skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Got all your numbers wrong too, not just your units. Modern combined cycle power plants mean that 100 J of chemical energy turn into more than 40 J of electricity (depends on your energy mix, but could be as high as 60 J). Then you also get a third of your energy from nuclear in some places, or hydro, or solar and wind (that is happening now - not just in the future). Heat pumps can be 300% or 400% efficient for most of the year (it's those few coldest nights of the year where they really struggle).

So even if you don't have any nuclear or renewable energy in your mix, just natural gas, you get 60*3 or 4 = 180 to 240 J of heat energy from your 100 J of chemical energy.

For most people in America, heat pumps are currently the most efficient option.
> Your best people should remain engineers. Have them indeed sign off on these things.

I agree; the problem with an engineer track is that the salary ceiling is too low, and you have to move to management to get higher salary. but then you end up not using your engineering skills, and waste potential.

What needs to happen is a way for people management to be done without a hierarchical structure. Aka, the senior engineer sits not under their manager, but that the manager is subservient.

Joel spolsky have written about this "problem" already in the last couple of decade: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2009/03/09/how-to-be-a-progra...

> To make sure that the debate happens respectfully and on a rational basis of facts, it’s absolutely critical that the program managers and developers be peers. If developers report to the program manager, at some point during the debate the program manager is going to get sick of the whole thing and just say, “OK, enough talking, now we do it my way.”
You mean the standard TDP is made up ?
An ATTiny IDE
If you read a file with malloc and memcpy, it copies the data from the kernel to userspace. With mmap there is no copying.
“It’s just a joke bro” the ultimate criminal defence.

The prosecution established the defendant’s intent to reduce the turnout of black voters “ For example, on November 1, 2016, in or around the same time that Mackey was sending tweets suggesting the importance of limiting “black turnout,””

That’s mens rea.
Hashtags work great on mastodon. I follow a few of them. It's all sorted by time.
My point was that the intent does not matter
I guess I’m not following (and that second link is broken for me).

Suppose I create a positive meme about a campaign, which obviously happens a lot. Is that still “impersonation”? I find what Mackey did really unsavory and gross but I’m not really understanding what the principle being applied here actually is. Are meme/jokes/absurdities about political campaigns not legal?
Hardware TSO support actually simplifies emulation. I don't know if FEX uses it yet but it seems simple.
> seems to be politically unfeasible at the moment, for reasons that elude me.

Ever see that monorail episode of The Simpsons? Yeah that's where we're at. There's a strong desire from many people to slow things down and be more deliberate and careful before any more big changes. There's a sense of disillusionment about "progressivism" amongst even those who crave the most righteous of vibes. This is a weird time to be alive and people just don't want to wake up to construction crews ironically destroying their cities to make way for yet another wave of gentrification pretending not to be.
They may or may not, but until they find a majority of supreme court justices to agree with them, (which judges, incidentally, are pulled from the rest of America), it doesn't really matter in our system. That's kind of the way our system works. The people on the bottom, are there for a reason. And there are many, many safeguards in place to keep it that way.
Well then maybe I should check it out again!

I've never actually coded anything in Go, but I've had a few occasions where I had to build a binary from source, and I remember having headaches with it then. There is still some $GOPATH stuff in my ~/.bashrc for some reason.

Incidentally, and perhaps ironically given the context of this discussion, the last time I interfaced with Go was - about six months ago - when I tried to globally install a binary and ran into some issues [0] which I assume were caused by the same $GOPATH change you're talking about.

[0] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44840#issuecomment-12896...
Yes. "TDP" from Intel and AMD have completely different definitions and are only loosely correlated with actual power consumption (especially for mobile parts); they're pretty much made up by the marketing departments for the purpose of product segmentation. The "TDP" they list for Apple is made up by PassMark; Apple doesn't publish a TDP number.
I have a commute that parallels the freeway for a portion. The train takes 18 mins or so to get through the stretch stops and all. The highway in rush hour takes about 30 mins if its really bad. However, the twist is I don’t work directly on this corridor, I need to transfer. The highway has an interchange with another, making the entire trip even in bad traffic about 40 minutes by the time I park and walk in.

