skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gaming on a mid-tier modern GPU probably uses around 50-100w, the Steam stats probably have a number of users to multiply with. I'm sure it's a massive amount of power.

I don't like video games and they are not-necessary so I propose that we ban them globally, or only allow gaming if using renewable energy. If you don't live in a place where this is an option, too bad!

Maybe instead of this we require all games to be limited in graphical effect (imagine early source games or something). We could save a lot of power globally if we enforced this.

This is why I strongly dislike this line of thinking. I don't think power plants work that way anyways, they probably make a constant-ish amount of power rather than taking exactly 50w worth of fuel every time someone opens up Call Of Duty.

There are also much lower hanging fruit to get upset about if you care about the planet, like cars with large motors or people with heated drive ways (yes thats a thing).
Crypto startup compensation competes with FAANG because the additional non-cash compensation is liquid. Initial TC can be the same $300k - $1.2mm as FAANGs. The cash portion being more comparable to startups.

and most importantly, its granted at a huuuuge discount to prices you ever see online. 90% below initial public prices. many employees are still not experiencing losses even with the steep decline in the crypto market. for tokens, a lot of that decline is a death spiral from employees vesting and selling.
I’m sorry but this does not read like someone who worked at Northrup nor Uber. No way
I thought it was for home contractors and figured I should read it to better deal with them.
This doesn't establish anything other than that someone at CISA saw some of the work product of the EIP, an academic project run out of Stanford. Taibbi's tweet was quoted on screen, and appears to be facially incorrect.
I've thought about this a lot and I don't have an answer. History is very prose-like and unstructured and that makes it hard.

My tentative thought (and I haven't validated this entirely) is to try to structure it. Make a spreadsheet with tables for people, events, etc. Look at Wikipedia infoboxes for inspiration into the types of things that should go as columns in the tables.

You can also try hierarchical periodization. Like if you were making flashcards about the life of Peter the Great you'd divide his life into:

1. Early life
2. Grand Embassy
2.1. Austria
2.2. The Netherlands
2.3. England
3. Great Northern War
3.1 Start
3.2 Founding of St. Petersburg

And put information under each of the leaf nodes.
Certainly very few say that they hate science (tho those people who think evolutionists and round-earthers are demonic are certainly out there:

https://www.ministrymagazine.org/archive/1967/08/deception-t...

But the conservative party has a history of ignoring science.

The scientists asserting this:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-reason-some-r...

The mainstream media asserting this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-gop-has-a-long-hi...

It is often said that science changes one funeral at a time, but I have certainly read a lot about efforts to fix the replication crisis. And ten years isn't long to change the behavior of a large number of independent actors. The discourse about the replication crisis comes from scientists and is being fixed by the scientific process. It supports my thesis.

Your next example, one diagram in the non-scientific portion of the IPCC report that you don't like doesn't really invalidate the "science is self-correcting." Perhaps you have more details on this supposed diagram?

If you ever attend a scientific conference, you will certainly hear scientists criticizing each other. More biting than the most wooly eyed back-woods preacher and more informed than the poshest petroleum funded climate sceptic. But they don't argue about perpetual motion, flat earth, evolution, or global warming due to the carbon burn.
Or ending a life for trivial reasons e.g. swatting a musquito or fly because you find it annoying, killing a roach just because it happens to wander into your house. Uprooting weeds and killing them because you don't like the look of weeds in your flower garden etc etc. When is it justified, everyone draws their own line I suppose.
A lot of old ev batteries are snatched up by people who want to use them in whole-house battery systems.

I wonder if recycling of ev batteries might be premature for some or many cells?
The old saying for the limits to life was: Three minutes without air, three days without water, three weeks without food.

I don't believe they have changed much.
That's not the claim Taibbi made; he made a much stronger claim, which MSNBC managed to trivially refute.
Sure it would, just as any other service provided for by your condo/HOA fees or what have you. BTW I think having a HOA do anything beyond landscaping is probably more of a headache than it's worth, but still...

