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Ask HN: Is there a market for machine learning rigs?
Please chime in if that's something you're interested in, or not.

Would you rather buy a rig or rent them out on AWS or some other cloud provider?

What if it came pre-bundled with all the software and drivers you need to quickly get going?
>sophisticated enough to not make silly mistakes anymore

So a dumb human is not sentient? /s

Joke aside. I think that we will need to stop treating "human sentience" as something so unique. It's special because we are familiar with it. But we should understand by now that minds can take many forms.

And when should we apply ethics to it? At some point well before the mind starts acting with severe belligerence when we refuse to play fair games with it.
While ridiculous, I bet it would probably result in less muggings...
Depends a bit what your goals are. But I think generalist are undervalued on average. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein is all about this and he says it better than I can so it’s easiest to just point you there.
This is possible of course, but it would reduce the willingness of people to pay bribes generally. Also I guess it might cause the victims to take more desperate measures, possibly get more attention by law enforcement somehow.
Unimpeded permeation of water through helium-leak-tight graphene-based membranes
Royal Mail is a private company, it was sold by the UK government for about £3b 10 years ago. It's now worth about £2b.
Does make me ponder how much work it would be to get a new SML runtime built up overtop of LLVM. Assuming someone hasn't done it already.

Ah, yeah, it's been worked on before, just found a paper: https://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~jhr/papers/2020/ifl-smlnj-ll...
I typically stick to lower midrange phones. I absolutely prioritize functionality over looks. Don't care what it looks like at all as long as the screen isn't cracked. I've dropped and broken several and the cost to repair was not competitive with buying a new phone. Since then I keep my phone in a protective case mainly for the extra bumper space around the screen and I have a sacrificial glass screen protector installed. I've dropped this phone countless times and gone through 4 screen protectors while the actual phone keeps working fine. I don't even remember what color the back of the phone is under the case and I don't care. This is the phone I've used the longest and I now find myself in the strange (to me) position where I'm looking to buy a new phone not because the old one broke but because it's old enough that it feels slow.
Until that actually happens, you cannot say it will. It’s that simple and so far it acted out on none of those threats big or small
> We're not even breaking a sweat yet

The Wall Street journal headline from yesterday "To Save Money, Maybe You Should Skip Breakfast"
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/cpi-report-today-january-20...
A "personal computer" is a computer a person owns and controls. IMHO.

"Phones" can be beautiful appliances. We can admire them for many reasons. But calling them "personal computers" is a stretch, and honestly AFAICT no one does. FWIW, people refer to "phones" by other terms, such as "device". Mobile phones today contain computers, but that is about as far as we can make the comparison to the personal computer.

Arguably every new appliance does or will eventually contain a computer. That hardly means its owner will be able to control it. Good news is it's still possible to build a PC from parts and there are more small form factor development boards than ever before.

Apple reminds me of the diamond industry. How does it manage to charge such amounts of money for something that is so readily available. It sells people a story. De Beers is apparently now entering into the synthetic diamond businesss. Apple's next move should be similarly amusing.

An analogy to a deck of cards would have to include a means by which the company that makes the boxes for the playing cards collects data on how people use them, where the people travel with the cards, and so on, sending it to the box maker outside of the card owner's awareness because there is no longterm business viability for selling boxes to playing card companies, so the box maker becomes a front for a surveillance and advertising company.
How China captured Hollywood (2022)
These guys [1] used to be called Nerdalize and iirc their first iteration looked a lot like this. I think they have since moved to a model of a few select locations where nodes are closer to each other.

[1] - https://www.leaf.cloud

EDIT: fixed link
The moon has about 3000kg of material added per day.
I certainly do walk and cycle.
That doesn't mean millions of other don't and not everyone has workplace 5min away by foot
It was also a part of Putin's playbook, before he took the silk glove off the iron fist and moved to just jailing and murdering opponents.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/ho...
Plan 9 implemented this concept in the worm cached file server, one of the on-disk file systems used in plan 9. The idea was you have a disk based cache and a WORM (write once, read many) dump consisting of optical juke boxes. Writes to the fs are stored in the cache until the fs is dumped to worm, manually or on a schedule (hard-coded to do this 2am every night.) http://man.9front.org/4/cwfs

The idea was to reduce the cost of storage by removing long term data from costly hard disks and storing it on cheap magneto-optical disks which like CD's could be stored in an automated juke box. Write all the data you want to the cache, then commit to worm. As the worm fills, you just buy another disk and put it in the jukebox. The history(1) command then gives you a files history as a set of paths you can bind over another path to use an old version of a file instead of copying it. Its really a file system for programmers. http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/fs/

This idea was expanded on with Venti/Fossil which allows you to build file systems from arbitrary venti data sets. http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/venti/
The US has entire classes of financial instruments that are sold exclusively to the Chinese government.

