skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't call M2 Ultra a low-end, but it certainly qualifies as regular desktop CPU, rather than a server or workstation CPU. Xeon, EPYC, Threadripper typically has 128 lanes. 16+8 is Core/Ryzen configuration with x8 for chipset and x16 for GPU.

It is really starting to look like either COVID and new Campus architecture had seriously crippled engineering capabilities of Apple, or if not all the capabilities are redirected into futuristic projects such as cars and Vision VR goggles. They could have made Pro a cluster supercomputer on a backplane just as a flexing and a nod to NeXT, but didn't. They just spread out Studio motherboard into existing Pro case. Sony would do more.
The problem is you had a glimpse into ecosystem when it was normal. Now it is increasingly abnormal and new developers will be flooded with all this unnecessary clutter, so the chance they will get lost in the forest of bullshit will become higher and higher. Which will lead to even worse performing tools, pages etc.
Software demos as deliberate acts of serious play
I have a friend that has one of these: https://www.cliqproducts.com

He swears by it. The main reason he uses it, is because he's a bicyclist, and needs small and light, when folded.

Looks great, but pricey.
So a cringey/edgelord/not PC meme dumpster would be ok ?
It's not just the beasts that are out of place - common bandits wearing glass armor at high player levels is pretty ridiculous.
Ask HN: Have you ever freight shipped furniture internationally?
I have some old family belongings and furniture I would like to ship from central/eastern Europe to the States. I have seen a few websites that require contact forms, quotes, consultations, etc. My question is: has anyone had success shipping items like this? How do you find a service? What approximate costs can I expect?

I don't need speed nor is this a "relocation" type of shipping.
> ..."do potential users of Mojo even know or care about how fast C is?"

I doubt their potential users would care so much, as long as it's significantly faster than Python and they don't need C or C++, except as an option and not as a necessity. That's been the point of various other alternative languages.

The claim to fame of various newer compiled languages, is not just being as fast as C, but that they are better alternatives to use, for their audiences. Being easier to use, read, or/and learn. This is where some of the drama comes from, because some will make it about speed, and ignore the other elements of what is "attractive".
GHC Language Extensions Compatibility
That demo doesn’t really do anything for me to know if it’s on device or not.

Without source code it could just be calling the OpenAI api.
I like the kind of beach chairs that place your bottom only an inch or two off the ground. Search for "low beach chair"
At the last few grams, a small reduction gets very expensive. Helinox are super light, great for hiking and motorcycles. If you’re in a car, you can take a lot more with you.
The article in question states explicitly that the lab was doing military research on viruses.
Yeah, you're right. I should've added a YMMV qualifier.
You misunderstood. It's not choosing either lidar or vision, it's that you need sensor fusion of both to make more accurate calls, neither of them is enough alone.
I'd be sceptical about "can be rack mounted" in the context of Apple hardware. Remember those?

https://www.sonnettech.com/product/legacyproducts/rackmacpro...
https://www.myelectronics.nl/us/mac-studio-empower-station-r...

At least the new case is available with rails, but cooling and management are still crap.
They say that they hold up to 120 kilos but I find that simply impossible to believe given how thin the frame is and the joints being made of plastic.
Philanthropy can also be marketing. The two aren't mutually exclusive.

Like, what's your goal here? Nobody is allowed to help anyone unless they do it wearing a hairshirt and flagellate themselves afterwards? Are you trying to have fewer people get helped?

Of all the things in the world to gatekeep, you pick helping people?
Oh thank you, I didn’t know that :)
1984 big time, pig time.
> Like: "We tamed ourselves by weeding out bullies and domineering males throughout our evolutionary history. Humans organized egalitarian societies, and any male that violated this too much was subsequently the victim of a targeted killing."

This quote is horribly wrong anyway. Human history, even before agriculture and industrialization, is filled with tribal wars. Maybe it would be more right to say that the aggressive bullies have historically had an outlet for their aggression: killing the aggressive bullies of other tribes. If aggressiveness were absolutely useless personality trait in past societies, it would have been weeded out by the evolution a long time ago.
David Icke might be right, that some power is killing the US as it is...
> Modern regulators seem to prefer retrospective punishment over prospective advice and regulation.

In most cases that’s what you want. The Communications Decency Act was written way too early and most of it was struck down, except the important section 230. When the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act was revised in 1962 a huge swath of previously approved drugs of longstanding experience (e.g. aspirin) were grandparented.

Most cases. Nuclear reactors are a good counter example.

