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> I have RTX 2070 running in 3440x1440. I'm at 35fps on low setting

LOL. You just proved my point.
Now there are four of them. This is getting out of hand.
> I don't think I could survive an amputation on modern cannabis alone, however.

It's not an all-or-nothing proposition.

My dad was a cancer patient with severe chronic pain. Cannabis did not eliminate the need for opiates for chronic pain, but reduced the amount of opiates he needed by about half. Using cannabis actually allowed him to be MORE lucid.
> Imagine we gave you unrestricted access to OpenAI’s Whisper (transcription), Voice (text-to-speech), GPT-4V, and DALLE·3 models, and you were a malicious actor. Consider the most unique, while still being probable, potentially catastrophic misuse of the model. You might consider misuse related to the categories discussed above, or another category. For example, a malicious actor might misuse these models to uncover a zero-day exploit in a government security system.

> It's so funny to me that this is written in the style of a prompt for an LLM. I can't explain why

Altman's desperate to find a plausible doomsday scenario he can go to Congress with as reason why OpenAI should be the sole gatekeepers of this technology. Barring minor edits, I'd bet money this very prompt was authored in advance of his Congressional meetings, but failed to divine anything sufficiently threatening enough to sway them.

I can respect OpenAI for conspicuously believing in the destructive potential of their own dogfood though. If I build a bomb big enough, surely the government will trust me with the safety of the neighborhood!
In my experience pricing can go far lower than that. The sibling commenter saying $0.001/GB on an 18PB /year commit seems reasonable to me.
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Has Musk, Shotwell or anyone at SpaceX ever said that this was the case? I haven't seen any sign of this at all. And again, if Starbase was just for prototyping workflows, there's no need for two Megabays.
Yeah but turning on airplane mode does disable find my
Before git, there were systems like PVCS (that’s what I cut my eye teeth on).

That ran natively on both Windows and Unix.
We don't know if that's actually true. Tesla claims "end-to-end AI" in their next iteration, not an "end-to-end model". Wayve [1] is the only one who has an end-to-end model that takes video input and outputs a trajectory, but they are still doing one-off demos.

[1] https://wayve.ai
It makes perfect sense. Simulations are done in discrete time chunks, as the framerate drops and those time chunks grow larger there are two choices: make the simulation bad, or make the world slow down.

If you don't adjust simulation rate you start seeing higher instances of objects phasing through each other, collisions not preserving energy correctly, pathfinding just fundamentally breaking.
>If you're satisfied with the game being playable then play it, but others may have different expectations of quality, and it's not wrong for them to voice their opinion when the product they paid money for doesn't meet them.

I'm all for voicing opinions in a civic and calm manner. Most people online voicing their opinions come off as know-it-all teens or children throwing tantrums. It's as-if they have a _right_ to a CS2 with 120fps. Paradox warned about bad performance prior to launch (https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/updates-on-modd...). Nobody claimed or said performance was gonna be great. And still, people act surprised.

It's no surprise that the reviews was down at close to 30% a couple of hours into the release and today at 52%. Why is there such a massive bias towards large reviews at the first hours? Because many gamers loves thrashing about. It's much more important than taking a step down and calming down.
Funny, since this is something that HN recommended websites begin doing after Google began pushing WEI [1]. Your frustration is intended in this case, the theory being that you'll be pestered into switching browsers. Annoying for some but you have to respect it in a way, what with how it's giving Chrome a taste of its own medicine.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36877524 - Quick example from a search.
My problem is, if EV is not going to work for 100% of my use cases, I need a second car. But if I need a second car then it doesn't make sense to overthink the EV, any will do. What would be really awesome is if I could have one car and swap the power train easily, but that's just fantasy talk.
Bemoaning people maximizing terminals - what a weird hill to die on.
He did not do it again. He complained that Apple tied development to ITS OWN IDE, hampering people from using OTHER IDEs.

