a standard way, it's backed by MySQL.

From what I remember you need roughly one Blaze instance for 5k/10k players.
Encyclopedias may be collections of facts, but the writing is generally creative. Phone books are literally just facts. AI models are literally just facts.
The only ugly (for Intel) detail being that they are fabbed by TSMC
If there is an argument for RTO, it would be this.

Stu Sjouwerman: We were hiring a fairly specific, hard-to-find software engineer who had background in AI. We have a number of AI initiatives, and so we needed a software engineer to support all those initiatives.

Jessica Mendoza: The job was posted on online job forums, and pretty soon, resumes started to flow in from all over the country, and one candidate stood out. He said his name was Kyle.

Stu Sjouwerman: "Mr. Kyle" quote, unquote, air quotes, had experience with exactly everything that we needed. It was a very good interview. He was very open. He talked about his strengths and weaknesses, indicated where he felt he needed additional training and indicated a career path. And so, was the perfect interviewee, which made us move to the next step.

Jessica Mendoza: After conducting background checks, Stu's company decided to hire Kyle as a remote employee. They sent him a work laptop to an address in Washington State and started the onboarding process. But almost immediately, it became clear that Kyle was not who he said he was.

Stu Sjouwerman: At that point in time, our team started seeing very concerning traffic on that laptop.

Jessica Mendoza: What kind of concerning traffic?

Stu Sjouwerman: Well, Kyle immediately started downloading malware. We immediately saw that a whole bunch of things were happening that should not be. We tried to get in touch with him and asked if he needed any help. I think this was through Slack, and he said, "Yes, I am trying to debug my router and I'm following instructions from a list." And this is where it became very, very iffy, very fast.

Jessica Mendoza: The company shut down Kyle's laptop and quickly fired him. And then, they investigated. What exactly was Kyle doing? The answer took them completely by surprise.

Stu Sjouwerman: Yes, we have egg on our face because we hired a fake North Korean IT worker, but this is what happened. And if it can happen to us, it can happen to almost anybody.

Jessica Mendoza: It's kind of unbelievable that you hired a North Korean spy as one of your IT guys.

Stu Sjouwerman: Yes. That is pretty scary. And there are hundreds if not thousands that are actually, as we speak right now, in this same situation and delivering work for United States companies.

https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/your-new-hire-may-b...
I guess it's just a crazy coincidence that most huge multinational corporations base their European operations in Ireland then? They just like drinking Guinness I suppose?
I use the brita elite filter. its about 30$ for 2 of them and they last 6 months.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MU7973W
I’m paywalled on the article but I think the issue is specifically with Polymarket hiring US influencers when they aren’t allowed to let Americans trade on the platform. Kalshi is allowed to let Americans trade so it’s not an issue (assuming they follow disclosure requirements etc.)
It's associated with a member of the opposing party, so it must be opposed. Especially since it has a chance to be successful.

Similar situation with the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) - it was opposed not on its merits, but because it was from the opposing side.
> Well the revival may be halted depending on the election

Not a fan of the GOP, but industry is operating on the assumption that most industrial policies under the Biden admin will continue to remain.

There's been a lot of policy research and lobbying on this front for over a year at this point [0]

Doesn't hurt that a number of major Trump-Vance donors have benefited from these industrial policies as well.

Sadly, most deal flow is anyhow locked up because the Commerce has been slow at disbursing funds due to bipartisan politicking (eg. GOP trying to undermine the CHIPS act due to pettiness, CPC affiliates trying to launch unnecessary NEPA and Labor fights)

That said, even companies knew that would happen - and a lot of deal flow was strategically placed in purple districts for that reason.

Foreign automakers and their supppliers used a similar strategy in the 1990s-2000s when entering the US market by opening factories in then-Purple Tennessee, Kentucky, WV, etc.

[0] - https://www.eiu.com/n/us-election-its-impact-on-industrial-p...
Thank you for the question!