I think the possibility is more around SDCs becoming not simply a business to individual customer service or subscription, but rather SDCs being offered by organizations the individual customer is already a member of as part of that organizational offering. This can begin at large and wealthy retirement communities first (like Sun City Grand in Phoenix), but there's no reason why it couldn't be implemented elsewhere or why an organization that is already setup to handle customer and vehicle relationships can't offer it as well. Think AARP or your auto insurance company.
Interesting paper. I think something like this could be implemented in open world games in the future, no? I cannot wait for games that feel 'truly alive'.
Ampere's new workstation could bring in a whole new dawn for developers
It’s OK. Have a happy Easter. :)
In the context of ethics "i found an answer that satisfies me", I believe you're right. Thanks.
Pretty substantial difference in CPU performance.

MacBook Pro 14:
https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/21032882

AMD Ryzen 7:
https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/21032882
I was part of an international team to chart the threat of killer fungi
There is no free will... But acting on the belief that there is no free changes the outcome.
The human mind is best served by the quote of "Last Samurai":
"I believe a man does what he can until his destiny is revealed to him".

Thus striking the perfect balance between effecting change when needed and acceptance of what is happening (reducing unnecessary psychological suffering).

This too is just one interpretation of free will which is truly a mechanism of no free will.
I mean people do need faster processes, and Apple delivered that.
If the Norwegians are to be believed then no.

> A study of Norwegian military conscripts' test records found that IQ scores have been falling for generations born after the year 1975, and that the underlying cause of both initial increasing and subsequent falling trends appears to be environmental rather than genetic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient
I would like you to eat with a spoon. Do you need help with that?
You have been pointed to references - genuine engagement in adult discourse may tend to require that you follow through with this prerequisite material to join the conversation.
There’s a certain strain of progressive thought, going back over 150 years, that connects these seemingly unrelated ideas:

- Blank slate: human genetics are trumped by environment

- Born Good: humans are good in their natural state and socialized to be violent

- Equitable: humans naturally want to be equal

These positions have varying degrees of scientific support but all of them are highly contested and at least partially wrong. Horgan in his article is interesting in that all of his attacks support progressive opinions and none of them go after that group’s sacred. This indicates he is a member of a tribe he is not aware he is in.
I’m Running WebGPU on a MacBook Pro M1 with macOS Ventura 13.3
The Chrome team recently released WebGPU, a major upgrade for the web that enables high-performance 3D graphics and data-parallel computation. This API was developed by the W3C's "GPU for the Web" Community Group, and its cross-platform compatibility is set to revolutionize the graphic API space. With the potential to unlock new app development opportunities, WebGPU is particularly exciting for AI and web graphics. Enabling WebGPU on a Macbook Pro M1 with macOS Ventura is easy: simply download Chrome Beta, and enable WebGPU using chrome://flags/#enable-unsafe-webgpu.

Check out the demo video, blog posts, and documentation to explore the possibilities of WebGPU, including the ability to run AI models with TensorFlow.js.

WebGPU playgrounds
https://toji.github.io/webgpu-clustered-shading/
https://webgpu.github.io/webgpu-samples/
Documentation
Get started with GPU Compute on the web https://developer.chrome.com/articles/gpu-compute/
WebGPU W3C
https://gpuweb.github.io/gpuweb/
Technical introduction to the WebGPU Shading Language
https://google.github.io/tour-of-wgsl/
WebGPU also allows running AI models. For instance, with TensorFlow.js you can test AI models like BlazeFace, BodyPix, PoseDetection, AutoML Image classification and more with the package below.
GPU accelerated WebGPU backend for TensorFlow.js
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@tensorflow/tfjs-backend-webgp...

