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Had this pandemic turned out to kill 10% of the global population then it would definitely have been the right move. Turns out, that didn't happen. Because we were lucky regarding lethality, regarding contageousness, regardin speed of vaccine development. In hindsight, no biggy, how dare they made everybody sanitize their hands all the time.

I worry about the real thing hitting someday. When the discussions start again and people refuse to do the most basic things (yes, some of them obviously nonsense and some of them perhaps in hindsight) and the conspiracy theories spreading and everybody being a hobby virologist, and when we realize that a significant fraction of us will die and society will collapse and we could have prevented it but now it's too late. Then it won't help me anymore to say "told you so". But at least society will deserve its collapse.
At pro trading firms they likely have edge in data speed and execution speed. Something common man won’t have
I’m fully vaccinated but Covid cases are still widespread (I’ve never had it). There’s no need to risk the ans yet not understood sequelae.

Plus I don’t get colds any more
Who said they don't? Who says those stocks wouldn't have performed considerably worse without good management? That's what I am getting at. Just because a stock goes down does not imply bad management or vice versa. But again that doesn't mean that management decisions don't matter, they can matter a lot.
Shower thought: use AI to understand and evolve compact/clever code.

People write a lot of code because the alternatives usually have their own set of problems. Compact/clever code is hard to understand, debug and evolve. "Write only code" is only half a joke.

Languages like APL and K have some appeal due to their expressiveness but they are understandably rejected by most engineers because it's really hard to build a sustainable large scale system with many engineers
edgy.
This seems like a problem you can only solve with an invite or credential system. If you are an invited writer (or have some sort of literary degree) you can submit content, otherwise you gotta let people invite you. AI content is still allowed, and if you post garbage you lose your posting privileges.
> some of them possibly smoking

I lived in Paris for a time, I would say it is guaranteed some were smoking.
Somehow doesn't seem worth my time.
Parameters don't really work the same way in Forth. A similar C program would explicitly pass in an entire stack every time it runs a function, or have a global stack variable. And such a C program would disallow the optimization whether or not you consider UB.

Machine language means you have basically no rules imposed on your code at all. So it's true that you can't optimize anything, but I think that's outside the scope of normal language talk.
HIP is AMD's contribution to the open source community to overcome Nvidia's CUDA software moat

You write in HIP C++ language and run them on either NVIDIA or AMD platforms.
This way you get cross-platform code and are not stuck with Nvidia.

Use HIPify tool to automatically convert existing sources from CUDA to HIP.

It's been around for many years - but the fact that so many people still don't know about it - speaks for the sad state of AMD communication.

https://docs.amd.com/bundle/HIP-Programming-Guide-v5.3/page/...
HN has very opinionated mods, it's just that what they're opinionated about is primarily a matter of tone rather than a matter of content. I mean it's their site, I might disagree but it's their site.
Eh. I just specced it out, and it costs as much as a similar specced Asus G14 with a big AMD 6800S dGPU: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-rog-zephyrus-14-wqxga-120h...

The CPU is a bit weaker, but the cooling is much more substantial, so I think it would perform similarly under a sustained load.
>As far as we know, the fire was an accident

“As far as we know”

In the same sense of like “innocent until proven guilty”

But is that the right lens to be looking through here?

What is the rate of accidental church fires, let alone at somewhere that is such a treasured location as this?

Then factor in, wasn’t there an ongoing spate of what were clearly church arson attacks going on at the time?

Then factor in what you were describing of what seems to be an inexplicably lackadaisical approach of getting to the bottom of what occurred, giving the impression of some wanting above all else to divert attention from what one would think to be the most pertinent questions about what occurred.

Then do the calculus of, okay, if it could be shown to be a clear cut case of being accidental why wouldn’t people in a position to do so, show that? That would have minimal, if any, political ramifications. Whereas the political ramifications of other possible causes of the fire would be much higher.

It raises some questions doesn’t it?

Why aren’t people in positions of influence on this matter and in political leadership doing what their office calls on them to do?

And given what can be observed of their actions what is one to make of their intentions?

Why aren’t they safe guarding and defending the nation’s culture and heritage? Why are they leaving it open and vulnerable to attack?
> My goal with the early sub-projects isn't to build a finished sub-component, it is to build a good enough sub-component so I can move on to the next thing on the path to a demo.

The one caveat I'd add to this is to make sure to panic (throw an exception or assert false) at all unhandled edge cases in the good enough subcomponent. It's often easy to write conditionals for the happy path without a corresponding else for the unhappy path. You don't need to implement all branches initially, but you will likely be glad you added those panics, which have the bonus side effect of showing you exactly where the unhandled edge cases are, as you expand the sub-component to handle those edge cases.
Microsoft is hated for many reasons. Bill Gates was Microsoft for a long time, and it still has his DNA.
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I'm guessing that will never happen. This is not the first time people have proposed mining it.

