skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In their three-year existence (during COVID, no less), they've shipped five different 13 inch laptop models: three Intel generations, a Chromebook edition of their latest Intel generation, and (most recently) an AMD variant. That's incredibly impressive by itself for such a new company, but on top of all that the parts from these systems are interchangeable and readily available at reasonable prices.

Someone with a first-gen Intel Framework can upgrade to the latest AMD model for as little as $449.00, or around $500 for a bundle with RAM and the wifi module that you'll likely also need. If you're willing to stay a release behind (not possible with their AMD variant yet), you can remain almost current for much less money, at least judging by their pricing on their previous-gen Intel motherboards.

I just ordered an AMD Framework 13 to replace my Thinkpad T480. My previous personal laptop was a Thinkpad T410, which lasted me for seven years. My T480 Thunderbolt controller died due to a firmware bug that I didn't update to fix in time. In addition to the loss of Thunderbolt, it's lead to some other issues (such as a ~30-second pause resuming from sleep) that make it annoying to use. Fixing it would require a motherboard replacement, which iFixit rates as "difficult".

[1] https://frame.work/products/mainboard-kit-amd-ryzen-7040-ser...
Strikes are to thank for that.
Straight Dope.
Why is the low of 2020 the right level to benchmark from?
That will lead to extrajudicial action from the workers.
I thought I'd check with GPT-4 vision preview just to see what it could make of the character. Unfortunately, it couldn't figure it out.

> The logographic character you're referring to appears to be a Chinese
character, but it's not clearly written which makes it difficult to identify
with certainty.

(There was more to the response, but it was more about why the character might be written there)
In this instance, we know what they've aimed for [1] - "Violence & Hate", "Sexual Content", "Guns & Illegal Weapons", "Regulated or Controlled Substances", "Suicide & Self Harm" and "Criminal Planning"

So "bad prescription advice" isn't yet supported. I suppose you could copy their design and retrain for your use case, though.

[1] https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/LlamaGuard-7b#the-llama-gu...
Its a common problem. I remember getting really frustrated over articles announcing time crystals. What is a time crystal? They never actually said.
They already have 48GB Pro GPUs.

If they were going to do it on the consumer side, they would have done it already. And I would own a 7900 48GB instead of a 3090, and probably have debugged ROCm on several projects by now :/
You delegate all responsibilities other than information collection and administration. (That is, approving vacation and the like.) You trust the most senior people below you to tell you when there's a problem. You rely on gut instinct over diving deep. And you accept that your organization's performance is degraded due to the extra overhead.

I did it for a few months. It was truly unpleasant.
He had shares prior and he didn't sell them before layoffs which he could have.
I think that would be the difference.
that's weird, never an issue from me. Might try switching temporarily to quad 9 dns or something just as a quick test.
Didn't the stock price go up _after_ the fact?

It's about being able to predict what happens in the future that matters, unless you're supposing that he would have bought immediately before the announcement and sold after.
You can run smaller wires through the vehicle then down voltage on device.
What’s your TC now?
Then unfortunately they will always be at the mercy of their employer. Whether that employer is paying them 400k plus or a govt job paying 70k.
>>Retailers treat their customers like criminals and are surprised most of them don't come back! News at 11.

Been to a Walmart lately? It's a nightmare to get in and out with security measures. No cashiers, self checkout only. It's so focused on making sure you don't do any theft/price-changing that the experience is miserable. No one around to help. HAD TO DOWNLOAD THE FKING WALMART APP TO PAY!

Many times I even considered just taking my couple items and walking out the door because despite all of the consumer-hostile measures it would be laughably easy to just steal the items if you wanted to.

So the only person all of that stuff affects is the honest consumer.
The Sam's by me is great, especially since they have scan'n'go. I've never waited more than 5 minutes in the exit line (usually 1-3 minutes), and don't have to wait at all to pay, since I pay on my phone. But stuff like that is always a location-by-location thing.

By the way, you only have to wait in exit lines at clubs where you're a member, since you've agreed to it in your membership. At stores like Best Buy, you can just keep walking by the person checking other people, and maybe give them a friendly wave to help brighten their day. Technically, you can legally do the same at Sam's, but they can revoke your membership for it.
Instead of speaking about his right to do this or not, I think this conversation should be about the rise in C-suite executive compensation and Jack Welch style business decisions.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/07/was-jack-welch...

https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-compensation-2018/
I am a young person who has never sent a fax so please forgive my ignorance, but how does a fax allow you to prove you sent it?

edit: nvm I looked it up myself and learned about fax receipts. Sucks that the equivalent feature in email (read receipts) is usually not enabled due to abuse by spammers.
Left: a technical diagram of the setup. :clap
48Vdc is supposedly the highest voltage that is still considered safe. (https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/267789/how-s...)

