skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not defending the Mac Pro's architecture here, I think there are issues, but calling Apple Silicon "low-end laptop hardware" is just false. The Max/Ultra chips easily outperform most server-grade CPUs, and are similar to top end Intel i9 chips. Then if you also take into account performance per watt, they're in a whole different league.
Here: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/exoplanet-catalog/8817/toi-1338-..., although that one only shows one star
While it might be hard to grow roots, it is not impossible. IMO, you should start doing serious work on growing roots when you are in your late 20s.
Growing roots include:

- Getting married

- Having kids

- Settling down to live in one place

- Finding out how you can participate in the local community, and the actively participate

You will find that people are remarkably open to people who willingly contribute to other's well-being. This is how friends are made, this is how roots are grown.

Edit: formatting
That would be nice. It would also probably work as a chair for small houses that you can stow away when you are not using it.
> financuially comfortable trolls out there that would still make a few dozen

No, tens of thousands.

Nation state actors have troll armies, and $2 extra per astro turfing account would be coffee money compared to the salaries they already pay their trolls.

Websearch for 50 cent army
> Same for standard HTML push buttons, links, check boxes

Interesting that you mention checkboxes. For a long time native checkboxes on Linux (distro?) would come up impossibly tiny if you had a decent-sized screen. They were hard to hit accurately with a mouse, and impossible with a trackpad. That seems to have been cured now, but I don't know when it was fixed.
AI Chatbot Is Sentient
The fact that the listing was approved is immaterial to whether the business is breaking securities law. The SEC is not required to verify that you are running a legitimate business before allowing you to IPO. They are only required to confirm that the data in the forms you mentioned represents your business correctly.

The Coinbase S1 admits this explicitly: they explicitly list the risk of their business model being contested by the SEC later in the document that the SEC approved.
It could be a lesser-known CA, perhaps the national CA of a small country (under 2m people) that normally only issues less than tens-of-thousands of certs and only exists for regulatory reasons (e.g. the country requires all of its own gov services to use its internal CA, while all commercial/popular services use CA based in another country, usually LetsEncrypt)
Just a wild guess – developers lack soft/managerial skills. (Overgeneralization.) In companies, this is accounted for because developers are shielded by managers. But in F/OSS you get to interact directly with the developers. As for the why devs lack soft skills – hold your hats – programming is basically commanding. Without "thank you", without "please" and with lot of swearing. No time for pleasant bullshit. (By this reasoning, devs using declarative/functional programming should be more polite than imperative programmers, right? :D)
Of course, because such requirements are adversarial and make no sense. So they need an adversarial and nonsensical solution :)
A few years ago I noticed the phenomenon where I would walk outside and couldn't for the life of me remember what I'd been doing for the few hours. It happened a few times and then I realized that this happens when I was on Reddit (or other similar online endless scrolling).
Sure you just need to dress up as a cop and shoot them for the control group.
Could you explain how this transition is comparable to climate change in duration and amplitude?

I can put a pot of water on my stove, but my hand in, warm the pot by 1°C, and I'll be fine. I can't do the same with an increase by 100°C.
using llama.cpp

it runs on the CPU

this news story is that they are now extending GPU support to llama.cpp
regarding 3 and 4.

The clue to them is in the names.

CSS Animation works well for complex multi-step animations.
Things where having to think about keyframes and iteration loops and stop/starts isn't an excessive burden for something that'll be used in a few key areas to create something visually interesting.

CSS Transitions meanwhile, is for changes from one state to another (normal <-> hover , checked <-> unchecked).
Much more common, simpler visual flourishes that are more about giving hints to the user than visual eye candy.
Firstly, it is debatable as to whether there is anything truly altruistic. For MOST acts aren't truly altruistic but that doesn't stop us from doing good things or being seen to be a good person.

Of course there is an element of business, otherwise he wouldn't be able to make these videos in the first place if people didn't agree to be filmed. The difference here is that being on camera is a small price to pay than the price of bringing your own eyesight back, something these people cannot afford.

