skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comment reeks of sophomoric-douchebag-leaping-at-the-chance-to-talk-down-to-someone-he-assumes-is-a-noob laced with confirmation cum survivorship/selection bias ("the thing I assumed was being shown is what was being shown").

> I work daily with console

"with console"? Aside from that—

Okay? So what? Me too.

> It's pretty evident and intuitive for most developers working with console applications and didn't require any thinking

Really? Did you perform a survey? That "most developers" who spend their days inside a terminal emulator immediately grokked what the author was trying to communicate on the first viewing?

It's not evident that that's what's going on, because you can't see an up arrow keystroke. You see a flash of a command—too briefly to read—and even then it's not evident (even if you assume that it's simply an instance of up-arrow-followed-by-enter) that the command is merely a command to relaunch the game. Are there arguments being passed at the command line—and is there maybe something we can glean from them—or is it just a bare command? If upon multiple playthroughs of the looping GIF we see that it's the latter, is that because it's a script that encapsulates the interesting stuff?

For context, the GIF in question is presented as the payload to a sentence that begins, "Here's an example of our persistence system in action:". And the section immediately prior to that reads:

> Spritely Goblins has the answer, incorporating a powerful new persistence mechanism (codenamed "Aurie") which empowers you to save relevant parts of a running Goblins program and wake them up later! But that's not all -- you can also use Goblins' persistence system to upgrade your saved objects as they evolve, and it even helps making live hacking even more powerful since you can change objects and reload them with upgraded behavior live!

That's the context; at the point where the GIF is dumped into the post, I'm primed to see a demo of something a lot more involved than what's actually there. I'm primed to see a hacking session in a live programming system with a brand new persistence mechanism—with its own codename ("Aurie"). What we're actually rewarded with is a screencapture of a game just like any other game we've seen in the last 30+ years that saves when you quit and starts off where you left it.
CPUs and DSPs are not primarily designed for graphics work, therefore they don't count as GPUs. CPU are general-purpose, DSPs might be abused for graphics work.

The "G" in GPU doesn't imply that they have to render directly to a screen. In fact, professional graphics cards are commonly used for bulk rendering for animating videos.

Datacenter GPUs are mostly used for AI these days, but they can nevertheless do graphics work very well, and if they are used for generative AI or if their built-in super sampling capability is used, the distinction becomes rather blurry.
Maybe similar in spirit as idle games: I used to enjoy BoxCar2D where you just sit back and watch cars evolve using genetic algorithm. The original version[1] requires Flash, but looks like someone ported it to HTML5[2]:

[1] http://boxcar2d.com/

[2] https://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/
2 Skinnee J's had a great rap about the topic. They even managed rhyme "Ridiculous" with "Moby-Dickulous" in it.

https://genius.com/2-skinnee-js-718-lyrics
FCC rules... The other day it was FTC and banning non competes, there's also talk right now on the home page regarding KYC and an executive order.

I would love for us to be able to get back to making laws in the US. Executive orders and agency rulings are a bad way to run a "democratic republic"
Election coming up
Well, at least this one is open source. The last couple of times scripts like this have popped up it's been just "trust me, bro!".

As Windows has started to integrate more of its own services together, I'm curious what this will end up breaking. Obviously everything xbox related until you reinstall it.
It's sad, but people keep buying these games, so there is no incentive for the game companies to stop.
Idea: let's make it so all emergency powers have to be re-authorized every week by Congress at midnight on Friday with a 90% quorum of physically-present representatives.

If "emergency" action is needed because Congress is too slow, then let's make sure they are working through the process to create real law. Or if they aren't, I guess it wasn't an emergency, and there's no reason for administrative law to "fill in" using a non-democratic process.
Not directly an answer, but similar what if thinking got me wondering: wouldn't it be cool to be able to use postgres much like how you use sqlite with python? I implemented this idea as a pip-installable python package, https://github.com/orm011/pgserver, and your feedback would be great :) I use it for my projects.
In my opinion the word “regulated” is used in the same spooky way “unlimited” is with cell service plans.

“Unlimited” (until you hit a limit then we limit your bandwidth)
We used to have a perfectly adequate Planet 9, until it was declared unworthy of planethood.
When they ended slavery they explicitly carved out an exemption for prisoners who could still legally be enslaved. These prisoners are by and large majority minority and are often used by the state to enrich themselves. EG its a huge cost to the country but a given county where a prison is situated gets a lot of the money so spent, prison guard unions earn money from their members, everyone working in the industry makes money, companies are able to make money from cheap labor, in some cases private prison companies are directly enriched.

In response to this said parties lobby heavily for more enslavement. This is often accomplished by over policing minorities especially for drug related offenses, turning the penal system deliberately into slide into interested parties pockets instead of a ladder up, setting policy with an eye to increasing costs as opposed to benefiting society.

