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> Michigan Tech University, which is the mining industry's MIT

ehhh...Colorado School of Mines is a much more significant powerhouse in the mining industry. I say this as an MTU alum.

> I am surprised the state of Michigan hasn't found a way to help these guys.

Not really surprised, Upper Peninsula doesn't afford many political connections. Families who go to that school aren't well-connected and typically earn quite a bit less than families at University of Michigan. Distance matters too -- it's a very, very long drive so there's not a lot of cross-pollination between the political centers and population centers and the Keweenaw Peninsula.

It's isolated enough from the rest of Michigan that the McDonald's by Michigan Tech is an official supporter of the Green Bay Packers, not Detroit Lions. Wisconsin and Minnesota students pay in-state tuition there. It's really not "Michigan", culturally. It's also very sparsely populated -- the nearest Wendy's is a two-hour drive away.
SSD's have a finite write life, I talk about this a lot because I've hit it, a lot.

I've also hit a few specific firmware bugs in drives, my favorite was a 49 day uptime bug related to a 32 bit counter.

Its one of those awful ops problems :)
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randomly distributed means they'll hit you and the window with the same likelihood as any other part of your car. with your logic, it doesn't matter what car you get. you get shot anyway...
Sounds cool. I played with STM in Haskell and liked it. YC might fund you to explore this, both technically and monetarily.
For boxes, in the past I've had luck with liquor or wine stores. Call them up or show up and ask if you can take any boxes. They usually give them to me for free and are very sturdy.
This is permitted: https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/blob/main/docs/BR.md#...

But it hasn't really caught on; a lot of registrars don't seem to want the complexity of being (or integrating with) a CA, and vice versa.
Giving the journalist traffic only encourages the journalist!

https://archive.ph/ZiEWM

Pretty boring story anyway, would give it a skip. The most interesting/obnoxious bit is how the journalist insists this is not doxxing because the journalist has been appointed High King Prescriptivist and can override how everyone uses words
Reaction: If I read that $Company's supply chain features trafficked / beaten / forced labor, then I'll be reaching for the big red "REJECT" stamp before I even get to the part about the ages of the victims.
I thought that older people with families and bigger houses prefer WFH, because it is more convenient and it makes more time for the family. while younger single people with smaller apartments prefer the office, because it’s less cramped and lonely.
Funnily enough, responding to someone saying "I literally saw multiple processes eating 1GB+ of RAM" with "This website over here did some measurements and says you're wrong" isn't going to come across as well as you think it is.

I've had Chrome open for some number of days and when I check Activity Monitor, the most RAM-expensive process is currently sitting at <500MB, a few others at 100-300MB, and the rest at under 100MB. The "energy impact" of it is at 160-ish. Whereas, again, Firefox was taking up 1GB+ of RAM in multiple processes and the energy impact was more like 260-ish, my battery was dying way faster, I would see CPU usage of double Chrome regularly, and macOS was always saying that Firefox was using a lot of power. The RAM usage is something I've seen on Windows as well, along with issues with the browser just behaving poorly over time. I just don't see these issues on Chrome or (most of) its derivative browsers. (I've used Brave a lot as well)

Guess I'm just objectively wrong though, because Toms Guide disagrees with what I'm seeing.
Nothing in the article indicates that societies "age", merely that they have an ongoing failure rate once mature. There's no fixed lifespan apparent.
There are a bunch of markets where the taxis run on CNG, with their own dedicated refill infrastructure. I guess hydrogen could make sense in replacing those? Taxis run long hours and any charging downtime means lost revenue.
Only for some class of websites with limited interactivity.

On iOS/Android, before all the WebKit apps took over, many apps would use a local SQLite database to support offline edits and implement a syncing protocol to the server. It's a lot of work, but the end product can be quite handy. (This is how you'd expect your email client to work, for example.)
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I work with lean, business speculative software mostly. Which means not cross-platform native development is simply not economical to do. I generally need to be able to hit Windows, iOS, Android, and MacOS square on with one code base.

A "native" electron or capacitor distribution system is a fine extension of a local-first web client. And an advantage of building fat clients generally is they lend themselves to such distribution models much easier than say, htmx or hotwire.

Native fat client have had their benefits and lots of people still prefer them, but always had the drawback of manual data management and installs. Being able to leverage any device you own with a cloud synced local-first client really gives you the best of both worlds.

