skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that RAM requirements are going up so much all the time doesn’t seem to match reality if you ask me.

The fact that I’m still getting by totally fine with an old 8GB on my old laptop is frankly speaking insane. It’s from 2015. Back in the 90s using an 8 year old machine for anything modern would have been unthinkable. OK, it can’t do the latest games or 8k video editing. There are some modern tasks it can’t do. But with everything else there’s no big difference with my newer machines.

I can still get by with RAM that’s within an order of magnitude of my 2008 gaming computer. Even for games. Isn’t that crazy? With everything else the requirements (disk size and GPU transistors) have gone up like 2x orders of magnitude.

There’s been some jumps in ram requirements over the years but often it has been for important things like browser sandboxing or HiDPI/retina displays.

There is some validity to the frustration. The switch to MS teams at work was associated with a big jump in the RAM needed for a usable system. But I also get why.. the pace of development of MS teams has been extremely fast which would’ve been hard without electron. I don’t miss Skype for business.

And now they’ve worked on a version that’s more optimised? If Teams is optimised I can get by with 8-16GB for a long time
What a pleasant little irony.

>U-Haul’s website has an entire page dedicated to Burning Man. The company offers decal kits (at a $39.95 premium) to obscure the logos covering truck and van exteriors since Burning Man attendees are expected to cover up logos on everything from clothing to cars, as per the event’s “decommodification” principle.
USGS has maps of water well depths. 250 feet at my house, definitely would be "ambitious" to diy that depth.
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A long article, but a must-read for anyone wanting to know "what's happening with the people".

> To be sure, vigilance against narrative is a fundamental duty of the politically engaged citizen. That vigilance is how we replace thoughtless compliance with the preferences of a nudging state and nudging oligarchy with critical thought and autonomy of mind instead. Narrative antipathy, however, simply replaces one form of thoughtless compliance with another. Instead of blithely submitting to the framing and opinions-presented-as-fact spoon-fed to us by corporate media institutions, we blithely and confidently disregard entire populations of humans and entire fields of human knowledge simply because they were part of an effort to nudge us.

> I get it. Narrative antipathy feels like it should be a natural extension of or a response to narrative awareness. I tell you that it is the opposite. Narrative awareness is an on switch for autonomy of mind. Narrative antipathy is an off switch.

> And there is nothing more useful to manipulative institutions than an off switch for autonomy of mind.

In the west we've got demoralised just like Russians, but instead of one state driven narrative that nothing is known, we got so many different narratives we don't have enough thinking time to know which to trust.
As I understand it, you can order 400 genetically identical mice very easily. Eliminating confounds, easy access, quick lifespans (for iteration) and mammals with at least some transferability to humans is the primary reason. Plus, unlike monkeys, no one cares.
The original Doom game is meant to be played with non 1:1 pixel ratio.. so some modern ports don’t actually look quite right.
I think you are right you need a strategy if aiming for success, riding a wave or what you predict to be a future wave. But now millions of people are open sourcing so there is a fuck load of noise. To the point that I would say you don’t pay a company selling commercial software for the software ad much as you pay to not need to choose between a million free options with scant or bad sales copy and have some proof of customer success.
I think bryan cantrill founded a company (joyent? or triton?) to do just that several years ago. It may have been based on solaris/smartos zones which is that exact use case w/ very secure/isolated containers.
How is someone meant to know where they rank on usage or if they're even being abusive with a service billed as "unlimited" that they pay for?
Google Keep at the moment.

I've tried Obsidian+SyncThing, custom DIY apps, turtl, simplenote, Zim, probably others.

Nothing I tried was quite as frictionless on mobile as Keep, and the wear OS tiles are great.
But why Google? This is what big pharma are doing. Also you can outsource the data collection part. See for example UK Biobank. Their data are available to multiple companies after some period so it makes it more cost efficient.
It seems like Apple might have an advantage here over other manufacturers since they have a relatively limited product lineup and sell in such massive volumes. For example, the per-unit cost of compliance for their handful of iPhone models they release every year could be less than for Samsung and their 50+ phone models they release every year [1]. Budget online sellers like "ZICOROOP" (chosen at random from Amazon [2]) might be unable to support the requirements altogether, and be forced not to sell in California.

