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Liquid helium shortages instead of GPU shortages, brilliant, can't wait
“ ...we still don't have "the way" to take notes on computer.”

What about paper? Haha. Non standard notebook sizes. Post it, tear out, sewn-bound, spiral, 3x5, 4x6, single sided, double sided, pencil, fountain pen, roller ball, blue ink, black ink, colored pens, highlighter...

Back in the day a prof. Of mine blew my mind with the question—why do we need specialized software at all? Why not create generic app-components? Pen, compass, paper/document first? Just like real life?

My Sony DPT-RP1 gets somewhat close to that idea.
Japan 962 years 8 months

Yeah! We’ll get there.
Suppose simple > complex wins sometimes. JSON was a serialization format. XML was a markup language being used for serialization... and created a lot of extra work and bugs for developers. Markup languages can be incredibly useful (evidence: the web, SVG), but often bring immense complexity to simple problems.
Also, everybody in australia would be leery of using it lest it win a war against them again.
When large investors sell they usually don't sell on the exchange, partially to avoid moving the market too much.
What is worrying is that the bodies that are supposed to protect citizens from such corrupt relationships do nothing.
>. I don’t want to downplay the deep instutionalised sexism and racism that is at play in Gebru’s firing — that is there for all to see.

This is a very badly written and uniformed article, and sentences like these essentially illustrate the thinking here (It's imploding because I don't like it).

Here is an alternative reading: Google is cleaning house of toxic activists who are not interested in serious ethics research but use it as a vehicle for their ultra-progressive political agendas.
That headline is very misleading.

The guy didn't just "rewrite" the game, he ported it to a completely different hardware!

The rewrite takes advantage of a separate CPU (the SA-1), so while the original was rendered entirely in software, his version is hardware accelerated. That hardly counts as a "rewrite" (which would imply that his code changes led to the speed-up), but an actual port to a different platform.

So it wasn't his code changes that are responsible for the performance increase, it's the use of additional dedicated hardware...
Spot's Rampage
Are you hiring? <_<
Fuel for world’s largest fusion reactor ITER is set for test run
If you're an expert in Python and a deep generalist I suspect 70 is too low, depending on where you are at.

I follow the easy to understand rule that my price for freelancing must be at least double what I make as a full time employee, and thus a full time employed position must be at worst half of what I make as a freelancer.

This also allows me to see approximately where my best position in the market is. For example right now I am getting offered full time wages above half of my freelance rate (which is a little over $100 an hour) which implies to me that for my profile it might be more worthwhile to take a couple years full time employed.

on edit: changed rates to full time wages
Oh, but bash is definitively part of the problem.

I'm pretty proficient in bash myself, and error handling, debugging, decoupling and refactoring in bash are all horrible. It's just not design for being good at a script with more than a couple of lines. The fact we do use it for such purpose does not make it good at it.

The fact it has no namespace, the lack of decent data structures and the very limited functions also all leads to making it a poor foundation to build a lib on. Hence deb packages don't have any kind of framework for basic things: you are on your own.
> If you have four motions on the agenda and an hour to cover them

Then the meeting goes for an hour and 20 minutes instead. Happens all the time.

Or the fourth motion is the first order of business at the next meeting. Or...
not similar, but relevant: https://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2014/03/05/3957316.htm
The US's nuclear arsenal clearly doesn't put countries off fucking with the US. The US spent $732bn on the military in 2019, which is approximately 38% of all the military spending in the world. That money went on US involvement in 5 ongoing wars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Uni...) and a lot of other smaller conflicts, and that's not to mention the number of attempted terrorist attacks, hacks, etc that happened as well.

Nuclear weapons were a deterrent against global conflict, but arguably the world has progressed to a point where global economic pressures mean no one would ever want a global war anyway. Nukes are a waste of money now. They're a relic of the past, and they're a bloody expensive one to maintain.
Perhaps it was the example you were thinking of, but Christopher Danielson really brings home the extreme ambiguity of terms using vehicles and children.