It certainly sounds like a smart move on the copper savings alone.
Your reference doesn't claim that the OS was single-user, only that it was developed for a single person (Thompson). There is no evidence that it was ever a single-user system or that it was named after that.

> Because the new operating system supported only one user (Thompson), he saw it as ...

This has a lot more good references too: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/10907/was...
But for virality, you need good content and apparently they spent a lot of money on promotion and user acquisition.
“People just submitted it. I don’t know why. They ‘trust me.’ Dumb fucks.”
DAMA-DMBOK2 covers this very comprehensively

https://www.dama.org/cpages/body-of-knowledge
That's the academic price. The commercial/regular price is likely 5-10x more.
TBH you need to follow papers and trends to some extent, but I can't imagine doing it on Twitter.
Capitalism, where you are happy to profiteer while it works for you, and people are assholes, when it doesn't.
Note that Signal only uses push notifications to wake the app up. Then it directly connects to the Signal service to receive messages.
As we get better with miniaturizing LLMs this might become a good approach. Right now LLMs with enough world knowledge and language understanding to do these tasks are still so big that stacking models like this leads to significant latency. That's acceptable for some use cases, but a major problem for most use cases.

Of course it becomes more viable if each "layer" is not a whole LLM with its own input and output but a modification you can slot into the original LLM. That's basically what LoRAs are.
Very nice. It would be nice to see an example or two with text + an image, as this is the battle I'm currently fighting.

Alignment is a trip, let me tell you...

While I've played around with Inkscape, I'm definitely on the "writing XML" side of the fence in order to create what I need.
All in all, excellent ressource! Great and super clear examples.

Minor nitpick @clip-path; they propose the following code:

<svg width="200" height="200" viewBox="-100 -100 200 200">
<defs>
<clipPath id="ball">
<circle cx="0" cy="20" r="70" />
</clipPath>
</defs>

<circle cx="0" cy="20" r="70" fill="#D1495B" />

<polyline
clip-path="url(#ball)"
points="-120 40 -80 0 -40 40 0 0 40 40 80 0 120 40"
fill="none"
stroke="#9C2D2A"
stroke-width="20"
/>

<circle
cx="0"
cy="-75"
r="12"
fill="none"
stroke="#F79257"
stroke-width="2"
/>
<rect x="-17.5" y="-65" width="35" height="20" fill="#F79257" />
</svg>

But that means describing the big circle twice. If you want to change the size of the circle you will have to modify it in two places. Since we're already using defs it would be better to write this IMHO:

<svg width="200" height="200" viewBox="-100 -100 200 200">
<defs>
<circle cx="0" cy="20" r="70" id="round"/>
<clipPath id="ball">
<use href="#round"/>
</clipPath>
</defs>

<use href="#round" fill="#D1495B" />

(rest unchanged)
The problem, as with cable TV bundles, is you end up with one or two reasonably worthwhile channels of content and a bunch of cheap filler.
Kudos for the landing page, this is how AI products should be presented.

1) Direct access to the product

2) Multiple demo examples

I've seen so many launches here recently that have no demos, require sign up and basically gate all the usefulness of the product behind walls.
It is a typo but in a different way. They are referring to the MI300X (mentioned again later).

The discussion on the MI300X was on HN like 12 hours ago (after the AMD announcement event yesterday):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38550271

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfSZqjxsr0M
Like I said, the 12V bus in an EV isn't driving a bunch of high power stuff.

Take a look at the fusebox in any modern car, EV or not. (There will most likely be more than one fusebox.)

You'll see lots of 20A, 30A, 40A parts, some even larger. Running those circuits on 12 volts takes more copper than you probably think it does. More copper and beefier (read: much more expensive) connectors. The move to 48V is frankly overdue.
Stellantis makes a big bet on EV battery swapping in new deal with Ample
This is unironically a great idea
Here is a demo colab: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1V_C06dFotaz46L7oR8f...
Your propaganda attempt to support terrorism does not work here.

Go somewhere else and try to justify mass rape and murder of civilians like the Palestinians celebrated.
I think it already has. Maybe not the underlying tech, but certainly for encrypt emails.

But I think the outcome of this is not "something fresh" but rather "giving up on the idea of encrypted emails altogether". We have far superior communication channels that are secure, easy and private today (Signal, Matrix, WhatsApp, iMessage); That problem is solved. Storing emails secure and encrypted is solved too, by providers such as protonmail, fastmail, tutanota and many others.

So what does GPG/PGP really solve still?

