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Well, it's not like I made him up, he's 25 now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Habsburg_(racing_dri...

Memorable from the 2017 Macau F3 finish: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RfWr8mP3P1Y
It's so interesting how an article filled with positivity inspires such a vehement negative response. Is there a name for this effect? It seems like there should be.
That's a drastic exaggeration of the effort required. The backup is to write down 24 words. For more redundancy, write them down again on another piece of paper. Put them somewhere safe enough considering the amount you have stored, and you're good. I know people with crypto who are not especially technical, but have no trouble with this.

(Or, follow Vitalik's recommendation to use social recovery wallets, which are available for phones and I think have decent UI.)
That is a good point. MIT professors are usually very aware of the context of their work and the actual contributions they are making. Nevertheless, the MIT press office is a particularly egregious organization in terms of its tendency to exaggerate - my dad's lab cured cancer about 10 times in the early 2000's if you believe the press releases.

In this case, I'm not sure the MIT professor was aware of the "crackpot" invention that effectively pre-empted him. Many professors don't read patents (and there are lots of reasons why they shouldn't), and I'm not sure there was a paper.

One thing about patents is that if an invention is obvious in light of other inventions, it might not be patentable. In this case, I'm pretty sure that this combination of a technology from the 60's, a boost converter, and a LiPo battery may be "obvious" given the prevalence of other drones: it is a combination of two past inventions that fit together naturally (a drone + a propulsion technology). Of course, it will take millions of dollars worth of arguing for someone to say either way.
Do you know of any evidence that North America, as a whole, is using more water than is falling on it? Because that's not something I've heard about thus far.

Just because we have a significant drought (or possibly "climatic shift to a drier climate") in the Southwest doesn't mean that we have the same problem everywhere in the US.
So what? In a bitmask, such as a hardware register or database Bloom filter, two adjacent bits may be unrelated, and their relative position entirely coincidental and insignificant.

That doesn't mean we need a memory model in which bits are separate objects, in some sense.
> If you rely on cloud services yes. If you run your own infra, then no, you will have to metric/alert that in a custom manner as with everything else.

Consider this example:

I have Zabbix on server A.
I have an e-mail server on server B.
I have Uptime Kuma on server C.
I have an instance of Mattermost on server D.
I have the application that I want to monitor on server E.

In a zero trust model (or even just running WireGuard) there is very little preventing you from having either on different cloud providers. There's also very little preventing you from having a setup like A-D on a few boxes that sit under your desk/colocated somewhere but having D in the cloud.

Thus, one can reason about the potential failure states:

If servers C-E run into issues (say, Docker issues), I'll get a notification thanks to A and B (Zabbix sending an e-mail).
If servers C-E are utterly unreachable (say, network interface problems), I'll get a notification thanks to A and B (Zabbix sending an e-mail).
If servers A-B or E run into issues, I'll get a notification thanks to C and D (Uptime Kuma sending a message).
In the current configuration, I wouldn't be protected against a compound failure of A-D (both Zabbix and Uptime Kuma down), but those might as well run on different clouds, with different orchestrators.

Of course, you can setup failover and redundancy options, but by that point you're probably also looking into distributed file systems for any backing storage like GlusterFS or Ceph but right now I don't need that complexity.

Furthermore, as you said, you can also rely on cloud services in addition to what you already have, so should A-D go down, then E will still be monitored by another solution as an alternative, though that's also hardly necessary for most things.

Hell, for all I care, I might as well have a Raspberry Pi on my desk that pings the servers, checks SSH connections, checks running Docker images, does a curl call and blinks and beeps aggressively when something isn't okay on servers that sit in a data center somewhere. It's not like there's not an endless amount of options. Of course, you can also go in the opposite direction and pick whatever is good enough, such as having A-B as a single server (or VM) and C-D as a single server (or VM), to not overcomplicate.
Fades are probably the most important, imo.
It is, at once, both over my head and very encouraging that someone who hasn’t used PIO before was able to achieve this, thanks for the link, I think if I compare this code to what the Plasma library is doing I might be able to tease out what’s happening.
OK, what you're saying is that after the block reward ends, fees will equal miner revenue and miners will mine harder until equilibrium where their costs equal their revenue. That's correct but it's important to understand that the causality flows from fees to miner costs, not vice versa. Miners cannot force fees up or down.
While others are pointing you towards library docs I highly suggest going to the rust book[1] instead. A lot of languages you are fine learning breadth first by going through some documentation and playing around building things. This is how I learn best myself, but it doesn't work well with rust. It has enough unique concepts and concepts you might not have come across unless you have experience with a similar language. It is one language that is best served by a depth first approach. I usually suggest reading chapters 1-11 before trying to dive in and build something.