I could also see Apple customers being more willing to pay a premium for geniune Apple parts than budget smartphone and PC users, which could be a new source of revenue.

Apple has also shifted more toward selling services in recent years, and seems content to let people continue to use their old hardware longer if it means they subscribe to iCloud Storage, Apple Music, Apple TV+, etc.

Finally, whether you believe them or not, Apple makes a fairly big show of caring about the environment [3]. They devote a fair amount of time in all their major product announcements to talking about environmental impact. And supporting this bill is on brand for them.

[1] https://thelec.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=3574

[2] https://www.amazon.com/ZICOROOP-Bluetooth-Speakers-Waterproo...

[3] https://www.apple.com/environment/
Russia invaded an ally whom we promised to protect, who is also rich in natural resources, and is a strategic chokepoint for a future Russian invasion of Europe proper.

Ukraine had problems with corruption, but they were trending in the right direction, and their democracy was working. Russia, on the other hand, has a long history of murdering political dissidents and journalists, and their democracy was a sham. Ukraine was clearly ideologically aligned with western interests; Russia was clearly not.

I'm wholly in favor of inducting Ukraine into NATO once this is over and helping them rebuild. Russia can get fucked.

China is watching. We fail to honor our promise to Ukraine at Taiwan's peril. Appearing weak on our promises to allies invites World War.

Finally, $75 billion is an absolute bargain to effectively destroy one of our longest-standing enemies.

Defending Ukraine was correct morally, ethically, ideologically, and strategically. It boggles my mind that right wingers argue against it with a straight face.

You are spreading Russian propaganda. Stop doing that.

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/exposing-the-myth-...
You will likely have issues if you ever try to sell property with an unpermitted well. FHA loans have restrictions on the well as do many local jurisdictions that may refuse to convey the property if the well isn’t up to code. My local jurisdiction won’t block the sale but will write an alarming letter to the seller. In the case of a new build or major remodel, you will not be able to get a certificate of occupancy without a state and county verified well here.

> Hell most of the licensed contractors I hire (electric, plumbing, etc) don’t bother to pull permits, even for new work.

Yeah, it’s your responsibility as a homeowner to get the permit (either get it yourself or see that the contractor does). Even if you don’t think the permit inspectors are doing anything in terms of quality control, the permit helps you to pass inspections as part of the sale process and will limit your insurance exposure if there’s ever an issue. There’s probably fine print in your insurance contract saying that all work shall be permitted as required.
That's what Doom Emacs is for.
I've been reading a lot about blogging recently, to help with my perfectionism. My notes on some of the best posts I found are here: https://chavanniclass.com/2023/08/14/16-learning-in-public-a...

It's my attempt at reminding myself of all the times that someone else's blog posts have helped me solve a problem or think from a different perspective about something that was bothering me. They've given me direction, purpose, reassurance. They've saved my life.

Your writing could do that for someone. We might not think that a simple tutorial or a list of thoughts could be life-changing, but things are unpredictable. You have no idea who will find your stuff and what impact it will have on them. The cost of keeping what you know to yourself is greater than the cost of being ridiculed. People will always find ways to put down others, so it's better to make something meanwhile, rather than censor yourself in the fear that it might happen.

Don't stop yourself from writing and sharing your stuff. It's one of the cruellest things I did to myself. I wouldn't want anyone else to think that they or their thoughts don't matter.

You've blogged in the past. Please do so again, for your own self (I'm assuming you wouldn't be "torn" if you didn't care about it) if not for others.

