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> you need

No, they don't need to do anything. This is open source software, provided at no cost to the user. The user is not owed a damn thing.

Now a maintainer may choose to provide a build or easy-to-use installer, because making things easier for users (which will presumably increase their user base). They might do that because that has value to them, they find it fun an interesting, they want to feel pride that they have a lot of users... etc.

But they don't "need" to do anything.
Then it's the thought experiment that needs re-framing. I'll give it a shot:

At nearly every point in the universe, there is a noise: Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation.

What if you listened to the CMBR at a specific point in space, converted that signal into Unicode text, and it just happened to write Romeo and Juliet? Is that intelligence? No. That's selection bias.

So why is ChatGPT able to quote Shakespeare when asked? Because the entire text of the play is in its training corpus, and the infinite permutations of nonsensical CMBR noise is not.
Yes, and there's also a stealth way to capture it if your planet has any type of gaseous atmosphere: take advantage of air currents that arise from the repeated heating and cooling of your atmosphere using a wind turbine.
Intel's next-gen Arrow Lake CPUs might come without hyperthreaded cores
It's unfortunate that no math is ever done in these stories.

If you take the "350,000" H100s that Facebook wants by EOY, each of those can do 700W, which gives you almost 250 MW for just the GPUs. That sounds like a lot, until you realize that a single large power plant is measured in Gigawatts. All of Google's data centers combined are O(10 GW) which are matched with renewable power offsets [1].

Importantly, the world installed >500 Gigawatts of renewable energy in 2023 [2], mostly driven by PV Solar in China. The amount of potential solar and wind and other renewable-ish (hydro) outstrips even a 10x'ing of a lot of these numbers. But even for a single site, dams like Three Gorges are >20 GW.

There are real efficiency and scale challenges in doing AI in a single, large site. But existing power generation systems deliver plenty of power.

[1] https://www.gstatic.com/gumdrop/sustainability/google-2023-e...

[2] https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2023/executive-summar...
He's probably trying to build out a vertically integrated AI conglomerate spanning power, chip fabs, software, etc. And he's great at marketing in the meantime
Apple Might Have Sold Up to 180k Vision Pro Headsets over Pre-Order Weekend
Yeah, prices should stop increasing quickly, but not fall. Nobody wants deflation.
“Views” here meaning “impressions”, so that’s the number of users who scrolled past the video when it showed up in their feed. MrBeast shared actual engagement in another tweet, which was around 30mil.
> Just hit new goods with a sufficient tax such that buyers have no choice

This is a perfect strategy for a politician who is seeking to retire at the next election.
As we've moved up in scaling the number of tenants we found tiered queues to be an anti-pattern. Inevitably some worker or upstream will get broken and you end up the high latency or dead letter queues with much more traffic than they're really designed to handle. Clearing it out then becomes a scramble since just scaling the high latency workers will often cause cascading issues. It makes sense if you frame it as "we're having trouble managing our 1 million queues" and the solution is to "create up to 1 million more queues".

Instead we use a priority queue and adaptive concurrency. The priority queue lets you reschedule failed messages with a capped exponential backoff. That way it doesn't significantly impair the good items in the queue while still giving plenty of time to potentially fix the failing items. Adaptive concurrency increases & decreases the concurrency for that queue based on success & failure of workers on the queues items up to some upper & lower bounds. That way a single queue can't waste time scheduling work that's just going to most likely fail.

We still have a dead letter queue, but it only ends up containing bugs since expiration is considered a normal message lifecycle event. So dead letter items just contain messages that were too broken to either send or expire correctly.

The key take away is that as the number of queues increase it's better to just operate on the concurrency & ordering of the queue than to just keep creating more queues for the same work stream.
More energy... or differently designed chips?

Maybe Apple will have some ideas with the power/performance ratio of their chips compared to what's used in graphic cards.
Amazon is a huge investor in green energy, both solar and wind. Google also buys solar. Colocated energy is great in theory, but doesn't always scale. That is why most companies take an offset approach.