The ability to do these treatments doesn't come out of thin air.
I worked with this a while ago. It's a navigation/organisation tool for GUIs. GUIs have many such tools, and each of them is unnecessary in the sense that you can use others. But each of them is also better than the others in some cases.

Suppose you're working on an interface to show something that's 2D, is generally 3× as wide as the viewport and 5× as as high, and the viewport is big (a computer screen, not a smartwatch). In that case two scrollbars may be the best way to let the user navigate. The user can see at a glance what part of the thing is visible within the viewport, can move the viewport by manipulating the same thing that shows the location, and the movement has a low error rate (the effect is generally close to the user's intent).

If the typical sizes are, say, 100× as wide as the viewport, then the scrollbar doesn't work as well. If the viewport is so small that the scrollbar takes up much of the space, ditto. If the viewport is a touch screen, that changes the tradeoff compared to a draggable viewport.
What about using a foldable standing desk? That would be easier to set up in a shady spot...
Face Filter Industrial Complex is my new favourite term.
> In fact mass-energy equivalence is a pretty core part of quantum mechanics.

It may be stated as such, and added in to equations as an external piece of knowledge from relativity, but this is cheating a bit.

Essentially, when we state that H2O has less mass than H+H+O, what we actually mean is that H2O bends spacetime a little bit less than the three atoms individually that made it up. There's no accepted variant of QM or the Standard Model that explains this. The dynamics of spacetime curvature rearranging as the photon is emitted as the hydrogen atoms burn is not explained by modern science. This is fundamentally the "QM is incompatible with GR" issue.

My point was that it isn't just near black holes that a GR-compatible microscopic theory is relevant.

It's relevant even in the flame of a candle. It's a small effect, but it's there. The inconsistency in the theories occurs at all scales.
With regards to the planets themselves, Solaris is covered in an ocean (spoiler rot13: na bprna bs try gung vf erirnyrq gb or n fvatyr, cynarg-rapbzcnffvat ragvgl), whereas Tatooine is a desert planet.

The systems are different in that Tatooine (as far as I remember) orbits around a pair of stars. Solaris is orbiting between the two stars in an orbit that should be highly unstable but for reasons unknown the planet appears to be stabilizing itself.
Major charities does the same.

I have heard anthropologists tell anecdotes about Red Cross refusing to help a village just a couple of hours drive away from their outposts because there is no press coverage and they would rather spend their supplies on places where it'd get reported on, because the report brings in more donations. Emotionally I sympathize with the people that the speaker spent time with and resent Red Cross's decision, but pragmatically I can see that it make sense.

I've talked to nurses who volunteered at MSF say they passed by many villages that needed help on their way to their destination, a more well-known location that will bring more attention for their services. Lord knows they lamented over it, but the decision was made by the organization to ensure they get the maximum donation needed to help more people.

I have literally never watched a single Mr Beast videos, but going by what I'm seeing in articles like these, I fail to how what he's doing is any worse than most charities.
In previous debates on this very site, people said that scraping/calling an API without service owners permission is not allowed and even illegal in US (if I remember correctly).

In light of that, how can this be an antitrust case?
Seriously? This comparison of cost to a NPP is obviously flawed.

Why?

Because a NPP wouldn't be run just for backup but continuously. Let's assume the 1 GW fossil plant runs a mere 3 weeks per year. That's a capacity factor of 0.058 and it'd generate 504 GWh per year.

The NPP would run with a capacity factor of say 0.90 so at 1 GW it'd deliver 7.9 TWh.

That's a factor of 15.5 more electricity delivered than the fossil plant.

Consequently, to have the same cost/KWh, the NPP could cost 15.5 x $5M = $77.5M per year. Electricity cost would be: $0.01/KWh

I don't know your source for the operating costs of the oil plant, but I assume it's in USD.

According to [1] in the US, the NPPs generated electricity at a cost of (note how I didn't even pick the much lower number of 21 USD/MWh in recent years):
37 USD/MWh = 0.037 USD/KWh

Comparison

Fossil: $0.01/KWh

Nuclear: $0.037/KWh (or more recently $0.021/KWh)

So the cost wouldn't be dramatically higher with the nuclear plant and it'd still leave a huge margin to Swedish household electricity prices of > $0.20/KWh.