But not all software fits readily within this model.
The point of the TSA is to harass political opponents of the current regime. To the extent that it actually reduces crime (I refuse to use the propagandistic and loaded term “terrorism”) that security screening could just as easily be done by the airline like it used to. You better hope you don't like the wrong post on social media and get a little SSSS on your boarding pass.
Yeah I mean, it can be done, it can be helpful but is it efficient?

You could as well try memorizing the entire $framework API, which most people would agree that isn't the best use of one's energies.
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They have a "Why?" page:

https://docs.endatabas.com/appendix/why.html

It's overly wordy though. :/
Actually I'm pretty sure Mexicans are killing Mexico's forests
is anyone having trouble with archive.is just endless cycling in captcha? its been like that a week. spent like ten minutes doing all the captcha's and it just loops back to new ones
I really doubt any relevant amounts remain on the cleaned dishes.

If you drink the dish water OTOH...
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I once imagined a dystopian hellscape where people were used as spare computers during their sleep to solve protein folding. Glad to see I wasn't too far off the mark. Anyway, add this to the techno-optimist bucket of billion dollar ideas.
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This was a very long piece that really buried the lead. Seems like most of the people commenting on this here never got to this passage.

While I'm at it, most of the references to the paper co-authored by Toner missed the two pages of praise for OpenAI before the single paragraph with the somewhat negative comparison to Anthropic.
Sorry for perhaps reducing what SQLSync does to any over simplistic description, but is it effectively applying the CRDT pattern on top of the client (SQLSync/sqlite) and servers (Some OLTP) individual operation logs?

edit: I mean rebase, not CRDT
> There's no way to ask for a not-null pointer at the type level, so you have to check for nullity everywhere and good luck debugging those runtime panics.

You can write a simple Option type yourself using generics [1]. It's not strictly idiomatic and you do have to remember to use it, but it works well.

[1]: (my post) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38331565
I've worked on various forms of "legacy code" for most of my career. As long as the economics line up and the customer is willing to pay for the required support, then it's a fine business avenue.

If economics don't line up then you have to pull the plug and set them adrift, which is much easier and more secure with a fat client that runs without a server than say, a complex cloud system.
It was my first language, too, that I learned to write “serious” programs in. I just didn’t think a prominent modern company would choose Perl as their main language. Props to them.
> Altman began approaching other board members, individually, about replacing [Toner]. When these members compared notes about the conversations, some felt that Altman had misrepresented them as supporting Toner’s removal. “He’d play them off against each other by lying about what other people thought,” the person familiar with the board’s discussions told me. “Things like that had been happening for years.”

> ... [Altman's] tactical skills were so feared that, when four members of the board—Toner, D’Angelo, Sutskever, and Tasha McCauley—began discussing his removal, they were determined to guarantee that he would be caught by surprise. “It was clear that, as soon as Sam knew, he’d do anything he could to undermine the board,” the person familiar with those discussions said.

> The person familiar with [Altman's] perspective said that he and the board had engaged in “very normal and healthy boardroom debate,” but that some board members were unversed in business norms and daunted by their responsibilities.

> [Re: the board's silence after firing Altman] Two people familiar with the board’s thinking say that the members felt bound to silence by confidentiality constraints.

This seems to be the most concrete information about what he did since it happened. Sounds like he lied for years and justified it as "business norms."
Actually most of the 4 is better. Wonder why 1 is not.
If this drug costs $1000/month does it really put money in people's pockets that they will use to buy other things that end up boosting the economy? They first need to be able to pay for the next hit of Ozempic.

I don't see the connection unless the ones producing the drug are getting all that money and buying new 3rd homes with custom furniture, new vehicles, etc. Since insurance evidently doesn't cover this for everyone there will be a lot of people paying ridiculous money to lose weight who will then be stuck on the lifetime drug treadmill as a health maintenance requirement drug.

Why don't we invest the money going to this expense in health education and public facilities for health maintenance - parks, gyms, etc.

I understand that many are already morbidly obese and need something like this drug to get them back in control of their own health outcomes but the overall goal should be to shed the extra weight and discontinue the drug while adopting healthy lifestyle habits.
It's entirely possible there are fields with needs I am unaware of or not considering, but your response is not compelling and sounds like hand-waiving. Exactly what equipment are you talking about?