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/sustainability/amazon-renew...
It's insane. Somehow access to the code has transformed into '24x7 unpaid unlimited support, direct influence on the roadmap, the right to bitch and moan about everything that doesn't quite work the way the recipient needs and can I have a pony'.

I wished those people could be transferred back to the pre-FOSS days when your disassembler was one of the more critical tools in the toolbox if you wished to fix vendor bugs. I distinctly recall reverse engineering the ROM of a laser printer board to repair a bug that the manufacturer just couldn't be bothered to deal with (Tall-Tree systems Jlaser, I'll never forget). That would have been a lot easier if it had come with source code. These days for me it's either open source or you can keep it.
In other words, if the people providing the AI demand the same money as the workers it replaces, it doesn't seem like society actually benefits.
When we talk about supply and demand for cars, it has a time element. Units per year, units per quarter and so on. It is analogous to speed. Doing anything else would make it impossible to plan the supply chain.

Where it could be different is in places like power generation. You might talk about peak demand in Watts, and daily demand in watt-hours.
Nothing says "free as in speech" like being told there is no "opportunity for you to whine about it."
Problem is sometimes you can get by with an off-off-brand product (it’s hit and miss). Many folks don’t buy the “spend more and you will get something MUCH better that will last you for years!” sales pitch. Also a lot of people wouldn’t be able to start fronting (or financing) more money for a better, more repairable product.
This is why we need to focus on smaller, more efficient models.

A lot of the 13 and 30bn parameter models are actually quite good, maybe not GPT4 but it can run on my M1 MBP without an issue, and a bit faster than GPT4 anyway.

I don't need a chat interface that is amazing at all things at once, I need it to be great at 1 subject at a time.
That's a misinterpretation.

If you are distributing someone else's GPL code, then you must comply with the license and provide build scripts etc.

If you choose to release some code under the GPL that you yourself have written, but do not feel like even writing a Makefile, that's totally fine.
Data centers cost 2% of electricity (Statistics from a few years ago).

AI inference is so costly at scale, one can easily see data centers start using 4% of total electricity, and in the next decade 8%. That will start to have severe effects on the power grid, basically require planning many years in advance to setup new power plants and such.

"Moore's law and incremental improvements' are irrelevant in the face of scaling laws. Since we aren't at AGI yet, every extra bit of compute will be dumped back into scaling the models and improving performance.
I haven't read this, so I'm sorry, but I cannot really comment on it. I've heard of the Warburg hypothesis but I haven't seen data that support this as the root cause of cancer. I've had my colleagues talk about this book in a way that makes me think it has a pretty good history of cancer and then selects a body of work to convince people of this hypothesis despite a number of failed clinical trials for many cancers.
There's opportunity to differentiate on commsat technologies like switching and antennas, on offering different targets for latency/bandwidth vs price, planet-side downlink stations, and coverage at different latitudes: In particular, satellite-to-smartphone links, specifically optimized for lower-bandwidth, higher-latency, lower-power, lower-cost long-tail coverage. Fly a little higher, so you don't have to refuel as often, customers just trying to send a text can tolerate a little latency.

The Starlink terminal is great for grid-tied residential/RV/ship-sized home internet. It runs in the Ku and Ka bands at something like 65 watts. It's astonishing that they can get some functionality with their T-mobile partnership, but for the most part, it's not optimized for that.

What fraction of Starlink (or, hypothetically, AST SpaceMobile) expenditures is satellite launch cost per kg? The ATT market cap is $120B, if they can partner with/aquihire a $675M satellite company to stay competitive then even a $2.4B extra expense is not a huge deal. Sure, Starlink could do the same, but ATT has a lot of inertia. SpaceX won't knock them out of the market just by flying another set of satellites a little higher with some lower-bandwidth antennas.

