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Get something with a video card and SSD.

Ignore 'build quality' that is marketing nonsense that companies use to exploit you.

Last year I picked up a computer with these requirements for $550. Its been flawless.

If I was going to spend another $700, I'd either get 2, or upgrade my video card.
Couldn't agree more about the rust API. Python API seems OK. Found it very complicated to use and just clunky in general.
Trademark rather than copyright but yeah, a plausible explanation is that Adobe played it safe and avoided pissing off litigious companies.
"This shirt is dry-clean only, which means it's dirty" - Mitch Hedberg
https://imgur.com/a/ex6GNiN
It's definitely true that R's base data frame (a rectangular structure with columns of mixed types, which R in turn inherited from S) was the inspiration for Pandas. The concept of verbs operating on those structures IMO was inspired by plyr (the antecedent to dplyr, first published in 2008, which introduced composability for those verbs). data.table was also an inspiration, as another commenter points out.
The west has fallen. Millions must fry.
I think its a company with a churn/morale problem.
Maybe you were lucky, maybe I was unlucky... Even before 2016-2020, I had 3 MacBooks that just straight up crapped out on me. Two were the nvidia graphics chips that would come desoldered or something. Another one just died one day for no reason. I am not trying to say that they are bad laptop, but on average, I think they are just as prone to dying as any other laptop. I don't think they are particularly "excellent." I've worked on hundreds of laptops, and I can't really say one brand does any better than the rest. Some make expensive laptops that are total garbage, some make cheap laptops that are really good. Assuming the laptop is spec'd how you need it, the quality is going to come down to your luck, and that's about all.
SF is now boycotting most of the United States (2022)
Yeah, for sure. I'm not saying FRR was always the right answer for all questions, but for a good decade or more it was a pretty solid choice, and particularly with auto-tunnel, it was easy to do. RSVP was far too complex a hammer for just FRR, and I like SR-LDP for FRR now, but from maybe 1998 (?) to 2015 (?) MPLS-TE FRR was the best tool we had.
> It's not user-replaceable.

Well, it's not because Apple doesn't give access to parts, otherwise it would be.

Not sure how use of hot air station suddenly makes it something that a user can't do?

You can buy a hot air station for less than $100 and it will do the job. Only caveat is that the replacement part needs to be new (so it has pre-applied solder balls) - otherwise you'd need to reball which a bit more difficult, but not something that can't be done at home.
Agreed. Actually pushing technology forward would involve replacing parking sensors with two additional cameras to cover the blind-spot, then using vision to exceed what parking sensors could do.

It isn't simply to remove parking sensors, have areas of the vehicle with blind spots, then hack the problem by trying to "guess" what in happening in those locations.

It has been suggested this removal saved Tesla less than $150/car. That's crazy for a $40K+ vehicle. There's nothing to defend here, it makes their vehicles objectively worse.
Yes.

A backend most definitely is worth 35 mere dollars. Though (you guessed it) it depends. It depends what you are going to do with it since maybe you can get a static site with a JSON shipped to the client and usually achieve similar results.

But, consider that by buying the cloud service you get:
- database
- probably a server with their hosted thingy (maybe a node.js server)
- maybe some monitoring microservices as well

The question is then,
- Does the time of setting the stuff up yourself, and the probable issues that come with it -- are they worth the marginal 15 dollars?
This questions gets you the answer.

(Not to mention that some images of supposedly OSS microservices usually are different that their cloud service.)
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It was 01:30. About to go to bed. Next day would fly with my daughter to holidays.

I checked the apps of a bunch of clients. None of them loaded. I was like what...

I checked the server. Everything down.

I'd been running Kubernetes on Digital Ocean. And Digital Ocean forced a Kubernetes update that was incompatitable with mine at night.

Took me 8 hours to fix it. No sleep. Ended up moving it back to a good old VPS. And throw away K8s.

Now to be fair, I had been getting warnings with deployments. But I was used to that, Kubernetes has 10 updates per week. I dont have time to update K8S or my helm files every week.

So yeah it was my fault, but I was used to good old VPS hosting. There is an old php application I've build 5 years ago with Laravel, that never needs anything. I did some updates and patches, but it always just works.

Im used to running node on apache or nginx, even though a bit less stable, still almost never crashes.

Kubernetes there is always something. I guess there are reasons to choose it, but it's not stability.

