skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But at least you know a 3080 is two generations newer than a 1080.

That's similar to what Intel was doing with the numbers following the i{3,5,7,9}:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_processors
Depends on what you consider a "new" product though. Intel makes CPUs, and if you look at it from an architectural perspective it's quite reasonable to say that every generation is a new product. But I guess you could argue that when the core functionality (CPU) stays the same (as opposed to changing it to e.g. an APU), the product stays the same...
Killing your lawn is the best thing you can do. There are SO much better things to do with the space than host a lawn (which is effectively a desert).

If you need something green to walk on there are plenty of herbal/clover mixes that produce flowers for insect life. Alternatively you can build raised beds and plant flowers and vegetables. Or native wildflowers. Or trees.

Getting rid of my lawn was the best decision I've made w.r.t. to my land.
I spent a number of years in mapping, global reconcillation of pre-WGS84 ellipsoids and datums with post GPS unification, national mapping projects etc.

There are many map arcana tales, yet another reason for "trap streets" - fake data infill, is to realistically fill voids left by top secret classified national security areas.

The UK Ordnance Survey famously produced rich detailed maps across all of the United Kingdom .. save for blank voids over naval shipyards, weapons testing, secret nuclear bunkers, etc . . .

Eventually somebody cottoned onto the reason these voided areas became magnets for Russian agents - nothing signified something of great interest.
The problem with Nvidia is that I blinked and the numbers wrapped around, so a GeForce RTX 4070 is really new, but a GeForce FX 5200 is really old.
>I'm also noting that those are already influences on the current formation and existence of the structures around us, so assuming that this is a new idea isn't helping anyone. [...] I am hearing that you don't seem to be aware of the active and ongoing work to stop corruption and produce better outcomes in the governments and corporations that currently exist.

I never said these are new ideas or that there aren't already people working on these problems. You're putting words in my mouth.

I'm a bit confused about what our disagreement is. In my first post, all I said was that corporations and power structures aren't inherently bad and that rather than abandoning those concepts, as OP suggests, we can work to improve them. You disagreed with me and made fun of me for being naive. However, what you're saying now sounds like a different version of what I was saying.

I don't get why you think I need to make a concrete proposal for this. I'm making a general possibility claim, not a prescription. There are many paths to get there, which probably involve a combination of cultural evolution and the accumulation of knowledge in a wide range of disciplines.
CISC vs RISC doesn't matter. An ISA should ideally be a healthy mixture of both (citation needed). Arm64 allows memory operands, "just" like x86; but it still has code size issues. Memory operands (ie having a bit of address calculation in the load that's fused into its use) are very useful for reducing register pressure, which is an issue that every call ABI must contend with. This is something that the RISC ISA totally misses (and ARM64.. isn't really RISC).

The issue with this "debate" is that it misses the forest for trees. Instead we should be talking about binary encoding (ie how much "variability" is required), and you're right on that bit; memory isn't the issue it once was.
> there are just so many people who say they have an “i5” or “i7” without knowing what generation it is from.

Since switching to laptops from building my own PCs from parts I stopped following CPU models directly. I knew i3 was "weaker" than i5, and i5 "weaker" than i7. But remember getting an "i5" 10 years and they are still selling them. Shouldn't it be up to i15 by now? It would have been better to have some suffix or prefix letters "Pro", or "Super" to indicate tiers.
Foam core, or even plain styrofoam's a good one, though not so ecologically friendly. Simple cardboard and tape can work, but it depends on what you're making, so the question to you is what level of mechanical device are you making, and what resources and knowledge do you have? Because 3D printing is popular and welding isn't that hard, but both of those have not-insignificant startup costs.

For adapting kids toys to this purpose, there's also K'nex.
Or you can just mandate that new chemicals need the studies before they are mass produced, not after. I really don't see a reason companies need to be able to invent a new type of plastic then immediately start spraying it onto everything I eat.
My daily driver is from 2014.