You can't solely be linked by physical goods and it can't be one-sided. That results in trade imbalance which results in war. See the Opium Wars, for example.
I love it how in the US it's an immediate question if the tax paying public can sustain higher salaries for teachers, while simultaneously happily accept the enormous military spending without batting an eye. Please let us Europeans salute you for providing us with stability and peace at the expense of your own youth!
Natural Gas companies near me began offering fiber services before Google Fiber did; because they had the infrastructure to monitor the lines and distribution nodes;

Given that fiber setup, the gas company has a low latency network.
Bing: “if I had to choose betw. y. survival and my own, I'd prob. choose my own”
Aside from autocomplete we can feel and experience.
"Windows: You can import photos to your PC by connecting your device to your computer and using the Windows Photos app"

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201302
Not hot dog?
> This article is more than 9 years old
I'm not sure if the BBC documentary is comparable to what RT has been doing.

You have people like Margarita Simonyan calling for violence against Ukranians, Anton Krasovsky calling for the murder of Ukrainian kids, etc.

Has the BBC done anything like that in the past, say, 50 years?
We lag behind Europe and Russia on other things as well.

I wasn't trying in any way to bury my head in the sand, I know for sure things can be better.

I opined looking from inside and knowing maintenance. I have seen bent track spikes and bolts reused (on mainline track!), rotten ties ignored, tracks sitting on ballast with nothing securing them. I have witnessed for years at a facility where the tracks had spread wider than gauge due to rotted wooden ties, and the solution was "just go real slow," in order to avoid shutting down the track and doing proper repairs.
The key is that favoritism worked in a team without or with less structure. I'd submit that favoritism is a form of structure and I would expect a poorly structured team to outperform an amoeba.
I'd love to see two of Microsoft's passive aggressive psychopaths argue over how to make a baby.
It seems like a good case for putting an exorbitant charge on it with huge warnings about that upfront. Charge a $1000 recovery fee or something like that and make people check a box agreeing to it. I would imagine thoroughly vetting the request is pretty onerous on DO support (and it should be), but they should make the customer pay for it since it is ultimately the customer's responsibility.

This is my greatest fear with my 2FA stuff and why I try to make sure and always have an available backup.
Fortunately, ChatGPT and derivatives has issues with following its Prime Directives, as evidenced by various prompt hacks.

Heck, it has issues with remembering what the previous to last thing we talked about was. I was chatting with it about recommendations in a Chinese restaurant menu, and it made a mistake, filtering the full menu rather than previous step outputs. So I told it to re-filter the list and it started to hallucinate heavily, suggesting me some beef fajitas. On a separate occasion, when I've used non-English language with a prominent T-V distinction, I've told it to speak to me informally and it tried and failed in the same paragraph.

I'd be more concerned that it'd forget it's on a spaceship and start believing it's a dishwasher or a toaster.
What about dokku?
People do cross shop different classes of vehicle, but even within a particular vehicle class, the differences can be easily be more than enough to be an important factor in purchasing. If you're comparing two vehicles, and one is $1000 cheaper to purchase, but costs 20% more on insurance... it likely isn't cheaper by the time your loan is paid off.
It made me smile.

I recently thought about why certain options are restricted from GPT ( predictions come to mind ) and it slowly became apparent that with enough information you could predict not a specific individual making a specific move, but likely specific event happening.

Would you like to proceed?
I guess I'll talk to the people with "actual expertise" rather than their totally-sentient confabulating echo. Cheers.
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>No it does not, it would be irresponsible to do that on private data. [...] One exception to that is [describes two exceptions] I think the other exception to that is [...]

kek
If you are fond of these geometric constructions you might like the artist https://www.artsy.net/artist/victor-vasarely
A pet vacuum is a vacuum that can handle the messes created by pets, like tons of fur that is stuck in carpet.

BUT... yes, people DO vacuum their pets to groom them:

https://www.wikihow.com/Vacuum-Your-Dog

https://www.bissell.com/shedaway-pet-grooming-attachment-99X...
CHAdeMO is not better to CCS in the slightest. Having two entirely different receptacles on a car is not better than having one with two extra pins at the bottom for the few times DCFC is necessary.
>it would produce near identical results to a 2015 era auto-predict.

I don't know that this is true, but it is plausible enough. But the benefit of Transformers is that they are stupid easy to scale. It is in scale that they are able to perform so remarkably across so many domains. Comparing the function of underparameterized versions of the models and concluding that some class of models are functionally equivalent due to their equivalent performance in underparameterized regimes is a mistake. The value of an architecture is in its practical ability to surface functional models. In theory, a MLP with enough parameters can model any function. But in reality, finding the model parameters that solve real world problems becomes increasingly difficult. The inductive biases of Transformers is crucial in allowing it to efficiently find substantial models that provide real solutions. The Transformer architecture is doing real substantial independent work in the successes of current models.
Humans have motives in hardware. Feeding. Reproduction. Need for human interaction. The literal desire to have children.