In at least a few cases judges were literally caught selling children into slavery. In exchange for kickbacks from a private prison company they were sentencing offenders to maximum sentences.

The bad thing is that were someone unjustly enslaved merely for the color of their skin we should all rush to break their chains. Someone enslaved by a system which shook them down in hopes of finding drugs and then ruined their lives there is no sympathy because they are the villain. America never ended slavery they just found a way to justify it.
Can you elaborate? I was looking up information about this and saw Indians could continue using the app if already installed, and that there are trivial workarounds to download it if not installed. I would have expected a ban like this to have had a relatively small effect.
Does something similar exist for Windows 10? After being on 11 at home, I see zero benefits over W10.
But it does - it just needs an application to retrieve the buffer and do something with it. For example pushing it to storage.
The truth about the money bands make on tour
I think it is to pre-emptively dismiss inevitable common trope criticisms made about Go. I don't think they truly believe this, it's just the common pattern of speaking in intellectually adversarial discussions in 2020+.

- Acknowledge the common criticism

- Defeat it with appropriate common retort, or make a small concession

- Proceed with the meat of the argument with your most common opponent "disarmed"
California already enforces net neutrality, which is basically a de facto protection for the rest of the country. It is not unreasonable for the federal government to take over enforcement of something that is very much their responsibility (the internet is quite possibly peak interstate commerce).
China aggression was largely the reason India pursued nuclear weapons.

From Wikipedia:

India's loss to China in a brief Himalayan border war in October 1962, provided the New Delhi government impetus for developing nuclear weapons as a means of deterring potential Chinese aggression.

And of course Pakistan pursued nuclear weapons because India had them. This is how nuclear proliferation works.

Your thinking is dangerously naive. China hasn’t pursued India because of India’s nuclear deterrent.

US guarantees of security for Japan and Taiwan are partially due to an attempt to reduce nuclear proliferation.

US involvement has been critical to Taiwanese independence going all the way back to the 1950’s when China invaded ROC held islands.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Taiwan_Strait_Crisis

The US deployed nuclear weapons to Taiwan during a crisis caused by China in the Taiwan Straights in the 1970’s.

* During the Cold War, the United States deployed nuclear weapons on Taiwan as part of the United States Taiwan Defense Command. In 1972, United States president Richard Nixon ordered nuclear weapons to be removed from Taiwan and this was implemented by 1974. Nuclear weapons are known to have been stored at Tainan Air Force Base.*
It's worth noting that these agencies and their powers did not spring up out of thin air. Various elected Congress sessions wrote the laws that created and empowered these agencies to create rules.

This is a reasonable implementation of a "democratic republic" as Congress still has oversight.
This very article is claiming that the per unit electricity prices will decrease because EV charging will gravitate to "fill in" low demand regions, spreading fixed costs across more units.

You appear to be using this new research as proof of the opposite, and calling out previous times the exact same claim was made.
It is back up but now I can't post any pictures, there is bugs with the fix.
> Keep in mind that most consumer graphics cards are in the _teraflops_ range, which is 10^12.

Something like 40 of them, or 100-300 if you're looking at FP16. So well over 2^14.

And that's per second, give it your idle cycles for four months and that's 10^7 seconds.

It gets pretty close to 10^23.
Those devils!
The answer is none then.
> if an agency goes so far in beyond the original understanding of its delegation as to cause a major political controversy

Because "major political controversy" is very subjective and subject to manipulation (we had a "major political controversy" over the name of French fries in the 2002 era), the "then" part of your clause governs in most cases. That is "it has overstepped its mandate."

Congressional oversight of the executive agencies involves the two elected branches working together to govern. Delegating more power to the unelected branch is not a healthy way for a republic to operate.
How does the "scale plan" work and how much is it?
Agreed.

The revolution part was a smartphone for the masses instead of the super interested. It was so easy anyone could use it, and they sure did.
The end of the article has an update of a post from Garry saying that the takedown notices are legitimate.
I don't believe they did constrain themselves in that manner. As the quote below seems to indicate, they allowed their research to go beyond the "Founding era"

"First, we reviewed “[t]hree important founding-era legal scholars [who] interpreted the Second Amendment in published writings.” Ibid. Second, we looked to “19th-century cases that interpreted the Second Amendment...”"

>it should be changed through that amendment process

I think we agree here. Not saying you hold this position, but there does often seem to be a bias for favored causes, though. E.g., constrained to using the amendment process when it comes to limiting gun rights, but no such argument when it comes to edicts that limit voting rights. I would just like to see consistency in thought/principle (again, not claiming you take a biased view).

