skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I so feared for my life that I drove to my primary home, retrieved my firearms, returned to my second home, where I then shot the home invaders through the window". Sure.

There is no state in the union where you can shoot people who are simply existing in your otherwise-unoccupied home, because "sleeping in a house you don't have permission to" is not an offense that requires any kind of violent defense. Even in castle-doctrine/stand-your-ground states where you don't have a duty to retreat, you still don't have a blank check to assault. Squatters are not home invaders, literally forcing people out of their own homes at gun point or some such. Otherwise, all a would-be murderer would need to do is plausibly lure their victim to their home, at some point say "I need you to leave", then shoot.

There's a million good arguments around American gun culture vs. European gun culture, but this is emphatically not one of them.
All hype bubbles have points of fear which can cause them to pop. The hype around Nvidia will be no different.

Same sort of hype bubbles happened with Intel, Cisco, etc in the late 1990s into to the 2000s.
Yes, their campaign in Africa too. But compare that to 2/3 (or 4/5 depending on the source) [0] of total Nazi casualties that happened on the Eastern front and now it's not so much.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War...
I thought nad27.net was pretty clever when I was a 27 year old GIS specialist/application developer. My name backwards is nad.

https://nad27.net
No.

To use a metaphor, we're talking about the weather and you're saying technically true but useless things about climate.
The only "rights" anyone has anymore are the right to be used, abused, and eventually killed by the tiny percentage of humanity that own all the money, weapons, and resources. If you think you have "rights", you're living in a fantasy world.
Japan's birth rate falls to a record low as the number of marriages also drops
> give them small small doses of bandwidth that slowly increase as they progress in a training class.

Uh... why?

It's not Starlink's job to prevent culture shock. Ultimately it's up to the local jurisdiction to realize and implement whatever sort of system you're suggesting, but if your village just got electricity do you think people would advocate for power rations?

This is sensationalist reporting on a phenomenon you and I have lived as a daily reality for over a decade. What ivory tower do we sit on, such that we throw stones at tribals watching Pornhub and using TikTok? Good lord.
> The solution is multiple queues. Modern GPUs have a dedicated transfer/copy queue separate from the main general purpose queue.

Yes. This is the big performance advantage of Vulkan over OpenGL. You can get the bulk copying of textures and meshes out of the render thread. So asset loading can be done concurrently with rendering.

None of this matters until you're rendering something really big. Then it dominates the problem.
Hurray for the software that managed to work even with the failed thrusters.
Same. I've always been one to say that I like Windows and it never gave me trouble (apart from Windows ME), but I can't take this enshittification any more. I can't remember when the last time was I opened up the start menu and started typing something and reliably got the App I wanted and knew is installed (since I used it dozens of times already).

Gaming, which was always why Windows had to be installed on my desktop, has gotten quite stale lately so my Steam Deck and Anbernic devices have been a blast playing through some nostalgic retro games.

It's also quite interesting how stable and uneventful my time (almost 2 years now) with Linux Mint has been. I remember the time when I couldn't wait for new Windows versions to come out. Now? I never want a new one to ever come out again in favor of stability and predictability.
imaginary numbers to me are more real than real numbers, they are the numbers of geometry - i like them being first class numbers
Oh yea one more comment, this stdin redirection isn't really necessary in minecraft from the last decade.

The minecraft server has a built-in RCON server running on a separate port than can be enabled(https://wiki.vg/RCON), and once enabled can be interacted with an RCON client(like https://github.com/Tiiffi/mcrcon).

So instead of redirecting stdin to a systemd process, you can also just leave stdin disconnected and use the built-in RCON server to do commands every so often.
> ... and reality of weed smoking anarchists

Mother of our kid owned a house in Spain. Two houses next to her house was an "okupa" but...

They were gypsies. They broke in and two first thing they did:

- change the locks
- put pitbulls (with a 's') in the garden

They were not nice people.