> What are the differences in opinions between dstack and SkyPilot?

SkyPilot is great. I think there are many tiny details though. At dstack, we try to provide out-of-the-box and more high-level experience.

Examples:

1. Authorization built-into services

2. Dev environments with IDE integration

3. HTTPS out of the box with an ability to set up own domains

4. Projects for team management and resource isolation

5. Hardware metrics tracking

Also, we try to distance from Kubernetes and improve our own orchestrator that natively integrates with cloud providers

> Same question could be posed to Modal.

Modal is great too. Modal's strengths is Python decorators and their focus on cloldstarts/serverless kind of experience.

dstack here is more about flexibility/multi-cloud/on-prem/etc.
For example, I personally prefer being able to run any code with dstack without changing my code. Otehr people may prefer Python decorators.

> Aren’t you worried about the amount of product development that goes into Kubernetes and its ecosystem?

A very good question. I think its both a strength and a weakness of Kubernetes. So far we see that for us it's a lot easier to bring AI-native experience, simplify it, and make it more out of the box.

We of course respect K8S though. But we think the community to deserve options!

> What about democratic-csi?

Haven't seen it yet. Will look into it.
At dstack, we support volumes for both cloud and on-prem.

> NVIDIA GPU Operator, AMD’s k8s device plugins

We aim to support any accelerators out of the box.

> Calico versus Cilium?

Haven't heard of it yet.

P.S.: Whould love to hear your opinion too!
To stay with your car analogy... Your not stuck if you get an RV/Camper, and move with that, to whereever it fits (you).
The article is incredibly thin on details.

In my experience, it comes down to two factors:

1. Egress cost. Cloud hosting providers have absolutely insane egress pricing. It's beyond stupid at this point, if you want to host anything bandwidth-intensive.

2. Storage pricing.
I find entitlement to be be one of the things wrong with the world today. It’s really a testament that we can have such opposing viewpoints at the same time without worrying about consequences, huh?
> betting

> un-American
The US Navy Put Cameras on Dolphins and the Results Were Wild
Who cares about EU? They are destroying themselves.
Sorry to be blunt, but... so? Take the phrase away and it becomes "a business decision" which is just as impersonal, but that's an honest reflection of how decisions are made. Are you arguing against businesses making decisions or just the language?
> > This sounds like "if an EU citizen created, or has data referenced, in any piece of the data you trained from then..."

> Yes, and that should be the default for any citizen of any country in the world.

This is a completely untenable policy. Each and every piece of data in the world can be traced to one or more citizens of some country. Actively getting permission for every item is not feasible for any company, no matter the scale of the company.
Is temperature or even temperature variance not a problem for wood?
That's what I have seen reported, too. They also tried filing for removal to federal court. The prosecutor must be thinking "So their strategy is to go for the criminal case to delay the civil case... OK, then."
There are obvious tells an app is non-native. One of the easiest is to view the settings screen. Setting screens on native apps usually all look the same. I haven't seen one Flutter app that has replicated it.
Hal Clement envisioned a genetically engineered organism able to enclose water in outer space in his short story "Raindrop" --- collected in _Space Lash_ (originally published as _Small Changes_), it is a remarkable collection of short stories, many of which are still relevant today.
Afaik, MSFT shows growth in Azure and Office as separate things during earning reports, so the % mentioned before is just Azure, and 31% is huge.
>Saying "it's just business" is just a canned phrase for minimizing a general dismissive attitude toward the welfare of workers.
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I don't think I am dismissive toward the welfare of workers. I strongly advocate for government helping workers by at least increasing/streamlining the process of receiving unemployment benefits and/or taxpayer funded efforts to re-train in the event of loss of income or even relocation assistance.
Nope:
1280x1024 low resolution with gpt-4o are 85 tokens so approx $0.0002 (so 100x cheaper). For high resolution its apporx $0.002
https://openai.com/api/pricing/
IANAL: agent edition
Paper -

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
>Revenue consists of the following:
x Royalties - Mozilla provides the Firefox web browser, which is a free and open-
source web browser initially developed by Mozilla Foundation and the Corporation.
Mozilla incorporates search engines of its customers as a default status or an optional
status available in the Firefox web browser. Mozilla generally receives royalties at a
certain percentage of revenues earned by its customers through their search engines
incorporated in the Firefox web browser.