I suspect you are likely grossly underestimating the available supplies at many research university in the US. For instance things like class 100 clean rooms are basic facilities. Many (and I want to say most) research universities also have partnerships with (if not ownership) of various specialized labs in the surrounding areas for more specific purposes. For instance the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab is managed by Caltech.
Don't use a fork and don't customize your user.js. It is exceedingly unlikely that excess power consumption is caused by anything you can easily tweak. Instead report issues to Mozilla.
While I'm sure there's real value in the drug, articles like this one in Reuters [0], noting how much Novo Nordisk is spending on promotion, makes me suspicious that it's being overprescribed.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/health-o...
The Library seems to not support freedom of thought/association.

I guess we'll see in 30-90 days what happens (if anything).

I donate a reasonable portion of my profits to FIRE so I guess I'll find out where my dollars go :)
That said they seem to support mostly noble causes so I'm not gonna stop giving them money.
Logged into my personal account for this one! I'm a lead author on a paper that explored exactly. It does enable faster training and smaller model sizes. For reference, you can get 80% accuracy on CIFAR-10 in ~30 minutes of CPU (not using crazy optimizations). There are open questions about scaling but at the time we did not have access to big compute (really still don't) and our goals were focused on addressing the original ViT's claims of data constraints and necessities of pretraining for smaller datasets (spoiler, augmentation + overlapping patches plays a huge role). Basically we wanted to make a network that allowed people to train transformers from scratch for their data projects because pretrained models aren't always the best solutions or practical.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05704

Blog: https://medium.com/pytorch/training-compact-transformers-fro...

CPU compute: https://twitter.com/WaltonStevenj/status/1382045610283397120

Crazy optimizations (no affiliation): 94% on CIFAR-10 in <6.3 seconds on a single A100 : https://github.com/tysam-code/hlb-CIFAR10

I also want to give maybe some better information about ViTs in general. Lucas Beyer is a good source and has some lectures as well as Hila Chefer and Sayak Paul's tutorials. Also, just follow Ross Wightman, the man is a beast

Lucas Beyer: https://twitter.com/giffmana/status/1570152923233144832

Chefer & Paul's All Things ViT: https://all-things-vits.github.io/atv/

Ross Wightman : https://twitter.com/wightmanr

His very famous timm package https://github.com/huggingface/pytorch-image-models
That's my philosophy. I do only what I was hired to do. I start when I'm supposed to and I end when I'm supposed to. Take my dog for a walk everyday at lunch.

If my employer wants to complain that I'm not going above and beyond, let them complain. As long as my job is getting done and the checks keep being deposited, I can deal with it. It's only work. These people aren't my parents, I don't care about them.

I've gotten twice as much done around the house since remote working 3 years ago. Can't wait to tap out of shitty job and ride into the sunset. 4 more years is all I need.
> Almost like Firefox is optimizing for just shoveling as much CPU power and RAM as possible into it's gaping, bloated maw, not caring about anything else.

That is of course not the case.
> At what point does an important or essential service become a public good?

When the government buys it and operates it with your tax dollars.
Subjective concepts like "obvious" or "average engineer" are not in the equation. Is it a new thing? Is there prior art? That's why innovation pays and R&D is worth it.
Hi, where should I apply if I’m interested in the intern position? I couldn’t find a job that listed intern/co-op on the apply and page.
As someone currently using Renovate, my main concern would be cost. Renovate is free, and LLMs + RAG seems like it would cost money.
The examples you provided are misconstruing the comment you are responding to. As they said, if an unrecognized nation has a systems for functional "currencies, police, military, border security", although I'd also add independent taxation, then it is functionally a nation. This is not a random declaration of sovereignty or declaration of conquest over an area they are referring to, but a place that has all of the elements of a nation or independent state, but is simply not widely recognized.