With the train I need to transfer to another train. This could be a 10 minute wait at the platform before the train arrives, plus its an end of the line stop for this particular line so it will sit for another 5-10 mins while it changes operators. Then once it gets moving, another 15 mins since there are a few at grade crossings with this line and then a 10 min walk. I do it over driving because I can zone out half asleep in the mornings.

The transfering and frequencies are where transit enters a world of pain and these are expensive, complex issues to fix compared to an interchange ramp. Anytime I bring someone unfamiliar on the train, they basically swear off the system for good and moan why we didn’t just pay for the surging uber.
I agree it misses context. We should compare peak load and peak TDP.

Check the Cinebench R15 multicore here, Zen3 wins on perf/watt again

https://www.notebookcheck.net/M1-vs-R7-5800U_12937_12976.247...
CompuServe was not a BBS in the typical use of the term. And anyway CompuServe did not have an SMTP gateway until a bit later, 1989. They had their own closed system with their infamous octal User IDs eg: 74661,130. BBSes with direct internet email relays were always a rarity until the 90s, when BBSes were rapidly on the decline. And much more prevalent were relay systems such as FidoNet, RelayNet and StormNet.

The easiest way to have access to email and the internet in the 80s was via a university shell account or certain larger industry and defense employers.
The focus on paper clip maximizers is always curious to me. A lot more people are willing to turn a blind eye to or debate suffering when the object is maximizing money.
Looking on the bright side all that open space means there is more sunlight, a scarce resource in many cities.
I used coal because the GP said they were in an area where coal and natural gas were primarily used for generation. Since coal is used as part of the blend, it seemed reasonable to consider it as a worst case scenario for efficiency. I wasn't objecting to the general conclusion, just the implication that there was clearly no case where natural gas heat might beat a heat pump.

I'd happily concede that in all locations in California a heat pump will be more efficient when averaged over the entire year. I'm less sure about Winnipeg or Whitehorse, especially if we are looking at shorter timescales. Did jmchphers indicate somewhere that he was in California, or even the US? If he's somewhere very cold, I think we still need to at least run the numbers.

(I should probably also add that I've got a heat pump hot water heater and heat pump dryer. I'm a big fan of the technology---I just don't think it's always the head-and-shoulders winner for all people in all locations at all times.)
You can design a citycenter to primarily benefit bike traffic and then it will be consistently faster than car travel
First, you're right.

Second, and more important: finally, an un-obnoxious, non-political use for fact-checking.

Who's going to build crowd-sourced Snopes for ChatGPT?
Good point!
Here are some numbers at peak load, check Cinebench R15 multicore wattage and score : https://www.notebookcheck.net/M1-vs-R7-5800U_12937_12976.247...
You like your government trying to tell a private company what's true and untrue?
"being an arm device" is not an advantage though.

Being on a less used architecture, in the PC context, has its downsides.
Yeah, I see how they slot in now with the whole Ed "Big Daddy" Roth Weird-Ohs craze (circa 1969). There's a cringey "Leave it to Beaver" TV episode whose existence shows the cultural impact the "weird ohs" had on suburban norms (Beaver and his boy-pals each have a weird-oh shirt they agree to all wear to school on the same day ... well, you can guess how that plays out).
Previous predictions are wrong, therefore all predictions ever wrong! /s

I'm also not convinced that the carefully engineered dopamine drip of mobile scrolling isn't some type of brain melting.

Sometimes we should spend less time thinking if we could and more time thinking if we should.
You can enter any symbol but not quickly unless you set up some hotkeys or something. There is a key on the keyboard for e. Whatever you have to do for a unicode set symbol, it's going to be harder than hitting the e key.

And with regards to hotkeys, let's say you do Ctrl+alt+shift+esc+e to insert a unicode symbol, is that really better than just having a programming language where the common hotkeys are spelled out with a few ASCII characters?
So the summary of that long post: we still need group but Shakti/k9 gets rid of it because it's too slow forcing the user to diy it with other primitives as needed?

