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> The CPU is rarely a bottleneck for AAA games

I mean… No?

CPU bottleneck is super common, especially on slightly older engine bases like source or unreal.

I think you are assuming big AAA games at 4k, which puts an especially big strain on the GPU.

Maybe I’ve been developing games too long, but we are constantly fighting CPU bottlenecks.
If only that sort of littering weren't already illegal...

How about we enforce that law?

Where I live now, plastic bags are very common at the grocery store, and yet none of them end up on the street. I have also seen police pull someone over for throwing trash out their car window. When I lived in New York City, even the cops threw their trash onto the street, and practically nobody gets a ticket for littering. That is why there is so much litter. It's not the bags.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that code seemingly only applies to kernel packages, i.e. packages which are made by the gren team [1]

Seems more like a check to make sure the version of the JS is compatible with the version of gren than anything else.

[1] https://github.com/gren-lang/compiler/blob/e665e521367eeedec...
I made a few of the off-by-one kind of typos with clients and coworkers really early on in my career, and learned to always always proofread before I ended up having a chat with HR for something completely unintentional.

Examples:

Mild kitty indigestion -> Milf kitty indigestion

Is your free/busty time showing correctly now?
The image compression/decompression from their special token system wouldn't be free, it would be just as expensive as any other per-pixel transformation on an image file, and it would be entirely custom software doing it that they would have to run on their servers. Image upload and download is a very significant increase in net traffic compared to just text and could make the whole venture cost a lot more. And finally, an image even when downsized is going to be composed of a lot of tokens, so that's going to be a lot of computational cost just to run inference on it. If they haven't implemented statefulness (which many haven't right now despite the simplicity of the technique, field is still very new), that computational cost must be repeated with every fresh API call.

Basically, multi-modal functionality should be an OOM increase in compute, traffic, and storage requirements for anyone providing it compared to a text-only model (or an only-text-allowed model).
Your heirs/descendants wouldn't be.
Thanks!

Yeah I think I can undercut the cost of a dedicated team because the number of tests that are similar between companies are quite high - I've contracted across multiple startups as a test engineer and seen this time and time again. If I can template these smart enough I can quickly boilerplate the tests & then add the more specific domain logic they might have.

Plus there are teams out there still using no-code automation tools which are flakey, so writing these in a non-flakey way (and validating it is a true bug before reporting so clients only get valid bugs) should help prove it's a better service too.
It has really came a long way and Laravel is just amazing
Tesla doesn’t sell Autopilot as cruise control though.
How much did you have to crank up the voltages on the 7800X3D to get it to 120W? I can't get mine much past 85W at stock voltage and clocks, even with the memory running at DDR5-6000.
With all due respect sir, but Debian is not ”a mainstream desktop OS”
As someone who is noticing more and more Macs where they used to be Windows before, I agree. The mainstream is moving from Windows to MacOS, and the "industry leader to ripoff" is likewise changing over.
What makes you think this wasn't the NSA?
Since you seem familiar with it, do you think it's possible to run a webrtc connection over http in a modern browser? I tried for a while to make this work but I gave up because it seemed like in js land it tries to use the getUserMedia apis which aren't allowed in an insecure context. The reason why I was trying was to stream audio + data locally from a device that emits its own wifi network (fully offline due to environment restrictions). It seems dumb to have to serve invalid self signed certs just to set up a webrtc ice handshake.
Plus, there is a frenzy on how to maximally exploit these as fast as possible from all angles, and all parties.

Anyone who acts all casual, as if there is not a constellation of vultures circling AI right now should consider themselves 'off-grid'
> The human will be acting at least as a curator, because not everything created by AI is going to be pleasing, so some selection and catering to human taste will be required.

Yes, and keep in mind humans are already doing this! It's very common to do tweaking of knobs on a synth/VST while recording and create a 10-20 minute audio file, commonly called a bass jam or mud pie, then select the best bits to use in a song. And of course, people use randomization tools to tweak the knobs for them. IMO use of AI to support this type of workflow is far more promising than going directly to the finished product.
Of course they're not. But when the conditions in my work are looking likely to change I'm going to want to know why. It's not much of an ask for these things to actually make sense when they effect our quality of life.
Why are people willing to excuse things because they happen in a car? If an AI power tool were going haywire once in a while and chopping the arms off of bystanders near by, would we find that acceptable because people using non-AI powered tools also chop off their body parts sometimes? 'We can't know if it would have happened if a person were in control' is not an argument that would fly for anything else just as dangerous.
Wow, totally missed anyone at all was held accountable for that. It’s not much but something at least.
> Glancing at the new Debian 12 screenshots, I realised that in the past years most major desktop OSes transitioned to a macOS-esque (middle-aligned, bottom) large icon taskbar. Why?

