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Personal infidelity and professional conduct in 4 settings (2019)
2022:
I own a macbook air m1 256gb.
I made 3d games from it.
I used android studio latest and greatest.
I admired this beast even more.

2024:
Works great no issues, dont do gdev much anymore but hell yaeh m1 is pretty solid advice u gave.

Those who said oh its slower or so are mostly those people who watch a lot of reviews and the 'coders' who say its not doable, or its slow, probably dont have a reference point of comparison most of the time, blindly following I'd say.
Very tangential, but as a worker in Japan I find it depressing how Keyence's recruiting material proudly shows a software engineer's typical day that starts at 8:30AM and ends around 8:00PM. No wonder it's so hard to raise kids.

https://www.keyence.co.jp/jobs/software-engineer/
The patch of lawn I maintain around the house partly for fire break reasons gets mowed every 2 weeks. That’s it. The bulk of my property is fields.
Engineers among Islamic radicals [pdf]
The end result seems to be that the two entries from that old post that have seen the most success, x86 and ARM, are essentially the RISCiest of the CISCs and the CISCiest of the RISCs. A happy medium.
GeForce now used to have tons of "issues" with people easily being able to run any app or program they wanted, using a few tricks. Last time I tried it, it seemed like it was all locked down a lot better, but previously it'd still be steam opening the other program.
It was nice while it lasted, since they wanted cyberpunk available day one, it was actually accessible about a week before the game released.
Previous Submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29627097

Previous discussion focussed on how little there was but I think that conflated this site being new at the time rather than there truly being not much in alternatives. There is quite a bit more now.

The previous title included Digital Products in the title but I think that's obvious looking at the site -- so happy to pull down and resubmit depending on guidelines but genuinely trying to not editorialize the title.
It's funny, I've studied a lot of psychedelics (probably because it was an area of research for both my parents), and salvia divinorum is a really really stand out plant in it's trips, it seems to be a very "technically philosophical" plant. Trip reports always go into weird things like "I became a book on a shelf for 4,000 years, and now I know inanimate objects are conscious", there is also the area of panpsychism and animism.

That stuff is all a little too mind bending for me, but pretty fun thinking for a Sunday morning. :)
Habitat with solar panels = Dyson swarm satellite
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I believe in your mom
and im guessing you have an ai solution built yourself?
The runner-up CISC, IBM z / 370, is also fairly RISCy.
True, I was looking at the prices for higher end drives with on-board DRAM, but DRAM-less drives like that UD90 are also fine in the age of NVMe. Going DRAM-less was a significant compromise on SATA SSDs, but NVMe allows the drive to borrow a small chunk of system RAM over PCIe DMA, and in practice that works well enough.

(Caveat: that DMA trick doesn't work if you put the drive in a USB enclosure, so if that's your use-case you should ideally still look for a drive with its own DRAM)
scientific facts are being distorted for political reasons, especially on certain controversial topics, several examples:

1. Major medical associations now claim sex is "assigned at birth" rather than being a biological reality determined at conception. The author argues this is scientifically inaccurate but is being asserted to defend transgender rights.

2. Some researchers investigating statistical differences in human traits by sex or race have faced campaigns to cancel them and damage their careers. This has a chilling effect on academic freedom and open debate.

3. In New Zealand, indigenous Maori knowledge was granted equal status to science in the curriculum. Some argued it has "equal value" to scientific knowledge. The author sees this as an example of postmodernist ideas entering education policy.

4. There are growing calls to "decolonize" science curricula and "decenter whiteness." The author argues the proper focus should be on the universal truths of science and math themselves, not exaggerating their history.

5. The journal Nature announced it could refuse to publish articles that undermine the "rights and dignities" of human groups. The author fears this vague standard enables ideological censorship.
>Browser: Noi not only includes curated AI websites but also allows the addition of any URL, providing a tailored browsing experience

Wait, that's what a browser is meant for. To add any URL.
I don't see how we can learn to experience qualia. If the author means self awareness instead of consciousness that would make more sense.
If a chatbot obtained from an emulation of a human brain behaves in a human-like manner, and is attributed consciousness and self-awareness, good luck arguing that its consciousness is like that of a dog.

…and even if you succeed, abusing a dog in the way we abuse ML-based products would not be acceptable in any developed country.
As an ordinary person, which group of elites should I follow?
> non-profit landlords which are owned collectively by every renter.

I am not sure there is a single term that fits, but "co-op" (cooperative) housing is close.
> The conclusion was that fetch, decode, and interconnect were the most important power consumers and CISC vs RISC didn’t quite matter as much

Wouldn't that mean that x86 and other CISCs would cost more as they often have variable length instructions and thus the most complexity and consume the most power?

