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Tim Sweeney.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Sweeney_(game_developer)

Founder and CEO of Epic games.

He has a history of whinging about Windows, and when suggestions of supporting Linux come up, since it's what Valve is doing to ensure they aren't trapped in a mono-system, Tim is argumentative in a bad faith way.

Previous discussions about Epics anti-Linux behaviour, but unfortunately the Tweets have since been deleted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19844241
A weird but predictable thing to fixate on, just like people blame their aunt Peggy for things that were set in motion decades prior.

Populism is basically a slur for an impotent and chaotic democracy, but the media that planted this idea in your brain never take things to their logical conclusion and critique the so-called democracies themselves for some reason.
Electric cars became a battleground in the culture wars
You most definitely can exclude specific apps from auto update on the Play Store. Go to the app's Play listing page and tap on the overflow menu in the top right (vertical ellipses) and uncheck "Enable auto update".
I do believe they've tried to circumvent the IP by implementing a translation layer like in Transmeta Crusoe, but Intel still threatened them with lawsuits.
I love the presentation though. This is actually the best startup homepage I've ever seen. Hand-typed HTML, 20 lines of CSS, no JavaScript, not even any images. Just some powerful bullet points that actually contain relevant information about the company.

A lack of information about the technology is understandable as it presumably doesn't exist yet. But I see that it's Google TPU and software people striking out on their own with the backing of a bunch of VCs and prominent researchers, and it seems pretty clear where it's going. Likely an evolution of or progression from what they were working on at Google, positioned for easy acquisition by any number of competitors.

I think George Hotz is right that ML ASIC companies need to invest in software far more than they typically do. I guess the plan here is to sidestep the need for generic software by focusing solely on transformers for text, maybe even only a couple of specific architectures. I don't really think that's a good strategy but it seems to be what they're describing.
Many xbox games these days support KBM.

I play Modern Warfare II almost exclusively with a mouse and keeb.
>and the oneAPI libraries for compute are slowly maturing

I'll say I had a miserable time trying so setup oneAPI for VS Code on Windows. Their website made it seem like it was possible, there are even plugins, but I never got it working. Eventually I just gave up and downloaded Visual Studio.

Getting oneAPI to work on Arch Linux, where it's not even officially supported, was also tricky but considerably easier.

Haven't been able to successfully get PyTorch or TensorFlow code to utilize the GPU but did get some DPC++ working with oneAPI. All-in-all it's not a terrible experience but could be a lot better.
Ask HN: Which AI idea will be game changer by 2027?
We're actually pretty good at predicting the weather for the next three days.

The point about climate variability is a stock denialist talking point.

In reality climate predictions have been extremely accurate. There is absolute no mystery or ambiguity here. We've been improving our CO2 models for over a century now, and in recent decades the modelling has been extremely good - although if anything it's been too optimistic.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/01/harvard-led-a...

The problem isn't the science, it's the politics. We have a planetary culture that puts profit and political ambition - naive uninformed personal indulgence and status seeking, mixed with sanctioned reality denial - over collective intelligence and awareness.

While we have individual intelligence - in varying degrees - we still have herd-animal politics and economics. Our management systems have barely changed for millennia, the same issues and tendencies to self-harm keep recurring, and they're completely unsuitable for dealing with the kinds of problems we're facing.

Darwin is remorseless. If a species is maladapted to its environment, extinction - cultural and eventually physical - beckons.

That's where we are now.
yes this is indeed how the probe was designed - hats off to the foresight.

there are recalibrations every few months to make sure the antenna is pointed at the earth.

video explanation of how it works- pretty ingenious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbsHgE89qO4&t=340s
I feel that programmers are the main audience that knows life can be better in software. A typical programmer might be so offended by Pinterest's awfulness that they'll look for any way to prevent it, knowing it can be done. Some might go for an extension like uBlacklist, others might be so furious that they want to pay money to stop this somehow.

But seriously, I do think that unless you work with software, it's hard to even imagine alternatives to the big players could exist.
Depends on how frequent you use it. I had to throw a bottle after expiring because I take melatonin at most a few times per month to "recalibrate" my circadian rhythm.
> OP claimed that the market would balance things out when given subpar foods.

No, I never claimed that. The claim that I wanted to make is the one that sublinear made: the market provides what the people care enough about that they are willing to pay for.

Eg Germany has good pork and decent chocolate in mainstream supermarkets. But the boil-in-bag rice those places sell would make your average Asian through up a little.

Consumer regulation does the least harm, when it is the least necessary: when the mainstream consumer already agrees with it, and when it's reasonably easy for knowledgeable people with different tastes to side-step.