All the best, and I hope you do share a link here when you start writing again.
They weren't using pentium pros, they were using Alpha's because the memory interconnect between a beowulf cluster of pentium pros would be orders of magnitude slower. So likely 'the same, but much slower'.
What's most likely is a poorly trained waiter/waitress uses an eagle claw grab to hold the glass as it's moved and served. That means their fingers, god knows where they've been, touch the rim of the glass I am about to sip from.

I've seen this happen everywhere from the cheapest joint to the poshest of posh establishments that I view it as simple inevitability so long as humans are involved in serving.
Because you stay in the left lane when you shouldn't?
Oh, the horror!

This is the right solution - dry storage in hard rock in some rock formation that hasn't done anything in millions of years. Originally, in addition to Yucca Mountain, there was a plan for an East Coast nuclear waste repository in hard rock, probably in Maine or Vermont.

When it's full, the Finland plan is to fill in everything, seal it off, and not mark it.
If some future society can drill through that much hard rock, they probably know about radiation, since that's a routine hazard in mining.
So I have my whole genome sequenced by Nebula. What do I have to do to match it up?
and requiring those is illegal in US
I never tried Obsidian because the recurring price was too steep for me and I understand that localization will be a challenge. I do have to say, however, that your responses here actually sound sincere (and the reaction to OP's project is something I would not have expected) to the point that if I really need something similar to your product, I am definitely reconsidering.

I wish you and your team good luck.
Also oneless you're really famous and a lot of people are reading your blog, the chances of this happening are close to zero. Austin Kleon, who wrote Steal Like an Artist and other books, says that in the beginning, obscurity is good. You can make mistakes, experiment, change your mind.
it's both a parody and one of the foundational works of the genre
> to enable the repairs performed by authorised repair channels

I think what this means is that just want to be required to support the "replace whole part" type repairs that Apple Stores already do - i.e. replace motherboard, replace display assembly, replace whole top case.

Compared to enabling the kind of board or component-level repairs that people like Louis Rossmann does which requires access to schematics, individual ribbon cables and specific chips.

The former means that one slightly torn 50 cent ribbon cable means a $300 screen replacement, or one blown $1 power controller chip means a $2000 logic board (cpu/ram/flash storage all that is soldered on) a replacement, which is all extremely wasteful both of money and natural resources.
Yes, move out of the left lane.
Both of these are meant for embedded development only.

You implied before that there are major JDK distributions which are not based on OpenJDK, but these two examples do not show that: these are niche JDKs.
You should check out _Show Your Work!_ by Austin Kleon. I think it'll really help you with this particular problem.
I am based on the continent, but I am a native English speaker owning a language-services business that serves academic clients internationally, so I am very familiar with the landscape. I for one would be surprised if the university proposed translation out of its own pocket. Even if one is dealing with a minority language that could use some support, universities overwhelmingly want the costs for these things to fall on some source of funds other than the university.
I've had similar experiences with Hashicorp and small bugfix pull requests.

The "Thank you for your feedback, we appreciate it" comment in response to a full page of well constructed feedback is exactly the kind of empty corporate responses Hashicorp gives all the time now a days.

They will also note in issues that they would happily accept a PR for it. However if you look at how they deal with PR's that's a very disingenuous statement.
Apple never supports anything that benefits the user rather than them. So something must be off about it.
I am completely bewildered by the responses here.

GPT-3 is so good it could write code, or it could emulate an entire TV show to the point of lawsuit, or simulate an eternal debate between Herzog and Zizek. You could translate Bulgarian to Sindarin for heaven's sake. And all of this comes at a 50% tax rate or so because of the alignment tax that OAI opted for. (which doesn't even work because anyone who puts effort in can jailbreak it scarily well)

The real solution is not these monstrosities of the internet mushed together and taxed like a Belgian billionaire. It's models and frameworks specific to what you want in a given query.

It was less than 24 hours ago that we finally got a local model that can do code generation well, and we also know that Meta has a far better one that they are holding back.