1. https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/index.html
They sound bloody awful and they're incredibly uncomfortable, mainly.
If you are actually producing e-scooters it could make sense as well when you have plans for reducing your costs long term through economy of scale so you reach the minimum efficient scale.
Being an Open Company: Fourth Month Metrics
Will this still be Thunderbird or an Electron app?
Nature is lightyears ahead of tech when it comes to power efficiency.
At some point there is no next, globalism seeks equilibrium
I've heard the metaphor that "writing your ledgers in pen instead of pencil doesn't make transactions irreversible" - meaning that in the same sense, actions on the blockchain could be coded to be irreversible.

The difference is in the authority of who gets to reverse transactions. For example, Tether can freeze and generally arbitrarily control USDT token. USDT therefore isn't really a cryptocurrency, since now a central authority can seize it. It seems to me that this authority undermines why one might want to use crypto in the first place. I don't think you can have it both ways.
Can't speak for other countries, but in the US there is a point where being poorer would almost certainly make it easier to have and raise children than being middle class. Most social benefits in the US (besides entitlements for older people which are, by far, the most costly) are distributed primarily to women with kid(s) and low income. Though it greatly depends on the state, a single mother with low income could expect:

* full health insurance through Medicaid

* Food subsidies i.e. SNAP, WIC, etc.

* Section 8 housing (which can often times be very nice housing in extremely desirable neighborhoods of large cities like DC, NYC, SF).

* TANF a.k.a. welfare cash

* free tuition / grants / job training through dozens of federal, state, and private programs

* free daycare (again through dozens of fed, state, and private programs, often included with job training grants)

* public transportation vouchers

* down payment and first-home buyer programs.

Compare that to the same-aged single or married woman living in the exact same city making $75K. She may literally live next door to the theoretical subsidized woman described above, yet be paying 60% or more of her take-home pay in rent alone. She will be paying hundreds of dollars / month for health insurance and have a $2K deductible to boot. No food or any other subsidies. Add a few hundred dollars / month for her tuition loans, and she has $0 left at the end of the month which means she will (correctly) feel unable to afford a child, especially when child-care will cost her up to $2K / month.

But at least her corporate employer will pay for her abortion!
It has a link labelled "Introductory example" at the top left of the linked page. ...in the section called "Start Here". I'm not sure how much easier they could make it to see some example code with detailed explanations.
"If they only paid a lot more money for the same thing" kinda makes his point though.
>The urban water use is around 20%

which means that around $20B/year will cover desalination of all the water consumed in California solving all the environmental issues caused by water consumption, and all those problems probably would become close to nonexistent even if we cover only half the needs at $10B/year. Especially considering that climate change would be making situation only worse, and thus desalination is unavoidable anyway.
Is it? By no politics most would just mean don't talk about Trump or Biden or pro choice vs pro choice or pride day or other things like that, most of which don't affect business in direct way and is divisive. It doesn't mean don't involve any kind of politics.
> It also remarked on the city's status as a European leader in shipbuilding.

This stood out as painfuly ironic: The shibuilding status symbol is preventing a whole tier of shipbuilding!
You neglect the multiplicity of storage alternatives, all of which work, at different price points. The most cost-effective will be the ones used. Idiotic ones (e.g. Energy Vault's) won't be.

Of course very little storage is built yet, because it would be beyond stupid to build storage that there is not renewable capacity, yet, to charge up. Money is overwhelmingly better spent on generation capacity, first. Storage cost is falling faster than solar. When we build it, it will be very cheap.
Probably because the valuation is currently 10x revenue, and was previously more like 70x. "Only" is probably because the parent still feels like Atlassian is highly over-valued.
Why would Mathematica die? You think Stephen writes code today?
"Hacker gang broke into AMD because of lack of MFA" might be a more useful way to put it, especially for IT departments that might get an email from a panicked exec demanding unworkable password policies.
>EU digital ID wallet

How is it better that a foreign government has control of my id? Most of the EU isn't France.
>But if you interpret this post as "in a world where a lot is going wrong, and that's usually all we hear about, here are n things going right", it's a more useful read.

"This is fine!"

No, it's not OK for an occasional break, the world is going to burn. It makes no difference if I can eat more blueberries now if my kids won't have any water left in the future to grow them.

Knowing the reality of climate change, I am sorry, there is no way I can be glad we are eating more blueberries. It cannot enter my mind at all. If it can enter your mind you do not know the scope of what we are facing.
Right I'm just saying your argument only holds for licenses like GPL, not in general as you suggested.

edit:
Not implying you're wrong, just moreso that there's a large chunk of people who aren't going to be motivated to fight on your behalf. I understand there are some useful areas such as hardware drivers for GPL, but it's simply not an IP constraint that sounds at all fun to work on as a volunteer.
Tour de France: How many calories will the winner burn?
Medical supplies to keep at home (for emergencies)
I wouldn’t expect WWIII to last that long. Plus ships are big expensive floating targets of no particular use in a total war between nuclear powers.
>they're people with a similar interests, most went to college, etc.