Eg the German 'Reinheitsgebot' purity law has some strict rules about what you can put in your beer and still call it 'Bier'. But it doesn't actually restrict the knowledgeable consumer: your supplier can concoct whatever they feel like, they might just have to get creative with the name.

If Americans like 'shitty food', that's up to them. Who are we to judge them?
A solid starting point for a very difficult problem
Although boosting cant be done, blocking can be achieved using ublockorigin and custom filters. Here is an awesome spam filter list that removes spam and copycat domains from google and ddg searches[1]

[1]https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter
You only need to enable the companion source repo(s) to get access to the source. To be able to access the binary & source repos via our CDN, you need to be a registered “customer” of Red Hat (which includes no-cost developer account agreements) which then gives credentials to access our CDN. If you have a valid credential to pull binary RPMs, you also have access to pull source RPMs.
This reminds me of how on most Linuxes I've seen(Maybe GNOME is better, I should probably try that again even though I hate gesture and keyboard focused UIs) you can't get an onscreen keyboard that shows and hides properly without nontrivial work.

Seems like an accessibility issue! That, along with offline speech recognition and synthesis, should be built into the batteries included distros by now, right?

I'm glad the web is getting better support for it though!
Show HN: I made a new VS Code theme. This hits different
Hello everyone, last night I couldn't sleep so I decided to create a new theme based on a color palette that I made and added to one of my tool sites ( colorsandfonts. com ).

Amrit suggested to create a VS Code theme, so here it is and I liked it so much that is published.

You can grab the theme here:

http://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=wicked-la...

The theme colour is chocolate brown, then added some sprinkles.

Hope you all like it!

Any questions x.com/mike_andreuzza
Recently Nature and Ars published articles about LK-99, and in both cases it seems to me that a) they couldn't allow themselves to keep silence about a hot topic; b) they successfully didn't answer a question is it a real room temperature superconductor or what. They did exactly what I expected them to do, they described the current state of affairs with all its uncertainty.

And based on this I do not think that they felt the urgency to choose an opinion. At least they didn't choose between "yes" and "no".

As for twitter and reddit I personally didn't bother to look what happens there. I see here on HN people who reduces the issue to a question is it a real thing, ignoring issues like the rules of science dictating what must be done before science can reach a conclusion. I believe it is much worse on reddit, where people generally have less insight into how science works as a social institution.

> Maybe I find it so distasteful because I think the hype and jumping to conclusions is antithetical to real science and understanding.

People have a lot of fun generating and watching videos of different levitating objects. They have a lot of fun arguing about these videos. It has nothing to do with science, though they can believe otherwise. I'm ok with that. It is better then when they choose an other topic to agrue. Something from social or political issues is much worser.
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> it's not offensively bad either

In your opinion. W3fools only pulled an “it’s ok now bro, don’t sue us” update. Anytime I give it a go, I’m still presented with inaccurate and harmfully incomplete results.

Want to learn from a “for dummies” website? Be my guest. But my hate is fully justified.
Or, more likely, they didn't want to take on the additional burden of transacting in funny money of dubious worth.
Why? I am not saying the American market would provide Americans with pork that's safe to eat raw.

That's because Americans don't typically eat their pork raw, so they don't care enough for the market to supply this product.
What will happen to Infra (Huggingface), LLM Providers (OpenAI), and Monitoring platforms like Arize? How about c.ai, jasper.ai and more?
Very interesting stuff - I had to go do my homework after reading that on how the radio ranging modulation works.
> Most papers (especially the ones in deep learning) seem to also have a mathematical fetish (to put it mildly) where needless representations are used where none are required and are self evident (for example inputs belong to Real number set). It ends up making the paper pseudo complex and unapproachable.

I completely disagree with that. Spelling out math is literally something out of 12th century. It just hinders understanding, if you have basic STEM-level math literacy, which anyone who reads an ML paper is implied to have (how could you seriously study linear algebra and calculus without it?).

Math may actually be the first thing you recognise in a paper, which can help you cross-reference the text to understand it.
It leads straight to influencing a conveniently small group of people with other means. If you follow US politics even remotely, the term "pork (barrel)" should be enough to convince you that local representation is a bad idea. Clientelism is also easier in smaller electoral areas. Now add both.

In proportional representation it is still possible to vote for a local candidate, depending on how it is organized. Voting for a party is the common thing, but allowing people to vote explicitly for a candidate lower on the list allows getting a local candidate straight into parliament. Not that that is ideal, but it is definitely not impossible.
They spend 5% of their profit for donations.
It's ok as a company for general, but for payment with this low rates of search results and the argument that they can't reduce the price because of the cost. I get mixed feelings.
Of course, but if operating a train costs you $10 per seat and you start charging $5 it will never break even..

