skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> IMO driving down power consumption should still be a goal even for desktop machines. It means that the overwhelming majority of users get cooler, quieter, less bulky machines, while the fringe who need raw power at all costs can overclock to the moon if they really want to.

It is the goal (after all more efficiency also means fitting more powerful cores into the thermal envelope) but given the choice most desktop users would be fine with "just a bit bigger box" rather than sacrifice performance for the price.
> Why not?

Because "volume" is a geometric concept, not a physical thing. It has a geometric center, but not a center of mass. What you appear to be thinking of when you talk about calculating the center is the geometric center, not the center of mass. (And note that, unless an actual physical system has a high degree of symmetry, the geometric center defined by its spatial volume will not be the same as its physical center of mass.)

> Is the expansion of the universe directly deducible from GR?

The fact that the spacetime describing the universe cannot be stationary (i.e., that it must be either expanding or contracting) is deducible from the original 1915 Einstein Field Equation (i.e., without a cosmological constant) plus the assumptions of homogeneity and isotropy--roughly speaking, that the universe looks the same at all spatial locations and in all directions. We then pick out the "expanding" option as the one describing our actual universe based on observations.

Einstein actually discovered this in 1917, and he was bothered by it, because he believed (as did most physicists and astronomers at that time) that the universe was static--that it did not change with time on large scales. So he added the cosmological constant to his field equation to allow it to have a static solution that could describe a homogeneous and isotropic universe. Then, about ten years later, when evidence began to mount for the expansion of the universe, Einstein called adding the cosmological constant "the biggest blunder of my life"--because if he had trusted his original field equation, he could have predicted the expansion of the universe a decade before it was discovered.

Today, we believe that there is in fact a nonzero cosmological constant (our best current value for it is small and positive), but we also understand, what Einstein did not explore very thoroughly, that the Einstein Static Universe is an unstable solution, like a pencil balanced on its point: any small perturbation will cause it to either expand forever or collapse to a Big Crunch. So this solution is not considered a viable candidate to describe our actual universe. And we also know that there are no other static solutions that describe a homogeneous and isotropic universe.
Yes, the cost is very high. But the cost of an good software engineer at Google, Facebook or another top tier firm is also very high.

However, when Google buys a WAN link from NYC to CHI, they pay $XX dollars because they don't care about the latency too much. When a HFT buys that same link, they'll spend three times that much just to get a link that is a few milliseconds faster.

Also, the colocation costs at the major exchanges (NASDAQ, NYSE, CBOE) are insane. A cabinet in one of those data centers can be 3x as much as a cabinet somewhere else.

I guess what I'm saying is there are a lot things in the HFT world where you have to spend a lot more money than you would if you were doing similar amounts of work at any other tech firm.
Give me p90, p95, etc. While less frequent those are the events people remember not the other 3 days it worked.
That’s awesome news!
Though some are top-pf-the-world class like IITs, most of the schools (at all levels) are pretty bad, so only low skill jobs are possible for the vast majority of the population.

That was true in China 30+ years ago, when it had its demographic boom. It now has to deal with an aging population and a different global economy.

Today India is demographically a lot like China was back then, and there is some geopolitical desire to diversify the supply chain away from China-only. Thus many are counting on India to be able to tread the same path China did. We shall see.
They explained an issue they had on Linux, which was that he installed a package with a library that broke ABI with a client. I explained how it is rarely an issue on macOS because the risks of it are limited by how the system is constructed (immutable base system, so no mix and match package issues) and how linking policy is configured (by default binaries can only link to the embedded dylibs referenced in their bundle's code signature or platform binaries). So yes, I phrased my response in the context of a specific subset of the issue (running code from the wrong library) because all of the rest of the ways that happened are (modulo bugs) prevented by construction.