One problem is that, even without mining, it's on track to poising the air of something like 33% of the Los Angelos metropolitan area in the next few decades. So, anyone that touches it will now own that environmental disaster.

This can, and should, be fixed by spending huge amounts of federal money on environmental remediation, and I can imagine using lithium revenues to offset it, but none of that will be politically easy.
The problem is that when you go beyond DDL, or you want to execute backwards incompatible DDL changes, you can no longer make these migrations declaratively.
I live in Philly too been here ~10+ years at this point. Not in Kensington though

>There are drug addicts, stick up kids, and insane people wandering every block throughout most of the city

Simply not true. Common its not that bad. Does it happen? Yes. Pervasive and constant through the city? No.

It is overblown in the sense that the rest of the city does not look like that, or present the same risk.
Link to article on original site https://wyofile.com/judge-rules-in-favor-of-corner-crossing-...

Link to judge's decision https://www.wyd.uscourts.gov/sites/wyd/files/opinions/22-cv-...
they should have built the roof with steel & glass so it can't burn!
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> The whole building isn't economic or productive. They could probably make more money tearing it down and replacing it with a Starbucks.

It likely has economic impact vastly larger than any Starbucks via tourism.
It's not really an equivalence, if you remove the sensationalism, it's just a point that the free work is already being provided.

Put more succinctly I'm making two points:
1) The free work is already being done.
2) StackOverflow has been crawl-able since forever.

You'd have to address both of those problems before the concern that you're raising becomes relevant. Banning the posting of new generated content doesn't address either of those things.
It's tough to explain. It's something to do with not standing on any particular side, but attempting to cast blame and start arguments. If you read through the HN comments, and think about the bigger picture and what will result from the publishing of the article, isn't the most lasting effect pitting one group against another? Hasn't the article done a great job of doing that, and is that not the primary effect of this article being published? It seems clear enough to me.

People who believe one thing are also reading this article in resentment and despair. You don't think about them, but they are out there. When the next crisis comes, they will remember how their world view was publicly shamed, and more loudly and actively assert their views. And the people who are on top now, or think they are due to the current media cycle, will build resentment in turn. And the cycle will continue.

I'm not saying they shouldn't be allowed to publish it and sow discord. They should. I'm saying that we shouldn't elevate it. Unfortunately, even me commenting on this probably goes against that idea.
This is absolutely not the case. In fact I've never used an ORM myself that generates SQL directly – they all generate some kind of abstract model then render that to SQL using a database-specific adapter.

Specifically, Rails' ActiveRecord will transform e.g.

Customer.create(name: 'test')

into the following when using Postgres

INSERT INTO "customers" ("name") VALUES ('test') RETURNING "id";

Things like

Customer.upsert_all([{name: 'test'}])

will also work to perform upserts.

In practice, ORMs are more advanced than you might think, and can be a useful tool in some cases!
I just got his Magic Lantern cycle, will be watching it with a friend. I've been considering annotating Hollywood Babylon as a gift.
> but in practice the law makes it basically impossible to hospitalize people with severe mental issues against their will.

This is very literally not the case. In California, hospitals 51-50 people all the time. It's an involuntary 72 hour hold and the criteria for meeting it is not high at all. A professional just has to deem you are a danger to yourself or others. That's the bar, and it's easily met for healthcare providers.
This is all available in the Intel AMT documentation. While the implementation is closed-source and opaque, this isn't some magic functionality, it's a product that businesses want and use.

If the OS is running, wireless AMT forwards packets through the OS driver; it's cooperative (unlike the wired AMT, which always exists at a higher level than the OS, because it has features like resetting a crashed OS).

If the OS isn't running, you provision the AMT with WiFi credentials for the AMT host, using a tool. If you want, you can use the Local Manageability Service (LMS) tool to automatically forward credentials from the OS to the AMT, otherwise, you can install specific profiles.
"after" in the title is a weasel word meant to imply causality when there nothing to substantiate it.
Interesting point from the Linus Tech Tips video: A lot of the thermal throttling in laptops is based on user comfort (don't burn the user) rather than CPU limits. He had a demo of a laptop CPU running faster and hotter with this system because the body of the laptop was the focus of the cooling.
Serious question: How is this tool free? Are they burning money making it publicly accessible? Or something else? Every other AI gen tool I've seen is pay-per-use.
Can someone give a survey of all the Jupyter -> WebApp frameworks?

