skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Snapdragon is making big claims about the Snapdragon X Elite. It is an ARM chip instead of x86, meant for the laptop market. I haven't delved deep into it yet so I can't make any comparisons or give my own take.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/21112/qualcomm-snapdragon-x-e...
> With Simple Mobile Tools being sold to an adware company

Well I missed this happening. I use the calendar, notes, music player (from F-Droid, so hopefully those versions will stay clean) and I loved them because they do exactly what they need to do.

Thank you for the heads up.
Your logic seems to be broken: IF you have an EV car with something like 50-100kWh and you know that either you only travel short distance in such a week OR even stay at home, you can provide load support just by having the bi-directional loading controller checking the frequency of the power grid.

It could just stabilize it out of the box with minimal technical requirements.

It might even be easy in this case toa lert EV owners to do one or two plug ons and offs manually for the grid.

Loading the EVs slowly before the weather or when the other load is gone, could also help supporting the peak usage.
this link opens in a mobile app :(
Our theory is we are having simultaneously a bit of a Google moment and a Tableau moment. There is à lot more discovery & work to pull it off, but the dam has been broken. It's been am exciting time to work through with our customers:

* Google moment: AI can now watch and learn how you and your team do data. Around the time Google pagerank came around, the Yahoo-style search engines were highly curated, and the semantic web people were writing xml/rdf schema and manually mapping all data to it. Google replaced slow and expensive work with something easier, higher quality, and more scalable + robust. We are making Louie.ai learn both ahead of time and as the system gets used, so data people can also get their Google moment. Having a tool that works with you & your team here is amazing.

* Tableau moment: A project or data owner can now guide a lot more without much work. Dashboarding used to require a lot of low-level custom web dev etc, while Tableau streamlined it so that a BI lead good at SQL and who understood the data & design can go much further without a big team and in way less time. Understanding the user personas, and adding abstractions for facilitating them, were a big deal for delivery speed, cost, and achieved quality. Arguably the same happened as Looker in introduced LookML and foreshadowed the whole semantic layer movement happening today. To help owners ensure quality and security, we have been investing a lot in the equivalent abstractions in Louie.ai for making data and more conversational. Luckily, while the AI part is new, there is a lot more precedent on the data ops side. Getting this right is a big deal in team settings and basically any time the stakes are high.
> The US consumes approximately 4 trillion terawatts/hour of electricity.

It's roughly 3800 TWh (Terrawatt-hours) per year, no need to invent new units.
Imagine reading HN on this thing.

Voice chat with your computer is possibly the worst input method. UIs exist for a reason. Clicking a few buttons is much faster than a conversation. The future of computing doesn't look like a bot that's automating some website UI actions.

A legal aside: if an airline wants to make a sucky UI because its trying to upsell, should it be legal to allow users to skip over it? Is a company's website any different to their physical storefront?
Dazed and Confused has the bass playing a descending scale, 8 notes. If you turn off the mains, it's useful to tell how well the subwoofer works.

For vocals -- Paul Simon's Graceland or Cowboy Junkies Trinity Sessions.
The newer AMD chips have already caught up in terms of performance/efficiency. Software is more of a challenge.
At which point, you rather quit gaming and use your time and energy in the real life. That way you can touch your achievements because they aren't just numbers in a SQL database.
not to forget that an astronomoical day has no 24 hours https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereal_time
Well, only a few people have tried it out so around $30 so far (haven't checked exactly how many but less than 30). The prompting is very unoptimized as well, so I'm sure it's possible to get that down.
Yeah, I concur with the idea. I think that's also the set up for other templates as well. As for me, I went with YAML since I think there should be minimal markup to the data since it's a CV and nothing fancy like a webpage. I don't see myself using images or other custom styles/functions. Even if I did, I think the `eval()` would be enough for minimally styled text and/or the occasional italics or bold. I'm also looking into piping the data in YAML to LLMs to help suggest better phrasing of descriptions of various items and take advantage of better context and structure (function calling?).

Edit: Also, there was the benefit of JSON schema for validation, I guess.
What bothers me a bit, is that in example where we trying to find Levenstein distance between two string are we 100% sure that calculated distance from end of string to the start will result in the same value as when we calculate distance from start to end?
To sort of answer my own question:
- https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/13/business/uk-post-office-f...
- https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-quash-wrong...

From the CNN article it seems like the police is going to get involved in this, so at least some good news for the people wrongfully prosecuted by the people charge of the Post Office.
As others have said, get some lessons. An instructor will really help you to know which of your habits are ones that will help you pass your test and which will cause you to fail (hint: encourage the former and avoid the latter).

Also remember that passing your test is just the first step in learning to drive, once you pass you'll then need to level up. Passing your test shows that you can drive in a way that's safe for other drivers, it doesn't mean that other drivers will drive in a way that's safe for you.

