skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every connection to a Neon database (traditional TCP, WebSockets, https) now goes via the same custom (open-source) proxy server that's close to the database compute node.

So there's technically an additional hop irrespective of the transport type, but not one that should add meaningfully to the latency, or that would make WebSockets slower than the others.
Oh, that's awesome news!
Yeah, if memory serves, the reviewer in this case was 'housing' editor at Whole Earth. At the time he was into geodesic domes and Buckminster Fuller, a worldview and technology he would shortly disavow.

The reviewer's blog is worth a look if you're up for a bit of architectural hippydom. [1]

As for Gen X. Well, My Morning Jack apparently did an album inspired by the Whole Earth Catalog. [2]

[1] https://www.lloydkahn.com/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Distortion
The article linked here talks about GPT4 being a mixture of experts, which is exactly what you’re describing
For static applications, hydrogen can be easily stored underground. Energy is used to compress it, but that energy can be recovered by running it through an expander (and if the compression/expansion is done in stages to approximate isothermal compression, the round trip efficiency of this can be high.)
> What's the waste?

Any conversion from electrical to chemical energy is inherently lossy, and Methane would need to be burned later to release the energy. In general the less conversions needed, the better.

> More available than the air?

The air is 0.04% CO2, which in turn is mostly oxygen by weight. The biosphere is a much larger source and is self-recycling.

> WHY of this seems pretty clear to me.

I also got quite jaded and often see this at some attempt to save fossil-burning infrastructure, instead of truly adapting out energy use. For example maximizing use during the day and relying on a much smaller store in batteries, hydropower or heated salts at night. The premise of "energy anytime" might hurt us a lot.
Yeah, that's me, I used C++ professionally throughout the 90s and early 2000s, then switched to C# (and C for embedded). Unfortunately, the C++ code bases I work with are equally old so I also have to look for a brand-new project to re-learn modern C++.
why? SLES does not use any RHEL sources, they are all build in-house
Okay. Then don't gay there. Just because something is socially acceptable in one culture doesn't mean that it is socially acceptable in all cultures.
Anybody should feel free to do what they like to emacs, it's free software. But this would be a fork I would have absolutely no interest in whatsoever.

The author sees the fact that emacs UIs are textual as a negative, but it's the reason I love it, the reason I've been using it for 20 years and I dare say the reason some have been using it twice as long. Ditching terminal support and replacing emacs TUIs with GUIs would not be progress, and if that's what you want I doubt modifying emacs is going to be a rewarding way of trying to achieve it. Just use vscode.
That's what they did with Tay, and that was taken offline not even 24 hours after its launch.
I disagree with the last part in your scenario. It's going to be waves of murder and anarchy, not depression and suicide
At the same time, private carriers are losing out to trucking because trucking doesn’t pay a fair cost for the use of roads and RRs have to pay to upkeep their tracks. In the end, it may have been better for them to be able to offload the infra costs.

Due to this, they followed the model of minimizing infrastructure, equipment, and crew expenses which left them with slow service only good for a sliver of shipping. The freight RRs are efficient from a monetary cost standpoint but people are willing to pay more to get something quickly and they can’t compete on speed.

If someone else owned the tracks, and leased capacity, the track owner would try to maximize the use of tracks and clear trains quicker and provide new services. We’d see the complete opposite effect, the return of passenger trains, improved signaling, and maybe even electrification.
I mean of course it is? I’m not sure what you mean by “still”. I don’t see how it could ever be aimed at your average hacker.
Interesting, because I can’t stand horizontal full width. My editor opens at (60,0)-(100,100) in % of screen coords, the rest is console and browser. Anything more to the left feels like off-center and too wide. So I don’t like vscode too, but for the opposite reason. They pack too few in the sidebar and eat precious v-space instead.

Do you have two-display setup btw?
Has always reminded me of the SpaceX Starship.

The story won't be the same, but I imagine it will rhyme.

Beautiful photos, though, and an incredible aircraft.

The Great Gatsby of the aviation industry.
I'm actually surprised you can't stage regions in magit, as it clearly seems to indicate that you can. Mark a section and it will ask about regions. Clearly, this hasn't come up that often for me, or I may have already known this. (More likely, if it came up often, someone would have made it work. :D )

I do think regarding things as "text" goes a long way to underestimating what can be done with it. As easy to think of it as serialized symbols, where the symbols can have specific meaning. At this point, the power seems a bit more manifest. If you are lucky (and someone else has put in the work), then you can use familiar "textual" symbol manipulations and that will keep meaning in the other domain that is being represented.
I thought this too, but it sounds like the performance of the GPU ultimately holds it back. Maybe it is the software, but I have yet to see a test on Mac silicon that performed well.
> And this can be scientifically measured by mouse distance and clicks.

