skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For datacentres that require air conditioning as opposed to natural ventilation (most of them) a very popular approach is to use evaporative cooling towers [1] in combination with W2W chiller units [2]. The chillers cool the internal water circuit and heat the external water circuit, the excess heat is dumped to the environment by evaporating water in the cooling towers.

Of course it's possible to use air-cooled equipment and this is more common in cooler climates or smaller data centres, so it's not a rule of nature that cooling servers wastes water but it's certainly a very common outcome.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooling_tower
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiller
Who cares about all of that when ~ 1000 people can benefit financially in the short term? /s
going from remote to hybrid is still RTO, just not full RTO
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The salt in ocean water limits its usefulness for cooling
I ask it to make duck sound and it created a python script and ran it to create a sound file, while it did, the sound was more like a tone of a duck like a keyboard mimicking a duck sound
Tornado Cash dev Pertsev sent to jail after Dutch court found him guilty
Unsurprisingly, this pessimistic and shortsighted take emanates from a newspaper in heart of the EU...
As someone who came into a project that uses postgres notify, it was pretty confusing, as your app would connect to other apps db to listen for changes. There also was no documented nor enforced data format, so it was very annoying to deal with in practice.
Software specification is circular because what we write down as a requirement is going to depend heavily on what is feasible to implement. But feasibility of implementation is often not clear until you actually try to implement the thing.

In fact, I would go so far as to say that, if in the design phase the precise structure of every single piece of what you are implementing, and the scope and feasibility of all alternatives, is known and crystal clear, then the project is trivial and probably does not need a design phase - you might as well just write the code.

The article makes this point as well: "a complete, abstract specification is, in general, at least as much work as creating the software itself"
I don’t find consuming on a Mac hard at all. It even has advantages - better speakers, larger screen, a whack of games that just don’t exist on iPadOS, the ability to install arbitrary media software, and more extensive means of media organization in general.
Those kinds of shows can be sensationalized and shallow, but if you're interested in learning more in depth about ancient astronomy (shameless plug) I have been doing a podcast on the subject. So far I've covered the astronomy of the Babylon, Greece, Rome, India, prehistoric Europe, Subsaharan Africa, and am currently five episodes into the astronomy of premodern China.

https://songofurania.com
Memory efficiency just for one. For most programs, and especially in the embedded space, 64b systems carry around (and process) a lot more zeros than 32b systems do. You can still do 64b math when you need it, but you don’t have to pay for it when you don’t.

Given that software is always too big, this can often be a product-making distinction.
Say I have a pico cluster with a few service nodes and a few upstream clients register themselves, and then I deploy a new version of the service nodes where all existing service nodes are taken down and replaced.

Can the client still talk to the service nodes? Is this over the same tunnel, or does the agent need to create a new tunnel? What happens to requests that are sent from a proxy-client to the service nodes during this transition?

Or at a much higher level: Can I deploy new service nodes without downtime?
I think there’s no stopping this train. Whoever doesn’t train on all available data will simply not produce the models that people actually use, because there will be people out there who do train models on all available data. And as I said in another comment, after some number of decades all of the content that has been used to train current models will be in the public domain anyway. So it will only be a few generations before this whole discussion is moot and the models are out there that can do everything today’s models can, unencumbered by any copyright issues. Digital content creation has been made mostly obsolete by generative AI, except for where consumers actively seek out human-made content because that’s their taste, or if there’s something humans can produce that models cannot. It’s just a matter of time before this all unfolds. So yes, anyone publishing digital media on the internet is contributing to the eventual collapse of people earning money to produce content that models can produce. It’s done. Even if copyright delays it by some decades, eventually all of today’s medial will be public domain and THEN it will be done. There are 0 odds of any other outcome.

To your last point, I think the best case scenario is open source/weight models win so nobody owns them.
Newer clocks use the phase modulated signal: https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/2017/05/09/NIST-...