Package managers do not modify the base system on macOS, and the binaries installed by them will not have code signatures will not be trusted by executables built with the default ecosystem's policy, so they cannot impact binaries outside of their control unless those binaries have been specifically opted into a reduced runtime mode, which makes the change of an ABI break way lower (but not 0) than on Linux... I don't even understand what is controversial about that statement, the systems are built with different goals and engineering trade offs.

And before you tell me about how some system upgrade broke homebrew... of course it did. Many (most?) homebrew packages are opted into policies much closer to the behavior on Linux (flat namespaces, undefined dynamic_lookup, opted out of hardened runtime) because they depend on Linux like semantics due to being multi-platform. That also means they get none of the protections afforded by the system to prevent these issues. If they adopted two level namespaces, @rpath, limiting usage to APIs available in public SDK headers, and using min deployment targets they would be fare more resilient to system upgrades, but that would also entail an ongoing maintenance burden for packages primarily developed on and for Linux.

IOW, if your point is dynamic linking provides primitives to build fragile systems, then sure, I agree. If your point is all dynamically linked systems are significantly more fragile than statically linked systems I disagree (though I can actually point out cases where ABI mismatches have occurred in both static and dynamic binaries). If your point is that a system that allows fragile behaviors to be opted into by power users is inherently more fragile for normal users, then I also disagree (though I concede it may be more fragile for those power users).
In a lot of places, the push for alternatives to single use plastic bags go beyond their carbon footprint at manufacture. Disposable bags end up littering cities, which can block drains and cause other issues. Is banning them heavy handed? Maybe. Does it work? I'd say so.
It's been a long time since I have used Ubuntu. In the ~2009-2013 era, my desktop ran Ubuntu, and I repeatedly upgraded it from 2008.04 -> 2010.04 -> 2012.04. There were a few issues, but nothing that made the system unusable. But that was over ten years ago, I have no idea how Ubuntu has evolved since.

Raspbian has been problematic for me. I tried upgrading from Buster to Bullseye, and it went so badly I ended up reinstalling from scratch. (To be fair, the docs were clear that was a likely outcome.)

OTOH, my ThinkPad x220 has been running Debian since 2016, I installed Jessie back then and upgraded as new stable versions were released. The upgrade to bookworm has finished by now, and it's been entirely unexciting. :-)
Still haven't heard anybody who says we should stop developing AI that we should also stop, say, driving cars or stop all datacenters. Yes both are drastic, maybe even silly, but one is a response to a real threat affecting the planet here and now, the other is a the result of a vivid fantasy.

Happy to be given counter examples.
I like it, will give it a try!

Can you make an option to only show the task being timed, for greater focus?
Would like to see evidence about this. I agree, for me the cost of sharing the account with my family is negligible.

I suspect the most noisy opinions tend to set the narrative, as usual.
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your point is well taken. in the article, one of the main reasons i say that while it’s important to not get caught in the crypto jargon - it’s also important to not ignore the technology paradigm behind it.

giving people an incentive to run a server by the populace that uses it is a well defined and well known way to run decentralized services. staking and validating are concepts that have gotten very sophisticated - but the end result of it doesn’t need to be a “crypto token” bag holders madness. it can just be USD or USDC.

one can imagine a world where server hosts stake a sum of money, and may lose it if communities that start there run amok in some way. the users of the system also stake money for privileges (say, like discord nitro - for nicer emojis and reactions).

this pool of money - if it can run discord - can run decentralized services.

better still - it allows for a pool of money to give those who do community work and engagement a way to get incentives.

lastly - rather than ads, businesses could give end users the cost of their CAC that would otherwise go to instagram or reddit.
I’m definitely no angel - I just think the normalisation of chasing profits and the culture it’s created is broken.