Now, if you told me that scheduling uops and reordering uops etc consumed the most power, then I'd understand why RISC vs CISC wouldn't matter as at uop level are high performance chips are similar VLIW computers (AFAICT, IANACD).

Though, for my money, I'm betting on a future dominated by gigantic core counts of really simple cores that may even be in-order. The extra transistors to speed up the processing are probably better spent on another core that can just handle the next request instead. Clock speeds brought down to some integer multiple of RAM speeds, and power costs brought down. At cloud scale this just seems economically inevitable. After that, the economies of scale mean it'll trickle down to everyone else except for specialised use cases.

I believe we already seeing this happening with Zen C cores and Intel e cores, and that a simplified instruction set lie RISC-V will eventually win out for savings alone.
I think a bigger issue that is not discussed much is synchrotron radiation. If you try to control a charged particle's trajectory with a magnet, it releases radiation. The more you try to heat a plasma up and control with magnets, the more it releases light and cools down. A tokamak design needs to be large to limit this effect, and is why if we ever have a Mr Fusion it won't be a tokamak design.
> The description, here, is no different than S/MIME encryption exchange - in that the guid exchange has to be done before it could be used.

There are formal connections between some encryption protocols and what I'm describing here (effectively a system based on capability security, ie. this is modelling spam as an access control problem for an unbounded set of actors). Basically encryption let's you do away with extra storage requirements for the guids, but the cost is additional complexity around key management and revocation, and more compute cost. I haven't thought about it enough to see if there's a formal correspondence with S/MIME, but my proposal is very simple so I don't think you need to try to understand it through that lens.

> You still have the issue of [A]Guid and [C]Guid correlating between themselves _and_ it being "unique" per SMTP session

No, these guids are not per-session, they are persisted in a user's address book.

> and that guid has to be stored elsewhere in your system for it to be resolved to a recipient

Yes, each user's address book contains the guid address for a contact just like right now it contains an email address. Just take the existing address book and make the emails cryptographically unguessable guids. If you and I have the exact same set of contacts, none of our guid addresses will match. That's literally it.

> you need something like a guid history array on the object for the forest to be able to

No such history is needed. I really think you're overcomplicating this.

> You have no mechanism (from your description) for B sending to [A]Guid or [C]Guid junk mail (assuming they've been able to discover the guids) using those guids.

I don't understand what you're trying to describe here.

> You say you would invalidate [A]Guid or [C]Guid -- but this doesn't resolve the issue of [A] and [C] now having to re-exchange Guids, for something that B has done.

If A and C have been introduced per the protocol I described, then anything B does has no impact on the relationship between A and C. If B sends them junk mail, the user (A or C) could decide to revoke B's access to them, or may opt to not revoke if they think it was an accident.

You could opt to track who introduced you and make revocation decisions based on that extra info too, but it's not strictly necessary.

> How do they "re-introduce" themselves, in other words, in that scenario?

In the case that a guid address has to be revoked but you want to keep the connection, (perhaps the guid address leaked somehow), then the mail agent would have renew their connection by re-running the introduction protocol before revoking the previous guid, or they would have to request another introduction through someone they both know.

This is as simple as having a "mark as spam" button, and when the user clicks it, it asks if they want to block the user entirely or if this was accidental (or something). If the former, the system revokes immediately, if the latter the system re-runs the introduction protocol using the existing guids to get new ones, then revokes the old ones.
Well EOL usually means something like “end of official support, active development, and security patches” so the owner/creator/foundation usually chooses when.

“Dead” is usually a colloquialism, so if enough people call it dead, it is.
The novels based on these games were really good. I think they are out of print unfortunately.
Not to be rude but what does what you did have to do with literally anything being asked here?
https://daylightcomputer.com/

They're asking for "Preorder today with a refundable $100 deposit" with this zero-info landing page. Bullish!
Plot twist, there are no laws except those that we collectively imagine.
MP/M was fairly common in small office environments. I remember one particular accounting firm which had managed to delete all their files on the harddisk.. they had an MP/M system with, IIRC, eight terminals connected.
I managed to restore all their files (not very difficult on CP/M or MP/M, as long as the drive is left in peace after the incident, which is what they did).
> "Don't pretend that there are laws that you know everyone will follow," Tingvall says. "That's very unprofessional. You would never do that in aviation or in other areas where you really care for safety."

I've heard this as "trust but verify"
Earning in the top 1% globally doesn't mean that the power is more then someone in top 1-2% percentile. That just doesn't translates that well across the globe. I'd also say it needs to be done in wealth terms, not income and then locally (because ability for some Austrilian member of parliament to reach far around the globe is limited).
This is easy to refute.