I keep coming back to that every time I'm trying to have one of these conversations with people, especially when the question is deeper than whether a salad is a vehicle(as if that were possible).

https://talkingmathwithkids.com/blog/vehicle-chat-invitation...

or discussed in audio form

https://aperiodical.com/2020/08/mathematical-objects-a-vehic...
Or how much time it would take to find them under the barrage of adds and non-relevant links.

Or how much of the world's knowledge is actually relevant to what you want to access at a given moment.
Another one: Yandex (disclosure: the company I work for) is using one of its datacenters to heat the entire town it is in.

Proof: https://helsinkismart.fi/case/waste-not-want-not-data-center...
Timing matters.

Whoever designed the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism was smart, but some of the things inside it only provided practical benefits 1800+ years later, so none of their children, grandchildren, great-great-great-grandchildren benefited from them.
Something that I don't recall seeing discussed anywhere: does anyone else think that news sites having social media sharing links at the head or foot of their articles kind of undermines their case?
We can prevent dementia; Substack podcasts
So now Facebook and google have near monopoly dominance in the Australian internet. Because they can negotiate with government while startups cannot.

We should get used to the idea of aristocracy and worker misery making a comeback in the 21st century.
I'm not counting the research I did prior the 5 days to actually understand deb packaging, only the 5 days trying to package something.
I think by writing, both on a keyboard and paper. Tendonitis was prevented by using the Dvorak layout (keyboard model more or less irrelevant) and a fountain pen. Fountain pens reduce or eliminate cramping by not requiring pressure. You just drag the nib across the page to make a mark. The ink stands out as blacker for a given pressure compared to anything else I've used except maybe a thick technical pen with India ink (which clogs easily). I prefer older pens with flexible nibs. Modern fountain pens are designed for people used to ballpoints, so the nibs are very stiff and it feels like writing with a nail. These newer fountain pens may actually require pressure to make a decent mark, which goes against the ergonomics for me. Price is irrelevant; my Parker 21 or Noodler's Ahab, both with flexible nibs, write nicer than my Mont Blanc which admittedly looks prettier. The Noodler's takes some noodling to get the way you want (pulling nib tines apart, messing with the feed) which can be a pain in the butt similar to setting up X configs... sometimes you just want the tool to work. The Parker just runs beautifully as long as it's clean and used with Quink. Anyways if you write a lot, consider these, along with the Blackwing pencils if you prefer graphite. Also props to the reMarkable 2 (with the fancier "erasable" stylus).
Looks pretty similar to rome json (https://rome.tools/#rome-json)
Go take a look at any graph showing road fatalities per million km from 1960 to the present day, and rethink your perspective regarding all that regulation ;-)
Gridcoin was launched on October 16, 2013 https://gridcoin.us/wiki/
sure, but I suppose it makes sense to the person making the downvote. And when it makes especially poor sense to me I start to think - maybe they see something I don't?

on edit: I do sometimes also get paranoid and think, man there is just someone who doesn't like me and automatically downvote when they run across my name!
Shannon built on Hartley, as much as Einstein built on Lorentz.

That's not to say these weren't great minds, but the concepts where in the air and the race to formalize them was on; most of the "second places" are today forgotten or their contribution diminished from the modern "winner takes all" mentality, but none of them existed in a vacuum.

The history of science is fraught with independent discoveries, from calculus to the the telephone, up and including mass energy relation and the basis that later became quantum mechanics.
Miniscule % of people have heat-pumps. In UK most people use either a gas boiler or a dumb electric heater. And you can't even install heatpump in an an apartment building without re-constructing half of it.
my main problem with economics is it makes a philosophical error in that it assumes people and economic agents are inert objects to be studied as you would chemicals or atoms, without the capacity to react and respond to economic "laws" thereby changing them. Reflexivity is a thing.
Indeed, that is why I'm saying "it may", but people are crazy if they expect that basic research will make billions of profits a year after.

