skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note it can vary depending greatly on settings, which is kind of nice. I have a Forerunner 745 (sweet spot of features and price on Prime day), and I can get, IIRC, a solid week plus with the default settings. I ended up dialing way up the settings to get better tracking of sleep, which took the battery life to around 2.5 days.
> there is not really anything else like it.

This is another absolutely baffling statement people keep making about Baldurs Gate 3.

CRPGs have done nonlinear gameplay narratives for decades at least.

Hell, even Larian's previous games do exactly this same thing. Baldur's Gate 3 has a ton of the same story beats and gameplay structure as Divinity Original Sin 2, even down to starting the game in a shipwreck!

The idea that there's not really anything else like it is just plain wrong.

Look I'm glad that so many people got their first exposure to CRPGs with Baldur's Gate 3 and think they've experienced something amazing.

I think I just finally understand how my Dad felt when my sister was trying to tell him about this amazing band called "The Beatles"
If you want to compare the host too, then you should also take into account the TPU host.

Each TPUv5p host has 208 vCPU, 448 GB ram, 200 Gbps NIC (for data loading), 4 TPUv5p chips (8 cores). Each TPU chip has 95GB HBM with 2765GBps memory bandwidth, 3D interconnect with 4800 Gbps (3D interconnect means every chip has 6x 800 Gbps feeds, each going to a different chip in the torus).

One big difference between TPUs and GPUs is that the former have few beefy cores (2x chips) while the latter a lot of smaller cores. It can help or hinder depending on the workload. It makes it simpler to do deterministic training, which helps both debugging and optimization.

So, each system has 448GB host RAM and 4 TPU chips with 380GB HBM. The amount of host memory doesn't really matter that much: it's there to make sure that accelerators can be fed data at full speed.

TPU5p pods are organized in "cubes" of 16 machines (64 TPUs) that can be assembled in any shape for different kinds of data/model parallelism (see twisted tori in the TPUv4 paper). Each cube has 6080GB (6TB) of HBM ram and 29.3 petaflops (bfloat16) of theoretical peak performance. You can get multiple exaflops from a single pod and use multiple pods in the same datacenter with multislice if needed.

TPU are more power efficient than GPUs (e.g. A100 has a TDP 3x of TPUv4 + 3D torus requires fewer connections that a fattree interconnect, and optics do consume their fair bit of power), so you can scale to higher compute per datacenter before you hit that bottleneck on really really large models.

Also notice that you are using bare metal numbers for Grace hopper and I can only quote (what is publicly available) userspace/VM numbers for TPUs. For example, the actual physical RAM on the hosts is higher than 448 GB; so 448 vs 480 is apples to oranges.

Source: https://cloud.google.com/tpu/docs/v5p-training + I am oncall for these platforms.

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2304/2304.01433.pdf for TPUv4 vs. A100

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I believe Grace Hopper is an amazing platform. It is a more general one than TPUv5p pods. Each optimized for different constraints and TCO/perf.
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If self hosting and professionals are equally stable, I’ve tended to like the idea that when something breaks, there is a team of people watching for it and fixing it, and I don’t need to drop everything else I’m doing to play sys admin for the evening.

I set myself a budget of $100/month of subscriptions. I decided if I stay under that I’m not going to stress about it. My bigger worry is more around longevity and a rug pull in the future (or a hack). But I have that same anxiety around self hosting as well, if something happens to a project and I need to migrate, or I get lazy about updates.
A friend of mine used to work at Carnegie Observatory in Pasadena. Apparently every now and again a lawyer would come by looking for an astronomer to be an expert witness in a trial. Usually it was to testify about the position of the sun at the time of a car accident. (One party might claim that they were blinded by the sun but the other would argue that the sun couldn't have been seen in that location.)

The funny part was that it didn't really require any specialized skills. They'd just look up the position of the sun at the time of the accident in an astronomical almanac like anybody else would. But in the context of a trial it lends some weight if it comes out of the mouth of someone with a PhD in astronomy.
> If anything this will further worsen LLVM-powered build-times, surely? What's the motivation here?

The key motivation is that this will allow Zig to drop its dependencies on the LLVM libraries, instead using a separate LLVM compilation to compile the bitcode file. This is nice because it simplifies the build process and drops the Zig compiler binary size by a full order of magnitude - see https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/16270 for more deatils on that. It also allows us to implement incremental compilation on the bitcode file itself to drop compile times a little, which isn't really possible to do through the LLVM API since it doesn't implement certain operations.

