skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can’t do those slowly though
>On the electron pairing mechanism of copper-oxide high temperature superconductivity

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2207449119
As the joke goes: "In the US, 100 years is a long time, in Europe, 100 miles is a long way"
There are SERIOUS problem expected to come, primary for working population, pension, and national insurance. Some are delayed thanks to huge national debt. Demographics is really good indicator for the future, but it's hard to improve.
I think it was appropriated, if you’ll pardon the pun, from African American accents, but I’m only an amateur linguist noticing things and making connections, so in the cold light of science, my “think” is no better than your “almost definitely” :-)
Authenticating to AWS the right way for (almost) every use-case
Masses of people are putting in a huge amount of effort to live in any rich western country.
Also, most users haven't ever experienced software that's any better, with a few rare exceptions such as Excel. We programmers have it so good. "How can people put up with such bad software" is a recurring theme, and not unique to Teams or even Microsoft.
Let me tell you what our purpose is: consciousness. It's to have good conscious experiences.

I think we'll soon achieve a pretty good understanding of meaning that we haven't acknowledge in a long time. I think philosophy has been misleading us into thinking purpose/meaning/motivation is not philosophically tractable. But once you acknowledge it's a property of consciousness (which I think is understandable to be a new insight, given we have finally come to terms with being amazing neural machines ourselves), I think it's a matter of studying information and neural experiences, together with a broader view (of survival, sustainability, and ethics) to have a pretty good idea of what it means to have a good life.

My current hypothesis is as follows: (1) Richness/Depth of experience; (2) Some kind of notion of beauty; (3) A well-functioning motivation system (which we associate with 'happiness'/'satisfaction'/etc. (4) Sustainability and ethics: ensuring all sentient beings through time and space share this wealth.

I hope we can approach a formal theory of ethics and meaning soon. I hope to form a community around discussing and organizing this knowledge (I am notoriously bad with promises though, so if anyone can please help, and join in). Imagine we had a "Super Declaration of [Lifeform] Human Rights", nearly-universally accepted, to guide us! (I think Effective Altruism is a nice step in this direction)
My experience running c5/6 instances makes me very confident ec2 doesn’t do live migration for these. Fwiw gcp live migration on latency sensitive workloads is very noticeable and often time straight up causes instance crash
> How is subsidizing food producers any different than giving everyone money to buy food?

Subsidizing production by incentivizing number of units is different from just creating demand and waiting for producers to match up.

By incentivizing number of units of production, say x% incentive for per 1000 bushels of corn AFTER 10k bushels, you are literally incentivizing production of food and suppressing prices. You are asking farmers to use as much land as possible to produce corn. This is assuming that there is a shortage of corn in the market. In this way, the market is flooded with cheap corn and prevents recession caused by corn. The benefit of this approach is that something useful actually got produced besides money.

By only creating demand, production is not guaranteed to ramp up. Many farmers will be happy to take more dollars for the same amount of corn, causing inflation, thus causing fed to raise rates, thus causing recession. The disadvantage of this is that nothing got produced except money.

This fiscal support should be timeboxed (say 1-year during a recession) to prvent the big ag monopolies you are talking about.

We don't even need to think in hypotheticals. Today, the biggest cause of inflation (and thus fed rate hikes and thus recession) is housing. There is some merit to raising rates and flattening demand. But the biggest solution would be to flood the market with supply of housing. Just incentivize builders to build 2 million units within a year with fiscal policy and bam, inflation is gone.
That makes SC look even worse. The spent twice as much money on development without even getting to marketing.
Re-reading the transcription, I guess I was a bit harsh by saying it's not "good". It gets most of it right, but it keeps messing up some key words. Like "regnstyr" (not a word) rather than "reinsdyr" (reindeer), or "Dagsnytten" rather than "Dagsnytt 18".

It also didn't handle the hanging "... menn", instead thinking it was the start of the following sentence. Almost everyone would understand it was the end of the sentence based on the context.