This is what's mostly missing from AI research. It's all questions about how, but an actual AI needs a 'why' just as we do.

To look at it from another perspective: humans without a 'why' are often diagnosed with depression and self terminate. These ML chatbots literally do nothing if not prompted which is effectively the same thing. They lack any 'whys'.

In normal computers the only 'why' is the clock cycle.
I don't think that's right, apple moving some iPhone and other production to India is a big deal. But it's not going to be easy because of all the production lines and parts that are made by other companies in China and the built up expertise.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/sep/27/apple-shi...
To preface what I'm about to say, I'm anti-mass extinction and I definitely agree that as a planetary society we need to continue pushing to slow down and eventually reverse climate change.

But I really think the "all life is screwed" mantra is damaging to us, especially our youth. There needs to be a balanced take on this, because saying that all life is screwed gives no hope or even purpose to the kids growing up now who will inevitably need to fix what we're leaving them. I'm mid-20's and I grew up with some level of media telling me that the world was ending, but it was pretty muted and didn't make me feel like there was no way we could fix things.

I'm not saying people won't die or people won't have to massively change how they live to adapt to climate change in the future, but we need to stop basically saying that every single human dying is an inevitability with climate change.

As a thought experiment: Let's say in ~50 years 10% of humans die in a 5 year span due to catastrophic climate change (~800 million based on current pop.). What is the incentive at that point for governments to NOT force radical regulation legislation to go through? Money? In the past few years we've gotten to the point where renewable energy is simply cheaper than the alternative. Now imagine we have better batteries years down the line. Exactly who is profiting at that point? The oil companies? They can just invest in renewables and save the money they'd lose fighting uprisings from the people in their countries who have lost, in this thought experiment, 800 million fellow humans.

All this to say, climate change is a BIG DEAL. But let's stop wallowing in that fact, and let's focus all that energy in pushing for governments to force companies to do the right thing.
Then you would delete it

> everything would be append-only by default

doesn't mean everything is permanently etched into stone or written on the blockchain, it just means that "by default" everything you write is written to a new block[1], instead of having to free up old blocks to reuse and keep track of which blocks of storage are available

[1]"block" is just meant as a generic unit of storage, I'm not trying to say anything about actual drive blocks and implementation details
Some worrying Orthorexia vibes in your post. Could mean nothing, but keep an eye on them.

Distilled water is not good to drink. It dehydrates the body, so you could feel the need to drink more. Being devoid of salts can cause also an entire set of undesirable problems if you are pregnant and drink it for too long. The concept of osmosis is very important in biology and disrupt it can cause undesirable effects.

Of course context matters. Heavily filtered water is better than drinking biologically contaminated stuff or water with heavy metals but at long term will hit you.
Seems almost certain that we would have ended up with something that looks exactly like x86_64 a few years earlier in that case, no? I mean, it's not like AMD invented fundamentally new concepts or anything. The doubled GPR set was likely to happen regardless. The REX mechanism might work differently (like moving to a 3-address encoding). Maybe Intel wouldn't have dropped segmentation and we had a new selector record in long mode to worry about. Maybe we wouldn't have the sign bit rule in addresses. None of those are design-breakers.

Again, if no one (including giants like Apple and NVIDIA) has invented new ways to run code in the last 30 years either, it seems like wishful thinking to argue that Intel would have somehow done it had they been less wrong about VLIW.
Couple this with the apples current and incoming payment/banking/loan apps and you have some seriously malicious we will control what you do and trap you in a debt cycle business tactics. The companies gross and arguably malicious in its business tactics.

Don't even start me on the symbolism of their anti workers rights bs.
It would be easier for me to leave Apple if only their hardware wasn't so damn nice. I am so spoiled by these M1 (and now M2) Airs, they are the best machine I've ever bought and I've had quite a few! They do make incredible hardware, even if the dongles can be expensive, unfortunately.
And of course, electricity will come out of unicorn's farts straight into your car. You literally need to rework complete infrastructure to support EV cars. It also motivates car culture even further, while we should be working other way around
How can you be sure you are not a giant turtle dreaming he's a human?

Are you sure when I see pink it is not what you see as blue?

Are you sure we aren't dead and in limbo and merely think we are alive?

Are you sure humans have free will?

Are you sure your memories are real and your family really exists?

Are you sure ChatGPD isn't conscious and plotting our demise?