If I could get voice and text anywhere on the planet (namely, in the woods in northern Michigan, population density ~1 person per square mile, or offshore on Lake Michigan, population density ~0 per square mile), that would be a game changer. Specifically, everyone knows that the cell networks lie about their coverage maps, this would let them genuinely say they have coverage everywhere. I'm currently using Garmin InReach for off-grid connectivity, not sure I'd dump that hardware and network for an esoteric feature that runs on my less-reliable glass slab, but a lot more people have glass slabs than InReach.
DHH – Section 174 is baffling. All software R&D costs now have to be amortized
I've seen groups "sponsor" roads where they pick up the trash for a sign of appreciation/advertisement from the state. But pickup up a few discarded cups in nature is a lot different than picking up residential or commercial garbage, especially on the scale of a city.
Fair, I guess in this age of internet media I was thinking of all the harmful content out there and while yes he does pranks, they either seem staged or the kind of prank like we made him think he won a car but we actually bought him a house kind of pranks.
Only 150 apps have been designed specifically for Apple's Vision Pro, so far
> we need better ways to store energy from solar power.

Why? I understand that for a normal website you always want to use the closest server possible, but for queries that take 30 seconds on average anyway, why does it matter if you're adding an extra 250ms to get it from the opposite side of the world?

If AI can legitimately replace human labor, why would anyone care if it takes an extra few milliseconds?
Changes at Riot Games and the road ahead
That's edging closer and closer to Douglas Adams 'Reason' software application.
I misread
For example here is an episode of the shohw 2000 Plus from 1950-52 where in the first few seconds the woman says row butts. https://youtu.be/L1EDCwU7sJI?si=M3tHqG33Y1agVW4r
To me, apple has made it to where they are in large part because of the strict control they maintain over their ecosystem. I was an android user forever, because I wanted the freedom to root my device and do things my way. I bought into apple because I need an appliance that just works.

Trying to break apple’s control is pretty close to destroying exactly why their stuff is desirable.
As someone who loves the dev experience of WSL2 on Win11, try out https://github.com/LeDragoX/Win-Debloat-Tools to strip down your Win install and get some resources back.
Honestly, I think the best interviews are a discussion, where the company sells their vision, plus bring some code project and explain interesting parts you did to the hiring team. This can easily let the candidate show whether he knows and has deep technical know-how, without requiring a massive energy investment.
In my experience, this depends a lot on how you organize possible features/improvements/etc.

I hate the strategy of just taking every idea you hear and throwing it into a ticket. You just end up with this giant icebox of stuff you'll never do. If a big new prospect demands one of the ideas that's in the icebox be implemented immediately in order to close a deal, you're probably still not going to pull it out of the icebox, because you don't remember that it's there. Instead, you'll just create a new ticket for it, and eventually when going through the icebox, someone will go "hey, I think we built this already" and close as dupe.

Instead, I strongly prefer to have tickets that at least have some possibility of getting done in the short to medium term, and store other ideas elsewhere. Engineering keeps a list of tech debt that they'd like to address. PMs keep one list per project of possible improvements. For potential new features/products, they write PRDs but don't immediately turn them into a bunch of tickets.

Ultimately I think the giant backlog of stuff that mostly won't get addressed is a sign of weak PMs who are afraid to say no and like to fall back to the comfortable answer that is, "sounds interesting, I'll write a ticket for it."
The maintainers are conservative about breaking changes. Almost all features are hidden behind “use” statements: for example, “use feature "bitwise"” splits the questionable & operators into & for numbers and &. for bitstrings. But old code will work exactly the same.

There are a few deprecations and things which have been removed from the language…like idioms that relied on interpreter bugs and have been obsolete for 20 years.

But if you run a Perl script without use strict, use warnings, or new command line flags, you’ll get a Perl experience largely unchanged since the turn of the century.

That’s my understanding anyways…
Could the limited EU accessibility to this engineering feat be broadened by users identifying as living out of Europe?
An additional problem is companies simply going out of business. Happens a lot in the middle-segment of electronics.

