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The problem is, not everyone can get the latest and greatest card a couple of years for their desktop system for their workstations.

For AI work, their cards are great, yes. Also for accelerated science. We have quite a few of their cards at the bottom floor, churning out number non-stop.

However, desktop experience with their cards are constantly degrading after Tesla got up to speed. VSync can't be enabled without losing 25% performance hit. DPMS support was broken for 1.5 years on DisplayPort. Then, DisplayPort started to lose link when you turn off your monitor for whatever reason.

These things add-up, and when your card is deprecated you can't move to open drivers even if said drivers have lower performance, it breaks the camel's back.

If you're on the happy path (hardware + software wise), NVIDIA is great, and if you don't, you're too poor for NVIDIA and they can't be bothered.

So no, I'll not be buying NVIDIA card for my desktop use.
Compared to Matrix,

- Much lighter in processing and storage requirements (at the cost of group conversation history being a crapshoot)

- Not de facto controlled by New Vector, which I’m gradually losing faith in[1][2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38162275

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38451920
For more technical details, here is the actual spec: https://github.com/adem-wg/adem-spec

If you are a nation state hacker, you can also install the convenient chrome extension which will tell you if you are allowed to hack a website or not: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/adem-dns-checker/ik...
The grey roads aren't good on the eyes, and it needs better contrast. They come out with design schemes but fail when they need to deliver it themselves.

I don't even bother with Google Maps any more. It shows miles on many dialogues when my locale (South Africa) only uses kilometres. Also, I don't know what preference they give to nearby POIs, but it's mostly useless (or random).

Install one of the OpenStreetMaps-based apps like Magic Earth or OSMAnd with offline maps and customisability, and it works well enough.
I’m not sure the origin, but using ViT-L (the encoder shared with SD1. x) for what you might call the main prompt and ViT-G (the new SDXL encoder, and also a successor to the encoder used as the single encoder in SD 2.x) for a style prompt was a common idea shortly after SDXL launched, so its understandable.
Is there something to suggest that school was a horrible experience for him? My only takeaway is that it is work that is pushed upon children, which is undeniably true.

In a similar vein to your anecdote, and pertinent the larger topic, I greatly enjoyed harvest when I was 7 and always missed it when it was over. That's why I became a farmer in adulthood – and I still feel the same way about it. Work (even paid work) doesn't mean unenjoyable.
Not sure if that was intention, but fridge system can be split into two parts producing temperature change, and moving the heat. In a typical compressor fridge the gas does both, change the temperature by expanding/ compressing and move the heat by pumping it around. I guess the electrocaloric effect does the first half in solid state. With oil being pumped doing second half in a non solid state way. Isn't system capable of moving heat automatically a fridge? No- you can have a heat mover which is capable to only move heat from hot to cold like a water cooler in a PC.
What a dumb thing to say. 'Solid-state' doesn't matter. Its just a dumb marking thing that somehow got into popular popsci press. There is not one type of battery that is solid state. The important part, lithium metal anode is not yet in any cars. And the other types are not that practical for most cars.

Hydorgen GLOBAL production is literally about 1 weeks of Tesla.

If you put Hydrogen and EV on a graph, you can literally not even see the Hydrogen cars. And they also don't have high growth.

Hydrogen cars not a niche, they are a niche of a niche of a niche. They only happen because companies and governments are willing to lose lots of money on them. Mostly because of some decades old 'government strategies' that don't adjust to changing technology.
No, it’s a much simpler architecture. Anything that evolved can’t require a really complicated niche structure.

The difficulty is the scale. Every synapse of a neuron is effectively a neuron itself, and every synapse acts on the synapses around it. So before you’ve even got to the neuron as a whole you’ve already got the equivalent of thousands of neurons and logic gates. Then the final result gets passed on to thousands more neurons.

I don’t know how you would recreate such complexity in programming. It’s not just the scale, it’s the flexibility of the structure.
Also either network people get it wrong, or the optics modules really are DACs? Now I am confused too haha : https://serverlabs.blogspot.com/2019/10/a-study-about-sfp-mo...

Tangentially… you could build a SFP module that uses a digital to analog converter, outputting the data as a range of voltages vs 1/0s. Hook it up to a speaker for terrible audio. Then listen to it with a microphone hooked up to an Analog to digital converter sfp module on the other end!
Fuck Google. They do evil.

You don't need Chrome. You have Firefox.