That's a misinformed take, Gnome is not the only desktop environment available on Debian, it just happen to be listed first in the installer, it's a DE agnostic OS

If you look at the most popular linux distro, the 3 most popular ones (according to distrowatch) uses XFCE as their default DE https://distrowatch.com/, wich provide a traditional labeled task bar by default

https://wiki.debian.org/DesktopEnvironment

And if you look at what people use in the wild, you'll notice that they move away from the setup you describe: https://old.reddit.com/r/unixporn/
Sounds to me like you want to use the old Delphi IDE where all the editor windows are separate.
And yet "do we have any backdoored supermicro hardware" is a common question from non technical management, even today. It's infuriating that it hasn't been retracted as I'm still talking about it. It's also at the forefront of insurance questions
Given that outsize influence, you would think they would sue Bloomberg… I guess they don’t really care…
Of course they would be.

Morality doesn't exist in a vacuum. It's not objective, it's collectively determined by society.

As a society we have decided en masse that blowing up randomly selected people to draw attention to one's political views is not acceptable.

As a society we also have decided that violent actions taken against the German government in the early 1940s were acceptable.

This isn't a contradiction, nor hypocrisy, simply the ability to have nuanced opinions.
This has nothing to do with accommodation or tolerance and everything to do with the power it gives people over others. I don't know why people go along with this nonsense. It's way worse than any mainstream religion at this point.
> ”MTA trains are extremely spacious compared to the Underground”

Depends what line you’re talking about. Deep tube lines are indeed pretty small due to the narrow tubes they run in. But the sub-surface lines (District, Circle, Metropolitan, etc) are comparable to NYC subway dimensions.

And have you tried our new 200m long Elizabeth line trains?
> This is too misleading to be unintentional.

It's not misleading. On average, buses in the US carry around 15 people. A car carries around 1.5, so the raw multiplier is just 10.

But wait, there's more!

ALL buses have an incredibly polluting component that is fundamental to their functionality: the driver. You need around 3 drivers to cover the useful service time (from 5am to midnight). And drivers are POLLUTING AS HELL.

> I don't know if you're comparing buses to small/medium EVs 1:1

Yes, I do. Here ya go: https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint

> Transit doesn't force people into housing.

It does, via market forces.

> It creates new housing options that previously were not tenable.

No. It _destroys_ affordable housing to pack people into smaller and smaller footprints. Tokyo is a _great_ example of that.

> In proportion to human-miles, or is this a 1:1 comparison?

In proportion to passenger-miles. Road wear scales approximately as the 4-th power of the axle weight, and under-loaded buses still have to haul around their massive bulks even if there's just one passenger inside.

Honestly, it's amazing how bad public transit turns out to be when you actually start looking at its negative sides.
It's but one of many reasons I haven't switched to Windows 11 for my Windows installs. I know OpenShell exists but still.

It makes no sense to me to not have a taskbar fill the entire span of space it has available, or at least allow it to do so.
I would say skips rather than strips.
> I watched a bit of the second vid, and I see why some people would have fun making and/or watching this; but to me it totally misses the point of what is magical about cinema.

Could you expand your point a bit more?
My box of wires in the attic is often the butt of my wife’s jokes, but every once in a while I find that satellite coax connector I’ve been saving, or the scart cable that is the only thing standing between old vhs tapes and nostalgia.
Its a mainstream desktop OS in my heart.
I would have thought that this text turns out to be about physics beyond the standard model:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technicolor_(physics)
> someone needs to pay for it

This is centralized thinking. In a decentralized open protocol system, everyone pays for their own way, but it's very cheap at an individual level. There's no central "it".

> Not web 1.0. Usenet and mailing lists(mostly) died for that, as did many "traditional" forums.

I'm on several email groups where I've been a participant since the very early 90s. Every so often there's the "oh have you seen this new shiny thing, let's move to that!"

Every single one of those new shinies have disappeared, but the email group lives on.

Why? Because email is 100% decentralized, nobody owns it, there's nothing to own. It's an open protocol. So it lives on forever.

Also, I still read Usenet on most days, just like I've been doing since the late 80s. It's alive (if not very active) because nobody owns it.

I wish we could collectively learn these lessons. Centralized systems cannot exist for very long.
That happens in general, many people associate music with relevant actions of their life. They listen to songs which are more suitable to driving a car, or lounge beats to read books.

One scenario is to record some sounds of the event once, like the laughter of a child in it's birthday, put it to songs, and listen to it before the next time it happens.