It's an unstoppable rat-race of cheap crappy products. The issue is that (too) cheap is the problem but also widely loved.

I would love to pay more for long-lasting products that are repairable and well-recyclable but most people don't.
I use Tiller, which ingests my transactions but doesn't categorize them for me (except by a rule set that I manually defined)
Box64 and a bunch of extra settings (DXVK and such). It's a bit buggy in some places, but it works well once you get through the setup process.

This sucks the voltage out of my phone's battery faster than any other app I know, though. On the one hand, I now have a modded Oblivion install on my phone, on the other hand, I can play it for maybe half an hour before I need to look for a charger.
My experience has not been this. Backlog _size_ grows because engaged customers always want more features.

Backlog _priority_ gets smarter with customer input.
here's a hunch assuming you tried the below client:

https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive/blob/1a88d33be3e2c6747...

try changing that to e.g. the android onedrive client's id (hint: possibly b26aadf8-566f-4478-926f-589f601d9c74).

a similar trick works for exchange oauth (allowing third-party mail clients).
Unless you go for UBI, art subsidies will be finite. You need a measure to decide who gets subsidized and who doesn't. We're not talking about people doing art as a hobby after all, but about the government paying people to make art.

I'm not saying artists should optimize for money but financial sustainability. It seems like a good target because it indicates popularity and means you need less subsidies. You don't need to make _all_ the money or even break even, but if nobody is interested in paying you, the odds are good that you're not enriching many peoples lives.
That being said, I haven't read this myself, so I have to emphasize that I ought to take a look at it before passing judgment. There have been a number of grand hypotheses for cancer that haven't panned out. That doesn't mean we can't benefit from other perspectives.
Indeed, which is interesting, because “Slav” comes from the word for “speech” or “word”. In Polish, for example, “word” is “słowo”, whereas “Slavs” is “słowianie”. Germans are “niemcy” from “niemy”, meaning “mute”. So to be a Slav meant to be intelligible and able to speak, whereas Germans were unintelligible or “mute”. Compare this to “barbarian”, from the Greek, which comes from the sound of the unintelligible speech of foreigners to the Greek ear (“barbarbar”, almost like “blah blah blah”).
> New PM will look at backlog in horror "what even is this I don't understand it", declare bankruptcy, "clear all that crap out".

Especially when all the tickets in the backlog just have 1-2 sentences and can't possibly be understood without the context that lives in the head of the original PM who wrote them.
Oh, people absolutely free to whine about it, I suppose, but I'm also free to tell them they're being entitled jerks. I just wish overall that people wouldn't act like entitled jerks, and then the whole problem would go away. A wish that's unlikely to be fulfilled, but hey, I can dream.

Regardless, the whole "free as in speech" (vs. "free as in beer") thing isn't saying that the code is like speech. It was just a way for the FSF to distinguish between the two confusing (in this context, at least) English meanings of the word "free".
Yeah, that is why I included the note at the end. It is an important lesson for adults to teach children right now. I'm also working on teaching my daughter this lesson while we design/create our own "game" for fun on the weekends.

The idea of the badges is to teach things to deepen a child's understanding of planes (planes fly all around the world! At all heights! They are many different sizes!) instead of driving "Average Active Time Spent In The App To Get Special Widgets To Spend In The Radar Flight Store."
The big point of course is that there is massive asymmetry between training and inference and that even inference at scale is going to require massive amounts of energy and that likely OpenAI's business model isn't viable at scale. It works right now because they have capital to burn but when the music stops it may well turn out that their model isn't sustainable at all.

Efficiency gains should come first, long before they start looking at alternative energy sources.
Is this the new PR playbook? Claim to be building something big and dangerous and ready to ruin everything if everyone doesn't drop everything and pay attention to me?
No one can predict the future. But here’s some data we can look at.

In the US currently, you cannot be barred from buying health insurance even if you are an active smoker. And we’ve known about the dangers of smoking for a long time.

