skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Each Nehelem hexcore Xeon is (EDIT) ~120 Watts of power, so your computer will be drawing well over 300W under load, maybe over 500W. (I mean, Mac Pro 2009 has a 1200W PSU. I presume its expecting to use around half of that power)

The Power9 18-core / 72-thread is going to come in at under 150W total.

The main advancement the past decade has been in power-efficiency. Cloud-scale providers keep their computers running at max load as well, so 500W does add up over months / years into a sizable amount of money.

Especially when you consider that 500W computer needs 500W of Air-conditioning, so the "True cost" of a 500W computer is roughly ~1200W or so (500W from the computer, 700W to power an air-conditioner to move 500W of heat)

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A 12-core / 24-thread AMD Ryzen 3900x is just $500, with a total system cost under $1500. The big advantage of a Ryzen 3900x would be a max clock-rate of 4.7 GHz, while your Nehelem 2009 computer is... what? 2.5 GHz? Probably? And computers of that age didn't have deep sleep capabilities, wasting even more power than usual. Modern computers idle at 20W, even servers and desktops. Tons of power-saving features these days which add up.

I think a typical $1500 computer these days would be more than twice as fast with 1/4th the power usage. I don't think anybody seriously in this hobby should be using anything as old as Nehelem these days.

IMO, the price/performance "old computers" seems to be Haswell (~2014 era servers), if people want to buy old equipment. But 2009 is definitely too old, there are lots of used servers that are a little bit more expensive but a LOT more power efficient / faster in practice.
Why would they be forced to license to Netflix specifically? They could still only license to other platforms who offered them better conditions.
Many friends from Latin America work via Upwork, but they barely make enough for a living as they charge around 30% commission (end-to-end). I would rather look for companies that focus on remote work.
For example, I have a Mexican friend working remotely from SF at www.lionmint.com/en. It's a german IT consultancy that focuses on digital platform development. He told me they pay great rates and have top-notch projects.
That could end up with cars with incredibly high tech laser collision detection system and no seat-belts.
> Google Search's main source of revenue would still be from ads—but it'd be via the separate company of Google Ads, paying Google Search for ad placement.

This would almost certainly lead to less privacy. Google Search, instead of just sourcing ads from Google Ads would have to open bidding to a wide variety of ad networks.

That means your personal search history wouldn't just be accessed by Google, it would be publicly available to any upstart ad network that wanted to bid for Search ad placement.
The bigger question is whether this would affect in-store (vs online) house brands.

If the rule only affected online house brands, it would tilt the field in favor of Walmart, Costco, and Kroger, who could all continue selling their house brands in stores. For e.g. Kroger, where online sales are a tiny percentage, this would essentially represent a carve-out.

Looked at another way, this could be seen as a tax on people with mobility challenges. (Because no house brands on the delivery services => higher costs.)
Yes, this is a keylogger. Autocomplete with a remote backend is too.

The Overton window has moved so far in the last ten years.

A while back we (and by we I don't mean me, I mean hackers collectively) would consider a piece of software that opened a TCP socket unless it had a real reason to malware.

Now? It's fairly common for like, webpages to send back every keystroke you might accidentally make whilst a tab is focused.

The fact that this is frequent, possibly even 'normal' behaviour does not make it sane.
Yeah, that makes sense why it’s in the article. As much as people hate DRM, I can’t see a way for Netflix to be offered for the same price and content selection if the users were able to own the content indefinitely. It seems like it would just devolve into the iTunes Store where you purchase each episode/movie.

Am I misunderstanding what DRM accomplishes?
Partially revered course. Now it's just ~8%, but its still significant.
> So, to get to the point: why should I pay higher tax to protect the business interests of Grumman, and GE, and farmers, and Apple, etc?

You'll end up paying those taxes regardless. When companies are taxed directly then those taxes are baked into the prices of everything they sell, just like every other business expense. This functions like an inefficient and regressive sales tax except that, unlike normal sales taxes, buyers don't see it as a separate line-item on the bill.
The plaintiffs just have to prove harm. Based on the article, this looks very easy to do.
Sarcasm points for sure, but really I do wonder if the dominance is truly dominant, as customers are only loyal until competitors arise, no?
I haven't look into at all myself, but he also said:

>We do provide training code that should work out of the box for gpt2 117M/345M

https://twitter.com/TheRealRPuri/status/1161319745259393024
Requiring a divestiture is not the same as undoing a merger.
Right... consumers trust bankers now?
todo.org is also a powerful one :)
Yes, by default. But opening that interface exposes that previously company-internal leak of information to the government-as-regulator to step in and clamp down on. If they say both that Google must not run its own ads but must rely on a third-party for ad placement, and that Google isn't allowed to show its search data to third-parties, then that has a meaningful impact on how Google operates as a business.
Not true, you're able to advertise to specific groups of people by sending hashed email addresses in a "Customer List". I found this out when I discovered Rockstar Social Club targeted me for a GTA Online campaign.
When Apple dropped DRM from their music downloads it was a great day. Suddenly one could download music for a competitive price legally from the internet and use in all the ways. Putting it on my mp3 player or my media server and create a backup, which I can trust to be usable even a few years. If a new audio standard comes by I even can re-encode and keep it.