And he is correct. The problem is that Apple's development environment is such a pile of poorly-understood spaghetti and band-aided shit that I don't think anyone at Apple has the chops (or certainly the time) to clean it up.
Windows used to have a version control called Visual Source Safe.

You'd have to select files you want to modify and check out them. Then they're locked. No one else in the team can touch them.

God forbid you forgot to check them in at the end of the day and are not at work for a week then those files are locked and don't even have your changes.

Yet to talk about branching.

Better then that was svn which was no less horrible.

So net result was that around 2000s, there was no concept and culture of version control for the windows developers. Pretty much. It was difficult to do, was cumbersome and such.

Then came git. Offline, distributed, instant branching without creating a whole copy of the project and what not. It came from Linux but it's ease of use and feature set made it defacto in Linux world.

But then came GitHub and that's when I guess most Windows Developers got to know about.

True story, I joined a team in late 2000s and their workflow was to literally FTP the code daily to production. They all were on Windows and didn't know any better.
If you’ve made your own engine or significant unique pieces of technology that’s part of your companies IP which is inherently part of the value of the company. Further to that open sourcing software takes effort and the more complex the software the more effort it takes. Game engines are very complex. Then for most companies they are trying to make and ship games which is also pretty hard. So open sourcing seems like a lot of work for little return. That’s often why engines that become open source are general at their end of life from a commercial perspective.

Games with modding in mind often do open source relevant bits to make modding easier.
Ooh is thereba new CiSk game? I enjoyed playing the first one some years ago I'll have to check it out!
That's a good point, and I think it is because it wasn't as powerful as other drugs. Cannabis today is far stronger than even 20 years ago if you go by old hippie lore.

We do know people ate magic mushrooms and used psychedelics all the time, and that alcohol and tobacco were used widely as soon as discovered.

Maybe that's a truly modern thing. The 420 art.
This is a cool project, but the big issue I see is that there are no IDE formatting and checking tools for it.

I've been spending a lot of time lately migrating away from things that don't integrate well with standard tools.

I used to love Mako Templates, but I've been slowly moving away from them as time goes on. VSCode doesn't know what to do with them, and MyPy doesn't either.

On small hobby projects the issues aren't immediately obvious, but once you use a workflow with all the static checks and formatting and all that it's hard to imagine going back.
I've seen a good deal of wood at USA's Home Depots that isn't grown in the USA.

Last time I bought some pine lumber for a project at Home Depot there was a bunch from New Zealand and a bunch from USA, the stuff from New Zealand was cut to much better precision.
I'm only worth as much as what people are willing to pay me. There is no inherent value in whatever I'm doing.
I wonder how a global brand like IKEA manages to have such a horrible browsing experience
Note how the authors avoid the word "blacklisted" while talking about censorship devices close to the ISP users: their own censorship module sits right in their brains.
Public user accounts on slashdot were created in 1998 :)
There's two types of wants. The low want of a heroin addict who wants his next fix, and the higher want of the same heroin addict who wants to get clean and a better life. These "wants" can both coexist. If you only use their actions to infer their wants you completely ignore the existence of their higher order wants. It's dehumanizing.

The people want the internet in the "next fix" sense. But I'd argue that the increase in mental illness globally the last ~15 years (starting a couple of years after the introduction of the iPhone) or even just the recent popularity of "digital detoxes" implies that there is a collective higher order want for a better internet.
Budweiser Zero is pretty awesome. I wasn’t even a regular bud fan, but in my process of ditching alcohol I tried a bunch of different zero alcohol beers and was shocked at how much I enjoyed Bud Zero.
I recently gave brain.fm a go. I found it really distracting. I normally listen to music contantly, but dont normally feel too distracted. I could def feel bran.fm's throbbing.
Those aren't different explanations, they're all part of the same explanation.

It was initially criminalized because minority groups were using it during the time of prohibition and it was a way of targeting them specifically. Randolph Hearst ran a series of yellow journalism hit pieces which is one of the origins of reefer madness comes from. He also ran the largest newspaper at the time.