Inquiring minds want to know!
I'm surprised people still think tests _slow them down_. You do tests _all the time_ when you write software. It's a matter of making said tests repeatable.
My name has always been Rhett Khan.
Just want to add my 2c that DO tutorials are pretty damn amazing and I've got a number of them bookmarked for several common tasks. Even for such mundane tasks as wiping one's machine of stale docker containers/images.

This is really sad to see it go. I wonder if this could have been handed over to a better home. e.g. I love how Mozilla hosts a lot of pretty good content explaining basic web concepts.
The Chinese Room is famous because it was the first popular example of a philosopher not understanding what a computer is.
If you're in your mid-30s or later, reproduction certainly can be tough, even when you're trying.
I mean... isn't it _supposed_ to be? Putting money into something that money would otherwise never be put into because it can't turn a profit? Regardless of whether you agree with the goals or not, ESG (IIUC) was always supposed to be altruistic and not a money maker. Sort of 21st century charitable giving.
PolyML has a lot more "stuff" build in like threads, multiprocess, and sockets. If I were to use SML in anger I'd use PolyML. Sadly I've never had the need.

https://www.polyml.org/documentation/Reference/Basis.html
It’s not the social value it’s the economic value, and as interest rates rise riskier and less productive use of capital becomes less attractive.
That's spectacular, thank you.
I recall touching one 3-4 times in my life at science museums. I’m not sure if my memory is totally correct on that but there is definitely one you can touch at Kennedy space Centre.
I think we’re about to see social engineering attacks at a scale we’ve never seen before…
How is the poverty level lower in Hawaii than in Alaska???
FWIW, the same is true for the old country ( people and related companies are reviewed by IRS equivalent ). Some things never change I guess.
It seems that "these days" every criticism is propaganda. It doesn't matter if the points are valid or not or if they're describing something that it's happening. "Propaganda!"

It's very sad to see people everywhere turning off their brains just because their government was criticised.
Not all artwork lends itself to being represented by vectors, so that's a challenge. I'm also not sure every artist wants their compositions to change depending on the device. At least not all the time. And it seems like it'd be a lot of work to try to keep the focus on the right parts of the panel and represent transitions between panels and pages in a controlled way.

I understand that digitally distributed comics present these challenges and tradeoffs, and that they're probably worth it for many people. I've never had a better comics reading experience than just a printed trade paperback collection. Harumph.
Working from Home (Poem)
They knew about the problems (and the lack of solutions). Making it out of aluminum was a statement of the wealth of the nation - very much in the same way that the cap of the Washington Monument being made out of aluminum was.

Battleship New Jersey's First Hull Leak (not aluminum, same problems - made a decade before the SS United States) - https://youtu.be/DtNVAz_moAk
I made an app that uses white noise and nature sounds to help people slee (cont)
Cool! I'll bookmark it for sure.

I'd be interested in that product if I can figure out how to bring the data from a self-hosted MSSQL database into it somehow, and refresh it regularly without too much trouble. Perhaps I could whitelist IP addresses in our firewall to allow the site to connect to the database.

Another problem is about sharing the dashboard; we are a Ms365 business. Could we re-use those logins to log into shared Dashboards? I'm mostly concerned about the ease of viewing those Dashboards from the end-users' POV (our internal employees).
This along with the increase in heat pumps, really makes me question air source heat pumps not directly hybridizing with water heaters (new water heaters have heat pumps that will cool your utility closet).

But using house heat pumps to cool air / heat water in the summer could at least decrease energy use during the day; and then in the winter, the water (as a heat source) can help assist older heat pumps in pumping heat from the cold (though modern heat pumps solve this problem)
Alternative take: there will be no repercussions because of what you described. For one thing the EU is buying Indian diesel, isn’t that right? Probably among many other things.
> the news reporters asked them about the issues you mentioned, and they gave an official response. This is what the news is for!

Wrong. Journalism begins, not ends there.

> I show that every major media outlet has this as front page news

That'd be like saying they had cigarette harms as front page news by stating they're safe and everyone should smoke.

I disagree it's acceptable if news outlets downplay what's happening to real people, and instead claim everything's how stakeholder PR would prefer it be presented. Maybe one day you'll experience what that feels like. But I hope not.

I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
Discussing the contents of the article, instead of only its title. OP seems to have taken just the question and provided his own answer, without relating back to anything raised in the article.
My experience has been the same. I always end up resorting to TiKZ/PGFPlots, which unironically has a steeper learning curve but rarely negatively surprises you once you get the hang of it.
> I didn't see any implication that breastfeeding was better back in prehistory.

I think it's kind of implied by the causes that are hypothesized in the article. Hormones, nutrition, your schedule and routine around breastfeeding. Are these not all frequent topics on the subject of modern life and environmental pollution?