I consider cryptocurrency mathematically interesting but otherwise arrant nonsense. Nevertheless I think the “wait and see” regulatory approach, while frustrating, was the right one: don’t stop it (so people can innovate) but don’t provide the protection of widow-and-orphan rules until it has had time to develop. After all, perhaps there is a pony in there, and early regulation could have strangled it.
The difference between Occupy Wall Street to Rainbow Capitalism was pretty striking. Same demographics, very different reaction to the capital class meddling in.
Everyone can give. You can give.

Giving time, care, an ear to listen is really valuable.

These things make big differences because it’s often what people pay money for too

Giving is not just for after earning lots of money.
At the same time it’s hard to understand something before you experienced it yourself. Something like a limitation of written communication.
Not a 30 series, but on my 4090 I'm getting 32.0 tokens/s on a 13b q4_0 model (uses about 10GiB of VRAM) w/ full context (`-ngl 99 -n 2048 --ignore-eos` to force all layers on GPU memory and to do a full 2048 context). As a point of reference, currently exllama [1] runs a 4-bit GPTQ of the same 13b model at 83.5 tokens/s.

[1] https://github.com/turboderp/exllama
Yea sure. I mean that's already a thing to some extent, but, if you want the honest answer. Everything you do digitally is known about you. Your physical location, places you regularly go to and when, Websites you visit, your account names, etc. Even ISPs can sell your data these days.
The advanced LLMs are already more powerful intelligences than human intelligences, you can see it in a simple way: go chat to chatGPT, it knows pretty much everything, and if doesn't know something, it can invent it on the fly (this part actually can't be fully explained right now: it could be some math went wrong, the things could just plainly be lying to you).

A single intelligence is more powerful than any human intelligence in the planet, and more over, the closest new stuff coming will make them easily more intelligent: they can be assembled - several models, like 5 o 50.000 - to work together, to share information at a pace unavailable to humans right now. They can learn, the 50.000 LLMs simultaneously, 50.000 different things for they own, each one of them, and then just copy the resulting learning to the rest of the 49.999 LLMs. They all can do this and learn at a pace impossible for individual humans beings nor 50.000 "fully connected" humans (you take those 50.000 persons to a building, provide them communications means, radios, whatsapp, whatever: they won't be able to surpass the LLMs capability for instantaneous parallel learning).
Except that traveling is already requiring change in a person, opposed to being stationary. You have to face new situations all the time - requiring a different state of alertness and consciousness.

And new sceneries have different people, climate etc. also literally changing people (microbiome for example).

So yes, some people travel to run away from problems they never dare to solve, but some people just like to be on the move, like our nomadic ancestors.
So, a driver supposedly reported a customer made a racist remark. Except the customer wasn't home and wasn't using the doorbell remotely. What investigation did Amazon do?

I don't know of anyone that would trust a contractor complaining about a customer with no investigation. Yet it doesn't seem any investigation was done, because the customer didn't even know why services were discontinued.
I learned programming in 1977, age 12, on an RCA VIP (CDP1802 cpu) with 2K RAM, a hex keypad, composite video out (thru an RF modulator) and cassettes. None of that fancy ASCII stuff, and floppy drives were an unimaginable luxury.

CHIP-8 was a fun, approachable language. "Hacking" was hand-disassembling the CHIP-8 programs in the user manual.

It was easy to understand how computers were simply more complex TTL and CMOS projects like my father and I built each month from Popular Electronics and Radio Electronics. Dad worked at RCA, programmed in IBM 360 Assembler, FORTRAN, and at that time was helping write the ATLAS language (IEEE 416). Together we learned Tiny BASIC, and this launched my computer business for forty years.

Kudos to all the folks keeping CHIP-8 alive as a vital link from Boole and Shannon thru machine code to the "modern" world.
Oh, it won’t be the “final” song.
Completely biased opinion: try Raku. It is easier to get into.
I mean, so? Crypto isn't an investment. I haven't heard a plausible theory why its value would increase over time. It'll be lucky if the equilibrium position is value holding steady.
It's being done, and has been done for around a decade now. New York times did a good piece on how every civilians cellphone gps data has been for sale a long time ago. Bounty hunters buy this kind of data all the time is my understanding.
what’s next, are you going to tell me that I can’t realize millions of dollars in crypto gains without paying income tax?

Inconceivable!
The reason is that the higher IPC of Apple CPUs does not matter for server applications.

I’m not sure how to interpret this. Of course server applications care about IPC. Maybe moreso! The only difference I can imagine is that server applications are more likely to be memory-bandwidth bound, which does indeed make IPC irrelevant, but also plays in favor of the high bandwidth architecture of the M- series.
I think it's a credit to the hard work many people are doing on the Raku Programming Language.
Is your point that "partially complete" is a redundant phrasing?

