skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Desktop pcs requiring a ludicrous amount of power and cooling is absolutely problematic.

High-end PSUs now overlap with smaller space heaters on power output. My living room is usually 3-4 degrees hotter around my desk than it is by the dining table.I'm looking to upgrade my gaming PC, and getting the power budget under control is surprisingly challenging.
I grew up quite poor in rural Arizona, now live in NYC, and I think they should congestion charge the absolute daylights out of anyone driving through Midtown. “This will hurt poor people” is a very very bad argument in this case.

There you go, point disproven.
> top level - has to come from communities that are not in an "accepted" list which shouldn't be allowed to form. (the usual suspects like hate speech, CSAM)

Even this becomes tricky because you first have to make a common list of banned content and define the lines between what each category of content is. Sure a huge majority of people would like to see CSAM on the list, but they definitely won't agree on what is/isn't CSAM in their opinion

I've recently been working through whether any level of content centralization is possible without the fundamental challenge of moderation. If anyone can follow me by consuming content I post to my own site then the main questions are around discoverability. If I'm posting content to a server and service that someone else is directly responsible for, even if federated, they have to consider moderation and the array of different content laws globally.
Yeah and it was pretty common to be voted down and called a crank over it too.
With the M2 Ultra prices, it'd be cheaper to buy a 4090 than to go the Apple route. With the M2 pro you'll probably still be better off with a 4080 unless you really need more than 16GB of VRAM.

I don't know the M2's efficiency for things like machine learning, but the M1's machine learning performance seemed to have been beaten 4-5x by the 3060Ti so I'm pretty sure "more VRAM" is all it's got going for it in ML tasks.
What's your point?

Everything with a price is unkind to poor people.

So you can't do anything that affects poor people? What rule/principle are you suggesting then, to get anything done?
A big proportion of the opposition is coming from New Jersey where former Governor Chris Christie systematically diverted public transit funding to constructing more roads leaving NJ Transit with a maintenance backlog, inadequate infrastructure and unhappy workers who were poached by the MTA. This resulted in a mismatch where the infrastructure is designed to favor driving on one side of the river and a fee designed to discourage driving and encourage public transit on the other side.
Indie films, international films, etc.

Mainstream entertainment has always converged to mediocrity.
The interesting thing is it's roughly the same system my 2022 Mercedes has, except it requires my hands on the wheel (and does not disengage over 40mph). I mean, this is just adaptive cruise with lane keeping.

Really the big thing here is Mercedes is saying it's good enough (under 40mph) that the driver doesn't have to pay attention at all.
Related. Others? Not much over the years...

How Technicolor created Ruby slippers without using color film - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28071731 - Aug 2021 (47 comments)

“Technicolor for Industrial Films” 1940 Process Promotional Film [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25897711 - Jan 2021 (1 comment)

Explore the Early Years of Technicolor Film in 40,000 Documents - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15133951 - Aug 2017 (1 comment)
This is an internet ecosystem issue that is simplified to thoughtless bashing of supposedly evil companies. Yes, these actions are clumsy and user-hostile but consider the big picture.

We have companies like Reddit and Stackoverflow not being profitable, despite being wildly successful in usage and internet mind-share. Neither of these companies are particularly over-staffed.

We post our "valuable" contributions there. So valuable that nobody wants to pay for it (structurally). We block ads. AI does the daylight robbery. We expect free APIs and data dumps.

Perhaps this is our wake-up call. The limitations of the "free" model and companies running at a loss for 15 years straight. It was always an anomaly.
That would be my general theory as well, you're far more likely to meet someone who is left leaning who admits to having posted on 4chan (or still does) than you are otherwise. Maybe it has to do with perceived biases, in that a right leaning person/group is probably then going to feel they are aligned with the seediest aspects of 4chan, whether they actually do or not and their perceived social impact/failings for using 4chan.
Thank you for the reference to Jacques Ellul, as I hadn't heard of him before. From looking a few reviews, I'm liking what appears to be him having a critique of the worship of technique, which is an interesting thought.
I’d point to all team / guild / corp based online games and almost all OSS as counter examples. I’ve worked in remote or distributed teams all my career. What you refer to is an emergent reality and what you’re used to. It doesn’t make it invariantly true, and there are so many obvious counter examples of highly effective teams and organizations that are socially robust and incredibly more productive than corporate organized teams that it’s hard to take seriously that collocation on a daily or even regular basis is crucial for anything other than management feeling in control and people feeling comfortable that things haven’t changed.