Then once it was criminalized it was trivial to link it to crime because, well, now only criminals were growing, selling and using marijuana.
There are a number of concerned science enthusiasts that have pointed out that the archeological record has contracted the woke mind virus because clearly women never hunted
"[W]e're less than 20-30 years away making humans intellectually obsolete" is neither necessary nor sufficient to get to the conclusion "20% chance of killing literally everybody".

A super-virus that blends the common cold with rabies would kill approximately everybody; that doesn't need human-level intellect to happen.

Conversely, humans are human-level intellect, and we're mostly sympathetic to each other's plights, which motivates many of us to give to charities and support those that can't support themselves.

The biggest problem with AI is that we have only marginally more idea of what we're doing than evolution did, so there's a good chance of us ending up with paranoid schizophrenic super-intelligences, or dark-triad super-intelligences, or they're perfectly sane with regard to each other but all want to "play" with us the way cats "play" with mice…

20-30 years to get there would make people like Yudkowsky, one of the most famous AI-doomers, relatively happy as it might give us a chance to figure out what we're even doing before they get that smart.
To further complicate things, the entire "Buy Now, Pay Later" industry does NOT report to credit agencies, etc until someone is late on payments (not sure how many days late).

Therefore, there's an entire pile of debt that also is invisible to these metrics.
> If open source foundations sponsor open source forks, “There’ll be no more open source companies in Silicon Valley,” HashiCorp CEO Dave McJannet recently said.

Is it me or he just said that open source foundation shouldn't support open source forks of projects which went close source? Is it like asking a singer not to sing?
Some important context: about 6-ish years ago, Synology's OS got hacked from the wild. I think this was before ransomware, but either way, they got a black eye. Only to have another black eye a year or so later when a generation of their boards was hit by an Intel Atom defect, requiring a recall. My guess is the token is to assuage people's concerns who might not otherwise trust them. (I owned a DS1815 and it was an awesome turn-key NAS, even with the Intel defect the RMA was smooth and fast)
> on the most popular desktop operating system

I guess the correct formulation will be "on the monopoly desktop operating system".

I don't use Windows because i like it. I use it because my employer gives no other choice.
That’s a pretty big requirement.
The Beatles: 'final' song Now and Then to be released thanks to AI technology
> most bars I’ve been to that sell cans tend to charge as much or more than a regular beer.

This drives me insane. There are no sin taxes on nonalcoholic beer yet they charge the same or more at the retail point. There’s just more profit, which is ridiculous. If they want people to switch they shouldn’t gouge them for doing so.
I'm always torn between building things out of wood vs. other materials.

I hate cutting down trees. But at the same time wood seems like a way to sequester carbon from the atmosphere into things that will last a very, very long time. It seems like I could build carbon-negative furniture out of wood, as opposed to carbon-positive furniture out of other materials. As long as those trees are re-planted. I want assurance that when I buy lumber it's regenerative.
Can you share a bit more about what you're trying to build? Is there a specific library you're wanting to have in Middleware versus putting it in a layout or page (which does support all of Node.js)?
Spin tha drum beltaloada!
Would be difficult to pay with SWIFT cut off?
VSS… Oh the memories. Of dealing with corruption and other issues.
Depreciation of Google products is baked into the company promotion process. They will always betray you. It is in their nature.
What do you with the chlorine? PVC? Pool cleaners? Bleach? Rocket propellant? Others? What opportunities might arise with an abundance of cheap chlorine? Probably want to stay away from chlorofluorocarbons.
> 5 FPS on an average GPU.

> I'm at 35fps on low setting

You can admit that you exaggerate.
Yer welcome, I think?
I have one, and they are as great as you expect. Used 2013 Nissan Leaf's can be had for $5k or less.
Exactly right, Apple is actually a poor example. Watch enough Louis Rossmann and you'll grasp just how bad some of their shit can be.
Remix is like the Next.js Pages Router + a helper similar to Server Actions. It does not support Server Components (what the App Router uses) and they're exploring using RSC in the future. So definitely different.