In this case I still prefer my version. I feel that it puts greater emphasis on the fact that it can potentially be complete, given the massive value that could give to the project.

Also "I would have written you a shorter letter but I did not have the time" sentiment springs to mind.
Sure it is. The SEC alleges a violation of the law. The courts decide if they are right at trial.

Eth is fairly uniquely complicated by the fact that it probably went from security to commodity before they could get smacked for the security period.
Only in case of "proper" delegation, and in either case not "from scratch", I think.
They are mostly free users using the service, we do restrict our tier a lot and the price to upgrade is around $10/mo, we use Stripe Checkout to process the payments.

> I would love it if you priced your free tier in a sustainable way.

I would love to know more what you mean by this.
The depths is just inverted version of the same overworld height map, copy-pasted enemies and reused items from BOTW. It's simply yet another collectahon with bunch of puzzle shrines with physics sandbox. Not zelda game in my book. At least it did not copy paste the same boss with different skin 3 times this time however.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-0-387-40065-5
They used to brew small batches of Old Potrero whiskey in their warehouse across the street. Then they would hand it all over to their distributor and have no idea where it ended up. Ever since learning that, it's been a game to spot it at stores and restaurants and pick some up. I've even found a bottle 3,000 miles away on the east coast.

Since it was just riding along with the steam beer, I'm guessing the whiskey's distribution will also be restricted to CA now.
Sorry I meant cataract surgery. I just happen to be discussing eye laser surgery with a friend considering it.

Seems misleading for that site to say it’s free. There’s small fees which you end up paying that Medicare doesn’t cover. And afaik you require a referral for public hospital which is not covered.
The phone is in airplane mode
Excuse me for my ignorance, but can someone explain why the Llama.cpp is so popular? isn't it possible to port the pytroch lama to any environment using onnx or something?
The point is, if you say Lidar is essential, then how do you deal with fog, etc. Happy to be proven wrong, but my understanding is that the tech simply can't overcome these problems.

So you either say 'driver takes over' in these cases, or you create software that uses video to figure out where stuff is. Since you need cams to read signs, you'll have that hardware and some software anyway.

So if you have this software that can use video to figure out where things are, why do you need Lidar? The car needs to work safely without the Lidar. So including that in the sensor fusion should not be required.

You can point out cases where software fails, but that does not disprove the fundamental reason for not using Lidar. It perhaps means that the software isn't good enough yet, but that does not seem fundamental for cases where humans wouldn't also fail.
Normal, perhaps not. But at the same time, if you've been living your life according to what's considered normal and expected of you with no regard for your own wants and needs, then it may be healthy indeed.
for anyone wanting to change their scrollbars for firefox and gnome:

- in firefox there is an option to always show scrollbars (section "browsing")

- in gnome you can change the setting org/gnome/desktop/interface/overlay-scrolling to false (with i.e. dconf-editor)
I love the neck support which might enable for relaxing code sessions. I do wonder if a leg stand would be needed for longer sessions due to the weird angle you might end up with having your computer on your lap.
"One doesn't realize in early life that the price of freedom is loneliness. To be happy one must be tied."

There are traveller communities. You hook up, spend time together, split up and meet some of them around the globe later, if you want to.
I disagree … or maybe I don’t.

The trivial way I disagree is that I believe people don’t want this: they want to be able to use their phone while “computing”. Perhaps AirPods are enough for that (use Siri to make a call while otherwise mousing) and thus I’m wrong.

The big way I disagree is that the phone is already many people’s only internet terminal and and for most has taken over almost all uses of a “computer”. Even I use my bank’s phone app when sitting in front of my computer because it has features the web interface doesn’t.
Climate denier denies climate.
> .gitignore` is for stuff that all developers need to ignore

But that is the case, all developers need to ignore the ".DS_Store" files. So by your own rule it is appropriate in there then?
The Elephant Collection – jmtb02’s classic series of elephant Flash games
"Other forms of having fun are wrong, only the ones I like are objectively correct."
> Because engineering effort is not free.

Obviously, but that does not explain why CPU hot swap is inherently expensive. Engineering effort is required to make any CPU.

Why must the engineering effort specifically relating to CPU hot swap inherently cause architectures that supports CPU hot swap significantly expensive compared to architectures that does not?

As a lay man without any experience with actual semi conductors outside of university, I would have thought that this would mostly be something that needs to be designed and specified once and then it could be mass produced.
Clearly it will take some effort and you would have to spend some gates on it in the chip design.

Considering all the other stuff that are in modern CPUs and chipsets, I would have thought it would be possible to do rather cheaply if mass produced.
> 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.

