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"We" is "humanity." You, me, and everybody.

I didn't say "uninhabitable," although, yes, FYI, major climate models do predict certain areas becoming uninhabitable due to intolerable wet bulb temperatures. I said "liveable," as in "can sustain some modicum of semi-modern civilization." That's a far lower bar.

Meanwhile, we have a technology we literally cannot build enough of in the next 5 years to stop any of this from happening. And, if we continue to burn fossil fuels, once we exhaust them, we'll literally reach C02 levels not seen since the Cretaceous period, when temperatures were 10 C above the pre-industrial revolution era. How does that benefit the global south, or anybody?

I do not believe you have thought this through. You bring up so called "opportunities" forecast by climate change models, yet fail to consider that we're already looking at severe weather events such as floods, storms, and heat waves, that would normally be 1 in 100 or 1 in 1000 events, starting to happen on a multiple times a decade time scale. It's not possible to build in the face of that; even insurance companies are recognizing that today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous_Thermal_Maximum
>Use the python multiprocessing module. If you've already written it with the multithreading module, it is a drop in replacement. Your data structure will live in shared memory

Only if it can be immutable. So it can't be shared and changed by multiple processes as needed (with synchronization).

And even if you can have it mostly immutable, if you need to refresh it (e.g. after some time read a newer large file from disk to load into your data structure), you can't without restarting the whole server and processes.

So, it could work for this case, but it's hardly a general solution for the problem.
What Self-Driving Cars Tell Us About AI Risks
That's not how burden of proof works.
Finding a way to make philosophy impotent is a pretty impressive accomplishment in my books, but not what you're looking for I suspect.
Sounds like the consumption problem is solved either way, no?
note that when they went and analyzed that AI they found out it was using the smudges on the google car camera as a sort of fingerprint (as those are consistent for the many pictures taken by one camera) so that AI would almost certainly not do well against pictures taken from different sources
AI search of Neanderthal proteins resurrects ‘extinct’ antibiotics
Link to the Nature article "Autonomous self-burying seed carriers for aerial seeding" (February 2023): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05656-3
Maybe read his book so you can hear what he has to say about it rather than your interpretation of it.

Anyway, the article I linked summarizes it fine too:

> So why did the Pauling and Mayo Clinic trials have different results? There are at least two crucial differences. First, the Mayo Clinic trials abruptly stopped the ascorbate administration, switching to traditional chemotherapy, when the patient developed signs of tumor progression. Thus, the overall median time of vitamin C treatment under the Mayo Clinic trials was only 2.5 months, while the Pauling and Cameron trials treated patients for the duration of the entire study period or as long as 12 years. Secondly, the Mayo Clinic trials administered 10 g of daily ascorbate to patients only orally, while the Cameron and Pauling trials administered their vitamin C both orally and intravenously. This difference in the two dosage routes proved highly consequential.
Python is awesome because they built what people wanted.

Python is terrible because they built what people wanted.
>>[...] and speak in front of people without saying "um" and "like" every two seconds.

You just added a third skill -- public speaking. You're right that the bar shouldn't be so low, but we are where we are, and families need to figure out ways to mitigate. I don't believe the NMSQT has a verbal (literally, oral) component, although one (ferverently!) hopes that clear writing translates more easily to oral speaking skills for the child.
> ECH is a good idea on paper but will never work in the real world.

Uhuh.

> Oppressive regimes just drop any connection lacking a plain text SNI.

All of the connections will have a plain text SNI. Many of them will have ECH. In some of them, at least at first the ECH will just be GREASE, in others it's real. For the server it's apparent which is which, for a snoop it's impossible to know. Indeed that's sort of the point of GREASE.

> They don't give a shit about blocking large legitimate sites or breaking connectivity for large swaths of users if it helps them avoid losing power.

We heard basically the same thing for TLS 1.3. But of course we actually rolled out TLS 1.3 with no major problems, even the anti-downgrade provision which was the part I was most sceptical about delivering. Google's Chrome GREASEs a bunch of TLS 1.3 already.
No but the idea of having a “cut over” is the problem.
I doubt it. The alternative to high speed rail is adding more lanes to I-5, and perhaps expanding capacity at some of the major airports. Those upgrades would be cheaper than HSR.
Just because the recognize the din of greed doesn't mean they know the cure ...
That has nothing to do with the merits of the solution, i.e. whether it will work or not. Meanwhile no alternative exists that will stop us from reaching 2C of warming.
Hey I agree!

That’s why I’m asking because a “bootstrapped” company like you describe has a future…

One backed by VC doesn’t

I mean they may have a future but not like you describe
>If you have a non trivial application, multiprocessing just takes a lot of memory. Every child process that you create duplicates the parent memory.

Not really, unless you want to alter it. The OS uses copy on write behind the scenes for forked processes, so will use the same memory locations already loaded until/if you modify that. So parent memory isn't really duplicated.