The double-A vs Å is not an issue as it's the same letter, double-A is the older form.

The small model was considerably worse than the large one though.
DeepSpeech got spun out of Mozilla to coqui.ai and they are continuing the open nature of the project.
US Military Bought Mass Monitoring Tool Including Internet Browsing, Email Data
That's interesting, as a québécois I don't agree with any of this. The only thing that raised an eyebrow was "est à même de", but if turns out it's just another way of saying "capable de", I guess it's simply not a common idiom around here. Aside from that, I found the wording flowed well even if I personally would've phrased it differently.
Teams has to be one of the worst products in its class, of all time.

It is a catastrophically corpulent and fickle mass of errors, wrapped in a UI that looks like Prince shat it out circa 1998.
This whole paper is lazy, panic-ridden grift. Why lazy? Because it's core thesis is that fossil fuels are a natural constraint... The word "nuclear" does not appear a single time in the entire paper!

We have more than enough carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen on this earth to do incredible things given an energy source. It's time to stop dooming and start exploring.

Also, fuck Mars. Why not try to make the desert liveable?
As I get older, that's always good to hear, doc.
this is very impressive, how is this done? the executable is only a few hundred KB and it runs for me, wasm is doing the magic here but I don't know too much about how the process works.

I added -I/usr/include/SDL2 to build.sh, made sure wasm-ld is in place, and it builds and runs smoothly.
Airships Rise Again (2021)
I've only ever used AWS for this stuff. When the author said that you could just "add a GPU" to an existing instance, my first reaction was "wow, that sounds like it would be really complicated behind the scenes."
The FAA would like a word with you.
I loved it! They kept Moss!!! That was surprising.
It would be lovely to see Bittorrent in this space. Distributing an identical blob to N machines is squarely within its wheelhouse. All those CI machines would make wonderful seeders too.
Of course! Thanks!
> One is the Search Console integration, which is the only way to see what Google search queries led people to your site.

I can see this on sites without GA just fine. Are there some kind of advanced insights you’re referring to?
It all boils down to if what you want is an OS or a browser. If an OS is good enough feature and security wise though, there's no reason to just want the browser for the same price.

> You need a Google account to log in

This is absolutely blatany lock in, let's not sugarcoat or pretend it is not at least.
> I don't understand your point, which effectively seems to be "not all games!"

It's more "capitalism dot txt is a thing, yes, but you're opting in."

Which you can totally do. I am saying that this is a venue where you don't have to.
Dude, no excuse. Of course shit never pans out perfectly in dev, but cmon. It's been over 10 years, it's barely playable, and they're focused on shit like making realistic bed sheet movements.

It's a joke. Especially given how much funding theyve received and have next to nothing to show for it.
We probably won't find out until decades after, when it comes out that the reason someone was denied entry to the US or got their bank account frozen was because a US agency incorrectly identified them based on some data that they secretly pulled out of Google Analytics.
In the same sense that we are all going to die, right?
Both those links don't show any fraud on the Democratic side.
> I don’t get why they are so hell bent against making more money and insist on region locking content.

Maybe it has something to do with the license being a tax vs a service charge? Seems like opening the door for anyone with an internet connection would only help fund quality programing. $160 a year isn't terrible. Maybe there are issues with distribution rights too. I'd do it too if I could, but I'm with you and I'll take what options they leave me with.
Don’t install doom scrolling apps especially any social media or news. I find food, travel and maps apps helpful. Also notes, todos and your preinstalled phone stuff.

If your argument against that is you’ll end up in the browser on those sites then maybe try correcting the behaviors. Like if you wanted to lose weight and eliminated all junk food in your house but still end up at the gas station buying candy, soda, chips and crap then address the behaviors because tricking yourself isn’t going to address the root cause.
> Star Citizen gathers its funding from players by selling in-game space ships.

