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They last a lot longer than incandescent bulbs, though. In fact, I've been using LED lights for about 15 years now, and I'm not sure I've ever replaced one. Even the cheap ones. By comparison, incandescent bulbs had to be replaced all the time in my experience. My parents had a supply of them ready. Phosphorescent bulbs were a bit in between. They don't break, but they get dimmer and need more time to get to full brightness as they age.

Though perhaps I do recall a particular LED light that would overheat in a particular fixture. It's possible not all fixtures are equally suitable.
> making serious political decision based on that is insane

Levitt, of Freakonomics fame, sometimes talks about this on his podcast. In his experience, politicians make the decision first and seek supporting scientific evidence second.
I feel like lesson #1 is avoid getting into a dying business.
the centre cannot hold
LOL whatever the author says Microsoft would not care about a single bit about it. Microsoft knew many years ago this is a difficult product to develop, and they stopped putting significant amount of effort into it. Microsoft probably expects that almost everyone has forgotten that it even exists. Except this author tries to make a big deal out of this "comparison".
A Waymo self-driving car killed a dog in ‘unavoidable’ accident
You are getting me wrong. As soon as people start running games on Apple hardware outside of their software platform, they'll want to fix that. Asahi Linux is making rapid progress to enabling that. Hence the announcement of a porting toolkit. Imagine if they don't do that and then Steam suddenly announces rolling out proton to macs and the availability of their full catalog.

That's a scenario Apple would want to avoid. Hence the announcement of a porting kit.
At the moment, Fastgen doesn’t directly support local development. Our focus has been on providing a cloud-based low-code experience that you can access from anywhere without the need for local setup. However, we do recognize the value of local development, and we’re exploring ways to support it.
That being said, we already offer an experimental feature to call your route from your local environment through for example curl or postman. We plan to extend on this by allowing the user to call and test the currently unpublished fastgen route from the local environment as well as also having multiple environments (dev/staging/production) to switch between within your projects.
Does that answer your question or is there something else you are concerned about?
TOP500 uses FP64 performance in ranking. nVidia's 1 exaflop claim is the ~4 petaflops of FP8/INT8 * 256. FP64 performance of modern nvidia gpu's is actually far, far less. The ratio to FP32 isn't even 2:1 anymore (not since Pascal I think) since they realize most machine learning is done with FP32 or less.

64 bit (or 'double precision') is still king in the HPC world though, as it is what you will find in large numerical solutions in fields like computation fluid dynamics, nuclear physics, etc.
Who would you say is capturing the value created by this software, and how can we fix it so that value goes to the people who wrote the software?

Not sure I have an answer but that shareholders and executives get the vast majority of the gains points to an extremely broken system.
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>A related question might be why Apple didn't make a business offer to Ueyama-san to improve mold/sold further,

I dont think he was willing to sell to Apple for what Apple would consider as reasonable price anyway.
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It’s a small community that has been up since 2018. It’s open source as well.

Note: I’m not affiliated just a user of both Reddit and tildes.
Yeah it’s like saying the apple iPod ripped off the creative nomad jukebox.

Articles like this can just be flagged and ignored as low quality ad clickbait imo. Someone will always write one.
We’re basically converging on fully enclosed interiors anyway, just without the VR headset (the pillars for the windows are ridiculous nowadays). Maybe the argument could be made that it’d be safer for everyone (especially pedestrians waiting at crosswalks) if drivers had a headset system.

Getting rid of the windows and making the headset totally necessary seems like riskier proposition though. For the Apple thing on a normal car, the backup option of taking off the headset is always there (assuming sufficient warning can be given before a failure, which is a big assumption, but should be doable).

Drive-by-wire systems exist, so it isn’t as if replacing some normally mechanical steps with electronics is impossible. The electronics just need to be made sufficiently reliable.
The hololens gave me the straight-out-of-science-fiction- vibe but then MS coudn't or didn't want to deliver more afterwards.
Apollo is not even available on Android
Black African Americans seem to have that predisposition, but not all Black populations do. There is a theory that ability to retain salt improved your odds of surviving a slave ship journey.
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I am not so sure about GitLab anymore. It is open core model, not totally open source.
They have ended up creating new features which are closed source, and they have had to increase prices a lot. It is still not profitable.
Online stores can list the SKU for 50% more than their sales price for 1 day, and delist the product from showing up in searches unless you specifically ask for that SKU. Then subsequent days they being the price down and call it a sale. Totally within the rules.
honey bees will not burrow, you may be referring to mason bees/carpenter bees and they will destroy untreated wood.
If I am buying anything, on sale or otherwise, I do my best to look up historical prices. It's gotten to be a pain in the ass to be a consumer. I feel like we used to have consumer protections, but not any more.
Does this support Midjourney? Didn’t find it in the model selection.
So is the solution to reate ways for people to live for 300 years?
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I'd also say that some of it might be more computing power required, but much of it is us cracking the "puzzle" to it, we haven't figured out the exact right architecture/structure for creating say an AGI.