I ended up taking the plane, and my daughter was super kind and patient. But no more kubernetes for me.
That's not true. Microplastics are not coming from dishes. They are coming from fabrics, and from litter.
I also feel like the fancy software features ate up a lot of resources for not much return, which makes me wonder how much cheaper EVs could get with a more basic/classic set of features (and hardware supporting them). Only need a backup camera, all the sensors can go except for backup, no need for a GPU/PC/AI ASICs on board, etc. Basically a 2014 Ford with an EV drivetrain.
Illegally Carried Handguns Are the Problem
There isn't one — the official docs give instructions for kubeadm, kOps, and kubespray. k3s would be an alternative to those.
You're right, I should have written the "European Court of Human Rights".
You still can't use cruise control on a tesla safely because they refuse to put in a normal cruise control option and their traffic aware one still slams the brakes inappropriate at intermittent times.
And careful! If you are about to tell me YOUR Tesla cruise control works fine, it is just a matter of time before it doesn't. We have all been there.

auto wipers are still also wonky because the ambition is to do it with vision but they haven't figured that out yet either.
I don’t know re: Grunge. I feel like in the mid nineties Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins were already taking grunge to new places and Sonic Youth had evolved into something else entirely - Diamond Sea was the first Sonic Youth track I heard and was this weird desolate digital thing.
Tesla is way behind everyone on computer vision. They have not "pushed the technology forward" at any time in any respect.
I'm looking for a more holistic solution that "understands" the entirety of a book (let's say fiction to drive the point) and can "reason" about character arcs / action evolution throughout the entire narrative.

There are lots of solutions using embeddings which basically boil down to a text search and picking some number of sentences / paragraphs around the search results to construct a "context", which may work with a limited set of technical / non-fiction documents but is otherwise of narrow use.
https://www.topgear.com/car-news/electric/top-gears-top-20-e...
>FWIW, macs are high quality and last a long time.

They are, though.

I'm on my 4th MacBook and all have lasted me at least 5 years. The reason I upgrade them is to get more speed/specs, not because they stopped working, I even sold them and made back some small $$.

PS The touchbar thing was nonsense, I didn't jump on that, as well as other gimmicks. Still the MBP is a solid option.
It's just the GPT-4 API - the chunks are sent as part of a prompt. In that case it won't use data from all chunks but it will try to find any chunks that provide descriptions of the document. I've found with research papers, for example, it fetches parts of the introduction and abstract.
To get into Messiaen, try his Turangalîla symphony. It's more accessible, and --if you're so inclined-- almost ecstatic. Then the Quator pour le fin du temps, which was written under particularly difficult conditions. His more religiously oriented work is also more accessible.

Well, when I write "more accessible" that indeed means the rest is harder to get into. No shame, though. It's a bit of an acquired taste. There are many 20th century composers (especially the serialists) I cannot stand. I can't hear the music in it. But Messiaen did get to me. Perhaps it's his "colours" or the Debussy-like chords.
I mean, if we're being pedantic, I think it is possible to run llama.cpp with real memory savings this way... in a contrived situation where you were only generating a single token with a single forward pass, and you were limited in RAM.

The new MMAP system would not require you to load the whole model from disk up front, but rather would allow you to load and immediately forget each layer of parameters as you do a forward pass through the GPT architecture. And if you had just tried to use normal swap paging to do this without MMAP, you'd essentially be doing 2x the loading work, since the page for the first layer likely got swapped out as you loaded the rest of the model into "memory."

Of course, as soon as you want to generate a new token, you'd need to reload all the pages of the model parameters. Every token generated would take as long as it would if you were loading the model from scratch.

But for a classification problem where you only need to generate one token, and you need or want to do this in a serverless environment where you'd need to load from disk anyways? I think you'd be able to do that workflow with significantly less RAM in the same amount of clock time, now.
This holds true until Tesla/Elon gets into the business of semiconductors to control that level of supply chain and the vertical monopoly gets taller.
China had a brief nearly capitalist period with the Song Dynasty, building on growth during the Tang Dynasty, but the Song royal line, an Achilles heel of any monarchic empire, started to break down in the early 13th century, which contributed to the Mongol conquest. The next three dynasties were highly corrupt: the Yuan was overtly colonial, treating natives as an underclass; the Ming got off to a strong start but by the mid-1400s were consumed by palace intrigue and repressed the study of algebra (which was available via Islamic Central Asia) due to xenophobia; the Qing were an ethnostate again with some early Han defectors classified as "honorary Manchu", which may have inspired the "honorary Marleyan" motif in Attack on Titan.

