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I can play Subnautica, Prodeus, Total Warhammer III, WoW, Metro Exodus, etc. Various settings all at 1080p on the monitor I have connected externally.

And that's on a base M1 macbook Air with the 7C GPU setup. Although it does have a fan rigged up underneath my laptop stand. Every other Apple Silicon Mac has even more gpu oomph.

Friends with M1/M2 Pro machines are plenty happy with their GPU performance but most of them all just play WoW. One with a M1 Max Studio is enjoying plenty of performance at 4K.
boggles my mind that we had a tool that was smart when it was first launched in November 2022, experienced a massive generational improvement in the next iteration (GPT-4) within 4 months...and people on HN are ready to assert that this is the best it will ever be.

It improved drastically in quality within 4 months, yet for some reason, the nex 10 years will see 0 progress in a field with literally tens of billions and intellectual capital flowing in.
Up-sell.
Quick question, why was the UK selected for this process?
Also, Microsoft was directly involved in very successful games such as AoE, Flight Simulator, Dungeon Siege and Fable. I understand the management's desire to acquire every other IP in the industry but they really should focus on making their own stuff.
I agree. There are so many people among us whom users of 4chan are trying to emulate
OpenAI paper on double descent: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.02292.pdf

They show it happens across a variety of architectures and real world datasets
That assumes that using copyrighted works to train AI is copyright infringement. And that simply pasting a link to a publicly available file that the artist themselves made available is "abetting." I'm betting that using copyrighted works to train "AI" is fair use, just like a human learning from a photo would be fair use.
So spin Activision UK off?
Have you considered that they knew it wasn’t technically correct and used it anyway because it was the clearest way to get the idea across?
The CMA can block access to the UK market and impose fines amounting up to 10% of a firm's global revenue plus impose other requirements to restore access to the UK.
Interesting point, but honestly I couldn't care less about global chess power games.

Also, Russia has among the lowest fertility rates in Europe, Chinese population has pretty much capped (the growth is 0.3% YoY), both countries are going to face the aging population issue sooner than us.
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Correct. France built its reactors after the oil crises of the early 70s to guarantee its energy independence. The irony being those same plants failed at the time of the biggest energy crises since then.
In the aggregate, sure, but this sort of nonsense diminishes the risk and liability involved. These people belong in Hell.
I imagine hardware innovation these days requires huge amounts of money.
Something you never want to hear from your lawyer, or doctor, is that your case is interesting.
Cloud gaming is fantastic. I use it daily as I don't have or want to buy a PC or console. I pay $10 a month to play Destiny's latest expansion and I can unsub when I'm done. 4 months of gaming worth $40 instead of the console/PC price. It's also extremely convenient to try new games with a very low barrier of entry. Fantastic service
This is a pretty misleading piece. A couple of major errors:

The central argument is that renewables basically replaced nuclear in Germany. But that is not* what happened. Simply put -- the continued operation of coal generation replaced the shut down nuclear, nearly on a one on one basis. These coal plants, all of them, would have been shut down absent the atomausstieg. Today, Germany currently produces about the same amount of power from coal (~160 TWh/y) as its nuclear fleet did before the shutdowns began (~160 TWh/y). Had Germany not shutdown its nuclear fleet it would burn zero coal today -- and would emit ~130 million tons of CO2-eq less greenhouse gases.

While Germany did reduce slightly coal power generation, it did this by dramatically increasing renewable generation and* fossil gas generation. Recall that fossil gas electricity generation has increased massively since the nuclear phase out began -- increasing from by more than a third since the beginning of the phase out. I don't really think anyone would argue that renewables plus fossil gas backup can not replace baseload power -- it can, just not particularly cleanly or cheaply.

The problem is that the German approach -- despite spending over €500 billion on the energiewiende -- did not make a low carbon electrical grid. It made an expensive, dirty grid. In 2022, a kWh of power generated in Germany produced on average 385 grams of greenhouse gas (in CO2-eq) -- 2021 was barely better at 365 g per kWh. Compare that to France, where in 2022 a kWh of power produces 85 g per kWh -- 4.5 times* cleaner. Furthermore, power is dramatically more expensive in Germany -- in 2022, a kWh of power was €0.3279 in Germany vs.€0.2086 in France.

*Furthermore, there are basic errors here. Nuclear power doesn't need pumped hydro -- literally Germany has more pumped hydro than France, despite not having the "Alps" etc
Seems like a pretty fundamental difference
I think they’re implying the opposite. The world would be destroyed if the total population continues to grow. As of right now, we would need 5 Earths to sustain everyone’s current lifestyle, keeping in mind that more than half the world lives in poverty.
Please excuse the self promotion but I’m actually building something like that for SvelteKit!

http://sveltekitsaas.com/
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According to HN, technology never improves. The first version of something is always the way it will ever be. OpenAI hasn't improved at all from GPT-3 to GPT-4, and all the billions flowing into this field will cause zero improvements in the next 30 years.