[...]

> And this can be scientifically assessed by taking all use cases and refactoring over them.

And I can't count the number of times I've seen applications do this, resulting in a terrible UI that is hard (and therefore slow) to use.
>The court ruling even agrees with Microsoft in theory about the Nintendo Switch being part of the console market, but also accepts the FTC can reasonably claim it’s not.

How is the Switch not a console?
I don’t follow the Rodin reasoning — was he actually critiqued for being too literal? I thought he was fairly unconventional when everyone else was literal. Maybe that’s what you’re referring to? His ‘fragmented’ style?
When Will the Internet Reach Its Limit (and How Do We Stop That from Happening)?
If you mean the people working at the site, probably something boring yet practical. I know someone who tests new, unreleased parts for a living and I once teased him if he's running on something new and fancy, and if I could have some too. His reply was that the market is competitive enough that they never sit on working parts, if it wasn't horribly broken it would already be for sale, and as he spends all day messing with broken hardware, he has no particular desire to do that once he returns home.
Maybe not quite the same space, but bunnie's Precursor uses an FPGA instead: https://betrusted.io/
I was just using French as an example. Korean, Japanese all transfer very well. As well ? Not sure about that.

As for the other post, degraded performances are highly non trivial still. Some aren't actually poor, just worse.

Even the authors admit humans would see degraded performance on counterfactuals unless given "enough time to reason and revise", something they don't try to do with GPT-4.

Think about it. Do you genuinely belief you would score as accurately on a multiplication arithmetic test taken in base 8 ?
Elaborating on details, yes. Slowing it down, no.

If the user is confused as to what happened, you haven't communicated what happened. If you need them to stop and read it, let that notice appear instantly with a next button.

And nothing can happen too fast on a computer. If it's done it's done. Just show "done".
Implementation details would be trade secrets. The age of publishing such data on cutting edge research has ended last year with Chinchilla.
There is always BAR https://www.beyondallreason.info/
Right. In historical context the scientific method was a huge improvement over the previous method of understanding the world, which was mostly religion.

But today, academia is a victim of organizational and political capture, making it less competitive for talent.
Isn't the whole idea of routing the audio through the display that it can compensate for any lag due to processing of the video signal? I haven't really noticed any problems with HDMI, and if I did, I think I would blame the display.
>Arguable paints a different picture - that the AI in the hands of the masses would be too threatening to the status quo.

That is 100% what the whole AI panic is about.
The description by the author makes it confusing with "network" being used in both terms; definition of one and the term itself in the other.
Are there now in c++, after all these years, f-strings like python has, or at least something coming close? If not, I keep being at my disappointed state about c++.
And only 1 new version HDMI port but 3 old version DP ports. I use a dual display setup but HDR only works on mu displays with HDMI.
Electricians and HVAC don't make minimum wage. I know HVAC workers making $100k a year in a LCOL area, which is more than many people with degrees or master's degrees make. Many of these areas require certifications as well, so you can't just have any person do it (if you are doing it legally).
Or, instead of that, everyone gets away with it, under broad "transformative/fair use" protections and nobody gets sued.

That's what's happening now.

But sure, people will always make these unfalsifiable arguments about some hypothetical doomsday that is far enough in the future that they can never get called out when it doesn't arrive.
The bandwidth is much too low.
Please, Apple has been shooting themselves in the foot with gaming for decades. Halo: CE was also released for the Mac, so I'm not sure what the complaint is here.
> so likely your parent could afford some amount of tuition from the govs perspective.

Oh, they absolutely could have, but they didn't. Pretty sure the FAFSA even had a line about money coming from others, and I put $0.

And so I get a little salty when my peers talk about being short on money because they're paying for their kids' college.

Whatever, though. I'm making good money now, and I can accurately say that I'm a self-made man.
If the use case is to build services there should be the ability to pass into the API "sfw:false", not everyone is building the same services that are requiring censored outputs.
> Maybe Call of Duty needs actual competition?

I'd try a modern evolution of SOCOM 4 or Killzone 3 on PS4/PS5.

(Microsoft can keep their Cod B.O.)
Recently I've been consolidating my workflow. First is using a single monitor, and then using shortcuts to switch to other Windows when I need to. I find that for me it's easy to get distracted when I have multiple different Windows up.

I also have moved from a workflow in Emacs where I split my buffer and have things side by side, to one where I make new frames and then flip to the frames. This is easier on my eyes as I can have a large window for larger fonts, and I don't have to deal with wrapping in both Windows.