If you have AM-based clocks, you might find that these work better. However, nobody advertises which module they're using, so it's kind of a crapshoot. I specifically bought a phase modulation WWVB receiver and it reliably receives the signal every night. I also have a random $7 clock from Amazon that pretty much synchronizes every night. Living in NYC, this is truly amazing to me; I never ever got the AM signal here.
The use of the word 'is', rather than 'was', would imply that it was just incorrect, tbh.
The general publicly-accessible internet will turn into AI grey goo. The real value will retreat to invite-only private chats where human-scale social norms maintain a high signal-to-noise ratio. Asking a friend to recommend a good burger place is way more productive than sifting through the sludge of "best burgers near me" on Google and the like.
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The control (assuming we are talking about LBO specifically) is that they have to borrow the money from someone, and those someones are giant banks who also like money and aren’t stupid.
Seems kind of pointless. The tech for tracking is widely available and straightforward to use. Has been for decades.
I think you're underselling the accomplishment of determining some of these things, particularly predicting eclipses. And I think there's quite a bit to be said about novel applications that emerge out of tracking the sun, like announcing seasons for citizens to help know when to plant, reap, store, etc. to manage agriculture across empire. Often they amazing thing was taking a small thing and spinning into a massive, society-impacting solution.
I was on mobile and didn't want to type this out:

I was there when Bill Joy, Sam Leffler, and Bob Henry (not Robert R Henry) were crowed around a huge HP terminal in the common area of the 5th floor of Evans Hall. I used the public/common terminals for my work and was sitting there one day when the trio walked in a were excitedly talking about the TCP/IP code from BBN. I have no idea what they were doing, but I think they were trying to build it.
Gradient Diversity: A Key Ingredient for Scalable Distributed Learning
Are you saying that velocity hurts?
I find it hard to believe your comment is in good faith, but let's give you the benefit of the doubt.

> Modern prosperity and modern market economies are definitely not based on centuries-gone colonial extractive empires

All the wealth and resources plundered from colonies over centuries enabled the European powers to maintain power and more easily develop technologies on which this modern prosperity so relies. One entire continent, unimaginably wealthy in a broad variety of resources, was taken over just in the most recent history.

> As for the military industrial complex, pray tell, of which country? Tangibly benefiting which countries

Mostly the US today, benefitting primarily the US, and by proxy many of her allies. War is extremely profitable: taxpayer dollars pay for materiel which you immediately destroy, the demand/supply ratio is fantastic. The sustained violence guarantees access to the energy resources required to continue this strategy -- the rotten mess in the ME over the past near-century being just one of the more glaring examples.
Fair point. I think the lagging indicator is how much alternate models are becoming capable using less horsepower.
Is that "Guided Access"? https://support.apple.com/en-afri/guide/ipad/ipada16d1374/ip...
You're persistent. I remember you asking the same question on another thread almost four years earlier [1]. I'm curious to know the name of this game.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24099035
background disconnects
At some level, isn’t “connecting you effortlessly with the product you explicitly told me you were here to find” the best kind of ad? To the extent that Lowe’s hires armies of friendly floor staff specifically to answer that kind of question face to face, help my dumb self figure out what the right filter size and type is, learn the kind of particulars about my house that the LLM will just know, and build my confidence that my intentions are correct in my case?

Google has always made it hard to avoid clicking the “ad” immediately above the organic result for a highly specific named entity, but where it’s really struck me is as Amazon has started extracting “sponsorship” payments from its merchants. The “sponsored” product matching my search is immediately above the unpaid organic result, identical in appearance.

That kind of convergence suggests to me that the Lowe’s of the world don’t need to “show the ad” in the conventional sense, they just need to reduce the friction of the sale—and they stand to gain more from my trust and loyalty over time than from a one-off upsell.

I’m reminded of Autozone figuring out, on their dusty old text consoles, how to just ask me my make/model/year, and how much value and patronage that added relative to my local mom-n-pop parts store since I just knew all the parts were going to be right.
It seems extremely unlikely that the total energy cost of GPT models is dominated by training. The training of GPT-3 was estimated at 1287 MW-h, which is less than 1 day of a medium-sized cloud datacenter.
an actually difficult question! Different persons will absorb different things from articles, and will enjoy different projects as a first encounter. Pointers:

https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/ (and see the Emacs or the debugging pages to see what's possible)

see https://www.youtube.com/@CBaggers/playlists and either his introductions to Slime, either his introductions to CEPL to play with graphics interactively,

also for graphics, a new 3D system in development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liaLgaTOpYE

for an overview of how thought through is REPL driven development in CL: https://mikelevins.github.io/posts/2020-12-18-repl-driven/

and, we are lucky (or cursed :] ), there are many more cool articles on the topic.
That's a really nice analogy, I wonder if there is some research on this kind of thing in the machine learning literature already.
How can you separate capital from human interest when the majority of people on earth spend the majority of their time in pursuit of it? Less people starve today than ever in the past, and that is because we have more capital, not because we are more charitable than back then. Charity is not any less corrupt, it is just more emotionally appealing because of the illusion of selflessness and a whole lot less effective.

