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> This is the NLP trade off of the 21st century. The code is easier to write but the model is completely opaque, and you need to really burn a lot of electricity to make it work.

This is basically a meme now. We actually have a pretty good understanding of how the models work. In fact that understanding is how you can do things like build chatbots that don't spew hate.

Also the electrical cost of ML training large language models is indeed high (e.g GPT-3 has 175B params and is estimated at 190,000 kWh to train on GPUs). But the folks who pay the cost (Basically OpenAI, Google, MSFT, Facebook, Amazon) are incentivized to make that go down (TPUs are way more efficient than GPUs), and they are incentivized to do it infrequently because it costs $$$.

FWIW Google's datacenters are also technically carbon neutral. I know that's not great because carbon credits don't have the impact that folks think they have, but there is definitely a difference in ecological impact from datacenter electricity and other kinds of energy usage (e.g cars all burning fossil fuels).

Okay also let's compare to bitcoin, which is the real ecological disaster if we want to talk about inefficient software: ~387,096,774 kWh PER DAY. _and_ incentivizing things like cheap coal, and miners are definitely not using their crypto wealth to purchase carbon offset credits :(
How many skeptis for 1 pizza?
> even if we magically had a green revolution and became the worlds first zero-emission nation, it’s unlikely that this would be enough to avert climate change.

It's actually quite likely that it would go a long way towards averting climate change. Sure, the US contributes only about 6 GT of greenhouse gases of the 50 GT emitted by the whole world annually, so it first seems that zeroing out this would still result in 44 GT worth of emissions left.

But going from 6 GT to zero cannot be done without huge innovation. Technological innovation, innovation in policy, oversight, enforcement. These pieces of innovation can (and will) be shared with the rest of the world. When the price of solar panels went down, it went down globally. If the US Navy implements a way to scrub CO2 out of seawater and make fuel out of it [1], others can use the method too. Even if the US won't share the technology outright, just knowing it can be done will let others know the idea is worth investing in.

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200715123120.h...
There's an even bigger picture than possibly monetizing ecommerce revenue (through... ads?). The biggest impact is that they get to use all the content generated on the Internet to create these search "results" that synthesize information from multiple sources without ever having to share traffic or ad revenue with those content sources. Clever.
>Definitely correct, the issue is when you're trying to install a package to get something done, and suddenly your faced with the proposition of either upgrading your whole system while trying to get work done or attempting to upgrade just the required libraries. The latter often carries less risk, but occasionally is very problematic.

I may be wrong, as my default is to -Syu any package I install, but doesn't -S install the version of the package compatible with the last time you updated your repos? It's -Sy that can cause problems.
This might have been a temporary antispam measure. They were having some issues.
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Yes, this is what he's really missing. I think he has a lot of good points (but not all--sorry, but while you can get the basics of a new language quickly the main time cost is learning the library) but he utterly overlooks all the trash.

The companies doing the hiring see a lot of trash applying and take all sorts of steps to filter it out. The trash keeps applying everywhere, the companies try even harder to filter it. The companies see the filters as saving them time on interviewing trash, they don't see the good ones being filtered out.

I'd like to see some sort of meaningful certification of developer skills, but it would be awfully hard to do without being subject to being gamed.
The reason why kubernetes et al. are so popular is that the orchestration tools like ansible, puppet, salt, chef... they all failed to deliver ultimately great software. Plagued by mediocre quality external modules and a constant churn of semi-backwards incompatible changes which required frequent maintenance, they have just been hard to use.

You ended up with lots of magic an internal domain knowledge about how to do things, and often had to get clever to get the result you wanted. They were often somewhere both not opinionated and too opinionated, and generally suffered from being "DSL"s domain-specific languages which were really just syntatic magic in various languages which really needed to be actual programming languages or more explicitly policy setting frameworks. They were in the middle of several extremes and tried to be lots of things at once and generally just didn't do a great job, unfortunately.
What does that mean for the embedded IE that powers the login popup windows for all of their Office apps?
tl;dr she had a special fighter jet or component

it was known as her orifice, “just locker room talk”
Is a good way to find things you had seen in the past, but don't recall exact date.
It is pretty much inevitable that most incompetent and incapable governments will require more and more control over the internet
I used gdbpeda, which is similar to pwndbg. There is a learning curve. But if you like GDB, check out radare2. It's the GDB of disassemblers :)
Well, as someone who lives in the SF Bay Area but genuinely loves Sacramento, I think it's actually pretty easy to undersell it. Sacramento has some wonderfully walkable, vibrant neighborhoods, particularly around Midtown and downtown. Before the pandemic, it wasn't uncommon for me to have an evening there that went something like this: early drinks at the Jungle Bird, a terrific retro tiki bar; a walk a few blocks to any number of solid restaurants (ones I remember were Cantina Alley, Frank Fat's, Lucca, Camden Spit & Larder, The Press, Broderick, and Centro Cocina Mexicana), maybe off to Temple Coffee afterward, and if we didn't get dessert at the restaurant, a stop at Rick's Dessert Diner or Ginger Elizabeth Chocolates. I've worked in both downtown San Francisco and downtown San Jose, and honestly prefer downtown Sacramento to both (although see the qualifier below).

