skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are generally unlocked, you can easily get into developer mode and flash a new coreboot bios on most of them: https://mrchromebox.tech/#fwscript Once flashed they can boot right into Linux natively and are a regular old EFI booting laptop. You will never be able to run ChromeOS on it again though (and could perhaps permanently brick or destroy the device) so it's not something Google is going to tell people to do.
Yeah. The feature set offerred by the competitor was similar to ours, and we went through the wringer building that solution, so i unminified their code and sure enough...it easn't exactly theirs.

Oh yeah and they ripped off our website too. That was the first clue haha.
I don't want you to feel gaslighted, but you are objectively very lazy and have an opinion without checking any data. This Reuters article doesn't deal with it, but with a short term situation in the summer. You probably didn't even read past the headline. If you had, you probably would've noticed this quote: "Since Destatis started compiling statistics in 1990, 2022 will likely be the first that Germany will be a net exporter of electricity to France, not the other way round, it said.". Thus it's easy to figure out the uptick in coal in the summer of last year in Germany has very much to do with the fact that half of France's nuclear plants were offline at that point, half of those because of unplanned maintenance. The dirty coal uptick was used to keep the lights on in France. Oops.

Here is the official data for Germany for every year in the past several decades https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/38...

The bottom three are:

black coal in magenta

nuclear in gray

brown coal in brown

Nuclear shutdowns started in Germany in 2011. It should be easy to see that coal went down significantly since then and is at a historic low. Which brings me back to my original point:

Renewables have been pushed for 20 years and have started to accelerate only 10 years ago, yet they are already displacing fossil fuels in many countries.
Loss of economy. Imagine NYSE doesn’t operate in US.
It seems you're drawing an arbitrary distinction between "internal" and "external" state. The context window is state. Doesn't matter where it is.
Can society thrive with more equitable compensation for all citizens, and workers alike or would that damage the incentive to produce "more or better" products which is said to inevitably boost productivity/GDP, etc? Especially with AI coming forward, the case for UBI seems strong. But is it a fundamental desire for humans to be self-serving or selfish, or would UBI just add a base safety net for people, and we could still continue with unequal total comps, and that at least seems like a good first step.

[As far as I know, many people agree income inequality is the widest it's ever been, and is a bad thing for society]
So in that case there is no materials secret sauce guarded by TSMC, with the customer either submitting the GDS file with all the info, or signing off on the modified version.
Well given that blue eyes is neither neither mt-dna or y-chromosome, I made an argument about the autosomal "normal dna" that is inherited from both sides.
I don't favor this in government schools, but I favor a voucher system where parents who want their children in classrooms with the Ten Commandments displayed can afford to do so.
This isn't like the customers mentioned in the article ordered an expensive 4090 graphics card and got a cheaper 3060 graphics card. This is buying a graphics card and receiving a box of condoms, a totally different product. I don't see how either of your scenarios fit into that.

> Nick: Computer monitor, got handbag

> Heather: Graphics card, got face masks

> Phil: iPhone, got cat repellent

> Alex: Earphones, got toilet cleaner

> Leo: Laptop, got Ikea lamp
The issue is they where marketed and sold for an environment where they don’t work.
thank you for your last sentence.

TONs of non-rich people also have 2 properties and go between them. You can buy a cabin or vacation property in the rural US for a surprisingly affordable amount. I know many folks who are certainly not rich, but do spend time in various locations.

Think traveling nurses, seasonal employees, etc. Also look up the term "snow bird"
Schools bought millions of Chromebooks and 3 years later they’re breaking down
> all products are filled with legalese to restrict liability.

This doesn't seem to apply in the realm I've been working in. We've had to do the exact opposite thing.

In small, B2B software companies you may find that accepting an uncomfortable amount of liability is usually the only way to get your foot in the door. Certain promises have to be made (very carefully!) or no business would occur at all.

For example, if we told our banking clients that "if your front-line app crashes we might have it fixed in 5-7 days" just to be safe, they likely would have little-to-no interest in utilizing our solution. We have to say things like "We will respond within 1 hour and send a polite apology letter to your CTO every time the server makes a weird noise". And, we have to "engineer" our solution so that we have a minuscule chance of hitting that promised target.

Consider that in a <10 person company that there is going to effectively be some person who has to own all of the pain that comes along with these decision. Is that person not an "engineer" by some arbitrary definition? Sure. But, for the purposes of "a professional weighing all of the pros/cons and making a decision that they intend to accept all consequences for" - I think it's the same effective practice.

Ultimately, "software engineering" is a very broad space with varying degrees of professionalism. At some ends, you will find things that approximate actual engineering. At others, you will find things that appear more academic or artistic. The context is what defines the title of "engineer" for me.
> Another point I want to get at here is that in a world of abundant art, I would expect art to be more compelling

I expect the exact opposite will be true.

