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> It's known by the guy who wrote it 40 years ago that happens to still live there and want to chip in to fix it

So yes, it's well know by this person and his company. I'd be surprised if in 30 years he didn't document the system and teach it to his employees.

> Setting up a replacement doesn't imply this one goes away.

Agreed, it generally implies a replacement project that goes on for years before being declared a failure at taxpayer expense.

> Well, they said parts are difficult to find now. I would not consider something with no replacement parts well maintained

The parts are "difficult" to find, yes. So if you say there are "no replacement parts", you are moving the goalpost from "possible" to "impossible" to obtain, while they are available for money on ebay. A few thousands will get you many vintage computer parts!

BTW spares for the new system will also be necessary, if you plan to have it work for another 30 years. They may be more expansive.

> It's a gamble to leave it as it is with a bus factor of 1 and rickety old computer parts

We do not know how many employees he has, and whether the replacement parts are "rickety and old". If you are used to maintaining vintage system off ebay parts, you will see lots of perfects parts available for about everything.

> If this computer catches on fire, they have to pray they can find a working replacement that the original implementor can install.

They say they have 3 spares, so no prayer required. Documentation and backups are likely available.

I just don't understand how so many people are afraid of the existing and want to rewrite everything from scratch. Looks like Resume-Driver Development to me: good for the developer and manager, bad for the company and its clients.
I had to laugh at this https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive/blob/mast...

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John Carmack's .plan for Jan 31, 1997
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I went down to the ferrari dealership today with Ann and American with the intention of buying a new f355 as a "sensible" car (in contrast to my other twin turbo monstrosities).

There was an F40 sitting out front.

Umm. Sensible car. F40. Sensible car. F40. Hmmmm.

American played the evil conscience and Ann played the good conscience. For a while. Then Ann got infected by the Dark Side. :-) I bought the F40.

Ok, I now have too many ferraris. I have a plan to fix that. This hasn't gone through all the legal crap necessary yet, but it is my intention to give away my first ferrari as the grand prize of a Quake tournement.

Yes, I am serious.

DO NOT SEND ME ANY MAIL ABOUT THIS! When we have more to say about it, we will make a formal announcement. This would be a good time to start a heated debate in the newsgroups about what the fairest tourney rules would be, though.

The specs:

1987 328 GTS with turbocharged engine.
Feature in the january, 1994 issue of Turbo magazine.
Made 360 HP at the rear wheels on a chassis dyno.
New engine (I melted the first one...), new paint.
The interior could use a little work.

I plan to also include enough cash to cover tax and insurance.
Remember the early days of COVID-19? There were some scientists that predicted exponential growth, and I was torn between "it's not really bad yet, maybe there's still hope" and "every exponential growth feels very slow at the start".

I feel like we're with AI, we're in the part of the curve where you can feel it arcing upwards. There's definitely been an uptick in the AI capability. Still no fully self-driving cars, but good enough text generation that the Turing test is in the rear-view mirror.
Previously, I've always written "machine learning" or "statistical models" or so, because calling it AI always seemed silly. Not anymore.

Not everything that slowly arcs upwards must become an exponential curve, but we have theories that predict that. There can be many dampening factors that can make it a slower exponential curve, but even that will look like a brick wall if you zoom out far enough.

I think a question we have to ask ourselves is: at what zoom level should we look at the AI capability curve? At the "can re react to an emergency?" time scale, which is, like, days to month? Or at the "can we change society to cope with the new situation?" scale, which is more like decades? At the first time scale, we probably won't even notice a hard takeoff. Viewed over decades, it'll probably very obvious, in retrospect, when it will have happened.
Why would you want to fragment the ecosystem like that, in response to a license change that is a non-event unless you're profiteering off of Hashicorps work?
Real numbers != Natural numbers. Every natural number has a 'next'; there is no 'next' for a real number.
https://archive.is/4utCh
Great. My elderly parents will need a way to move around. I think robo-taxis will likely become the best way for them once they can't drive anymore.

US cities are not walkable. Bicycles aren't safe. Ubers are expensive and interacting with the driver is not something I want my parents to do/understand. Public transportation is pitiful.