So, once you pass make sure you regularly drive and after a few years you'll find you have a natural instinct. You won't know why but you start doing things like giving some drivers a lot more room than others or slowing down when approaching some junctions even though there's nobody waiting there. When that happens trust your instinct as it's picked up on something that you're not consciously going to notice. That's why people who have recently passed their test are more likely to be in an accident than people who have been driving for longer, it isn't that they're unsafe drivers, it's just that they haven't developed an instinct for driving yet.
It’s not going to happen. You can’t put ads on them anymore. Means someone has to just run a loss-running enterprise for you. Few will do that.
> Costco is too busy killing it selling gold bars to take notice probably

This doesn't make any sense. The market for gold bars is tiny. At some point, there's nothing you can do to sell more of them.

Costco has the manpower to do more than sell gold bars.
A Fix for the Severe Linux Performance Regression Spotted by Torvalds
Does it not accept standard USB-PD?
As a general rule, anything you do with a copyrighted work in private quite possibly falls under fair use, as long as the copies you are using were obtained legally. If you want to write Shawshank Redemption fan-fiction and read it to your kids in bed, even if Stephen King found out and decided to sue you, you're probably covered under fair use. Creating a program just for yourself that uses two separate copyrighted programs (that you obtained legally!) is almost certainly legal - even if it would be completely illegal to distribute that program to others.

This gets murkier if you're using it in a commercial setting, though.
"The market would work if only consumers had perfect information, and infinite capacity to analyze it"
I’m just a nerd whose nerd hobbies came to encompass finance when I moved to Manhattan. I was also a party monster back then (please don’t read the book) which for a childless bachelor is a pretty reasonable way to get the most knowledge NYC has to give in a year.

If you have particular questions about the monetary system, I know enough to either answer or know that I don’t know and refer you to someone who does.
Can't agree more. When you read the plot, it looks really strange but the movie is really worth it.
For what it's worth, as of OpenSSH 9.0 the scp command actually just became a client for sftp commands: https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-9.0
The older RK3399 boards are basically mainlined. The PinePhone Pro uses a variant of that SoC, the RK3399S. But it's an older SoC these days. The open source Panfrost GPU drivers for that are great though: full desktop OpenGL support! Not just that OpenGLES stuff.

Pine64 does have a newer QuartzPro64 that they're also working on mainline support for. The Orange Pi 5 uses the same SoC. And yeah support isn't there yet, but I'm hopeful: https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/QuartzPro64_Development#Upstrea...
If you are going that way, Rust's reference compiler is dependent on LLVM, fully written in C++, and the C++ semantics of bitcode have broken Rust's code generation multiple times, forcing regressions and newer compiler releases with desactivated optimization features.

Also plenty of crates are bindings to C and C++ libraries with nice unsafe blocks.

Then was that Axium drama.
Order/license chaos for VMware products after Broadcom takeover
I had several experiences similar to what you describe. One of my favourites was a TV show we stumbled across while visiting Japan. It was sort of a game show, where three blindfolded contestants had to sit on a bench that had been taken from a train, and they had to guess which type of train said bench was taken from, simply from the feel of the bench. The programme then continued with what seemed like various stats and tidbits about the correct train type.
>if the alternative offered any tangible benefits at all.

That's the thing though: A new generation console only needs to be better than it's predecessor. It doesn't have to have groundbreaking technologies or innovations, let alone be a pioneer paving the way forward for other computing hardware products.

So cost of materials remains the chief concern.
Alright. If someone sends child porn to someone by physical mail, is the mail company responsible for it?
There's this [1] which gets close

[1]: https://ui.shadcn.com/docs/components/dropdown-menu#checkbox...
Oracle.com in the Top 10? Did I miss something?
Most types of speaker are a microphone, they just need to be wired up correctly (hence the mention of a "capable preamp") to be used as one.
For example, a piezoelectric device that deforms when driven by an electric current produces a little current when deformed by external forces.
Artifact, the AI news app created by Instagram's founders, is shutting down
The metric you are looking for is the non-unique one on repology which counts only packages that are available on multiple distros. This is in fact the category where nixpkgs has the largest lead.

I think nixpkgs is probably so much larger for two reasons:

- running unpackaged software on nixos is painful.
- it’s very easy to contribute to nixpkgs (standard github pr to a monorepo).
It's standard diabetology doctrine in Paraguay (South America). Most diabetologists do it. They say that the key to control blood sugar lies in a multi-faceted approach.

It's not "carb abstinence", but "carb restriction". Carbohydrates should be greatly reduced and if you must eat them, eat complex carbs with a lot of fiber instead of sugars. But they should be reduced as much as possible.
> And quite a few industrialised countries around the world are building more rail lines.

Can you expound on this?
If I read this right, this has more to do with training new models than actually running existing models correct?
I don't know about anybody else but if $lowcostbehavior has a small chance of leading to $goodoutcome I still wouldn't mind hearing about it.

