skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are 8 GB soldered and 8 GB insertable on-slot in E14. The most idiotic thing is that if soldered RAM fails, the system board won't work, even if the other 8GB inserted RAM are fine and everything else on the board is fine.

I suspect that solder joints may also be affected by heat. Though, of course, I won't be checking it in a microwave oven.

Is it more or less suitable to suppose that if during the 2 year warranty for a new E14 thinkpad its soldered RAM works fine, so there are no essential manufacturing defects in it and it should be ok in the long run?

But I am also worried (as a theoretical possibility) whether somewhat above-the-normal external magnetic or electric fields won't affect the soldered RAM too adversely.
Interestingly enough Solaris isn't certified.

At a previous employer we would run a large number of Oracle installations on Solaris, on Oracle hardware (SPARC64). I don't think that uncommon.
It's the plain GPT-3, I just crafted a good prompt. In the future I might fine-tune it providing examples based on the most upvoted meanings (still have to implement the feature)
If my toiletry needs were large enough to hire a plumber to spend 40 hours a week in my home, I would not expect the plumber to tell me when the toilet works again. I would expect the toilet to work, period.

Clearly, I would have two toilets for redundancy (much cheaper than 40 weekly hours of plumber time). In the rare occasion when both are broken at the same time I would expect the plumber to volunteer that information. The brokenness is the exception, the workingness the default assumption.
Chargebacks get you banned from pretty much every single company/service.
>Right, but then how do you displace the remaining fossil fuel use?

The cost effective way would be with wind farms, pumped/battery storage and demand shifting.

(this would be a nice problem to have, by the way, but we are STILL churning through terawatt hours of gas while the sun is shining and the wind is blowing all over).

Nuclear power isnt dispatchable. It's not just 5x more expensive. It would overproduce during times when we don't need electricity and underproduce when we do.
There is a reason why Techspot.com is not on my list of RSS feeds to read. It is also unfortunate most decent tech journalism is completely gone.

I am not entirely sure if I should flag it, but at least the comments on HN are 100x better than the article.

I would also not be surprised, if this isn't being dealt with early on, the word "Path Tracing" will become another marketing hype and being over used in every single internet comment, just like Apple's "* unified memory* " was some special memory built into the chip or worst SRAM cache inside the chip etc....
There’s something to be said for giving said teenagers what they want without going “too overboard”.

The posts on HN about the FBI saying TikTok is a security risk (and other general dislike here) has shifted me to Instagram reels (basically the same thing with a slightly less cutting-edge algorithm).

My TikTok feed was 95% stand up comic bits and golden retrievers (with the occasional other cute dog breed). It’s really a marvel of the modern world how closely and relatively-wholesomely the algorithm matches you with what you want to see.

It’s not like the people you’re mentioning are sheltered from NSFW subreddits and other less wholesome content on the internet. The dance trends and generally beautiful people are just what they want to see. That being said, I think the surface-level encouragement of cosmetic surgery that TikTok’s focus on beauty encourages is definitely a hugely negative influence on youth. Just a specific example of popular culture placing undue focus on beauty standards.
> The song "One Step Closer (Live in Texas)" by Linkin Park is about a person's feeling of needing to escape from their current situation and the pain that comes with it. The singer expresses their frustration with the endless cycle of hearing and saying the same words without resolution, and with every new words adding to the pain. As they feel like they are reaching a breaking point, they feel they need a little room to breathe and some space away from the situation. Ultimately, they are one step closer to the edge and they realize that any new words spoken to them will just take them one step closer to the edge and even closer to breaking.

Yo dawg… I heard you’re just one step closer…

Either way? Entertaining at least.
I was looking at the implementation. What the hell. Who would want to maintain this monster?
Yeah, I'm certain it'd run just fine if I force-installed it despite the warning. The only ways I can think of that they could possibly screw it up so badly that it wouldn't work would surely have also been noticed by people with newer CPUs.