So it is a little more complex than that.
Well, you can place your bets on the market then if you’re confident we’re wrong.
One thing I don't understand is that if I read a gigabyte from a file with the read call, why the kernel can't see that it's unused allocated memory, create copy on write pages, which could just be shared with the disk cache as long as the data is aligned (which it should be after a malloc + read call).

It seems the intuitive way to implement read if there's a complex memory subsystem that does all these great things anyways.
The built-in MacOS 68k emulator also used dynamic recompilation starting with the PCI PowerMacs (introduced starting in 1995)
Also... how bad off is the company if they are worried about the expense of staples/tape!? Just, wow.
I have an Asus G75 and I will never buy any hardware from Asus again. I rarely used that thing, basically once or twice per month yet the battery died after just a few years, then the keyboard, then the screen, and it weighs a ton too.
It’s rumored that Apple will release a 15” MacBook Air model soon: https://www.macrumors.com/guide/15-inch-macbook-air/

That might decouple screen size from premium specs and bring the cost down.
Eliezer presents his thesis about the difficulty of AI alignment and Lex seems to never address it or even attempt to engage. Essentially, there are many ways to get alignment wrong and suffer the consequences. As a "counterargument", Lex persists in introducing optimistic scenarios in which everything works as he imagines.

About halfway through the interview, it really goes downhill. At times, Lex has an interesting prompt, but those occasions seem more like random luck than engagement. Or maybe he honestly doesn't understand what Eliezer has been saying for a couple of hours. Which doesn't bode well for anyone.
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I see Docker listed as a requirement, and I am familiar with Docker. The repo mentions using Firecracker, a microVM that I've only ever heard of. What is the relation, if any, between these two? Is this a wrong question: if this uses Firecracker why is Docker involved?
Interesting, about the self-updating aspect.

Do you keep it in your home directory?

Or do you run with root permissions all the time? (Scary!)

Do you have problems with the packaging system thinking you don't have a browser installed, as I described here?

https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/10/debian_firefox_issues...

Or do you have some other browser(s) installed as well?
Horrible. Where I'm from, we call those people uhljebi and they're the worst people to work with since they always look for ways to offload their work to others.
Thanks a lot, please do!
I have a 2023 Model Y without radar sensors and got the parking assist update recently. It's by far one of the most annoying updates I got. Sitting in traffic, it would trigger itself thinking that I'm trying to park. Parking in the garage is now even more annoying with the cameras not being able to accurately figure out how much distance they have instead of reality. I miss the radar sensors. They need to bring them back. My wife's seven year old Infiniti is doing a better job at helping me back into a parking spot than the Tesla does. Insanity.
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Authorities are governed by laws and politicians. If police would even take a car to a call saying “a 9 year old is playing outside alone” then those norms and laws just need to be changed. It’s as simple as that.

Never mind the craziness that a neighbor would call the police when seeing a child outside (and that’s quite crazy) - if police answer that call they are reinforcing the idea that the child playing alone outside was wrong or dangerous.
LDP gave us BGP-free cores. Don't underestimate how much that changed the game in large networks. BGP converged faster and core routers didn't need to do anywhere near as much. SR is a better way to do that now and LDP/IGP sync was a huge pain, but IMO BGP-free cores changed the SP game as much as route reflectors did.

LDP also enabled L2VPN and was an IGP-bound mechanism to enable MPLS VPN, which was always the killer app for MPLS.

LDP by itself? Meh. But it opened up a whole lot of other possibilities.
I am honestly having trouble finding a good alternative in US. Want to see how have others’ experience card with alternate choices?
AGI is potentially different from Yudkowsky-style superintelligence
They're Made Out of Meat (2013)
I disagree. I started playing VRChat during the pandemic and it made me find a VR 'underground' EDM rave type group that I've spent thousands of hours with. Events in a AAA game studio level map are held every other weekend. Now I do side work with that same group that runs a 350+ person in real life VRChat rave in multiple cities every few months where tens of dozens of my VRChat friends show up and we spend a weekend together. VR has done the opposite of make me antisocial.

As a natural introvert, it is one of the best things to happen to me, and the most social I have ever been in my life.
*API calls to GPT-4
If their data is solid enough to justify it, they should publish it.

Until they do so, I remain deeply skeptical. It’s all too easy to engineer measurements or interpret data to support the outcomes you already want.