Also the nuclear plant would emit much less CO2 per KWh than the oil plant, and who knows how long we'll wait to see efuels be used for this purpose.

The point I wanted to make is not: "Backup plants have to be nuclear plants."

But rather: "As long as there is a certain base load on the grid, that's requested by consumers all year round (which will always be the case), it is a viable option to partially provide this with nuclear power plants."

And to me it makes more sense than what Germany is doing right now, basically replacing nuclear generation with a little bit of wind and lots of coal in the winter. Even if Germany had had double the wind generation in 2022, from Jan-Mar & Oct-Dec, renewables would only have delivered ~ 100 % of demand during 2 weeks. 2 weeks out of 26. They'll have to continue burning gas/coal for some time to come. Especially with progressing electrification and increasing demand.

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As to:

> .. if carbon prices ever becomes prohibitive:

CO2 prices are laughable and even the planned progression is. And with all the exceptions for big industry even more so.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/184754/cost-of-nuclear-e...
> Who is to say that SSRI antidepressants simply correct brain chemical imbalance to healthy levels rather than letting one substitute a chemical high for real life changes?

SSRIs do not result in anything resembling a "high". Neither do tricyclic antidepressants, lithium salts for bipolar disorder, and so on.

I have long since lost it, but many years ago a friend of mine wrote down his experience of temporarily stopping his bipolar medication in order to do a burst of work during the hypermanic phase. It made it very clear that, for him, _not_ taking the drugs resulted in a dramatic and sometimes hazardous high/low cycle with a frequency of days, in a way that resembles the experience other people have with recreational drugs.
llama.cpp can be run with a speedup for AMD GPUs when compiled with `LLAMA_CLBLAST=1` and there is also a HIPified fork [1] being worked on by a community contributor. The other week I was poking on how hard it would be to get an AMD card running w/ acceleration on Linux and was pleasantly surprised, it wasn't too bad: https://mostlyobvious.org/?link=/Reference%2FSoftware%2FGene...

That being said, it's important to note that ROCm is Linux only. Not only that, but ROCm's GPU support has actually been decreasing over the past few years. The current list: https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/latest/release/gpu_os_support.h... Previously (2022): https://docs.amd.com/bundle/Hardware_and_Software_Reference_...

The ELI5 is that a few years back, AMD split their graphics (RDNA) and compute (CDNA) architectures, which Nvidia does too, but notably (what Nvidia definitely doesn't do, and a key to their success IMO) AMD also decided they would simply not support any CUDA-parity compute features on Windows or their non "compute" cards. In practice, this means that community/open-source developers will never have, tinker, port, or develop on AMD hardware, while on Nvidia you can start with a GTX/RTX card on your laptop, and use the same code up to an H100 or DGX.

llama.cpp is a super-high profile project, has almost 200 contributiors now, but AFAIK, no contributors from AMD. If AMD doesn't have the manpower, IMO they should simply be sending nsa free hardware to top open source project/library developers (and on the software side, their #1 priority should be making sure every single current GPU they sell is at least "enabled" if not "supported" in ROCm, on Linux and Windows).

[1] https://github.com/SlyEcho/llama.cpp/tree/hipblas
A better example is HMRC, the tax authority, in the UK. They won't tell you if your tax avoidance scheme is legal or not, but they will fine you or take you to court if they later decide it is not.
It's terrible. Peer pressure, eg popularity contests, are the cause of most of this world's ills!
Well, the UK is actually not too bad on a global scale. Demagogues can cause some serious damage - Thatcher, Blair, Boris, Farage... - but are eventually discarded when they become irrelevant or their promised land fails to materialise.

Countries without a robust consensus-based governing process and an established process for removing someone from power - and that's most of them - are susceptible to strongman politics. Think Putin, Jinping, Erdogan, Bolsonaro, Saddam, Gaddafi, Tito, Kagame, Mugabe, Hitler, Mussolini, etc...

