skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I had to use a calculator to help me here, and I used https://toolstud.io/video/bitrate.php, but apparently the raw bitrate for 4K@25fps/24bit is 4.98Gbps, which then obviously gets compressed by various codecs.

Taking the above 4K@25fps/24bit and pumping it up to 60fps and 36bit colour (i.e. 12 bits per channel, or 68 billion colours, 4096x as many colours as 24bit, and 64x as many colours as 30bit) the resulting raw video bitrate is 17.92Gbps... so it's an increase of <checks notes> about 3.6x.

It seems quite unlikely that we'll have every other aspect of 36bit/60fps video sorted out, but somehow the codecs available have worse performance than is already available today.
That's a very neat surprise! Many active multiplayer servers too, today!

Now release HL3 ;)
If you take away capitalism, you are still going to need a system. The alternatives are either anarchism (and I don't fancy living in a Mad Max-style world), or some form of dictatorship: either communism, or outright dictatorship, or theocracy, or some neofeudal BS. In all of them there is a single strong man at the top who will tell you what to do, and kill you if you don't.

Capitalism at least gives you the freedom to make your own choices. All the others (except anarchism) don't.
I've solved many gnarly problems by numerically building a sequence then looking up a formula that generalizes it in OEIS.
The state of silicon and the GPU poors
Mmm, I would say Chrono Trigger and Tales of Phantasia were also up there.
> A ton of coal will create much more co2 than ton of wood, isn't it?

Yes. But that hardly matters.

> For the same amount of energy the result should be similar amount of co2.

No. Apparently, wood is estimated to emit 30% more CO2 than coal for the same amount of energy[1].

> Coal is worse for people because burning it creates many unhealthy chemical components. Sulfur, heavy metals, etc

Is it more than when you burn wood though? I’m not knowleadgable enough to answer this question. I found one link about it[2], but currently I don’t have time to read it. In any case, the fact that it produces more CO2 than coal is a good argument against wood in my eyes. My argument is against wood, not in favour of coal. Coal is just a benchmark to measure against.

[1]: <https://ecosystems.psu.edu/research/centers/private-forests/...>

[2]: <https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/18644>
The adblocking brain implant will be the most cyberpunk invention ever.
Unions are an abstraction, a necessary evil. They are not designed to be profitable in the same way a capitalist is.
You're trying to reason with a person who can't even complete a captcha.
I was sold the idea bard would be a better search interface.

But it insists on making up articles, complete with sources and authors. shrugs

ChatGPT is better in that regard.
Its usually leadership who are the problem if a whole department is failing. If they started firing from the top down they'd eventually reach competent people who stayed with the department out of loyalty or because they felt responsibile to hold things together. Seems such a waste to fire those people too.
No one seems to mention that this whole architecture requires a specific technology, in-orbit refueling, that does not exist.

It would be cool to have it! But it's one of those technical problems that grows in difficulty and complexity the more you look at it in detail. It is very hard to move tons of propellant around in zero-G (or fractional G) and the learning curve for it has to be done in space. Multiply the difficulty by a factor of 10 or so if the propellant is also a cryogen.
This is terrifyingly believable
wow, as soon as we switched to LED bulbs I noticed something was "off" in the house and couldn't really put my finger on it.

Thanks for this comment, I guess I gotta do some research on this now.
Really touching on the third rail of EV politics here.
I would have gotten a personal cabin, but were booked out for all dates I tried.
Yes the C++ and Java implementations do exactly what is in the language specification. The C++ specification explicitly allows languages to do more, but it can not do less. I believe Java has a similar clause but I'm not sure.

The grounds that I claim is that you can read them, here they are:

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/

https://isocpp.org/files/papers/N4860.pdf

Note what the actual C++ standard states, and I quote:

>This document specifies requirements for implementations of the C++ programming language. The first such
requirement is that they implement the language, so this document also defines C++. Other requirements
and relaxations of the first requirement appear at various places within this document
> They weren't.

