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Really surprised to see such low effort commentary akin to Reddit/twitter on here.

In what way has Nvidia abandoned the consumer market? They have something like 80%+ market share on discrete gaming GPUs and still rake in billions a year from GeForce, which at their revenue is a sizable fraction.

And what makes you say that current AI hype is a grift? Do you truly think that the work with transformers is just a fad? I swear people on this site were saying the same thing about AI in general 3+ years ago before transformers blew up the scene.
I wonder if it's the same as with the Shinkansen: they are not running when there is a typhoon, and stop when there is an earthquake, but typhoon/earthquake induced delays/cancellations are usually not included in statistics (at least the ones you generally read in the press). So it's possible that due to typhoons more than 13.6% of flights are late in Haneda, but they are simply not included here.
They already have the ability to sue for cash. How is stock materially different?
Yes, updating the model is different from updating the knowledge base the model uses.
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AR/VR

Artificial Intelligence

Biohacking / Bioengineering / Biomaterials / etc.

Fusion

Materials Science
While `false` evaluates to 0, not sure `true` always evaluate to 1 in C... maybe compiler dependent. Maybe add `? 1 : 0`
As I've gotten older and seen more and more research the more cynical I've gotten. There's so few interventions that affect student aptitude.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36621741

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36620536
In my opinion, all the people complaining about privacy policies are barking up the wrong tree. As the saying goes in business, if you have to read the contract, you're already screwed.

The reality is that the privacy policy will almost never be a determining factor in whether somebody will use a service. The Facebook haters on HN were never gonna use a Facebook product anyways, regardless of what the policy said, and the same goes for the people that are happily using threads now. Does the privacy absolutist who refuses to do anything outside of a VM behind Tor exist? Of course, but not in any meaningful amount for it to matter.

The people closely reading terms of services and opting out of arbitration provisions or whatever are wasting their times with busywork. It's doing work that feels meaningful and feels like giving it to the man without actually accomplishing much of anything.
Vaccines aren't gene therapy because MRNA involves chucking components at your cell for it to post process into stuff not permanently writing changes to the blueprints of the cells themselves. It neither makes any change to the cells themselves nor persists beyond the material being processed out of your system.

Gene therapy involves making modifications to cells. Presenting MRNA as gene therapy makes people afraid to use it because they erroneously believe it will permanently alter their DNA.

The balance of evidence is that horse paste is between useless and harmful depending on dosage. The average patient will discover their doctor/pharmacist wont provide it and getting it yourself from the internet is even more harmful than clinical administration because of a users inability to obtain or administer a less than disastrous dose.

A high risk patient who has say a 3% chance of mortality without a vaccine will likely die or experience painful and harmful consequences if they avoid a vaccine extremely unlikely to do them harm in favor of a "cure" that doesn't work.

I know you have heard all this. Years later if you are still spreading this then you are willfully spreading lies and its not OK.
Did they move to Canonical again? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36592343
OK. How would you suggest that students cover $50k/year for six to eight years?
If they were pulling disgusting water into the desalination plant, it would probably damage their equipment. If you watch the video, you'll find that macroscopic contamination is the first problem they have to solve, and the oysters should be fine for that.
Think of it as more and more energy being kept within a closed space.

That closed space is the thin layer of land + ocean + lower atmosphere, it's spinning and it's quite large in comparison to single human.

Now think of a closed room with energy being pumped into that room, to (among other things) a fridge on the floor with door open.

The energy increase makes the heat exchange coils on the back of the fridge hotter and the space inside the fridge colder.

Overall the average energy within the room in increasing.

This is a poor but in some ways accurate picture of the earth .. or at least one climatic cell - the earth has a number of these in the North and South hemispheres and they interact and spill energy from one to the other.

Energy can express itself in many ways by cascade transfers - to wind and storms, to melting ice (at zero degrees) to create water (also at zero degrees).

In Australia that energy has driven the decadal scale La Niña and El Niño oscillation that, so far, has worked out fairly well for Australia ... (a very catastrophic fire season a few years back aside).

Elsewhere on the globe, not so much for others.

But wait, there's more, especially in the longer term if steps aren't taken.

In the near term, you can expect Australia to see a hot, dry El Niño:

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-australia-hot-dry-el-niohere.h...