The one use-case that I strongly see it shine, is where mail-notifications are signed. I've only ever seen Kraken do this: Upload my GPG/PGP pub key in their web-interface, and have them sign and encrypt mails to me with that. It very much solves phishing and MITM on email-notifications (and password reset mails and such). Comes with two serious problems though: the UX on my client-end still sucks; e.g. I never managed to set-up PGP on my android client, so I cannot read their mails from my phone. "subject: Login attempt from X" body: garbled. And generation and rotation of the keys is as frustrating as ever. It certainly is not a feature for "my mom".
Just to add the basic idea, the amount of power is amps * volts. So to carry the same amount of energy with a higher voltage, you can you use less amps. The amount of amps impacts how big the wires are, lower amps need smaller wires and that means less space for wires but more importantly less weight of the wires. There is a lot of wiring in a car. Tesla claims this could be 1/4 the amount of copper wiring in an article, below.

This article describes a bit about this, but also says something I never heard, that there were 6v auto systems in the 1960s. https://www.mining.com/new-tesla-low-voltage-system-a-big-de...
Personally, through all these conversations over the last years, it's become obvious to me that there is a better way for companies to manage the interface between frontend and backend that few of them know about, data layers.

We have the passion and the expertise to try and help a few more companies to use data layers and can justify it as a business because our main product at Stellate is GraphQl edge caching—which works with any GraphQL API, including those created by Fuse.js.

This is similar to why Vercel can invest so much in React and Next.js
Code Repository for Liquid Time-Constant Networks (LTCs)
See https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/06/liquid-ai-a-new-mit-spinof...
Yes you can succeed if the market is good enough
As I understand it, the law is that they're not allowed to trade while in possession of material, non-public information, but beyond that most of the practices are there to just entirely avoid the suspicion or appearance of foul play. Sometimes executives are allowed to trade during windows immediately after announcing results, etc. The law would still dictate that they do not trade if they know about upcoming acquisitions or changes, etc. but someone would still have to prove that, and it's a risk that is removed if the executive just follows a preset schedule.
Vodafone is literally a core part of the Internet platform. It quite literally gates people's access to the Internet.

It's hard to say Instagram, Meta Marketplace, and TikTok are gatekeepers (they has been designated thusly by the EU) but Vodafone isn't.

The law is protectionist, which is fine in itself. But the argument that Instagram is one of the core gatekeepers of the Internet and Vodafone isn't is ridiculous on its face.
Thanks for the insightful comment.

I guess they can still conveniently schedule when the layoffs are announced and make it happen right before the 10b5-1 schedule?

All the previous layoffs announcements were followed by the stock rising up.
Update if you can
The forums @ eevblog.com

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ -- not real active, but interesting subject matter.
That's technically not new either?

Are they just talking about MI300X availability?
Choosing to time layoffs so they happen when the stock price boost happens during your trading window is deep in a legal gray area.
loved the take and re-enforcement of a talk I’ve loved forever by Rich Hickey (famous for being integral to the creation of Clojure among other things) called “Simple Made Easy”

https://youtu.be/SxdOUGdseq4

Anyone know of any books that dive deeper into the subject?
The idea that people only drank beer because it was safe and water wasn't is a myth, yes.

The idea that premodern and early modern people considered water unsafe is not, though. You can see this view all over the european primary record, and it's very clear that in many areas and for much of premodern history people preferred fermented drinks when they had access to the choice.

> Think about it logically, you can not brew bear from water that is contaminated in the first place.

This is also not strictly true, depending on what sort of contamination you're talking about. Heavy metal or contemporary chemical contamination won't be affected by the brewing process, but it will kill parasites for example. Bacterial contamination varies by the specifics and degree, but you may be better off having brewed it.

Securing clean springs and wells was a high priority for people all through history. Brewing is part of a range of techniques and technologies that were used to varying extents when they weren't able to.

"They drank beer instead of water because it was safe" is a myth but also so is "water was safe and there was no advantage to drinking beer."
Considering the purely performative nature of the company it seems a bit exagerated compared to the New York Yankees 6bn valuation and the Dallas Cowboys 7bn.

It's hard to put a valuation metric on similarly performative organizations such as the Democratic Party and the Republican Party operating on a higher plane compared to the aforementioned sports team but I reckon the yearly financial turnover of both parties to be less than 175bn.

Although turnover is not the same as valuation, a better valuation measure would be estimating the amount donated through the years by the Koch Brothers and Sheldon Andelson to be the kingmakers in the Republican party which is one of the 2 dominating performative political organizations.
Not forums, but some blogs have interesting comment sections. One that comes to mind is Schneier on Security's.
>"...a rich and growing subfield of wave physics shows that such “time reversal” is possible."

Let's call this burgeoning branch of physics "Wave Reversal Physics".

That sounds like a good name for now, Wave Reversal Physics...