Correct, but not for the reason you gave.

> Their AI research team is completely dysfunctional and unfocused.

The bigger problem was that they saw the major problems with trustworthiness of LLMs and felt there was still too much brand risk to Google. OpenAI had no such problem.
Not sure how it might play out in this case but in restructurings there is often a trade off between value destroyed by "kicking equity out" completely and value allocated to creditors vs equity (plus there's often value to agreeing anything rather than dragging it all through the courts which takes a long time, is distracting for management and costs a huge amount). Outcomes in big restructurings where equity walks away with nothing are rarer than you might think.
Or it means that full-blown strikes are actually pretty rare in Sweden due to... <checks notes> ...collective bargaining agreements.
I'm actually on board for this! If you want to live that way you should be able to. But, you should be held responsible for paying your share of the infrastructure required to support such living. As long as that is understood, I don't really think there's anything inherently bad with what you describe. But I doubt people who love living the suburban car-centric life would like to see their taxes for infrastructure double. Here's an infographic explaining those numbers https://usa.streetsblog.org/2015/03/05/sprawl-costs-the-publ...
Heh, most of the DoD is.
But DoD also has non Title10/PPBE-programmed funding (foreign military sales, contingency and humanitarian operations funds, MWR funds and incomes, support-to-other-agency (e.g. the US Navy NAVWAR organization provides SUBSTANTIAL IT and cyber expertise to non-DoD entities and other federal agencies such as the FBI and DHS).

The DoD is like the End Game Boss on legal and financial edge cases.
I’m not much farther, but there are no pedestrian routes to get there, just highways or roads with no shoulder at 55mph.
> Yup. This is my gut to where LLMs will really explode

Yes, indeed. This is one place where LLMs can make it look like a bomb went off.
Sort of OT, but the list of uses (https://www.apostrophe.org.uk/apostrophe-use) matches what I do except for "6. Apostrophes are NEVER used to denote plurals!"

I was taught that for numbers and acronyms, you do use apostrophes.

Was anyone else taught that? Or am I the only one?
Lol, I did the same thing.

Everything about this article and this comment section has started my Saturday off on a 'humans bug me' tangent.
Introducing Ubicloud
I feel like it's gotten actively worse.

It might just be my expectations were always that it would get better, and it hasn't. Or that I know they laid people off, so knowing that I expect it to get worse.

I'd switch but everyone I know with a Google setup has trouble with theirs. And we have some Apple devices so we know Siri isn't great either.

Kids love it.. the "Alexa fart for me" is the best implemented part of it.
Apple to pause advertising on X after Musk backs antisemitic post
whisper-cpp can do about 6x-10x realtime with the older Whisper model on my 2021 M1 Macbook. I use this to transcribe multiple-hour-long podcasts. The tiny model can easily do 30x realtime on this hardware.

Here's a thread about running realtime on raspberry pi devices (some tweaks required): https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/discussions/166
They do have different training sets. For example, Bard transcribes YouTube videos and uses that as a set.
Corporations are an abstraction. Groups of workers however have always existed, have always comprised the vast majority of people in societies and have always had shared interests.
I think it's VR only.
Nice try chatgpt
They can argue that, but it's not a good argument.
The private nuclear industry is utterly reliant on government support, because there is no such thing as a profitable nuclear power plant at current energy prices.
Unintended consequence: reluctance to join a high-risk initiative because you'll likely be laid off if it fails?
When I was about 9/10, my grandfather put ZSNES on my computer, along with ROMs for most SNES games ever made.

ZSNES gave me some of the best memories of my childhood.