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/ninonina.html\*
I found that a particularly weak argument, and find myself firmly agreeing with the website.

What did you want the url to be? "dontjustsayhellofollowupwithyourquestioninthesameline.com"?
>> You could mostly just give people an IQ test as part of your hiring process

Not allowed. Griggs v. Duke Power Co.

"What Congress has forbidden is giving these devices and mechanisms controlling force unless they are demonstrably a reasonable measure of job performance. Congress has not commanded that the less qualified be preferred over the better qualified simply because of minority origins. Far from disparaging job qualifications as such, Congress has made such qualifications the controlling factor, so that race, religion, nationality, and sex become irrelevant. What Congress has commanded is that any tests used must measure the person for the job and not the person in the abstract."

So I guess under that decision, they considered IQ tests as measuring the person in the abstract.
See, this is the thing about M1: I don’t care about your numbers (which I have no doubt are true), I care about my personal experience with the magic cold $999 aluminum slab that runs circles around everything I owned before.

Reading these always feels like winning an F1 race, then being gaslit about how that’s not possible because of inferior cylinder design.
>...code that is more heavily commented is better.
>I think we already knew this

Who's "we"?

In my many years of software development, I've found a very large fraction of developers use very few, or even zero comments, and it's getting worse. Just look at the posts below here: there's a bunch of people arguing that comments are useless or harmful. It's no wonder that software sucks so much these days, since apparently no one believes in documentation or code maintenance any more.
Counterflow heat exchange, baby.
Not your server, not your account.
Compiling PHP into machine code sounds pretty much impossible, are they using some subset of the language? Does the compiled code use a garbage collector? Or reference counting?
As a minor rebuttal, I get sick of Flask because it is bring-your-own everything. Nothing I write will ever NeedToScale(TM) or be off the beaten path from the Django Way. No interest in plugging in an alternative template language, form validation, email library etc. When I get stuck in Django, I know someone else has experienced the exact same situation. With Flask, I have to pray to deity that Miguel Grinberg has written about a similar enough situation. The majority of documentation foregoes Flask Blueprints.
Yeah I'm not sure how a GPU can be both slow and uncompetitive and also the best GPU available at any price. That would imply that they're extremely competitive.

Some people just have an ax to grind and will contort their facts to agree with preexisting thoughts and feelings. I think it's called cognitive dissonance.
LLMs are confidently wrong just as they are confidently right.

I am more worried about people like you abandoning primary and secondary research under the misguided belief that chatgpt is correct.

Would you abandon your research and pursuits because some random person on reddit claimed something?
> * it also helps Obsidian remain profitable and 100% user supported...*

100x this.

More than paying for a feature, subscribing to Obsidian Sync is a great way of sponsoring the project, and hoping that these folks are successfully enough to make a living and continue to pay their talented engineers for as long as possible, without going down the rabbit hole of VC funding and stock market.
That’s where I think coupling a web clipper with audio transcription, CLIP, & an LLM, can provide a lot of value.

Have everything automatically classified, tagged, semantically searchable, and linked.

This way when I, for example, write down a new idea about LLMs, everything related is automatically surfaced, including those Langchain and LlamaIndex tutorials, and the notes I’d left about them.

Same thing when I look things up.

And I think this "autopilot" aspect will drastically simplify the usage of tools like Obsidian & Roam.

It won’t replace careful curation, but I am convinced it can be better than what most have (ie Notes, bookmarks, sticky notes, etc)

Perhaps that’s what the guys over at Quivr[0] are trying to do, but I haven’t gotten the chance to try it out yet.

It’s such an obvious use case.

[0]: https://www.quivr.app/
That's very sad, but not so surprising, that Catholic schools would teach things that the Catholic Church has never taught. That's usually one more brick in the wall for kids who leave the faith, because their illusions are shattered by teachers and clergy who don't really believe in Church doctrines, and couldn't be bothered to pass down the Truth to children who are eager to know it.
Russian colonists

Given that nearly every place in Europe is currently being sat on by people who kicked some other group out of there, way back when -- even Riga itself was part of territory inhabited by Finno-Ugric peoples before becoming basically a German (Hanseatic) settlement for 600+ years -- not to mention the genetic "colonist" guilt inherited by virtually everyone in the US/CAN/UK/AUS/NZ of European ancestry, by your calculus --

Let's just say your putting yourself on some very thin ice, out there, in bandying about pejoratives like this.
>You still have to assume that there is more profanity per comment than per (uncommented) LOC.