The only hope for my elderly parents are either their kids driving them around or robo-taxis that hopefully will become cheaper than Ubers when scaled.
Maybe for mice living in safe little cages where they don't have to worry about falling down the stairs and breaking a hip. Telling humans to restrict protein intake is idiotic, bordering on irresponsible. Sarcopenia is a huge risk factor for the elderly. Lack of lean muscle mass is a risk factor for metabolic disease (type-2 diabetes) and disabling falls. We need a large amount of protein (including the right mix of essential amino acids) to build and maintain muscle. And as we age the digestive system becomes less effective at absorbing protein, so we should increase consumption a bit as we age.

https://peterattiamd.com/category/nutritional-biochemistry/p...
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I would guess it's that GHotz is a shitty writer, has puddle deep knowledge of anything that isn't iPhone firmware, and plays at being a freelance tech journo and produces this kind of hollow pseudo-philosophy that is meant to sound epiphanal but comes across as deeply naïve to anyone with any actual experience in these topics.
I've been forced to work with a team of very very smart Phds from ivy league universities to help put together an explanation deck for the c-suite.
They've informally told me, the neural nets AI tech is beyond human understanding. Everybody can only explain very small pieces of it,and no one knows how the pieces work together.
No, Open Source has always required that usage be unrestricted (Either Freedom 0 or OSD/DFSG points 5 and 6). Allowing any restrictions on usage tends to get political, as people use the license to push their specific issue, making it much harder to share and use code without issues.
Well today I have learned something I may have forgotten, thank you :). It seems natural in for and while so it does make sense also the do loops use it.
Here's a script I use for this. It's designed for use with github. Run it in your copy of a repo with a PR number and it will create a 'review' branch that has the changes uncommitted. Works great with IDEs with a good diff experience.

https://github.com/whenceforth/local-code-review
We are sort of competitors... kind of... but nevertheless feel free to switch to our MPL fork of Terraform :)
https://github.com/diggerhq/open-terraform
There are different ways to come to the wrong conclusion and the more naively and publicly you do that, the more people think scientists waste our time with poorly designed experiments.
You mean it's uncalled that people react negatively to an article with a title claiming that all of physics is broken when the fact is that there's a small adjustment in a value that we don't have a good theory to predict?
> I find this argument always very weird, especially on hacker news. Just because something wasn't made for X, doesn't that mean you can't or shouldn't use it for X? That's basically the definition of hacking in the hacker news sense of the word.

Just because you can use your impact driver as a hammer doesn't mean its going to last if you use it like one. It doesn't seem contradictory to acknowledge that you can do all sorts of things, but some of those things are going to have varying levels of consequences.

There is a sense of optimism that I see in people that everything new is good. I had that same optimism for a long time. But so did people who were using leaded gas and xrays for fitting shoes. Now I reflexively don't trust anything that doesn't have a long history of successful usage.
> To be honest the overwhelming impression I get from this author is that he's just massively up his own arse.

I mean, he's writing on Substack; I'm pretty sure that's a signup requirement for Substack.

But yeah. If you told me that this was, rather than someone's personal blog, a piece of first-person 'Frasier' fanfiction, I'd probably buy that.
The Guardian is fine as general news sources go. But something like this is extremely speculative, and there's not much for a general reader to take away. It's not the Eureka stage, it's the "that's funny" stage.
Well, the "solution" to side channel attacks (including those that haven't been discovered yet) on pretty much every out-of-order execution processor out there, which is to say pretty much every high performance processor, is to disable a lot of features and significantly throttle them--which no one really wants to do.
Having Corbyn as leader didn't help. Labour with Starmer will probably win the next one.
We're looking for people to join our founding team; those roles are not as formally defined hence the lack of a careers page. Contact info is ali @ aolabs.ai
On further reading, I am fairly confident you are wrong. No dark matter theory can explain wide binary gravitational anomalies.
AFAIK that's not a goal for this proposal.
Is it known how those few entries in the table got the wrong values?
Emergency vehicles already have traffic signal preemption devices on them. Is that not recognized autonomous vehicles?

The devices you listed were chosen by emergency services to make them more efficient at their primary purpose. Beacons have nothing to do with improving their ability to do their job and are just an additional burden.
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Dev tools of a browser are not what a power user focused browser would need. Think more about being able change keyboard shortcuts. Being able to execute small custom scripts that do stuff with tabs, windows, and pages. Yes I know browser plugins and bookmarklets exist.

But why do bookmarklets run with the security context of the currently opened page? I have one self-written bookmarklet to capture the page title and url into emacs for storing it there. Firefox asks me every time I click on that bookmarklet on a new origin (domain, protocol tuple) whether I want to allow that. With no option to avoid that. I have written this piece of code myself I want to use it to enhance my workflow. There is no need to treat it like any javascript hosted on a CDN, or on a Facebook server.
Truenas recommends SSDs since half a decade ago or so due to the high failure rate. The forums felt pretty flooded with posts about failed USB-drives for a while there, and even before that I switched to installing on a SSD since I got tired of having a triple-mirror USB-setup just to keep the system alive long enough to be able to replace them (system was located across town back then).
Oh, BTW. This is how not to do it:

print("The white horse")

I would gently suggest taking the spirit of our Ts and Cs into account, when critiquing others.

I was simply sharing a quick technique that may not be known by some folks (the "$" in sprintf). It can definitely have uses.