How is this called "funding" and not just "sales" or "dlc?"
I think you can value Life without maximizing number of total deaths (or total lives lived, same thing). At some point quality matters as well as quantity.

If maximizing the total number of lives is really all that's important, we should cease all human activity that isn't necessary to sending ants to other planets.
This is fake right? You enter a minigame to move your digital index finger around on the keypad sim and punch in the right opening code for the class of ship you're on and its commanding officer? And people paid 500 million bucks for this?
Love it, or leave it?
> this eldritch incantation

It's the spawn of an unholy union between Markdown and WYSIWYG. Triple backticks is the opening (and closing) sequence of characters used to denote multiline snippets of 'preformatted text' or code in Markdown.

Pressing enter 5 times is what happens because Microsoft insists on preventing you from writing actual Markdown, even as an option.

Single backticks works (and you can use a second backtick to close 'exit' that formatting mode), but delightfully, it only works if you're typing, and not if you copy and paste.
It was doing it slowly, but hadn't got to the insane bit when I killed it to try and get it working with CUDA, so I had to do some digging and it turns out I need a version of pytorch with CUDA enabled, and so I had to go and install Anaconda, and now now conda is stuck trying to "solve" my environment to install pytorch with CUDA.

So...probably?

Pre-post edit: I can't get it to work.

I've installed pytorch with cuda via pip3, installed the nVidia toolkit and it doesn't see it:

>>> import torch
>>> torch.cuda.is_available()
False

I've wasted like an hour and a half on it now. I'm not a python dev, and don't have any ML experience so this was just for fun and now it's not anymore.
Multibillion dollar companies doing far more complex things have been built in the 10 years since the first people paid for Star Citizen, and the fact they have a broken alpha to show for it after a decade of spending tens to hundreds of millions on development is either the greatest scam or most colossal mismanagement story in tech.
The Debian deep learning team's machine learning policy would call this a "toxic candy" model:

https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/ml-policy

BTW, wouldn't you take the existing model and do additional Hokkaido Japanese speaker training on top of it, rather than retraining the model from scratch?
It's a simple software rasterizer. If you're interested in writing your own, I've written a tutorial explaining the basics. https://magcius.github.io/xplain/article/rast1.html
I bet the people who approved the hiring 35,000 in one year will not be in the pool of those being let go
In Africa they even fired a employee that discovered a kickback scheme, when he tried to scale the matter up to Satya Nadella: https://www.engadget.com/whistleblower-says-microsoft-spent-...
Just remember this is for GPU instances. Other vm families are pretty fast to launch.
Communication software needs to run in case someone wants to contact you. It should start in the background though.
In recent years, I found things have actually gotten better than ever. Most root cause analysis that I have done has been boiling down to malfunctioning hardware far more than software issues. Usually software issues stem from flaky hardware. People just never get it figured out and blame it on Microsoft or someone else’s software.

Of course, someone would debate that with me, but before the Windows NT kernel took over, I had to format to solve problems sometimes. I haven’t had to do that a single time since Windows 7. I ran eight or nine years on one Windows 7 install.
I too enjoy ChromeOS but how do you play a DVD? [1]

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/Crostini/comments/b680wa/external_d...
> is acceptable in the short term

It's actually acceptable in the long term as well.

To take the US. The forests absorb 13% of all the emissions. That's a whopping amount. We could retain all the current natural gas plants (and build some more) and if that were the only source of greenhouse emissions, we'd be below net zero.

This would be more than enough to smooth out any intermittency from solar and wind. You'd need zero batteries and zero hydrogen storage. Just the combination of the current nuclear and hydro, the solar and wind that we'd build at the rate of the last decade for 3 decades in the future, and the current natural gas, and we'd be well below net zero. No need for new nuclear, or hydro, we could shut down all coal power plants, we could transition to electric transportation, zero emissions steel, concrete and fertilizers, all with just keeping the current trajectory of building solar and wind.