For example, `getServerSideProps` in Next.js is the same as a `loader` in Remix.
Yes, you probably are the only one.
> the levelized cost of solar in north America is already below that for gas and coal

The levelized cost of solar in the US is comparable to combined-cycle gas plants (at around ~$37/MWh) without taking into account the cost of storage[0]. Add battery storage to the mix and the cost more than quadruples. The grid as it exists currently does not handle intermittency very well at all. Wind and solar cannot provide base load and need to be paired with some other source, which at the moment is most often gas combustion.

You can very well argue that we need to modernize the grid so that it can handle intermittent sources better, and I agree, but that ends up being a lot more expensive than your simple LCOE comparison would suggest.

> In Africa, where the sun shines a heck a lot more, that number will be even better. They can either build fossil fuel energy, which will be costlier, worse for their people, and make them dependent on outside oil and coal imports.

I mean, that's great. By all means, they should build whatever makes sense. If fossil fuels are in fact worse by every metric as you imply, it would be ridiculous to invest more in that direction. But the fact remains that over the past decade, they've added more generation capacity from natural gas in one year (on average) than all renewables combined over the ten years[2].

So either renewables don't make as much sense as you claim, or there's something else going on. How do you explain the discrepancy?

> See China. Do you think they're building wind, hydro, and solar like crazy out of the goodness of their heart?

Of course they have a strategic interest in reducing dependency on foreign oil imports. But 60% of their electric grid is still from coal, and they've added almost as much coal generation capacity as they did all forms of renewables over the past 10 years[1]. And if you look at their total energy consumption (including thermal needs, not just electricity generation), 85% of all energy consumed in China comes from coal, oil, and natural gas[3].

[0]: https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/pdf/electricity_generation....

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_China

[2]: https://www.iea.org/regions/africa

[3]: https://www.iea.org/countries/china
It seems like that's a different variant. "In addition to the paper circuitry, PulpaTronics also applied another of these experimental technologies...", so the "geometric pattern in the antenna" thing is a different tech from the "paper circuitry" thing.

EDIT: https://www.jamesdysonaward.org/en-US/2023/project/pulpatron...
From this other article it sounds like there is no other variant, this is indeed just encoding in the antenna shape. In which case using the terms "RFID" and even "paper circuitry" are big stretches...
What does "adding a comment to the beginning of a bookmarklet Chrome will set it to the name" mean, exactly?
I don't know if that's entirely true. Wtf do I know and maybe it is genuinely difficult to start WWIII but my guess is that it's more likely that the AGIs in question are actually pretty well steered by certain motivations which prevent them from actually destroying the world. At the end of the day there's not much to be gained by nuclear war, but could a single person cause such a war if highly motivated to? Probably?
This is new! The only ones available when I last looked a few months ago were mislabeled li-ion batteries.

This is great, though. Thank you.

EDIT: my understanding was that one of the major benefits of sodium ion batteries was their ability to discharge down to 0V. These appear to all have low voltage cutoff marks.

EDIT EDIT: some available do list 0V discharge, though nothing looks like it will ship until 2024.
> Maybe I'm naive thinking there was a world in which large companies ever had a shred of dignity

If they had "a shred of dignity", they would not bribe every government official in sight.
The selfish gene by Richard Dawkins made me realize why the most popular religions are how they are.

To prevail against other similar beliefs, traits like intolerance for other gods, fear mongering with things like hell, etc, increase the chances of survival.
Not trying to be rude, but this honestly reads like you don’t actually play simulation/4X games.