In terms of speed, there's no reason to expect this will worsen our build times; in fact, we expect it will be faster. As with any common C++ API, LLVM's IRBuilder comes with a lot of overhead from how LLVM is written. What we're going to do here is essentially the same work that IRBuilder is doing, but in our own code, for which we will be focusing on performance.

You can find more details on this at https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/13265.

> ...but that doesn't mean LLVM was easy to develop.

To be clear, we aren't saying it will be easy to reach LLVM's optimization capabilities. That's a very long-term plan, and one which will unfold over a number of years. The ability to use LLVM is probably never going away, because there might always be some things it handles better than Zig's own code generation. However, trying to get there seems a worthy goal; at the very least, we can get our self-hosted codegen backends to a point where they perform relatively well in Debug mode without sacrificing debuggability.
Even if said polished D&D games are great, how many of them do they make per year? 1/8? 1/5?

Even if you add the non design-by-commitee immersive games that are not quite rpgs, you end with maybe 2 titles per year.

That's not always enough, and then you go and snatch the Avernum series and whatever promises to be similar.

Btw there was another indie company that promised to go the same way: https://basiliskgames.com/

They seem to have got snagged into an ambitious engine change though. And nothing's come out of there in many years.
The creators of the model actually have their own platform where you can access this model and others via API: https://console.mistral.ai/
You got it- the sucking in comes from all directions.

In response to your first question, the water doesn’t add negative angular momentum because the whole system we are conserving is the sprinkler body and the moving water together. The sum must just be zero in both cases. We can track a single drop of water in case two (Feynman) to see how the conservation works. At the start the drop is at zero angular momentum since it is stationary in the tank. It then passes through the whole Sprinkler mechanism (and whatever s-curves there are) and ends up at the suction drain at the center of the sprinkler also at zero angular momentum. Therefore no matter what happened it could not have applied a net torque to the sprinkler, no matter the path it took to get to the drain.

Contrast with case 1, the regular sprinkler, where the water drop starts at zero angular momentum (pumped from the center of the sprinkler) and ends with positive angular momentum (spinning away from the center) therefore it must have applied an opposing net torque at some point in its journey to the body of the sprinkler, which spins.
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As far as I know a lot of the Jung and extended personality stuff was never meant to be taken as black and white personality traits the way mainstream western culture often does today. Especially because a lot of things that aren't actually related to introspection, like symptoms of social anxiety or simply general shyness. It's also perfectly possible to be both an introvert and an extrovert at the same time.

In talented HR these personality traits aren't used like that either, but rather used as talking points which make it much easier to get to know a potential hire than not having the test results to refer to. A good example of this is an old boss I had who scored a 0 on empathy in our organisational developed personality spin (because lets face it, these things are big business, and of course our HR consultants had paid an external consultant agency to develop our own). Anyway, he scored a 0 in empathy, and he's one of the most emphatic people I've ever known, but because the opposite was ambition and result orientation, and probably because it was his first leadership job, he had gone in that route with his answers. Now if we had taken the results to be factual rather than just a good baseline for discussion, he wouldn't have gotten the job but it was a good talking point. The tools themselves can also be very useful for getting team members to "bond" or at least get to know each other better. If you simply ask people what they think about something personal, some people will elaborate and give good answers because they are comfortable (and in extraversion) in those situations, while others will give you nothing. But if you base the talks on personality test results, you can very often get everyone to open up and have a good talk.

Obviously it's not completely made up either, there is science which shows different personality traits, but there is nothing that shows you're either or, unless you have some sort of disorder, in which case, you're probably more likely to switch than be of a single version. Sometimes people gather energy alone, sometimes they get energy from being social, and overall you're likely to be more happy the more of your time you spend in extroversion (as an adult anyway). It's also not something that necessarily tells you much about how people want to work, you can be a massive extrovert and still prefer to do many tasks on your own, or you can be an introvert and prefer to do your work as part of a team effort.

Unfortunately mainstream culture likes boxes. Like this article. Because you can be very sociable and still prefer to work from home. Maybe because you're young and used to being social online, or maybe because not having to commute for x hours a day gives you soooo much more time to spend with people. This headline probably gets more clicks than another article about how a lot of people prefer to work from home and the pandemic made them realize it. Interestingly, in my anecdotal life, a lot of the people who are what could be called very introverted tend to be the ones who prefer going to the office, because sometimes it's one of the social parts of their lives.
The rest of us are honest with ourselves: piracy isn't stealing and doesn't affect some corporation's already ludicrous profits. Creating a copy of a file does not actually cause anyone any harm, even theoretically.

