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> Plus, I doubt those critical of the arms industry would be complaining about Google offering to take on defense contracts specifically intended to help Ukraine.

The letter from the Google employees about Project Maven began, “We believe that Google should not be in the business of war”. If that’s what they meant, if those are the principles they were operating from, that would obviously apply even to the war in Ukraine.

Obviously what’s happened is that the war in Ukraine has taken on a particular partisan coding in the broader culture war. I’m not surprised to see the inconsistency here but it is worth calling out.
Apple would need to make rackmount versions of the machines with replaceable storage and maybe RAM and would really need to really beef up their headless management systems of the machines before they start becoming competitive.

Otherwise you need a whole bunch of custom mac mini style racks and management software which really increases costs and lead times. If you don't believe me, look how expensive AWS macOS machines are compared to linux ones with equivalent performance.
Swedish labour union to stop collecting Tesla waste
Most of those weren't cancelled because they ran behind schedule, they were cancelled for political reasons or because the role they were designed for went away. Sometimes because some other project was overrunning their budget so badly that they had to be cancelled to free up the money for the boondoggle.
Like an investigation maybe?
I somewhat painstakingly figured this out the hard way pulling core dumps off of embedded linux devices that gdb had a hard time working with. At the time I was like whew why is omitting frame pointers the default at all in so many places when it didn't seem to make a measurable difference in the performance of the software. I guess it's just vestigial these days and yes please use a compiler flag like this when it measurably makes sense. Making debugging simpler for the rest of us is the way to go.
One part of the patriarchy I can't stand is its love for loud and big vehicles. Since the primary users are also disproportionately represented in government, and regulation against them is extremely unpopular with constituents, we see a never ending arms race.

Buying stuff like this is such a copout for assuaging your insecurities. You don't even have to put in work like going to the gym, risk your health with a physical fight, or make yourself appealing and attract a partner. You can just pull out your wallet and have a free pass to get attention by being a dangerous jerk to everyone around you for years to come.
Good article, great photos.

I sympathize with folks worried about changing their neighborhood. At the same time there's really no magic solution to high housing costs outside increasing supply.
Also need to add McDonald's fountain Coke for sake of science.
As an evil corp thought experiment - Dec is normally low productivity.. lots of vacations ,etc. If you are going to lay someone off in Jan, why not lay off in Dec and avoid paying for paid holidays?
They can offer an RDOF specific plan. Think internet essentials from Comcast.
>So you're saying the morale of the story is: if your situation is not an edge case, you're fine with using google. We won't tell you ahead of time what is an edge case though, as google finds new ones all the time.

No, the morale of my story is not to get wound up by massive edge cases that impact 1-2 people.

> Like that father during covid that took pictures of his child to send to the doctor...banned for CP.

That isn't an edge case thought, was it?
It is a little outdated, but otherwise excellent book
I don't think there's numbers that show "people flocking" to paid vs free open source offerings since running your own stable diffusion server/desktop isn't showing up on a sale's report.

Linux entered the market at a time when paid alternatives were fully established and concentrated, servicing users/companies for years who became used to working with them. No paid txt2img offering comes anywhere close to market dominance for image generation. They don't offer anything that isn't available with free alternatives (they actually offer less) and are highly restrictive in comparison. Anyone who is doing anything beyond disguised DALLE/Imagen clients, has absolutely no incentives to use a paid service.
Say what you want about the Bradley, and criticism of the military is very healthy! I think the war in Ukraine shows that while the project may have been wasteful the end result is still useful.
IrnBru is made from girders: https://youtu.be/SD3LippIN40?si=f7Bkqn9cmUNKD3PW
"i'm not addicted to alcohol, but my gut flora are real party animals and start secreteing poison when they dont get their 'medicine'"
There's some kind of disconnect here, because 85% of the service areas covered by the RDOF have winning bidders committed to providing at least 1000/500M service.
no, it will be awarded to other applicants instead.
Netflix Conductor moves out of Netflix OSS to Orkes
Does this include billboards at local tracks, ballfields, sporting centers?

What about ads inside airports? Bus stops? Transit stations?

Where will the money come from to fill in the budget gaps left by removing these ads?

If I'm at a local minor league baseball game, and see an ad for "Bill the plumber", how is that a problem? It's local community supporting local community spaces. If Bud Lite buys a spot next to them, great! More dollars for my local ballpark so they can stay open.

The nature of local, physical advertising is that the ad dollars stay (mostly)* local.