Download Firefox now: https://www.mozilla.org

Addons for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org
I bet you have a tongue tie. Go get a frenectomy. Do tongue stretches. Get some facial massages.
Data collection is less important than data siloing. Need to find a way to ensure private activities of citizens are protected from the intrusions of the state. This might be a predictable future Elon vs 'the man' conflict
This implementation isn't hiding any more details than a single method.

In fact, in Ruby it hides less, because bypassing "private" is trivial, and manipulating an object's instance variables is trivial.

If you care about encapsulation, that makes this approach worse than a single method. If you need to maintain state across invocations (this example doesn't), then capturing local variables with a closure (lambda/proc) provides far tighter encapsulation than a regular object in Ruby.
Since we’re splitting hairs, the game is literally called “Travle”
The general AI paradox: Why AI won't kill us – or it already did
A thought experiment about the existential risk due to a ‘runaway’ General AI. And why the GAI risk debate is distracting us from the real issue.
> In Europe cars are not allowed to drive through the crossing on the "walk" signal

They are. When you turn right on your green, the pedestrians have a green light. They have priority of course but then you are free to cross the crossing on their green.
As I think we've both pointed out, it's actually less encapsulated, since you can do dirty stuff like `send` or `instance_eval`, while we can't "break into" the internal state of a single method.
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Have you never been given some bs excuse by someone?

Or maybe he said "it could be" and that got left out of the quote.
I live near a small airfield. The kind celebrities and wealthy people fly out of every day, mostly recreationally.

Every single small plane still uses leaded gas.

Flying overhead, all days, every day. At low altitudes.

And no one is changing that any time soon. As in tens of decades. Just leaded gas everywhere in the sky.
This sounds like a very US related problem that is unfortunately expanding to Europe due to car manufacturers marketing strategy.

I still find it crazy that no station wagon exists other than Volvo.. like Audi does not export their A4/A6/A8 estate version? Skoda, Mitsubishi, Toyota neither?

I can understand if you live in an area where roads are not well maintained or mostly dirt, SUV is really alluring. But for city driving is a massive (literally) problem for everyone.
I have this problem on different Samsung phones. And I only ever had it with Signal, no other messenger.
Sounds like a genuinely frustrating experience.

Bit confused about why nested virt has anything to do with their problems given that they aren’t using virt inside the VMs. Softlocks are a generic indication of a lack of forward progress.

Same confusion with the MMIO instructions comment. If that’s about instruction emulation, not sure why it matters where it happens? It’s both slow and bound for userspace anyway. If it’s supposed to be fast it should basically never be exiting the guest, let alone be emulated.

Sounds like the author is a bit frustrated and (understandably) grasping at whatever straws they can for that most recent incident.
No doubt all cloud providers have their problems.

For my day job, over the last 2 years we have discovered and reported multiple issues with Keyspaces, Amazon Aurora, and App Runner. In all cases these issues have resulted in performance degradation, and AWS support wasting our time sending us chasing our tails. After many weeks of escalation, we eventually ended up with project leads who confirmed the issues (some of which they were already aware of, yet the support teams had wasted our time anyway!) and (some of them) have since been resolved.

We are stuck with Keyspaces for the time being, but now refuse to use any non core services (EC2, EBS, S3). As soon as you venture away from those there be dragons.
People keep saying that, but don't actually understand what's happening.

Tesla build charging station. They use the existing electricity network that is already in place. That is 100-1000x cheaper then bootstrapping a hydrogen charging network.

A single Hydrogen fuel station for 1 car is gone cost more then a whole supercharging station. Its incredibly safety critical. And that doesn't even account for the much, much higher maintenance cost. And then you have to actually have infrastructure to supply the hydrogen. And once you do all of that, you have not even solved the carbon problem either.

No company, not Toyota will do that. Toyota has no interest in doing that.
>The frequency response of a healthy ear isn't flat across all audible frequencies, so you'd need to reference normal hearing...

Isn't the normal frequency response of a healthy ear dependent on the shape of the ear cartilage and the configuration of the ear canal and the ear drum? It would be different for every individual. Kinda like how Mom could always hear everything we did and said after bedtime while Dad, without even using his selective hearing, wouldn't even know we were still awake.

>Are you talking about basically using active noise canceling to silence tinitus?

Yes. Model the tinnitus and design the inverse filter based on the bandwidth and inject that inverse filter to become an active subtraction of the tinnitus response. I know it probably isn't possible because the noise is variable and originates in the brain instead of external to the ear so it is not easily quantifiable therefore the inverse operator will not be exact, optimum, or anything else. However, if you can model the signal then you should be able to design the inverse operator. Since the signal is just a band-limited input there is no reason why you can't dink around until you have a close enough model to be able to design the inverse filter which you would then inject as an external input thru an earpiece or some other sound generator.