But it's a good enough reason not to jump to an 'off' release. Why bother going to all the trouble of installing something you don't even want, when it gives you the easy out of claiming it's incapable of running?

Still annoying that they blacklisted perfectly serviceable hardware that has years of life left. I'm not a fan of the "everything's disposable, programmed obsolescence" stuff. And I know these CPUs are still being sold and used (because they are still plenty usable and can meet almost everyone's needs).
I think the secret to get the C2 splines that pass through the control points right is to not just increase the degree but also add two more points, i.e. not 4 but 6 segments.
I haven't kept up the latest in graphics research. Is the idea that you have a machine-learning system that learns a sort of rough internal representation of the 3D model based on the rendered image (or multiple successive images), and then uses that to help denoise, or interpolate features that are missing from the original dataset?

Something I've wondered about is whether these denoising algorithms are always purely used as a last stage of post-processing at the end of the graphics pipeline, or whether they're able to, in effect, go back and say "hey, this area right here I'm pretty uncertain about, so I think we should trace some more rays" and so you might go back and forth between the raytracing engine and the denoising engine a couple times before you get a final image. It seems like the latter could be pretty effective.
As opposed to those who had access to them previously?

They were never "your" DMs.
I'm not fully convinced here, I bet those long term patients were on antipsychotics nearly all of which have extrapyramidal side effects, pretty identical to negative symptoms.
Cool and fun app! Without knowing much about the GPT3 API, I'm curious if you had to provide training data for each character, or if it's simply a setting on the API
Carmack is an absolute genius and it would be madness to disregard anything he's spent any significant amount of time thinking about.

But let's be real, he isn't Tim Sweeny or Gabe Newell. As smart he is, I don't think he is even top 3 in the best business decision makers of his specific field of first person shooter game developers. His track record is that using his tremendous skill he caught one of the biggest waves, and he's been riding that out and catching smaller waves ever since. I don't even think he didn't see the larger subsequent waves that Sweeney and Newell saw, I think he just wasn't interested in them.

Was he interested in catching big waves for Facebook, or was he interested in pursuing his specific vision?
Aren’t these problems better resolved by linear types and alike?

Successful implementations were made in several languages now.
Well said but we don’t know for sure if the above is true. Carmack is a genious programmer and rather than trash him right away we should acknowledge that his job was hard- very hard. In any biography the failures are way more interesting than the successes. The ancient greek understood that pretty well.
Yes that was the one I used and was the one that I meant by saying "took over the ones tuned for Windows."

I think ParcPlace took it over and replaced it by the expensive one which was OS independent and not tuned to Windows.
Is that something GPT would do?
Hi, what about autocomplete?
The kid also prefers eating chocolate over potatoes. That doesn't mean we just give up potatoes and let them have chocolate.
Oracle database are still heavily deployed Oracle servers, with SPARC processors, running Solaris. While Oracle database run very well on RedHat, or Oracle Linux, Solaris really is the default platform.
Would steel consumers be better off if the largest steel companies were broken in to smaller pieces?

This would destroy economies of scale and cause the price of steel to skyrocket. It would send the entire economy into a tailspin.

Low margin, large scale businesses are highly efficient from an economic standpoint. Doing anything to hurt these businesses would be disastrous to the economy. We want to encourage efficiency, not punish it.
Then we should dismiss your critique of his critique, since you are also anonymous :-)
Yes it is just a rephrasing. Just didn’t want other readers new to the concept to view this as some form of troublesome discrimination rather than a pretty basic and critical business move to help everyone in a transaction get to a good outcome.
I agree. I am a supporter of the freedom of speech angle, but this is all a total nothing-burger. A few TOS violations and some internal debate. I also suspected that BAU was much worse than presented.
Yes! I dropped off there plenty of times. May I recommend the audio book version?