As for any new memory allocated by each child process, that's its own.
> Except that it isn’t the end. All kinds of worrying things are buried in the story. At one point, in 1942, one of Oppenheimer’s Communist friends, Haakon Chevalier, suggests that Oppenheimer gets in touch with the Soviet Union about the bomb project through a British scientist (and Soviet asset) George Eltenton. Oppenheimer realises immediately that the suggestion is treasonous and refuses it. But he does not report the contact to Groves or anyone else for eight months. When he eventually does, he tries to cover up Chevalier’s role for four months.

They covered that in the movie (though they glossed over it).
One difference: Windows improved.
Yeah, this is what I saw in some example code. Also you don't need the (void*), at least not with clang or GCC trunk on compiler explorer: https://godbolt.org/z/a8rP91dKr
At the same time, however, one didn't have to make the equivalent of today's high mid-six or low-seven figure salaries in order to be able to afford to purchase a home in a world-class metro area. Today one needs to make "world class" money in order to afford to purchase a home in a world class city, due to the perfect storm of NIMBYism restricting supply and a high amount of demand from a large pool of well-heeled buyers. I don't want to come off as whiny, but my salary is only in the low six-figures and my company doesn't provide RSUs, which means I'll never be able to buy a home in Silicon Valley, short of winning either a state lottery or the "startup lottery." Yes, I can relocate and purchase in a cheaper locale, which is something I'm strongly considering once I get married, but that comes with major career tradeoffs; I'm a specialist and it may be hard to find jobs in my specialty outside Silicon Valley. There's also no guarantee that these jobs will be available remotely, especially with the pushback against remote work.

I'll share a family story. My grandfather was born in Arkansas during the height of Jim Crow. He never went to school, and he never learned to read or write. He and his family moved to Bakersfield, CA in the 1950s as part of the Second Great Migration of African-Americans from the South, looking for better opportunities and to escape Jim Crow. He worked on a farm for over 30 years. Despite these challenges, he was able to purchase a modest home there, and he managed to pay off most of his mortgage debt before he was forced to retire. This would be very difficult for a farm worker today.

I have other grandparents who still faced racism but were literate, and they were able to purchase homes in places like San Luis Obispo County back in the 1960s. Now, I wouldn't want to trade places with my grandparents; I'm glad that I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I'm fortunate to have many opportunities that my grandparents and my parents didn't have. But today's housing prices are one of the most formidable challenges facing my generation. It seems that opportunity in America (and around the world) is increasingly being concentrated in a handful of "winner" cities, and the demand to live in these cities, combined with a reluctance or even unwillingness to grow to meet the demand, has caused housing prices to skyrocket. But moving outside these cities means running the risk of having few opportunities; witness the chronically higher-than-average unemployment rate of the Central Valley of California, and witness the Rust Belt.
That was actually one minor plot point in Robert Sawyer's novel, Flashforward, that stuck in my mind. When everyone on the planet lost consciousness at the same time (their minds being projected into the future) all video recording just saw essentially static.

The theory was that it was actually recording the quantum froth as it were, of the unresolved probabilities until an observer woke up and it collapsed into one outcome.

I'm perhaps not explaining it well. OTOH, it is called science-FICTION.
What question would I ask her?

(Seriously tho, how would you frame the question in a way my grandma, whose only access to the internet is via an iPad, could understand)
It is, unless you think the last 50 years somehow didn't happen. We knew exactly what would happen then, and did nothing. Innovation, my ass.
Let the entire man be seized with fear; let the whole world tremble; let heaven exult when Christ, the Son of the Living God, is on the altar in the hands of the priest. O admirable height and stupendous condescension! O humble sublimity! O sublime humility! that the Lord of the universe, God and the Son of God, so humbles Himself that for our salvation He hides Himself under a morsel of bread.

– Francis of Assisi, Letter to all the Friars, ca. 1221

https://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/wosf/wosf13.htm
I doubt it. Michael F. Holick is probably the biggest vitamin d proponent and he has gained notoriety for having received a lot of money from companies making vitamin d supplements, as well as having done some wild stuff, such as defending abusive parents in court on the theory that children's broken bones are a result of vitamin d deficiency:

> In one case of a child who had suffered broken bones in which Holick defended the accused parent, the child later went on to suffer severe brain injury, for which the parent has been indicted.

as well as this interesting theory:

> Holick has speculated that the dinosaurs may have died of rickets and osteomalacia caused by a lack of vitamin D in reduced sunlight

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_F._Holick

and the only repercussion he has faced was the place he works not allowing him to treat children anymore.

If he hasn't had his medical license revoked I doubt any doctor simply recommending vitamin d would have theirs revoked.
That's because there wasn't such a huge multiplier in place to get money back out of employing those people.
Airlines can reasonably charge customers extra for a shorter check-in or boarding line because the airline owns those processes and pays the staff that operate them. Shops can reasonably charge whatever people will pay, which tends to be higher when they're a captive audience.