And the article says:

"€49 a month ‘Deutschlandticket’ has led to a 25 per cent rise in passengers on national railway company Deutsche Bahn's regional services"

and a daily (regional) ticket costs about €20-50 depending on area.

I mean obviously it might very well be worth doing this for other reasons but somebody will have to subsidize the lost revenue for various transport companies.
There are multiple times that would have been the correct decision.
> People in cities who do not have off-street parking will also struggle with electric car ownership until charger numbers improve dramatically.

This huge problem seems to be constantly hand-waved away as an afterthought. It is of crucial importance in a country like the UK where so many live in cities and have only street parking, often only where they manage to find it.
Your point is fair.
It feels it also underlies the importance of "continuous teaching and learning", global (or assigned) peer reviewing.
At moments in time where discoveries like this one happen, one could hope that beyond "open publishing" like Arxiv, comes a true "science in the open", with room for cooperation.
Looking forward evolving further our current system.
> I don't really feel the need to defend the contents of that list.

You were quite willing to promote the specific and lengthy list of disliked-sites to strangers.

A sudden switch to fatigue and disinterest does not seem genuine to me.
Are you suggesting the cert problem is DNS related or the new captcha issue?

DNS was ISP, not 1.1.1.1, and I get the same behaviour after switching to 8.8.8.8.
>So the driver said he was scared to stop. Well if google employees/contractors/ are scared to stop, what does that say about US police practices.

Seems...reasonable?

At a minimum make cops have a 4 year education, like almost any other profession, make deescalation the main part you teach, fire any cop that has abused their power.

We give a lot of power to some people, they should have more responsibility.
So don't do a bloody tripple bypass with a butter knife. Just stop the bleeding. Jeez, this conversation is the best illustration of everything that's wrong with geoengineering ideas.

Indeed we have practiced quite a bit. Read on the catastrophe that was geoengineering attempts resulting in what is now happening with the Sea of Azov.
I have no time for fracking and frackers and I reckon the process ought to be banned except under exceptional circumstances.

That said, I don't think this story is very objective in that it unduly pushes the buttons of people who are chemical-phobic and that makes matters worse.

Here, ethylene glycol (aka MEG—mono ethylene glycol) is held up as a bogeyman without a satisfactorily explanation of why.

When or if MEG gets into the water table how much damage would it do? How much would a person likely consume in say the course of a year and how dangerous would it be? I can't answer that directly as I simply don't have the leakage figures so let's look at MEG's known dangers.

MEG is antifreeze that you put in your car engine and it is dangerous if consumed, and it doesn't take much to kill you about 50 to 100ml (a wineglass full if it's concentrated — in antifreeze it's quite diluted). It's also sweet and to deter kids from drinking it, it has Bitrex/denatonium added to make it extremely bitter.

OK, it's nasty stuff but what happens when you consume it? Well, it breaks down into oxalic acid and that's what's dangerous about it as oxalic acid is poisonous. But how much so? It just so happens that oxalic acid ocurrs naturally in the leaves of many green vegetables such as spinich, its concentrations are so high in rhubarb leaves that we're told only to eat the stems.

The point is that trace amounts of MEG won't do us harm because we're used to normally consuming somewhat more than just trace amounts of oxalic acid in our food.

A much greater danger to health are the aromatic hydrocarbons such as benzene which is definitely toxic and carcinogenic but you'll notice it doesn't head the list in this article because much less of it is released during fracking. But small amounts aren't as noteworthy as the large amount of MEG released even though it likely poses a much greater health risk over the long run.

This is why many articles of this type are both misleading and harmful. They not only distort the facts but they also give the frackers and their ilk ammunition to dismiss reports of their unacceptable activities as being inaccurate and or groundless.
Is there a list of corporation shaming websites/projects/organisations somewhere? Edit: I suppose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_organization is a good start

In Germany we have "Mogelpackung des Jahres" ("Cheat packaging of the year") by the consumer center/protection organisation for example that points out companies that abuse shrinkflation

https://www.vzhh.de/themen/mogelpackungen/mogelpackung-des-j...

Shame is a big driver of achieving cultural/behavioral alignment, the same has to be done with corporations if they misbehave.

While legal entities do not care, their employees and customers can be capable of that. Make every such infraction public so the companies' reputation, brand and profits correspond to the morality of its actions. Systemic failures like these need systemic fixes.

Maybe it would be a good idea to force companies to publicize product return rates, so managerial brainfarts like these get rewarded accordingly.
I thought Intel was giving up on GPUs already...
> People aren't picking Costco because Costco has the best printers, they're buying their printers at costco because they're already at Costco buying groceries and clothing.

You could say that about every individual item Costco sells: people don't go specifically to Costco to buy socks.