I love it... It's the exact opposite of every other language design. Others: lets ship it with every tool a developer might ask for. K9: Occam's razor to everything. Nothing is safe.
Absolutely. In 2012 I lived in Antioch/Pittsburg and made 13$/Hour. I live in TN now and own an entire mountain for a fraction of that cost. Yet, I can be in Downtown SF in 6 hours.

Even if I was in SF. That doesn’t mean you have to live on the peninsula. And yes; I fully understand the opportunity cost of not being in the heart of SF.

My point here isn’t to be a dick of judgemental. Even if my tone may be that way. It’s to explain that I think you’re missing the bigger picture here and you’re missing some information.

Your equity should be worth way more. Even if the cash value is low, equity can be leveraged in funny ways to provide value that’s not monetary. I don’t think I’ve met a CTO/CFO that has a compensation plan that is north of 250k in salary. Yet, I was behind a CFO a few years back who literally bought a house in France with equity.

When you hit the levels and roles you’ve held. When you hit 200k+ income. The entire game changes. There’s a point from around 0-80k/year where the rules are one way. From 80-200k where the rules are another way. 200k+ the game is entirely different. I’ve been through each stage and had to learn it.

At 200k+ as an executive. You have way more tools at your disposal than you would at IC sub 200k levels. I sat at a bar two weeks ago with a CTO who made south of 200k/year. Who just bought his third house that was north of a million dollars, this became his spring house in Hilton Head SC.

The value of money is not always in dollar amounts. From this post and some of your comments here that seems like what you’re focused on. It may not be, but I really encourage you to explore this topic more.

You may be the best fucking CTO in SF. But if you can’t articulate, negotiate, and get what your real value is, in a structured deal. You’re just going to be leaving money at the table. As CTO you wield immense power, with the org, and the board. Your position guarantees you a seat at the table with an audience. Use it to your advantage to get the value you deserve, and use it to make sure they know that the toxic culture they perpetuate will cause a loss in value of the company.
The only thing really missing from this is a way to export your comments from GitHub discussions in case you want to move to another service in the future.
>> I'm convinced entire power plants could be retired if the world stopped using python unfortunately.

On the other hand, many business and professionals wouldn't exist :)
Parking lots vs tightly packed is a false dichotomy. You could use the parking lot space for parks for instance.
The aggregation needs to be done after you've computed the transitive closure, not while you're computing it.
"Published 2020-08-02"
Stuff like that comes and goes.

Rabbits feet on necklaces were trendy when I was in high school. It wasn't the first time they were trendy among young people.
> If Americans want room to drive and get places and park then let them.

You do realize that much of that parking exists because of mandates and subsidies, right? If Americans want something else then let them. Does your interest in letting people make their own choices extend to other people's choices as well as your own?
In Julia you can use https://juliaarrays.github.io/StructArrays.jl/stable/ which lets your code use the array of structs interface but internally it’s a structure of arrays
I understand the early hacker mindset came from an era where we wanted to unlock hardware. But in 2023, good unlocked hardware exists and needs more love
True. But language is important. We don't have to help them victim blame.
What a bizarrely uninteresting and seemingly uninformed look.

The focus, for some reason, seems to be whether women at large read midwifery manuals or if men wrote them and controlled the knowledge of birthing in literature.

The whole article is so wholly ignorant in its precepts, it is genuinely not worth having been written.
Cold weather heat pump technology is consistently getting better, but I also think people underestimate how many heating days are above freezing even in cold areas and how much of the US and other places is mild enough in the winter for heat pumps to be fairly efficient nearly every day during the winter (especially if you look at population rather than land area).

