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whois on the ip-address tells their range, also their asn with which you can find and block all their nets if necessary.
but block via firewall, not webserver
Not just "what is an install?" but "how do they detect installs?" Does every Unity game have always-online DRM included now? Will pirates count, so Unity demands a share of money you didn't make? If you give out an open beta to the public, do those development versions count as installs?

Unsurprisingly, the FAQ does not answer much.
We farm emus for their oil
I get out of NYC plenty!

I’m not saying mid-sized towns have no amenities. I’m saying the sheer density of NYC provides many more opportunities. If you’re claiming that even mid sized towns have dozens of museums accessible by public transit… they do not.

But to provide more context to my original comment about serendipitous connections: the default path for many people living in NYC is not to move to a mid-sized town (fewer job opportunities, for one), it’s to move to the suburbs. Out in the burbs (where I’ve spent more time than I ever care to) you’re driving absolutely everywhere and people are scattered all over the place. That is what I don’t want.
That would require commercial availability of large amounts of radioactive materials. Anyone could make a dirty bomb or maybe worse, be the next Radioactive Boy Scout and contaminate their own neighborhood without even meaning to, or being detected, unless always on Geiger counters became standard like CO detectors.

I think I could live without hot water instead of this.
It boils down to feeling good about helping the planet, without doing the math or recognizing the hard realities IMO.

When the policy was started, the USSR had fallen, the world was on the upswing, etc. etc.

optimism, enthusiasm, etc.

These issues were all called out at the time.
I buy it on camping trips. It has a major benefit of not getting your stuff wet as it melts.
> I fail to see how a lab-leak assumption was deemed dangerous.

I did not say it was. Some said it was "dangerous" in that, we had no good evidence either way, so drawing a conclusion wasn't a good idea, and that is especially true if the outcome of that conclusion was to simply take an aggressive stance towards china and ignore everything else, which seemed to be the desired outcome. In the end, it really doesn't matter where COVID came from, because there WILL be future natural pandemics, and our response to COVID is what was the problem.

Nobody who gave the "china did it" theory gave credible or useful information about WHY WE SHOULD CARE, other than bad mouthing Dr. Fauci and saying that we should stop gain of function research, which did start a useful conversation in that sphere of science, but the end result remains the same: We cannot force China to fix the problem of shitty labs with shitty safety practices if they don't care to fix it on their own, because they are a sovereign nation.
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Do you still use few-shot prompting with a fine-tune? Or does it make little difference?
I'd further tighten the scenario a bit before opining, while hopefully staying true to what you're asking.

Let's imagine Hitchcock's compatriot releases a film that is Hitchcock-esque in every way it can be (camera, lighting, themes, sound... the whole package), while featuring a novel plot.

Then let's say Hitchcock also releases an equally-equivalent film to his first work.

There is no non-plot innovation in either work, and the plot is as similar as can be while remaining distinct.

What are the values these works could likely command?

To me... I think the Hitchcock work would be more valuable, by virtue of his name, which in turn originated its value from his first masterful and original work.

His compatriot's film would be valuable. After all, Hitchcock's original work was acclaimed, appreciated, and popular, so it stands to a reason an extremely similar work would be as well.

But I can't see it approaching the value of Hitchcock's second, despite them being functionally identical artistic works. It's instead discounted by the lack of Hitchcock's name, itself valuable from the link to his first, original work.

Interesting thought exercise!

The follow-up would be what would happen if the market were flooded with first-alike films, either from Hitchcock or his compatriot!
"Beat X without using System Y" is a pretty common achievement though. Half-Life 2: Episode 1 has an achievement that begged me to play the game again: beat the episode while only firing one shot.

Being able to beat a game while not using a core system can be a sign of good game design, or an exceptionally skilled player. Look at Super Mario 64 and speedrunner's ability to finish levels with a single press (but not release!) of the jump button.
Unity is hellbent on not being used by large game studios on large games.
This is about Ireland, but I'm curious whether there is any country in the world that does require this sort of transparency.
Was there some limitation listed with your HMO coverage, or are you just speculating? All insurance plans have emergency coverage regardless of if the hospital is in your network.
The Obsidian team uses a shared Sync vault[1] to collaborate on making Obsidian. Since Obsidian runs on local files you could use any shared file storage like Dropbox. If you want more granular version history, you can use Git, there's a nice plugin for it[2].

[1]: https://help.obsidian.md/Obsidian+Sync/Share+remote+vaults

[2]: https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-git
Unity spent $4.4BN to merge with an Ad Tech company. How is anyone surprised about this change?
For the open core model to work, the OSS product should be standalone and featureful. If users feel like it's just used to advertise a commercial product, it doesn't work. And the commercial product should offer value-added services and features that are not strictly required for the base OSS product. These should be features directed towards advanced or corporate users, and preferably something that competitors lack, or don't do a good job of.