Plus, that would be a better sell to the "Time can't be reversed" crowd.

Because anyone who's everyone who's anyone who's everyone in Physics -- who knows anything about waves -- know that they can be reversed.

Perhaps not in gigantic superclusters (as might be required for actual Time Travel), perhaps not yet, but as a single discrete wave in various mediums -- wave reversal definitely is possible.

Also, I should point out that that's for any wave which is not a pure sine wave.

That's because pure sine waves have a period -- but they do not have a reversed, (AKA phase-conjugate) form.

They are basically their own reversal at half-period.

Well, I take that back -- it could be argued that a 180 degree out-of-phase secondary sine wave -- is the reversed form of an initial one...

So phase could be one component of reversal in some wave types...

Anyway, point is, let's call this new subfield of Physics:

Wave Reversal Physics

...At least until/unless a better moniker is to be had! :-) <g> :-)
That is true, good idea. I might update it with a note on this
> when a company lays people off, the town, state, and federal government are the ones who have to end up picking up the downstream effects

If the existing unemployment _insurance_ (forced payroll contributions to each State) are not sufficient, then change that insurance system.

There could be a business opportunity for supplemental market-priced contributions which pay on job loss. That wouldn't be worse than the 'legal assist' ripoff plans HR pimps at employee hiring.
> Why would the NSA bother to target PGP, when the biggest threat to their surveillance is the use of other encryption mechanisms with better usability (and therefore lower chance of misuse)?

Could you give an example of such encryption mechanisms please?
Nothing here is about preventing people from choosing to create models with any particular features, including the uncensored models; there are model evaluation tools and content evaluation tools (the latter intended, with regard for LLMs, to be used for classification of input and/or output, depending on usage scenario.)

Uncensored models being generally more capable increases the need for other means besides internal-to-the-model censorship to assure that models you deploy are not delivering types of content to end users that you don't intend (sure, there are use cases where you may want things to be wide open, but for commercial/government/nonprofit enterprise applications these are fringe exceptions, not the norm), and, even if you weren't using an uncensored models, input classification to enforce use policies has utility.
> Think about it logically, you can not brew bear from water that is contaminated in the first place.

My assumption is that the contamination is biological, which would be fixed by the long boil required in brewing. Even with resistance to the local microflora, water was probably more likely to cause disease than a boiled derivative like beer.

> I guess people just really like the idea of medieval people being shitfaced all the time.

I've heard that the beer made then, maybe especially for consumption by peasants, had a low ABV by today's standards. High alcohol beer is a waste of grain if the goal is a slightly-more-antiseptic-than-water beverage.
I'm coming from a US perspective and trying to understand what is actually happening

https://www.ifmetall.se/aktuellt/tesla/

Does IF Metall already represent all of Tesla's employees? Does that mean there are no active Tesla services in Sweden during the strike?

If union membership is really the way of life in Sweden, is there anything preventing the government from a legislative solution? Just mandate collective agreements?
> inherently contains such information.

no it doesn't, it'll contain a phone number to a clinic, then you'll have to look up what kind of clinic it is

you're telling me the receptionist answering the phone at the clinic won't mention the name of the clinic when someone calls?

and stick to objective points and don't fault me by calling it nitpicking because your argument falls apart when basic critical thinking is applied to it
If you are like me and found the editorialization a bit much from this article but want to know more I highly recommend The Limiting Factor on YouTube. https://youtu.be/xEY_CMUb8jY?si=1wWmG83NfuBSNeKZ

Another one off that helped me get up to speed with understanding lithium was a guest lecture recently streamed at CWU on Exploring the Origin of Economic Lithium Deposits by PhD Rachel Hampton

https://www.youtube.com/live/inq_ypJeiZk?si=LTQFGR07d-ypiS6_
There are still some good communities on Reddit but the user experience of the web app on mobile and the iOS app are abysmal to say the least. I found myself using Reddit less and less when I couldn't access Reddit via my client of choice (Apollo) earlier this year and these days I hardly ever use Reddit anymore. If I ever need to revisit an old thread I do so on desktop via old.reddit.com.
;) It hardly resembles the fruit anymore though :)
Other than basic needs is there "human nature" ? Some people will give you the last bite of food, others will lie to you to add to their hoard. I think laws are to make sure we all are on an even playing field (as much as possible) and to deter from the worst aspects of -some- humans who tend to be bad actors. Obviously that's ideally. A lot of times laws enacted by dictators/oppressive religions are there to keep people miserable and afraid and power for the elite (whether communists, capitalists, religiofascists, etc)
Wait, is that an offer to pay for mine and my families' housing and basic needs? Please let us know, cause most people would absolutely stop working their miserable jobs if they were provided for.
I don't know what you actually meant with this nonsense