This place needs to change its name to LudditeNews.
This isn’t as clear to me as it is to others for two reasons:

1. The alt-text/caption from the original source is copyrighted and they outright copy it.

2. Facilitating copyright infringement is often illegal, and it’s clear that LAION put together this resource to facilitate automatic copying of the works for unauthorized use — and then encouraged other people to do exactly that.
...Merde.
> Christopher Eisgruber is president of Princeton University

Completely ignoring the contents of the opinion article, what do you expect this guy to say?
Local install is on the list! I’m wary of sites who tell their users “put in your API key, we promise to keep it safe”. That’s why I’m going the route where users can host their own instance. If you find yourself hitting the 50k limit though, I’m happy to increase it.
Microsoft has no real competitor for Office 365, it's basically free money for them.
Chinese hackers use new Linux malware variants for espionage
Just to note - you're talking about economic profit (subtracting out opportunity cost) not accounting profit, which is what is being measured in these cases.
ML is fundamentally pattern finding and matching.

The fact that it is useful for finding patterns that may be different than humans tend to find is not an indication of understanding of the underlying data.

It is no different than clustering in traditional stats. While those found patterns are sometimes incredibly useful, clustering knows nothing outside of the provided dataset.

As other have mentioned, Google's search results are actually really bad at finding novel results these days due to many factors like battling SEO tricks etc...

But while the results of LLMs is impressive, there is no mechanisms for it to have an 'internal model of the world' in their current form.

It may help to remember that current LLMs would require an infinity of RAM to be even computationally complete right now.
IVAR is the one where the shelves clip on to little pegs? that used to be metal but now everything is plastic? For me they never clipped strong enough, so a slight bump caused shelves to fly off the pegs, even with the backing straps to keep the whole thing from accordianing down.

Your mention of cubboards might be the thing - you need to build it out around the cupboard instead of trying to just use it for shelves.

Ha! They don't even sell 937.636.09 anymore, so maybe the problem was those damn corners. I ended up using https://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/H-2455/Chrome-Wire-Shel... instead, and the thing was cheaper than the IVAR.

More power to you, wish I could have sent all the pieces to someone; as it was I burned them in rage.
Sometimes you find a very underrated comment here, and this is one of those instances.

I NEVER subscribe to free trial offers simply because of the number of negative posts about how hard it is to cancel, and the pain involved.

It absolutely does hurt "good actors".
In its core, WebAuthn is a way for a site to say "I want to authenticate" and the browser/device to say "OK, here are my credentials".

Nothing is stopping you from generating a private key from a password that you have in your head, and using that to authenticate to every site.

Obviously, if that password gets stolen, the thief can get into any of your accounts, but that's a choice you have to make. WebAuthn doesn't mandate a specific way of storing credentials.
> They respond that this sounds very convoluted and they'll only agree to do it if you call them "colonel".

Cute.
This seems like a wicked study. By starting with 8 year olds, you've selected people who have already developed somewhat. It's quite possible these differences are developed. Partly by reinforcement of norms. We believe boys are more spatially oriented, so we treat them as such, and we implicitly train them to be, this then begins developing those pathways.

But you can't run the study to see if you could develop girls in similar ways. The amount of controls and isolation required to run the study properly is a bit inhumane. You'd need 24 hour control over everything that child learns and encounters.

So while the conclusions may be true, it's possible that it's not an inherent difference due to initial biology.
Forest Admin's out-of-the-box admin panel + the convenience of the cloud, this is all developers ever wanted for their internal tools!
Microsoft was very active in giving free licenses out for education, but those licenses often wouldn't allow for commercial use. If you've never been through a license audit, their legal team would usually make you pay through the nose or suffer through a lawsuit if they found you weren't using the right license for your dev tools.

That said, they'd generally target bigger businesses over smaller dev-only shops.
Google lost a lawsuit for including a (defamatory) URI in a list: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65340444
Yes, copyright is different, however you can lose trials for "promoting copyright infringement", e.g. The Pirate Bay, Gary Bowser. There's a decent shot at arguing the LAION list promotes copyright infringement ((after AI got smacked down a bit more)).
Will this mean future Netflix only works for people with a permanent home broadband service with a fixed ip address to identify as their home? I mean if you use mobile internet for your broadband, hidden behind cgnat and school or public wifi networks how will they differentiate between you and someone freeloading off your account?
I’m not making the argument that because it is cheap, or low cost, it is OK. Mux it’s totally right to do what they’re doing. It’s their service.

I’m curious in the economics of it. The people who are streaming have economics too, their time is worth something they could be doing something else with it. They are finding the source material, perhaps paying for it, finding a way to upload it, sharing links and distributing it, bearing whatever risks and consequences come, etc.