>Perhaps because this was adding additional liberty

So just to stress test this idea, you would be in favor of any additional liberty that went through the amendment process? E.g., would you think it beneficial to allow citizens rights to nuclear procurement as long as it went through an amendment process? Or reducing the voting age to 10 years old? I.e., do you tend to think more liberty is always better?
Iirc there was at least a couple samsung alpha boards that used AMDs 750/760. UP1100 and UP1500
Especially "a physics-based sandbox game" that doesn't really have assets of its own and just uses Half-Life 2 assets
Poor people are built differently, e.g. often afflicted by superstition/religion. This cultural narrative is a psychosocial adaptation to a high death rate to induce survival of the population. It often includes niceties such as coercion or violence.

With high (educational) wealth come increased and more abstract insights into our condition and world, higher ambitions and standards. Everyone would be disturbed by a proximal looming threat, but only with more advanced knowledge you can increase your mind's field of vision to places and times that are further away.

E.g. everyone knows the fossil fuel party must end soon. The only hope is supposed innovation that may or may not happen and might even bring existential risk itself. And even then we'll have to live with the knowledge that we have extinguished or prevented trillions of other life forms through no fault of their own in not even 200 years. Not even to speak of the human suffering that is baked in. We're just waiting for it to unfold.

Whether this disturbs you or not depends on your psychological profile. But the point remains that the modern thought and mood space is vastly more complex than it was in simpler times.
It might be like the biofuel from C. necator where it expels the output into the surrounding fluid so it can be harvested without the bacteria needing to be most of the final product. Although, they do mention "macronutrient composition of the cells" so maybe it is the whole bacteria included.
Disinformation, carefully used, would be my first line of investigation.

As an aside, the Humble Bundle Choice releases were being reliably leaked. Until this month ... https://redd.it/1bqpp2l - so I suspect HB did the same, and carefully distribued info to establish the mole's identity.
This goes both ways: the understanding of what you read is constructed from the worldview you contextualize it with.

This is how we are able to use ambiguous language, also known as "Context-Sensitive Grammar". We provide our own backstory (context) that provides a Just-In-Time unambiguous definition of each ambiguous word or phrase.

There is a lot of excitement around LLMs, because they are capable of doing something with Context-Sensitive Grammar. Unfortunately, that something is not equivalent to the arbitrary disambiguation that we do using context. The core feature of an LLM (with respect to natural language processing) is that it never defines anything. Instead, an LLM blindly provides whatever text it deems "most likely to happen next", all without ever associating any text to any meaning. We wrap this process in "training", which hopefully guides common interactions in the direction we want, but that is never a guarantee.
I mean, look, this isn't a real thing. It's about as real as the flying version of the Roadster. You're not really supposed to be worrying about the practicalities; that's not how this works.
I am still sad that vagrant never took off. Sure it had some rough edges that could have been smoothed over with more eyes, but it really feels like a better development path.
Yep, and you can also use it with any stack. I've successfully used both with Flask.
https://files.catbox.moe/5eh16r.zip enjoy!

(and in case that scares you, there's also this)

https://jspaint.app/
I am going to start using this.
with hotwire, rails is nearly a superpower. 90% of what react gives you at a tiny fraction of the dev time costs.
big companies shy away from real status pages and prefer those that look live, but aren't, so they can pretend theyre 100% up.
I'm sure these children, who just lost their beloved game character and in-game creations, are going to get right on the task of pressuring their government.
There are lots of things in the public sector that also kill people, unfortunately. While often less indirect or over time, companies simply trying to make a buck (be capitalist) have led to products, processes, trends, etc. that have killed a lot of people over time.

I think the conclusion is that there is very little justified technology development that actually betters society, except for things that actually save people from dying. Things like healthcare, utilities, civil engineering, defense, etc. However, almost all of those industries are mired in bureaucracy and are the ultimate examples of such.
"Ya, but the drone operators emit radio. So too the drones. They are visually stealthy but are more visible electronically than an oldschool motor team."

Which is why it is very unlikely, that we can avoid fully autonomous killer drones.

(if they are not already deployed in experimental settings)
Fungible is a spherical economic simplification. Some of our theoretically most fungible resources like electricity or bandwidth or water are not fungible in most markets. Even crude oil is not actually fungible (example sweet versus sour).

There is plenty of demand for pure compute. However no market has been created and the large compute providers have no incentive to commoditise compute (and are smart enough to recognise the value by creating their various lock-ins).
I think that understanding the meta-phenomenon of worriers vs. non-worriers is interesting in its own right.

But independent of this, I took the original post to be focusing on the fact that there are better and worse reasons to worry or not to worry.

So maybe someone is predisposed to worry about things, but understanding why they worry (and how likely the “why” is to be valid) is more important than the fact that they’re worrying.