Just like with transformers revolutionising text generation and now things like LoRa and other fine tuning methods are helping us find a better solution to that puzzle, the same will happen for the development of AGIs.

We will do it, one day.
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This is a good one! If your mentors/the people who made your career warn you not to do something, you should think really, really hard about doing that thing!
Sounds like something from /r/PCMasterRace
But they do provide a relatively nice variety of nutrients in three high-yield crops while minimizing administrative overhead (one field instead of three). We should not assume that preindustrial farmers had the same priorities that we do.
Huh. I replaced every light bulb in my house with Ikea LEDs about seven years ago. They cost between about 4 and 10 EUR apiece depending on size. I think three have since failed. This seems like _fairly_ good going, and certainly way better than the old incandescent and halogen bulbs I had.
Why not? They're food.
I actually don’t think it is, the school shooting thing is just a rationalization, cell phones are something that makes their lives easier that they don’t want to give up regardless of the harm it causes their child and children in aggregate. It’s like hearing a parent tell you that the reason they bought the luxury SUV de jour was because of safety.
Yes. The MBP with an M1 Max will, at max performance, use enough power that it would discharge it's battery in less than an hour. I think Apple throttles it on battery, though.
Going out of business! Everything must go!

It's not limited in any way for any thing that can be sold.
> It comes off like sour grapes.

It does not. The comment is insightful and offers a business perspective.

> You should refrain from speaking ill of prior employees.

The comment did not speak ill of anyone. Quite the opposite:

> Rui is a genius and an amazing programmer
At the moment, no. Our focus has been on providing a cloud-based low-code experience that you can access from anywhere without the need for local setup. However we are exploring ways to support it. For more details check out my other comment in response to a similar question.
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I believe he means doing a rollout to 30% of users and having that be consistent, so that the same 30% of users are always in the flag, not just 30% of evaluations.

This is typically achieved by hashing the flag+userId, converting to an integer and dividing by Max.integer.

I see https://github.com/ff4j/ff4j/blob/main/ff4j-core/src/main/ja... which looks like a rollout for 30% of evaluations but I don't see what you're looking for. I may well be looking in the wrong spot.
Ah fair, I should've known. I suppose the precision is still required for scientific purposes. Thankfully ML stuff now gets more appropriate precision for a speed increase.
If the comments move somewhere else, they are easy to convert...
its the 1970s all over again
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Another follow up on Mastodon is about the ban evasion that HN does specifically for Asahi. https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/110503050993279759

I find it pretty tasteless for HN to do that.
I'm not sure what time period you are referring to. In the UK in the 90s you would call up Dell and talk to them about pricing and specs after seeing an ad like those on https://www.pcmag.com/news/the-golden-age-of-dell-computers.

The customer service experience at the time was great compared to what you'd typically deal with in the UK. I was the person buying computers for my parents' business, my parents' friends, and some of my friends, all through my parent's business . The reps were probably a little confused because they had repeat orders from the same "customer", but knew they were also dealing with a teenager that had done their research. This yielded some fun conversations and I always felt that they wanted to be competitive with their pricing.

Unfortunately, this all changed towards the end of the 90s as PC manufacturers cut costs, moved to the web, and outsourced.
I'm guessing the issue is that ot shows intent. Not sure if that matters for civil liability, but IIUC it can matter in criminal law.
I think GP means that saying "bro" is akin to saying "y'all". It's more an indication of regional dialect than personality. It's not wise or appropriate to discriminate on that basis.
this seems like a non response. this is always the case regardless of the database you choose.
imagine when the bank was invented and somebody said, "imagine if somebody's bank account is frozen for political reasons." and somebody said, "this hasn't happened to banks yet, but somebody's satchel got robbed for political reasons"
Yes, but there is no dispersion relation or absorption by the interstellar medium (not directly related to the quadrupole nature, but that which makes a radiation hard to detect also makes it hard to interfere with).
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I don’t think the current situation is comparable. You’d need more than an order of magnitude improvement in battery tech. Glasses would have to be less than 50g in total (and that’s on the high side; the sunglasses I happen to own weigh just 14g). Judging from its dimensions, the VP battery pack alone will probably weigh half a pound, and it only lasts two hours. In addition, we have no idea how to implement the required optics for 3D vision in the form factor of reading glasses, and we also have no good idea how to implement display panels that support both transparency and opacity, let alone how to achieve that in combination with those optics.

Of course, miraculous advances can occur, but you can’t just expect them to happen.
He doesn’t need to critique the market. He’s also wrong. MS is doing fine with dev tools (VS Code, GitHub…). Maybe this attitude is why Google has fallen so far behind in dev mindshare?
another approach is HyDE, where you ask the LLM to come up with a plausible (but likely wrong) answer, and use the embedding of the wrong answer to find the appropriate chunk, pretty clever
A long, long time ago I used to work as a technician in a shop that aligned INS for aircraft (although I didn't work on them myself). I think what the OP is referring to is that during the alignment process, the assumption is that the acceleration due to gravity is always perpendicular to the INS gimbal frame. So if there are any errors in the INS leveling during alignment, they can cause errors in the INS calibration. I assume this is what the OP means by "tilt error" (although this is the first time hearing of the term). These errors then get compounded during use. You can look up INS alignment processes for more information.
Btrfs already has separate fsid and device id. Anyway, if you clone the device then those also stay the same, so I'm not sure what this would solve. How would the complete solution look like?