It's very tricky to balance the open core model correctly, which is why not many companies get it right. You need to invest equally, if not more, in the OSS product, and make sure users are happy with it before you even mention a commercial addon. Grafana is another example of companies that understand and do this well.
https://archive.is/ku2xx
A new way to learn languages
We're finding that when running Llama-2-7B with vLLM (https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm) on an A40 GPU we're getting consistently lower time-to-first-token and lower average token generation time than GPT-3.5, even when processing multiple requests in parallel. A40s are pretty easy to get your hands on these days (much easer than A100s anyway).

The 50x cheaper (that's 2% of the cost, not 50% of the cost) number does assume 100% GPU utilization, which may or may not be realistic for your use case. If you're doing batch processing as part of a data pipeline, which is not an unusual use case, you can run your GPU at 100% utilization and turn it off when the batch finishes.

If you've got a highly variable workload then you're right, you'll have much lower utilization numbers. But if you work with an aggregator that can quickly hot swap LoRA fine-tunes (as a disclaimer, my company OpenPipe works in this space) you can get back a lot of that lost efficiency since we can increase/decrease GPU capacity only when our aggregate usage changes, which smooths things out.
> Highly recommended reading.

If one were interested in finding these to read where or how might they be found?
Realistically, it's very unlikely we'd have compatible chemistry for them. It's like, our bacteria would be hopeless against ammonia blood or something.

But fungi/protozoa are probably a better analogy... they're more generalists and would stand a better chance of being invaders. Against something totally alien, if it could survive or thrive in an animal, I'm skeptical our immune system would be worth much, but I don't know.
Aside: I'm not sure a banner saying 404 is the best idea. I opened the page and very nearly reflexively closed it thinking the site was down. Close the banner saying "404"and the content was then visible ... sigh.
Ha, my thoughts exactly.
> The separated window menu which is always attached to the top of the screen, is a usability win.

Not for me, it's not. I curse it heavily.
Coke’s latest mystery flavor is here. It’s created by AI
Yes, I was using the term thin client as they did in the article. DeX actually tries to make the phone the only computer one needs. Just connect a screen and either use the phone as keyboard/mouse or connect a physical device.

This might be even more interesting with Samsung TVs which allow wireless DeX. Have not seen this in action though.
> This same phenomenon is the reason why John Ousterhout wrote Tcl and the GNU project started Guile.

Except that Guile is an implementation of Scheme, which is essentially a somewhat minimalist variant of Lisp. So in this case, a real programming language was included intentionally as configuration language.

And this is the same concept as why GNU Emacs is an editor written in Lisp on top of C routines - very similar how data science is often done in Python on top of Numpy and several other packages.
I've not seen the core threatening suburbia unless the core is trying to expand and take over suburbia. In That case I say demolish the core and build denser in the core.

I understand your point your point about suburbanites wanting the best of both worlds. You are right at city leaders should take care of their own populations first and not try to accommodate suburbanites beyond making it easy to park their cars on the outskirts of the city and take public transit in.

regarding city life and culture, my partner and I used to live near a major city and it was so stressful driving 5 miles to events in the city or taking slower public transit that we stopped going to city events and looked outward to events outside of the major city.

When I lived by myself and fairly close to the city, I would drive part way and and then take public transit to an outdoor concert. I stopped going because of the size of crowds, people not being quiet so others can listen to the music, and security was obnoxious and all for show. Same thing with a Shakespeare in the Park event. Too much noise, couldn't hear the actors and it was just not worth the effort.

we now live in a much quieter, less people dense place and for us it's a much better quality of life.
Well. For me, Immanuel Kants' (1724-1804) "Ding an sich" (The thing in itself) lays the groundwork for modern science. My translation would be: "Since our senses are so easily fooled, we will never grasp the thing in itself." IMAO a reasonable scientist says: "We can only say what is least likely wrong." Can you win elections with sentences like these?
https://archive.is/RAOw9
My point is that 30% makes the situation worse, because it is not available to you to pay Unity's cut, so it's as if you made 30% less revenue. IE Unity pricing kicks in at $200k gross, but that's only $170k net, which is what is available you as a business to pay Unity.
Apple ditches the Lightning connector in favor of USB-C after 11 years
>Hayek (he too had an econ degree I believe) could argue that advocating for the gold standard isn't necessarily advocating for "no policy." It is advocating for a different kind of policy, one that places more trust in market mechanisms rather than central planning.