I love Emacs but I agree with the poster about how everything as text can have its drawbacks. I'd love to see a NeoEmacs that addresses some of these issues
I didn’t realize Multi-Stream Transport (MST) requires OS support, and I was surprised to find out MacOS, with its great Thunderbolt support, does not support this. “Even” ChromeOS can do MST.
You're getting tied up in contradictions again.

If the old food was no different to the new food then why change it? If it is different then I want to know and I want the right to opt out.

Similarly, we are changing the nutritional content because that is the point. But I don't need to worry because it will be the same nutritionally as the old food. So what is the point.

This is where we are losing each other. If there is no difference why bother? If there is, I want to know all the details and have the opportunity to opt out. That is not unreasonable right?
they fired the guy who was supposed to stop the A/B test
Airbnb was just a bed in a bathroom
Remember this image? https://static.wiliam.com.au/2014/07/EA/ms-word.jpg

The author definitely customized the toolbar. This is what it looks like on my Word, granted it's not 800x600, but there's a lot less items and it doesn't look so cluttered: https://imgur.com/a/oZp45vz
You don't have to write an API layer and get type checking among some other benefits. Is it a ton of savings? No, but I'd describe it as a significant amount of effort and lower complexity.
I /think/ this is related to the EDID support or configuration.

What I do know is that you need specific EDID support when using a DisplayPort KVM because that switches the computer away on a regular basis. If you have multiple screens and a single screen KVM (fairly common) it will do the re-arrangement that you've experienced. With EDID support it keeps both output alive resulting in no re-arrangement.

EDIT: It seems the correct term may be "EDID emulation".
Great museum, well worth a visit for any aviation fans in the region.
Linux Command Line Cheat Sheet: All the Commands You Need
Imperative shell, (ever-expanding-through-relentless-refactoring) functional core seems to work pretty well for practical applications. Modern Java gets the job done in that regard.

What I don't like is the concentration level required for functional productions over equivalent imperative routines. I have found it difficult to impress upon junior developers the testing advantages of functional programming and in refactoring pairing sessions with them, they quickly lose the thread and go all doe eyed.

I feel like the current functional programming paradigms favor terseness that completely obliterates the thought process that led to the production. So, even if junior has the aha moment when we reach the end of the production, and understands what we just achieved there in 6 lines of dense code, they'd be at a loss to retrace it themselves in the future because the thought processes of each operator in the production require too much simulation space in the head.

That, and libraries like RxJS that layer in concepts of time and observables and higher-order observables with sneaky completion states that only stretch the mind further because the true semantics of the program are coupled with under-documented quirky edge cases of the operators. Running into one of those while pairing with junior is not exactly confidence building.

Long-form programming with named pure functions might help, but then I suppose you can lose the terseness and can get lost in a sea of 1-line named functions.
Exactly - it is an argument for continuing to use coal, because we have valuable infrastructure even though we know how bad it is for the environment. Which explains why it is so hard to stop using coal.
It might be your dock.

Check to see whether it's USB or Thunderbolt. Thunderbolt docks are more expensive, but considerably more efficient and faster than USB (assuming your laptop/device supports Thunderbolt).

Thunderbolt docks are basically PCIe extension devices, whereas USB docks attach everything as USB, with all the common challenges USB has on systems (like dropped audio when the CPU is busy).
Your only high-DPI choices are the Dell 6K or Apple 5K. For normal DPI I would recommend either a 43" or a 38" (which is the same width but less tall). I would not recommend medium-DPI options like the 40".
The real metric: INP with ad blocking enabled.

Example: NYTimes.com on Mobile Safari with AdGuard. 18 seconds.

Google is being really disingenuous with its so called metrics. A stroke of the pen could make INP 200ms across the top 500 sites.
I have been using DP+Audio for the last decade with a wast array of different monitors.
Yeah, this will end with engineering spirit penetrating McdonaldDouglas.
My local PC shop has a hard-drive destroyer for people who are concerned about data retention. It's basically a shaped anvil plus a punch with a massive lever (four feet long) that gives you enough mechanical advantage to break open the drive's metal case. Great fun to use, although probably not as satisfying as destroying a printer.
During training, you have to store a dot product of Q and V that has dimension Ncrt^2.

That's quadratic scaling, no?
Every monitor I've ever had has had terrible coil-whine from the headphone jack. I always try them for exactly this reason, and get super annoyed each time. It didn't have to be this way!
You can't avoid its impact, but you can either work with it or work against it. I assume that was more the point.
What I would absolutely love is to have a proxy server that would act as postgres, and use this new driver to connect to a remote postgres. This would avoid us having to rewrite our remote agents (which require a postgres connection to the main Database) to use an http api. Instead, we could just keep them as it is, using rust's sqlx queries, point them to the local proxy. Essentially pgBouncer but through http.