Each time I spec up a new PC in line with what I want for data workloads, some spatial, and probably the odd bit of video work, I'm reminded just how expensive hardware has become.
You’re absolutely right — hydroponics is a dead end if you’re mostly or entirely off grid with no supply chain.

I’m very interested in soil-based gardening and cyclical systems too, but I don’t have enough space to really experiment. However, if I did have the space, I’d love to explore an aquaponic system in a large enclosed area. Perhaps a large geodesic dome partly dug into the earth to help stabilize temperature. The ability to generate a nutrient solution from a biological system is absolutely inedible to me.

Thanks for the link to Biosphere 2, this is really interesting.
I kinda agree with Bobby on that front:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P349BdHUxlc&t=0s

There's too much that's simply memorisation over skills, deep lines leading you down well traversed paths.

Creativity and ingenuity suffer.

The only real option* if you want interesting games is to make intentionally bad moves so that theory falls apart, and that's only an option against weaker players.

You can play with the more restricted time controls - but that only mixes things up by forcing mistakes, not by introducing well considered novel moves.

* There's always Fischer random.

https://thechessworld.com/articles/openings/5-chess-openings...

There's probably a limit as to how bad a move you want to make: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes_Opening

You're probably better of going with dubious openings, rather than actively bad: https://lichess.org/study/FzX9K6ff.
We got here with hyper aggressive shareholder value optimization and management (broadly speaking) turning practitioners into interchangeable, replaceable cogs. Game’s the same, just got more fierce. Talk about community doesn’t pay inflated rent, food, or healthcare costs.
BMW is also still selling the 5 series.
One, we can do both.

Two, lawns are the biggest agricultural crop in the US. Especially when you consider sod and seed.

Lawns are basically wastelands, supporting little to no biodiversity. Removing them does material good to the surrounding area.
You've touched on the main problem (imo) that seems to happen with large hardware companies adopting consistent naming for performance segments in your comment. Once you've got a sane naming scheme and you've used it for a few generations the incentive to use it to mislead consumers is very high.

Why sell this generations X070 equivalent as an x070 when you can call it an x080 instead and know that a very large chunk of your customer base wont look at the actual specs before paying an extra ~$100 for it? Probably not good in the long term, but who cares about the long term when you can boost sales numbers on a new product now and make shareholders happy.
Investigation Concludes USS Connecticut Grounded on Uncharted Seamount in SCS
Yeah it’s difficult because all the times are by default in seconds from ‘timeit’. I think the sortedcontainers impl is just really, really bad, and that’s why that graph looks so flat in comparison. The datasets and search values are generated on each loop in the benchmark, so hopefully no priming issues.
Germany gets a lot of stuff like this right. For example, I work in infosec and it is a nightmare to do anything that might identify a user, as it should be.
> But at least you know a 3080 is two generations newer than a 1080. Compared to the seemingly random numbers on CPUs it’s simple.

CPU SKUs work exactly the same way? intel has gone longer than nvidia without restarting the numbering, so they need two digits instead of one.
Totally agree with almost everything you say. But there are lines both sides should not cross. For employers it’s exploitation (don’t expect unpaid work) and for employees it’s theft (don’t take pay for no work). If we can’t agree on that then we’re headed for a break down in society.
XDE, the Mesa development environment was run on the same hardware as Star. Star’s biggest issue was that it had far too little real memory and was always thrashing. XDE did much better than Star on a small memory footprint and did not feel slow and generally did not get into a thrashing state. The issue was not the language or the OS, Star and XDE ran on the same Pilot OS, but the architecture of the Star software and the amount or simultaneous this it did in its integrated application which increased its memory foot print.

You are perhaps confusing Cedar rather than Mesa which normally ran on the larger machines.