Reality is metrics over 2020-2022 don’t show a decrease in any aspect of productivity. As such, once the passions have cooled, companies will have a real uphill battle demonstrating corporate real estate expenses, which can be a significant percentage of expenses and capital tie up, are justified because “I suspect” and “I feel” and “our corporate culture” and all the other vague hand waving in the face of hard numbers.
GCE allows one e2.micro instance in their free tier
do you consider the heritage foundation an unbiased source?
I think it's worth thinking about how climate science during the 80's and 90
s (at least) was suppressed by the very companies that were in business to profit from practices that actively harmed all life on Earth. There's rarely justice against huge multinationals. It's just business as usual.

I don't condone domestic terrorism (especially with so many innocent hurt), but I also don't condone climate change denial for shareholder profit. Is that ever going to stop? Given the velocity already created, I would say: not in my lifetime.
From the article:

"Drivers who make less than $50,000 a year or are enrolled in certain government aid programs will get 25% discounts after their first 10 trips every month. Trucks and other vehicles will get 50% discounts during overnight hours."
That’s still too long.
There was a CNN article about India’s time-bomb of unemployment. Job creation is not able to keep up with number of applicants. The net effect is a further intensification of competition : be it for college or school admissions or jobs. The average number of applicants for an open job slot has increased two-fold or something more.. this changing environment has a bearing on what IIT graduates plan for their next step
Yes, well, I still can't help but find it odd that such "blatant" crimes are apparently the reach of the legal system. My prior under the circumstances is that the claims are overblown, eg. "Iraqi soldiers are murderers" or "all contractors that aided the US intelligence apparatus belong to criminal organizations".
All of them are here: https://on.soundcloud.com/d6rX9goHHrSH3sQY9

Unfortunately I didn’t do a writeup (which gwern has given me a hard time about over the years, and he’s quite right!), so I have nothing to offer beyond those songs as a finished product. Maybe one day I’ll try to resurrect it for devs.
They’re important, but not important in any sense that a company normally cares about. We saw during the pandemic that output/profits can skyrocket when people are remote (contrary to the prevalent claims). It’s therefore not on the business to push forward.
It’s quite hard to answer because the characteristics of each makes for huge swings where a PC will outperform in some use cases but a Mac will in others.

I’ll just address some areas where the SoC design helps that were featured in the WWDC keynote and other recent sessions.

1. Large 3D scenes were featured with the island from Moana. It’s something you can’t actually load on a workstation GPU because it takes over a hundred gigs of memory. The M2 Ultra can load it because of the massive memory the GPU has access to. Even my MBP is capable of loading scenes that my professional workstation cannot.

2. Similarly , GPU compute is another area the M2 pulls ahead when you cross memory limits that PC GPUs offer. Once you cross that memory limit, the mac takes a huge performance lead. This is useful for GPU based rendering and simulations.

3. Video decoding is huge. You can work in much higher quality streams and resolutions due to the many onboard decoders. On a PC, you’d be forced to make low resolution proxies

4. If you let me extend it to the non ultra SOCs, you get portability with desktop performance. I know you said to exclude that, but consider that people like to have unified experiences. So what’s good for one also affects the other.
> Is it? Why?

Because, while gaming, the vents in my case blow air at over 40 degrees Celsius, and that heat has to go somewhere. Absent a setup that can put the case several meters away from me, that "somewhere" is on top of me.
Damn, even @paulg??

Someone help me out here. Most incredibly smart people I know and even most of you here on HN, we basically grew up on discord, irc,etc... I hate to make myself look bad but if my IRL social skills and sociability is 3/10, remotely it is at least 7/10. Are there really a lot of high caliber people who somehow spent time to develop IRL social and communication skills?

My theory is that people who are now in their 40s or older can't figure out how to work remotely, especially as managers. There are people that talk to me in private message when I work remotely and then there are those that only engage with me in person, that's why I theorized that.
They need to train people explicitly and show them how they unconsciously avoid engaging with others remotely.

Also, my coworkers that like to brown-nose the most and they are social butterflies that are very attentive to managers and respond socially to their every needs get the most recognition but really smart full-WFH guys that are getting so much quality work done basically don't exist in the eyes of management. It is a travesty, I specifically chose this field because your technical skills are rewarded, and that was my strength.

I am not an extremist, a balanced approach is what I advocate for. If you can't manage people remotely, you can't manage people. For regular employees, they should let people WFH based on performance and partially (bad performance=3days office, good=1day office). If that isn't viable then at least let it be at the discretion of managers instead of company wide.

I also theorize that founders are very social people and they especially typically can't figure out remote management.
Does Bloop play in the same space as GitHub Copilot Chat? https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/artificial-intelli...
Maybe if we built more of those, more people would be within walking distance of them.
I use 2
A dedicated GPU with more die area and its own large fan will run both cooler and quieter when its power limit is reduced to match the performance of the Apple chip.
> I don’t need millions of dollars or years of training to make something creative anymore.

