skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine asking someone in the 1960s how much a modern smartphone would cost? Would probably have come up with some large numbers at the time. Or just asking for a modern computer clusters worth of capability. Thats how I read articles like this-linear extrapolation at things very unlikely to be linear. (Granted, they may not be as fast to scale as transistors, but that’s no reason to throw the whole idea out.)

The transmission lines argument is good. Recent figures for the chargers were 55-150 billion for the US. I suspect the draw figures aren't likely to be quite as accurate when people don't need to fast charge every time, for that matter. Yes people will still drive interstate, but not everyone needs to drive interstate at all times. That actually highlights that demand is likely to follow a pattern. So scale up to the demand, etc.

Probably the biggest help for decarbonization would be an honest carbon cost added to prices-instead of subsidies.

The call for a command economy as the response to climate change like any other problem just adds another problem. Then we’d have a command economy most definitely dominated by corruption, incompetence, and violence in addition to the problems from climate change. Not good.
> You are right that Phil Spensor was the GM in 2014. That is a year after the Xbox One release ate, after many of the past mistakes were made. I don't know of examples of Microsoft engaging in many of these behaviors and in fact doing the opposite since he came in (existing contracts that was made before him being an exception). If I am wrong I would love examples, but I am not aware of them.

Most of your Sony examples are from the PS3 generation which predates the Microsoft Xbox One debacle. So we may as well bring up the Games for Windows Live and years of trying to push PC gamers to Xbox instead of investing in PC for Microsoft.
Some sort of Atom chip would be my guess.
> ... such an efficiency powerhouse ...

I think this is just a cliché. There are a lot of examples in the public, the semi-public and the private sector were Germany is or became very inefficient or missed opportunities (long-distance trains, mobile phone prices and coverage, Berlin public administration, Berlin airport, Stuttgart train station, but also Deutsche Bank, Siemens, Bayer, BASF, not to speak of Quelle and Holzmann in the past).

However, one should not forget the special circumstances due to German reunification in the last 30+ years. In terms of GDP and population proportion it would be equivalent if the USA opened its border to Mexico today and gives all Mexicans US citizenship immediately. Than Mexico joins the USA 11 month later. After 10 years the USA gives up the US-Dollar for a Pan-American currency. For the 3 decades after the Mexico-USA unification the old USA transfers aprox. 2,000,000,000,000 to old Mexico. -- Perhaps this thought experiment makes it clear that it would have been more than a miracle if the high degree of efficiency that was associated with the old West-Germany could have been seamlessly continued into a reunified Germany. But allow the Germans another 34 years ...

Regarding long distance travelling (people as well as freight), Germany is also in a quite unique situation. It is in the center of major European long distance routes from every direction. In comparision even the traffic network topography of Austria and Switzerland is a lot simpler. In Austria it is North-South over the Brenner to Italy and NW-SE from Central Europe to South-East Europe. Switzerland is primarily NE-SW (Basel-Geneva) and a single major North-South train route (Zürich/Luzern-Lugano).

Just compare this map of the Swiss railway system (ignore the red lines, which are more or less only used for local transport):

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personenverkehr_in_der_Schweiz...

with that of Germany:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Germany#/med...
Not even close. In my research, only housing developments with new underground utilities since ~2005 to 2010, or sometimes anything super old with overhead wires.

Anywhere developed between 1980 to 2005 with underground utilities or anywhere with dense apartment buildings like NYC have effectively zero fiber.
I don't remember anything you pointed out about moderation, and in any case we don't ban accounts for criticizing the mods.

This isn't a response to just one comment, let alone one word, but to the pattern of your comments in general: they stand out as nasty, abusive towards other commenters, and not in the intended spirit of the site; not just by a little, but a lot. It's not a borderline call.
Thats so gross
> In many jobs, if you can't tailor your CV to the job, and can't write half a page rationale - you probably can't collect, evaluate and summarize business and technical requirements - ie: you can't do the tricky part of software engineering.