It normally takes some 10 to 20 years for basic research to produce profits.

mRNA vaccines are technology from 1990 and are first time used commercially on mass scale on humans 30 years later.
A heat pump is just a backwards air conditioner. Not whatever you are thinking it is.
Sure, but all of those variations can be parsed unambigously as long as it's communicated to be an ISO-8601 datetime.
The profound ROI on having fun
I wonder if that's filesystem/OS dependent.
Redress what imbalance? News publications are entitled to a certain portion of add spend? That's news to me.
Tweaking Corn Kernels with Crispr
Sooo how do they get it back on the rails? Carry it?
But the manufacturer is turning a profit and the customer is satisfied. Why fix what ain't broke?

Capitalism is so wonky.
I tried out Gridcoin a few years back in it's $0.05 days, its at ~$0.01 now - at the time you had to "buy in" about $100 USD to have enough collateral to work solo (stake to get credit rewards), otherwise you had to join a mining pool to just get paid your meager credits. A basic $5 cloud server cannot generate enough GRC credit to pay for itself at 5 cents.
Are you kidding me? Everything they do pretty much. Google search results, Gmail Compose, Google Translate, etc etc.
This is gonna mesh well with my background paranoia every time I type my password into a computer that I'm actually in a simulation with some unknown entity trying to exfiltrate my credentials. :P
More importantly it has no connection to the bottom line, which is why Google management doesn't seem particularly concerned with disquiet in that research group, as long as it doesn't spread to the rest of the company.
Bitfinex and Tether required to end all trading activity with New Yorkers
Hardly “unassisted” then.
I too am one of those users. I migrated to hackernews, but as you said, reddit offers much more in terms of communities around topics. These communities are absolute goldmines and, to me, it appears that they are the remnants of late 90s to late 2000s internet. I really liked the warez, infosec and hacker* communities of those times, unfortunately, I was too young and to be honest, I haven't gotten around to looking for such communities again.
Wth is this "low-quality heating from datacenters"?
Same here. 200w 24/7 keeps the temp cozy
I believe the moment the author says that he's using amd gpus.
Media wanted the cake and eat it too while breaking internet. Media want not only free promotion on FB but to also get paid for it. Its a money grab.
Do they? This type of comment is posted everywhere as if it is some kind of revelation. I think maybe young children think that, but I'd imagine the average adult has grasped the idea that Musk is rich because he owns companies. And they more often do have it liquid, publicly traded stocks are a liquid asset. They can also convert it into cash far more easily than you seem to imply, Bezos sells billions in Amazon stock every year, Gates owns ~2% of Microsoft now down from 25% in the 90s, etc. Sure if Bezos decided tomorrow to flood the market the price would plummet, but he could easily put together a plan for selling his share over the next few years, especially now he is no longer CEO.
>banning larger cars could also produce good safety norms.

It's a classic tragedy of the commons situation. Individual safety means endangering others. You can't get rid of all the transporters and trucks from businesses, vans for families, etc., so people will continue to want that individual safety, meaning bigger cars.
How to Get Started with Fuzix on Raspberry Pi Pico
Such transactions happen routinely. It is not at all an issue, the largest were 180-250 billion deals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_mergers_and_ac...
Yeah, it's a bit disappointing. I know they're trying to come up with formulae to do this stuff, but color is a deeply subjective experience. You can have all the javascript machinery in the world, and it won't ever match quality with what visually trained folks can come up with using the artist Josef Alber's "Interaction of Color" theory.
I wouldn't describe any of those conflicts as someone fucking with the U.S., they're all the U.S. fucking with someone.
Where I live 50km/h is the speed limit in urban areas. In city centers it id often 40 or 30.

The effects of air pollution has just begun to dawn I reckon - it is indeed a welcome solution.

Also the frickin' grid is there! Transporting oil and refined gasoline around the world seems like a crazy proposition in comparison.
> remains controversial for Christian theologians

For what it's worth, your comment is entirely consistent with and reminiscent of my experience of GCSE 'Theology & Ethics' (a compulsory subject, not something I know that much about or took out of interest) in the UK.