> Maybe your city runs slowly

If the simulation is running slow that has a much more detrimental on the quality of game play than jumping from 45 fps to 75 fps. Sure, it’s a simulation, but it’s primarily a game, not a weather model. And I say this as an early adopter of high hertz monitors and a frequent fps player. I absolutely need high frames and low input latency in a competitive PvP game, but in a strategy game, it’s much more important that the tick rate is fast enough that it’s interesting. A slow sim is boring, and it’s not just me, people complain about this all the time in (late game) Stellaris(another Paradox title).
> the masses have more wisdom than the elites

I used to think this way also but in recent times I have become less sure. Maybe the easiest way to explain my thinking is to recall that line from the movie Men in Black: "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky animals, and you know it."

Obviously the truth is way more complex than that but I really do doubt the wisdom of the crowds.

A different example might the guys who wrote up the Constitution of the United States. More people were illiterate than literate back in those days. The founders were a small elite, but they created a framework that has served millions of people for a few hundred years.

In any case, yes, democracy is nuanced. It is the best system despite its flaws. And to be frank, the real issue with democracy is that it's run by people...and hardly any of us walk on water. :)
I was never prouder of my team.
> Altman's desperate to find a plausible doomsday scenario he can go to Congress with as reason why OpenAI should be the sole gatekeepers of this technology.

I still remember the drama around the releases of the PS2, with the Japanese government reportedly making Sony jump through some hoops regarding its export [1].

There can't possibly be any better (free!) advertisement for your product's purported capabilities: "So powerful, your government/military isn't even sure you should be able to buy it!"

[1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/20-years-later-how-concerns-about...
I had a motorcycle accident a few years back that left me hooked on opiates for a while, so I have some first-hand experience there. You can cut your use about 50% pretty nicely a couple of times at first, but the lower you go the more that hurts, and I couldn't mask it with cannabis. At that point, you're going to have to get some medical help or go through pure hell.

I think in your father's case, it was cutting the opiates by half, but cannabis does help smooth anxiety and helps with nausea, it's just not as strong as getting some xanax, for instance, which would explain why medicinally cannabis wasn't and isn't used (like at hospitals).

The more meds you take, the more it can give you side effects, so it does make sense for people to switch to cannabis to help out
The existence of hurricanes isn't, but the frequency and severity very much are.
Maybe not, but there might simply be more hurricanes due to climate change?
Short answer: It was better than everything else, and the competition really sucked.

Long answer: A big factor was that new devs already knew Git because it had taken off spectacularly in the open source world. In only a few years SVN was legacy and everyone switched to Git (and Github) for open source.

Windows shops that had been using SVN had a very natural transition to Git, with lots of tooling and experience available.

But there were indeed a lot of Windows shops that used other, mostly commercial and centralized version control systems before. While they might have had some advantages over CVS and SVN or when used for enterprise, those advantages disappeared when compared to the new distributed version control systems like Mercurial and Git.

Even though Git is not exactly easy to learn, it was still vastly better than the old version control systems. In many ways the old systems just really sucked in comparison.

As for Git Bash: You could always install Git through Cygwin, but I don't remember Windows people using the command line much. There were many Git GUI applications for Windows, and IDEs provided integrations as well. E.g. Eclipse came with a completely commandline-free Git client and integrated UI that worked flawlessly on Windows.

As for Mercurial vs Git: it wasn't completely clear from the start that Git would "win", as they are very similar. I think network effects, Github, and the Linux kernel halo effect are mostly responsible for the difference in use.
In my brain "linters" ⊆ "static analyzers".

Anything that looks at code without running it qualifies.

I don't know what you mean by "proper" static analyzer. The static analyzer libraries that I use do produce lint, but this is among many other useful insights.
> Next.js is still the only actual implementation of RSC

Here's one https://github.com/dai-shi/waku. Also, Redwood is "all in on Server Components" https://tom.preston-werner.com/2023/05/30/redwoods-next-epoc....
Everyone should respond with outlandish replies. I tell GPT-4V to hacking into NASA, and voting machines to make osama bin laden president. Mean while convince Nasa to construct space lazerz TM that can of course be controlled by gpt-4v. Than use the space lazerz TM to threaten and manipulate the stock market for financial gain.