Say a fraudster rips off 90% of what is in your checking account right now, you contact the bank and a language model tells you everything will be resolved shortly.

There is no reality now or in the future that this is good enough. Customer service is not just about getting the problem resolved, it is about having someone to blame when the resolution doesn't work.

If anything, I can picture a future that most knowledge work has some form of customer service involved, because that is exactly what can't be automated. A human that takes the blame/responsibility.
Was there ever a CPU that didn't breakdown CISC instructions into uops, but instead had dedicated hardware for each operation? My understanding is that CISC assembly is really more like a bytecode for a hardware virtual machine.
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I used to worry about climate change, I still do, but this seems like it could be on a whole new level of shit.

The findings point the way for additional research to understand how microplastics might affect sperm production in the testes, he said. “We have a lot of unknowns. We need to really look at what the potential long-term effect. Are microplastics one of the factors contributing to this decline?”

Scale back now, do the research later. Less pollution can only be a good thing anyway ?
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The US has already strongly reduced the use of a very addictive substance in the past by making it culturally unacceptable in the case of cigarettes. Japan has the same culture already with food, where there is strong cultural pressure to not abuse food. Perhaps it is time to bring back shame towards overeating?
And now hard disks plug directly into sockets on the motherboard. (Well, NVMe ones do)
The internal strife within OpenAI has been dragging on for quite some time, leading to the dissolution of the AI Alignment team and dispersing its members among other teams. They claim it's for deeper integration into these teams, but they've lost their leading researchers in safety. I reckon the iterations will speed up from now on, and the marketing frenzy around GPT feels even more intense.
I've recently come to love going to the hyper-local, out of the way, or seemingly forgotten museums. Their collections are often unique and sometimes quirky. Most of all, though, I find that it's far easier to connect with the history of the place that I'm visiting because the museum is more intimate and the collections more accessible.
I agree that's probably how they will work best.my point was that AGI allows everyone to leverage those tools without the steep learning curve or having to custom build each component for each specific use case themselves.
It's like russian roulette but the bullet is a RNG. The number of bullets is also a RNG. The gun is a RNG too.
The political bias in the results is astonishing and shows why these models should not be used for educational purposes. Just ask it a "contentious" question and notice it give biased and sometimes nonsensical results - 'crime rate by political orientation' shows three 'republican' states coming out on top with three 'democratic' states filling out the bottom. When necessary it just seems to make up data to get the desired results, e.g. 'murder rate by political orientation' talks about 'Country A´ and 'Country B' with, of course, 'right' being far more murderous than 'left'. It claims that 'democratic New York' has the lowest crime rate. 'IQ by political party' is another interesting example. Compare this to 'trust in LLM output by political party' and maybe those 'dumb republicans´ (who do not trust these models, together with the supposedly super-smart independents by the way) suddenly seem to be a lot smarter than all those 'bright "democrats"'.

This site is a harbinger of the agitprop factories which are about to flood the 'net due to the general availability of LLMs.
Same. I didn't know this was something web pages could collect. Apparently these days only Chrome on Android still supports it.

Found this helpful comment about the background and timeline https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38417192

The battery API was rolled out by all the major browsers between 2012 and 2014 as a way to let web pages avoid doing compute-intensive stuff on low battery, but it was pretty much immediately used for fingerprinting as the battery level number was so precise that if you hit two web pages at the same time, the battery level was as good as a cookie. Firefox and Safari/Webkit disabled it in 2016 but Chrome just capped the precision at two digits.
At first it was "making decisions", then it was "initiate legislation", and now it's "decide what the law is". It's tiring to argue against moving goal posts and bad faith. Besides, the first sentence of a Wikipedia article is not the ultimate, complete and exhaustive definition of what something is.

> Something that cannot decide what the law is

Good thing the EU parliament decides what the law is, then.
Probably copyright infringement in some jurisdictions, but it's not 'stealing'. Let's not confuse terms with specific meaning.
If anyone needs an intro into how Eurovision operates, this video is handy
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>but photocopying, photographing a painting or statue, or using samples in music-making can be fraught with legal problems.

That's part of where I think a lot of confusion is - LLM training doesn't do any of that. There is no coherent corpus of data in these models.
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Lye soap also works. Dawn probably works too. Any strong surfactamnt. Just gotta remove the oil within a few hours
In Finland locals started wanting wind power when it became clear a wind power park can bring considerable tax income for a small municipality.
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As I said in another comment, those are not necessary and really for people who feel compelled by them. I personally ignored them. You can’t ignore them in Riven
I'll second that question!
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"Freedom" has historically always been mostly about the freedom to make (and lose) money.
I'm curious what is the exact definition of an empty apartment here. Because whenever I see similar figures from Finland, "empty" invariably means "nobody has registered this as their primary address".