It is much easier to just keep going that way, it's how I've brought a whole pod of white whales to the tryworks.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34013000
See 'a class of c2 interpolating splines' - http://cemyuksel.com/research/interpolating_splines/
Why was data integrity expected going backward?
Probably works as a way to attract talent
Why build yet another different thing? Why not instead become the best Mastodon instance around? That way they can focus on making a custom Mastodon client and server rather than trying to reinvent things.

If Spill is better than the rest then people will choose it as their Mastodon provider, just as they choose between different email providers.
But aren’t they just flagging Tweets as potential violations of TOS? That sounds as tame as it could possibly be. The same option is open to me as an ordinary user.
Really appreciate that you take the time to weigh in with these explanations. The moderation can feel heavy handed and arbitrary at times so these comments help to shine a light on the difficult balance you're trying to maintain.
The explanation about SNI especially helped me understand some of the tough judgement calls that the mods need to make.

Is there a manifesto of some sort that defines the philosophy and approach of HN moderation? Or is just tribal knowledge that mods have built over time?
Having a quick look through this thread just about nothing your describe fits well with traditional psychiatric disorders.

For example panic attacks almost by definition do not last more than 15minutes.

Although self diagnosis is near impossible, I mean how can you expect to be an objective observer of your self when you can barely watch TV? It's possible a trained psychiatrist would be able to make a snap diagnosis for you if they were able to watch and listen to you at the time.
I don't disagree, and I was in a similar position not too long ago.

But it also doesn't change the fact that this is ultimately hearsay. Maybe this was someone who butted heads and ultimately had the better idea go by the wayside because they lacked clout. Maybe they are a gilted employee whose full story would make them feel like how they described Carmack. We don't know and on the internet it's way too easy to pretend to that sabetour who never even worked at Meta but is very angry about some design decision in Quake 3.

There's ultimately no good way to do PR as a non-PR employee for that reason, even if the big corp allowed it. You either put your name on the line or you just say nothing. Most employees choose the latter. Your best bet if you have any real evidence and want impact is to seek a journalist for coverage and anonymity.

Anything else is simply a footnote to keep in mind until (if ever) some big bust happened.
They're not a normal user. Wouldn't you expect more transparency from your government? It appalls me that many find this okay.
alternate source : https://archive.vn/3CfCk
The RRP is now $15, if by some small miracle you find one in stock somewhere.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/supply-chain-update-its-goo...
You can tell AI is still in its infancy as most of these interpretations are like a kid trying really hard to find some meaning but at the same time almost always missing some context (or subtext).

Most of them are just funny, and the whole thing is fascinating, but I cannot see much more use or value other than that at this point.
No one is saying it's egregiously different. The question was why corporate taxes are lower than personal income taxes, the answer is that there is no logical reason why they should be equal or higher. No one complains that their sales tax rate is lower than their income tax rate.
This reminds me that no matter who you are, solving problems in big companies requires an insane amount of persuasion work. Storytelling and aligning people on why something is essential becomes the job rather than the vision to solve it.

Corollary: if people don't agree on the problem to solve and its importance, solutions heavily tend to fail.
I tried Yaosobi's Racing into the Night (which is about a woman tempting a man into suicide [1]) and the AI understanding is completely the opposite lol:

https://www.songtell.com/genius-english-translations/yoasobi...

Though granted, the metaphor in the lyrics "racing into the night" is probably lost on this AI

[1]: https://www.otaquest.com/yoasobi-2020-breakout-japanese-act/
thanks, but I blush.

> Who are you?

Nobody special. As a semiretired programmer I have some spare time that I seem to spend on HN to a large degree. I like the dispassionate discourse across divides that this forum sometimes (often?) enables.
How lucky, we use Zoom as team's chat.
Doom kicked ass not because it was trying to catch big waves but because they followed their specific vision. Making shit tons of money is not everything.

Agree that Sweeney seems to be the better captain. And he left carmack in the dust with unreal.
Exactly this! Mute channels, adjust your notifications, and if it's still annoying, just turn it off. You can always turn it back on and check it when you're ready and it's time to talk with people.