To think otherwise is to swallow propaganda hook line and sinker. The push to criminalize piracy is 100% driven by companies who are now trying to extract rent by simply not giving you an option to purchase and own digital goods, and instead want you to pay them monthly forever.
Woah, this is mind blowing!
Slow compared to what? For what use cases?
As with so many things, like physical media, the wider world will undervalue some devices which is an opportunity for those in the know. It's a consolation prize, to be sure, but it's not nothing.
Don't many phone providers sell locked/branded phones that can only be used with their physical sims? This locking down has always existed, long before smartphones, and it's the reason I only buy phones direct from manufacturers.
I can get SMS "security" codes from most services to my google voice number, but one of my banks just flat out refuses, and let me tell you it can be a huge pain in the ass if a few circumstances line up so that you cannot receive a "security" clear-text msg on your approved phone.
Haha, nice one.
They are very similar. They were different when options and futures are settled by delivery of the underlying. Without, that not so much.
Game art outsourcing is still pretty expensive, even if it's cheaper than hiring people full time. Asset packs are cheap but not that cheap. 40k is pretty modest for art on a modern game.
Right and the timeline says that in late November 2019 the IC said there’s high risk of it becoming a cataclysmic event.

Part of the argument against the Feb 2nd travel restrictions was actually that it was too late to be effective. COVID was already confirmed in the US in mid January. It had almost certainly already been circulating for weeks and obviously was definitely circulating internationally, which is why the epidemiologists weren’t advocating for a travel ban from China. I wouldn’t be surprised if it helped soften the blow a little bit, but there’s no way it was going to substantially change the course of events and there’s no way it’s a replacement for mass testing within the country.

Yes, “the public at large” was mostly wrong. The IC wasn’t. The White House was privy to much more information than the public and likely even more than CDC was. That’s the whole point?

Trump came out and said in June 2020 that he specifically told the federal agencies to slow down testing. Travel ban or no travel ban, that was simply the wrong decision and it was wrong for the wrong reasons (making his numbers look bad). There’s being wrong because reality is hard to parse in the moment, or because you have incomplete information, or because mistakes just happen (e.g. the botched test manufacturing) and there’s being wrong because selfish political ends dominate public health considerations. Those types of “wrong” are not equivalent.
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> Under the cover of lusty and curvaceous chicks (of whom I approve), and of silly bunnies (of whom I disapprove), you have turned Playboy into the most important philosophical periodical in this country … by comparison, the Journal of the American Philosophical Society is pedantic, boring and irrelevant.

There is something to be said for alternative viewpoints on issues that many take for granted.
Are you saying the price capping model doesn't work? If so I don't follow the thought process: you're comparing California (price capped) against the national average (also mostly price capped to some degree)
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I was/am more concerned with functionality and the fact that what they're doing should be illegal. The Comcast MITM attack I experienced literally broke the functionality of the steam browser (~2015).
I'm not be able to tell pixellabs ai art apart from professional painted art.

Of course the best result is when the tool is combined with a good artist.

I'm 100% sure the price for game art will drop significantly, if it already hasn't.
The general problem solving approach. What the two sibling replies to yours are talking about.
Without networking software, ransomware wouldn't be a thing.
You are moralizing it by saying it's immoral and wrong and you are a bad person for doing it.

It's not stealing it's copying.

There is no morally side to piracy. The business owner who has a product copied that no one was going to pay money for anyways can claims a loss but Microsoft's Windows the most heavy pirate software ever is more popular and successful because of it. When a game company exec says they would rather their product be pirated over a competitor it show a benefit exists to piracy.

People copy ideas in many areas that cause the original idea maker to lose profits. Copycat businesses. Price matching; aws lowered prices now Oracle cloud is copying them. These cost businesses more than piracy.
Until recently valve was banning ai from their game store, so you're not wrong.
Just because you don't like your choices doesn't mean you don't have one.

Before, you only had one set of terms. Now you have two, which may be an improvement for a lot of people.

It goes without saying that neither may be your ideal choice. Heck, in an ideal world, my choice would be for Apple to pay me rather than vice-versa! You know, as a little thank-you for making an app for their phone. It's not gonna happen, though.
It’s a swindle because of the marketing of the plans and the exorbitantly high maximum rate caps. Every person who has knocked on my door to sell variable rate plans emphasizes the upside of the deal: why pay more than the current rate? You’re wasting your money on paying for the fixed rate that’s mostly higher than the going rate.

Like you said, most of the time you save a good amount of money. The salespeople and marketing pamphlets emphasize that. Do you really believe that the executives at these utilities are ignorant to the fact that most of their customers don’t fully understand the implications? I think they sell the plans specifically because customers don’t understand them.