I've been writing localized software for over thirty years. I worked for a Japanese corporation that localized into more than 20 languages (including RTL and up/down). Pretty much everything I write is localized up the yin-yang. Even my test harnesses are usually localized, as I like to keep the habit of writing localized software. I've written systems that have been adopted worldwide, in many different languages, and are still in use (and expanding), many, many years later.

There's a teensy little chance that I may have something valid to contribute to the topic.
If your adversaries are that sophisticated and / or have that much intimate physical access, I do not envy you.
Good point. I don't think anyone actually uses it for containers that only support forward iteration. But the author did declare the signature with ForwardIterator.
Towing a Jumbo Jet in a VW Touareg – Fifth Gear [video]
I didn't go to Reddit, but extensions breaking was the reason I left on the desktop.

On mobile though... I switched back about a year ago, when I got sick of the ads on chrome.

If the choice is between being able to install uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger vs not being able to... I'll definitely stick with Firefox on mobile.
What are you talking about? Newer drives support shocks of around 200G, while older ones supported 250G even 300G.
This isn’t about lk99

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/aug/11/scientists-f...
What would real winning look like to you? And whatever you pick: do you think it was easier to win in this sense in republican Rome for the average person, as compared to now?
From the article:

Fortunately for Glukhovsky, he is not actually in Russia, and was sentenced in absentia. His current whereabouts are unknown.
It wasn't the measurements that were the problem, it was the calculation of what the standard model predicts.
I agree. And, it seems to paint Justice Scalia as sort of a madman, even though the author has laid out plenty of reasoning as to why there could be different answers, the author believes that any confident, unqualified answer was wrong, and Scalia should have begun a debate instead.

And it seems to also indicate that Catholics are madmen for following the Pope, who might be wrong about fish. Well, guess what.

This is a linguistic question, and it has origins that date back before Jesus's time and among non-Christian pagans in all sorts of places. Let's look at Europe and Latin.

In Latin, carnem means meat. But it is specifically flesh meat, that is: beef, pork, chicken, etc. It is an umbrella term, and of course there are more specific words, but carnem is a class of meat, and it is associated with the human flesh, and this is why we abstain from this type of meat on Fridays.

Carnem excludes fish. In Roman Catholic discipline, we abstain from eating land animals and birds. Animals that swim in water (some opinions say, cold-blooded) are in the "fish family" as far as we are concerned. Guess what? Alligators are fish. Muskrats, beavers, and capybaras are fish. Call me a madman if you wish. I am just classifying things according to the faith. Try having this conversation with an Orthodox Jew.

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/26593/alligator-ok-t...

https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/lent-beavers-muskrats-capy...

I think what a canny debater would first do is define the terms. I would've asked the questioner: "How do you define meat? Give some examples and counter-examples. How do you define fish?"

Over-confident? Perhaps, but wasn't that supposed to be the tone of the meal, with a confident Justice welcoming new recruits?
"Despite these ecological benefits in desert environments, feral animals have long been denied the care, curiosity and respect native species deservedly receive. Instead, these animals are targeted by culling programs for conservation and the meat industry."

"However, there are signs of change. New fields such as compassionate conservation and multispecies justice are expanding conservation’s moral world, and challenging the idea that only native species matter."

We should be kind to all kinds.
More probably these people have such a deep understanding of what is sound, how it works, and how to control it that their achievements make you feel so small and inferior that you have to mock their accomplishments to make yourself feel better. I'm sad for you that you cannot appreciate their work. Is it because you can't understand what it happening?
True. That said, fiber can be painful to deal with. Electrical isolation is one big benefit, as is power savings, and of course forward-compatibility. I still prefer running copper for residential, especially because you don’t have to be as careful about bend radius and such.

Within my rack I use DACs to connect all the gear, which works well since it allows maximum performance over short runs with minimal effort.

Nice setup though, my comment wasn’t meant to criticize, I think having a proper network at home is a big boost to quality of life that most folks don’t realize because they’ve never experienced it.
That’s a good Ass
The thing I have trouble ‘hoarding’ is tech. I don’t have a lot of it but it mounts over time. Old laptops/desktops. Gaming consoles, etc.

I feel that throwing these things away, especially the stuff with batteries, isn’t the correct way to handle it.

So I’ve kept it around meaning to do research to understand how best to get rid of it all.

Does anyone have pointers?
It should be working now. This was an interaction between React's streaming hydration errors (due to unexpected HTML injected by extensions) and one of the frontend dependencies.
you can save as PDF from the "share" menu
Umm, what? No, this is absolutely not accurate. They're laid out differently than desktop, but at least on android Firefox does have tabs. Not sure on iOS, but that's basically reskinned safari anyway.
Obviously it is goal dependent, but if you eventually want your code to run on a variety of machines and systems, I find docker to actually be a barrier. Having a different environment in CI than local can be annoying, but it’s also the first time you are forced to confront the “but it runs on my laptop!” problem
Yes your physiology is limited and you need to augment your functionality with some kind of remembering machine. Like a notebook, or like some kind of app on your phone. Or a spreadsheet. Or a SQLite DB. Basically I think if you take notes on important details and then have some system for organizing and looking them up, that might be very helpful. Like I found a part of a book that explains how to do logical synthesis and I bookmarked it, so I can keep going back to reread it every now and then in order to do stuff.
I read it as "federal donkeys" at first when I woke up.
That seems like a stretch, bit off slippery slope fallacy there.