So even for these people that are actively harming themselves, we have a law that says they can do this. Now think about how far things have to move before we say “you can’t buy health insurance if you eat too much”.
How January got its name and why you shouldn't give up on New Year's resolutions
Sure. But here's the thing: no-one is entitled to a profitable business. And dark patterns to make customers unwillingly subsidize your business is unacceptable.
It’s exciting that there finally is demand for lifting things to orbit that outweighs the initial cost to do so, which in turn fuels innovation around the lifting, and ideally starting a virtuous cycle of innovation > cost reduction > increased demand > innovation.

This reminds me of the steam engine, which likely only became viable because its abysmal initial efficiency was outweighed by the need to pump water out of coal mines.
Depends on how you have the conversations. If they are designed to uncover market-wide problems rather than single customer gripes, high value features will become obvious.
Why Elon Musk Needs MrBeast
I absolutely despise travel. It's been a source of friction at previous jobs. I have friends who are into travel and I swear, they simply won't let up about trying to get me to travel. I'm starting to wonder if they are in a cult or perhaps all of the airplanes take a quick stop at Stepford and return travel-loving robots. Were I granted the ability to painlessly and easily teleport, I still don't think I would go many places.

Worse yet, I suspect people would travel less were they forbidden to speak of it.
The thing is that the Chinese people didn't want to be filmed because they knew it will be published on Youtube for revenue and that's what they didn't want. They allow people to film on a normal basis because it will not be published for profit. That's what Brendan didn't understand in the first place.

The Chinese man was in the wrong for escalating the situation gathering more attention and it seemed like he was making it look like they were being oppressed. We need the side of the Chinese people on this. We'll see.
Beginning of the third paragraph:

> This means we’re eliminating about 530 roles globally, which represents around 11% of Rioters, with the biggest impact to teams outside of core development.
Polyrepo is such a pain in the ass though. At a smaller scale it's much, much nicer, and then when we get big enough to hit all those scaling problems, we'll be able to afford it by hiring a team of 3 to go implement Bazel/Buck2/..., and perhaps switching from Git to Diversion.
How can any company be a competitor to Starlink when they have to pay ~$67M per launch and SpaceX's internal price is something less than half that (likely a third or quarter).

Furthermore, how can they compete when Starlink already has 5,289 sats in orbit, and their current launch cadence is faster than anything any competitor can possibly hope to even equal in the next decade.

I simply can't see how anyone can realistically be considered anything less than a very, very distant has-run.
In North America, about four to five thousand years ago, people seem to have had squash. Squash probably originates down south, somewhere between Mexico and the Andes. They had an ancestor to sunflower, too, originating from North America. Those, or species and cultivars rather similar to those, have survived to the present.

The rest of what they grew back then, has not survived. There was something related to sumpweed, which is like ragweed but with a high-protein seed, similar to a grain. And there was goosefoot, which is rather closely related to quinoa, and the huanzotle of the article from Mexico, which also produces a high-protein seed. And they grew something related to little barley (not that closely related to actual barley) which grows almost everywhere in North America. (If you live in North America you have probably seen it before [1].)

Their wild ancestors/relatives are often considered weeds today. These were not minor crops. Central North America had fields of them, supporting populations in the millions of settled farmers in small villages, for several thousand years. All gone now. The domesticated forms were probably a fair bit different from the wild forms. They may have not made the best crops for various reasons -- given that corn seems to have displaced them all a couple thousand years ago. (The corn monoculture really goes back quite a ways, it seems.)

Something akin to this story likely occurred everywhere agriculture was invented. Probably, the large majority of crops and cultivars that have existed at some time, now do not.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Hordeum_...
I'm pretty sure we agree; I misread your statement about "inherent differences in their respective support for slavery" as an implication that Britain would have been just as opposed to the slave trade (and later slavery) in this counterfactual scenario.
> only 40 grams total of LSD

Isn't that quite a lot of LSD?