I think I have mine set so I only get pinged if there's a direct @ mention of my name. Sometimes I miss some stuff, but also, I get to miss stuff. If it's important, someone will ping me directly.
The name makes me chuckle!
i know what you mean about "good stuff", but i did really enjoy the full commentary on this one.
you have to give the narrative a chance and you can choose to skip right ahead if you want to without so much of an effort.
We need the power now, not in 15 years. The magic wand that waves away all of nuclear's problems that prevent this from happening sooner, simply does not exist. There seem to be lots of delusional dreamers that pretend otherwise but they don't have a whole lot of GW of power to show for their wishful thinking.

Nuclear has been a no show during the Ukraine crisis. People talk about it. But it's all a bit academic. A whole lot of could have, would have, should have, but not a whole lot of actual new capacity coming online. What little there is under construction tends to have eye watering budgets and lots of delays. This crisis will be ancient history by the time any new nuclear planned this year actually comes online. Solar and wind on the other hand are outstripping nuclear in terms of growth by no small margin.

It's the cheat code we have and we're using it to make hundreds of GW of new power generation happen in the next few years.
That's also the price of selling to a market that can afford to spend gazillions on crap cameras.
As a friendly counterpoint, my parents limited the time that I watched TV when I was young (mostly pre-ubiquitous-internet, so it probably implies limiting internet time somewhat). I’m just sharing my experience.

I got to pick what I watched and when; I just got 30 minutes or an hour a day. I mostly tried to catch the latest Dragon Ball Z episode.

The general strictness of my parents lead to severe rebellion, and that got me into all sorts of trouble (so it definitely wasn’t all a good thing). Now that I’ve matured a bit, I enjoy not having much of a TV habit (I find that I self-titrate internet content in a healthy way as well). I’m actually pretty grateful for the limits.

I don’t have kids, and I don’t know what I would do regarding this posted question, but I thought that I would share that I have very positive feelings concerning my parents’ decision to impose a limit on TV consumption time. I filled the rest of my time reading books, and that’s a very fulfilling time-sink to this day.

Also relevant: I think a lot of the streaming-video content available today (Netflix and others) has a lot more intrinsic value than most of the TV content when I was young. There are so many brilliant writers producing theses shows nowadays that my parents’ sentiment may not really apply to all the content. Even something like Cocomelon (we put it on in social settings if someone’s got their kids with them) is just better than Rugrats as far as providing entertaining wholesome/halfway-informative content.
According to [1], you need to resolder only 1 resistor to tell BIOS that the soldered RAM is 16GB upgraded (in this case of upgrading the 8GB of soldered RAM to 16 on a Dell XPS13).
Can it be assumed in a similar vein, that if E14 soldered RAM fails sometime, and you may only want to block it from usage and leave in the system board, so you may only need to fiddle with resoldering some resistors?
Thou it currently seems like no, as I suppose the system board won't work at all without any working soldered RAM. So there need to be a way to inform the system board to not use soldered RAM and use inserted RAM.

[1] https://hackaday.com/2021/11/24/you-cant-upgrade-soldered-on...
I know that I do.

I think (1) it is unlikely that the presence or absence of qualia perfectly lines up with being human.

I strongly suspect (2) that at the very minimum other humans who report thinking like me also have qualia. Otherwise the word wouldn't have been invented.

As (3) minimal definitions of "what's a real person anyway" have led to most of the genocides and other crimes against humanity throughout history, I prefer to act as though all humans have qualia; but that's an argument about how to act under uncertainty, not about what is.

Given (1) and (3), I also assume other animals have qualia and that the meat any dairy industry is as bad as if the same things were done to humans. (Unfortunately, I can't seem to give up cheese yet).