* Mostly because clearchannel manages most billboards on roadways around the country. They pay rent to landowners, who may or may not be local, but they also pay local taxes. So not perfect dollar retention.
Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia (2001) [pdf]
So the requirements set out however long ago that Starlink agreed to and now isn't meeting is political retribution? How so?
Got a citation on that $2 billion cost for each Starship launch? It's not clear what the exact cost is, but I haven't seen any estimates that are nearly that high.
The problem with UBI is that once it's instituted, even if financial or other circumstances radically change, it will be politically suicidal to remove it. If it doesn't work well, if it's counterproductive, if anything turns out to be unworkable... tough, no politician can survive going against free money for everyone.

That's a fundamental problem with such a... generous program. I'm not even going to get into the sheer pull factor for immigration it would create, and that pull would skew towards people who are both destitute and not likely to work.
As a developer, It gives apple all the power, I don't own the relationship between me and my customers. And the same as a customer, you have this third party butting in, and getting in the way of the experience.
No, you're totally right.

Eh, I don't know about that, but you're not wrong, either. Because were we to go look at a house today, we'd hit Zillow/RedFin to narrow down our choices, or even pick a single house that fits our needs. A realtor at that point, from the buyer's side, is adding what value, exactly? Now, the realtor can point out a few transactional details, maybe even point out something about that house that we didn't notice (though that's kinda what inspectors are for). Is that worth 5% of the price? I argue a strong "no".

So I would your comment around and agree that we don't need realtors like we used to, but I stand by my statement that one with currently have a rougher go of it without.
Presuming by "regular cells", you mean non-gamete diploid cells in a multicellular organism, I don't think so.

Outside of the CNS (which does its own special things with dopamine), dopaminergic compounds generally just increase cellular metabolic rate — which basically translates to any given cell (that has a dopamine receptor) doing "its job" faster: consuming resources and producing waste faster, and thereby doing more of whatever chemistry those resources are consumed to drive. (If you think of a cell as a control system seeking equilibrium, dopaminergic-receptor activation forces the cell to take in, through endocytosis, more input chemicals to some of its key internal reactions than it's "ready" for, throwing it out of equilibrium — so it then tries to quickly react those chemicals away to get back to equilibrium.)

IIRC, independent of CNS signalling, liver cells exposed to dopaminergic compounds produce more bile per second; muscle cells gain more contractile tone (which is why digestive peristalsis speeds up, and also why you might start stressing your jaw muscles); and a number of other things.

Replication (i.e. cellular division) isn't the inherent "job" of any single cell within a multicellular organism. Cells do divide, but they don't inherently divide — they do it in response to specific chemical messengers from the greater organism letting them know that it is in need of more of that kind of cell within the tissue that cell is located in. (Cells not waiting for these signals to divide, is in part what cancer is!) So I wouldn't think that there's any (diploid) cell in a multicellular organism that reproduces more when prodded with stimulants. Haploid cells (gametes), maybe — but even those only divide on command, IIRC.

Bacteria, on the other hand, aren't just cells, they're single-celled organisms — where they use their metabolism not to passively obey orders "from on high", but to actively attempt to grow and distribute their genetic material. So it would be intuitive to me if making them metabolize faster, made them do organism-level things like reproduction faster. But I don't know for sure.

I do know, though, that most parasites, e.g. tapeworms, are complex enough that they respond to dopamine pretty much exactly the same way humans do: dopamine triggers CNS signalling within them, which increases their level of behavioral arousal, which in turn motivates them to use more of their organism-level resource stores over the short term in seeking to eat, seeking to reproduce, and in doing anything else they care about doing.
Virginia has a very small number of billboards, and it's definitely one of the nice things about this area.

I haven't worked out exactly why some exist, but almost none do. The law is here:

https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title33.2/chapter12/

Regardless, the general feel of driving here is very different from many other states because of this rule. It's one of the first things I notice when I drive somewhere else in the US.
I guess I'm a bit of a NIMBY like most Santa Cruzians (well ex-) but idk Santa Cruz is just an idyllic beach town. That's part of the charm and the identity. I don't think everywhere needs to metropolize and I'm not convinced doing so will even have an effect on housing costs. I also realize this is an incredibly unpopular opinion.

I do think the city needs housing, for sure, but high rises? Baby steps maybe?
Did you consider that your experience may not be representative?
It's also naive to think a big tech company wouldn't be aware of power distributions (see Pareto) when offering anything unlimited. Which Google does continue to offer unlimited data on Google Fi, but throttles (even though they also discontinued the unlimited photo upload with Pixels and many times offers expansion of drive space but if you upgrade to a paid plan you don't get the additional storage, you just get get expanded to that size...)

I also very much agree that the monopolistic behavior you're mentioning is not a think we should just go accepting and even more, not be victim blaming. It feels really weird to me that people are blaming the reporter. You know, a 1.6 trillion dollar company vs well... nearly anyone else.
Same with ethanol gas. If not for the corn subsidies, it wouldn't be cheaper. Also much more gas is burned growing/harvesting the corn and electrical powering the process than is saved in emissions (there was a great piece on HN of this some time ago), so it's a net negative to the environment. It's so dumb it hurts, but Iowa is an early presidential election state, so good luck finding someone who will go in and tell those early voters that they're gonna slow the gravy train...
The RDOF has a testing and deployment timeline.