#WebGPU #GraphicsProgramming #AI
Apart from heresy, what is your counterargument to the bell curve?
Risk, Gambling, and Financialization
that is an edge case.
Not sure there's any way to know beforehand whether that would happen but the advantage of DyLoRA is that at least you will know afterwards whether you really needed the full rank whereas with LoRA you wouldn't? In some cases that might not be valuable information but I guess you'd rather know than not.
You are not sellout but just the average Joe. No problem with that I guess. Have fun with your Mac that uses a soldered ssd that when failing makes your whole Mac useless as well.
Twitter merged into a new entity called X Corp
Yup, that's why I said use R2 and its still cheaper than bunny, since they charge per transaction instead of bandwidth usage and its unified price for all areas.
You don't need to know what M1 is, what you need to know is that Apple new product is amazing and fast and everybody that used it would tell everybody else how good it was.
I also wonder about the new breed of smart irons. ts-100, pinecil are microprocessor controlled irons and aren't expensive.
https://archive.ph/2023.04.10-210939/https://slate.com/techn...
Oh, well you should have asked for that then.

I don't think theologians prove or debunk things, personally. I'm pointing out that the problems dawkins poses are ones theologians have answered. And then the answers have been questioned, and then the theologians have answered those, back and forth for a good long while now.

I'm pointing out that to bring these up as if religions have no answer to them is foolish or disingenuous. I'm not volunteering to cross-reference the book to 1700 years of christian thought for you though. Neither qualified nor motivated for that.
Yes, operationally tags are refs, just like branches

(Even though the mental model people use for branches is different than tags https://blog.plover.com/prog/git/branches.html because when you make a commit when HEAD points to a branch, it updates the branch to point to the new commit, which doesn't happen with tags)
can you recommend any starter soldering iron to go with it? I guess all we would need is a starter solder iron and some solder to complete the clock. Looks like fun!
Kinda hard to find answers on Google but here's one that does the same thing I did:

https://www.wyzant.com/resources/answers/287237/word_problem

Here's another one: https://www.wired.com/2015/01/coin-jar-crowd-wisdom-experime...

> The actual value of the coins was $379.54. The mean value (x̅) of the 602 guesses submitted was $596.12, about 57 percent too high. What's more, a massive (by crowd-wisdom standards) 40 percent of the individual guesses were closer to the actual value than that of the crowd.

Here "57% too high" you can arrive at the original number by dividing by 1.57.
What I'm loving is how they put the "Clear Form" button right next to the "Print" button, so it's easy to press it by mistake. MWAHAHAHAHA.
Can't recall where, but I recently learned this was a common issue at airports in the early days of wireless key fobs. The radar sweep at the airport would wake up the receivers causing cars parked there for a while to have dead batteries.
That's kind of how dealer mechanics work but not any other mechanic... They work for 10 hours, you get billed for 10 hours.
Every iOS programmer needed to make the jump. Coding directly on ARM rather than an x86 emulator of ARM is a huge deal.

In addition, Apple obsoletes Xcode for new phones quite regularly. Once the M1 was out it and working fine it was clear that support for x86 would get killed post haste.
> The current Iranian regime maintains power because Iranians support it.

Some Iranians love their government! This is true in every country. On the whole, though, this is a gross mischaracterization.

Iran has been having enormous countrywide protests and strikes for the last several years. The scale of these cannot be understated. Protests in every city and town, and many small villages, across the entire country, for months and months on end.

Over 20,000 Iranians have been arrested in the most recent wave of protests, and somewhere between 500 and 5,000 have been killed since September 2022. The government steals people's corpses and buries them in secret so that the true death toll is hidden.

Iran has the largest standing military in the Middle East. About a third of the military is the IRGC, who is sworn protect not the people or national sovereignty, but rather to the Supreme Leader and the Islamic Republic, and is frequently deployed domestically. They have been instrumental in crushing protests, going as far as shelling their own villages with artillery to quell dissent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahsa_Amini_protests

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Iranian_food_protests

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%932020_Iranian_prot...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%932019_Iranian_gene...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011–2012_Iranian_protests

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Iranian_presidential_elec...
Since when does hetzner have a CDN?, unless you mean storage boxes which aren't even close.