Postgres <> Neon HTTP Proxy <---HTTP---> Local Fake Postgres Server <--unix socket--> Agents

We need it for the open-source project windmill.dev and we will build this if no one else does it.
> Because buybacks in any other fashion only increase debt.

What about using revenue to buy it? You don't have to use (or have) debt to buy something with revenue.
This contradicts the premise.

> hard (and therefore slow) to use.

You assess the use case, as in each case the user goes from want to finish. If it's slow and hard, you fix that.

1 click is the fastest.

An obvious button that does exactly what you want is the easiest.

There is nothing slow or hard about an interface optimized based on a complete understanding of what the user wants to the point that they can distill it in one button.
I can't see how the Ribbon is any better than hunt-and-peck menus. If you can't see what you want on the current Ribbon view you have to click along the various arbitrary Ribbontabs until you find it. But wait, some of them have subsidiary Ribbontabtabs!
Or running a separate chrome browser for each "app"
I used to use DupeGuru which has some photo-specific dupe detection where you can fuzzy match image dupes based on content: https://dupeguru.voltaicideas.net/

But I switched over to czkawka, which has a better interface for comparing files, and seems to be a bit faster: https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka

Unfortunately, neither of these are integrated into Photoprism, so you still have to do some file management outside the database before importing.

I also haven't used Photoprism extensively yet (I think it's running on one of my boxes, but I haven't gotten around to setting it up), but I did find that it wasn't really built for file-based libraries. It's a little more heavyweight, but my research shows that Nextcloud Memories might be a better choice for me (it's not the first-party Nextcloud photos app, but another one put together by the community): https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/memories
EU parliament adopts CHIPS Act in big boost to industry
Why should printing be cheaper in 2023 than 1997?
Seems like a bug on the tv part then. They should delay audio accordingly to the lag.
Should Jetbrains make a specific Rust IDE? Would be cool!
I don't think the thesis of this piece is that "AI regulation increases AI risk". In fact it explicitly talks about increasing the regulation on the usage of AI, rather than the development of it.
Shutterstock shares pop as company expands partnership with OpenAI
That's great, and IME Uber and Lyft's innovations have forced other taxi firms to up their game where it was happily languishing in the 1980s.
The people whining about offensive output to the tune of millions of dollars invested in prohibiting it and not allowing the censor mechanism to be removed for full grown adults or developers.
> How many digits of pi do you know?

> I don't actually have the full digits of pi stored. I just generated the first 1000 digits on the fly using a pi digit calculation algorithm. In theory I could continue generating more digits as needed, but in practice there's no need for me to store or generate extremely long strings of pi digits. The first few digits are sufficient for most purposes.
This was in the late 90's so it was the wild west. People would email me asking to buy so and so, and their address, and I'd give them my address to send the check or money. Then I would just order that same item in the other provider's website, giving them the address of the person who ordered it from me
It would be incredibly stupid for MS to make CoD an xbox exclusive and completely misses the business case for buying Activision in the first place.

Remember, MS is in business to make money, not to win the console wars. Buying the CoD (etc) IP at an inflated price and then immediately cutting off more than half of the revenue would be so mind-boggingly stupid, almost to the point of malpractice. This is why they really don't even need to be forced into saying they'll maintain it for 10 years on PS.

It's all about moving gaming to a recurring revenue model. So you don't care about if the consumer made a one time purchase of your console (in fact, you might even prefer they didn't if you're losing money on each one!), but you do care about the fact that they're playing your games.

Ben Thompson put it better than I could:

> Notice that this is for games that are purchased, and keep in mind that Microsoft’s goal with the Activision acquisition is not to gain exclusive games to sell but rather games to subscribe to. As I’ve argued the only way this acquisition makes sense is the extent to which it makes possible a new business model for gaming; simply buying exclusives via established titles like Call of Duty would be hugely value destructive.

>What is notable about Microsoft’s subscription push is that it aligns the company’s Xbox division with Microsoft’s overall push towards cloud computing and subscription services. What is interesting to consider are two questions:

>First, would Microsoft have ever gone down this path absent the investment in its original (failed) Xbox strategy? I would argue the answer is no; this is a reasonable leveraging of Xbox assets, but I do wonder if Microsoft could go back two decades if they would even bother.

>Second, if regulators were to kill this deal (Microsoft still needs approval from the UK and the US) would Xbox be long for this world? It’s hard to see how the division makes sense if Microsoft has the current business model dictated to them, given just how dominant Sony is with said business model.

https://stratechery.com/2023/uk-blocks-microsoft-activision-... (paywalled)
Germany does this with their export policy. The country exports products to Greece which can only be financed by cheap loans from Germany and then when Greece can't pay they turn around and chastise it for buying German products.