Took six months but they eventually got kicked out.
The fish was derived from a Greek acronym. The wikipedia link above mentions this as well. Is there any evidence for an astrological significance?
Right. But broadly, the law also strongly tends to distinguish humans from machines in this space. (Which, imho, is a very good idea)
Fatalities aren't the whole story.

> The 2023 records, newly disclosed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, also show that injury rates at some SpaceX facilities grew worse than those the company had reported in 2022. At its manufacturing-and-launch facility in Brownsville, Texas, for instance, SpaceX reported 5.9 injuries per 100 workers, surpassing its rate of 4.8 injuries in 2022 and topping a space industry average of 0.8.

That's 7x the industry average.

Ref: https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2024-04-22/exc...
That logic also applies to demand. Why would you buy a house if someone can waltz in and...

It's very much not in evidence that this is affecting supply more than demand.
I have two severely autistic children who cannot talk and who need lifelong care. That's the REAL autism, the one Leo Kanner identified in 1943. Not the rebranded Aspergers with extra rainbows.

I wouldn't wish real autism on my worst enemy.
This is an impressively irrelevant calculation, regardless of whether or not GPT did the arithmetic correctly. If you want to calculate something similar but actually useful, you could get a list of all "cathedrals" dedicated to st michael, find the line for each combination of 2 cathedrals, and then calculate the probability that 5 more also fall on that line.

But it turns out that we don't even have to go that far. The line found in TFA is about ~50km wide. Any given 50km wide line covers approximately 1% of europe's area. There are allegedly 800+ locations dedicated to st michael in the UK, so let's make a conservative estimate and say there are ~1000 in all of europe. This means that in any given 1% of europe's area, there are on average 10. Therefore literally any 50km wide line that crosses a substantial portion of europe has a solid chance at having 7 or more st michael dedications in it.

Edit: actually via a generalization of the pigeonhole principle, if we assume that europe is 3000km tall and contains 1000 sites dedicated to st michael, there must exist at least one 50km band that contains at least 17 sites.
I agree with you, but..

If the world's largest window manufacturer added a clause that they could send employees to your home to look through your windows at any time, day or night, the government would likely step in and put a stop to it. I don't see how this is any different. We have privacy laws and consumer protection agencies. They are failing us.
It's a nice thought, many small bands of people each doing their own thing. But I don't see why people think it would turn out differently than it has turned out before, which is some groups becoming large and powerful enough that they push out, destroy, or absorb other groups, until they become large and powerful enough that they're just called government.
The Mixtral model here is quite fast. Groqishly so.
I mean your article literally suggests that CUDA was a misstep. It failed to bring supercomputing to the masses until they got bailed out by AI coinciding with needing supercomputer powers.

> In marketing cuda, Nvidia had sought a range of customers, including stock traders, oil prospectors, and molecular biologists. At one point, the company signed a deal with General Mills to simulate the thermal physics of cooking frozen pizza. One application that Nvidia spent little time thinking about was artificial intelligence. There didn’t seem to be much of a market.

> Despite the snub, Hinton encouraged his students to use cuda, including a Ukrainian-born protégé of his named Alex Krizhevsky, who Hinton thought was perhaps the finest programmer he’d ever met. In 2012, Krizhevsky and his research partner, Ilya Sutskever, working on a tight budget, bought two GeForce cards from Amazon. Krizhevsky then began training a visual-recognition neural network on Nvidia’s parallel-computing platform, feeding it millions of images in a single week. “He had the two G.P.U. boards whirring in his bedroom,” Hinton said. “Actually, it was his parents who paid for the quite considerable electricity costs.”