I've tried multiple things he mentioned which haven't worked which also didn't cost me anything.
I see you didn't have one of the modern laptops that only support s0idle (aka. Modern Standby) and have completely removed S3.
I have pity for those who fall for Huberman. Listening to him for 30 minutes was enough to unsub him again. Low signal noise ratio, and a lot of excited talk about almost nothing. What a shill!
In case anyone is unfamiliar: https://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/rice-and-chessb...

"Oh emperor, my wishes are simple. I only wish for this. Give me one grain of rice for the first square of the chessboard, two grains for the next square, four for the next, eight for the next and so on for all 64 squares, with each square having double the number of grains as the square before."

The emperor agreed, amazed that the man had asked for such a small reward - or so he thought. After a week, his treasurer came back and informed him that the reward would add up to an astronomical sum, far greater than all the rice that could conceivably be produced in many many centuries!
> substance vs. style is a lot like HTML vs. CSS

Given the popularity of frameworks like TailwindCSS, it seems that people here don’t understand the advantage of separating HTML and CSS either, so I’m not sure if this analogy is helpful…
Just like in real world. But you have to own at least half of the market to pull that. Or some else can short you.
Only JSON responses? Pah!
You mean when they ditched their much-less-profitable passenger lines and forced the government to deal with them, then heavily consolidated?
Technology Connections covered stupid no brake light when Regen braking and one-pedal driving

"Electric cars prove we need to rethink brake lights" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0YW7x9U5TQ
Www.SNESmaps.com
Companies usually do better year after year until they reach market saturation or until the competition kills them.

Once one of those things happens, they start to squeeze blood from the stone. The quality of the product drops, the prices are inflated, jobs are outsourced or eliminated, they pivot into providing other goods and services (which will also get worse later), etc.

None of these things are mutually exclusive with that "next quarter" mindset.

I actually blame the stock market for a lot of this. Private companies can, in theory, settle for just making a nice profit year after year. As long as they come out profitable they don't need to expand. Once you're publicly traded though, you have no choice but constant expansion.

The boom and bust cycle has been happening for a long time now.
They build plenty of housing. It's rented, but plentiful. (That is not in conflict with a properties-for-sale market that is very hard to afford for regular people.)
I like the idea, but I'm confused. Why go to all the effort to think about visualization methods, then shoehorn them into the shape of the chemical element periodic table, without even making use of the periodic structure of the table? Funny enough, "periodic table" isn't its own item on this chart.

I think it would be more useful and interesting to group by type in some way, perhaps with a bit of tree structure. Which reminds me of a loosely related idea: I'd like to see a tree diagram of different tree data structures, where the tree structure reflects the relationships of historical development and/or data structure behavior...
Let's take an absurd extreme case to illustrate - if you had a battery that could store 1GWh but could only discharge up to 1mW in an hour, how would you power an aluminum furnace with this battery?

Assuming you are using batteries for continuous solar power, you basically need the batteries to be able to store enough power to last through the night, and to be able to match the solar power plant's peak power - otherwise, the grid can't power the same things during the night that it can during the day, which was the whole reason we wanted the batteries in the first place.
Compression Attached Memory Modules may make upgradable laptops a thing again
You can learn more about economy from these threads than following a course at Stanford.
"Newer CPU is better than older CPU; go buy it."

That's the point.

Whether you adhere to it is none of my concern.

Personally, I won't. I'm far more interested in buying a 14700K to upgrade my 12700K daily driver desktop than I am replacing my M2 Macbook Air that spends most of its time as a portable jukebox.
Yes, and the article writer is suggesting that more AI training will be done on the client computer, and gave spelling and grammar checking as an example.
That sounds a lot like https://pikchr.org/.
I’ll do my best to be useful, with the caveat that “monetary policy” is like, a PhD at a good school and industry experience and stuff, it’s a big field.

To address the particular point that he was replying to: the government (especially the US government) has only one money problem: does anyone lend them money (buy their bonds) when they’re picky about terms (floor on auction optionally) at an acceptable overall outcome (you still believe I can invade your country if you fuck around on USD).

So it’s simpler and faster and the math is easier to just burn all the checks the IRS gets and make new ones at the Fed.