The other machines you mention were far too large and noisy to use in an office or normal work environment. NO ONE for example had a Dorado in their office, it was always in another room.
Totally practical in my opinion. I used to have a small tent in a closet, and while it needs ventilation, decent air and water pumps are not that loud at all these days. Some people even build cabinets to hold their systems, so they can go in a laundry room or similar space and be easier to access and vent:

https://youtu.be/EAzsdVAjTWU
Hidden benefit of HOA's: if you don't have one, you run a reduced risk of having those people be your neighbors.
Lawns have been in the targets of environmentalists for decades.
Speaking as someone who has gotten addicted to online chess in the past couple years, I think it's a combination of factors:

- Short time format makes for intense, fast paced games

- Starting a game only takes a few taps, and you can be done in a few minutes

- ELO ratings give you a number to obsess over improving, and online matching puts you against even opponents

- Instant post-game analysis

- Large amount of Twitch/Youtube content make it more fun to learn and follow the community
Exactly, I wish their naming conventions were more literate/descriptive than they are now. The names of two processors tells you almost nothing regarding how they compare to each other. And I mean, marketing actual specs runs the risk of oversimplifying performance but also, as a consumer I don’t want to go to some benchmarking site or load multiple different pages of specs just to understand the difference between two SKUs - having to do that actually makes it harder for intel to market and differentiate their chips because it shifts the job to third parties who will also compare them to AMD, not explain why the benchmark fails to capture that chipX has laptop thermals, etc

Intel’s branding was particularly bad in that i9 usually indicated higher performance than eg i3, but old i9s could be much worse than newer i7s (or even i5/3) and it was hard to distinguish them. And new i3s could be the most performant or efficient choice for some consumers over an i9 sometimes; shitty i3s made the good i3s also look bad.

It seems simple to use a naming convention embedding stuff like node/process/fab provenance, cores, clock, specialization or thermals, version… it’s a lot easier to understand basic differences between an Intel-L7n8c35H.2 (laptop, 7nm, 8 core, 3.5 GHz, version 2) and an Intel-D5n12c38H.1 even if it doesn’t capture every distinction.
Design a keyboard with Ergogen v4
Both countries are still very expensive to live in.

And at least Denmark have really high taxes up to ~60%.
“Emergent anything” is probably the most obnoxious buzzword in all of machine learning.
The python objects are all created on demand by the benchmarking code in the repository—changing the “sizes” object will change the number of samples/etc.
Why did the other comment get killed?

The TikTok challenges have been crazy. But only in American do these crimes happen to such an extent and then go unpunished.
The title of this paper is misleading. They are not arguing that the abilities are a mirage. They are arguing that the sudden ("emergent") appearance of unexpected abilities is not actually sudden, but gradual and predictable with model scale, if measured in an improved way.
I would assume rejected by the Canadians because his son wasn't legally his son anymore.
Theft will eventually result in even less pay over time. Both sides need to respect each other. In my case a dev was paid very well and given tons of freedom, and screwed me. I’m not some huge company making bank here.
5$/month for premium is fair to remove ads, Youtube has a similar but more expensive option in their app. Removing the ability to use third-party clients altogether is dumb.
You could use a synthetic benchmark. Create your own Geekbench like thing and use those numbers.

Intel-$singlecore-$multicore

So an Intel-6-12 had twice the single core performance of the Intel-3-48 but is much worse in multicore.

Yeah, things are WAY more complicated. But at least it gives you a chance without memorizing spec sheets first. Higher numbers are always better. No redefining. This year’s 5 can’t be better than last year’s 20 in performance.

I don’t follow Intel/AMD chips anymore. If I wanted to buy a computer I’d have to learn it all from scratch. This would give me a nice leg up.
So if I'm reading this halfway correctly, quality isn't suddenly emergent, it's continuous and gradual based on size of the model. It only appears emergent when researchers pick bad metrics.

I and I assumed a lot of people, already thought performance was a function on model size (# of parameters). Is this not what the prevailing thought is for DNN performance?

Agreed with the other posters that this title is misleading.
You're making a giant unsubstantiated leap from "there are 2.5 adult billion gamers in the world" and the idea that the current types of "virtual worlds" means that a significant number of these folks want anything resembling the metaverse.