It's supposed to only cover deployments under the award itself.
I've used Dropbox for 13 years and I have never noticed that they have a cloud search feature, nor have I ever needed that. It syncs to my machines where I have my local search working in the exact same manner as for non-Dropbox data - why does Dropbox need a special search, one where they would search my unencrypted data?
I really do not know the proper name here but it is akin to visualisation (but with music). I could not recall intervals and rythm that makes given song recognizable (could not replay the song in my head) just like if you lack visual imagination you cannot solve even the easiest geometric problems without pen and paper or create good shape composition plan for painting.

And basing my intuition on example of one (me) both visual and tone imagination and memory can be developed from almost zero.
When an AI can successfully navigate everyday human tasks without needing hand holding: change my oil, withdraw money from a buggy ATM, change a diaper, etc.

IMHO: considering the declining quality standards (and individual psychology) of Western civilization, never.
Yes, but the times when you found these patterns (and managed to get a smaller output) will be matched by the times you found no patterns (and therefore the output was larger), such that the average compression ratio over a large enough amount of inputs will tend to 1.
It would all be fine if instead of "buy", the big yellow button said "License indefinitely, revocable at any time by us or by the people licensing it to us for any or no reason. If you download it, we reserve the right to reach into your device and delete it when we're done licensing it to you."

But people would probably be less likely to push the button, so I guess it's better to lie to customers about what they're paying for.
Inflation is sitting at 3.1%, it's already come down. You are right that housing inflation is still a big problem, but the overall number is in the acceptable range today. Powell just signaled 3 cuts next year being the current plan. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/12/13/business/fed-meeting...
And yet that judge didn't find a problem, which is stunning really, when, at least as far as I can see, the case that apple is monopolising the app store is just so obvious
He is the CTO. He is in charge of Amazon Drive. He has the authority to implement any missing feature for his use-case.
So what has changed that they can require a judges order now and couldn't before? Why was Google apparently able to require a judges order before but Apple couldn't?
>Santa Cruz and other cities have been motivated, at least in part, by a heavy “stick”: In cases when cities fail to produce adequate housing plans, the state’s so-called “builder’s remedy” essentially allows developers to propose building whatever they want, provided some of the housing is set aside for low- or middle-income families.

alternate title: Santa Cruz plans high-rise living because they've run out of ways to prevent new housing from being built
> What is he supposed to to with 277TB of data in 7 days? Google can't even serve him all of his data in that timeframe. He's being treated like his account is doing some undesirable activity that he can just stop doing at a moment's notice, not a technical data migration.

At this point, all he can probably do is start deleting files to avoid account cancellation. If he wanted to move all the data elsewhere, he had over half a year to do that.

How can you possibly think that over half a year of free service isn't enough of an accommodation? In what world does it make sense to assume that having your subscription terminated and you storage put into read only mode means it is OK to just leave it there and do nothing if you want to keep it?

He took full advantage of an amazingly good deal on a unlimited storage plan, then when it was cancelled, continued to assume he could just leave the data there for free. Google could legally just have pulled the plug on him for continuing to abuse a service he wasn't paying for.
Doesn't running 70B in 24GB need 2 bit quantisation?

I'm no expert, but to me that sounds like a recipe for bad performance. Does a 70B model in 2-bit really outperform a smaller-but-less-quantised model?
In most poor countries, there isn't even such a thing as "gifted" programs.

And those that do, there's so much competition that people in deep poverty can never join it, you'd see mostly lower-middle class people.

Perhaps leave the US, travel for a while and you'll see that the average US life experience is very different in comparison to the rest of the world.

And to wrap up, a lot of gifted kids end up never having the opportunity to study in a school or environment that catapults them into any kind of gifted program.

Just be glad you were born American and start comprehending that you are lucky, but most of the world isn't. The best you can do.
There's ECH ruling that fixing errors is legit case of interoperability.
> idk Santa Cruz is just an idyllic beach town

When did you last go? I remember when it was an idyllic beach town. I went a few months ago--it's a lot of Tenderloin south. Preserving a low-density community is exorbitantly expensive. Try it without cash and you overshoot into slum.
Many years ago I wrote a tamagochi like virtual pet called "Virus" which lived as "name.virus" file in a folder and you could feed it text files with a ".food" extension. Based on its DNA (random strings inside the".virus"file) it liked certain words more or less and had to eat quite a few files when it was Hungry

It also left ".poop" files in the folder you had to clean up in order for it to stay healthy. Also added mating and offsprings which would fork the process so each would "live" their own life
Will FDA crackdown on lab tests protect patients–or limit access to care?
It's hard to overstate how peaceful being in an ad-free city is. the first time I experienced this was Hilton Head Island, which does a great job of limiting signage and ads inside the island.