As for nature, well: obviously Sacramento ain't near the ocean. But it has two rivers running through it, a lot of parks (Sacramento has more trees per capita than any other major city in the United States -- seriously!), and you don't have to drive very far to get into the Sierra foothills. You'd be surprised at what you can find around there.

The qualifier below: obviously San Francisco is, for all of its warts, a "world class" city in ways that few other cities in the United States are. I like Midtown Sacramento more than any neighborhood I spent time in around SF, with the possible exception of Hayes Valley, but many neighborhoods in have great attractions and you can get to all of them via public transit. But unless "a half-dozen world class bars and four three Michelin-starred restaurants" is a make-or-break requirement, Sacramento is...honestly pretty nice. I really wish I'd been able to get things together to move there in 2019, because real estate prices started shooting up during the pandemic.
I think the answer (at least to me) is obvious. Maybe because I think about climate a little different than most, who knows.

Climate and nature have always been a problem for humans, and will always be a problem for humans. The good news is that we have never been better able to deal with the problems that the climate throws at us even if some of them are partially self-inflicted.

If you are worried about climate change because of CO2 emissions there is one problem you need to solve and that is energy. Not by some low energy-dense and elaborate daisy-chain rube-goldberg constellation that will only make energy more expensive, require all sorts of backup and complex infrastructure and thus make it harder for poor people to get out of poverty and as you point to, not actually change much.

Instead look for clean, energy-dense solutions like Thorium, Fusion or maybe even some sort of fuel-cell that can scale at affordable economics. We are going to need a lot more energy in the future so better find something that actually works on large scale, that's the #1 problem to work on.
Final has a finality to it as you somewhat pointed out ;-)

Perhaps, the best option would have been to omit any wording:

release 4.0.0 would be the real version

release 4.0.0-beta would be the beta version

release 4.0.0-rc1 would be the first release candidate

Then again, words like 'final' and 'release' have too many meanings. Release doesn't mean version or 'no longer secret' but mostly 'available for people that just want to use it'. It's probably (like GM) mostly originated from the times where software versions required distribution management with physical aspects which makes 'release' have more of a meaning.
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> It's simply like a real estate broker commission, gallery commission, or whatever.

Except that its not at all like that. You pay a commission to someone who helped you sell something - they did work to help you sell it and you compensate them. Paying an automatic comission fee to the artist upon sale makes no sense. What are they doing to earn that commission? You already paid for their art. It makes no sense to pay again. What this is cannot be called a "comission".

I can see a situation where the artist is paid in total a very small fraction of the total price the art was sold for. Eg in the situation someone brought up where an artist sells a painting for $10,000 and then a few years later its sold for $1 million, I can see the artist maybe getting 10% of the margin between those sales (eg 0.1*(1 million - 10,000)). But even that is dubious to me, since a sale already took place. It just seems really weird to me and I think it has to be justified further than just "this is good for artists" or "artists need more money". Certainly calling it a commission is not at all accurate.
It's hard to say. I don't see too much point in running Ansible inside Terraform or Terraform inside Ansible (yes, you can go either way). Ansible lagged for years on its support of kubernetes and helm (it had it, but it didn't work). Now (like in the last 12 months) got good support for both, but it might be too late. Terraform has the majority of mind share when it comes to Kubernetes support.

If you're only doing AWS or Google Cloud, Ansible can do that. Whether it does it better or worse than Terraform is all dependent on your use case.

If you're doing anything on premise, or outside of GCP/AWS, Ansible can do that as well. From the using OOB management (HP iLO/Dell iDRAC) to install the OS, to configuring vmware clusters to deploying k8s to declaring resources within k8s. Got network switches and firewalls at your office? You can manage that with Ansible. If you have a bunch of edge compute, Ansible can manage that as well.

What it comes down to is if you've got teams working with anything outside of AWS/GCP. They'll probably be using Ansible, and since you've already go Ansible knowledge across your organization, it would make sense to leverage that expertise and Ansible's cloud integrations.

All of that said - Terraform is much more popular when it comes to the major cloud platforms. If all you have is cloud, then you'll probably start with Terraform and stay there.

https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.kubernetes
https://www.ansible.com/integrations/cloud/amazon-web-servic...
https://www.ansible.com/integrations/cloud/google-cloud-plat...
https://www.ansible.com/integrations/networks
apparently they see some limited use in reverse, as pumps.
I don’t think there’s a bright line or litmus test, but I judge for myself.