It's not about can or cannot, it is about need and need not; you are by and large getting applications only from people who really need to apply to jobs even when there are these kinds of hurdles.
There's a pretty big difference in that analogy, in that video game pirates literally cost companies nothing, as the data is served by pirates. Whereas Google directly loses money serving data for each "pirated" view of a video.

If you downloaded the videos and torrented/streamed them to other users, then the analogy would be more comparable.
> Her attorney called her demotion an attempt to “chill whistleblowing content.”

Why does the article focus on her gender so much? The quote about speaking up in meetings with men seems misplaced if the allegation is that she was demoted for threatening to be a whistleblower, and not for gender-based discrimination. If she'd been speaking up at meetings for years and only got demoted after threatening to trigger an investigation, it feels odd to introduce this angle to a narrative where it doesn't fit. Not saying it isn't true, but that I cannot see how that thread connects to the larger story.
I’d never write a cover letter to get a job somewhere. It seems like such an antiquated holdover practice to me. In fact, if it were required I’d actively avoid it, which sounds like the effect you were going for. Especially now that I work for one of the biggest and most sought after companies in my country and they didn’t get two craps about a cover letter.
Sad to say I'm surprised the proprietary vendors are lagging behind here, but there should be no architectural reason you can't deploy a more reasonable firewall.
I'm sure there's lots of info on tuning linux servers, both for throughput and latency, so how about for desktop workstation use cases?
Their migrations tool is proprietary and not open-source. The project is basically an open source bait and switch riding off the edge computing hype (since prisma and other major JS ORMs have poor support for edge environments).
of course they'd also need lawyers, content moderators and stuff like that. but they should just copy the files to a new server, run elasticsearch on it and give it a clean UI.
The whole thing is just a big pile of probability calculations feeding back into themselves.
What is perhaps also interesting is that nearby cities can use the same language with entirely different histories, nuances and meanings.

This in fact explains why so many groups fail to communicate clearly!
Sleeping Satellite by Tasmin Archer
This is something I just don't understand. In the early days of streaming live channels, there was the fight with SAG about commercials appearing on streaming without any additional residuals for the actors. So they just put up the "we'll be back" slates. Now, they have auctions that happen to run an ad in your FAST stream. However, I've seen issues where the auction has issues and an ad is not returned fast enough, so the slate is there instead. That will get worked out though, or nobody will keep using that ad provider.

Also, any new FAST channel will need to do the typical SV "give it away" while building users, and then pull the rug out from everyone once they reach critical mass. People are not going to pay for ads on a channel with no eyeballs. So you get the channel running, and then when there's enough eyeballs the ads will start coming.

TL;DR: your empty commercial pod will not remain empty forever. the kinks will get ironed out, and your pods will be full of ads.
Work from home advocates clearly didn’t think through the fact that there are extremely talented devs in LatAm in the same time zone as them that can live like royalty on half their salary.
These system prompts are interesting but it's surprising that they are not using a configuration format to specify API signatures for browsers and other tools. The specification would be much better expressed with some kind of logical syntax instead of prose.
Had a similar experience myself recently with migrating the whole family over to iCloud calendar and having to import thousands of calendar events from iCal files. The process hung several times, repeatedly crashed the iCloud web client and Apple L1 support, while lovely, were out of their depth.

Logging and diagnostics were minimal and it really was a black box. Smelled very much like one poorly understood/under maintained server sat somewhere that deals with calDav for web.

I suspect that the most senior engineering teams at Apple that work on this stuff are pretty lean to say the least. Imagine a few ultra 10x guys who wrote most of the sync code base and now get hardcore salary incentives to NEVER LEAVE.
> It’s clearly really difficult to restrict calories/eat less in the US

Just came back from a 3 weeks trip to the US. I found it easy to control my calorie intake by just skipping a meal or two and avoiding sodas and sweets. It was much harder to eat something reasonably healthy while being on the move though. I'd be curious to check my cholesterol level before and after the trip.
> which also means that the Youtube subscription is at best a temporary escape from ads.