Conversely, examining why an optimist is optimistic is also important, because if their optimism is rooted in specious arguments and conclusions, their status as a “non worrier” is less indicative of reason to care about about their lack of worry relative to the distribution of worriers.

In other words, I think it’s an interesting way to think about the people involved in the worry/non-worry, but not likely to get us closer to an answer about whether or not anyone should worry.

Clearly there are situations that we know enough about to warrant a high degree of concern regardless of the distribution of worry vs. non-worry (see: climate change).

I think a major issue with the AI subject is a lack of consensus on what exactly people are worried about, and worries ranging from near term loss of employment and other immediate downsides to the eventual extinction of the human race. I don’t think the “threatens all humankind” concerns are the most worrisome because they’re by far the most far fetched. There’s a whole lot of potential harm between where we are today and those extreme outcomes, but those extremes tend to get the most airtime and subsequent dismissal, and overshadow the more realistic and mundane concerns.
> What are the incentives for running a node?

You are workng for the FBI.
POSIX is an api, not kernel interface, and the MS CRT still supports much of it. And there's stuff on top, like cygwin and mingw, if you need more.
years ago we switched from python to go. super happy we didnt go for rust, C++ or elixir. go is the get stuff done and make it fast language. my startup would have had a hard time and not grown as much if it wasn't for go
Thanks for the effort you put into that. In an earlier reply i did state that i am easing myself into SaaS. It was just a cool idea that i thought id give my hand at.

Appreciate the time you put into it though :)
Yes, and Intel was the first to install the first High-NA EUV machine from ASML, TWINSCAN EXE:5000 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PCtf1ONYMU

ps. Intel used to own 15% of ASML in 2012, now they own less than 2%.
It’s frustration at having to learn more than one programming language.

At this time, due to the social integration of technology the number of people who interact with development has far out paced the number of people who enjoy development.

> they are much more complimentary

If you hate writing code but do it for your job, then you are going to really hate writing code in two different languages with their own syntax and paradigms.

Also, nearly all programming language projects want to be the “everything language” so essentially any language is a fine choice and what it really comes down to is the people who enjoy the work develop “tastes” and “preferences” that they treat as dogma when defending their language of choice.
Drive users away?
Yesterday, I was trying to delete bunch of crap from my windows 10 setup, because windows is just chewing through HD space like nothing. Gigs of space are eaten by temp files, caches, backups....in most circumstances you can't even delete them. Windows is taking ~6GB and I don't even use them, apart from calculator.
not really. I have no idea what went on "under the hood", but it certainly wasn't anything I noticed.

I do think NN is better than nothing, but I'm not sure it's exactly the right model either. iirc, the main risk called out was different QoS for different traffic types, possibly with the ability to pay to get yours prioritized? the teenage libertarian version of me very much liked the idea of the internet being a "dumb pipe", but I don't see QoS as being intrinsically wrong now. there are some applications (video chat, mp games, etc) where it is very important that packets arrive mostly in order and with minimal latency. there are other applications (async data transfer) where it doesn't matter as much.

to me, the core issue is that I just don't trust companies like comcast, and I rarely have a viable alternative. NN seems like more of a bandaid than fixing the root cause.
> we're inventing a new system that redistributes power as chaotically as did our invention of firearms

I'm not sure what you mean exactly with this quote, but I think that the people who will hold the power as it pertains to AI are the same people that hold the power currently: rich capitalists.

As a user you'll maybe have a way to use AI to make your life slightly easier, but you'll have absolutely zero power otherwise.
Just looking at numbers of the effected populations - Ughyers vs (I assume you mean) Palestinians - that's absolute disinformation hogwash.

For bonus points, disinformation hogwash that helps one of the most un-progressive governments in the world (China) extend it's power.
I have to remind you that your original comment was:

It is bad for a state - at least in relative terms - if it has a good thing and suddenly every state has that good thing.

You were not talking about the FTC, you were talking about the state. Furthermore, the parent comment to which you're replying was:

It's not bad when people are copying you, it signals that California is ahead of the curve on the issue...

which was a reply to

I suspect this is bad for California

We were all - and especially you - very clearly talking about whether or not it's bad for California. Only later in the conversation did you start to shift your statements to seem as if you're talking about the FTC.

Moving the goalpost fallacy:

Moving the goalposts is an informal fallacy in which evidence presented in response to a specific claim is dismissed and some other evidence is demanded.

e.g. "It might be bad for California, but not the FTC", "you can't read", "incorrectly inferring", "assuming" etc. Nope, none of those, just sticking to the topic.
Where do tests with unlimited running time fit in that? For example, fuzzing or property based testing, where you can potentially continue running the tests forever, hoping new bugs show up.