If you look at a place like Minneapolis, which is normally considered a pretty cold US metro area, you do have a few months where the average temp is below zero. But you also have several more months where the temperature is cold enough to turn on the heat but well above freezing, where a heat pump is dramatically more efficient. When picking a heating system, it makes sense to consider comparative efficiency over the entire year, not just performance during the worst conditions in the middle of winter. Even in a city like Minneapolis, it's not obvious that heat pumps are less competitive over the entire year, even if their performance in January probably isn't fantastic.

I also think the practical geographic area extends further than people think. New York City definitely isn't the south, but per some random Googling, it doesn't appear to have any months where the average temperature is below freezing. Even Boston only has 2 months that barely drop below freezing. Most of the US northeast (definitely the mid-atlantic) by population arguably also falls into the range where heat pumps make sense.
Ask Marvin – AI Functions in Python
> I'm not saying no gangs exist, but they aren't really an issue

Sounds like you've never been poor in urban areas?
I'm not arguing with you at all when I asked the question. I'm just curious about outlying use cases. Is being curious bad?
Care to provide the citation for your quote?

It is typical to expect an unattributed quote to be from the subject text, which this does not appear to be.
I know there at least used to be implications for immigration depending on the terminology for the job description.
i see it going two ways:
1. they do skeumorphic design in a way where comes out as a giant touchscreen with a bunch of static buttons like you see with physical interfaces on a car
2. very deep menus. e.g., a dozen taps to switch from radio to bluetooth

in either case, it'll have a 15hz frame rate and 800ms of lag between input and response. i expect nothing better.

meanwhile, if we had a full-on apple car, it would probably have a 120hz truemotion display, well-calibrated spatial audio, and a fully-utilized M2 Max chip

i was bearish on the idea of an apple car years ago, but now with tesla withering, i'm practically begging for it
The jart: the standard unit of developer.

"I've got 20 yrs experience, and I think I'm about 150 milli jarts, maybe 200 on a good day."
Another reasonable conclusion is that more complex or serious crimes take more time to investigate and prosecute.

There's a lot we don't know, and I would caution you against drawing "the only reasonable conclusion" from extremely limited evidence.
I didn’t know about CoScreen but this looks almost exactly what I have been looking for for a long time. Looking forward to trying it out.
Hmm, we have tiers that reduce the % once your AUM grows.
How much monthly fee would you pay btw?
Sounds like a typical Amtrak experience. Really cannot recommend it if you need to be at your destination on time.
The Ender's Game universe has a pretty extensive AI assistant.
Useful overview on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/jlowin/status/1641155964601548802?s=46&t...

> We're open-sourcing @AskMarvinAI to make it easy to build AI-powered software!

> Marvin introduces AI Functions: minimalist functions with no source code that can generate typed outputs with AI.

> No code is generated or executed! The function outputs are entirely predicted by the LLM. It works way better than we even expected.
lesmo provides a magnet uri to all models here. it's inside (499kb): https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/pull/73/files/016a...
Hollywood never did ‘Dungeons and Dragons’ justice. A new movie rolls the dice
> FreeBSD is a very good server OS. It supports ZFS and Dtrace right out of the box.

zfs is easily achievable with Ubuntu. Dtrace isn't required by typical users.

> Also it supports both binary packages via pkg and source based packages via the ports system. It also feels lighter on resources than typical Linux distros which is nice for older systems.

Doesn't sound like any practical advantage at all.

> OpenBSD is an excellent router OS thanks to PF. It is more powerful than Linux for this purpose. Also the security track record for the default install is pretty much unrivaled.

PF is the only practical advantage of BSD over Linux but then again, unless you're running a router, you only need simple rules which can be done with any tools easily like ufw or even use cloud service control panel based ones.

> NetBSD runs on a lot of obscure hardware that Linux doesn't support. It is the best tool for the job for reviving old otherwise unusable hardware. pkgsrc is also a very cool package management system that is not only supported on every architecture that NetBSD supports, but several other operating systems like Linux, macOS, and Solaris/OpenSolaris/Illumos/etc.

Nothing practical.

On the other hand, not being able to run docker kills BSD's use by not being able to run any service easily hosted on docker hub.