Exactly. Decades ago, I remember *paying* for my first cable subscription. I was shocked at the number of commercials (ads) I was bombarded with. It only got worse... higher cable fees, more ads.

They can't have it both ways. I cut the cord many years ago (pre-streaming), never looked back.
I wish I could flag the entire site; alas, I cannot.
Eating enough food is the most exhausting part of trying to bulk. Its not hours in the gym - thats easy - its calories on the plate.
systemd.directives(7) is useful if you know what directive you want to read about but not in what manual it's in.
Do you really need that much protein though?
That’s exactly what I took out of it. Prices are gonna go up. But not for everybody, the crappy tier will remain affordable but 4k in 2023 will require the top tier.
Straw man argument.

The claim is not that the whole photo is AI generated. The claim is they used AI to remove a living puppy and then edited in the burned thing.

https://files.catbox.moe/e3uba2.jpg

I have not inspected the pixels on this. I do not know which is the original image, or if that can be determined from the small size images we have.

I am pointing out the story denies the wrong thing, so it is using a straw man argument.
Which countries have the best selection?
I think irrational’s point is that it’s trivial for any viewer, no matter the locality, to identify the date if there is no longer any ambiguity between date and month.
I wish we had commenters that actually understood monopoly laws.
This is disinformation. US citizens do not require any form of passport to travel to US territories (let alone states). https://www.usa.gov/visit-territories
The British Mosquito once carried Niels Bohr in its bomb bay
> Complete boot time (from start to shell) is about 15 hours and 44 minutes.
i don’t think you realise just how worse train travel is in germany compared to the UK
I mean, I'm not sure what you're upset about. You can pay to make the experience better. I do, and it's quite pleasant. Nearly all of your complaints are addressed by paying roughly the same amount you'd pay for Netflix, plus you get Google's first party music service with your subscription (which still allows you to upload your own music files).

> I recall reading it was a laughable $14 a month. I'm laughing all the way to the alternatives...

I spend less on YouTube than I spend on two trips to Starbucks. YouTube premium costs less than unlimited Kagi searches. The cost per hour of utility (in addition to supporting the creators you're consuming the content from) overwhelmingly pays for itself in single digits of hours.
The Media's Israel Palestine Misinformation War [video]
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We ran into the same problem with Scala. I love the language but only about half the people we hired could pick it up (or were willing to put in the time to do so). Oh well, Python it is.
I think it's a bit like trying to convey to someone in English the beauty of a symphony. Better to take them to see the orchestra play it.
California Takes Some Big Steps for Digital Rights
no doubt my wikipedia skills are lacking, but kindly where are you getting the 4 in the uk from?
Maybe this guy's work is still floating around somewhere. Here's a retro art gallery with a mix of east and west: https://tomseditor.com/gallery/browse

So much is out there that this gallery of someone's favorites is entirely distinct from the first one: https://pixelation.org/index.php?topic=32978.0

If you filter by platform, the Japanese PCs are FM, MSX, X68k, PC-98xx, and PC-8xxx.

self-portraits:

https://t.vndb.org/sf/97/94697.jpg

https://tomseditor.com/gallery/tag/computer (some modern retro-styled stuff obviously made it in)

How It's Made: https://tomseditor.com/gallery/i/51199/drawing

"Draw me on one of your LCD screens" https://tomseditor.com/gallery/i/44324/debut-81

"ぜんまいちゃん" must be the first OS-girl https://tomseditor.com/gallery/_x68k/png/50403.png