Meanwhile however we have Spotify and are back in the walled garden.

Movie industry unfortunately went directly from physical media (with stupid DRM restrictions - my favorite one is that on a "legal" DVD player I am forced to watch a short sequence on how bad pirates are, on my "illegal" DRM free player I can skip that part) to streaming. Making sure I don't "own" a thing and making sure my computer runs software limiting what I can do with my computer.
Trump seems rather tech-savvy, and he's apparently not interested in breaking up the tech companies, though he does bash them for perceived bias. What would a "younger and in touch with the world" politician do differently?
Not necessarily, in some ways the Chromium-based Favorites tools feel like a regression from current Edge's, even accounting for how buggy it [production Edge's favorites side panel] still sometimes feels.

Also, the synchronization engine is entirely different from both past Edge and Google's proprietary Chrome stuff, so all new places for all sorts of new bugs.

Switching to Chromium won't be a magic fix for Edge's issues.
Presumably it means they also couldn't both by Alphabet anymore. For the law to be meaningful in any way, it would have to be written such that they have to be separate companies that do not share a common ancestor.
Of course, you can only do what you're most comfortable with - which should depend on your understanding of as many pieces to the puzzle possible, that's how we understand risk/reward, and how we hopefully make calculated decisions.
It’s worth noting that this case turned a single-floor apartment into two floors of micro apartments with low ceilings, low enough that the inspector reportedly had to kneel. And there was also only one exit for all these micro apartments.

If that doesn’t scream fire tragedy waiting to happen, I don’t know what does.
There are a lot of things that make that hard.

The first is how many industries are against it -- Google's not the half of it. Google would still make a mint if all they could do was show ads for car insurance when people search for car insurance and so on. But meaningful privacy regulation would effectively prohibit the likes of Equifax, and then you would get huge pushback from the finance industry and realtors.

Then there's the fact that a lot of politically powerful government surveillance agencies want all your stuff to be in The Cloud instead of on your own device where they can't read it, so they'd fight it too.

And the biggest problem is that you need the rules to be good rules that are at the same time effective without destroying small entities and entrenching the incumbents, which is really hard and there is a high probability they'll screw it up (especially with the aforementioned constraints), but doing it wrong can easily be worse than doing nothing. Then you don't get privacy but you destroy the upstart alternatives that might have made it possible for the people who most need it, or could have presented a challenge to the incumbents given more time.
The average grocery store chain, even the largest (Kroger) doesn't have online dominance and potentially anticompetitive practices on the same scale that Amazon/Google/Facebook do.
I'm extremely hopeful for Starlink and similar services. <100ms ping rural internet would change the game in a lot of significant ways.
Oops, too late to edit, but it does read as if I'm already doing those things. No, that's the wish list I hope to start working on in about four years.

But to answer directly: yes; money is no longer the motivator, and one does not have to do those things to eat. Which, I suppose, a jobby-job once you have enough saved counts as "retirement". But as much as I like my work, there's a lot of other things I like, too, and don't do them as much as I'd like because I'm not yet "retired".
I really like this and agree with virtually all of it. To add, however, there's no absolute need to raise taxes or expenses depending on what Americans feel they prioritize. Countries can also have lower personal income taxes in addition to corporate taxes by reducing other expenses, for example by choosing a partially privatized universal health insurance system instead of single-payer health insurance, or a smaller military that might be slightly less up-to-date.
I've used Airbnb's while driving cross-country in order to get access to a dryer outlet to charge an EV.

We recently visited people in Lawton, OK. The nearest superchargers are in Oklahoma City, OK (79 mi North-East) and Ardmore, OK (104 mi East). We were heading South-West, and the next stop was in Childress TX (123 mi West), so either of these would have added 3-4 hours to our trip.

Staying at an Airbnb meant we were able to charge the car and stay comfortably within our limit.

Also, it was a family trip, so it was nice to be able to sleep the 5 of us (plus an extra who flew in) without cramming into a hotel.
I have a DRM'd artificial heart to sell you. I feel so free!
Who said that Costco doesn't?
That doesn't strike me as a very clear line. Let's change the scale a bit instead of nationally / internationally.

If there's only 1 Walmart store in a small town (no competitors near by), does that mean they can't sell their house brand there?