The other thing, I'd really like is being able to have multiple simultaneous editors of a single notebook so we can all jam on it on at the same time ala Google Docs.
I hate to say this, but I suspect that an LLM that has been trained on how to post on HN truncated the link because links on HN are (visually) truncated.
>> Literally today ; talking about 'running out of money and raising the debt ceiling' - but zero acknowledgement of the ~250 BILLION dollars we have thus far sent to Ukraine

A lot of that money exists only on paper. Take a warehouse full of air defense missiles manufactured in 2000, with a cost of $3m per missile and a shelf life of 25 years. If you give 200 of them to Ukraine to defend its citizens from Russian terror attacks, then on paper that costs $600m. If you use "replacement value" as cost and new missiles cost $6m (because they're better), you can inflate their value to $1.2bn. If you do nothing and let them expire, they'll be worthless in 2 years and you'll just write that $600m or $1.2bn off. In either case, accounting reports lots of money spent, but no real money actually changes hands. That money was already spent decades ago and you aren't saving anything by withholding missiles. By giving air defense missiles to Ukraine instead of letting them sit in a warehouse until they become obsolete, you at least do something useful with them.
I use mpv + mpvc, started using it heavily a couple of years ago.
Eventually, I started implementing features I was missing such as play,
and search Youtube music, manage playlists/playstate, minimal TUI, fzf
support, an equalizer. And last year decided to publish the changes on https://github.com/gmt4/mpvc/. I try to keep a log of the features I miss/implement at https://gmt4.github.io/mpvc/logbook.html.
I mock the MBA’ification of businesses over the last 40 years.

We didn’t have supply chain fragility, before everything HAD to be ultra lean. We didn’t HAVE to squeeze every single dollar. Etc

The quote from the 2012 book has me beat on even casually realizing the issues with supply chain by a decade. I should probably read it!
Not yet. TRT diffusion has been an enormous pain in the past, so I have kinda avoided it, but Nvidia just recently contributed an img2img pipline in HF diffusers.
hey -- one of the builders here. good teachers are often dismissive of AI because they don't implement any sort of sound teaching practice. we set out to build something that would be a really good teacher, and that manifested in trying to elicit sound pedagogical reasoning.

what's crazy is that we were able to do this with prompting alone. it satisfied a high school teacher and an elite private tutor's standards for what good teaching looked like.

we're open-sourcing the framework in hopes the community can extend it and build upon the ideas of eliciting specific types of reasoning from these pretrained models. the theory of mind capabilities with these models is incredible and has actually informed our new direction (which you can read about in the blog post).

thanks!
I'm mixed on this... in the end, most green software is not targeting Windows in the cloud. There's a lot of lift and shift, and a lot of that is problematic no matter which provider you choose. AWS Windows hosts are more expensive in terms of licensing, and there should be some FTC and EU regulatory investigation into this. I'm not 100% convinced they shouldn't be allowed to give themselves preferential pricing. I mean you can't buy MacOS for non-apple hardware period afaik.
Gonna take a collosal screw up by Nvidia to give that up
You know it’s telling when Nvidia hasn’t removed the 16 series from their website, which is over 4 years old now.
HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36065175
Seems like an overly cynical take on capitalism, and I'm not exactly capitalism's biggest fan.

All businesses are in the business of maximizing profits. If they can be more profitable with fewer writers, of course they'll reduce staff. But if X content produces Y results, one should expect that 4X content will produce 4Y results. Profitable activities get invested in. Cost centers get optimized.

ChatGPT lowers the bar for content creation, which actually raises the bar for producing content that will stand out. If you're just copying/pasting content from ChatGPT, you'll have a lot more content, but it won't stand out. It's content for the sake of content, as opposed to content that's meant to engage and persuade a person to spend money on your products.

This is especially true with LLMs. They can't come up with truly creative content. LLMs, by design, return the most average content imaginable. This has tremendous value in the hands of a skilled writer/editor.

Remember: The purpose of marketing is to make your brand and your products stand out from the crowd. You're not going to achieve that by producing what is, by definition, the most average content possible.

ChatGPT makes me a better writer. That's all there is to it.

Businesses that don't believe content can sell shouldn't have any writers at all. Those that do should invest in AI-competent writers more than ever.

I maintain that AI is only a threat to me as a writer if either (a) I'm a hack who produces low-value content, or (b) my employer is stupid. I'd rather not work for stupid, anyway.
They recommended buying isopropyl alcohol. They did not recommend buying fuel grade ethanol.
That pithy analogy makes no sense. Nobody in history has ever been actively working on creating a deity with measurable progress. Say what you mean - do you believe it is physically impossible to create a superhuman AGI? If so, how do you argue that our physical brains can't be replicated or surpassed by metal without asserting the existence of some metaphysical soul that makes us possible?
The rate of construction accidents is what you should look at, not church fires.
There's definitely something to the "choose boring technology" approach. But to paraphrase Palahniuk "on a long enough timeline the survival rate for all technology is zero". Everything becomes tech debt.