Yes, this was why I said "effectively no policy" and compared it to removing regulation in the wake of 2008. It isn't literally "no policy" in the same way that anarchy is still technically a governing philosophy. But it is still effectively the same as no policy by taking a laissez-faire approach.

>No matter how good of a policy you have for predicting Roulette numbers, your policy will be just as good as choosing at random, and most likely worse. Hayek would argue that there was a "knowledge problem" and no amount of econ degrees can solve it.

This is what I described as defeatist. The economy isn't roulette. In roulette, it is impossible to observe, react, and predict. I don't believe that is true of the economy. It seems borderline silly to suggest we can't observe an economic trend and react to it.
> doesn't mean others must be true too

Of course not but it does lead to people re-examining their priors. It leads people to ask "what other conspiracies that I've been dismissing might be true?"

> or that some people suddenly gain credibility for their conspiracies

That's obviously untrue. When people are right, they gain credibility and the things they say hold more weight. When people are wrong the opposite happens. How else could credibility work? People don't go around examining everything starting from first principles, the look to people they trust and they decide who to trust by how often they are correct, aka, credibility.

Conspiracy theories aren't more prevalent because the X-Files, they're more prevalent because trust in institutions is, deservedly, at an all time low.
Planetary bombardment is almost certainly going to be the cheaper option there.

Less mass and energy overall. You will still have to accelerate it to a significant speed though.
And by the time you actually ship something, 10 years have passed.
Episode 7 highlights of Path To Citus Con podcast about PostGIS and Postgres
Distant learning. A teacher will be the last job in the age of automatization everything.
Lol, thanks - best link I can find:

https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/journals/10.1049/...

Looks like it was an IET journal, I think my IEEE publications were all conferences.
Your links may be broken

I was recently looking for a static site generator for a local relay race I help organize and django-distill was the top of my list. I ended up writing my own SSG because I had very little HTML that actually had to be generated on the site. But might check out django-distill in the future if you found it worth learning.
Just the first example I could quickly find:

https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/electric-cars-banned-from...

Or

https://www.yellowbullet.com/threads/evs-got-banned-from-rac...

And sounds like it's not for lithium fires only but also traction control.
https://archive.is/9jJeV
One of the photos really brought something home to me. Where I would expect to see an axle or something to provide torque to wheels from the engine, there is just a yellow wire.

I know that's how electric cars work. But something about it in the racing car context just brings it home to me - electricity just works differently to all our other intuitions about the world. Factories used to have bands and axels taking power from one central steam engine to all corners of the building. And then they got redesigned once electricity came in.

I got a gut realisation from that photo that something similar is / has happened.

I like to emphasise using "boring tech" at work to avoid chasing too many rainbows. But sometimes there is a pot of gold and I need to remember that, else my factory will remain steam powered.
>> Name me a handful of world-famous works for which there are multiple, almost-indistinguishable but distinct copies.
> or see a Soros conspiracy behind every criticism of certain idols

Idols, Soros conspiracy... And you accuse others of being stupid. A simple idea, shady practices on the part of a platform are not OK if what you want, as you say, is trust.

> I have some crypto coins to sell you too.

I'm sure you have. You were left holding the bag in the subreddit you've mentioned.

> the FSB has fascinating manuals on exactly this topic. Highly recommended reading.

Right, they've sent you a copy. You and your government, the idiots who can be seen laughing [1][2] when told they should not depend on Russian energy. "I don't really understand what he means by that ha-ha-ha", tells your genius defense minister.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfJv9QYrlwg

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CvQmWoog18
Nice and simple. I feel the only lacking feature for a basic blog is having unlisted blog posts, which is very handy when you want to share it to proof-readers. This can be done on google doc/hedgedoc [0] for sure, but then when porting there are very often typos creeping in.

[0] https://hedgedoc.org/
I suggested the effect might be too small to measure, and I’d guess that’s true today despite some researchers saying it might be possible. Really stop to think about the volume of air passing through turbines (most of which isn’t disturbed much) compared to the volume of all air. I think that’s what the comment about going into orbit was about. We’re talking about the tiniest fraction of the earth’s air coming into contact with turbines. I don’t know that there’s no effect at all, maybe there is a little, but it doesn’t seem very plausible that the effect could amount to much given the obviously enormous ratio of air that’s not affected to air that is.

We probably have several orders of magnitude more turbulence in the air due to cities and airplanes and other man made structures than turbines.

CO2 absolutely has everything to do with this, because you asked about climate change. CO2 is one of the things use of turbines is intended to reduce. You can’t ask a question about climate change and proceed to ignore CO2. CO2 emissions are reduced when coal plants are replaced with turbines. If you want to have any idea of the affect of turbines on climate change, you must account for the relative changes in CO2, and it’s likely to be larger than whatever effects turbulence cause.

