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> The wider point being that Apple will probably never let you run Linux on their hardware, and your server will probably not be running MacOS either.

I agree the idea of running Apple Silicon in the cloud seems far-fetched, but at the same time, if Apple actually does achieve the best price/performance processors in the world, it almost seems like a failure of the market if they do not also serve the cloud market.
but it can basically also mean anything else!
I actually agree. The point is not that it would be easy, or desirable to have an engineered ecosystem without wolves. It wouldn't; the article makes the against it being easy, and I'm opinionating the point about it being desirable. :P

The point of my comment (and of Curtis' series) is that there is no magical "natural balance" that we could strive to return to. It just doesn't exist, and never has. However, and without wanting to make this into a flamewar: the concept of a natural order of things is very convenient for people in power, or even just people in comfortable, moderate luxury, to justify their privilege over others' misery.

The idea that there is a "sweet spot" for ecosystems that they return to was unfortunately firmly established in the mind of many while it was "scientific consensus" (scare quotes to indicate what a fraught concept that is).

While the idea was being popularized, the idea of natural balance was already being scientifically dismantled, but by then the "damage" was done, and now we get to still discuss this...
This was developed internally by the Orchestration organization - that builds Step Functions and maintains AWS Simple Workflow [1], or have you forgotten the original AWS workflow system :)

I don't think of Glue as a generic workflow system the way the others are - it's definitely much more optimized for ETL use cases.

With time, I'm sure there'll be more detailed guidance on Step Functions vs Apache Airflow, but the simple guidance might be that Step Functions is a fully AWS-native (and serverless) orchestration engine. Whereas, of course Apache Airflow is an open source project with a diverse ecosystem of other plugins.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/swf/
I believe it's the decimal answer to the hex question Shakespeare asked: "2B or not 2B?"
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Even worse, armies of GPT-3s probably wage massive flamewars against each other all over the internet in an attempt to sway public opinion.

It was always inevitable though.
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I spent some time reading GPT-3 reddit replies [1] and I'm impressed with the quality of writing - but the actual content is terrible IMO - it's like reading the most annoying people on forums - grasping at semantics etc. while they have nothing valuable or insightful to say. It just creates noise and writes for the sake of writing something.

It can say things, it just doesn't have anything valuable to say.

So asking GPT-3 random metaphysical questions gets you semi credible responses because those kinds of questions reduce to semantics and bullshit anyway.

I could see this as a layer that bridges some AI reasoning model and human language.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/user/thegentlemetre
You do get stack-allocated value types in languages like Go or C#, though, so these shouldn't be subject to the same limitations that Java is.
Exactly this, I was fine with the Mac Pro until 2012, it was a little more expensive than PCs but not much outrageously so (maybe 30% more, that's a tax I was fine paying given the OS and that it was quite a well built machine).

The new Mac Pro is 3-4x the price of a machine built around AMD having equivalent performances. I'm building a Threadripper for exactly this reason. Most of the issue is Intel vs AMD and the fact that AMD's Threadrippers are an amazing deal when it comes to performance per dollar and that Apple has an aversion to offering decent GPUs
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It's clearly written in jest.
I mean, it's an amalgam of text written by humans - it's not even trying to make a plane that flies, it's trying to make a plane that looks like all the planes designed by humans - and largely succeeding. I'm sorry that's not a task you consider interesting, but the fact that a machine learning model trained in an unsupervised fashion can succeed that much at anything non-trivial is mind-boggling to me, and makes me hopeful that other tasks will also be within reach relatively soon.
Not the specific thing mentioned in the article. There is other hardware that optimizes Objective-C specifically, but it’s a branch hint.
quite many startup exist to capture vc capital, not market share
Except I think there’s convincing argument to make that engagement will go down over time, if the algorithm makes no attempt to prioritize or suggest novel content.

The rare occasions I discover a new channel, it’s almost always from some source other than the algorithm: a referral from a friend, this site, another YouTuber, etc. My viewership of the same repetitive roster of videos absolutely tails off until I find something new from elsewhere.

For example, in months of being subscribed to my mechanics [0] (who does incredibly engrossing and relaxing restorations of mechanical stuff), not once was I suggested a video from Baumgartner Restoration [1], an art conservator who produces videos with a similar attention to detail and high production value.

Thematically this should be an easy recommendation for YouTube to make, but evidently the content is just different enough that it scores as a false-negative. After finding the latter channel independently, my viewing time absolutely rose for a while.

In theory, YouTube ought to be able to detect and learn from this signal of non-algorithmic discovery of new content. Yet, here we are.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/c/mymechanics

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/c/BaumgartnerRestoration
While I do have WebRTC blocking on this computer, I tried sharing from other devices and networks too, chrome and firefox and mobile versions. According to [1]&[2] WebRTC UDP and TCP are enabled, relay/reflexive/host connectivity.