And I'm as pro-nuke as they come. I'd like to see a nuclear renaissance, I really hope we'll do that, but we don't really need it to get to net zero by 2050.
> I've been trying to get `--device cuda` to work on my Windows machine and it's saying that torch wasn't compiled with CUDA.

I struggled with the same. Here's what worked for me:

Use pip to uninstall pytorch first, should be "pip uninstall torch" or similar.

Find the CUDA version you got installed[1]. Go to PyTorch get started page[2] and use their guide/wizard to generate the pip string, and run that. I had to change pip3 to pip FWIW, and with Cuda 11.6 installed I ended up with "pip install torch torchvision torchaudio --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu116".

After that I could use --device cuda, and the difference was immense. On my 2080Ti it went from roughly an hour for a minute with large model, to 10-20 seconds.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/55717476

[2]: https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/
I mean, yes. That's what I was getting at. It's cheaper to offload your compute to your users. It's probably much cheaper to offload a massive amount of compute onto billions of users.

They'll keep doing it until they're penalized in some fashion for doing so, if it's cheaper.
The NHS has very different goals. Those are reflected in the standards they set for themselves. They must serve everyone, unlike big businesses who consider the edges of the bell curve too expensive to cater to.
Medical transportation company set to leave Washington
And you will likely end up with one high quality movie and 110 duds. We remember movies like Donnie Darko because they are the exception.
Forums weren't replaced by discord. Forums were replaced by Reddit. Although you post still stands, I think you're very wrong in thinking about the reasoning why people use one or another platform.

Let's think about discord for a minute, why is everyone using it? And what are they using it for? I think the answers here are rather simple, people have a need for communication with peers; this communication usually takes many forms: text, voice, video, gifs, images. Discord is a platform that offers people a very simple and quick way of building communities capable of providing people will all of these forms of communication but really, now a days, every messenger application does the job. So the differentiating factor for discord is the ability to organise these communities better than any other platform (save for slack, which discord modelled itself after). Now, it's not perfect, it's impossible to build horizontal communities on discord but it does the job.

So functionally, discord offers people seeking to build communities pretty much everything they could want. Now, it still has some problems: mainly that it's not very good for long-form or persistent messaging like a forum. And this is why you usually have discord communities with a reddit counterpart, a forum-like website and a real-time interaction community.

This let discord built a very wide userbase, and once you have that then you really get to enjoy the magic sauce: network effects. To put it simply, people use discord because everyone else uses discord and everyone else uses discord because people use discord.

As the internet grows it becomes increasingly difficult to break network effects even if you have an offering that's better. But even then, it's also extremely difficult to be novel given that these big companies can simply acquire you when they start seeing you as a threat (look at adobe buying figma). Companies are quicker than regulators at seeing potential market disruptions and threats, so in most cases they can stay ahead of the game. Imo, a lot of the failings of these companies come from underestimating the competition and then trying to play catch-up.
Haha wouldn't put it beyond them to get to that level of detail.

The minute details don't bother me much, just that they're focused on so many of these (at times ridiculous) details, yet in my case and others, the elevator doesn't even appear.

At the least they should focus on making a playable/accessible game, then drill down
An ancient version of Skype for Business is embedded into my old gaming rig. I have tried on several occasions over the years to nuke it but I could never be bothered to break out a debugger and a process analyzer to get to the root cause. It still opens on every restart. I don't even think Microsoft knows how to remove it.
Per the article, actually about 100-1000 times beyond current capacities.

In a way I agree that the feasible limits, even on Earth, may be orders of magnitude larger (say, in terms of population, perhaps) than we currently have. But the current rate of growth in any case is probably unsustainable because of imbalances like co2 emissions. I do think it's feasible to change to renewable energy in the short term, if only political motivation was a bit higher (please, go out and vote focused on climate change, folks!). If I were to lay out a strategy for humankind, I'd say we should focus on climate change for the next few decades, and then we can resume growing (to avoid possible collapse).