[0] https://stateof.mozilla.org/

Based on the audit numbers I a bit puzzled about the reported amount of staff. Maybe I am reading it completely wrong
A relative worked at Fisker recently. The loan you are talking about was in 2009. That version of Fisker went out of business in 2014.

The most "recent iteration" of Fisker was basically a company from scratch. It was only called Fisker because it's original founder (Henrik Fisker) retained the rights to the name and logo.

This time around there weren't any loans from the US govt.
PredictIt is at 53:52 currently, wouldn’t call this clear.
They didn't miss out. They owned the most desirable mobile platform in StrongARM and cast it aside. They are the footgun masters.
Wikipedia and the American Heritage Dictionary expressly disagree:

"In economics, a free market is an economic system in which the prices of goods and services are determined by supply and demand expressed by sellers and buyers. Such markets, as modeled, operate without the intervention of government or any other external authority."
Did they not meet him face-to-face? It’s a small price to pay for confirmation that you’re talking to a real person. Even if not, you at least have someone’s face and information to report to the authorities.
When should I use String vs. andstr?
The setting screen is the tell. I've yet to see a Flutter app that looks like a traditional iOS setting screen.
Meanwhile, from Q3 Amazon earnings:

* AWS segment sales increased 19% year-over-year to $27.5 billion.

That means AWS brought in $4.3 BILLION more dollars in Q3 2024 vs 2023.

That's a huge amount of incremental revenue growth. If the net movement of workloads were out of the cloud, then it would have to show up in the results of Intel / TSMC / Equinix et. al.

I just took a look, and Equinix quarterly revenue is $2.1B.
Oh, for sure. I misunderstood, sorry.
EU Plans to Fine Apple for Anticompetitive App Store Practices
The spatial audio tricks that Q-Sound does are intended to be used with one stereo pair of speakers, and do not work with headphones at all.
Shouldn't the govs and laws be immune to this?
Unpopular take? I thought it was common knowledge that computer operation and computer programming involve distinct (if overlapping) skillsets.
Is that related to the privatization wave after 1989? If so, the culprit here is the corrupt political caste that sold companies below their true value for kickbacks. Corruption has been an endemic problem in the east.
I agree, although I read somewhere prediction markets in 2016 had Clinton by a wide margin. I don’t have a reference for that and obviously they would have been tiny markets by comparison to today.
Kjell's Law: the cost of a platform eventually exceeds the cost of the one it replaced. But each cost is in a different budget.

We seem to have replaced cooling and power and a grumpy sysadmin with storage and architects and unhappy developers.
Im really curious, what prevents you from copying comments on mobile?
Amazon loves it when you run idle EC2 instances ($$$) rather than using Lambda.

Most real workloads I've seen (at 3 startups, and several teams at Amazon) have utilization under 10%.
> this is forgetting that the US exists.

I did not forget this. I think you overestimate what the US can and is willing to do there, and also what the incentives would be for people to escape to the US. This is not Vietnam in the 1970s, staying right there may very well be the preferred choice, even if China takes over. Especially if they make a very nice offer in advance. Should Trump win that may look even worse.
I once triggered the ChatGPT censorship (by trying to manipulate an image of my face) and it also responded in english to a german query.
Polymarket is a new thing and it's throwing a lot of political pundits off their tracks because they treat it as political sentiment indicator, but it's all just gambling and manipulation.
I prefer this https://blogs.idc.com/2024/10/28/storm-clouds-ahead-missed-e... more nuanced article.