And slight difference in CLI tools and shell behaviors kill all the little scripts you've written which makes it feel lazy to maintain scripts that work on both Linux and BSD. Quite hell of a job to maintain Ansible scripts that can create an identical environment on Linux and BSD.

I tried to like BSD but now it's dead in me.
The death toll at this time during Katrina tells us nothing about what to expect in this completely orthogonal scenario, unless you believe that the mortality associated with a category 5 hurricane plays out on the same timescale as exposure to these particular chemicals. It's simply not a useful analogy.

I think it would also be unwise to draw unfounded conclusions about deaths-to-come as if they're some foregone conclusion, because we are in a stage of not knowing the full impact of what happened. At the same time, we also live in a world where we now understand the long term impacts of things like asbestos and a myriad of other chemicals/substances, and concern seems warranted.
Eliezer makes some very compelling logical arguments on the case for approaching AI with extreme caution. It stands out to me as an odd signal that that he chose to refrain from signing the letter because it asks for too little. If one were truly convinced that AI would end humanity, signing the letter to put the research on hold seems to be one tangible step that could be made in the direction of saving the human race. As someone who is very concerned about safety, to me this detail stands out and appears as grandstanding.
> 60% of firearms trafficked are bought without a background check from gun shows in border states.

Is that from the page labeled 9 of that PDF? That's wrong on 2 counts.

The first is that that graph is showing a breakdown by destination (i.e. 60% of requests to trace a gun that was later traced to a gun show came from Mexico, not that 60% of guns in Mexico are from US gun shows).

The second is that an FFL still has to conduct a background check, even if the sale occurs at a gun show. All of those guns either had a background check, or the dealer is going to jail. The "gun show loophole" only applies to normal people trying to sell a couple of guns. As soon as the ATF thinks that someone is "engaged in the business of dealing firearms" they are required to be licensed as an FFL, and must do background checks regardless of where the sale occurs. It's all in https://www.atf.gov/file/100871/download
Seriously what’s going on with multiple people in this thread?
crystal clear attempt to trick people into not voting

“Doesn’t count because no one fell for it” (as if that excuses it anyways…)

“Well actually 4900 people fell for it”

“ALL 4900 OF THOSE WERE JUST PEOPLE JOKING AND I KNOW THIS BECAUSE I PULLED IT OUT OF MY BUTT”
> The answer to this particular problem isn't public transportation.

Public transport is not a self-goal, but it’s the best way by far to reduce the spatial requirements for transportation. In particular subways and commuter trains can move an absolutely insane amount of people for even the largest metropolitan areas, without obliterating the ability to walk and getting quickly from point A to B.

Others include having motorcycles and bicycles for individual transport. That can work in small cities but usually impact walkability anyways. If you look at south east asia for instance, often lacking in good public transport, but having a lot of motorcycles in large cities making pedestrian movement hard.
Agreed with this comment, the 5% is applicable for Indian residents, not NRIs. If the tax status and bank account was not updated to NRI, this would have been incurred.
yeah, I believe some readers are misinterpreting the report. The OS manages mmap, it won't show up as "regular" memory utilization because it's lazy-loaded and automatically managed. If the OS can keep the whole file in memory, it will, and it will also magically swap to disk prioritizing explicit memory allocation (malloc).

Sounds like the big win is load time from the optimizations. Also, maybe llama.cpp now supports low-memory systems through mmap swapping? ... at the end of the day, 30B quantized is still 19GB...
Humans shouldn't be living in shoeboxes stacked 40 floors high. It's disgusting.
Scenario 1: lots of land dedicated to car storage, people are spread out, commutes are longer and must be done by car

Scenario 2: less land dedicated to parking, people live closer together, commutes are shorter and can more often be done by bike/transit/walking

It's pretty clear which of those is better for the environment.
Oh no, how will you ever survive without regulating other people’s money. Hardest part about business is minding your own, however difficult it may be for people like you to keep your hands out of other people’s wallets.
"How could GPT4 have awareness of GPT4"

Seems like something they might want to include, especially when its a paid service.