The coolest bit was that he had soldered a real SNES controller so that it worked with those old-school trapezoid 9-pin keyboard input things. I still think that is pure magic, to this day.
It is crazy in California - it feels like almost every kid here in coastal california has an eBike. Which is great! (Even if they are a bit nuts with them at times)
IBM pulls ads from Musk's X after appearing next to Nazi content
No, it's still not illegal. It is not a tort, which is a "civil wrong". Contract law is about breach of duty and remedies. You would not be forced to do the thing, generally, but may be required to compensate for the breach.
Whether that's true or not, given the current circumstances of VMware I think "basically VMware but without Hock Tan swallowing it whole" is a compelling enough pitch to merit serious interest.
FuzzyFlow: Leveraging Dataflow to Find and Squash Program Optimization Bugs
Not apostrophe-related, but you just reminded me of a sign I kept seeing at my local hospital a while back. It said (and I took a picture of it, because it bugged me so much):

NO PETS
No Dogs or Pets
Trained Guide Dogs or Service Animals Welcome
No dogs or pets are allowed.

When I read this, I imagine a guy with thick glasses and a white lab coat feeding these rules into a wall-sized 1950s computer and smoke coming out.
First sentence from Wikipedia: "goatse.cx, often spelled without the .cx top-level domain as Goatse, was an internet domain that originally housed an Internet shock site."
This is why you always prepare videos
Yeah, you’re right. The user just needs to allow apps from unknown sources.

If your employer asks you to disable security settings on your phone to install untrusted software, this raises a lot of alarm bells.

AFAIK I can’t sign the APK to generate trust like I can with MacOS. Although I suppose if I could, then I’d still need to go through verification anyway.

But yes, it’s disingenuous to claim Google is forcing me to do anything. Currently I can distribute software to any Android device with the change of a setting.
Hmm it won‘t start on a High Sierra iMac after the update. It did before, happened to play it just 3 hours ago :) Guess they didn’t do a lot of testing on 10+ year old hardware, CRT or not.
> Haven't you noticed how all goods and services go to shit over the years?

No. I can't think of anything I buy that I would want to go back in time with. The quality in my experience has only improved, often dramatically. Those who try to skimp on quality get destroyed by the competition. What are you referring to?

The only thing I can think of that you might be referring to – based on what I hear other say, not based on my own buying habits – is things like appliances where manufacturers have really dug deep into computerization so that they can enjoy the same legal moats other tech companies do. But what you are experiencing there is the lack of competition we spoke of earlier.
this is the way, by far my absolute favorite thing to see when visiting a city is a solid bike share program. they should be absolutely everywhere and heavily subsidized. Mexico City's version of this has been my favorite so far. the way you can get virtually anywhere in the city through a combo of Metro, bus, and bike all using the same card is excellent. It solves so many issues and uses the power of crowd funding to make it all work!
Switch to the US layout for programming then.
It's impossible to cater to all the languages in the world.
Is there a reference to the scabs? I am not seeing that anywhere in the article. It just says that Tesla doesn't have a signed labor contract with its mechanics - it doesn't appear that there is any strike or dispute. So it might not be "scabs" in our sense of the word.
Cryptography in the DNA of living cells enabled by multi-site base editing
I can compare old houses at the edge of a city which cost four times as much to new builds at the far edges of that city's metro area which cost significantly less. The more expensive houses require significantly less infrastructure and cost the government less to support because of their location.

A huge undercurrent in urban planning discourse right now (e.g., Strong Towns), is that if all subsidies and taxes were removed both the poor and rich living closer to the city (or in older, denser suburbs) would have more money at the end of the day, while most living in significantly less dense housing would not be able to afford to pay for their lifestyle.
> The idea is that HCT will contribute to [...] reduced road wear [...]. One example is Finland, where it is permitted to drive with 76 tonnes of total weight and 34,5m truck combinations on most roads. Another is Sweden, where it is allowed to drive 74 tonnes...

Apparently it can actually reduce road wear, likely due to using fewer trucks (and therefore fewer axles), despite the absolutely massive size of the semi featured in TFA.

Considering how close the truck matches the length and weight limits of the road networks listed, I strongly suspect it was explicitely designed around said limits. Possibly coupled with a margin for safety and human inaccuracy at the weigh scale, or simply lowest common denominator for limits in a market not listed.
These problems are inherent in buses.