I can see how AI workloads makes clouds look expensive.
Finally a cogent post.
Kids these days.
open source means the source code is openly available. That is it. Phrases that have intuitive meaning need to stop being co-opted.
Corporations are not people, any law who treats them as such has been perverted IMO.
Fully agree, that is why I usually put money on the software I care about, it isn't about using stuff from others freely while expecting to be paid myself.

However, there is the whole issue about the money that they were spending on CEO salary, the related bonus, and all the activities about who knows what, instead of Firefox and Thunderbird.
At least you’re answering the question.

California FAIR is the insurance of last resort so what you’re saying isn’t totally accurate.

There has to be an insurance option because you can’t get a mortgage without insurance. And owner occupied real estate prices do not go up without mortgages.

California bends over backwards to make owner occupied real estate risk free.

More provocative questions: what is the difference between someone who lost a home in a place guaranteed for the home to eventually burn down, and someone who doesn’t own a home at all? In that moment: nothing, right? Why is sunk cost a fallacy all the time, except that time?

Is someone who pays less in taxes deserving of less, more or equal government assistance? No, right? Now replace taxes with “compulsory payments” like home insurance: does your answer change?

This should illuminate for you why CA wildfire bailout policy is so inequitable. These communities are not an escape valve from overpriced real estate in California cities, they ARE the overpriced real estate all the same.
Micron is a defense critical company. They're getting their new fab no matter what because China can more readily target Boise.
So Intel has abandoned the sub-100usd segment to AMD/Xilinx, Lattice, Efinix and Microchip?
That’s the beauty of it. If you’re sure it’s wrong, you can profit off the gambling and manipulation.
> “Ten years into that journey, GEICO still hadn’t migrated everything to the cloud, their bills went up 2.5x, and their reliability challenges went up quite a lot too.”

yes this would make cloud cost a lot without any of the benefits lol
It's a mock up. First planned flight in 2033.
It was easy when everyone was spending cheap money for marketing and other vanity around moving to the cloud. But now that money costs something, and everyone has to control costs, repatriation is the new hotness when you want to save opex with capex. Cloud margins are org savings.

The trick is to not care, and be proficient as a technologist; you make money either way riding the hype cycle wave. Shades of Three Envelopes for the CIO and whomever these decisions and budgets roll up to.

https://kevinkruse.com/the-ceo-and-the-three-envelopes/

(If you genuinely get value out of premium compute and storage at a cloud provider, you're likely going to keep doing that of course, startups, unpredictable workloads, etc)
The anger over illegal immigrants taking US jobs is mostly fearmongering from the people employing illegal immigrants.
As a sailor that uses similar fittings in sailboat rigging… the idea of not treating a cable pullout from a terminal as an emergency is absurd. If that happened on a sailboat rig I’d assume it had a remaining strength of zero and will fall in seconds or less- and take the most rapid possible action to keep the structure from coming down by deloading the shroud and rigging an emergency replacement.
Tokio has a task budget that will cap at 32 or 256 polls of the same task before switching to another task. So, yes a spinlock, but not likely to deadlock.
readme: https://github.com/Tencent/Tencent-Hunyuan-Large

> "By open-sourcing the Hunyuan-Large model"
The statistics can be found in the public earnings of AWS vs the companies that would get paid for on-prem workloads (Equinix, Dell/HP/IBM, Intel etc).
Chat, feeds and moderation run on AWS for us. Video on the other hand is bandwidth intensive. So we run the coordinator infra on AWS, but the SFU edge network on many different providers.

I think the cloud is good for some things, and not so great for others. S3 is fairly cost effective. RDS is expensive, bandwidth is crazy etc.

(5M a year spend on AWS atm.)
Oh, correlation.
You can also profit off regular gambling and manipulation by buying stocks in gambling companies.
What if I train an AI model on exactly one copyrighted work and all it does it spit that work back out?

eg if I upload Marvels_Avengers.mkv.onnx and it reliably reproduces the original (after all, it's just a fact that the first byte of the original file is OxF0, etc)