So...like hedge fund operators?
> If you need a ton of memory bandwidth and have the money then you build your product around HBM2 or similar

What does similar mean? I'm not sure I agree.

The M1 is basically a classic big-iron architecture, miniaturized with chiplets. The top M1 Max config is effectively 8x channel/512-bit-wide, just like a current epyc. It's faster though because it's 5.2GT/s LPDDR5 memory (400GBps) vs 3.2GT/s DDR5, and it's much smaller because it appears as 4x stacks on package. (Next gen Genoa is up to 12x channels of 5.2GT/s DDR5 fwiw.) But it's still a conventional play, basically, with new packaging.

> Intel is married to the commodity server market and their laptop/mobile products have always been trickle-down, because they are a giant megacorp whose roadmaps are dictated by their biggest profit centers.

Generally, yes! Notably sometimes innovation is first delivered in mobile and "trickles up," but basically it's because mobile is a safer easier space to innovate/explore/learn in (as it's much less investment cost to make the much smaller/lighter chips there). Generally you're right about what leads the business.

> Even if they designed this kind of system, they wouldn't be able to capture most of the profit from it like Apple can, since they don't sell memory or systems, they sell CPUs.

It's definitely a little intimidating figuring out how to sell bundled on ram. The technical benefits are hard to ignore though. Total cost of ownership should improve for customers notably, via less intense/simpler motherboards, via low power consumption stemming from much more direct channels & stronger signal integrity to main memory. But you're right, I think there's a lot of unappealing & unwanted aspects to becoming a company that ships ram. It'll be hard to resist/ignore for long though.

AMD hasn't shown DRAM related interest yet, but their 5800X3D has 96MB stacked L3 v-cache on a separate chiplet. Their upcoming Genoa cpus will have ~1GB stacked L3 V-cache, again at absurd terabits-per-second speed, also via chiplets. AMD is pushing the memory heirarchy wider, is doing something like this M1-ening, but at a at higher-throughput lower-latency but smaller-capacity points, while leaving the conventional RAM channels also available. But they could, pretty easily I'd wager, snap back & deliver integrated DDR if they wanted, saw the need.

Now that there are groups like Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express, this tech is kind of semi-commodified, available for purchase, to a degree. Yes, the mainstream market may lag. But with the capabilities arriving, it's hard to imagine this tech staying out of the data-centers for too long. Once we see some hyperscalers or upstarts delivering chips with integrated DDR, I expect the appeal will be irresistible/unsuppressable. It'll become obvious/known that this is good tech that is table stakes for selling chips, like it or not.
They just casually threw mandatory vaccines out like it was nbd.

What other mandatory things will I need to do for the government?

Mandatory registration for war!
Mandatory birth control!
Mandatory drug test!
Mandatory lie detector test about how honest you were on your taxes!

How easy it makes it to participate in society...

is a double edged sword...

with how easy it is to shut them out of society with a flip of the switch if they don't comply.
Yes, the RISC-V AIA has been a standard for some months now.
I agree about the hybrids. The charge of the battery adds (another) hidden state that makes the game difficult to reason about.
Apparently "blacklist" is not a racist word.
You can 'fly' semis in tornados, so no.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WABqwKjQM_c
> actual policy questions that resembled what he would ask leaders in any other political party

Next: interviews with green parties without discussing the environment, interviews with pirate parties without discussing patents or copyrights, and long discussions about gerrymandering, never mentioning how in 2015, UKIP got 12% of the vote and only 0.15% of the seats [1], or how the National Front got 8.7% of the votes and 1.4% of the seats.

Report and interview truthfully, but with surgical precision, only every surfacing facts that serve your goals. If called out, invent contorted justifications why this selective coverage is objective. Then wring your hands that trust in the news is falling.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2015/results

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_French_legislative_electi...
We had the same experience - raised 5 kids, not a single time did any of our 4 living parents offer to watch the kids even for a few hours - we thought that was unique to us and our parents, didn't realize it was a trend ...

On the flip side though, now that my kids are approaching child-rearing ages, both of us (spouse and I) can't wait to babysit and spend time with the grandkids when they come - we are already jealous that the in-laws might get them more than we do.
Seems like much ado about nothing to me. They were going to dissemble the bridge to sail the yacht through then reassemble it at Bezos's expense. Reading the Wikipedia page on this it looks like they took the bridge down as recently as 2015 for some renovations, so it's not like taking the bridge down is some unthinkable or unprecedented thing either. Why was this a problem?
The problem is, it is to the advantage of every manager who is not laying people off to say “Absolutely not”. Every employee is aware that managers have this incentive, so anything other than “Absolutely not” is likely to mean “Yes”. There is no collective incentive for managers at different companies to all answer “I can’t say” in order to give each other plausible deniability.
No, as people gain (technical) literacy, decentralization becomes less relevant, because literacy and legibility are the enablers of higher forms of centralization and organization.