Years back I took a (big) pay cut to work with a non-profit. We brought affordable internet to low income and refugee status apartment buildings, developed tools to help those that are homeless or at risk of becoming, wrote at-cost software for the non-profit and community health sector. I was there for 7 years as their head of platform engineering and automation. A very rewarding experience.
I don’t believe you. Teslas have a cabin camera that monitors your gaze and quickly emits warnings if you look at your phone while autopilot is on. If you ignore the warnings, the car puts it emergency flashers on, pulls over, and disables autonomous driving until your next trip. If you do the five times with the FSD beta, you are banned from using FSD.
Neither were the forums of yore, to be fair. They were mostly run by volunteers.
Greg (our hypothetical admin here) doesn't have YoY growth targets to hit. He just needs enough money to keep the servers running. He hasn't got millions in VC funding/debt.
> the simple answer is that your motivations for being an artist need to change to be exclusively personal fulfillment. because that was true for the pre-AI world, as you essentially described, and its true-er for this current-AI world.

> the real meme is about how artists have always been grasping for financial respect in every market condition ever, and yet nothing has changed. people were never going to commission you, they were never going to book you. While they do appreciate the content. But for the few that would ever actually try to commission something, they encountered friction after friction after friction and collectively artists have been disinterested in solving. Because they're starving and preoccupied with fighting for scraps and modicums of respect at all.

For anyone trying to make money off of music, they should have already been aware that most of the effort in making a living is the non-music work. Once your music reaches an acceptable level of quality it's more about finding and managing your fanbase, industry connections, getting booked at the right shows, promotion and marketing, maintaining professionalism, etc. than anything else. Which this particular AI doesn't help with.

An extreme example is Fred Again, who came out of nowhere and is now one of the biggest names in electronic music. His music isn't bad, but it's nothing revolutionary. As it turns out, though, he grew up in one of the richest neighborhoods in England, with Brian Eno as a neighbor, and went to the most expensive private school in London.

So no, AI music generation doesn't change anything here. It's similar to the startup mistake technical people make of focusing on picking the right tech stack instead of focusing on sales and finding product-market fit. The software/music is only about 10% of the challenge of making a successful business/career.
Yeah sad. I appreciate the philosophy with slow careful releases and I also believe that people should be allowed to make unorthodox design choices in order to stay focused (or at least I’m not sure qualified to critique their choices). But, it seems like there’s a culture of taboo/fear/fanboyism which is clearly not healthy.
Mycelium iOS Bitcoin wallet security flaw
How did you learn that Google has all your credit cards?
Sounds like software piracy if they were sharing copies.
Cue Monty Python; "Every Sperm is Sacred"
did they allow much of his writing out of the prison? Who holds the rights to something written in prison in the US?
Mr Biden please send me money to host a Lemmy instance.
I don't recognize either of those names so I guess they're not nationwide, but has the local news covered this at all? Surely others must've been impacted. Have you reached out to any reporters?
Will almost accelerating straight into the guard rail at 30 mph do it? - https://youtu.be/sNBEHumIHJI?t=14

https://www.carscoops.com/2022/05/tesla-driver-claims-model-...
They replied to an incident report with "works for me". (With an implied "sounds suspicious" in the last sentence, but I don't pretend to know whether that's what they meant.)
and people can watch you at 1.5x or 2x anyway
Human tutors have this same failure mode. And at that point its pretty easy to have people come to the teacher when things get squirrelly in any way.
the physical cost of the equipment is often the cheapest part of a deployment.
> If the name on the front page was not of a murderer, I truly believe it would be recommended reading in schools and philosophy clubs

I assure you a lot of incredibly smart writing doing absolutely accurate predictions is ignored by schools and clubs.

Literally only thing that sets Kaczynsky apart are the bombs.