Consider for a moment that most people who are naturally inclined to art, even with years of practice and training, do not produce much that is novel or of any real interest. If we’re talking about truly great art, even accounting for all the inherent subjectivity in that classification, it’s a tiny fraction of these people.

Now, let’s take masses of people with no particular knowledge of art or ability to reason about how good images are constructed and set them loose typing into “magic” image producing boxes, responding to whatever appeals to them in the most uncritical fashion imaginable. How would this make art more compelling? All it will do is make art “more” in the sense that food is cheaper and comes in bigger packages at a Walmart than a farmers’ market.
In Canonical’s defense, it seems like every time they try to do something innovative, Red Hat copies the idea and implements it slightly better.

Upstart -> systemd

Unity -> Gnome 3 Shell

Mir -> Wayland

Snaps -> flatpak

I’m not saying Red Hat is wrong to do this, that’s the nature of healthy competition and we all benefit from this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83FQzfH_r2U
If people has missed it, NVIDIA also recently released this paper that could be used to create 3D models: https://nvlabs.github.io/genvs/
I lost data with Btrfs, whereas ext4 has been rock solid for many years. No thanks.
> You are pathetic.

That was unnecessary
It's been out for over 15 years now, you'd hope they'd add some street view...
Eh yes and no. "Traditional" engineering professions, ones where you need to get licensed, are all grounded in physics. Software engineering isn't (ignore the fact that bits running on silicon is physics, it's irrelevant). Software engineering is based on best practices and algorithms that are based on...some guy writing them, saying they're good, and others trusting that they're good. There's a million different ways to make something. Million different opinions. Million different cargo cults. It's why making a FE exam for software would be impossible; there's just too many ways to do something and often very little evidence why it's good.
Listen to hardware buttons on Epson document scanners
Browsers are now so essential, that there is little incentive for Google to drop out and very much incentive for everyone else to continue or increase their involvement.

With Firefox there is even a viable alternative that isn't controlled by Google in any form. I'd agree on many projects that would be the case. For Chrome, no.
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This was part of a class I took over a decade ago. Happy to see the page is still active... On part is missing, no doubt, from the other maintainer's lost battle to cancer (RIP, she was lovely). It's an absolute treasure trove.
> These optimizations are a waste of time when the alternative is to buy hardware that simply doesn't require them.

Its cheaper to own/maintain 50 servers, rather than 100 servers. Running 2-processes per server is just cheaper.

You have half the motherboards, your RAM is consolidated, your SSDs / Hard Drives / Ethernet ports are consolidated. This leads to lower power and more efficiency (its easier for threads to migrate over if possible).
Watch it if you can, it has a lot more on offer. I ate meat before i saw it, since i need B12. Now i rarely do, usually when someone else cooked for me.
What language is the tutorial in?
> To make this more clear, if you process 1000 tokens the neural network will have gone through a sequence of 1000 states.

That isn't how transformer architectures work
> Ditto for ZFS btw

This is untrue. ZFS is ready for prime time. The problem here is that it is licensed under a license that is not compatible with the GPL, so it will never be imported into the kernel.
Because it's an external module, most distros dont offer it in their installer etc.

If you want zfs, you can either install it during install in expert mode, or go BSD where it is a first class FS
Life pro tip: Disable JavaScript.
It wasn't a smart tweet, but having recently run down the rabbit hole of Kripke and modal logic, a discourse on power that is more sophisticated than mere 20th century criticism seems as close as anything to a philosophical emergency right now.

If I hire an outsourced team, then mediate my interactions with them using slack and email, does it matter whether there is a person on either side of that conversation? Managing people means to extract value from their work, and a bot that watches a line (like the rate of paperclip production), and uses various tools to increase that line by supervising worker agents - this can absolutely be done by an expert system. Managing essentially reduces to solving optimization problems to sustain an equillibrium among factors and their tensions that produces value, so it's not intrinsically creative, but it's smart and it scales well. If you were working for a machine or not, how would you know, and if you were indifferent to that fact, does it make the machine intelligent? It's sort of a Black Mirror version of a Turing test thought experiment. Does it matter whether the leash on your collar is held by a person or a robot?

Anyway, I'm still less worried about super intelligent programs than I am about the low cunning of mediocre minds.
yup. this "arent built to last" quip feels like a reinforcement effort from on high to ensure planned obsolescence doesnt encounter any defeat along the way. total malarkey.

I run arch on a couple of chromebooks with wayland. the install path was pretty easy because under the hood these things are just computers. They last as long as you want them to because you decide what they do, not Google.
Had a switched gfx card on a warehouse purchase. Essentially a weaker one. Pretty sure that was an unethical customer not Amazon though
You seemed to be saying that the standards nuclear is held to is higher than is necessary. Compared to what? Was my question. I asked about the cost of Chernobyl, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disasters_by_cost

$790 billion at 2021 cost

so my point was perhaps it is being held to a higher standard for a very good reason.