You never did... You just needed to get creative.
I mean, the answer is that this is New York City, not Seattle, where parking is going to cost you $30+ in the areas affected by the congestion charge. So we've already limited the discussion to the pretty well-off.

Per the article itself: "But out of a region of 28 million people, just an estimated 16,100 low-income people commute to work via car in Lower Manhattan, according to the MTA."

Probably easier to find a way to meet the needs of 16k exceptions. And having a safe fast public transit system, which the connection charge funds, is part of that.

(Hi, Sean! Hope you're well!)
IIRC, there were issues with it causing frequency throttling on Intel cpus, whereas AMD's avoid that by "double pumping". It would be very interesting to compare and contrast there.

Seems like there's be value in it for all the new ML hotness that's come about. The AMD 7950x seems like it hits the sweet spot for that.
Just make sure they are risking their own skins, not others, and then provide encouraging words if you don't believe it.
In my opinion there's nothing wrong with being part of the military-industrial complex - as recent developments have shown, defence industry is a fundamental need for any modern society including democratic ones, and we're voting to increase funding for military personnel and hardware (part of which gets bought from the US), and getting volunteers from all fields of technology involved in applying hardware and software for military needs (e.g. adapting consumer drones for dropping grenades, working on software tools for artillery coordination, etc), thus effectively becoming part of the military-industrial complex - and I consider that not only morally permissible, but even morally imperative to support the resistance against Russian invasion of Ukraine not only with words and humanitarian aid, but with actual military-industrial effort. Building weapons of war is not evil, because resisting evil requires them, and blocking the building of weapons does not make you a good person - it makes you a bystander, and being a bystander to evil is not neutral, but harmful.
SFUs, or Selective Forwarding Units, receive media streams from multiple participants but only forward a subset of those streams to certain participants. For example, if you're in a Webinar of 20 people, instead of opening up direct connections to all 19 other participants (and having every other participant do so as well), you can open up a direct connection to the presenter and an SFU which will send you an aggregated, downsampled stream of all the other participants. It reduces direct connections across large calls and saves on processing power across all participants by aggregation.
It's not their ideas, exactly. It's their moral judgment.

See, the unabomber manifesto was essentially a moral argument. "These things cause damage" is a moral observation. (Because how are you going to define "damage" without moral judgment?) "Therefore we should destroy technology" is a moral judgment (because you can't get there without the moral judgment of "humans should not be damaged").

So, the point is, I'm not going to trust the moral judgment of a murderer. Every fact he says in the manifesto may be correct. But his moral judgment is self-evidently terrible. And he reaches his conclusions through that moral judgment.
I would assume you're right in NYC, but I feel like this claim is made A LOT to sort of excuse car driving in many cities with different degrees of transit availability and threat risk. I feel like most of the time it's more accurate to say "people fear for their safety" rather than that their concerns are actually valid.

Fear can be driven by only a few extreme examples that get a lot of coverage, meanwhile a lot of the time it would be much more likely to be concerned for the likelihood you'll get into a terrible car accident.

I'd doubtful that there's some sufficient level of policing that would make fearful people change their mind, because they're not jsut overcoming what they perceive to be extreme risk, but also overcome what they perceive to be very comfortable travel. Much like how to lose weight, you can't just go and do a bicep curl once in a while, you have to totally change your diet and habits for the long-term.
Sorry I should've been clearer: it can certainly be used to capture your screen. It's just an extremely ancillary subfeature.
> Having said that, the 7950X was released late February, and the 13900KS was released in mid January. Both of this year. Both are their premiere available chips right now in the segment. Referring to them like they're last year's junk is rather silly.

7950X was released September, 2022. It's quite literally last year's chip and given that AMD release cycle is typically about 2 years, we're roughly halfway between last release and 9000 series release.

You might be getting it confused with the Non-X versions that were released earlier in 2023 -- those are basically the same chip but power limited and maybe slightly worse selections of silicon. Of those Non-X versions it was 7600, 7700, 7900 but non-X of 7950 was released. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_Ryzen_processors
"Like allowing Russia to take half of eastern Europe."

They already had it. And they gave up on it voluntarily. But they think they made a bad deal as it was simply considered a sign of weakness by certain hawks. So now they try the hard way again.

(obviously oversimplification, but the topic is full of it anyway)
I've never quite wrapped my head around where decentralization ends and federation begins.

What's really the difference between the two? Is it a question of degree, or in this example is it only decentralized if individuals in the network own their own content?
Only one way to find out -- benchmarks, innit?
I was just reacting to general sentiment. Few days ago was similar posts about Rust. And one about Python.

And got me thinking, in a world where anybody can fork a project, and tweak it, how does a language keep a solid base to work from. And it does seem like it is those with corporate backing.