If you are interested in what turbulence can do to the climate, then it’s also important to ask the question what has already happened due to deforestation. Does the introduction of turbines have any chance of compensating for the number of trees we’re removed from exposure to surface winds?
Correct, and it seems to be per game, which is better than before, since it seems to allow Unity Personal for making free/small things in any setting.
I use Obsidian a decent amount daily but I'm confused by what properties are. Are they like tags?
Obsidian Sync may provide a partial solution but it's mainly targeted at a single user synchronizing vaults between devices. There's also the Obsidian Git[1] plugin if you're working with developers that are familiar with Git, with all of the pros and cons you'd expect. Finally, there's obsidian-livesync[2] which in theory would provide some very powerful functionality; it seems very cool but given that doing such livesync is complex and easy to get wrong exercising a great deal of caution (frequent backups and care when rolling out for production uses) seems prudent.

Keep in mind that Obsidian requires a license for business use[3]. They're a very small shop that's entirely funded by licensing/sync/publishing income and are making a pretty fantastic product and they deserve some cash to keep developing Obsidian.

[1]: https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-git
[2]: https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync
[3]: https://obsidian.md/pricing
This is a dangerous argument. Shall we make it illegal to switch radio stations when they stop playing music and start running commercials? After all, the advertiser paid good money for those commercials to play. Shouldn't everyone be required to listen to them?

When reading a magazine, do I need to start from the first page and spend a minimum number of seconds staring at the multiple full-page ads before flipping to an article I might actually be interested in?

Do we need to make VHS tapes and DVRs illegal, if they allow the user to record only the parts of the program they're interested in, while skipping over the commercial breaks?

The pumpkins argument is a strawman: with physical goods, theft and loss of value has occurred. The legal owner of the unpaid pumpkins (the store) is now unable to sell them to a paying customer. When I choose to watch one video, but not another, I have not somehow taken value away from anyone. The original copy of the data is still on the server, ready to be delivered to the next viewer.

The littering argument is a strawman: when I choose to watch one video, but not another, I have not committed an act of vandalism. No person other than me can even be aware that this has transpired, unless I tell someone else about it. What I choose to focus my attention on affects me, and me alone. Littering affects others, making it a poor comparison.
That is much more technical and assumes some underlying knowledge about a lot of color terminology. Whereas the article here is geared more toward the "layman", or at least someone that doesn't have a lot of background in color spaces, etc:

> I quickly learned that there’s no way to understand Oklch without at least a working understanding of the difference between gamuts and color spaces.
Its' just a transformer blowing up.
HMOs don't prevent you from choosing a psychiatrist as far as I know, you just need to find one in network.

And yes, if want a pill pusher or crooked doctor who gives you what you think you need without following evidence based medicine, a PPO is better for that. Those are going to be more rare on HMOs because the doctors in HMO networks are more connected.
> reviewer dug up

is there any way to appeal such decision? it is not healthy when single person can block lots of hard work..
In IT we call those people "power users", the absolute bane of tech support.
For me it's not whether it's useful, it's whether the tradeoffs are worth it. I assume GDScript has some unique features that make it especially useful in Godot development, but the disadvantage is that the skills aren't transferrable to any other platform or environment. At least C# and C++ are applicable outside of the engines that use them.
ADO makes me yearn for Jira.

The boards are terrible, the UI is hard, the permissions are incomprehensible, it doesn't even integrate that nicely with Azure.

On paper it does everything, it practice it can be made to do everything, but it's like getting citrus drenched sandpaper papercuts every day.
> My other thoughts to extend this are that you could make it seamless. To start, it'll simply pipe the user's requests to OpenAI or their existing model. So it'd be a drop in replacement. Then, it'll every so often offer to the user - "hey we think at this point there's enough data that a fine tune might save you approx $x/month based on your current calls, click the button to start the fine tune and we'll email you once we have the results" - and then the user gets the email "here are the results, based on that we recommend switching, click here to switch to calling your fine-tuned model"

You just described our short-term roadmap. :) Currently an OpenPipe user has to explicitly kick off a fine-tuning job, but they're so cheap to run we're planning on letting users opt in to running them proactively once they have enough data so we can provide exactly that experience.
This is actually fairly common in Formula Student cars. They often use decoupled heave/roll suspension systems, where one spring/damper is for the heave of the entire axle and another one for the roll on the axle. It has some advantages over separate springs, but I'd have to ask our suspension guys.

The graphics in this article show its function fairly well, but don't explain the calculations either

https://www.marekdostal.com/suspension-design/

Recently, some teams have added the hydraulic relocation of dampers, and some (like Dresden) even have software control of them.
iPhone 15 replaces Lightning port with USB-C