Why should airlines or Clear have any authority over the security line when they're not the ones requiring or conducting the security check?
Well today I learned that the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project exists. Pretty awesome.
Space Tourism
Sure. Just don't look at the boats.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Photoshop 3/4 and Maya 1.X still have a few advantages over floss alternatives, such as CMYK color.

Also, the desktop Octane was tens of thousands not hundreds of.

However the freedom is priceless.
well you got 3 choices in each of those industries. Leaving a country is much harder than leaving a crappy cable company.
$224k only seems miniscule in this inner self-selected circle though. $450k net worth is top 1%
That's my point; if silicon demand shits from mobile to AI data centers you can't expect energy consumption to be the same.
This is absolutely true and is one of the stronger arguments for the Linux kernel to adopt something like GitLab as well. Being able to take PRs for smaller contributions while still keeping core development on mailing lists (probably with an email bridge between so things aren't missed) seems ideal to me, but that's extra work for maintainers and whatnot
Thiamine deficiency mimicking the symptoms of major depressive disorder
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The interesting thing is that unless you inherited that property you probably would not easily be able to buy another one there unless you went for something really small, that's prime real estate these days.
The hallmark of a good font is that it does not draw attention to itself. It does not interfere with the reader’s grasp of the author’s meaning, and it recedes into the background.
Link missing: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/asia-richest-families-fuel-ra...
I know interpretations differ, but calling someone's comment "lazy" is, for internet triggering purposes, definitely a swipe, and we moderate HN that way, so please make your substantive points differently than that.
So what? No one is going to commute to work on the California HSR routes. Much of the original business case was based on business travel. Now it seems the passenger demand may be lower than expected.
The benefit is being able to leave your ID in your pocket/bag. It is not to be able to travel without ID. You are describing an edge case, not a reason a frequent traveller would opt to purchase Clear. (Fwiw, I understand this edge case, I’ve flown to Canada from the US w/o a passport because I could show the gate agents my Nexus card, but this is not a feature of having Nexus. The same logic holds for Clear.)
> You can rent a 2-socket AMD server with 120 available cores and RDMA for something like 50c to $2 per hour.

Source required
"...if the top 10% of global emitters were to cut their carbon footprint to that of the typical EU citizen... that alone would cut global emissions by around one third." - p.208 The Climate Book (Greta Thunberg)
Your point seems predicated upon more people being “poorer” rather than focusing on the fact that there wasn’t nearly the wealth inequality we have now (which you mention, but dismiss). Personally, I’m of the opinion that “poor” is relative, and the current age of hyperfocusing on payment is only contributing to all that is bad in the world today. Progress, too, didn’t slow down because the people driving it weren’t paid enough.
https://archive.is/LQsdz
Well I was actually responding to your assertion that (paraphrasing) you haven’t been convinced that you have an social obligation

That’s what I’m saying, if you can choose your philosophy, why choose one that is antisocial.
site dead:

> curl -v https://tux.pizza
* Could not resolve host: tux.pizza
* Closing connection 0
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: tux.pizza
Does sparse mean anything other than we can not actually do as many FP8 operations per second as we just claimed? To me it sounds like they can do X matrix operations per second on sparse matrices using Y FP8 operations per second, but instead of just saying what Y is they tell us how many FP8 operations would be required if the matrices were not sparse. Is this pure marketing bullshit or is there some logic to this? How sparse do those matrices have to be? Or am I misunderstanding this claim?
Goog must not. E acknowledging other browsers anymore.
HFS is in the open-source Darwin/OSX releases. But before that it was well documented in public, and the article links to the patents.
Biden isn't really left at all, and one reason nobody goes to the billionaires' pockets to fund all kinds of progressive policies is that there isn't enough money in those pockets. To do major new social safety net services, you need ongoing (large amounts) billions of dollars. European-style social spending is funded by drastically higher tax rates on the middle class; the top marginal rate often kicks in at a CPS teacher's salary there.

I am all for taxing the hell out of billionaires, but deference to their interests isn't what's keeping you from having free grad school and high-speed rail; it's deference to the interests of ordinary people living in suburbs holding that back.
Not very relevant but I just thought it was funny how it's obvious that you don't do cycling when those are the prices you came up with as an example :)

It's considerably more expensive than that.
Then the propaganda has won.
They don't have any authority over the security check itself, just the line, as delegated to them by the airport. As you say. But the airport is where you line up, the airport is who you pay for your experience (XF, $4.50 per ticket at SFO anyways), and the airport is private property.

So I guess my question is, why shouldn't the airport - who you're paying admission to - get to decide who can line up where, any less than security at the ballpark? Why should they not defer that authority to someone else? The airport is a business too, generally speaking, and they have customers who value getting through the line faster. They've deferred that determination to a third party who also manages said line-up.