> , I quite enjoyed his critique of the modern Leftist ideals and why they would create the factionalism and alienation we see today

Considering overwhelming majority of violence, authoritarianism and fictionalized is from right, by a large margin, this is massive meh.
Would be moored more or less the same way deep-sea oils rigs are. The main difficulties, as I understand it, is the unique stresses and forces of the turbine on platform stability. I can see why an image of these moving back and forth is appealing, it will almost certainly make more sense to have dedicated craft responsible for it (even if they were not fixed to the ground). The very sorts of stability you need would work against it being an efficient transport.
That metric is irrelevant now that we have adaptive refresh rates. You don't really "miss" a frame anymore. 1% low is now the correct metric.
Ask HN: Website, you know me. Why serve me a new language?
When traveling or living in multiple locations in the world, I often encounter the problem of websites that insist on serving me the local language (even if I am logged in and they know my origin).

These sites obviously are itnernationalized, as they can present content in at least 3+ languages. But still, I have to struggle to find ways to get them to serve me in English, with the currency of my choice. On the currency, I can adjust or mentally calculate. But on the language, it is too tedious to translate everything.

Why is it this way? Shouldn't it be possible to localize based on logged-in-user preference?
Regardless of your opinion of WFH this sounds exactly like the kind of statement a company makes when they want to force their employees to deeply identify with their employer in an unhealthy way, or at least fake it. It's a great strategy for producing a monoculture of thought long term.
What definitions are you using for "critical" and "critical thinking" here?
Thanks for the reply!

Do you feel like you have a sort of "intuition" for which things might work, and you experiment starting from that, or what is your general thought process like?

Or maybe you start by drawing things out on paper? Really curious what the process of reasoning and thinking about something like this is.
> It is very much an argument in favor of a fundamentally untrustworthy and conspiratorial mindset

That's a misreading of the paper and a misrepresentation of the position that Singer holds. It is also a misrepresentation of what utilitarians more generally think about practical ethics and the virtue of truth-telling. The following text is in my experience fairly representative of the views held by real world utilitarian philosophers:
https://www.utilitarianism.net/guest-essays/virtues-for-real...
> Azure was more usable and straightforward.

There is no world where Azure is more usable and straightforward. Just my two cents.
Not an argument to be applied to a specific claim - it justifies literally every perspective and becomes useless. Immediately.
the problem is that the terms of service say "don't mine crypto", and I'm not.
they've set up an imperfect detection mechanism and I'm one of the false positives but have no meaningful way to prove my innocence.

the worst part is that there's somebody in a GCP office somewhere that might secretly believe that I'm actually a cryptobro. shudder
eh, it depends.

i'm not an audiophile either, but some videos really had audio that was terrible enough to make me quit that.

examples: some buzzing in the background, high-pitched noise in one of the channels, or audio in mono (you only hear the person talking from the right ear, for example).
Are their yields actually that good, then? Are some of these chips massively underclocked? Do they add extra cores and cache for redundancy? Or maybe they have no idea, and TSMC delivers only chips that pass QA. For as big as Apple is, TSMC is in the stronger negotiating position.
Could you explain why the limits make the experience less safe.

Less lateral acceleration should mean more safety, or I m wrong?
Why should motorcycles have a discount? How big should it be in your opinion, and why?
that’s orthogonal not counter
Unfortunately it's much easier home owner bloc to close ranks and oppose something than it is for young people to maybe, just maybe, get in a good candidate who would change something. Going to those crucial 2 pm on a Wednesday meetings is a lot harder when you're not retired.
I have 120W TDP chip on default settings and it only ramps up to the max in rare cases like compiling shaders for RPCSX3

> If Intel/AMD get to a level where their chips rival M1/M2 while power throttled, things get interesting.

For laptop users, maybe. For desktop extra 40W literally doesn't matter.
Meh, it only happened to fork Elm to bootstrap early development and had no plans to carry on with Elm’s development nor trajectory. People in these comments are already confused.