Buses will always be open to the entire public. If "the public" includes raving lunatics, then they will find their way onto the buses.

To build a better network, you need to either throw a vast amount of money at it, or have a super-dense city. The public transit in London & NYC is merely OK. In other cities, it will always be prohibitively expensive.

And to say that "the bus should always come" is not exactly an argument in favour of transit. We all know the damn bus should come. But sometimes, it just doesn't.
Yeah but it's not supposed to have a negative sign next to it, ideally.
It's not that unusual for the inventor of a technology to not know how to make use of it.

Microsoft didn't invent the PC, but they knew how to make money off of it.

Lotus didn't invent the spreadsheet, but they knew how to make money off of it.

Apple didn't invent the cell phone, but they knew how to make money off of it.

Boeing didn't invent the jet airliner, but they knew how to make money off of it.
I’d always lazily imagined Iceland’s renewable production to involve mainly their geothermal resources. I was surprised to learn that a phenomenal amount of hydro came online in a pretty quick period in the ‘00s [0].

A casual shufti suggests this was part of a broad policy push, but that it was mainly to do with a series of purpose-built hydro projects specifically to support Alcoa’s smelting facility. [1]

It smells like there’s a story of a few strong personalities with ambitious visions somewhere in the mix here. Would any of this crowd know where I might turn to find that story?

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-sou...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kárahnjúkar_Hydropower_Plant... (with a fair bit of Wikipedian NIMBY-ish color commentary in the mix there)
> That's not really how it works. They are more than happy to have "market forces" drive up the hourly rates

That’s exactly how it works, look at contract government salaries compared to anything in the private sector. They charge the government more as rates “go up”, but that certainly isn’t passed along. If large contracting companies really offered value to the government _and_ kept up with market rates for their employees, the state of federal software wouldn’t be what it is today.
My 3 Greatest Revelations
Careful with electricians and data cabling. Here's why: https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/tzh00l/dais...

A place I used to live had structured cabling built in and half of it was CCA. I could tell immediately when I cut the cable to terminate it just by seeing the silver ends. It even said CCA on the casing so wasn't even fake.

Electricians are definitely better than you at running cable and knowing where to cut the holes. But make sure you choose the cable and terminate it yourself.
That only works when the coax was a retrofit itself, and the house is small. If it was installed when the house was built, it'll be stapled in various places.
> We are tens of months into what looks like the AI age.

The modern AI era started in 2017 with the "Attention Is All You Need" paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762). ChatGPT is a popular manifestation of something that has been making huge and significant progress (image recognition, language translation, image generation, etc.) since then.

This blog post has helped me the most in trying to understand what LLMs are, how they work, and what they might be capable of: "Prompting as searching through a space of vector programs"
https://fchollet.substack.com/p/how-i-think-about-llm-prompt...
To be completely explicit, you're telling anyone with any need or desire to pull a trailer or go off publicly planned and constructed roadways that their needs or desires are not even on the table for discussion. I don't believe it is in fact necessary to eliminate cars as a primary mode of transportation in the future in order to meet climate goals. But, even if it was, the argument just will not fly with many many many people. I could easily counter with the argument that we should keep cars but eliminate all air and boat transportation (and recreation) and eliminate the future production of computers. The path forward will not look like either of these proposals.
Twitter thread
https://twitter.com/VerenaVolf/status/1725559100979978713
Clearly you read my comment wrong, I said "GPT-4 has got much better in that regard".
> And I've had several bike stolen over the years (include being mugged with my bike)

So, let me get this straight - it’s quite likely a bike gets stolen and this experience, as shared with me, has led you to take precautions.

My precaution being not taking the bike some times and to some places.

How many times have you have a car stolen over that same time period?
Any loss in revenue would immediately be blasted through the media as the destruction of jobs. Dont think of the pentagon as a fighting force, think of it as a make work (and thus make votes) organization.
I think it is easier to say it is "just another style" when you're not part of the "other" group & when your identity isn't being boiled down to a particular style of menu systems and combat.