Basically Hinton thought CUDA was a better platform and kept encouraging his acolytes to utilize it with NVidia completely ignoring it. For what it’s worth ChatGPT and LLMs are not the start of the story. I remember seeing Hinton present his research in 2009 and thought it was a revolutionary step forward. It took a much longer amount of time for NVidia to notice that they should be marketing CUDA to AI. They did so around the same time that Google started building their own inference accelerators for Tensorflow. So at that point NVidia was getting multiple signals already from a big customer that there’s something here.
Here's a partial map of churches in Europe dedicated to Michael: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1MyM

If you filter to monasteries, it trims it down a lot https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1MyP
The "because you don't like the guy..." bit is one that used to set me off pretty reliably. There's a reason I don't like the guy (whatever guy [or gal, or nonbinary pal, etc] is under discussion at the time).

It's hard to remember in these discussions that other people have thoughts and feelings and perspectives and fall back on assuming they're just being irrational, or trying to obfuscate their true motives.

This is why I'm a fan of this particular guideline:

>> "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

Maybe my interlocutor is a sniveling suck-up to power driven entirely by fantasies of becoming the next boot on my neck, but we sure aren't going to go anywhere in a discussion if I launch off with that assumption. Especially if I'm wrong.
There are a ton of different classes of ADHD medications that are all very different. The most popular- stimulants like adderall and ritalin are probably the most well studied psychiatric drugs in history, and not without some risk of adverse effects, but overall are quite safe even for young kids.

Untreated ADHD itself is far more dangerous than any of the medications: high rates of mortality, suicide, addiction, job loss, relationship difficulties, car accidents, etc.

There is also some evidence that giving children stimulant medications for ADHD can make it less likely that they will continue to have ADHD as adults.
I've been using ESET to block all apps signed by Adobe for a while. Being able to block by signing organisation is the only way to handle the multiple executables that Adobe install with PS.

The downside is using ESET on a repeating monthly trial basis. There's a script to handle renewals but it is yet another maintenance thing to distract me from creating / learning.

Does any know of any other solution that will block access on the basis of signature?
We also won't be ready for the sci-fi-style space age in real life unless there's a use case for it. Imagine Star Wars except there's no life on any reachable planets, what would they even do with their spaceships?

And Star Trek doesn't have "good old rust-bucket" ships in it, but the whole premise of it is that they found a way to move faster than the speed of light.
You seem to be tangentially attempting to refute a claim I didn't make / responding to a comment I didn't make? Are you lost?

Yes, it's probably true that in 2009 or whatever it wasn't on NVIDIA's radar as being a major R&D priority. It was by 2014-2015, which is what I cited.

You claimed it couldn't be proven that Jensen specifically targeted AI as a priority, and it's clear that by 2015 or so he was, at a time when AMD was not even taking GPGPU itself seriously as a development priority let alone focusing on a specific niche or field like AI.

> It's questionable whether or not he anticipated this specific market ...

again: no, it is not, literally he's been focused on this specific market for a decade and we have the receipts.

if your point is that he didn't see it fifteen years ago instead of ten years ago... ok I guess you win then, discussion concluded.
Interesting timing. I just saw someone posting that if you create a steam game you can get gigs of free cloud storage for any files, not just game saves.
They’ve updated the iPhone Xs to iOS 17 with new features and that phone is from 2018.
It does support re-watching:

https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1OwxWYzDXjWGQ

You can also watch it - the same video stream - on SpaceX' site:

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-...
PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium
Intel dq77mk is the chipset not a specific motherboard. Some motherboards with that chipset do work, but you need more information to validate what works and what doesn’t

Seriously just buy a Chromebook.
I've always felt that engineering can best be described as "the art of compromise." The more you understand and embody this the more success your engineering projects will have.

This is very easy to achieve in "physical" engineering disciplines. It's remained an elusive idea in software engineering for whatever reasons.
If you understand 3D you understand 2D, and in fact explanations for 3D usually start by explaining the equivalent in 2D first.
That is still my favorite background.

It still almost doesn’t look real.
The first Space Shuttle landings were pretty cool though.
I think "anonymous" is as fair a framing as it gets. If you publish a novel anonymously, but reveal personal details about yourself in it or use a particular writing style that lets people identify you, that's arguably an expected outcome as well.