A well-known example of this is Kosovo, which operates as a sovereign state, with its own police, military, taxation and secure borders with border security, but is only recognized by only a little over half of the UN. Another example is Taiwan, which has its own currency, independent taxation system, passport, military, police and representative governance, despite not being officially recognized by many member states of the UN. Israel is an example of a nation which was not recognized by any of its neighbors, despite being in control of its territory, but ended up being recognized around the world all the same.
Firstly - link is from 2022

Secondly, on Black Friday there were many 32 inch 4K monitors available for under $700. Might still be some.
High stress, poor sleep quality, alcohol abuse, and obesity all reinforce each other in a feedback loop. Breaking out of that vicious cycle often requires a complete lifestyle change including a new environment and different friends.
Yep exactly. The companies building the ships are often US companies that were bought and then build the ships in the US.
Poor Turing must be rolling over in his grave. The so-called Turing test was common before Turing wrote his rebuttal, calling that test little more than a Gallup poll (i.e.,just a subjective opinion). He proposed an alternative test, the real Turing test, that could provide statistical evidence. In his test, observers tried to distinguish between a woman and a man pretending to be a woman. This was repeated as often as you wanted to gain statistical significance. After that, a machine is substituted for the man and repeated as before. Turing claimed if the machines and the men had the same success rate, you should conclude the machine was thinking.
There's a great Darknet Diaries episode about this. https://youtube.com/watch?v=uh_q02eefFM&pp=ygUHI2NoeWNpYQ
Cool. So now we have 4 ways to do this:

* Link/AirLink
* Virtual Desktop
* ALVR
* Steam Link

It’s kind of nice that it integrates with Steam, but it also can’t play your Oculus PCVR games (unlike the other 3 solutions)
Based on the choice of fonts and colors, you know this is a serious hacker website ;p
I'm sorry, "harvest space junk"? How on earth could that possibly be profitable? There is zero mystery why any VC, Midwest or otherwise, would not be interested in that business model.
One could also argue, this class of websites is what the majority of the website/webapp landscape should be.

An average SPA is, in the end, a website for most users. Take a payment form for instance - we had those 10, 20, 30 years ago, with 0.1x the effort.

Of course there's place for fat client tech, but there are 1000 websites for each 'email client' - exceptional cases often dominate the discussion.
Still remember seeing the first episode of Æon Flux on late night MTV when I was 13. Good stuff
Should we worry about plastics instead?
Ford was the only US automaker to not need a bailout.
Meta will enforce ban on AI-powered political ads in every nation, no exceptions
I listen to this before seeing this post:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kTe0xRAU1w

Seems more concerns about the issue of cosmological constant and its disagreement with observation and current model.
Check Facebook or Nextdoor in your neighborhood. People who move frequently give away the moving boxes afterwards. If nobody gas posted that they have boxes to give away post and ask if anyone has any moving boxes.
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I'm also not convinced uber eats will ever make money.
Republicans and Libertarians will mostly be the ones objecting.
Also, H3H3's original videos before he started doing reaction/commentary stuff as well, which was more early YouTube than current.
Sick Animation is still around and even dumber and better than ever.
They're doing it for money.
Macs have a lot more value than most Windows PCs.

Build quality, *nix terminal, speed, quietness, coolness, battery life, etc.

And last but not least, resale value is excellent.
I don't understand why Google counteracts indirectly. Why can't they just ban adblockers from the Chrome Web Store? If that's not possible, why not just remove specific adblockers one by one? Removing the big ones would probably stop most people from using them.
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Of course, do remember that the original USA legal structure was _explicitly_ designed to avoid "the tyranny of the majority". It was founded by a number of different religious sects, and the small ones didn't want to be dominated by the big ones. A rural person in flyover country would care a lot less about what the Coastals think, except that what they think is being increasingly pressed upon them on many, many fronts.
Currently reading this and thought the same. Lots of scenarios I hadn't considered, and fun to see IRL work in the same vein.
I've yet to see evidence that outcomes would ever be different
> most experiments and observations are done on earth

Yes, but all astronomy built on same foundations. For example just cup of years, exists literally observation of Black hole, but few decades before their behavior observed only by indirect measurements, which are absolutely confirmed theory.

Also last years launched few large scale experiments with satellites, and few others planned.

For example, LISA Pathfinder was launched to orbit 500000km..800000km, which is not much for astronomic scales, but definitely is not on Earth surface (Moon is less then half million kilometers from Earth) :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISA_Pathfinder

First very far automatic chemical lab, probably was Mariner series on Mars. Later was Galileo, Cassini–Huygens (list included on bottom of page).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini%E2%80%93Huygens

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_program

Must admit, I cannot remember any space mission, with rich chemical lab , considered to work at open space (Vega has chemical lab on descent craft, Halley comet part was just radar/imaging).

But chemical rocket engines work same, and all known electronics also work same as on Earth surface. I'm few decades waiting for any evidence of chemical reactions depending on gravitational influence, but nothing happen.