You say "your average businessperson is not very interested in making the world better if it plays against their personal ambitions." But I claim that it's not your average businessperson it's your average person with business people just being a subset of that.

And that's not even getting into the problem of how does anybody really know how to make the world a better place. In my experience people with a "just doing my job" attitude make much better bosses than those who act like they have a higher purpose.
The prevalence of these lines of thought make me wonder if we'd see a similar backlash against Star-Trek style food-replicators. "Free food machines are being be used by greedy corporations to put artisanal chefs out of business. We must outlaw the free food machines."
We shouldn't flag this. It's terrible. It's innumerate. But it is what's being written, and it probably is a good idea to see these things to see how people will play the game.

Note some interesting things about this article. Lack of sources, obviously, but the byline itself is sus.

What's even scarier is that people on HN actually accept this noncritically. We're better than that! This is a perfect article to train your media literacy and critical thinking skills on.
Would padding your estimates provide some temporary relief while you find something new? You don’t have to do a +1 and 1 (ie - if you think it will take one week say it will take two months). But if you think it will take one week, what if you say it will take two weeks?

But there is absolutely no reason that any company needs engineers to be high performing all the time. Healthy companies are marathons not sprints. Read into that as you will.
Pfft, this is just a bunch of hot air.

... /s
Opposite for me; I can read C/C++ fine including messy template code, but Rust's syntax is overall easier for me to read, and has a much simpler grammar.
Yeah, the entire sky and mountainside was bright pink, since the snow was reflecting the pink aurora. Very cool.

Oh, here, I figured out there's an "archive" that can be browsed through. Here's the scene at the time I posted the original comment: https://www.jungfrau.ch/webcams/top-of-europe-jungfraujoch/#...

Ah, I managed to find the direct image URL in the network requests, as well: (warning, 20428px wide) https://storage.roundshot.com/5e568a0aaea5b0.54147912/2024-0...
Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news
Sakuga-42M Dataset: Scaling Up Cartoon Research
> His son would explain “Morse himself refused to attend the ceremonies of the unveiling of his counterfeit presentment, as being too great a strain on his innate modesty.”

That is a hell of a way to bow out of an event you dont want to attend. Way better than my standard "I dont feel like it"
I assume you can give voice-specific custom instructions. "Talk like a Clive Cussler audiobook narrator" - problem solved.
I mean sure, I don't doubt 99% of end-user programmers wouldn't look twice at something like this, but compilers designers probably would care.

And it's not like the companies arent trying this idea (again, M1 exploit). But for whatever reason they want to keep cpus as black box, perfect abstract machines, even though we know they aren't
I'm on my first iphone (13) after decades with android/bb/nokia and I cannot explain how much I loathe typing on this thing. It's like it actively goes out of my way to make me not want to copy/paste/edit urls, etc. I also have a terrible time hitting the correct letters and I have scrawny salad fingers.

Every iPhone super user I'm surrounded by (everyone) never talks about how awful the typing experience is and makes me feel like a luddite for not doing it well. I wasn't sure if they were just used to it or they just know how to use it correctly and I don't.

It's horrible. It's helped me a lot to stop pulling my phone out to use social media/web etc to pass time because if I can't click it, if i have to type in a URL or anything like that, I just don't want to even try.
And also modulate transmit power as RSSI is often used for distance and movement calculation.
Love it, going to try them out. What paper do you use?
Or they can buy 3 cheaper Android tablets. Or they can buy 1 Android tablet, seeing as Android supports multiple users. So no, I really don’t care about families that would rather whine about Apple than exercise some agency and buy other products that already have the features they claim they want.
The hat is quite wide compared to some other NVME hats. Do you see any chance of some 3rd party creating a passive cooling case that would still fit this one inside?

In my mind NVME + passive cooling would be such a perfect combo for Raspberry Pi to make it a tiny, silent and durable computer you could just hide somewhere out of sight.
Pen plotters are great fun. I set mine up a while ago - a slightly cheaper setup than most https://shahinrostami.com/articles/my-pen-plotter-setup/
This is very cool! Trying to get it added to awesome-tunneling: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling/pull/149

Related -- we also built a simple (but not production-grade) tunneling solution just for devving on our open-source project (multiplayer game server management).