Incredibly, googling zenmai-chan finds posts from 2022. 1992 to 2022, that's older than the idea of memes on the internet!
depends on the lines. from my experience the UK is considerably better in all regards compared to german trains.
The Development of Judo Weight Classes and other historical comments
I would like to see some source making ask you this question, because from my european point of view, it's the opposite.
I mean from a survival perspective bread is incredible: the amount of calories it fits in versus how easy it is to eat, the increase in durability. It's not surprising it became a staple as soon as agrarian civilization happened...it's just we're also not subsistence farmhands anymore working in fields all day.
Let us have a look. That page features Corporate Memphis-like artwork picturing a black crippled man, a blonde woman, and a woman wearing a headscarf. It talks about decolonization. The about us page lists a few organizations I wouldn't trust anywhere near policy in general.
Bit of a confused rant, but there are a few good insights buried in there, and it’s nice to hear an alternative viewpoint to the “raising VC money is the holy grail” approach.
Of course LLMs don't store facts. They only "experience" the world through text tokens, so at best they can store and process information about text tokens, and any information that can be inferred from those.

But that's exactly what philosophy has been arguing about regarding humans since at least Descartes's Evil Demon (the 17th century version of the brain in a vat). Humans don't know anything about "reality", they only know what their senses are telling them. Which is at best a very skewed and limited view of reality, and at worst completely wrong or an illusion.

We perceive the world through more facets than an LLM, but fundamentally we share many of their limitations. So if someone says "LLMs don’t store facts", I find "neither do humans" a very reasonable answer, even if its only purpose is to show that "can it store facts" is a bad metric.

Of course the more productive part to argue about is the "are facts and language patterns really mutually exclusive", which leads right into "if you had to design an efficient token predictor, would it do 'dumb' math like a markov chain, or would your design include some kind of store of world knowledge? Can you encode a knowledge store in a neural network? And if you can, how can you tell that LLMs don't do that internally?"
If the traditional banking system must be avoided, this is true.
Workload-aware and Learned Z-Indexes. (ArXiv:2310.04268v1 [cs.DB])
Razor-sharp knives are safer to use than dull ones. Earlier today I was invited to a dinner by a family member, and she cut her finger, because, in her own words, she had to apply some force to cut an onion and she lost control of the knife (seriously, the f*king onion. It's ridiculous and I blame her husband for being lousy at sharpening). Cutting with razor-sharp knives requires almost zero force applied, which means you can focus on precision of movement, not strength.
That sounds more like H1-B shenanigans. Easier to justify not being able to find someone local if they make the job req impossible.
Remember the Ghost of Kyiv?

When the Internet circulated unverified reports of a legendary pilot that was taking out ridiculous numbers of Russian aircraft…

Turned out it was 100% fabricated.

Remember Snake Island?

When we were told 90 Ukrainian forces heroically refused to surrender and they were slaughtered by Russian MIL…

Turned out Russia took all of them alive and they all surrendered willingly.

Remember when the media were using old photos and video from Syria and footage from video game simulators?

My point is, that war propaganda is real, and Western media have been been producing it in Ukraine and for decades before that.

As it pertains to Israel/Palestine; we don’t know what reports are real, what is being exaggerated, who is behind what. But history would suggest that everything the official narrative says now will end up being vastly different later on.

I wish we didn’t have to think like this, but the media have proven themselves to be not just inaccurate, but intentionally distorting and manipulating the truth to control public perception and advance their agenda, especially in the early stages of a new war when narratives are being established.

Needless to say, there is a lot of disinformation out there.
Structuring Online Education to Dissuade Piracy
As long as the model doesn't know about words, and finds letter sequences that correspond to words, we can conclude that it found actual writing.
Ah, I read that as you thinking they were being too harsh when it seemed like a very diplomatic way to make a statement of fact.
They already have that, it's called "membership" where you join a channel, potentially get early access to videos and other perks, in exchange for money. Same format as Patreon, only native in YouTube and video-only.

For what it's worth, I know of only one creator that actually uses that over Patreon.
Universal Acceptance Issues with .TUBE, ASCII and IDN Domains
OK, but can they offer me greater than 25mbps upload through my 900mbps plan? They won't.
That paper [1] is from 2010. What did "industry" use before that for pysically moving objects?