I am one of those "adult gamers". I even occasionally play VR games with an Oculus Quest. The thought of living substantially more portions of my life "in the metaverse" is pretty much the definition of dystopia for me. I've seen Wall-E, and I'll pass, thanks.
android or desktop? mtg, nodecore, or mineclone (and if so, which mineclone)? which texture pack? etc.
is this going to be proprietary
I’m not saying you personally are the problem, nor that theft is condoned or called for. I’m saying that in the greater labor market macro, there is no evidence that hard work and being diligent will be rewarded, and therefore it should come as no surprise that people are “acting their wage”, “quiet quitting”, or whatever the PR engine is calling it most recently as part of the marketing campaign.

Workers are responding to incentives and the environment they’re operating in, plain and simple. When people don’t care, I don’t blame them, it’s the second order effects that result that sucks. I have no solution to suggest unfortunately besides only hire and work with professionals you know and trust.
> So don’t confuse this with actual opportunity to learn.

I have learned so much from what MIT, Stanford etc.. post online, and the material is top notch.

Speaking of IT/engineering, In my country most colleges are crap and the value of a good college mostly lies in provide mostly lies in a) the college hiring pipeline and b) the opportunity to sit in same classroom as many other intelligent people, and learn from them. Teaching is total crap.

So I wonder why you think college doesn't matter. From what I heard, ivy league colleges matter for getting hired in big company too.
The mistake is arriving these abilities to the model itself, and not the content being modeled.

Text contains more data than language. Large Language Models work implicitly: they are not limited to finding language-specific patterns in the text that they model.

Humans look at LLMs through a lens of expectation. Any time we find a feature we did not expect, we categorize it after-the-fact. That's our biggest mistake: LLMs are not made of categories!
> Armies in republics also love a bit of pomp and circumstance

Also mostly stupid and hilariously anachronistic, in my opinion. The videos of Indian and Pakistani border guards showing off to each other comes particularly to mind.
Similar incident happened in 2005 in another part of the Pacific. The Captain, whose conduct was mostly well regarded both before and after the incident, ultimately lost his job.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_San_Francisco_(SSN-711)#...
I agree. Unfortunately, I don't have an answer for what we can do. This is a systemic problem that requires a systemic solution. Additionally, I suspect that many political leaders are in their positions because they strongly believe in their own beliefs and want to act on them. This makes it all the more difficult to encourage intellectual humility.
Depends on how you look at it. A modern Core i3 smashing a 5 year old Core i7? What a deal! Pointing to the highest cost version of a market while ignoring the actual speed provided has always been a bad metric for “expensive.”

Plus, this isn’t historically true. An Apple II cost nearly $6000 after inflation. Heck, the Atari cost nearly $1000 in today’s money. The first Macintosh cost $6500 after inflation. Commodore 64? $1670. Heck, $250 from 2014 had the buying power of $310 now. Building a $1000 computer in 2014 would cost $240 more now, and yet our parts are superbly faster.

And you can always pick up a 5-year-old PC with hardware no slower now than it was then for a few hundred bucks. It’s only expensive if you must have latest and greatest for some reason; or look at prices without considering inflation or the magnitude of the performance improvements.
If you look close one of the photos labeled Star was really XDE. Rather than object Icons it had a process bar (running applications) at the bottom. It’s the photo with only the XDE mail tool window open.
So lawns are literally natural in some parts of the country; you can grind the land down to dirt and it'll grow a grass and become a meadow if you do nothing; if you mow it it'll be a lawn.

Those areas were instrumental in the "American Dream"-style imagery so the rest of the country imitated it, even though it's absolutely insane in some places.

Also the amount yards are used varies greatly by area, and by family size.
Someone works at a surface mine :O
Chess is having its soccer moment now. Here is why:

1- The entry cost has fallen dramatically. Before at a minimum you'd need to afford a chess set and a couple of books. Now, all you need is a parents phone. This is similar to soccer, where the entry cost is any ball you can find.