I think that's a very safe assumption. People don't generally use profanity for actual code (variable or function names etc.).
> It's really liberating to not have to play some five dimensional chess game guessing what will make other people behave in certain ways and just using your own judgement to build what you like.

I think people underrate this idea, way too much.

Humans are a pretty diverse set of people. But we're similar enough that in a population with ~10^13 people, there's probably 10^4 people who are pretty much clones of you, in terms of your preference, taste, etc.

With the internet, it's never been cheaper to find them. Preconditioned on it being you or me, 10^3 of those people are probably browsing this website, for example.

I hope the fluctuations of fashion lean more towards assigning social value to smaller, more sustainable builders. The migration in that direction deserves to be bigger. I observe it happening personally, but tech media is lagging significantly behind, mainly because these people don't spend money on advertising or PR.
Maybe stop paying the bloated management so much and put money where mouth is.
Yes it rhymes. Turkish words are always read as they are written so if it's the same letters it'll sound the same.

The way we were thought about these in school regarding proverbs and idioms is that they were distilled through time to be their most economical and impactful form. So yes, the good ones rhyme and are either funny or poignant.
Not in theory, but certainly historically. Last I read, there was still an AT command channel present. Some of that IP is super old.
To quote Hunter S Thompson, "In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity."

That said, I don't get the argument against fadeout. You lose what you don't use. Pretty much period. Nobody is shocked that they have a hard time jumping back into anything physical after a while; why would mental be any different?

There is a good section in Peak that goes over testing the brain sizes of people testing to be cab drivers in London. Those that pass the test to get the job have measurably bigger parts of the brain that are responsible for navigation. Those that have retired have similarly enlarged sections of their brain, if not as large. This seems to be physical evidence of fadeout in our brains.
Thanks for this explanation! :) (as someone without knowledge of the hardware process I appreciated it).

It is SO amazing that we have such a driving force (LLMs/consumer-AI) for this (instead of stupid cryptocurrencies mining or high-performance gaming). This should drive innovation pretty strongly and I am sure the next "leap" in this regard (processing hardware) will put technology in a completely different level.
microsoft access
> blind, stupid, mindless faith

username checks out
Agreed. Nvidia’s success comes from their unrelenting drive and ability to pivot to new markets. They didn’t independently discover that GPUs would be super useful for DL but they did see the incredible potential and invested big time into it.

So while completion will come, Nvidia isn’t going to pull an Intel and sit by collecting datacenter revenue on incrementally better hardware. The way I see it, Nvidia will really only be outdone by some major paradigm shift in their biggest markets, e.g., a breakthrough in AI computing that no longer relies on digital ICs.
This is the only thing that is stopping me from trying PlanetScale. I can't imagine not having the database do this work for me
I recently found an article by Apple explaining how they optimized a transformer to work on Apple Neural Engine [1]. This was before their recent hardware refresh with 192 GB unified memory upgrade.

Apple could have a real chance to push their boxes as an alternative to dedicated GPUs.

1: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/neural-engine-tra...
What specs? AFAIK the PS2 was superior in almost every way, plus it had dual analogue sticks, the lack of which just makes certain games impossible on the Dreamcast.

https://segaretro.org/Sega_Dreamcast/Hardware_comparison
I'm not sure what the full story is, but in 2019 MIT was also looking at one of the other costs. They claim it's common to pretreat the water with sodium hydroxide, which is purchased. Here they claim they have a way to regenerate it from the effluent:

https://news.mit.edu/2019/brine-desalianation-waste-sodium-h...
Nothing beats the freedom and universality of the command line or using APIs (with a small utility library) in a repl of the language of your choice.
AMD was almost bankrupt ~5 years ago.

Is has been the years of investing and specially the software ( CUDA ) that keeps Nvidia as the "king". Hardware wise AMD it's pretty much up there or winning in a few cases.
You might be able to make it into a ChatGPT Plugin and then you don't have to pay for that part of the completion.
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I personally get around most of the time without GPS. I'll pull up a map and figure out directions, mapquest style. I think it keeps your brain plastic to navigate the world around you from memory, and I thing using a GPS is unhealthy for all but long distance trips on unfamiliar roads.