The only interesting thing about Gren on HN is HN’s interest in Elm drama. I bet nobody here even mentions the language specifics but just meta discussion.
I still work with Meditech Magic, which is derived from MUMPS. Meditech was founded by Neil Pappalardo, the original developer of MUMPS. A strange system for sure, but it is incredibly fast and reliable. Since the early 2000s it has run on top of Windows Server, and uses a proprietary terminal emulator and encrypted telnet for establishing connections to the system.
Magic has long been eclipsed by their newer 3-tier and web platforms, though there's still lots of Magic installations still out there.
I had no idea that he may have been part of MKUltra. Thanks for that rabbit hole!

As I’m reading through The Devil’s Chessboard (recommend a few weeks ago in another thread) I’m increasingly despondent about the “people”’s role in the US (i.e. we are now just chattel for the ruling class), and I haven’t even gotten to MKUltra yet!
I recommend a listen to this series

https://gwec.buzzsprout.com/1229717/11455756-hydrogen-series...
You don't know much about Martin Luther King, do you?
Is it possible to compile to native in a fully static binary?

By default, ECL seems to link with a libecl (or something like that) shared object. If I compile with “--disable-shared”, it seems to also remove the “compile to native” part. Or at least that’s how it appeared to me.

It’s possible I’m misunderstanding, but it I didn’t see why those two aspects (static binary and native/non-byte code) are coupled. Again, apologies if I’m just misinterpreting!

Edit: my motivation is I have some small utilities that I’d like to be able to just copy to any Linux box (even musl libc-based Alpine) and have them work, regardless of glibc/ECL being present.
> A workstation can be a single core, 256MB RAM, 1 watt SBC.

No. Words have meanings. Workstation does not mean that.
Their goal isn't to make it impossible, it's to reduce it. They want you to really need to drive, not just do it because it's convenient.

It seems you might not familiar the actual toll to start, it carves out a lot of special cases for that reason: people with certain incomes are exempt if they already live in the area, ride-shares have special rules, they excluded corridors around the edges of the city, etc.

You're also confused on cost here. It's not cost to the city they're trying to change with a toll (that'd be nonsensical) it's cost to the driver. If cost is hard for you to follow, think of it as "attractiveness".

They want driving to be unattractive, not impossible, not untenable... just unattractive.
Maybe the all the money invested in self driving and EV insentives and insane highways and stroads maybe you could afford decent public transit.
- GitHub

- GitHub copilot

- ChatGPT

- Mathpix (LaTeX OCR)

- Language tool
(multilingual grammar checker)

- Neovim

- Weight and bias (monitoring tools for machine learning models)
Yes WebRTC does require a discovery mechanism. That is where WHIP/Signaling comes into play.

I have a chapter on signaling here https://webrtcforthecurious.com/docs/02-signaling/

I have an example of WebRTC without signaling https://github.com/pion/offline-browser-communication. Each side has to agree on things ahead of time. Useful for security cameras/IoT/LAN stuff though!
>which kind of possible interests that OpenAI might have are consistent with Sam Altman's behaviour?

Securing a government enforced monopoly on large language models?
Ironically his manifesto is apparently what led to FBI arresting him.

> The big break in the case came in 1995. The Unabomber sent us a 35,000 word essay claiming to explain his motives and views of the ills of modern society. After much debate about the wisdom of “giving in to terrorists,” FBI Director Louis Freeh and Attorney General Janet Reno approved the task force’s recommendation to publish the essay in hopes that a reader could identify the author.

> After the manifesto appeared in The Washington Post, thousands of people suggested possible suspects. One stood out: David Kaczynski described his troubled brother Ted, who had grown up in Chicago, taught at the University of California at Berkeley (where two of the bombs had been placed), then lived for a time in Salt Lake City before settling permanently into the primitive 10’ x 14’ cabin that the brothers had constructed near Lincoln, Montana.

> Most importantly, David provided letters and documents written by his brother. Our linguistic analysis determined that the author of those papers and the manifesto were almost certainly the same. When combined with facts gleaned from the bombings and Kaczynski’s life, that analysis provided the basis for a search warrant.

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/unabomber
French Senate Validates Remote Activation of Phone Cameras and Microphones