Who is more centralized, technologically and literate civilizations or ones in so called 'primitive' states?
1. basically the same

2. basically the same

3. basically the same

The advantage to Apple's soldered RAM is that the motherboard is 10x smaller.
The story loses its objectivity and becomes too reliant on the subjectivity of the writer(s).
The bridge is no longer functional; it used to be a railway bridge but this has been replaced by a tunnel. There are still rails on the bridge but they go nowhere. The bridge is kept purely as a landmark and for historical interest. See for an overview picture https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Hef#/media/Bestand:Koningin...
The ID is now also a gps tracker that can send its location everywhere you go.
The current administration's ideas of supply-side reforms starts with the Defense Production Act and ends with Executive Order 11615. The opposition party's idea of supply-side reforms involves looking for additional ballots in Georgia.

Hang onto your inflation hedges, because it doesn't look very good for America.
> As an aside, I'm surprised you went with "killing humanely" as opposed to not killing in the first place. I'm not sure how that fits into your model of ethics.

I brought up "killing humanely" because we breed chickens for meat and we instantiate AI for tasks, and then terminate them when they are no longer needed. Creation means inevitable destruction.

Yes, there is some cost baked in to treating chickens well, but I believe that harm reduction is the logical conclusion of valuing intelligence. Eating meat is a cultural vestige that we should try to move away from with synthetic meat or some murder-free alternative. I say this as a meat-eater myself, but that's kind of getting into the weeds.

> It's not even clear that shutting down an AI is unethical, especially if it feels no pain and can be started up again, or cloned, or stuck in a simulation...

There is no answer to the "swamp man" question, there is also no way to objectively measure pain. But if an AI receives a negative reward, then it will react to that stimulus. Is this any different from pain in the animal kingdom? This is a pseudo-scientific way of describing pain, but I think that most of these questions are a matter of definition and are not actually answerable. Why not give the benefit of the doubt to the subject of our experimentation?

> Third, I disagree that there is no downside to treating "non-sentient" AI well. There's yet no well-defined boundary for sentience, so have fun treating every grain of sand "well" under some yet-to-be-specified definition of "well".

I know that the grain of sand was used as a hyperbole, but I don't see any issue with practicing thoughtfulness towards inanimate objects. Maybe a rock can't feel pain, but our ecosystems are delicate and a sort of "modern animism" could make us stop and think about the downstream effects that our activities have on the environment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulduf%C3%B3lk#See_also

> Finally, designing an intelligence at all seems fraught with ethical dilemmas (see designer babies), but engineering a reward (presumably, a priori, against the AI's will) into the termination routine seems particularly twisted to me.

If we have determined that creating AI is inevitable, then we are already designing it to our will. Engineering it to have a positive experience in death isn't twisted, it's merciful. If death is certain, would you rather have a painful death, a death void of sensation, or a pleasurable death? The alternative is to either leave the AI on forever, or never create it in the first place, neither of which are ideal.
Raw paper would be worth more as that paper could still be used for other things.
In my water district we can run sprinklers for 8 minutes per week. Not that I'm complaining.
Ah, ok, I would call that a “submission” but it’s an “Ask HN” so I see where you came up with “post”.

Note that the submission page is sorted chronologically, not by karma. So the concept of “top” is really more like “first”.

It seems you meant to point out that @Mandatum admitted to lying but the way you phrased it really made it difficult to verify the claim and came across to me like you were accusing @jessefied123.

There were some very strong responses [1] to your accusation and I’m concerned that anger may be directed at the wrong person. When making these kinds of accusations you should try to be more clear. Use names and provide links. Also consider if the benefit of the accusation is worth the risk of misunderstanding.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31928612
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I implemented a "mini" version of Copilot using EleutherAl GPT-Neo-2.7B and HuggingFace model hub and wrote a wrapper to use in emacs -- https://github.com/samrawal/emacs-secondmate

It's much more rudimentary compared to Copilot, but it's fun to play around with, and it can be run completely locally (after the model is downloaded). Plus it runs using a simple Flask local server, so it can be easily extended to other text editors.
Turning methane into methanol under ambient conditions using light
God I would love for Unity to offer a Swift (no GC, fully type safe, compiled, fast) API with a rethought API surface. And have only one renderer to choose from instead of 3 with all different features.
upvoted you but disagree on 1's implementation, 4 & 5 entirely. also replace Ban by disincentivise in 2.

this list is also meta indicative of problems in US political system. Dems just have to be slightly better than rethuglicans to be viable so they keep adding unwanted half baked solutions till they are barely palatable.