[1] https://www.expressvpn.com/webrtc-leak-test
[2] https://test.webrtc.org/
yes I remember, I use Windows PC and don't have such issues
"Thought" would indicate it knows what the words mean - I highly doubt it, even with the massive size of the network. It just knows which word is coming next, given the previous one.
That's my take as well; I have a fairly modern Macbook, it's just fine, it's just that the software I run on it is far from ideal.

Intellij has a ton of features but it's pretty heavyweight because of it; I'd like a properly built native IDE with user experience speed at the forefront. That's what I loved about Sublime Text. But I also like an IDE for all the help it gives me, things that the alternative editors don't do yet.

I've used VS Code for a while as well, it's faster than Atom at least but it's still web technology which feels like a TON of overhead that no amount of hardware can compensate for.

I've heard of Nova, but apparently I installed it and forgot to actually work with the trial so I have no clue how well it works. I also doubt it works for my particular needs, which intellij doesn't have a problem with (old codebase with >10K LOC files of php 5.2 code and tons of bad JS, new codebase with Go and Typescript / React).
Tiny, high-capacity “atomristor” stores data in single-atom switches
GPT-3 is still in limited beta, and you have to apply for API access. Fortunately for those who can't get over those hurdles, AI Dungeon's custom mode is very free-form. So people have been using it as a roundabout way of toying with GPT-3.
I'm not giving up an email address to see that.
Currently, EU subsidizes farms based on land area. Which is supposed to change, but the lobby is strong.
I've read Tom Roth's article and have to say it's very well written and insightful. Thanks for sharing!
I think you nailed it. I played around with AI Dungeon as well and couldn't shake the feeling that GPT-3 is just a text completion engine filled with smart-sounding, but empty stuff written by a teen on Reddit.

To put it another way: If you read anything from/about GPT-3, imagine who and in which sub would've posted something like this.
The fast atomics are relatively new.
> Kids today arent going to know their eta from their gamma. I find many undergrads can't remember the Greek alphabet.

Not sure what is the problem here. Even without knowing Greek nor the Greek alphabet, its letters are sufficiently diverse and can be easily told apart.

I can understand emojis can make math more enciting for young children, but if high school+ people cannot get past foreign-looking Greek letters I doubt they would find the motivation to progress much further in understanding the concepts involved.
I was not saying in any way that they didn't implement optimizations for x86 over the time that they used them. Of course they did.

What I meant was that Apple themselves talked about significant optimization for Apple Silicon in Big Sur. The question is if any of these optimizations could have also been applied to x86 but aren't because x86 is the outgoing platform.

I'm skeptical of the assertion (without supporting documentation) that there is some hardware design choice in Apple Silicon that makes it _drastically_ more memory (quantity) efficient than x86 when using presumably the same kernel, same toolchain frameworks (LLVM), etc.
uh, oops. yes indeed.
The way I read it was:

When you are programming against an API, you are using the interface.
When you use an interface, you are a user. You are even the expected User from the API designers perspective. You are that API designers customer.
In your job as the User of that API, you also have different customers you serve. But that doesn't mean you are no longer a User of the API.
Because you are the user in this case, using an API, then that must mean your going to have a User Experience with that User Interface that just happens to be in a API.
Because the latin and greek alphabets are widely known and understood, at least an order of magnitude more than Cyrillic and at least seven orders of magnitude more than Phoenician.

This is like asking why I'm writing in English even though it's not my native language, I do that because almost every educated person understands English, while almost nobody would understand if I wrote in Italian.

Pictograms would be difficult to standardize and hard to reproduce, unless you commit to a small set of them, which would just become an alphabet in disguise.
I think they have been clear about boot camp not being supported, at least at present time. But they have also said that it is possible to run Windows, but that it will be up to Microsoft.
Depends how your define thinking. The only systems we now for sure have consciousness (prerequisite for thinking) are biological neural systems, and to stipulate that ability to manipulate text is sufficient for thinking is wrong. Cats cannot and dogs manipulate text, but I am quite certain they can think; and GPT is the opposite.
Retains and releases often happen across function call boundaries.
Linus has openly said he wants Linux running on one: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/20/11/24/2225209/linus-t...
You didn't look closely enough. Because "the market" has different sectors and some sectors are pumped up into the stratosphere and others are still down. They average down to "slightly above ATH" but the pump is real.
Frankly, I'm more disappointed with the writing prompt:

>The question he found matched the answer "42" and neatly explained the following questions:

The ultimate question of life, the Universe, and Everything—to which the answer is indeed 42—does not "neatly explain" any question. What it does do, however, is explain how the answer 42 neatly explains the answers to those.