I didn't realize how much the visual noise really does make a difference.

Next, let's do cars driving faster than 30mph. :D
> obvious implication is that it will also be cheap and easy to do astronomy from space

That's so beyond false it's difficult to even respond to. Do you understand the size of the telescopes, both optical and radio?

Do you understand the complexity of space-based instruments like the James Webb and Hubble telescopes?
A lot of VC is a Ponzi scheme. I don't think "venture scale" is a real thing. It's more or a gimmick to sell to the next sucker down the rounds. I think it is overall healthy for the real world to have real companies.
It was discussed at the time, and the consensus was the patches were unusuable, the testing methodology dubious, and the machine configuration rare.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/4/23/135
F9 launches of v2 were only announced after the FCC denied the award last year, this is in the primary doc
Evaluation metrics for any kind of LLM app: RAG, chat, summarization, etc.
I think the fair comparison would be GPT3.5 (if image inputs were supported) vs Gemini Pro. It would be great to compare this with Gemini Ultra next year.
>Not for a freeloader who was in the top 0.1% of usage without paying a dime.

This is a very unfair characterisation. He paid for an enterprise plan that was specifically targeted at enterprises with exceptionally high storage needs.

We don't know how much storage other enterprises in that target group were using. Comparing it with typical storage requirements of consumers makes absolutely no sense.

Also, it's not very interesting if he was in the top 0.1% because someone always is. That doesn't make it freeloading.
Started a small business selling products online only using opencart. Later opened physical shop and used multi-store feature in opencart as a point of sale, while still running the online side as well. As business grew, needed warehouse and second physical shop.

The biggest issue we faced was stock management/stockout issues. Available ones like dynnamics/topshelf/sap were very expensive for us, so I developed a web based inventory management tool in php/aurelia. It could do multi-warehouse/shelf level inventory. Shelfs are barcode labelled and its all paper free. Also added point-of-sale for shop use, catalog management, multi-pricelist/multi-currency (retail/wholesale) etc. It still runs the business as of today.

Now writing new version from scratch using nestjs/svelte with multi-tenantancy (so that others can sell on it).
They also revoked LTD Broadband's award
Yeah, doesn't mean it needs to be in Santa Cruz, could be outside it.
It's not really arbitrary. Some of the underlying costs really are driven by things completely outside of your control (e.g. interest rates knock on effects).

So if your COGS are shifting you have to respond to that, but in most cases price variability is going to cause you problems (e.g. you aren't a financial market, you are selling goods) and your competitors movements are also, so you are trying to strike a balance. And maybe you are bit greedy and see an opportunity in the variability to end user, but maybe you are more worried about collapsing margin.
I think you may not understand what the government is.

The government is a collection of individuals. It is not a single borg instance. Some individuals within that collection are going to act different than other ones.

Also the government does a lot of funding through different mechanisms. Many miltiary programs are a cost+ program where they pay the contractor the cost of development plus a profit% so the initial budget is a bit moot since the point is to pay for a capability. That obviously doesn't apply here and the FCC wasn't offering a Cost+ program.
How do you define "beat" here? It seems you're advocating for not playing the game at all so there's nothing to beat.
Is the thermal efficiency really relevant? I always understood the externalities to drive much of the costs.

And even if you're building a mega site with military defences, you could still build it by having 10 small reactors. If they are cheaper to build "per megawatt" due to economies of scale, you are still ahead.
> I can't stand when companies turn this type of thing "on" by default.

If you force people to do something they are more likely to do it then if you don't force them. Especially if they don't consent to doing it.
Anyone interested in having an all-in-one tool that does zero-downtime Postgres updates where the only input is database credentials? Nothing to setup manually.
On Hacker News you should submit a link directly to the announcement, not to a tweet of the announcement.
> way less sweet than Coca-Cola.

And twice as much caffeine per ml.
Interesting idea. Horrible copy. I didn't get much past the first room, where my "eyes perked up" at seeing something shiny. A text adventure, among other things, has to be written well.
This works unless they have so much VC cash that they lower their prices into massively negative margins for long enough to kill competition. Then they either die or jack the prices up.

This has happened to two companies I've worked at. It's the biggest problem with VC funding. It creates an unhealthy ecosystem.
>This bike share scheme is only possible because the city traded away its outdoor ad space.

I get what you mean, but arguments like this confuse the underlying issue of how we value and price things. It's certainly not "only possible" that way. It makes me think of the Mark Fisher line “It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.”
Ah, thanks for the laughs.