For those scenarios, I use OSM. I have been a contributor, I love it, it is more accurate than google and I couldn't give a damn about traffic information. I'm fine with the dynamic nature of finding out what traffic is like when I'm on the road, life is boring when experiences are entirely predictable.
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Did you really mean to be this insulting?
What is the adoption like of macOS Ventura?
Does anyone know any good sources for where I could find this information? All of the sources I've looked at have been unreliable, I've listed two of them down below who both also admit to being unreliable.

Unreliable sources:

1. https://www.statista.com/statistics/944559/worldwide-macos-version-market-share/ states

Note that the source has indicated the fact that Apple has been reporting Big Sur 11 as Catalina 10.15, making its reported market share incorrectly high.

2. https://gs.statcounter.com/macos-version-market-share/desktop/worldwide

Apple are incorrectly reporting Big Sur 11 as Catalin 10.15. You can read more about it [here](https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216593).

Seems like no one really knows what the actual numbers are?
Introducing NSQL: Open-Source SQL Copilot Foundation Models
Another related issue:

The AI help button is very good but it links to a feature that should not exist

https://github.com/mdn/yari/issues/9230
I’m happy with DBeaver as I have many databases of different engines that I have to connect to throughout the day.
Apple may be upfront, but a couple of years ago they pretty much suddenly destroyed Progressive Web Apps by disallowing a whole bunch of modern, open standard browser capabilities, all in the name of preventing tracking.

A lot of developers were just crushed by that. Imagine having hundreds of thousands of dollars into developing an app when Apple just destroys the ability to do it.

When a big corporation has monopoly power (and Apple is very close to that - only one equally evil competitor in mobile space), they do bad things, often thinking they are doing good.

[caveat - there is so far an unofficial way to get around their "we will blow away your saved browser data" that was discussed by one of the webkit developers on the webkit blog. But since it isn't an official Apple doc - do we trust it?]

I was one developer who was burned. I was developing, as a volunteer, a web app for a very large volunteer organization. Boom... now it may not be possible, or if I use the work-around, it may be possible until it suddenly changes.
> RWKV

The current versions of RWKV slowly go insane when exposed to sequences that are too long, because the state slowly diverges over time as you increase past the context length of the training session. They are experimenting with ways to avoid this though: https://github.com/Blealtan/RWKV-LM-LoRA/tree/dev-infctx
Depends on the company but I'd say in most small and medium-sized companies in the US, your manager can fire you without cause and be just fine with maybe some half-assed explanation if upper management asks questions.
Serious question. Why is everyone so against personalized ads? I find them far preferable to random ads.
I've been very happy with an 6750X for gaming. Performa great for the price and I've had zero issues.
Did you ever play the Kyrandia games? My God I spent a lot of time with them.

Leisure Suit Larry (Sierra) was being played by my older cousin and introduced me for the first time to a lot of new concepts haha.
Skepticism isn't the problemj; blind belief is --- and there's plenty of money being thrown around to do that too.
No, they may not explicitly enjoy it, yet they likely appreciate the ease the automobile-focused society brings, even though it contributes to around 7000 pedestrian fatalities annually. Anyone rational would view such preventable loss of life as disastrous. However, the solutions — improved street layouts, less wide roads, use of speed cameras and so on — are often deemed so unpalatable that it prompts a flag on the article. It appears as though a number of readers here don't find 7000 annual deaths significant enough.
Makes you wonder about Jack’s luck/skill ratio in Twitter launch.

After seeing Bluesky so far, it may be higher than what most thought…
Without a doubt DBeaver!

PgAdmin never got me out of the psql terminal but DBeaver has been a pleasure to use
I’d think they’ve considere such possibility and account for it
Skipjack is notable for having 32 rounds and being broken for 31 rounds.
What do you mean “we?”

Why don’t you do it? Or at least start the project? There’s already work in this space as well. I’ll be happy to contribute as well.
Awesome story. Similar for me but my dad showed me this stuff on purpose, haha.
I'll keep an eye on it. Thanks.