Not that my teacher was some eminent theologian, though certainly great and knew his stuff, just some anecdata, and what I assume was - in broad strokes - on the national curriculum at least at the time (er, gosh, a decade or more ago).
Bitfinex, Tether Settle with New York's Attorney General for $18.5M
Good parenting is adopting rather than creating new life. Birthing a child is the single worst thing a couple can do to the environment.
"Modern A/C systems can pump heat at 500%+ efficiency even with very cold outside temperatures, no pre-heating needed."

Name a source please.
That's an ego illusion. It hurts to admit that we're not replaceable, but we are. The job might not get done as well, or done in a different way than we'd do it, but it'll still get done.
https://www.fxstreet.com/cryptocurrencies/news/if-tether-fal...
No one, at any cost, could've had such a thing even 30 years ago.

30 years ago was 1991. That was one year before the IBM Simon was announced - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone#Forerunner People definitely imagined smartphones back then. When it went on sale a couple of years later it cost a little over $1000, or less with a cellular phone contract.

You couldn't get the internet on it though. Web access on mobile devices didn't arrive until about 1999 with things like iMode.
> ..averaging about 30 miles, or 50km per day

Wow, this is impressive; more than a marathon a day on terrain like that for 2.5 years.
There are bridges to and from Ethereum right now. I use them every day because I need a fast sidechain for my application.

Choosing ETH2 is predicated on the assumption that ETH1 will be bridged more cheaply and easily than existing bridges can provide and that the opportunity cost of waiting is worth it.

I had to make that decision personally, decided I can't wait for ETH2, so we're using a bridge that's available today and building an ecosystem elsewhere.

Several other product leads that I know are making the same decisions, they can't just put their lives on hold and trust that ETH2 will solve problems for which there's no public timeline or even a public solution.
The problem is having 8 billion children to begin with. I don’t think that problem is solvable.
It's not that simplistic, it's not a conspiracy it's a self-selecting self-replicating system.

How do economics professors get hired? By impressing other economics professors. And by having the power to win funding for the department. Who are the people that tend to fit those criteria? Mostly, those who already agree with the existing establishment, and those who already have views amenable to the well-resourced bodies that distribute funding.
Did they sell? If not, they bought, say, 50k bitcoin, and they now have 50k bitcoin.

But I agree this whole thing is ludicrous, that they stand to make more than an entire year of profit in a single speculation.
the first Bogan to ever walk around all Australia just so he could shout "get f******ed" to as many inhabitants as possible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogan
Bitfinex isn't an American company. This is ridiculous
I’m surprised by the statement that ‘cat’ is slow because it’s not multithreaded.

Isn’t ‘cat’ io-bound?
Ever been to a JS shop? At least when someone hacks C# together, the math works, libraries don't dissapear from under you, and every build message does not contain "such and such developer is looking for a good job"

> "They restarted IIS instances and Windows servers regularly. Now they restart their Docker container instances."

Sound like an improvement to me :)

And okay suppose we accept they are clueless, whats with accusations of arrogance?
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Nothing symptomatic about firing toxic employees. The only thing imploding is AI etichs research. There are good people doing quality research that will now have much harder time finding a job in industry because of the bad rep these Google employees "contributed" to the field.
Maybe you subconsciously want Google's AI research to collapse? ;)
> I didn't believe (understand) that there is often nothing between 2 points on the map.

I drove around Namibia once. Just the same. One set of directions was little more than "drive 120km North of [small town whose name I can't remember] and you'll see a signpost to our Lodge on your left". There was literally nothing else between the two points.

One day a car overtook us (in the middle of nowhere) and then stopped and waved us down. They were lost and wanted directions. They were headed in the right direction (east to west) but the road they should have been on was a parallel one about 50km to the north. They'd turned too early.

It turned out that there is a tourist loop that kinda tracks the perimeter of the country. On one particularly busy day we counted more than 30 vehicles. In the whole day. If you drove clockwise around the loop, most days at around midday you'd encounter the traffic coming anticlockwise. They'd left their accommodation in the morning and were driving to their next place.
Bendr for BCI: Learning from Unlabelled EEG Data
TIL about Jon Muir. Thank you.