There is no reason that for any query you should be restricted to a single inference run on a single fixed model, and there is no reason that we shouldn't perform a bunch of non-LLM processing on the output before the user sees it.

Switch between multiple models, fine-tune, or use LoRAs based on the query -- Python plots? Load llama-coding-python-plots. You like Plotly? Add -Plotly. Run the code in a sandbox (with hard kills on resources) and regenerate it if it does not meet standards.

You're working in linguistics? Switch to a chat model that's fine-tuned in the literature and codebase of that field.

There are a trillion ways to improve things; we're basically at the cavemen-banging-rocks-together point.

Hell, I'm a sleep deprived ESL and i just invoked the monstrosity to fix my grammar and spelling for this post. What a bloody waste of CO2.

If for nothing but to keep the Earth afloat we shouldn't be using these huge closed source SaaS things unless we need them. Repurpose them for SETI@Home or processing human genetics for healthcare, or something else that benefits mankind
Compostable plastic is a complete scam, it just means tha me industrial composters will break the plastic down into small microplastic fragments with heat.
Scary cowboy on Sesame Street: I WANNA KNOW Y!

Scientists: here you go
Operating chip factory machinery, while not unskilled, is not the same as working at Nvidia as a computer engineer doing chip design.

Don't expect the factory workers to have the same educational requirements and demographics as existing semiconductor workers.
Right, that's called "ghettoization". It's not really a good recipe for a safe, prosperous nation. You really think things will work out great if you bring in millions of people and all they can do is work as exploited workers in restaurants in one little part of a city?

I guess it worked "ok" for America historically because America abused and exploited so many immigrants for so long (go read "The Jungle"), but I don't think that's really something to emulate.
Also:

1. If being unable to support themselves is the concern, why not make that the actual requirement to stay... Versus of an indirect and error-prone language requirement set by what are probably a bunch of old white monolingual men in Washington, DC?

2. Automatic translation tools have advanced by leaps and bounds over the last few decades.
I think you need to take a basic class in ethics if you think ethics are determined entirely by rights and law
Those horrible things are usually in trace amounts and can very well be impossible to avoid for food.

But the caloric value, protein, carbohydrate, fat, and sodium amounts are not relative.

I would like stricter nutritional labels, but I don't think people would be able to meet those standards.
How is it not? I think it’s wrong, ie immoral
That can't be, because primes are numbers greater than 1.
This kind of data shouldn't be accessible by people who do not own the email address..
On one hand, the US have been built by immigrants, and I'm in favor of letting in more and more.

On the other hand, unlike in 19th century, now Asia might offer, say, 50-70M willing skilled workers and people with advanced degrees in technology. Such an influx would be very noticeable, to say the least, in many areas of daily life. Such changes should not be approached too lightly.
If you are suggesting solutions based on immutable hardware keys and certified chain of custody from the manufacturer,I have to ask if you understand what TOR is.
> Not a bad context

A little understated, this is state of the art. GPT-4 only offers 32k.
i guess we now move to element call? https://call.element.io/

this sounds like a reasonable alternative
How do you store your USD if you live in, say, Zimbabwe or Argentina?
Must be a US thing. Over here you pay 23€/month for a 1 hour in person psychiatrist session.
Single payer healthcare here (UK) is still subject to privacy controls in a way which would make it very difficult to do that.

(Also our health system's IT is a hellscape, but one reason for that is that people would literally rather not have a working system at all, than one with less than impeccable privacy controls.

Personally I'd gladly sacrifice a fair bit of medical privacy in return for giving scientists greater insight into disease processes, but the average citizen here wants advanced healthcare without giving their data to research scientists. /facepalm )
> If Apple is forced to allow 3rd party app stores, why can't I get the same for my Playstation?