Single standard organizations created by the dev group are just naturally biased certain ways.

I don’t think there’s a single perfect body, but it’s definitely curious to me why someone would start a stand-alone foundation rather than use w3c, ietf, or others that seem to work pretty well.

I also judge the number of different clients and servers implementing the spec for whether it’s real or just a controlled intermediary. Sun/Oracle seemed pretty bad about this back in the day with JSR stuff although I haven’t paid attention in 10 years.

Projects can make their own choices and set up foundations if they are willing to fund and monetize, etc. But that stuff isn’t as robust as IRC or protocols that have independent standards bodies.

Seems like there are lots of different clients [0] and a couple of different servers [1].

The idea of a single dev team being VC funded means that there’s a drive to monetize. That’s bad pressure on a protocol and one that doesn’t exist for IRC and other protocols. There’s multiple members in the matrix foundation and that helps but there’s just not much diversity of interests.

Again, not the end of the world, and the project seems to me to be going to great lengths to collaborate. But I feel the same way as if Microsoft started up an independent foundation to drive development of the Skype protocol. Good on them, but it’s not as robust as an independent protocol.

[0] https://matrix.org/clients/
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(protocol)
They control the issuance of USDT, something they can't do with USD. They sure hope influencers don't immediately convert it to USD and buy other bitcoin or other cryptos with it instead. That way, they keep the USD and the influencer helps pumping the price.
If I recall correctly, these are actually used today but with more viscous fluids like oil and in reverse as a pump.
With the trenches I mean get into into energy :)

That's the #1 area to solve for any future civilization and we are going to need a hell of a lot more than what wind, solar or even fossil fuel can deliver in the future. Energy-density is where it's at IMO.
It's not clear to me what you are asking, but if your question has a definite answer and it relates to Youtube as a business, I can probably help answer. Youtube has been my full-time job for years.

About Premium generally, if you can afford it and you are considering it, there is no reason to hesitate. I say that both as a channel owner and as someone who pays for Premium every month. You never see an AdSense ad again, and you make that happen while still supporting the channels you enjoy. Pretty win-win, IMO.

Two things that most people don't know about Premium:

1. On a per-view basis, Premium views are actually 'worth more' than ad-watching views. We're talking tiny fractions of a cent, but they add up.

2. Most so-called "demonetized" views remain eligible for Premium revenue.
>The kind of SNR that causes an attempted takeover? As IRC has depopulated it's been increasingly inhabited by a particular type of person and has a particular culture.

If you mean anime subbers, 4channers, and the warez/pirate crowd , they've all moved to Discord or Telegram. The only ones left are the technically inclined folk who adopted the platform at its genesis (i.e. #c, #perl, etc.)
How much of it is Google getting worse and how much of it is garbage websites hyperoptimizing for SEO? Practically all news websites are chock full of ads. There's tons of filler websites that just copy/paste text from Wikipedia, etc. Of course, Google could do a better job, but it's codependent evolution.
Well yeah, apparently the people behind “Linux for Niggers” run #linux now. Literal geniuses.

> people running the show are associated with many of the greatest open source projects

That’s the thing with open source. Anyone can associate themselves with the greatest open source projects.

The people running the show are mostly not people playing significant roles in the greatest open source projects.
Good standards bodies, I think, allow lots of bee SME members who can propose new standards.

I think IETF is a good example of how anyone can propose standards on a plethora of topics. When they were very young it was hard to trust but now they are decades old with hundreds of standards demonstrating how easy it is to propose and work on new standards. Maybe even the “gold standard” of standards bodies.
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IE6 almost made me quit web development once it grew stagnant. It was put on the back burner at some point and they rested on their laurels until Firefox started eating IE’s market share.
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Depends. At home with Fujifilm’s system, it’s maybe 200ms or so behind the camera?

Somewhere with a huge amount of people saturating the wireless bands? Probably worse lol
No, I'm positing the premise that it was shipped with an absolute minimum of QA that didn't approach the level of trying to build 'inclusive' reference sets, on the cheap. It wasn't about caring in terms of priority of what was tested, it was about NOT caring that much in any direction and shipping it.

And it was a naive image cropping algorithm, years ago, and not making use of any sophisticated 'new technologies'. The beauty of the algorithm is that it was a simple function that could have been written in 1975 and required no training, deep learning or any of that. If you want to talk self-driving cars, you've got a much more relevant measure of harm and I'm right there with you.