Will we see AI use in warfare? Absolutely. Will humans trust warfare totally to AI? Not any time soon. I wouldn’t trust my lunch order to AI yet.
"While we are not authorized to discuss the project specifics, we can assure you that the DANCER platform is meant exclusively for peaceful purposes. -DARPA"

Bwahahahaha. I love it.
It's fairly clear to me that there is no such thing as AGI. Intelligence is a process of integrating sensory input with action and reward mechanisms -- nothing more, nothing less.

Are there specific structures and architectures that have evolved that are very unique which give humans, say, language ability or visual processing? Certainly. Perhaps by gods spark or some random chance on the board game of life human beings developed examples of very particular structures. Perhaps there are undiscovered ones lying within the minds of peregrine falcons, tree roots or deep sea squid. We don't even know how to look for them because we don't even know such perception and intelligence exists.

The point I'm trying to make is that there is no "goal post" of AGI, there is no quantification of intelligence yet. We don't even know what sorts of intelligence exist out there because we haven't even begun to fully characterize what it is. It seems foolish to me to search for something when we can't even define it.

It's like trying to find "the ultimate general animal" when what you really have is a phylogenetic tree of huge diversity.
Francophone Africa is laughing at us in Sorbonne.
I think you're imagining things. I've read 3 posts of yours now and I still have no idea what point you think you're making, or why you think its so clever. Completely mystified. Whatever it is, it must be super deep and beyond my understanding of the obvious issues in lego.

You're completely failing to communicate, and your worry about whether people like or dislike your post seems to be stopping you from just explicitly saying what you mean. I have no idea what you think you're trying to say, but nothing you've said so far seems like some kind of revelation about lego that we need this slow revelation.

Just say what you mean, completely, with multiple sentences, in a complete logical argument.
lower_bound and upper_bound are typically implemented in terms of partition_point, which is much more general than this version of lower_bound taking an element.
> But the discriminator of having to "pay an intelligent professional otherwise" sets the bar very high. That implies AGI

I believe they were using that discriminator to classify AI, not AGI.
I mean, if you don't like murder mysteries, no-one's forcing you to keep reading them.
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They (alongside every other member) signed an agreement with the RISC-V consortium that limits them on what funny business they can do.
I believe you're being unnecessarily mean here. He managed to write enough of a low level GPU driver to compile and execute neural network kernels. Calling that "puddle deep knowledge" is pretty dismissive considering that CUDA is Nvidia's most profitable moat.
Images are pretty routine amongst most of them (though not all).

In the end what you have is a base image, and then a set of code and instructions to transform that image into your runtime image, then you distribute that image as your "application".

I have never needed to do this, as all of my work has been utilitarian in nature, rather than some kind of monolith distributed to others. I simply load my code on to the stock image and go from there.

But even then, for folks that do that, they may well load up the stock image with useful and common, personal, utilities, and snapshot that. Their "application" is their essential working environment.

Smalltalk does, and Forth can work from this concept of an image.

Schemes tend to not be this way. They are interactive, but the image concept is not as ingrained in the Scheme world. Instead, it's more like doing development in something like Bash -- an interactive environment to be sure, but one that always resets to the baseline state and must be reloaded when started. There are certainly Schemes that can do this, it's just not as routine.
My biggest issue with terraform is concept of state file. It seems that Pulumi continues on this model. I wish someone came up with innovative idea of not needing state file.
I mean they didn’t claim that all of physics is broken, but ok.
this brings up old memories of being bitten sometime by this Solaris "feature" although it's been too many years to remember the exact details. It was one of those things that made me realize Linux was actually a much more usable system from a day to day admin point of view, along with package managers.

Edit: another one was Solaris defaulting to the obsolete unix crypt function based on the Enigma machine
It is true and it's worth reminding. Science is progressed by interpretation of data. And we have easy access to a behemoth that needs interpreting. AI winter shouldn't come anytime soon.
Very impressive, can't wait to give it a try!
Congrats on the launch! The output quality is very good!
Anyone knows if Java already does this optimization?
That's a word that has very different connotations in professional physics research. We understand the process of science pretty well, and are more used to being wrong than most people.

It's used in the very old sense of "perplexing", not "to make someone feel awkward".

1b, not 1a: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/embarrass