People don't go to Costco specifically to buy celery either. Etc.

> Take out one regulation, while leaving another overlapping regulation, and the regulation still works? This is switching the conversation to which regulations are the most effective, rather than saying that regulations are irrelevant.

Maybe. General regulations like 'no lying in ads' or 'contracts need to be honoured' are better than specific regulations like, 'bananas that bend more than 5cm are banned'.
Nvidia managed to hit the right spot to win the market - developers. I wrote shaders for depth detection before CUDA, and it was already great back then, but was very graphics centric. Then CUDA came and pushed everything even further forward. I completely agree - it was a software victory.
> Anybody that has ever taken a 101 economics class knows this is true.

The first 20 minutes of one? i.e. before arriving at concept of 'marginal cost' also I doubt demand for public transport is necessarily that elastic, short term anyway.

As the article says traffic for regional trains only increased by 25% despite the price decreasing much more than that (e.g. a single day ticket previously cost 20-50 euros depending on area).
Nature supposedly rejected the paper, according to some accounts, which makes that doubly funny.
Desperate!

How about we pull our collective head in, and learn to be content with what we have. (???)
You can watch the patient choke from the obstruction as well, but it won't be pretty neither
I'm not sure if this is a shitpost or not, but the least I can say is to disable autocorrect, and get another security camera.
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What is an 'ideal market'?

Costco is a retailer, and as such is providing a service by amongst other things aggregating consumer preferences.
These things make sense to me, but I do other things with these locations.

Caps Lock is now Compose so I can write everyone's name correctly.

My GNU screen escape key is ` with `~ for a literal `. I never ever type ` because $() is the right way to do subshells. If I need to paste something with ` in it, I temporarily change this. I live in screen, even starting X11 programs from it, so this is more important than the actual Esc key!
You are underestimating amount of energy waste for bullshit jobs.
Its huge. Only a fraction of population handles those importand hi-tec jobs.

Majority of jobs are for services. And a lot of jobs are bullshit jobs, like:
lawyers, judges, our inflated financial jobs, politics, various govs jobs.
While those are needed for our complex society, they are very inflated these days.

You are right, even small greedy population can destroy world. And that the primary problem, greed. Thats why we have ever growing economy, because we need grow to have more and more. Thats dead end. Much better is to have stable environment that ups and downs.

Also, stop dreaming about weather control, its extremally complex system that is not yet understood (will ever be? I hope so). There are a lot of examples on earth where people wanted to control ecosystem and it ended badly. This is another problem. Someone popups with an idea or tech and everyone jumps on it, lets use it, not doing research about possible side effects and how to mitigate it. Great example: plastics.

As for empty space, its not really empty. Its importand ecosystems for this planets that sustain live there. In reality, there is no empty space on earth, if you take a look on whatever spot, there is life there, small or tiny and we are struggling to understand what role in ecosystem it have.
Yes you can, and it's been done:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11071-015-2287-7
CUDA on AMD attempt

https://community.amd.com/t5/rocm/available-now-new-hip-sdk-...
Extension redirects you to the site but requires you to make an account to download. All entries only have IPFS CID listed without an account. You could download without an account if you can know how to download from IPFS. I don't know how to download from IPFS, it feels complicated.
It's a basic psychological need: humans are social animals. People spend 40+ hours at week at work for many decades. Unless you work only 5 hours a week, it's a huge fraction of a lifetime.
Some low-tech (and IMO better) solutions for food waste:

* Buy food locally, support your local farmers.

* Grow your own vegetables (some are really easy: potatos, onions, garlic, zucchini, corn, beans, etc.). Even tomatos, peppers and eggplants are not that hard.

* Compost your food waste - put it back in your garden.

* Learn how to preserve food when there's an abundance.

* Also, learn to eat better.

I think it's a real shame that so much food waste ends up in landfill instead of being composted locally. If you compost your leftovers, you turn your waste into a resource, and use that to fertilize your garden.
Only the cheap 1 gibt connection and it's very clearly stated.
Thanks for the reply, this spurred me learning about the ross-tech forum. Part of me wants to gain a cheap backup machine the other "anything that works"
Yes exactly. I worked with folks located in India and I had to tell them it’s OK to get straight to the point without having to wait for me to say hello back etc. I had to explain it’s not rude if they leave out the hellos and how are yous. Probably a cultural thing.
It's interesting to contrast this with tinycorp, geohot's company, and his claim that basically you would have to spend a lot to make a better chip, so the more optimal, less capital intensive play, is to write better drivers for AMD cards.

https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2023/05/24/the-t...

He's still on the AMD drivers train, judging by his Twitter post from 4 days ago, so we'll see where things go.

https://twitter.com/realgeorgehotz/status/168616581138659737...