Worse for Texas, their system’s market pricing setup incentivizes power utilities to minimize their overhead capacity. The closer their supply is to demand, the higher the price they can get. But it leaves very little wiggle room for emergency situations (99% Invisible has a good episode about this). Therefore, their grid is more prone to spikes in variable rate pricing than other states.

Like financial instruments such as options trading, financial games like this make sense for the wealthy who have a cushion of risk tolerance. I can make more money faster with options trading compared to an index fund!

But for the median and below wage earner, sudden bill surprises shouldn’t be something that the government enables for basic necessities like utilities.
This link doesn’t say what you’re saying it does. From the link:

> For competitive purposes, a monopolist may use forced buying, or "tie-in" sales, to gain sales in other markets where it is not dominant and to make it more difficult for rivals in those markets to obtain sales. This may limit consumer choice for buyers wanting to purchase one ("tying") product by forcing them to also buy a second ("tied") product as well.

Teams is free, whether it’s obtained with Office or downloaded separately.

Giving away a product for free doesn’t violate anti competition regulations.
This is one of those things that I have wondered as a commoner who doesn’t have much clue about defense systems or war strategies..

Why aren’t countries all around the world flooding Ukraine with spare parts to make cheap drones of various sizes for Ukraine to simply flood the war torn region with hundreds of flying objects of which a small percentage are loaded with payloads that can strike?

That way, the target space is obfuscated for Russia and worst case they would have to spend their anti-drone defense systems on cheap utility drones that may or may not have done any damage..

Instead of struggling to send the leopard tanks or challenger tanks, why aren’t UK and Germany just buy a crap tin of such flying things from everywhere in the world and supply to Ukraine?

Considering all the tactics the UK pulled in the Nazis during the Second World War, I thought they would have come up with very creative ruses for Russia to chase after and lose valuable resources. (Or are they still chasing and UK doesn’t want to stop the fun yet?)

Not just that…

Spoil the supply chain to Russia.. send tractors full of nuisance into the region, drop pamphlets of soldiers being Russian soldiers being expended or whatever in key regions to demotivate the Russian soldiers even more..

Make fake mines that are detectable by the Ukrainians but not be the enemy and have them spend time on sweeping them..

Make honey pot targets that look like something important, but intended only to waste AirPower of the enemy..

I’m sure the collective minds of the larger populace could think of a lot more ways to waste time and resources of the Russians. Why are we not seeing any such?
It is not stealing. It is copyright infringement. Big difference.

There is no loss of value for the copyright holder.

In the connected international world there is a limited period when something is relevant and in this world 18 months is a long time. If something is valuable right now then it with very high probability has close to no value in 18 months. Its irrelevant.

Imagine if news is withheld for 18 months. What value it would have by then? Movies are similar. If a movie is release then it is discussed all over the world, in 18 months nobody cares. It's like buying stale food.

Of course, if you miss out and still want it then sure, go ahead, but being forced to wait is close to criminal offense.

Disclaimer: I don't torrent.
It's great for outdoor sports - it's uncomfortable to carry your phone while running or swimming, for example.
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I’d rather buy Jeff’s games than ones made with AI art.
I’m running Immich on my home server and it has been great. The syncing on iOS doesn’t seem to want to automatically upload so I have to manually go in and click the sync button sometimes. Otherwise it’s been great!
When my current phone dies I won't be buying a new one. I will be buying an LTE smartwatch. That way I get to keep a number and will still be able to contact family and friends.

> How do you manage your digital life

The hope is that without a phone I won't be distracted by all the garbage that we call our digital lives. I already uninstalled all social media from my phone, including youtube. Sometimes I still get the urge to watch videos in my browser and obviously still lurke on HN.

> relationship with the Government

This stuff I do on the computer anyways.

Hopefully the experiment will work and allow me to be more open in life in person. It is so weird seeing everyone on public transport glued to their phones.
>I’m one of those people who skips all the cutscenes.

Same here and this also means that your unskippable scenes are my instant refund request.
Not the person you are replying to, but I find it vastly more convenient to not pull out my phone all the time to check the directions to make sure I am on the right track. With a smartwatch, checking directions feels about as frictionless and simple as checking an analog watch for time.

For those running, I can see it being useful as well. GPS for tracking the morning run, with zero need to carry your heavy phone with you. And (talking about apple watch specifically, as that’s the one I have experience with), you can even connect your wireless headphones directly and listen to music too without needing a phone.