And they aren't even comparable to normal object storage, since data is protected by a single raid cluster.
I'm the founder of Execute Program (https://www.executeprogram.com), where we've done a similar thing (knowledge graph + SRS) for programming languages/tools since 2019. Interesting to see that you have a graphviz render of a subgraph right on the landing page! We've toyed with the idea of exposing the graph visually, but haven't done it yet.
Only hindsight can tell.

Do you delay your own financials in order to hire an additional guy or do you pay yourself what you're worth and ever so slightly increase the chance of running the company into the ground by doing so?
The article writer talks about his harbor freight iron. Harbor freight is the perfect place to buy a first <insert tool> to see if youre gonna use it enough to justify a higher quality version of said tool. What isn’t all that good of a place to get a first tool is amazon, because its either cheap chinese crap or potentially counterfeit crap.
Just using them as a CDN through R2, no proxying.
PL Theory makes you start looking at everything like a PL problem. APIs become little languages, and rich APIs become larger ones. Parsing becomes trivial, lexing even moreso, and everything sort of devolves into thinking about interpreter state. Then it gets frustrating because you can't just pick up the API interactions and rewrite them more-efficiently, and you end up chasing your own tail wishing you could.

I think it's made me a better programmer, but it must be tempered by understanding the limitations of how and when languages are worth building.
This particular problem, in my opinion, has a much simpler solution: a special educational environment. A sort of mini-IDE where two things happen:

1. code written by a student gets inserted into a top-level class's main() method (has to be smart enough to deal with imports, inner classes etc.)

2. the top level class might declar certain utility functions such as print() instead of System.out.println(), and possibly others.

Bingo. No need to mess with something that works just fine for 99.99% of the professional users.

edit, in response to @crummy (as we reached the maximum depth it seems):

Some people commented that it might be beneficial to delay introduction of more complex concepts until the basic ones are digested. So hiding the class/main method would help with that (similar to jshell, I might add). And keep in mid this is an IDE and not java-lite.
In the video it said something about modulating the amount of nitrogen fixation based on the plant's needs. Could mean that it's able to scale it up if its needs are higher, but I imagine this is part of the breeding work they're doing.
Apparently the RLHF actually reduces it's capability, it just improves alignment/safety.
> Ok, so they want to unify the world by killing everyone who disagrees. A

pretending any of the aforementioned religions are on the stage of forced conversion is laughable if you're older than 15, otherwise it's just false
> The second told me it's normal for the battery to die if you don't drive it for 3 days

No, this is not normal. When the cars are manufactured, they often sit for more than 3 days just to get on a train for delivery. During transport they often sit for more than 3 days.
But that's a distributed problem now and those use up valuable developer time, which we know is the most important resource in the world...
> adults don't get to make harmful decisions for them

I believe exposing children to organized religion is inherently harmful because it inhibits the development of a scientific, evidence-based temperament that I think is an important part of good moral character. Yet billions of people drag their children to churches, mosques and temples every day.
It's not in the general settings - instead it's in the setting menu in the video player itself, where you'd select the quality and playback speed, etc.
Someone is selling "nitrogen fixing maize corn" on eBay.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=nitrogen+fixing+corn

No idea if legit.
This looks like the correction Matt Taibbi gave (https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1644086708252684288) about the 22 million flagged tweets number. Presented without comment.
Cisco employee caste lawsuit dismissed
There’s a razor’s-edge between “why can’t we talk about [racial difference X]” and “[racial difference X] means they’re infrahuman.”

If you’re interested in the contours of this debate, I recommend Paul Gilroy’s “Postcolonial Melancholia”.
>You gonna fine the person that runs out of gas, causes an accident or just mechanically breaks down?

I'm much more interested in fining the crap out of the people who don't have an "excuse" for their bad traffic performance.
I have screamed about this like a crazy person and filed bugs and was always told, "Meh there's nothing there..."

But if you use Firefox to call yourself on Chrome... you'll see that Firefox takes up a TON more energy on an Intel MBP than Chrome does.