I'm a geophysicist with hearing problems, not an audiologist or otolaryngologist. It sounds reasonable to me. We deal with convolution/deconvolution and other signal processing as a regular part of the job process.
You wouldn't define an `inspect` method for this simple example in Ruby either, because Ruby provides a default inspect that'd do just fine in this example. The exact same tradeoff for when to define inspect as for when you'd define print methods exist. In other words, that wasn't the point.
Google has, in my opinion, a severe problem with change for the sake of change. I use a lot of Google software but it seems like something is always changing with new versions and not for the better but not always for the worse either, just different. It's fairly frustrating especially in apps I use infrequently.

They just don't seem to value a long term and consistent user experience.
> In 2022, we experienced continual networking blips from Google’s cloud products. After escalating to Google on multiple occasions, we got frustrated. So we built our own networking stack — a resilient eBPF/IPv6 Wireguard network that now powers all our deployments. Suddenly, no more networking issues.

My understanding is that the network is a VLAN programed via switches for VMs so when you create VPC, you're creating a VLAN probably.

So how can an overlay (UDP/Wire guard) be more reliable if the underlaying network isn't stable?

PS: Had even 1/10th of issues have happened on AWS with such a customer, their army of solution architects would be camping in conference rooms every other week reviewing architecture, taking support engineers on call and what not.
Google Fi is the absolute best solution to prevent against SIM swap attacks. Turn on Advanced Protection (g.co/advancedprotection) and it is damn near impossible.

Every carrier ultimately delegates access to store and call center staff that can remove any PIN, witches curse, or anything else they offer to add to your account. MVNOs are effectively riding on the same networks and if you phish a high enough level support person at the parent carrier they can be swapped as well.
Google’s new UI refresh has been a step backwards. The biggest crime for me is the now in chrome when you right click you have to sometimes scroll to see the “inspect element” button, the most used thing in the context menu for me now hidden and requires more effort. I hope many bad and painful things happens to all the people who thought that was a good idea.
I’m really not in love with the headline, which is admittedly The Verge’s own. The judge didn’t say he was going to “investigate” Google independently. Judges don’t have that power. He said he’d “get to the bottom of” the spoliation question later. He’s saying that Google had better be prepared to deal with this issue much more fully in trials to come, but for purposes of this one, he’ll settle on giving the jury an instruction about permissible inferences.

In other words, Google had better be ready to receive the mother of all sanctions motions (possibly sua sponte).
As engineer and entrepreneur in the digital space I am biased, but I believe what this man is saying does not make lots of sense. It remembers me the analog photography guys buying analog gear because this "crazy digital thing could not last". People will always love the grain and so on.

The key of the issue are proprietary designs. Cars' tech is established and hence a commodity, easier than ever to replace things thanks to technology like computers, 3d scanners and 3d printers. That made possible lots of third parties selling you repair pieces without having to pay an arm and a leg for the official part.

The future are electronic cars, battery or hydrogen or ammonia, because it just way simpler and better.

With electronics you can make entire designs open source, so you are not dependent of the seller of your car, but you can also make the interface specifications open which is the really important thing.

The IBM PC was an example of open interface specifications. Anybody could build new cards and insert it on the slots and start using it.

You do not need going back to mechanical systems. You need open specification of interfaces so different companies could compete on equal terms.
I can't stand that. It dramatically reduces code readability to me.
TIL that we crossed the 8MM people threshold in 2023 (https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/). I was still at "about 7MM".
> where do they plan to move?

Basement of their office?

We reached the same conclusion they did a while back and went back to good-old self-hosted.

Reliability has been as good as cloud and TCO is divided by a factor of 10.
It seems like tinnitus is to hearing what migraine is to vision.
> From an economic point of view, this is a catastrophe. Solar panels will become more and more efficient, making nuclear power an utterly expensive alternative. Private investors are building plants everywhere in my region.

Nonsensical comment.

Perhaps you should consider the environment damage that comes from the manufacture of solar panels and their disposal at EOL.

First of all you don't even state what your region is.

Europeans and Americans created regulations which make nuclear energy ridiculously expensive.

Due to regulatory environment which means regulators can introduce additonal conditions at the drop of hat the time it takes to build nuclear power stations is simply undecidable.

The Japanese and Koreans build nuclear plants in 5 years tops where as in the US it might take 30 years to finish a plant because the regulators keep on piling on new conditions when nothing in the environment has essentially changed.