Limits to technology are actually non-trivial due to the atomic nature of objects, limited number of chemical elements with limited range of properties, etc.. Intelligence itself isn't free and keeping the Great Self-sustaining Rube Goldberg contraption working is not trivial. It's very hard to predict what limitations we can overcome -- see Moore's law slowing down. Some limits we've almost reached such as luminous efficacy (LEDs in lm/W). Soon we'll be faced with the question of whether we want to make Earth into a Caves of Steel landscape (ending most natural life to create a hyper-efficient human/machine habitat) capable of sustaining more humans or a Solarpunk landscape (preserving natural ecosystems) with a more limited population. I think there's a large degree of arrogance to the first, because I don't feel competent enough to evaluate the true value of animal lives, supposing a large quantity of animals are sentient, and they have intrinsic scientific and cultural value. I think this requires an exercise in imagination from all of us. In any case, it's probably a great idea if we could at least keep the oceans, rainforests, and major national parks healthy.

One crazy dream I have is to colonize not Mars, but Mercury. In Mercury solar energy density is crazy high. There's even some thermal energy from the solar thermal gradient. You can dig to get to nice temperature ranges and be safe from radiation, all this works well since the planet is tidally locked and therefore doesn't rotate, there's no diurnal variation. You can build a crazy Cave-of-Steel there and live your life in a cramped cell playing video games (or [insert activity]), if that's what your vision of heaven is.

In any case: Hack the Planet!*

*: In a good way, of course :)
The humans are the cause of it happening in the first place. Maybe the gun analogy is not such a stretch: if you pull the trigger, you own the consequences.

Reasonable fair use principles could distinguish personal and R&D use from commercial use.
That would give you relatively little playtime. A standard 90 minute tape cannot hold all that much binary data.
My understanding - second hand, to be fair - is that the space ships do not actually exist in game. It's more like a promise that they will make you a badass space ship when the game's done.
Likewise, TTS is what I really want. My goal is to be able to create audio books from text. I've been using Amazon Polly and it's acceptable quality, but I would be ecstatic to be able to do it locally on my own hardware.
If you look at work from Bueno de Mesquita, Smith and others, you might become convinced that Americans force their leaders to support democracy despite the cost to the interests of the people and the leaders.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227458612_The_Logic...
EDIT: It looks so easy in that video! I'm not sure why I had so many problems opening the door, but I did. Maybe I'll try it again. Maybe I'll just wait a few more years to see if the game gets better first, though.

I suspect that the rationale for adding more and more complicated systems is to increase the sunk cost fallacy for existing players, who will have invested increasing amounts of time into learning how they all work. (And perhaps, to make everything seem less like a video game and more like a "real life simulation").

There is no way that a new player would do anything but bounce right off this game, but perhaps that is by design.
GMail was also invite only IIRC.
I'm the kind of person that would be more than happy with just 1B dollar, but I think most billionaires are not like me.

I wonder how Mark Zuckerberg's takes this kind of loss, indiference? painful? annoyance?
This. We asked about non-Teams alternatives, and were told we'd be responsible for hosting and maintaining anything else we chose by our IT department, and that was the end of that conversation.
The clouds of Venus, 50km above the surface, also seem like a neat place to colonize. (relatively speaking)
SF is also thousands of dollars a license, office365 is maybe a hundred. So everyone gets o365 but only people who need access have SF.
Seems like different implementations but not sure one would be harder than the other. Killing a tiny flying creature isn’t exactly easy
Q runs SQLite under the hood. If you want real firepower, take a look at DuckDB, the codebase is also a work of art.

https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb
And Netflix made it much easier to enable subtitles/captioning.
Looking at the ranking in question, the US loses points for inequality and irresponsible consumption.

https://dashboards.sdgindex.org/rankings

The inequality probably isn't making things all that much worse for people at the top end of it. Nor is a high rate of consumption.