Outside of politics, wealth and celebrity are the obvious paths to unaccountable power. Jeffrey Epstein is an example of how a predator can get away with despicable behaviour without comeuppance for decades. Rupert Murdoch has frequently been at the centre of various scandals and serious controversies, and seems to have escaped pretty much unscathed by treating it as all part of the business.

The venture capital environment in silicon valley seems to have some of the hallmarks; we can see people like Holmes or Bankman-Fried trying to exploit the system to gain power.

Academia also springs to mind. It's surprisingly easy to get into powerful positions with very little skill/knowledge besides networking. I believe there's a real issue with toxic, abusive PhD supervisors in the UK and potentially the US, which is a classic consequence of heirarchies with little accountability.
That would be like the pimp giving their stable of ho's money and not making them prostitute themselves.

Who then would pay for their pimp-mobile and bling, and the upkeep of the ho's?
Check out Helinox https://helinox.eu/. We have a couple that we take to the parks with us in London and they're great.
You seem to be taking the position that somehow privilege or “class” can be improved by creating artificial barriers to entry, but I can tell you for a fact that even back in the dim dark days of dialup BBS, long before the IP protocol, there were assholes and trolls online. Technical skills only made them more arrogant.

A lack of class and comportment online is not new, and the shiny accoutrements and signifiers of “class” can as easily hide malign intent as demonstrate worth. (also: people shared all kinds of crap online, even then).

If you limit the internet to people who can wire up a 300 baud modem, then you’ll just end up with trolls who can solder.

I’m happy that everyone can fly, and can get online. How else are they going to learn about the world? I don’t have to hang out where they hang out if I don’t want to. That’s why I’m on HN and not FB. But they have every right to take advantage of these things, and I still have faith in humanity.

Anyway, without travel and information, how else are they going to learn that the world is filled with artificial barriers intended to keep them in their place?
What is your specific objection to the cryptocurrency feature of this site? Or are you just dogmatically anti-crypto for emotional reasons? If the latter, well that's exactly what I was criticizing about HN ("it can sometimes randomly be very hostile/toxic to new tech, the most glaring example being crypto.") and so the site is probably not for you anyways. HN is better for anti-crypto.

The ML stuff was just throwing some ideas out there for the future.

Regarding the spam, apologies on that. I posted this before going to sleep, and woke up to see the spam. This is just a side project and I didn't implement any automated spam moderation yet or assign any mods.
The last Intel Mac Pro also has a sizeable number of PCIe switches did it not? At least I recall seeing them in the hardware tear down
Is the Yeti Hondo available where you live?
In my poorer student days, I actually used one of these (stye) as my primary writing chair in my home. If it's the right size for your shoulders and arms, it works quite well
> Fuck the patents, they just make the drugs.

> Drug patents are bad. The pragmatic good in the short term is that they got us the covid vaccine, and will get us malaria, and better flu shots and probably personalised cancer treatments. All of that should be nationalised, and made available worldwide for public good.

> Fuck the shareholders.

I wonder if you have any experience at all in a non-trivial business where heavy investment is a necessary precursor to getting something to market. For example, a hypothetical where you have to invest a million dollars cash and a year of work by a team of ten well-paid professionals (which is expensive) to get a product to market.

I say this because anyone who has this experience would not say the things you are saying. Not because you altruistic sentiment is wrong. It isn't. At all. Your perspective is rooted in public good for the greatest number of people. Again, nothing wrong with that at all.

The issue is one related to business reality. If the prevailing mode of operation is for society to just take what you develop through heavy investment of cash and time and give it to everyone, the problem quickly becomes evident:

Nobody is going to take the risk or make the investment.

"Fuck the patents, they just make the drugs" is a commendable position that can only be held by those who do not have to make the investment necessary to create and support those drugs or products. From that perspective, it is easy to steal anything. Yes, it is stealing when you take someone's work-product and do not compensate them at all.