If your solution makes it a decade that's a huge accomplishment - you got that abstraction fairly well nailed. Now think about all the systems you use that were written 10+ years ago and how clunky and painful they are and how you wonder why nobody upgrades this thing or replaces it with something more modern - that feels like tech debt, no?

Hanging your career on a single technology has risk - your bill rate is gonna plummet if the stack goes out of style and you don't move on, or as the market gets saturated with people that have enough skill with it. If the framework hangs on long enough your bill rate might go back up as companies get desperate to maintain the things built on it that they haven't managed to replace. It also has positives - you'll be very proficient with building things with it and likely know how to mitigate its limitations to get stuff done efficiently.
I was very much wondering where that valuation came from, and this was the only rational explanation I could come up with. What causes me to scratch my head here is that the trespasser isn't the one causing that drop in valuation. It's the market perception that such trespassing is possible.

For example, if there was never a trespass on this property, but someone, somewhere else brought a similar case before the court and got the same ruling from a judge, I would expect the impact on the valuation of the property would be impacted in the same way.

It also seems a bit troublesome that the perceived valuation is driven by the owner's efforts to misrepresent the property. I could argue they should be charged with theft of $7.75 million, and are effectively suing people for reclaiming the stolen goods.
It's commonly known, which, at least in the context of Game Theory, is different from "common knowledge". (At least in Game Theory, common knowledge means that everyone knows, and everyone knows that everyone knows, and everyone knows that everyone knows that everyone knows... until you reach the bottom of infinite recursion... and then the usual infinite stack of turtles.)
Like Go, but for landlords. ;-)
Fuel-grade ethanol.
Uh huh, your glock won't do much against the AI drones.
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I’ve been using these prompts
To compare how different LLMs perform, and the results have been surprisingly staggering.

The toughest one is Wheel of Fortune, which only works consistently on GPT4.

3.5 turbo rarely works, or it does with surface level misunderstanding gameplay.

Bard never works.

BingChat kinda works, but sometimes gets sassy and ends the chat.
One more core, one more PIO, and more SRAM.
It was fast and dynamic only because the rulebook was thrown out and created on the fly. There was precedent and strategy. Hindsight is being accurately used to review what happened and correctly criticize.

The same would happen in the technical community if there were a breach and procedures were ignored and made up based on hunches. The medical community does not get a pass.
That's just the compilation toolchain. For better or worse, existing C projects have their whole workflows sitting on top of bespoke tools with the assumption that there is a C toolchain. And Rust projects assume cargo, etc. You're more or less doing a parallel rewrite in Rust to adopt Rust in an existing C project.

The Linux kernel already does extensive bespoke tooling and it's low level enough to skip cargo and such. It's rare to see that approach in Rust projects in the wild.
Some people use their StackOverflow karma for social credit and portfolio. Their karma won't have the same value as it did before AI-generated responses were allowed. I think that comments should be approved but zero karma applied for providing the correct response using AI. There won't be an incentive to provide AI generated responses, but they won't be rejected either.
> assume that the role of the CEO is more about "dont't * stuff up" as opposed to improve/innovate

This is exactly wrong though, and demonstrates why laypeople undervalue executive leadership. Staying still in an evolving market is a doomed strategy. McDonalds has transformed its image to stay relevant many times in the last few decades. McCafe is a great example of this.

Also, the size of a company is a huge factor in the complexity of managing it. The more people you need to have pulling in the same direction the harder it's going to be. Leading tens of thousands of people without creating an obstructive bureaucracy that stifles innovation is very very hard.
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It says what it says in plain English.

If the claims of climate change people were true, that we are facing existential destruction in short order - then how is it possible they are denying a tried and true solution?

We could have reached 'Paris targets' long ago were we to have kept deploying Nuclear installations, in the terms that we understood decades ago. With fewer accidents. Etc.

The denial of a tried and true solution to this supposedly existential crisis destroys their credibility, and therefor their claims. That's not to say clams aren't valid, but that we can't trust the vanguard of the people behind the climate movement, obviously.

It's incredibly naive (but maybe understandable) for people to not understand that the issue of climate change is hugely politicized and ideological, and because of that, it's hard to make heads or tails of a lot of information.

People running around screaming that the sky is falling - and not talking about Nuclear as part (possibly the basis) of the solution - are spreading irrational fear and hysteria. There's no reason to talk about 'mass flooding' if we can solve the problem in a fairly straight forward manner.
In 2003 I was mostly doing Java. In 2013 I was mostly doing Java. In 2023 I'm mostly doing Java.

YMMV.
Yes. We support >= 1bit <= 16bit models out of box for various of models.
I'm not sure I quite get why MS Paint doesn't have most of the features of Paint.Net or PaintShop Pro 7 had at this point. It should be at a point where basic use cases should largely be covered with in the box software (even if you need to download from the windows store).
Makes sense. And benzene is fine for ethanol you’re mixing with gasoline.
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