We recently ran in to an issue where we need devs to be able to have a public IP with vanilla TCP+TLS sockets to hack on some parts of our software. I tried Ngrok TCP endpoints, but didn't feel comfortable requiring our maintainers to pay for SaaS just to be able to hack around with our software. Cloudflare Tunnels is awesome if you know what you're doing, but too complicated to set up.

It works by automating a Terraform plan to (a) set up a remote VM, (b) set up SSH keys, and (c) create a container that uses reverse SSH tunneling to expose a port on the host. We get the benefit of a dedicated IP + any port + no 3rd party vendors for $2.50/mo in your own cloud. All you need is a Linode access token, arguably faster and cheaper than any other reverse tunneling software.

Source: https://github.com/rivet-gg/rivet/tree/main/infra/dev-tunnel

Setup guide: https://github.com/rivet-gg/rivet/blob/main/docs/infrastruct...
What you are saying means people not learning anything new or different.

There is lots that only humans can do, including what a sentence predictor presented as AI can't imagine. It's getting better at reasoning for sure, but net new, novel stuff, I think is still the domains of most.

It's true though that GPT may offset a lot of people to have to change and grow, and it might be hardest for the people who got away with BSing. I've never had that luxury and always have had to deliver so I guess it feels a little less frightening.

Either way, I figure its easier to learn which way the currents in this realms are flowing to recognize them better, than to sit on the side of the pool looking at it with disdain.

We stop growing not only when we stop learning, but when we stop creating.
Sir, there's a cat in your mirror dimension
Economists would probably get a lot of enjoyment from reading about what game designers do, incentive is such a big factor for a successful game.
reallocation/preallocation actually does increase manipulation and traversal performance.

The major slowness of linked lists is cache inconsistency. New nodes can be put all over the memory space. However, if you can make sure all or part of the list exists in contiguous blocks of memory, then there's a good chance that when the CPU loads up the next node it will also grab the next 3 nodes in a cache line.

The closer these node addresses are in memory, the faster things will be.
I agree that regulation needs to justify itself. I haven't had any issue with any of the DMA rulings so far and I have greatly appreciated many of them. For that reason I trust the commission setting these rules to have imposed fair and consumer friendly rules on Booking with their gatekeeper designation.

They might of course be unjust but I don't expect them to be. If they are I would like to hear about it though.

What is your issue with the Apple gatekeeper designation?
Mainvest Ceasing Operations June 14th
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/us/bitcoin-mine-biden-ban...

... and initial paragraphs:

> Biden Bans Chinese Bitcoin Mine Near U.S. Nuclear Missile Base

> An investigation identified national security risks posed by a crypto facility in Wyoming. It is near an Air Force base and a data center doing work for the Pentagon.

> President Biden on Monday ordered a company with Chinese origins to shut down and sell the Wyoming cryptocurrency mine it built a mile from an Air Force base that controls nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles.

> The cryptomining facility, which operates high-powered computers in a data center near the F.E. Warren base in Cheyenne, “presents a national security risk to the United States,” the president said in an executive order, because its equipment could be used for surveillance and espionage.

The executive order: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...
>the main Dutch party VVD is completely corrupt and only in there to enrich themselves

I dunno what your yardstick is in NL, but everywhere else I lived and have friends, every major political party is there only to enrich themselves and their lobbyists, and not to aid the people voting for them.

Canada, Portugal, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, you name it, same shit everywhere: privatize the winnings socialize the losses, while praising the GPD went up 0,2% while your salary staid the same and housing went up 10%.
That's a very tall ask lol.

There was a post of a detailed imaging of a tiny part of the brain and it contained 1.7 Petaflops of data or something.

CPUs and GPUs have a long way to go beyond nm production.
It used all sorts of tricks. The text was generated from tokens. The galaxies were also procedurally generated, with a very careful seed to avoid expletives. In the MSX, it used some of the VRAM to store data. And so on.
What happened to this project?

Also, I wish they would have defined a schema (or vocabulary) for this metadata or re-used some existing vocabulary like FOAF. That would have helped when the main devs move on from maintaining this.
According to a comment on the article the lack of support for these registers meant the 8085 did not have a "jump if greater than" opcode. That seems like something of an inconvenience for a chip that a lot of people are going to be writing assembler on.
Best of luck!

FWIW I've had thyroid cancer (surgery only; it's usually a nicer class of cancer to get if one must have one). Been eating higher-fat moderate-protein carnivore since.