(NB. I'm not automatically against nuclear power, but I seriously question their potential cost against their very definite benefits. We had one Chernobyl, I guarantee we'll have another in time. Question is, how hard are we prepared to work to push that possibility, statistically speaking, as far into the future as possible)
Using this news source to claim that coal consumption is going up reminds me of climate deniers who point to one climate graph from one region in Canada and show the temperature was actually cooling down, while not mentioning that the slice they showed was from March 1997 to October 2005, while the whole graph (including parts they hid) was from 1960 to 2020 and showed massive heating.

From your news source:

> "Only in Germany, with 10 gigawatts (GW), is the reversal at a significant scale. This has increased coal power generation in the European Union, which is expected to remain at these higher levels for some time," the IEA's annual coal market report said.

So your news source only mentions Germany, and only during an energy crisis caused be a war. If you only look at this one country, and only from February 2022 to April 2023 you may find coal consumption going up, but if you look over any other period, or include any other European country, you will see the opposite effect.
It has proper stable support for many kinds of software RAID: https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Status.html
If he has little impact, why is he being paid $226,000,000 in a year?
And this would stop global carbon emissions? What about the shipping industry, the mining industries, the fuel required to do all the shipping and mining and farming, etc. etc.?

My understanding is that nothing short of a massive, forced reduction in resource consumption will do anything to seriously slow down carbon emissions and curb climate change, if indeed it can be curbed.
Competitive in economics and the market means they can provide a good at a lower price than competitors. Either TSMC has no competitors, or they are beating them. If they don’t have competitors, it’s a sign other newcomers can’t compete, so they’re still competitive.
I should, perhaps, add an FAQ section addressing the hows and whys of Griptape :)

In short, Griptape is different from LangChain in the following ways:

- Instead of chained agents, it uses more general-purpose DAGs and pipelines. Think of it as Airflow for LLMs. It still implements chain of thought logic for prompt workflow steps that use tools but it also supports any kind of input and output (think images, audio, etc.).
- Griptape tools are designed to be decoupled from the caller logic and execution environments. For example, tools can be easily run in a Docker container or a Lambda function (as opposed to just YOLOing LLM-generated Python code on the local box).
- Tools can be plugged into other LLM frameworks through adapters. For example, you can convert any Griptape tool into a LangChain tool or generate a ChatGPT Plugin API with a single line of code. This is the only place Griptape actually references LangChain in code, afaik :)

Issues do need to be moved from a private Trello into GitHub (still early days...)—I can ping when that's done—are you on Griptape Discord?
street view?
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It's no different than the risk of upgrading your motherboard's bios. If the update fails to finish writing (like if the power goes out during the update) it will leave the firmware in a broken state and won't boot.

Some systems mitigate this risk by giving you two different bios regions so you can write to one and leave the other pristine as an emergency backup if the update fails. Other systems put the bios on a removable chip so if an update fails you can pull it out and rewrite it with dedicated hardware or another working computer.

For inexpensive laptops that are built to the cheapest price possible and where 99% of users will never mess with the bios they don't include those kind of features. So you just have to accept the risk that you could destroy the machine if the update fails, and try to take reasonable precautions like making sure the battery is charged up and it's plugged in while updating the firmware.
BYD Seagull EV Priced from $11,400, Gets 10k Orders on First Day
Interesting. I hadn’t really thought of this as a product while working on it but we have built something similar. Yours looks nice! I’m very interested to test it out.
You misunderstood my question. I was asking, are there industries, say Oil or Porn, who are by law or regulation forbidden to borrow money from any bank?
I saw a video tutorial about it and if i understood correctly, the API will automatically include whatever you "tuned" in the prompt, making it just as costly i guess. But i could be wrong as it was late and i was getting sleepy.
"B2B software companies you may find that accepting an uncomfortable amount of liability is usually the only way to get your foot in the door"

The company would have to accept it. No legal trouble for the developper.
It's just a crypto token exchange. Moreover, phone numbers it sells aren't "real", these are NFTs of phone numbers, nothing more. You can't use them for calls or anything else, there's no network service, the only purpose is Telegram authentication with an associated token.
Missing Initech from Office Space.
The firmware's already open source, and you can reflash it by either opening the device to remove a write-protect screw (for older models) or with a debug cable. https://mrchromebox.tech/ has UEFI firmware for many models, and many also support BIOS boot without needing to remove a write-protect screw or use a debug cable. Also, all support running custom Chromium OS builds via the usual ChromeOS boot mechanism.
I think this illustrate pretty well the gap between how adults use their devices and see as "normal" use, and what the same devices go through in the hand of kids using them day in day out and shuffling them around like they do for their books.