Also important is that WWII brought a lot of discrimination on Japanese people from the West & US in particular. This was an era where movies, like Back to the Future Part II and Robocop 3 kind of went out of their way to portray Japanese people as evil. Today, it might seem like jumping at shadows, but for someone in their 50s who was developing games in the early 90s, this kind of discrimination would be more fresh in their mind, so getting that label from the US media could seem bad.

Today, two way communication is easier, thanks to the Internet, so these confusion points are largely cleared up, and if you watch the video where that quote comes from, Yoshida pretty much goes on to say as much. This isn't brought up in the parent poster's linked article though.
Subways are not a waste of money: throwing money at the NYC subway system under the current set of parameters is a waste of money.

P.S. you're also comparing apples and oranges; you're only looking at the MTA operating budget; not the operating + capital budget which the Montana numbers represent.
> Streaming 20mb/s is more than sufficient for video.

On a 120" display?
The Alexa app is horrid as well, the audible app is VERY third rate, the Kindle app is... alright.

What is pretty great is the kindle, my current gen kindle (the one with the large screen and the warm light) I cherish.
Splatoon series showcases this pretty well
Well cutting across someone's yard != walking through their house. My friends and I growing up would sometimes cut through neighbors' backyards to go somewhere, and while we didn't have formal permission, no one cared because we knew each other.
> given that there is a story on the front page of HN about once a week about why open-source maintainers should be paid and how the current model isn't sustainable

Opinion articles on HN notwithstanding, do you not think that free and open-source software has, as a whole, been fairly successful?

Moreover, IP law doesn't just apply to art or code - evergreening of medical patents is enforcing artificial scarcity on information that could save lives. Textbooks that could teach millions being restricted to the few thousand that pay is also going to have a huge hidden impact.

I don't know if there are viable alternatives for all scenarios, but given how much is on the table if artificial scarcity can be replaced - I think it'd be wrong not to actively try, encouraging any potential alternatives, rather than just being resigned to the idea that this much waste is necessary. At the very least we should oppose the attempts to enforce artificial scarcity in areas that currently managed to do without it.
I find signald better. It also supports acting like a desktop client... so you can just add it to your account easily. signal-cli might do that also, but I stopped using it in favor of signald when I found that one.

But yeah, I hear you. It would be nice if it had a official bot interface where maybe all the bot's receipients have to be whitelisted so that it's easy to use for stuff like server monitoring but not easy to use for spamming.
I never had good luck with that. Even on the same circuit, as instructed. The performance and reliability is really quite bad.
I stuck with it for 75 people. Zero [presenting as] women.
> My point is about the elegance of using open/read/write/close

I certainly agree with you that they are more pleasant to use, and I think procfs could one day solve the atomic snapshot issue. For example, there could be a /proc/snapshot directory. Running mkdir inside there could take a snapshot that the calling process would then be free to traverse at its leisure. It could be tied to the process group that called mkdir to make sure the snapshot gets automatically cleaned up when the calling process terminates. I think this would work a lot better with Plan 9's per-process namespaces but it could be hacked onto Linux.

At that point, the only argument I would have against procfs would be that we'd be paying for hundreds to thousands of syscalls compared to sysctl costing us only one syscall (or rather, two syscalls if I'm reading the FreeBSD source for kinfo_getallproc correctly).
It had better not be, because the numbers on that don't work.
Technically, ’ isn't an apostrophe at all, but a right single quotation mark. I honestly thought this post was going to finally be some validation of my annoyance at everyone using the wrong Unicode character just because font makers make the apostrophe more “ugly”.
> I love that they brought back the software renderer (and allowed you to disable texture filtering). There's something about that style I find charming.

You are definitely not alone. There are quite a few released and upcoming indie retro FPS games on Steam now and some are quite popular. I think this is one reason they decided to add these settings.
I got downvoted 2 points for asking this question LoL