One other scenario, is to record the brainwaves of some difficult task, like programming, and by listening to songs, try to activate the same region of the brain. When there is an automatic way to create one song which activates an area but not exactly, and another song which activates one more area but not exactly, the machine will try to figure out how to combine the two songs together which will hit the spot. It is essentially a problem of combining information, which A.I. statistical engines are very good at it.
Is there any chance you could find a writer or filmmaker in your network?
I was struggling to figure out how to respond to them, but I think you got it. I had that famous Stephen Jay Gould quote in mind: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/99345-i-am-somehow-less-int...

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."

My post was a call for being smarter about who we invest in. I always wonder about people who call for separating art and artist over such mediocre artistry.
> The main thing IMO is not to put stuff with loose (and maybe never) dates on your calendar where you now have 50 overdue items on your calendar which just encourages never wrapping anything up.

Thank you. This killed all my attempts at planning using Org Mode and agenda views. I'd schedule a few things for the day, and then invariably fail to do half of them, and then they would show up on next day's agenda, sorting above that day's planned tasks, and displayed with emphasis. This was both distracting and created an "emotional repulsion field" for the agenda view, leading to more tasks not completed, and a week down the line, my agenda view would have 20+ items due days ago.

The second-to-last time around, I started pushing due dates on those incomplete tasks into the future. But this didn't help anything - soon enough, I'd be staring at an incoming blast wave of random uncompleted tasks, which I then had to push back again some more. The system eventually collapsed under the emotional weight.

Last time around, I forced myself to simply unschedule such incomplete tasks - remove due dates from them entirely. But that only cut to the thing I still haven't figured out (one of many such things): how to represent tasks that have some temporal component to them, but a fuzzy or flexible one. Like, "do X anywhere between next Friday and Tuesday in the week after - but I don't want to be reminded of X before that very Friday". Or, "do X somewhere between September and November".

Basically, trying to walk a narrow line between the system being not specific enough to be useful, and being so overwhelming that it actually makes everything worse.
For anyone struggling with remembering class based view mixins, I suggest you get yourself a proper IDE that allows you to trivially look into the implementation of anything as well as lookup any symbol with fuzzy search. PyCharm/IntelliJ is one.

Since using such an IDE I pretty much never have to rely on the documentation because it’s much easier to Cmd+click into a symbol and look at its implementation.
Cheaper, cleaner, on-time, expanded service (times and locations), and better safety (either real or precieved).
> Audiocraft requires Python 3.9, PyTorch 2.0.0, and a GPU with at least 16 GB of memory

I sleep. And these are only 1-3.3B param models, that makes no sense.
You are not breaching the GPL in the letter but you surely broke it in the spirit.
Being an ass, or ramming their religion down peoples faces tends to annoy people. He could have been secure in his beliefs, chosen he/him or whatever pronouns were appropriate and moved on. Most places in North America, I thought, was at will employment.
> So it's not unreasonable to assume that the M2 just doesn't have a GPU capable of running these games

Without including comparison data on native games? It's entirely unreasonable.

For instance, The native version of the DirectX 12 game "The Medium" was shown running side by side with the emulated version at WWDC, and the native version had double the frame rate.
Sounds like a good reason to try to do better. Unless you suppose the UI of programming is solved and everyone who wants to have control over a machine just needs to bite down and learn vim ?
What if you live in the toll area? Do you have to pay everytime you drive?44

Toronto has considered putting in a congestion tax, but no one wanted to way in on how that tax would affect people living downtown.
There are certain operations that only "kernel" packages are allowed to do. If that weren't the case, then this would indeed be little more than an obscure quirk.
Sorry. I built it in a weekend several years ago and haven't touched it since. Someday I'll give it some more attention…
> Car owners are already hugely subsidized

Around 80% of all commutes in the US are by car. You can't subsidize 80% of the population.

Drivers simply pay for their road use through various taxes, and not directly.
I love that someone in this article about pronouns is using the wrong proper noun: presumably it's Chad or Chard (like the leafy vegetables?), but not both
Agreed . That is ridiculous. I encountered the same experience .
It's not ironic
Try having kids. The amount of crap you will end up with, like it or not, will make you rethink your position in the world, and your house’s storage capabilities.
I don't know what the lower bound is, but a specific answer is "$97.67 per month" which is what I pay for a server in a rack in a data center that has been chugging along, with an occasional drive failure, for the past 15 years that hosts a forum, a bunch of low traffic websites, and an email server.

I also run a BBS on a Raspberry Pi that plays host to a few hundred DAU, that engage in chat, forums, a MUCK, and the occasional file transfer which runs on my home internet connection.

I am sure someone will jump right in and tell me that I am doing it wrong and I can host everything on an AWS micro VPS for $4/month, but the amount that I pay is for my server. I also suspect someone will jump right in and tell me I am not allowed to host a server on my home internet connection.
Google should simply give them a deadline, pay within 30 days or we shut your stuff down. If they don’t pay shut it off and collect in full. Everything else is unfair to customers that pay in full and on time.
> Weed need a decentralized equivalent to Usenet.