You can tell because Firefox literally heats your laptop up to do streaming videos. You hear the fans kick on, the laptop gets hotter to hold.

Anyway I'm sure there are more bugs like this! Glad Firefox is getting some of the people to fix their code... but look, Microsoft isn't the only culprit. Until Firefox takes as little power as Chrome in MacOS & Windows... I think we should all stay outraged! (=
> Meanwhile, in the US (based on FTC complaints statements) "we'll send some people to recover goods" is extremely illegal.

It's definitely possible in the UK (you just need a high-court order and to send in bailiffs).

I would be surprised if similar legal remedies don't exist in the USA (i.e. that if someone isn't paying something they legally owe, that you can't then organise for reposession of property via the court).

Companies obviously aren't just allowed to send heavies around, however I would assume most countries have a legal avenue to 'force' people into repaying a civil suit (which in the UK involves getting a high-court writ and then sending bailiffs who will seize property).
Well, that'll be easy to prove contemporary examples of people without formal education who contributed to and got jobs in mathematics, right?
The following is my opinion, based on my research:

* IQ is real, measurable and heritable. The evidence for this is overwhelming.

* Nobody argues about the broad heritability of other human traits such as hair/eye color, height, athletic ability and the like.

* The argument over IQ is a consequence of terrible historical experiences with eugenics and racial discrimination. Many have adopted the quasi-religious viewpoint that IQ is not heritable to sidestep the discussion.

* As a consequence, social policy resembles the cycles and epicycles of Ptolemy's cosmology. Namely, all manner of social, economic and historical outcomes which are explained parsimoniously by understanding IQ as heritable are instead attributed to a Rube-Goldberg machine of racism, class warfare and the like.

* Accepting IQ as heritable does not, in an enlightened society, require acceptance of racism or classism, any more than people are forced to discriminate against those who, say, are genetically weaker athletes due to low relative VO2 levels.

* Social policy could be enhanced and better targeted by targeting those at the lower end of the IQ curve with subsidies such as basic income.

* Accepting IQ as real, heritable and measurable represents one of the only paths out of the present morass of corrupt political patronage programs around specific groups, just as rejection of Ptolemy's worldview enabled turning away from the demon-haunted world of religion.
Thanks for the response and link! I'll see if I can find some primary literature on the topic -- I'm interested in how such a thing is studied! Accessibility is certainly one of my many weak points.
All the more reason Americans should just try learn and adapt to public transport.
What, no pre-cleaning? No flux remover spray? Lead solder with no exhaust fan?

Using lead solder is kind of retro. There are good lead-free solders now. If you get the kind with 3% silver, you pay $5 instead of $3 for a small spool, but it's much easier to get good results. Also, that stuff is no-clean, which simplifies things.
Same issue I mentioned above. Significantly worse CPU:

Apple M2:
https://browser.geekbench.com/search?k=v6_cpu&q=5900HX+&utf8...

Ryzen 9500HX:
https://browser.geekbench.com/search?k=v6_cpu&q=m2&utf8=
A summary:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Emil_O._W._Kirkegaard
It's not impossible, but I doubt it, if only because very few third party applications use as much as Chrome does. The only exceptions are things that actively use a lot of CPU, like compilers or compressors.
“In order to actually send an AMP email, you’re email service provider needs to support AMP”

I think you meant your
Not really. In the Tidewater area of Virginia, the area with the most per capita tunnels, AT LEAST once a day someone runs out of gas or breaks down in one of the 7 tunnels causing 30 minute -hour delay. Definitely not an edge case.
There's nothing ambiguous about my statement, which is factual.
the market for M2/3 chip machines is not those with M1s but those people who are still on the Intel machines. People don't usually replace their MacBooks annually. Most people keep them for several years.
I wonder if this scenario will play out on a large scale when driverless semi-trucks start displacing jobs. Where some people might sabotage the system in various ways to make a point. Not just drivers either, as it eventually affects things like roadside gas stations, restaurants, hotels, etc.

Not pushing a luddite agenda, just curious how it might all play out.