As it is, I'd say there's a disconnect between where you and those years-ago shoestring developers stand on Maslow's hierarchy of needs. They were being scrappy with limited resources, and you're mad at them for not having an amount of QA that would have seemed unbelievable to them under their resource constraints.
It's Google's prioritization with ads and preferred sites taking priority even over those SEO-optimized sites.

Google would much prefer to be the sole source of your traffic instead of pushing you to other sites. Google's business is advertising. Why would they want to lose that traffic?

Check this article about the Google MUM announcement, which basically says the same thing:

"MUM is part of Google’s long-term shift away from ranked search results and toward the creation of AI algorithms that can answer user questions faster—often without ever clicking a link or leaving Google’s results page. (Think, for example, of the “knowledge panels” that now appear at the top of many search results pages and display an answer from a website so you don’t have to visit the site yourself.) This shift promises to reduce the amount of work it takes to find information through Google. But it’s not clear that this is a problem in need of a solution." [0]

The Google of today is not the Google of 2008. Google in 2008 was a search engine. Today it's an advertising business that would much prefer you not leave Google properties.

[0] https://qz.com/2010802/googles-mum-is-making-search-worse-by...
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The way search works:

1) terms are split into tokens
2) tokens are looked up to find documents
3) documents are ranked by scoring functions

I suspect sorting by chronological order might require too many document metadatas to be retrieved at step 2. (A lot of filtering occurs between steps 2 and 3.)
These claims seem pretty basic and are easily read about in their Wikipedia article, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(protocol)
Is this just speculation on your part or do you have a source for this claim?
There's a sizable cabal of delusional crypto fanatics that lurk HN. And they're extra salty after this latest correction.
On a tangent, I've been building a software stack from scratch, and I recently learned how to print out a call stack in machine code: https://wiki.osdev.org/Stack_Trace
You are basically acknowledging that technological development is a force that happens outside of our control, and that we are forced to keep up lest we be conquered by our neighbors. This is true, and it's what I believe also, but I don't see how you come to the conclusion that there is anything desirable or moral about this state of affairs.

Without us keeping the Amish way of life "subsidized", perhaps they would indeed have perished. And they would have gone willing, due to their belief system. It's remarkable that you can try to spin not being willing to participate in the technological-industrial system as "more odious than violence".
First. Wow. That’s a unique perspective/angle. Only really seen launches in video games from an angle like that.

Second. Is there any site/tool to help me have this experience? I have money and COVID will be over eventually…
Sorry, this wasn't clear enough to you in my original comment. My point was that judging someone's ability to do CS negatively by their interest in theology, as presented by the person I was replying to, is refuted by a well-known example. Makes sense now?
Which nfts give you property rights to the underlying asset?
Surely they can post 18 million?
Pwndbg author here, glad that you like it!

If you think there are any ways we can improve, please don't hesitate to create an Issue on Github for new features or bug fixes.
After seeing Alpha* solve Go, Chess, and protein folding in the past ~3 years, I think it would be pretty silly for your prior to be discounting any Google AI project as vaporware.

Their models accomplish ridiculously powerful things. Tbh I think it's far _more_ likely the answer is "this is crazy powerful, but the engineers didn't feel like writing a blog post about it, and the marketing team hasn't figured out how to monetize it yet".
Agreed, Flash is the best choice at the time.
"Is there any work left to be done?"

The short answer is an emphatic “Yes! Dismantling your monster of a corporation!”
I’m claiming, and not just me, that masks are ineffective at adding additional protection for a vaccinated person who wishes to not spread covid.

Masks are quite effective at preventing the spread of COVID. I believe this is shared by public health authorities.

Masks are tool that are good for some things so it depends the particular need.

I’m not arguing either of your claims, but masks+vaccine are unnecessary. This is different from masks being effective or from vaccines requiring no further needed protections.
By this logic, yes, every resource is a shared resource. I think that's a reasonable way to view things in a world where resources are limited. The purpose of money is to allocate shared and limited resources.

Ownership is a useful heuristic, both for planning ahead and for describing resources that are currently held exclusively. I'm not really sure what your point is on that one.

Intended actions matter. If you buy an expensive PC with the intent of video gaming, but then find that your interests shift, I have no problem with that. On the other hand, if you buy an expensive PC for the purpose of conspicuous consumption, to show off that you have bought it, then I'd be tilting my head at you. If you buy an expensive PC for the purpose of running it 24/7 to contribute to a system that is used primarily for speculation and that has enabled the rise of ransomware, then I have a large problem with it.
“At that moment (I must have been down to about a hundred yards), I hit his slipstream and my engine cut —stone dead.” Dogfights are presumably made all the more memorable with the added frisson of engine trouble.

Heck, that would put some hairs on your chest… the solution is ingenious too. What a neat article.
Ayyy.... not fun. I have gov users who are still using IE11 and who have to deal with editing their public-facing blog.
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