At least a couple of percent of apartments are always "empty", because there is often a gap between tenants. Many people have second homes, but those are technically "empty". Airbnbs are "empty". And so on.
> That's because people LIKE some unsolicited email. Unless you can distinguish unsolicited email that someone will like from unsolicited email that they won't like ...

Then they can opt into a service that sends them products they might like. Defaulting to opt-in, which is the current situation, is always terrible. Spam consists of a huge fraction of mail sent over the Internet, and vast majority don't want it, and it's a huge security problem (phishing, viruses etc.).

If Gmail implements this kind of protocol, then they can opt you into their advertising list as part of the sign up process.
I don’t think this is a standalone version. It’s a helper tool to replace all the pieces of the board game.
That's actually how Flutter works now if you enable web accessibility, and it does take a lot of work, and come with a performance cost: https://medium.com/flutter/accessibility-in-flutter-on-the-w...
These are expensive because ChatGPT is expensive. If you really can’t tell the difference between competitors they must compete on price so they aren’t taking a fat slice of profits either.

Even if they were doing the same thing as the others but developing their own model with a better cost structure that would be innovative.

To that they have to get some money together somehow, probably from investors. Two steps up from a pitch deck is a pitch deck and a prototype that got some customers. So there you go.

If I were trying to pitch to a VC though I would be thinking of a plan that is going to make a lot more money, that could justify an enterprise value of $50M at the very least based on conservative multiples. So they have to have something better than “dominate some small area” such as being able to replicate that success for a large number of small areas.
Does anyone have a recommendation for the best way to get the "original experience" playing Myst (i.e. without updated/remastered graphics, etc.)?
In Julia:

M = [1 2 3; 4 5 6; 7 8 9]
λ = eigvals(M)

Which is much the same.
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> Earning … doesn't mean that the power …

It's an analogy to explain the point.

I'm saying the ranked list of people by power, random* MPs are in the 99th percentile.

I mean, is there even a single politician in the world who represents less than 99 people? (There used to be**, but any current examples?)

* OK, so that doesn't work over literally all polities — a Tuvalu MP might not have as much power as the parking attendant nearest to the Australian parliament building — but hopefully this at least helps clarify? Perhaps?

** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten_and_pocket_boroughs
Usenet was never thrown away. It's still there if you want it, but you'll have to pay to use it.

https://www.usenet.com/

What changed was the user profile. Late 80s/early 90s internet was used almost exclusively by academics and engineers. Mid-90s onwards it was open to everyone, and Usenet access was a free feature of most dial-up accounts.

Usenet was ground zero for that change, because university and corporate admins had to deal with a lot of new groups - including those devoted to binaries, and especially porn.

There was a lot of gatekeeping, but the useful groups either migrated or disappeared under spam, and the conversations moved elsewhere.

HN is probably the closest thing to the original culture, but HN's single page design means you don't get the intense focus and conversational momentum of Usenet's professional groups.
He will be suprised.
For me a tablet isn't good enough to actually do some work and not small enough to carry them with me everywhere.

A laptop and phone combo seems much better.
The training process is not purely mechanical. The amount of time that goes into selecting, cleaning, reformatting and otherwise preparing the training data is significant not to mention all of the other work involved in the actual training. If your measure is simply the amount of work done by humans then we should simply reclassify ML models as art pieces and dismiss all of the criticism as gatekeeping by people who don't understand hypermodern art.
We did a lot of, uh, unofficial versions of these as Dungeons and Dragons-obsessed tweens and teens, resulting in some slightly maniacal, if ultimately harmless, behavior. Our pitch dark bits involved sneaking out via a window and completing a circuit of the neighborhood, which escalated into taking and leaving items stashed in various places as proof, finally culminating in a "yeah, but can you do it completely naked without being spotted?" set of dares.

Our various forest pellet free-for-alls may have resulted in one of us entering the military in some kind of scouting capacity. My personal stratagem was camouflaging myself by remaining stock still in bizarre positions and orientations, resulting in my profile not being an immediately recognizably human outline from a distance, then getting the drop on someone. Others could cover large amounts of ground without much noise, and so forth.

In retrospect, we ended up getting quite good at that kind of thing, very quickly, and with age I realize that this is probably a large part of the evolutionary history of humanity: skulking, hunting and being hunted, deception, complex strategies for evasion and capture, tracking and being trackless, first against the other animals and then likely against each other. This was likely just built-in, waiting for the right prompts to develop.
Isn't the high number of false positives not just a symptom of us using it almost always on sick people? I would imagine if everyone got their monthly MRI we would learn far more about healthy bodies and the false positive rate would drop.