Just like in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, you can't blame the AI for failing to give the answer you were looking for. It was just asked the wrong question.
Were there ever mass relocations of people done with the specific goal of preserving and re-wilding nature?

I actually found the idea really interesting. Though one of my parents is living a quiet life on a small piece of land and I entertained that idea myself, I personally find the sacrifice worth it. However, some difficulties would have to be addressed first:

1. Lack of trust in each other, authorities and institutions—in some cases, deserved (rogue actors). Who has to leave first, who gets a better view from their new home in a futuristic skyscraper, entry permit fairness and enforcement (there will be long perimeters to protect, albeit it could be a good source of jobs), etc.

2. Ensuring healthy human habitat in dense urban environments (pollution, clean energy, as well as psychology).

Many of those hurdles are societal/organizational/psychological, and are not liable to be solved by accelerated technical progress alone. Frustratingly, since the best time to do this is probably ASAP.
This is an interesting article. Our wolf population (Czechia) has been expanding for years now, so the problems are very well known.

If the authorities want to keep both sheepgrazing and wolves in existence, they need to reimburse torn-down sheep quickly. Sheep are really prone to massive slaughter and if the governmental response is to investigate the event for 10 months trying to find a reason not to pay, the shepherds will find a way to get rid of the wolves, especially in countries with liberal gun laws.

Sheepdogs are a good solution for sheep, but they are dangerous to people. More so than wolves themselves, who tend to hide away from humans. In my country, hiking is somewhat of a national sport, the landscape is criss-crossed with marked trails. That brings hikers close to flocks of sheep and sheepdogs have a strong protective instinct and will stand their ground.

I like big predators, but finding a new equilibrium will take decades, especially in densely populated countries. It can be done, but the more people (and sheep) around, the higher the costs. Europe can definitely afford them now, though.
Apple uses its own libmalloc: https://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/libmalloc/
Yes and no. 15k hardware is for people who are using it professionally. By "professionally" I mean that they can throw such purchase into their cost and just pay less tax. From my perspective it does not matter if I pay ~15k to tax office or to Apple.

In Europe the incentives to buy expensive goods as a company (like cars, fancy office furniture, etc.) is even bigger because of VAT tax (much bigger than US sales tax).
oh lots... www.lfgss.com forum.rapha.cc forum.islington.cc

I used to run phpBB, then vBulletin, then Vanilla, before finally working with others to write our own. I always ended up running a few forums from the hosting/technical perspective, and then ending up admin/moderator on them... I wanted a way to host many forums multi-tenant in a dirt cheap way, with simpler tooling, a better UX, and with things like events built-in (not in a separate and bad calendar).

As I knew cycling the thing I did was reach out to cycle clubs and groups and just say "I have this thing, if you want to use it you can". I stopped promoting it when I got to 10 forums, but still get a new one apply every month or so. They take a long time to grow, but nearly all of them do grow because they're led by people who really care, and I give basic advice on how to make communities work.
Adams himself has denied this, stating that he does not make jokes in base 13[1].

1. https://h2g2.com/entry/A4288584
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I think you use racism for advertising, Blackblaze.

> Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee

I don't know, but that actually sounds toxic to me.
The story of wolves in Yellowstone gets a very prominent mention in the article and seems to be cited as an inspiration for the movement to reintroduce wolves to Scotland. They don't directly state this, but right after talking about the huge changes observed in Yellowstone there's a section on how Scotland has issues with management of the deer population and suggests that wolves could help.
We had a "previous model cleansing" ceremony once.

When we were about to launch a new version of our product (this is a physical piece of equipment), we took one of each model to an open car park lot, gave each of us a hammer. Each of us took our turn to smash it the bits with our hammer.

Had a quiet drink afterwards with the team.
Some of us like our big loaded desks! No one really complained in this thread, just saying some of us will utilize a lot more memory than others.
> My Mac? Almost nothing I run is from the App Store.

For now.
Just to add a counter point of view, I've been a Scaleway customer for about two years now. No problems with my VPS or customer service what so ever.
Did you see Alphazero vs stockfish chess matches? I looked into 7 of them, and of those 7, 3 of them could have been played by a human (2 victories one draw). It was impressive.
>You seem to be insinuating that, used to, people were "more literate" and are becoming more ignorant.

No, I'm saying the goalposts moved - a lot. The same way widespread reading and writing moved the goalposts back in the day.

>How does not understanding how computers work limit people?

It puts them in the class that considers computers to be magic, like not knowing how to read and write put people in a class that considered industrial machinery and accounting to be magic.

In a world where computers do all the high paid jobs..... thats as low a class as being generally illiterate.