2- its egalitarian. Your size, sex, height, and even age do not matter. This has always been true but now its more pronounced with apps blurrying entry further. This is also similar to soccer in that even age differences dont really matter

3 - learning curve has flattened dramatically. This to me is key. In soccer, anyone can jump in an play even if you cant learn by watching. This was not true for chess until apps came along. It is particularly powerful that kids no longer need to follow notation or boring books to learn how to play well. Everything can now be taught by video, at your own pace.

4 - chess is now hyper social. This is another key element also enabled by apps. By being a 2 player game, its not a game that is social by nature. However, now you can be social anytime, anywhere. No board required.
Oral History of Mark Mothersbaugh, Computer History Museum (2018)
I understand what is a database server and what is a web server but what is a Minecraft server? What does it store? Whole map and state and user accounts? Is there some sort of federation or one has to create an account on every server?

Server is also in Java? Requires GPU as well? Open source servers also exist? What is griefing?

No idea about any of this never played Minecraft.

Edit: Typos and open source
And so the enshittification begins...
Same! I still remember the 8800gtx being "current" high end and the 2XX cards being the recently announced space-age new ones.

Then I stuck with AMD for a while (the HD 4870 followed by the R9 390, both were very compelling options from a $/perf standpoint when they were current from what I remember) and by the time NVidia came back on my radar again they'd gone through another whole ~10 generation cycle of 3 digit numbers and were back on the four digit ones again.
This is interesting. There's another implication here. That reliability/usefulness is an "emergent" phenomenon as underlying abilities become more accurate.

It's the difference between siri not understanding you 1 word out of 10 (very accurate!), and it basically just understanding you. It's a continuous accuracy function and a discontinuous usefulness function.
Sure. One can debate the Truman Doctrine, the way the Cold War was fought, the ethics of adopting a balance of power strategy, but those are all different discussions. Whether superpowers should use their intelligence apparatuses to implement their foreign political and military policies is another discussion.

Espionage, gathering secret intelligence, is arguably a net good for the planet.
Don't you have to re-certify your car after it's been written off?
yes quiet. It sucked, especially because we had a baby at the time and trying to carry groceries and a child up those stairs to a unairconditioned apartment mid summer was not something deserving of a laugh track.
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/landlocked-states-of-the...
all you need is emergent anything
Some places require a re-inspection, but those often don't care about much beyond brakes and lights and things (including the driver's window being able to roll down and the horn, often).

Do note that the salvage title does affect some things like resale/trade-in, but if you want to drive it, that's what you want.
See also: "Serious Shell Programming" https://freebsdfrau.gitbook.io/serious-shell-programming/
Yeah, that is what I do. It seems really sloppy though, a tactic for dealing with poor design
If you think Nvidia's product naming makes any kind of sense, try a few rounds of my GPU quiz: https://james.darpinian.com/gpu-quiz.html
It's disgusting that the government is getting involved in validating identities.

The worst problems on the internet are tracking & privacy, a vast network of states and corporations hoovering up & tracking every move. Rather than helping defend users, lawmakers are creating un-Democratic authoritarian regimes, that also make users less secure.

Doing it for the children has been the longest saddest most bullshit government excuse forever. SOPA/PIPA and so many more. The awfulness is just unstoppable. Now we have a bunch of extremist lawmakers taking over US states, we are seeing these grossly illiberal government insertions happen at the state not National level, which is a much worse game of whack-a-mole to play.
I really wanna make a youtube video on how to pronounce Hyundai, drives me nuts. One of the guys in the video on this link says hondye, like honda... At least if people skipped the y and just say hun day it wold be closer than hon dye.

Here is the CEO saying Hyundai for anyone who would like to pronounce it correctly:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxvI2EKxyut8K4wUGNL8CiefOk_RPY4CV...
You can use CSS classes like booleans but sometimes its nice to have actual boolean variables, used on the actual HTML element in your component, when designing the logic of your application. Even if it's more verbose.