Until I looked it up, I thought you meant John Muir, a famous American naturalist who founded the Sierra Club. It's crazy that there are two famous explorers with such similar names.
Traditional cooking techniques [1] make use of the browned bits anyway, you don't get this as much with non stick cookware. I don't find stainless steel pans too hard to clean.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deglazing_(cooking)
I think this guide falls into the trap described in this article:

https://refactoringui.com/previews/building-your-color-palet...

where the mathematical model gives us colors that we should believe are harmonious, but which actually lead to clashing primaries, and a chaotic-looking interface.

The RefactoringUI book (from which the preview above is an extract) gives a much more useful model to work with, when creating a palette that helps the end-user by establishing a clear and harmonious hierarchy of visual information.
What’s ridiculous?

That the company’s home jurisdiction allowed them to defraud the public?
The full title ends with "Illegal Activities in New York", not sure why it was removed.
Thanks for this tutorial, it covers a lot.
Note the headline should add “in New York” or the like.
Practical typewriting: By the all-finger method (1894)
> No business is entitled to a comfortable monopoly. The idea that Google should pay a tribute to traditional media where the amount is entirely at the discretion of media giants because the internet can do everything the old press did better just serves to maintain entrenched old interests.

That's a completely false dichotomy. It's not "the internet" that's benefitting from ad spent, but only Fb and Google, while everyone else goes bankrupt. And if there's a "comfortable monopoly" and "media giant", then it's Google and Fb, not the other way around. The AU case is special, though, because of the media concentration in a single hand.
It wouldn’t surprise me if we discover that the exogenous disrupters are causing the high obesity rate.
We are currently researching the role of various nutrients in vulnerability to Covid. (Vitamin D and zinc seem to be the most salient nutrients for trying to reduce vulnerability, which is not the same thing as "curing" it.)

We have barely scratched the surface on the topic of nutrition and disease.
> I just dont get it. In my opinion the news creators should be grateful to facebook (or google etc.), bringing them interested visitors, potential customers. Shouldn't facebook rather be paid for that instead of convicted?

Can't agree more, this law by the Australian government was the most asinine and ill considered thing since the GDPR which got us bloody cookie popups all over. Governments are entirely useless with regulating the internet.
How efficiently do GPUs heat? I'm assuming most of the input energy is lost to heat?
Wow. That's like a real-life "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel"[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Mulligan_and_His_Steam_Sh...
Tether and Bitfinex Reach Settlement with New York Attorney General’s Office
It looks like they settled for $18.5 million and Bitfinex has to stop activity in NY.
That does not work in the op’s use case because the op wants to know the local time of the medication administration.

The endpoint of the viewer may not be in the same local time.

If you go this route you may not care about location beyond this one data point, but have to store another location field each time.
Interview with Founder of jobdescription.ai on building with OpenAI GPT-3 API
It’s always a trade off of many dimensions. Usually, if you are looking at resistance (pulling weight, navigating water, ...) more than speed, a bigger and slower engine provides the torque you want at low engineering costs, more resilience, less cooling constraints ...

For some cultural reasons, American muscle cars featured big relatively slow but torquey engines compared to their Italian counterparts.
PfSense 2.5.0 bugs and fixes after upgrade
Well, training a neural network is not significantly different from how you train a brain. You don’t need to know the inputs as long as it produces the right outputs.
A) 100% honest miners, 1 hash per century.
B) 55% honest miners, 1 googol hashes per second.

What is more secure in your view?

hashrate is absolutely necessary for high security.
Based on the map, it looks like he walked along Highway 1, which also avoids the Kimberleys and the Top End.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_1_(Australia)
I guess it'd be more accurate to say "fucking with U.S interests" but that's mostly semantics.
Because it's too long for HN (I instead replaced "Attorney General" by "NYAG", not ideal but an ok compromise IMHO)