What difference does it make who's running the line - SFO staff or Clear staff? They're going to be private contractors either way. And at SFO you're just going from one private contractor who manages the line-up (Clear) to another one who manages the actual security (CAS, not the TSA) - to another private company who flies you somewhere. Unless you stop at the privately operated restaurants or lounges (almost certainly Aramark).

Would you feel differently if CAS ran the lines, or if Clear did the security?
Ideally the traffic would be siphoned thru a load balancer/reverse proxy of some kind rather than the dest service endpoint/port being directly exposed to the internet
It's been on the roadmap for a few years although there were no performance numbers. I assume GH200 is more expensive so the price/performance advantage may not be overwhelming. Worst case you order GH200s and then scalp your H100s on the used market.
Haven't seen that name in a while! I have fond memories of both Spinrite and ShieldsUp
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Hey ubertaco! I remember you. Appreciate the well-wishes. The landing page still needs some tweaking. It's kind of hard keeping what you're building in sync with what you're aspiring for, but we're definitely working towards it.
That has only been true for a few hundred years at most.

Perhaps we could have avoided this outcome, and perhaps there's still a way to return to a sane life.
Unfortunately the generational GC modifies bits all over the heap, so you have to use some tricks to really leverage copy on write (as the commenter alludes to).
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"modified" according to whom? Users should be able to use software the way they want, not the way Big Tech dictates.

Governments are scared because they realise cryptography is being used against them.

Now users should realise the same.

Strong encryption is classified as a weapon for good reason. Just like you'd want a gun in your hands, but not one pointed at you.

Then again, the fact that you call them "consumers" instead of "users" already shows what side of the debate you're on.
Namecheap and aws
I feel theres plenty of evidence... he's a super rich public figure known to lie to get traction on his projects. He doesn't need your protection
To be clear when I say “antisocial” Vs “prosocial” it is in the specific context of psycho-social evaluation where:

Prosocial: “benefit other people or society as a whole”

Antisocial: “considered to be disruptive to others in society”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosocial_behavior

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-social_behaviour
Yeah I think that it's fair to say that we have more access to products and services today than our grandparents did, but long term real assets like real estate are less accessible to this generation. My grandfather never graduated high school and worked as a logger and then as a mechanic but was able to afford to buy 3 acres and build a house in his mid 20s.

Meanwhile my cousins who are currently in their mid 20s are mostly jobless and still live with their parents.
Is it possible that the TSA is faking their stats to make them look weaker than they actually are?
ROCm is a bit of a mess. I have used it successfully on a 6700 XT without issue but it was confusing because I thought I would need a "pro" driver but I did not.
>Unhappy with your social network, say because there are too many Nazis and conspiracy theorists running rampant? Bad luck, no federation requirement means you'll lose all your followers and they'll lose you.

I don't know how a government would enforce this. Nor if we want them to. Yes, you will and arguably should lose your followers if you move sites, and that's because your followers are passive browsers who don't care about you specifically. None of us are Taylor Swift who will have millions follow wherever she decides to go. That's one offset of anonymity in this case.

Also kind of funny that you mention federation as an implciit solution and then complain about email.

> Unhappy with your phone or PC operating system? Good luck, in the best case you just have to buy all your applications again (if they are even available at the competitor), in the worst you'll have to live with frankly sub-par open source alternatives.

Again, yes that makes sense. you acknoledging that they have better OS's seems to be submitting that there's value in their service. Personally, I can replicate 99% of what I use on Linux and a de-Googled AOSP, but it will vary from user to user (RIP to the artists stuck in the Adobe suite). Having a better service isn't grounds for a monopoly alone, that's just plain ol' competition.
> Or, at least, a safer assumption: it's worth checking to see what they said about it before publicly speculating.

This would immediately kill about half of the comments on any research article posted to HN.
> tools like pip-run already support running a script for which you have the deps described with such comments

> Packages are installed in a temporary virtual env and deleted after the run, like npx used to do for the JS world.

Is it efficient? Download packages, install them only to delete several seconds later. Wastes precious SSD cells.
China using families as 'hostages' to quash dissent abroad
It’s the exact opposite trope in my experience. The ingenious people that are always right are invariably courteous, polite and a pleasure to be around. Those a little bit lower on the intelligence rung are usually the ones that feel the need to be contrarians and generally disruptive to “prove” their intelligence.
> You don’t need to take my word for it. Here’s some unfiltered DMs on the subject: https://imgur.com/a/6vqvzXs

> Notice how their optimism dries up, and not because I was telling them how bad TRC has become. It’s because their TPUs kept dying.

Unless I'm misreading this they sound pretty happy and you sound pessimistic? Their last substantial comment was "I'm sure Zak could hook you up with something better"?