That is ... Usenet. That's exactly what Usenet is (not was, because it's still there, even if not many people use it. I still read it on many days.)
The source I remember was specifically criticising the media coverage of the later one.
> hacking is what you do when you don't know

this. this is where the new/good stuff comes from.
Because it means the feature is actually useful.

If the human "driver" is liable for what an autonomous car does, it means you have to watch the car like a hawk. At that point, may as well be driving.
> People might know or not know each opinion he expressed, and might reasonably agree or disagree with each one

Isn't that the definition of agreeing (or not) with someone ?

> but that's not the same thing.

How so ?
It’s literally a pet project of Paul Graham, a billionaire. That was my point.
> If the code started with was *GPL'ed, each edit resulted in a GPL'ed piece of code, thus the final edit was a change to a GPL'd piece of code and the result is GPLed.

The second clause is not correct. Each edit does not result in GPL'd code. GPL only applies to the code you start with. If you want to redistribute the code with the modifications, then the GPL requires that you make your changes available under the GPL. If you cannot license the work in this way, then you may not redistribute it; the licensing under the GPL is not automatic, and it may not even be possible (e.g., if the modifications are copied from code with an incompatible licence). But this does not apply if none of the code you want to distribute is covered under the GPL. So if you remove all of the original code, and your final work is independent of the original, then the GPL would not apply.
> Wider and wider monitors that are higher and higher resolution, so the bottom left gets farther and smaller from the eyes. Nevermind multi-monitor setups.

This is easily solved by having a 'bottom left' for every screen, something I wish Windows offered natively. OpenShell does, and I've configured my awesomewm instance to do so. It still makes the most sense to me and is the way I'm most productive.

> Text requires translation/localization, which is extra work, which is extra cost. Pick a generic, ideally universal icon and it's once-and-done. Also, not everyone can or will read.

Text is necessary to distinguish instances of open applications. Not having the ability to do that decreases productivity. I would think the amount of computer users unable to read text is an extreme minority, and I'm counting people using accessibility options to read text when I say that.
absolutely, great contributions.

I did want to clarify that I was posting from an angle about those us who need music produced for our products, but were never going to commission it.

I think its important to understand that user story because a lot of artists don’t seem able to empathize with it. People are excited because they were never going to commission artists, and were also turned off from stock music licensing websites too.
I hate to be pedantic, b--actually, that's not true; I enjoy it plenty well.

Hearsay is a TYPE of evidence, albeit not a particularly reliable type of evidence. But you are correct, it is hearsay, and in fact, its second-hand hearsay.

But more to Loquebantur's point here (I think this was his point), this IS fundamentally different than similar claims that came before. You have one guy from the government making these sorts of claims (that's not the different part, this next part is), and you have 2 other decorated government officials and colleagues willing to, not only speaking highly of Grusch's integrity, but CORROBORATING HIS EXACT CLAIMS, and even going on to provide a further anecdotes.
That's not what normally happens.
Also, it is fundamentally different for this reason as well: All of this information and whatever Grusch learned was provided to congress, behind closed door to those with the clearance to hear it. As far as I am aware of, this level of type of information has never been provided to congress before.

This not insignificant; Congress has the the power to subpoena information, compel testimony, and ultimately verify or debunk these claims and information. And ultimately, if they deem it pertinent to do so, they have the autonomy to inform the American public.

Now, not to totally invalidate your other point:
I do think it is important to keep in mind here that Grusch himself has not seen any direct or hard evidence of 'materials of exotic origin'. He is merely saying that several high-level individuals have confided in him what is presumably first hand experiences, which, as you know, is second-hand hearsay.

So this leaves open the possibility that the individuals who were confiding in Grusch, were fooling themselves, were in some way deceived, or perhaps even wanting to fool Grusch himself.
any form of new transportation is a welcome experience
Argh. Apologies to the author. I didn't see the original when I looked before submitting, and I expected HN to pop up a link to the existing post, like it usually does. Wasn't my intention to post a dupe :(
Graeber & Wengrow would like a word with you about that

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36276100
Seems like you can easily relate to 23 month old humans. That's cool. Now try to expand that empathy to other entities of comparable mental faculties and complexity of emotions. Then imagine the horrors we, as a species, casually inflict on them. If you need inspiration, here is a link I found from google: https://thehumaneleague.org/article/factory-farmed-pigs

Now tell me how a painless infanticide (arguably committed for utilitarian good) is even nearly as bad.
Yeah, but sometimes the second and usually the third (and fourth - I have seen it!) are not in the intersection.
You might enjoy Ken Kocienda's "Creative Selection", which gives his first-person account of Apple's creative process.