Which is the same solution as all the games landed on.
Anything inside my house is the intimate space. I block the “smart” devices on the router firewall level so that they cannot call home - and here in this thread dozens of people use those spying devices that listens to you and to your family members and send this information to who knows where - this is just mind boggling to me. To each their own for sure, but using “smart home” devices made by corporations is absolute insanity in my head.
https://www.plantuml.com/
You can buy a laptop with a 4060 with 8 GB of VRAM for under $1500. For many ML tasks that’s plenty of memory for inference and training (assuming you’re willing to deal with a lower batch size).
is it a bug or a feature?
It’s sad how artificial “intelligence” is making people immediately give up at just the thought of having to learn something.
Lazy use of AI leads to Amazon products called "I cannot fulfill that request"
Interesting and original scifi plotline: humans encounter hayseed, never-been-to-the-city aliens. Perhaps they 'jacked their spaceship; or maybe they're a bit like The Dukes of Hazzard, using their ship to do handbrake turns, and yelling "yeehaw".
I don't know much about AI and stuff, but I know Apple's been doing machine learning / image recognition and the like for a long time now, so that the Photos app on your phone can recognize the same people in photos or categorise them - all done on device instead of uploading your photos.
Doubling in 2024 is great but the estimate for 2025 is nowhere near doubling again. How many doublings will we need to store enough energy that solar can replace all non-renewables? I imagine it's still a lot.

Edit: this page claims we need 84 times what we had in 2022, the estimate for 2024 is ~3x higher, so call it ~5 more doublings after this year. https://www.alsym.com/blog/how-much-energy-storage-do-we-nee...
I think most chip manufacturers have plans to do that. But it's going to take some time for that to get to market. AMD, Nvidia, Samsung, and a few others are working on arm based chips for laptops. It will be interesting to see if Intel adapts. These things don't happen instantly and Apple seems to have caught most of the industry off guard by doing such a good job with the m1 and its successors. They put a stake in the ground for high performance computing on Arm and raised the ambition level quite a bit.

Nvidia of course has the added complexity that they were going to buy Arm and then that got blocked. They had to adjust to that as well. And of course they are the GPU provider of choice for GPUs to many AI developers and researchers. On paper they have all the right tech and ideas here.

There's a recent announcement of them working on this now: https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-make-arm-based-pc-...

AMD, Samsung and a few others have similar plans. My guess is there will be several options in the market in a few years. We'll have to see how good those are.
You're probably using it for graphics though; the graphics drivers are great. I refuse to buy a Nvidia card just because I don't want to put up with closed source drivers.

The issue is when using ROCm. Or more accurately when preparing to crash the system by attempting to use ROCm. Although in fairness as the other commenter notes it is probably a VRAM issue so I've been starting to suspect maybe the real culprit might be X [0]. But it presumably doesn't happen with CUDA and it is a major blocker to using their platform for casual things like multiplying matricies.

But if CPU and GPU share a memory space or it happens automatically behind the scenes, then the problem neatly disappears. I'd imagine that was what AMD was aiming for and why they tolerated the low quality of the experience to start with in ROCm.

[0] I really don't know, there is a lot going on and I'm not sure what tools I'm supposed to be using to debug that sort of locked system. Might be the drivers, might be X responding really badly to some sort of OOM. I lean towards it being a driver bug.
> what about the 5billion other users in the world?

Okay? I'm not sure how it affects me. Perhaps the people who don't "keep an eye on their stuff" are the ones who shouldn't get IoT devices, it's weird to say that nobody should get them
Every battery breakthrough.

Every previous AI hype-train (Eliza did not replace therapists)
Ew, proprietary software that works only on a proprietary operating system.
Having been an audiophile earlier in my life,
until other priorities and lower income but a stop to it.

I got to the point where I discovered you cannot built
the ultimate stereo that is suitable for "all generes".

On a typical audiophile setup
extremely well recorded music is an enormous joy.
The soundscape is amazing, the small details you can hear.

Sadly, there are fewer and fewer genuinely great recordings
seen from that perspective.

Listening to metal, industrial or rap (with some exceptions),
was painful. You could not get the extra resolution because
there was nothing to get.

The frequency range was not there. The drums adjusted for maximum
bass, the guitars had little dynamic ranger, and the sometimes
shouted lyrics where not a joy either.

But..
If you had a stereo that was optimized for listening to this
kind of music, which fit the soundscape the record expected,
is sounds much better than "high end audiophile stereo".

You really need more than one stereo so you can play the record
at its best.
At both ends of the spectrum? My intuition is that on the low end they’d take a hit in efficiency by not having low-power cores to schedule background tasks onto like Intel and ARM have been pushing
If you don't like modern cars, you can still buy an old one. You can even spend the money you saved on paying someone to properly refurbish it too.
The processes of training and running use similar low-level operations, but training obviously requires a lot more of them. So it’s relevant to both, but one is much more computation-heavy to begin with.

The point is that at the moment only a few of us are interested in training our own models, but this will change gradually as Apple introduces more machine learning models trained on our own local data behind the scenes. At that point, Macs with less support for this will start to slow down (well, or they’ll just not support those features). And the M1 chip will be worse in this regard than the M2.
I am not a fan of trains, but it really looks amazing!
> Do you use a smartphone?

We have a saying that loosely translates to “If the barn burns down, so does the house”. The meaning is that it’s not really wise to let the house burn down if the barn is burning.