You would think that in the West experience gained in designing, building and managing nuclear plants would mean improved designs with each new generation. Not so.
Somewhat I guess, if you want to keep the weight low, have decent handling et. (not priorities for the cybertruck).

You can a Nissan GT-R for half the price which can do sub 11 seconds. A GT-R tuned for drag racing will be faster on a 1/4 than an F1 car.

Or you can get a bike for less than $20k which can do a 1/4 mile in 9.78 seconds. So just achieving that is not necessarily that hard.
Interesting, I’m starting to think undocumented thresholds are quite common in GCP.

I experienced something similar with Clod Run: inexplicable scaling events based on CPU utilization and concurrent requests (the two metrics that regulate scaling according to their docs).

After a lot of back and forth with their (premium) support it turns out there are additional criteria, smthg related to request duration, but of course nobody was able to explain in details.
Sih
Interesting use of xtermjs. :) Even if not nice for mobile usage. (or maybe it is a feature?)
I don't think the point you were making has any validity. It's not semantic-lawyering given that other ways of defining methods are common in larger Ruby code-bases, so you're already going to need to deal with a variety of far more complex things. If "end-less" defs is enough to throw you, then perhaps Ruby just isn't the language for you, and that's fine.
You don't need JavaScript for that
ROFL. Yeah, ok. Meta’s intentions are totally trustworthy, sure. They get to define both “trustworthy” and “ads”.

Remember they know more about the exploitation of human emotion than any organization in human history. And remember what they did with that knowledge.

Their instinct is only to find a responsive signal. They give no consideration to consequence.

Even with the best intentions they’ll still cultivate rage because they have never discovered anything else. At this point they can never discover anything else.

Meta is an irredeemable organization. Reject them at every opportunity.
From the article:

“I am going to get to the bottom of who is responsible,” he said, adding he would pursue these issues “on my own, outside of this trial.”

What's that if not an investigation?
Modern states are basically just feudal states with their private extensions, particularly on the international level and over the last 3 decades they chose over and over to let analogies hold from meat space because it maintains or expands their power relative to other elements of society.

The Red cross should not look for specific legislation so that any states that are foolish enough can argue their own assumed rights away and will have to take that risk if they want to take back the right the Red cross is taking by the same analogy.
In principle, if they need ads to keep the lights on, then it is reasonable that they would block ad blockers on, e.g., YouTube, no?

(What upsets me more is purposefully degrading the experience of FF users.)
With pictures:

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I remember reading this is a side effect of their corporate ladder structure, where successful projects for “new stuff” are used to self-advocate for promotion.

Not unlike any other corporations, to be fair.
This is probably an unintended feature bit I see no immediate problem in alignment not erasing raw memorized data. It could as well be a design choice to have a raw memory unaffected by alignment procedures
Try doing the same for Blackstone, KKR, Apollo, Carlyle, etc now.
{} is already overloaded for both blocks and Hash literals, both of which commonly occur at the end of the argument lists. It seems like it'd create far more opportunities for making the code hard to read.
As a child my teeth were corrected by pulling my lower jaw back with elastic bands. Not only do I have a weak chin because of this, but in hindsight I think my tinnitus might be related to this as well.
Yes, if I’m a nation state hacker I’m totally going to install a third party Chrome extension from the Chrome Web Store.
I'm really liking these audiomoths. Broadband recording at high fidelity with long, unattended recording possible. I'm trying to see whether I can identify individual crows among a family of pecan-stealers active in my area. I almost have them accustomed to checking my porch for raw peanuts as part of their regular rotation. I probably need cameras to be able match the bird to the call and identify individual birds and I don't yet have that but I will in time. For now I am getting familiar with all the normal noises out here and the frequencies they occupy so that I can visually separate bird calls at various frequencies from ambulances, airplanes, helicopters, automobiles, barking dogs, etc so I can spend more time analyzing interesting signals from the birds out here.

If you have time to acquire a new hobby, an audiomoth is a great tool.
A bit off-topic, but I maintain three simple, static websites. Every few months, I get mail from Google, telling me of "new" reasons why these sites may not be ranked well in Google search.

The reasons are nonsense, at least in my view. For example, suddenly the spacing between control elements is "too small" for mobile devices. It wasn't last month, but it is now. Or the font, or something else that hasn't changed in years. Other search engines (e.g., Bing) report no problems.

More "change for the sake of change", but they want to force other people's stuff to change as well. Google hegemony can't end soon enough...
Like with so many mainstream usecase projects, I'd wager to say the protocol/backend is the easy part. It all depends on good easy to use clients.
Rolled out for me. Looks more unpleasant but feels more usable.