I don’t know much about the economics of pirate streaming. Are they doing this for financial gain, and if so what are the numbers? Or maybe they’re doing it out of the Robin Hood sense of justice, take the streams and distribute it for the greater good.

Every time I hear numbers about piracy they’re always vague, there’s no breakdown.
You really don't need to read more than 1-2 newspapers. They all publish the same stories about the same topics, rarely anything different. To reduce time wasted just summarize their content with an ai bot of your choice. Happy life.
I've found that they're often not what they're claimed to be or not relevant to what Bing is saying.
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Stanford, Harvard data science no more
Presumably this is an option, but not a good one. I'm not sure what would happen to Activision IP in UK - Microsoft wouldn't be able to use any of their newly acquired Activision IP in the UK?
You don't have to get to surface freight numbers to make SPS viable, because SPS has advantages that compensate for the higher transport cost. Those include a 99.5% capacity factor, a 5X higher solar flux per panel over 24 hours, and much lighter construction due to the lack of weather and gravity.

As for construction cost, NASA's design would self-assemble in orbit. I linked the full study report.
It is absolutely worth the cost, but not for the education. A college degree is a class filter in this country, and nothing more. It's a ticket that says "I'm one of you" or not to the hiring manager. Us without are seen as inferior people, plain and simple.
Because if we did that then the missing revenue that schools currently get from their endowments would instead come from…

1.) thin air

2.) the government (??? No.)

3.) higher tuition -> hint: pick this option!

The better question is why Harvard and Princeton charge tuition at all! (The answer to that question is not that hard either.)
This is interesting and I've seen others use this short syntax, but it's never worked for me. In the case of Neat, one thing I lose is the margin-bottom of my paragraph tags when I don't close.

There's lot of great feedback in this thread, however, so maybe if I apply some of that, the margin won't go away.

Yeah, I used a mix of px, em, and other oddities, because I'm a bit old school, I suppose.
Awesome. So student loan forgiveness is a wealth transfer to the more successful and therefore undesirable.
The difference is that normal people don't have 50-200 houses and don't have to toy with the main/backup keys for every single one of those + each time they add a new "house", which may be often.
Sure, all of that is sound. My point is not that Shannon's is a bad framework for thinking about these things, it's rather that the proposition "intelligence is compression" takes the abstraction for the thing itself. As you said, information theory is a powerful abstraction and it is a useful tool for thinking about things in a certain restricted fashion. The trouble starts when we forget that we're using that framework and begin to make purportedly philosophical statements about the fundamental nature of things in terms of a single theoretical framework.

I disagree re: compatibility with the Investigations. In my reading the investigations are pretty much a refutation of the idea that to know is to have, like you said, some representation or picture of the world in terms of logical relations. In modern terms it is the same as stating that to know is equivalent to having particular neuron firings. I think the major point of the Investigations was to illustrate that our notion of knowledge is not some objective, universal thing, but rather it's highly contextual. In this fashion two human beings with totally different backgrounds and neuronal firings could both produce an "intelligent" answer to a question; it all hinges on context. To boil intelligence down to compression algorithms is to reject this contextually and put us back into the position of trying to establish objective measures for highly relative concepts.

Even Shannon's concept of information is relative; I guess I'd be ok with a statement like "intelligence is the selection of an acceptable compression algorithm in a context" but on the whole it just feels...super reductionistic and probably not what a rigorous epistemology would ultimately conclude.

Really, the proposition that ought to be made here is probably something more like: "in information theoretic terms, intelligence may be represented as compression"; this allows the theory to treat of the idea without reifying the theory.
Your claim was "A classical apparatus is part of the QM framework."

I just pointed out it is not, and gave you axioms that define QM, and asked where the classical part is. You ignored, as expected.

>But physics is not (and has never been) "pure math,

This is not clear. I pointed out three pretty solid places that seem to disagree. In fact, a huge chunk of advances over the past 150 years came from where? Pure math. Electron oribital structure - forced by spherical harmonics (we didn't measure the orbits, then write equations - we looked for harmonics, the math game them all, then we experimented and found them all). Spin, forced by the math (relativity + qm had no solutions - to get them forced the representations to have a spin component, forced by pure math, then we found them). Positrons and anti-particles - forced by the math (the equation for electrons had two roots, pure math, at first people ignored the second root, then they decided to look, and found anti-matter). Relativity - forced by the math (the underlying Riemannian geometry is extremely forced - and the "pure math" of it led to a century of predictions, all from the pure math, that later became observed). Noether's theorem underlying all conservation principles - forced by the math (and it's an astounding, very general priciple, devoid of any physical content, but once applied, out pops all sorts of conservation laws, some we had not even observed, all forced by pure math). Quarks, Higgs Boson, nearly all of modern physics - forced by the math, not the other way around.