What about a Walmart in a town with a Target and 80% of the sales are at Walmart? Can Target sell their house brand if Walmart can't in this scenario?
Startup (and business) theory is really pretty simple:

1) Identify problem

2) Come up with, or look up for existing solutions

3) Develop, iterate

4) Identify and get some competitive edge

5) Keep pleasing clients

Of course, there's a ton of things underneath all this, like marketing, funding, or simply being lucky with timing.

The copy-cat method is probably the most legit, and battle-tested method. I.e, simply just copy some existing product or solution, with a known market.

The entrepreneurship scene preaches originality and novel idea to hopeful founders, but to me, it always ends up with a race for who can do something better than their competitor.

I've noticed that in many countries outside US, especially western Europe, some of the largest startups are those that play-by-play copy successful US startups, probably hoping to get acquired once the US startups start expanding to said countries.
Not the person you're replying to, but my family works too, so I can visit them and then we hang out on the evenings and weekends. Everyone is still working during the day.

Where I work, we have core hours (12-4 Eastern) that everyone is supposed to be online, but otherwise your schedule is up to you, so it allows considerable flexibility. In practice though, it's even more flexible. Part of remote work is that you're no longer glued to your desk. Your output is what matters, not where your butt is.
IBM are switching away from xlC in their compiler development to Clang so they can focus on the LLVM backend for POWER and leverage the Clang frontend to support the newer C/C++ standards (for both AIX and POWER Linux).
In the enterprises I've worked in, BYOD devices are still fully managed. Usually, you must enrol your device in enterprise MDM in order to connect to the corporate VPN.

Presumably, this type of enterprise is the type Microsoft is targeting with IE compatibility mode.
There is also Accord.NET, which is .NET-native and offers a lot of other machine-learning features beyond just image-manipulation: http://accord-framework.net/

I’ve used both off and on for the last 5 years and generally find Accord.NET to be more pleasant, though most of the attention online goes to OpenCV, so there tends to be more examples for it.
I don't remember phone number being required while creating an account, they only wanted to collect it when enabling 2FA. If I recall correctly they had a little info button that said something like "we need this to start but you can remove it later if you _really_ want to."
But is that due to ISA differences or just microarchitectural differences?
The thing is though that you've probably read so much startup advice that your sick of it and know a lot of it and dont find any value in it anymore. you've reached a tipping point where you done reading about this shit and just want to build stuff. but if you dont know anything about startups or business or whatever its still probably useful to read about it.
Sure, but we understand enough so that we can recreate photosynthesis in a lab. There are many drugs which do work, but we don't know exactly how they work.

The point is, it's likely not a necessary precondition to understand AGI in order to create it.
I thoroughly enjoyed the NPR podcast "How I Built This" episode [0] on Yvon, it was really interesting hearing his story!

[0] https://www.npr.org/2018/02/06/572558864/patagonia-yvon-chou...
I think Costco might actually not have a web platform as described, if there are no third-party merchants there. Presumably all the products on their site go through them, just like the products in their physical stores.
I am guessing/wondering if they really own the net, in the sense that they can squash any would-be competitors, in which case breaking them up is (in the US) an application of antitrust legislation?
You should watch the anime Parasyte
5G may help to at least some degree. Most people don't need Gigabit or anything like that. But it's nice to have a better alternative to satellite and (sometimes) hotspots which are your only options if you can't get broadband today.
Software running on my computer, not letting me things do I want to do is malware. Yes.
Continuous Delivery for Machine Learning
I'm young and nowhere close to retiring, but I already have friends who have bought into the whole retire early train. Except, it's kinda like the recent SNL skit Romano Tours^[1]. If you're sad now, you're gonna be sad then. Retiring isn't gonna fix their problems. They're not going to be suddenly happy. And even if everything goes right (no kids, no health problems, high income, low cost of living) and they retire "early", that's still going to be in their late 30's, early 40's. And then what? My friends claim they'll figure something out, but if they've lived 40 years without any sense of self actualization, I'm skeptical that they'd suddenly find themselves.

I'm not saying one should work a meaningless job instead of retiring, but I don't get waiting for decades to find one's purpose in life. Might as well wait for Godot. And if retiring early doesn't work out, one can end up like the main character in Ikiru: 30 years of perfect attendance and absolutely nothing to show for it.

But hey, maybe that's just my anxiety about starting out adult life.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbwlC2B-BIg
Right -- like eating photons seems bizarre too when you frame it that way... Yet we don't find it odd that plants derive energy this way without consuming physical chunks of stuff.
> and they leave behind valuable information for us

Leaving information so far :

1. https://svbtle.com

2. https://posthaven.com

3. https://www.blogger.com

...