If the data is truly so revealing, show it to the world.
What's interesting with antlers is if one of them is cut or damaged in a certain way, when both fall off later and regrow, both will grow into the shape of the damaged antler.
Yes exactly and it further emphasizes the concerns Gilchrist has with his theory that there is an imbalance that has grown and shaped society.

I wonder just what influence will it have if we end up spending lots of time using chat-like interface but talking to someone who is so "left brained".

How will it change us and how we relate to one another? Probaby not in good ways I’m afraid. Especially at a time of increasing loneliness, distance relationships, online friendships, less intimacy… woke culture etc.
If you need a million dollar team to support the sensor, maybe.
Just finished setting up a new machine for an older relative that boots instantly into linux, starts qemu with a copy-on-write version of Windows 7.

It doesn't need updates because they don't access the internet, good luck virus writers when it gets nuked from outside the VM every time it reboots!
I watched the video, those graphics on the screen seem so glitchy, jumping all over the place every second, like from some bad physics simulation in a video game.
Can't believe it's something that is in production and being sold with a "luxury" car.
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How much has this one idiot, Elon Musk (and his enablers like Kaparthy) done to slow down / stifle the self driving car industry? I claim it's a lot. We are easily 3 years behind where we should be with self-driving vehicles due his refusual to believe that "Sensor Fusion" works or even is a real field of study with lots of smart people who work on it.

He is hell bent on taking the things that make cars objectively safer, more aware, and awesome, like radar-based sensors, parking sensors, and heads-up-displays and not only refusing to put them in his cars (or taking them out), but also disparages them and their users on twitter.

I am just capital S shocked that this is the behavior of the CEO of a company who is trying to have the aesthetics of being technologically advanced and superior and all that. The sad truth is that my 2017 lexus has a far superior set of sensors on it than a 2023 Tesla. If Tesla didn't have such insanely good powertrains and batteries, no one would buy these tin-cans shitboxes, and they ARE garbage in terms of initial quality/fit-and-finish.
there was also the trend of using phone cables with the color coded patterns
This is super cool. I hope it pans out this time. I've seen a number of attempts to add sails to cargo ships in the past, and generally they have not been a success because it involves adding a skilled person to the crew to manage the sails and cargo companies are allergic to paying extra salaries, even if they manage to make more than their salary back in fuel costs.
Competition is here! Ford's electric F150 is selling quite well, and most of the other major auto brands have electric options on the market too. I haven't seen the sales figures, Tesla is probably still leading the EV segment at the moment, but they need to do something to keep up. They haven't put anything that they've announced on the road since the model 3.
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I find myself using Pandas .apply() and pd.read_csv() quite often which can get a little slow when dealing with lots of rows and files.

Would you happen to know if these two functions are faster in Polars?
> Telsa is basically done now

Its been a long time since the other players entered the market and they still have a horrible state with their charging networks. There are many non Teslas I would like to buy but none are viable options unless its a car that will stay in town only.

I know electrify America is "ok", I've used it, multiple places with success, though always at least some stalls are broken, in weird ways, and its less pleasant to use even if it works.
> I would love to hear more macOS users admit that their equipment was a status indicator, overpriced for what it is.

I would love something like my M1 Max MBP running macOS for less money. Since my first G4 PB, I have never thought of it as a status thing. I like the mac GUI with unix underpinnings. It's also popular enough that most common software runs w/o issue, and it has a lot great indie programs (though that market is sadly shrinking).

EDIT

At least in nerd circles while growing up, the high status thing to do was run linux on the desktop. /shrug
Tesla delivered 422,875 vehicles in Q1 2023.

Here is what the competition manged for all of 2022

GM: 39,000, Ford: 61,000, Hyundai: 175,000, Kia: 80,000

Combined, Tesla delivered more Evs in one quarter than their competition manged in a whole year, combined.
If the cost to get them working properly in EV is more costly, then it's not worth it.

I suspect Ford doesn't want to throw money away, but to optimize sales and profit. Unlikely they'd do this without some pretty good reasons.
I honestly thought it was going to be something cool about routing automobile traffic in the Twin Cities as well!
> you're pointing out the absurdity of publishing every 2 to 3 days and implying that it was already essentiallly garbage he was producing

Yes, exactly.
I bought a VW ID.4. I love it, and in my area I'm starting to see as many Ioniq 5's as I do Teslas.