My kid also destroyed the plastic around the hinge of an HP chromebook, and there was no way to find replacements part anywhere, locally, Amazon or AliExpress.

That's where it really hurts that there are so many variations and models of chromebooks, as even the most popular ones will be a small fraction of the market and third-party support is just non existent.
Keep in mind that cloud uses the same data centers etc as the rest to G, and is a minority. The exact accounting of cost can be somewhat flexible.
"We were flying planes long before we understood flight."

This isn't true. Sir George Cayley elucidated several aerodynamic principles significantly in advance of the Wright Brothers first flights. The Wrights took advantage of this knowledge in designing their propellers and planes. We have since learned a lot more about how flight works, but the guiding principles of lift, drag, and thrust predate the mechanical engineering to realize a heavier than air aircraft.
A free performance tuning class in C++ and Rust
It would be really bad if true, but it’s not true as already pointed out.
You missed the conclusion step
the book uses golang
I think the success of Azure is really impressive give how technically poor it is.
That background music tho…
I did not accuse you of racism. I merely pointed out that that position -- everyone is an intellectual zombie until proven otherwise -- is identical to that of a racist: a refusal to assume an identity of internal phenomena given identity of natural composition and being.

The other side of this coin is that to afford this projection of identity (here 'consciousness') to an entirely dissimilar other is an un-reasonable projection, as it is based entirely on superficial/externalized information.
It's not a traditional low-code environment, but I recently played with Codux which has a nice balance of this - at least for me, who doesn't have a lot of React experience.
Sundar is an example of what happens when you promote from within and rule out anyone with enemies. You get nice guys whom everyone "likes."

The comment about sociopathic almost-CEO's is spot on. Tony, Andy, Anthony, and Vic all would have been terrible CEO's.

On the other hand, Bill Coughran, Alan Eustace, Udi Manber, or Patrick Pichette would have been decent, at the very least. Maybe even very good.
hierarchies and/or leaders exist because sometimes decision need to be made without debate.
Prompt testing, especially when for q/a pairs where there are multiple right answers, has been bugging me a lot

The article is reasonable, but also shows a big gap in tooling, as the techniques there feel closer to linting & typing then testing once you do more interesting prompts. They don't check the interesting parts..
It does however give it better control, a fixed threshold in terms of training that applicants should pass, and more oversight.

Those are the important parts, being real or not is irrelevant. Snake-oil selling is also a very real profession.
Honestly, I think "less-biased" would be more appropriate than "unbiased" and lead to less criticism.
Otherwise cool project, I like the style of the generated illustrations.
I recall getting UDF cross compatibility required a bit of non-trivial work[0], did this improve recently?

[0] https://github.com/JElchison/format-udf
In this jurisdiction, you don’t lose your rights (e.g. to free speech) because you also pursue profit.
Which could have been the cause of the dead engines during flight, which could have been the reason why it didn't make altitude and didn't separate.
My 2009 bought laptops keep getting updates.
> I'm sure there are evolutionary disadvantages to not being able to hide your emotional states.

Just wear shades like poker players do.

Jokes aside, good points.
You should rethink that whenever you drive under a bridge or get on a boat. The reason they collapse or sink so infrequently is largely because engineers are accredited and held responsible.
I tried so much to use it for my day job but it's next to useless, it takes more time to get it to go where I want than to actually do it myself. My day job is far from requiring a great intelligence, but the tasks are too specific for chatgpt

I've used it for side projects though, especially front end stuff that I absolutely hate (js) and it works fine for that, but that's because I'm absolutely garbage at it in the first place and probably ask it to solve the most answered things ever on stackoverflow &co
They both have the surplus value created by their labor stolen by the capitalist class.

Of course, that affects the cleaning lady more, but the core theft and the exploitative power dynamics they both are affected by are the same.

One of the tricks capital uses to keep control is to pit us against each other. Only through solidarity throughout the entire working class we can affect real change.
Why fighting the urge to sleep may be bad for our health
yeah, I admit it's been a long time :-)
FTIW iPad in school seem to survive better. There's a lot more limitations (screen size in particular, and keyboards being an accessory), but looking at the number of school working with fleets of them, from a sheer price/durability ratio they're probably doing well.
I don't really get their headline.

Google extended the AUE to 8 years. They're complaining that most Chromebooks only have 4 years of software life left. Are they buying devices released 4 years ago? Or refurbished devices?
A small drone and a submarine would make more noise than either alone.
I think BeautifulSoup is great but it's more of a set of building blocks that requires developers to implement their custom scraping logic. Trafilatura is awesome because it just works out of the box for most common tasks related to web scraping.
That is the opposite of internal state. That is stateless.

F(x) is just a function without any dependence on state.
That’s 10GB with everything included, including training weights. The models most people use are 2 or 4 GB.