But then the nuclear power needs dispatchable power to cover the gaps! Just like renewables do, while also getting undercut by renewables. Which means it is getting priced out of the market, because as you just said, the measly $5M a year to be in standby is laughable compared to nuclear costs.

That is why dispatchable plants are usually gas plants, low capital costs, high running costs.

> 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.

That includes the transmission grid and energy tax, wholesale prices before the pandemic and gas crisis were $0.02-0.04/kWh. The Swedish prices are now back down to $0.04-0.08/kWh, mostly driven by gas prices in continental Europe.

> 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."

Which will get priced out of the market every single time renewables can fill the need, which is easily above 70% of the time, add some hydro and we are easily above 95%.

It is extra telling that you use marginal costs of paid off plants. Of course we should run those as long as possible!

The costs for new built nuclear are $0.12 - 0.2/kWh. Do me a favor and compare that to the current whole sale prices in Sweden at the tail end of an energy crisis. Does that look favorably? Or do you suppose that a new built nuclear power plant will appear out of thin air? "It's cheap when it's done!!!!" Well, someone gotta pay to build it.

That measly $5M ain't gonna save you here!

Edit - A post appeared on the front page:

The duck in the room - the end of baseload

> And what do you do then with baseload plants? By their very nature, they are supposed never to stop generating… But what if they are no longer needed for 6, 8 or 12 hours every day for 6 to 9 months of the year? Some of the base load plants (like French nuclear) have some flexibility to vary their generation, but definitely not from 0 to 100% every day! And their economic model will be shot to pieces if they make no money whatsoever half, or even a quarter of the time.

https://jeromeaparis.substack.com/p/the-duck-in-the-room-the...
Also on the duck: http://www.earth.org.uk/Hey-Siri-Help-Flatten-The-Duck.html B^>
But there’s a cost to the software system when you add more inputs both in training and prediction and more-so when the inputs are in conflict!

If you think about what really needs to happen to be able to tell of a box is cardboard or plywood you need a fully embodied system, ideally similar “raising” an android in a human environment.
I'm sure Apple have the utmost respect for their users, and the internal decisions that led to this design choice answered the questions "what does the customer need?" and "how can we help them be more productive?"
a basic chair with long, straight hard-back are best for long-coding sessions. Also consider an airy surface to place your laptop on (your lap?) e.g a wooden/bamboo laptop support/stand (grill).
Morrowind level-scales loot in containers (although not to the extend that later ES games do) but does not level items directly in the environment, which includes most of the top equipment.
Can you name a single person who was in a bad spot and got out through drinking and doping?
How to rally engineering teams to build the internal tools you need
Strongly agree. There's a surprising cultural difference between the two. As a software engineer in a different hardware company, I can see where the fault lines are, and it takes continual management effort to make it work properly.

(I note that if we had an "open" GPU architecture in the same way that we have CPU architectures, things might be a lot better, but the openness of the IBM PC seems to be a historical accident that no company will allow again)
For the kind of money that a Mac Pro costs, one would expect comparable full bandwidth, non-oversubscribed PCI-E lane capacity to a current gen Threadripper.
You don't have to write good UX from scratch to get non-OS scrollbars, there are CSS rules that let you style scrollbars while keeping most system scrollbar features and accessibility.

No comment on whether or not that's a good idea, though.
He is either a tool and does what he does because he has to,

a benevolent, yet idiotic in his ways entrepreneur or

a calculating one.

Neither one is good.

This miracle making is very very very bad for the average person imho. People need to learn that they shape their life by working on it, not waiting for some tooth fairy to give them a thousand dollars. Plus there should be institutions for those who are in need and health related services should be available to everyone.

Mr Beast cannot fulfill these roles, no matter how hard he tries.
Journalists have been on the grievance-grifter gravy-train for a long long time, so we can expect unrelenting hostility to anything that redirects attention away from the lucrative "bias" narrative to any other issue.

> AI ethicists and researchers such as Timnit Gebru and Meredith Whittaker

Ooooh, I love their work !

Reading these histories together, we find that Babbage’s proto-Taylorist ideas on how to discipline workers are inextricably connected to the calculating engines he spent his life attempting to build.
From inception, the engines — “the principles on which all modern computing machines are based” — were envisioned as tools for automating and disciplining labor. Their architectures directly encoded economist Adam Smith’s theories of labor division and borrowed core functionality from technologies of labor control already in use. The engines were themselves tools for labor control, automating and disciplining not manual but mental labor. Babbage didn’t invent the theories that shaped his engines, nor did Smith. They were prefigured on the plantation, developed first as technologies to control enslaved people.
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