To use an imperfect example to illustrate the idea, it's like a situation where you spend five years saving money and slowly using it to build a house, only to have a bunch of people move-in and take it once built...and they don't pay you anything for it. In parts of the world this kind of thing actually happens, I know someone who had this problem in South America.

It's fine to want better things for everyone. However, these ideas have to be rooted in reality. If everyone steals nobody is going to have any interest or motivation to take risks and build better things.
Blood and the Machine
> a distance of about 79% of an astronomical unit

> located about 46% of an AU from its stars

Does anyone find it weird that distances are quoted like this, and not 0.79AU and 0.46AU ?

Is this the conventional way to write it?
Two things:

1. Firstly, if the law isn't settled, then no they wouldn't.

2. The SEC weren't being asked by Congress, they were being asked by Coinbase.

So no, your attempt to torture the analogy doesn't work at all.
If we ignore the corporate structure details where your analogy breaks down, in the simplest case, choosing to self-inhibit is not violation of the freedom of speech. OpenAI is voluntarily self-censoring their output. This isn’t an ideological battle for them, it’s a business.
> And such power dynamics are (at least partially, if not to great extent) enabled by the fact that late-stage capitalism like we have in the US emphasizes individual wealth over social support systems that would otherwise redistribute wealth

The social systems you talk about are the biggest they’ve ever been, and the US is going to need to raise tax revenues by 30% just to break even on the current ones.

At no time in history have social nets been so strong in the west, yet it’s never enough.

I don’t know what the solution is, but saying social nets are the solution and we need more of them are about as black and white and unnuanced views as saying we need to abolish them. Neither is true.
For readers not used to Elixirs operators - which I am - "x" is much easier to understand than "&1" for two reasons. First, because the syntax of the full notation resembles how anonymous functions are done in almost every mainstream language that has them. Second, the character "x" is very often used as a name for the first parameter of an anonymous function, which reinforces the first point.

If I see only only this: (x,y) -> ... I can guess quite well what x and y are used for, and I suspect I am not the only developer who recognizes this as a 'parameter list' partly because the names happen to use 'x' and 'y' which are otherwise non-descriptive.

Nevertheless, your point still stands.
>the only reason is saving costs for the elderly

Hot take: Why not place some of those migrants, that German boats rescue off the Mediterranean, to work in elderly care?
Quite a lot of successful, famous people have had coke addiction phases. You'd get some surprising results if you did random drug testing in white collar workplaces.
It does send your browsing history to google.
Because if they did that, then you would get corporate white knights pretending that any of this makes sense in a healthy society.

The pretense of a rules based order is what holds the sharade together.
This was a year ago. An engineer at Google made a claim that the LLM (LaMDA) he was working on was sentient. It was not.

Nothing to see here. Move along.
Using the older PCI bus every three or 4 slots represented a dedicated controller. We would install the high bandwidth cards on seperate controllers.
PCI-E exists in a faster timing bus which may make a difference. The visionOS demo apparently shows sub 20 nanosecond processing and graphics blitting to appear imperceptibly.

Finally Woz’s design for the Apple II color graphics was based on unified memory.

Dramatic shifts in technology sometimes obviates all our past learning and experience.
I use a Tommy Bahama beach chair for this, and I love it. I find it comfortable, reasonably adjustable. Quality is good value for the price but not incredible. Size is not too small, but it has a storage bag + cool bag on the back so it can be used as a backpack (easily fits a laptop + accessories). Some come with little collapsible sun shades.

You can find it online easily (https://www.tommybahama.com/en/c/home-view_all_beach_gear), but again this is a cheap option, don't expect miracles!
The final beetles song was already played in 2004 when Prince was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It just happened to be played by Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, and Jeff Lynne.
And Thunderbolt. Show me all those phones with Thunderbolt :).
I mean he was chumming up FTX before it imploded. He seems personally butthurt about crypto for some reason. He’s contradicting himself on statements just a few years ago. He has the maturity of a child, playing games.
Defence in depth: building secure systems by design
MDMA was literally invented and initally marketed by Merck.