We have seen AI agents demonstrate the creation of language to coordinate group actions, so (2) is possible in principle, but I don't know how we can tell the difference between an AI which accurately self-reports having qualia and one which just says it does but actually has as much as the web browser you're reading this comment in:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_creation_in_artificia...
This will go nowhere. Twitter has always been a "mess" and that hasn't hurt it's adoption.
The double Irish has been phased out.
I think you're basically right. You can't justify cruelty by saying "oh at least it's not as cruel as that guy over there".

Essentially I've come to the conclusion that we shouldn't kill animals at all. You can say all sorts of things about how well they're treated, and what end they'd meet of we didn't kill them, but in the end they don't want to die and they never consented to this deal where we feed them and keep them warm in exchange for their meat.

Of course I'm the biggest hypocrite in the world when it comes to living by it, but at least I can see it's wrong.
How wonderful...
Side note, but someone linked a great talk by OS researcher Timothy Roscoe the other day about a) the increasing heterogeneity of our computing devices, b) Linux's inability to really support same, and consequently c) Linux being used on the device, because the device has to "run Linux", but in increasingly smaller and more walled-off spaces, leaving board management which you'd normally think of as an "OS task" to device drivers or onboard firmware. The non-Linux-running processors on the board run an RTOS or whatever.

This would seem to be what's happened here with Linux running on, and really only in charge of, a small portion of the SOC. https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi21/presentation/fri-ke...

To paraphrase what he says at the end of the talk, it would be a great idea to think about the kind of OS which could take these three cores properly into account.
I was mainly addressing Carmack's points on the "culture" of these languages, but F# is definitely more practical overall than Haskell, in my opinion. Eager by default with optional lazy evaluation, mutability, OOP, functional, pragmatic and huge standard library, easy FFI, CLI tooling, easy to use async and concurrency, and a strong VM that basically runs anywhere and is easy to install all go a long way. I am less familiar with the particulars of OCaml because I have never needed to reach for it over F#, and yes, the longstanding multicore support deficiency was not great.

Also, to elaborate on my reply to Carmack, I think he is grossly underestimating the prevalence of esoteric implementations and DSLs in C, C++, and their ilk.

And yes, Elixir and Erlang, especially Elixir, are very practical languages. I'm hard pressed these days to look any further than F# or Elixir for projects because they effectively cover all bases from soft real-time embedded and up.
A ticking time bomb: healthcare under threat across western Europe
Pretty intuitive result. In 2D it was disproven, Penrose found two.

But extending this to 3D it would be much easier to find such a tiling. Now they found one of a single shape.
Carmack aside, I think the "never meet your heroes" thing is even simpler: no one's perfect. Your hero could have cured cancer but maybe they're a nervous wreck in public. Or aren't native to your area and may commuicate badly face to face for culture clashing reasons. Or maybe they are great in a small intimate team but completely fall apart in a large setting. Heck it could be as simple as finding out they are a heavy smoker or an alcoholic.

The common stereotype is "heroes are narcissitic and have skeletons in the closet", but there are valid reasons for an otherwise good person to fail in what may be common sense to others.
Showers not until the 1970s? Maybe in the Netherlands. In the US, I understand it was common by the late 1950s.
GDPR has nothing to do with citizenship, why would you even bring that up?

Really, it even has nothing to do with residency. It's all to do with jurisdiction, when Elon happens to be within EU jurisdiction he is protected by the GDPR.

When Elon takes his jet to visit Greece, he is indeed protected by the GDPR (even if just interacting with US based companies while he's on holiday, GDPR still applies)
What type of sites can be hosted on github pages? Can github pages be used free by anyone for any site? Can I have a blog under my own domain (with ads and make money) where I write about random stuff not relatade to any github project?

Feels like there must be alot of limitations, like not for profit, limited bandwidth/pageviews per month, and must be github project oriented etc or?
I don't see that distinction mattering all that much. What matters is that people with a specific mindset come out of these MBA schools that also have formed strong networks there which help them win the power and status games later on.