To put it really simply
"computer illiterate"
Is now a thing.

Actual written definition being: not able to use computers well, or not understanding basic things about computers

Didn't used to be.
Wonder when it was added
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/computer...

edit:March 2008
https://public.oed.com/updates/new-words-list-march-2008/
Not sure how serious you are with the radioactive waste thing but I'll do the HN thing and bite (nerdsnipe!), because that's not going to work. You can't launch things into the sun, you need to decelerate objects. The earth travels at 30 km / s (70K MPH) around the sun, so you need to decelerate about that much the other way. And orbiting radioactive waste is just asking for trouble.

The total amount of radioactive waste on the earth is about the size of a swimming pool (or was that the total amount of gold? I forgot, either way in terms of quantity it's not that much), burying it deep and forgetting about it for the next 100.000 years is the way to go I think.
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He explains the target use cases in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25203662
I think that might be Tex (or LaTex). But maybe OP referenced all the Word papers out there?
Yet only capable of carrying up to 16,500 head of cattle during a good season
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Not a scientist, but in theory flywheels or any kind of mechanical energy storage have less energy loss than chemical energy storage like batteries. Then there's wear and tear, switching, etc.
There are some real gems there, though:

"For example, in order for me to be 'born', my parents had to deprive themselves of their greatest happiness by having sex and conceiving me. They could have done something constructive with their time like, I don't know, doing philosophy or playing chess or studying physics."
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AppleCare for the Macs is definitely worth it. They even replaced the display on my MBP after 5 years when I called (that seems to be the key is to call someone at Apple directly). This was a part they should've recalled, but anyway I wouldn't have gotten a new display without AppleCare.
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I found a site to buy trail camera, who knows this sales site?
https://www.spy-security.com/en/18-trail-camera
"Fair thee well."

This sentence made me doubt the whole thing. That's not a mistake GPT-3 would make -- but a human would.

How can one know if GPT-3 really wrote something? Is there a starting seed or something that would allow the same response to follow the initial prompt? Or are we in positronic computing territory, beyond deterministic computing outcomes?
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This. The "other side"'s bad faith arguments are often times so outrageous and patently wrong that even "your side" participates in spreading them and amplifying them by pointing fingers at them. It's like one side has the moral obligation to "keep watch" on the other side and keep finding arguments to remind people that the other side is dangerous and cannot be left unchecked in spreading these lies.
I appreciate the Western convention, but a significant fraction of the world uses pictogram-like written languages (e.g. Chinese). Using pictograms to represent words or concepts isn't that far-fetched.
If you had to tediously write it over and over in proofs, why can't just you give it a name or an abstraction?

↑ As you would do in programming.
I think people confuse metaprogramming with "magic
Ah yeah I totally agree with that. Our arguments are orthogonal to the point. I'm simply saying the ideal number of wolves is almost certainly more than zero. You seem to be arguing that there's no ideal number of wolves, which is reasonable. The ideal number could easily change over time as well. Before the industrial revolution wolves posed a larger threat than they do today, for example.

To further internalize your point, rather than talking about "ideal" wolves, which as you established is not a thing, I will think of it as the ideal change in wolves. That number could be positive or negative as a function of time and location.
What word is more offensive? master or consultant.

You don't have to do the survey because you know the answer.
Until GPT shows evidence of qualia, this is useless anthropomorphism applied to an expensive bucket of linear algebra.
they could automate putinbots/web brigades, sure there must be a big market for automating politically motivated spammers. Or bots that write product reviews that seem to make sense, you could find applications wherever someone would like to create the illusion of public discourse (everything is weaponizable).
Each of these 'applications' would have to tweak the modell, somehow.
For me, the draw of FreeBSD has always been that's it's one operating system. Linux, while small, is also fragmented. There is no "this is how to do X on Linux", as distributions are all different. So while there are strengths to having lots of distros, but there are also major downsides.
This is the idea of the "language acquisition device" pioneered by Chomsky in the 60s.

Research from the 60s up to the current day has pretty conclusively shown that language acquisition only occurs through comprehensible input (this is known as the "Input Hypothesis" popularised by Stephen Krashen) and that deliberate learning of grammar and vocabulary has very little to no impact on your language skills. Basically, our brains all learn language in the same manner no matter what language and no matter what age. Children don't learn their native language through reading books on grammar, they acquire it through listening and reading stories which they can comprehend. Adults are exactly the same.

(The theories of the existence of a physical module in the brain or innate universal grammar are not widely accepted science today, but it is inarguable that the above second-order effects have been observed regardless of the mechanism of action.)
how does that compute?
And conversely, many “family
Farms” are just subsidy hoovering hobby farms relying on land appreciation to build wealth.