This list is incredibly extensive, far beyond what is here.

This is why physicists reached the "Unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics" and "It from Bit." More and more of physics is being recast as information theory and computation, since it is becoming more clear that a significant amount of what we call physics and nature is forced by math. Some, like Tegmark as I pointed out, go so far as to claim all math is physics and we just don't see some yet, because our inputs, timeframe, and objervations of multi-verse things are so small. So to claim physics is not math (another of your claims that is too hand wavy and short-sighted to believe) is not demonstrable - it's your belief, one that is slowly but surely giving way to realizing how intertwined they are.

The idea that we simply observe nature than add more terms to model it is long gone. What to look for as pointed to by math, not observation, has led to so many physical discoveries that it is why physicists (and mathematicians, and philosophers) deeply question why is math directing nature, not nature directing math.

Since I provided axioms for QM without your requirement of a "classical apparatus," and you cannot show where in those axioms your "classical apparatus" resides, I guess that part is done now too.
I just move my Ikea furniture with me, I don't know why the only alternative is to buy heavy duty stuff. And I just ignore nicks and dents because it seems wasteful to replace a desk just because of a chip.
Operational security in preparation for Ukrainian counter attack?
Too many Youtubers and TikTokers post really detailed maps of the war, I'm surprised it is allowed unless it's part of psy-ops and full of wrong info.
I always felt a bit scammed with AWS Multi-AZ on RDS that basically doubles your cost. If their set up is anything like this, I now feel vindicated in turning it off....
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In antitrust fines are generally not capped, since the whole point is to make giant companies pay attention. The EU fined Google 2.4B euros in 2017, then 4.3B again the following year. Even for Google, 7 billion USD isn’t play money.

A market block wouldn’t have to be all or nothing. Maybe start with the offending products: Activision games, Microsoft’s cloud gaming service, etc.
How will you know when you have addressed climate change? Will there be different climate models from today's, showing everything is now OK?
today we crawl private sites that only use cookies as their auth method: https://support.visualsitemaps.com/en/articles/3673081-how-t...

You are absolutely right about a local crawl offering. In fact it would cut down a lot of our server costs too -;) Will be looking into this at our next standup since it will require some refactoring.

There is however a massive trade-off in that crawling and screenshooting large >5000 pages on one cpu will take a really long time to do well because there is a complex screenshot stitching process, and that process will need an ALWAYS ON CPU.

What we are offering as of this month is enterprise custom cloud installs & licensing. That way 5k site will get done in 1-2 hours ( or faster ) instead of days!
I like the color analogy. Using spaces is like using a green chroma screen. Using tabs is like having an alpha channel, as long as everything supports the alpha channel it is the best.
I think they mean a Switch like use case. Cooling implementation does still matter though.
Since both Microsoft and Activision-Blizzard-King do business in the UK, they're subject to UK regulatory oversight, including the CMA reviewing this proposed merger.
In order for cloud gaming not to be a thing, the following will have to happen:

- Residential bandwidth (and to a lesser extent latency) will decrease in the future

- It will be cheaper to have hardware at home than in a datacenter

- Game console manufacturers will prefer designing, manufacturing, and shipping systems vs data center upgrades

- Game companies will prefer allowing end users to own bits vs leasing access a la SaaS

- Game companies will prefer targeting custom console architectures vs standardized data center architectures

None of these seem plausibly likely.
ANXRacers. It combines stuff from Elite Dangerous into Trackmania. I reduced one dimension, to keep the scope feasible in my skillset/effort available.
Good models are useful.
Valid point, while I have no idea how the numbers look. But butchering cows, or other animals that provide hide for leather, and then not using said leather is kind of opposite of sustainability.

Now one can argue about whether meat based diets are good or not, but as long as they exist there will be aources for leather.
No, it's WORSE than nothing. You're turning a 3rd party [wireless provider] into a security service that can authenticate you without your knowledge.
>non-existent on pc

What's the share of PC gaming on Microsoft Windows vs. not on Microsoft Windows?
So this is probably too soon, thoughts and prayers for the datacenter operators and staff out there, but are they going to auction off the flooded hardware? Trying to restore a flooded Google rack sounds like a super fun project.

Anyone experience with losing an entire DC to flooding?

edit: I just Googled it (lol) and this DC has to be brand spanking new (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/google...), apparently they just opened it last June. Google must be livid with the contractors who built the place for it to get flooded so soon.
Most wind power in Germany gets generated close to Denmark, in the northern plain and offshore in the North sea and Baltic. There are very few wind plants near Stuttgart. (There were lots of nuclear plants in Baden Wuerttemberg though - but they were switched off and not replaced by renewables.)