I'm not against it. I'm a big fan of F#.

But kind of sad that ELM isn't making it, since, in my opinion the ELM architecture is great concept for functional languages to do GUI's.
'Text-to-image' systems like Stable Diffusion really are Large Language Models: an encoder such as BERT creates a mapping from text tokens to the latent space of the image generation model. As part of this training step, the system is learning the concepts of certain words and grammatical constructs.

There are quite a few in-depth explanations of the whole system; here's one for instance: https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-stable-diffusion/
As expected, wine grapes found to have high deleterious genetic burden
IMO there’s more nuance to it than that. Is a team that works in person 5 days a week five times as cohesive as a team that meets once a week? I don’t believe so.

Pure anecdote but I currently work in the office two days a week and it could probably be one. That one day is productive in terms of team building, it’s basically an entire day of meetings, we all get lunch together etc. Most of the rest of the week is spent on more isolated work (including pair programming which I find works better remotely sometimes).

Of course Google has the right to fire anyone that doesn’t do what they want. But I also think it’s fair for employees to question the level of in person commitment required beyond just “more in person = better”.

(Not to mention plenty of FAANG teams are distributed. If you’re coming into the office just to join video calls with a different backdrop it’s fair to question why)
why can’t Starbucks replace its cashiers and baristas “easily”? for drinks and warming food, etc
I believe they're saying they keep it powered off because it uses a magnitude more power.

And it's an entirely believable statement. A Mac Mini uses between 5w - 20w. Many PCs idle at >50W, and under use hit 500W+.
How about time signature changes, then? Not too many popular songs experiment much anymore. What was the last popular hit with a really odd meter (or various meters)? I know, not everyone can be Rush, but it’s pretty vanilla today.
How do you run AudioCraft on Apple Silicon?
I have compassion for wasps as living beings. I also have compassion for myself and not wanting to be painfully stung and that I have a right to defend myself from wasp stings. I am not going to try to eradicate any wasps that don't pose any threat to me both because I recognize they're important to ecosystems but also being they're living beings. As another example, I do not hurt honey bees despite the (much lower) risk they pose to me. If I have a hive attached to my house that I am likely to disturb and cause me injury as a result, I will pay to have them relocated, but not kill them.

The difference with wasps is that their threshold for attacking me is basically me standing still and doing nothing. I have a right to defend myself from wasps and the virtual guarantee they will at one point attack me if I left them live right outside my front door. I will not pay to relocate wasp nests because killing them is an act of self defense, whereas with honey bees it's an act of convenience that I don't want them around.
Ok, so it's more of a "direct connection" than "peer to peer" scenario. That makes sense.
It delivers on everything listed on the website/docs. You can check for yourself.
> human

Those things endowed with the capability of effortful judgement, abstracting from more "primitive" (biologically ancestral) instances.
The parent I responded to was not talking about climate change. Sure that's a whole different debate
I once got fired over a single line of PHP that they "traced back to" whatever came before stackexchange. This was in the before-times when people didn't rip things off the internet all day long. Companies were really worried about intellectual property when they needed to reduce headcount.

I don't even remember what the line of code did. I remember it was something absolutely trivial and common though, like trimming the first and last character off a string, then splitting it on a delimiter. They called it "specialized functionality" that "matched character for character with copyrighted code." I called it "overreacting to two good developers both typing the same exact 30 characters in a row."
And then at the end of an article with nice ideas for an open web, there's a link to a Twitter account. Viksit.com has an RSS feed (which I follow now, with my own website that works perfect on an open web), but there's no mention anywhere, also no RSS logo anywhere. Strange, haha.
Ask HN: How did Intel get it so wrong
Last year has been good for chipset related industries, leading to massive stock gains (AMD, Nvidia, TSMC, ASML). It seems Intel is alone at losing significant stock value over a year. Why is that and is there anything on the Intel product roadmap that gives you hopes of recovering?
1. because it made people think and reply

2. if it was not obvious, my comment was sarcastic. Of course there are people who care about both, what surprises me is all this fanfare from CEOs about something so speculative that is completely science fiction right now, when the existential threat is here and now, and very few seem to point at some urgent solution like, IDK, stopping using fossil fuel in 5 years? We have about a decade to fix this [1] and the progress so far has been, at best, lacklustre [2].

[1] https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/resources/spm-headline-st...
[2] https://climateactiontracker.org/
That part is easier if you're building for yourself.

Related PG tweet: "When young founders build something that they don't want themselves but that they believe some group of other people want, 90% of the time they're building something no one wants."

And also related: https://mitchellh.com/writing/building-large-technical-proje...
Sorry to break the news, that's not going to happen in the foreseeable future.