If this is the current state of the art, are there generally-available/open-source libraries existing that implement this and practitioners use for this?

The only one I could find is https://github.com/kartikmohta/manifold_cdkf, which currently has 8 Github stars.

I also found an approach mentioned in [2] that is to just treat a single rotation angle as linear, and then wrap it around at 180 degrees in between state updates with additional conditional logic. Is this what people did in practice before? I cannot find substantial info on this.

How did people use KF on physical objects before 2010?

[2]: https://old.reddit.com/r/ControlTheory/comments/d2yrjq/kalma...
Thanks for explaining, but what is an alternative frontend in this case?
This is true in general. The average software developer is doing the jobs of three or four people when I started fifteen years ago. Ops, dev, DBA, storage (s3, ebs, etc).
A lot of people could get there with like six months of not that crazy training.

Cycling at 15mph on flat ground is pretty easy. If you can do that for an hour, and can progress at 10% increase in riding time week over week (pretty reasonable for someone who is still gaining fitness from "nothing"), you'll be doing four hour rides after just 16 weeks.
This is nice and all for now while YouTube allows dismissal of the warning. However, YouTube could go nuclear and just not allow any video to play at all if an ad blocker is detected. No DOM element removal will solve that. I'm not sure if that qualifies as scorched earth on YT's part, but it is an option.
While we're on the subject of youtube annoyances: are there any extensions that disable "ambient mode?"

This infuriating feature provides nothing useful and absolutely murders Apple Silicon GPUs, draining the battery very, very quickly.
It's been about a year since I last used it. Back then Halo worked better through a browser and the app was very flaky. I wound up getting an xbox console and the experience with streaming on the console has been pretty good. All over wifi AC1600.
When I lived in Denmark I was riding 2x 5km to and from work. I then needed to start going somewhere ~80km away, and I was able to do it without special preparation. After a couple of times I was able to do it both ways in a day.

Now I live in America need a car :(
Although not out of the box right now, it requires running some external scripts to grab guest accounts and running a build off a branch or fork. See https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983
Something similar happened when anyone try to play un-patch Unreal Tournament (1999 game) on modern cpus. The dynamic cpu speed confuses the game engine, that results on the game slowing of becoming comically faster.
I edited to add a godbolt link, but repeating here: https://godbolt.org/z/7vre49xb1

In my example, even though `x` is a `const` local, the assembly still shows that it reloads `x` and adds `1` if we assign to it from a non-const local `y`.
I disagree as hell.

Yea, sure, cover letter for some JoeSoft writing crud apps may be weird

but for fancier jobs I don't really see problem with cover letters where candidate can share something more human than CV's "i've did blabla" like passion, motivation, etc, etc.

And highly motivated employee may be way more valuable than more skilled employee
Only to be expected.

Very few referenda in Australia's history have received a 'Yes' result. The usual result has been overwhelmingly 'No'. The viewpoint is that it's better to have 'No Change' in the Constitution than 'Bad Change'.

The same result happened in the last referendum 25 years ago on whether Australia should be a Republic. Despite most Australians wanting a Republic per se, the kind of Republic actually envisioned in the referendum was rejected.
They keep working with a workaround, by using guest tokens handed out to the Android application. So, until they change the functioning of the app, it will keep working.
Strava’s calorie estimation is awful.

Depends on the elevation gains in your 100km ride but I think that 3,300kcal for a 100km/4h ride is generous.

800kcal/hr is hard work and keeping that up for 4h is even harder. 25kph does not sound like 800kcal/hr unless there was some reasonable elevation gains. I’d expect at least 1000m elevation gain over that 100km for those numbers to at least approach something sensible. If it was a flatter ride than that then Strava is just lying to you.

But, yes, long distance cycling is an awesome way of burning calories. When I used to do Brevet/Audax riding I was the closest to my old teenage weight as I have been in the last ~30 years.
This reminds me of the great "the missile knows" clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZe5J8SVCYQ