AFAIK the filesystem UUID, the device UUID, or both are sprinkled all around the filesystem, I suppose for reasons of identifying data belonging to the fs in case of fsck. According to my quick research device id cannot be changed. I suppose if it could be changed by some means, then btrfs rescue clear-uuid-tree could be used to fix the other uuids.
That's why the UE law that requires the shops to display the lowest price over last 30 days is pretty useful
> In the future, going into virtual reality will be where you go to interact with others, and you'll take the goggles off to isolate yourself.

This sounds deeply shitty.
Wasn’t there a vampire movie maybe fifteen years ago, where the vampires drove fully enclosed cars via camera during the day? Daybreakers?
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> Each chatbot has unlimited memory capacity, enabling seamless interaction with large files such as a 400-page PDF.

How is this possible? Do they do fancy tricks at inference?
No. There does not exist an M1 Ultra laptop of any kind. Nor an M2 Ultra laptop for that matter. The only machines with Mn Ultra are the Mac Studio and Mac Pro.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M1#Products_that_use_the...
There are definitely a range of quality when it comes to bulb manufacturers, heat dissipation is also important.

I got 10 LAP GU10 bulbs 6 years ago for use in en-suite bathrooms - 6 years later all 10 are still trucking along.

On the other hand, I had multiple Phillips B22 bulbs last at most 2 years.
Not anymore although I have my mom and most of my relatives there. I was thinking of retiring back there and teaching computer science and English to kids from poor backgrounds. But given the political situation today, that dream is put on hold...
I want to create a load of rapid prototypes. With Go it seemed I was wading through treacle just to create a DB-backed REST server that basically just permitted CRUD on the DB with some extra business logic.

With Spring, you just declare a model object and it can infer a data repository with a ton of convention-named query methods, so the number you actually have to write is far fewer. Spring is used by so many people there are loads of good libraries. E.g. I'm just adding permissions, and without needing to hunt around for a compatible library or litter my code with conditionals, it's pretty easy to use Spring Security to configure sane permissions with annotations. With Lombok there's no need to write the garbage you used to have to (loads of getters, setters, etc.) so the code is quite clean.

Annotations also simplify DTOs with mappers - in Go I had this triplicate of model struct, DTO and mapper. Maybe there was a library I could have used to help, but the faff around setting up the DB (e.g writing SQL, configuring an ORM), updating DTOs and mappers was just crippling my velocity.

Plus, for hiring, there are tons of Java devs around the world, while for Go rates are much higher. So yeah, several factors.
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> today you can self-publish ... your thesis will have to stand or fall on its own merits.

It really depends on the OP's goal.

I've too often seen snooty academics who ignore the non-academic literature - even when they know about it. In one case, something like "we are the first to compare X to Y", and when I pointed to two different blog posts, by two different projects, comparing X to Y, and finding the same conclusion as the paper, the corresponding author said something like "that work was insufficiently scholarly".

In practice, what happens is that people search for previous work using Google Scholar, or subscription-based equivalents. If they can't find it that way, it doesn't really exist to most of the people who need it.

Which means that self-publishing doesn't fall simply on its own merits - it can also fall because it isn't where people are looking.
It's a fair point, although you can set it up to only do explicit defined dependencies which I definitely recommend.
Weren’t they trying to sell high priced virtual real estate in the metaverse next to snoop dog? Would decor not be monetized just like skins and items in gaming?
It didn't fail. Usenet's still quite busy depending on the group.
I think the problem with Reddit, is it doesn't know what it wants to be.

I think for many of us here, we treat it as a forum. We go an find specific subreddits in our interests, and interact with it similar to how we interact with hacker news. Interesting Articles and/or Discussion Questions are posted, and then there is a conversation about it.

But that is not how a lot of people use Reddit. To many people, it is social media, in the same vein as TikTok or Instagram. You just scroll through a bunch of quick photos, videos, or rage inducing headlines. There is no actual forum there. It is quick dopamine hits.

I bet if you asked Reddit who their competition is, they'd say TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Facebook (and maybe even Youtube), indicating that they don't think it is their forums that are important, but more so their social media aspect.

So, what is it you want to build? If you just want forums, then I think that is straight forward, and the hacker news crowd would probably be happy with it. But, I don't think that is where most of Reddit audience is anymore, so you aren't building a competitor to Reddit, you are building a competitor to TikTok and Instagram.
Windows UTF-8 support is relatively recent and I have no experience with it, so I don’t know. However I expect Windows to just do the same conversions internally or in the linked runtime, that the program would otherwise have to do by itself. I’d assume that there will be edge cases that such programs then can’t handle, such as UI input and file paths containing unpaired surrogates.
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Firing people who manage the ethics and technical specs of your site is different from shutting down a superfluous NFT division. That is a gold rush for stupid people.