I’m really curious of what effect will the DMA have when it will be confronted to game consoles.
Fluent Bit to Clickhouse works very well for me.
Superbatteries will transform the performance of EVs
Curious how financial-focused news that was excluded (economist, wsj, ft, bloomberg, etc) has fared. Wouldn't be surprised if that's a substantial portion
is it possible to host custom models other than the standard one?
https://archive.ph/aLW0B
Depends on if that thing is praiseworthy. Then Elon is just a figurehead who knows nothing and does nothing.

But if its a negative thing, then obviously Elon is responsible and nothing happens without his consent.

/s
That would be interesting. I would think if you are conscious you have to have an inner voice.
My guess is people feel the need to self-justify their $20/month subscription.
can never be competitive with overseas suppliers
Thanks for the heads up. The one I have installed is https://www.microsoft.com/store/productid/9NLP712ZMN9Q and it looks like the subscription version is a new listing https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9PM8LP83G3L3
(They don't obscure your vision. They help avoid spillage.)
> chugs along for the first 1-2 minutes on startup even once technically booted into Windows.
> Opening chrome takes like 10 seconds for the first site to load after double clicking.

Seems like there must be some problem with your system.
I think you need devs/producers to complaim about high margins in stores before anyone cares about 3rd party apps. Or about abusive practices (you get thrown out of a store for arbitrary reasons).

I haven't heard devs say anything of the sorts for gaming consoles. Certainly barriers to entry are higher and NDAs probably stricter... But, dunno, the complaints are basically non existent in media.
We are getting lost in semantics. Your original comment was clear in its intent, YIMBY martial law and "housing that meets basic health and safety criteria on a site within city limits that is already surrounded on three sides by other developed parcels".

I responded with a viable alternative: free instant permit to rebuild what was there before (regardless of current zoning). You are proposing something much more radical.

I'm not opposed to doing something crazy in Lahaina like a building free for all. I'm saying don't declare it a success and start promoting it elsewhere before it is even started, let alone a proven success.
I know at least one case of a Microsoft Consultant who suggested to use company.local for a new Exchange setup for roughly 5k employees. Unfortunately, his suggestion was actually implemented.
> Chamberlain explained that parts pairing is used by Apple to confirm whether parts were purchased through their authorized network and have a record of repairs, while console makers may use it to "assume that a disk drive is original and trustworthy."

> "To eliminate parts pairing entirely, they need to find new technical ways of meeting these goals without limiting repair," she told Ars. "Until then, our best compromise is in SB 244: If manufacturers use parts pairing, they need to make their pairing software tool available to the public."

This section seems a little vague...does this mean that Apple will still be able to block you from swapping in a part that they dont deem as "valid" for whatever reason? What does that software tool that theyre supposed to make public do? verify "authenticity"?
I live in NYC, don't own a car, and agree.

But cars are still needed in many areas, and even in dense cities with excellent public transport. In this role, electric cars are strictly better than gasoline cars, because they can be powered by solar or hydro or wind or nuclear energy right now.

Also, I know a number of people who despise dense cities and want suburbia or countryside. Again, if they could fuel their cars from solar panels on their roofs (or shopping center roofs, parking lot roofs, etc), it would be strictly better than burning more oil.
Huh. This is ingenius in that "obvious once you hear it" way that I wouldn't have thought of. I practical want to try it just because of that.
Considering the whole journey uranium has been through in the last ~100 years, it does seem somewhat shortsighted to declare it “useless” and lock it up forever.
See also the "vampires" in Peter Watt's excellent Blindsight. In fact I thought the novel did refer to uncanny valley but apparently it doesn't, at least not with those exact words.
And yet there are plenty of companies that openly exploit the visa system to bring cheap labor. Just check the top companies with the most H1Bs and you'll see a lot of consulting firms.
that math is better than other sciences? that s racist
You must not have kids. Mine would murder for straws when they were between ages 2 and 17.
Chandrayaan 3 Rover ramped down from the Lander to the Lunar surface [video]
Start a reverse-engineering project like I did, and you'll quickly find yourself reading 10s of thousands of lines of assembly. Or at best, decompiled generic C.