Not sure, but self-hosting was ( is ) the only way for me to sleep safe.
Wouldn't exist =/= wouldn't be as wildly profitable
How did it exist before it, and successfully?
Capitalism is, in theory, supposed to result in the most efficient allocation of resources. I assume this is what you meant by "proper fit solution". What you are missing is that there is very little relation between the most efficient allocation of resources and the most desirable society.

Also, even if we wanted unregulated capitalism and natural selection of markets, we would need to first eliminate the existing monopolies, oligopolies, and externalities, since they all cause market failure.
That is one monetary school of thought that I believe will remain valid as long as other nation's currencies are measured against our own, if that standard slipped though that debt would suddenly be realized and repayment would be required at a respectable rate to continue doing international business. It's a major problem I have with MMT - it assumes American prosperity in perpetuity, but history has established that perpetuity isn't a thing and those chickens will come home to roost... If we're smart then the US economy can fade gracefully, like England, otherwise it'll likely get violent and revolutionary.
This extends to methodologies.

At this point am convinced that a competent team will complete the same project under formally waterfall, XP or Agile governance with only minor schedule differences.
Nice to read an article from somebody local, or nearly so, to me.

I remember the outage well, I worked at a major telecommunications company with reserve generators. I really didn't appreciate the depth of the issue until I drove home that night. People were telling other people, total strangers, that nukes were dropping all over the US. You can imagine the panic.

Word eventually spread and the northern mindset of looking after your neighbours took hold, as mentioned in the artice.

I went to use the BBQ to make some burgers. We ran out of propane naturally. My neighbour offered his BBQ which coincidentally, was out of propane. Then HIS neighbour offered his BBQ. He was out building a deck when the power went out. He fired up his generator and continued on. His skil-saw was the only sound to be heard. All the neighbours threw in food and drink and we got to know one another.

I will admit to being a little said after the power was restored, because, except for a nod or a wave, we went back to the business of minding our own.
How will rooftop solar help with a massive solar storm or EMP. Most inverters actually cannot provide 50/60hz AC on their own and just sync to an external source. Even beyond that issue they'd all be fried anyways in the same even that killed the regular electrical grid.
But MS clearly wants to be funded by advertising: obviously signalled by not charging for Windows 10 upgrades, and the "telemetry" and tendency towards an intrusive advertising model (e.g. "join Teams" popup on login in recent update).
Sea mammals manage just fine.
Good point, proofs that require brute force enumeration of all possibilities are not nice, but the physicists who use the results to describe some symmetries still think the results are beautiful.
In hindsight, maybe optimizing for engagement also optimized for polarization?
If you had limited bandwidth, but knew other agents existed, "have the other guy ask about Operation Overlord" would be a useful message to get out.
Make something people want + Do something you love = All you need to know. Enjoy.
Einstein Rings in Holography
Given that 'malware' is short for 'malicious software', one might make a semantic argument that DRM is actually anti-malware, as it prevents other software from operating maliciously. Copyright infringement is undoubtedly a malicious act under the law in most places.

Any kind of security, authentication, or encryption software ever written was done so to "limit what you can do", so I don't think that is enough to constitute maliciousness.

That being said, many DRM software implementations have been known to go beyond just protecting the rights of the content creators, and that's a different story.
Is that a distinction Warren has made? It doesn't appear to be a distinction made in the article.
Well, the argument is that competition gets bought up before it can rival them - ie Instagram, Whatsapp, Waze, etc.
It's still different. For those retailers (e.g. Best Buy is a good example) they're leasing floor space in what is essentially a public warehouse.

You still need to outbid existing inventory space, which is not the same as an open platform for anyone to sell through.
This is great, thanks! I was wondering where the guy who made the other documentary got the old footage.
paycomonline.com

Don't visit sites on work computers you don't want others to know about!
Plan, write a log of work, write down your todos, keep track of what your doing and keep yourself accountable.
What if we believe that such a breakup will be hugely beneficial to stockholders and employees in the big tech companies, just like the breakup of Standard Oil and Bell was to theirs?
I don't disagree with you but I think the argument there is that those three compete with each other so no one has absolute dominance over the market place. Oligopolies aren't much better for the public than monopolies but they seem to get a lot less scrutiny from regulators.

I am really not a fan of Walmart but I do shop at Costco and Target occasionally and I try to check both when making meaningful household purchases to see which one's cheaper. At some level, they do have to compete with each other on price and service.
This looks really good!

Another one I've used in the past is CoreUI[0], but I think Airframe looks a bit more "modern", or perhaps a little less "Bootstrappy" (that's a good thing).

[0] https://coreui.io
I would presume, you had ticks from a previous encounter as well.
In order to get Lyme, you typically need to have a tick embedded for > 24 hours (meaning a really low probability otherwise). And Bullseye rashes don't occur until a few days after the infection of the bacteria.