"Private" would be really misleading.
Homogeneous coordinates is still linear algebra in a 4D space instead of the obvious 3 you would naively pick. Kinda like quaternions where adding an extra degree of freedom suddenly works around some expressivity problem you didn't really know you had but clearly it solves (e.g. gimble lock on euler angles). But the term linear algebra covers high dimensional uses like training neural networks, its the thing that gives us the matrix formulation of stuff.
A Wick-Ed Idea: Real Birds as Candles
Also lorries and delivery vans use can be limited to specific time window. That is what actually happen in historic city centers that are closed to traffic in many european cities: delivery vehicles can still deliver goods at specific time schedules in the morning when the streets are less busy with pedestrians and they have to do so at low speed.
> Right now nobody cares, where "cares" is defined as "alters buying behavior."

You're assuming equivalents exist which don't have the downsides but to have the same upsides. They don't. When there's no viable alternative people are just forced to do things they don't like.
Hahaaha! “Windows” is the absolute PERFECT analogy for this. Microsoft Windows.
I still use screen, is tmux better?
I think a century or longer ago, they wouldn't care. It was already pretty easy to fall off a horse and die.
Bazel is definitely like kubernetes where you don't need it, until you need it.

If you got a big polyglot application its perfect for you. If your app is largely all in one language then you don't need that complexity in you life.
Could it be a reporting issue?

Fatalities certainly aren't the whole story, but they do have one "advantage": they cannot be hushed away, at least not in the Western world. (In China or Russia, well...)

That is why, in an analogical situation, crime and public safety of individual countries is often compared using murder levels. It is expected that most developed countries cannot really suppress/fudge murder statistics, even though they can do a lot of shenanigans around registration of lesser crime.

I can see a similar situation with individual corporations and their diligence when it comes to reporting injuries.
Maybe addictive to people without ADHD…

They are so unaddictive to people with ADHD that remembering to take them can be challenging.
Ah, but C1 has completely changed the offer by not including a single new feature update on the one-time perpetual purchase, only bug fixes, and no upgrade pricing at all. So it completely removes any kind of incentive for customer to stay loyal.
It's handy even if you just need to go from work to home to Starbucks or whatever. Doesn't have to be a poor connection as much as one that changes occasionally.
> After August 31st, 2024, we will begin deleting files from our Cloud Storage service. First and foremost we will delete unnecessary files – things that are not at all related to your game, but have found their way into the Cloud Save folder. Next, we will remove save game files, starting from the oldest and stop when the remaining files fit the allocation limit.

This sounds like that someone has used GOG as creative cloud storage on a larger scale...
I've had bikes stolen a few times -- in the midwestern US, and mostly as a kid where my bike was not generally stored very securely.

Usually, they're just...gone.

The police around here do collect bikes that they find dumped in places where they don't belong -- in parks or when reported in random folks' yards or wherever. These get auctioned off if not claimed first.

But I did get my bikes back a few times.

Most memorably, I was doing some random technical work at the local PD and was heading out to have a smoke, and I saw a bike that looked just like mine just standing there on the back dock. Same purple Caloi aluminum frame, same additions (like the 90s-style Control Stix bar ends), same everything, except it had an inventory tag on it.

Which very seemed strange to me, since I knew very well that my bike was safe at home. Or did I know that? Maybe my bike wasn't safe at home. Or maybe someone else had the same mods on their own bike, which wasn't particularly unlikely since I bought all of it from a singular bike shop in town?

So I asked about it. And they're like "Well, if that's your bike, then maybe you can tell us something about it that is identifiable. Something unique that you couldn't see in the five minutes you've been standing there staring at it."

I couldn't think of anything. But that ultimately didn't matter -- they were fucking with me for the lulz.

"Maybe you don't remember doing this," they continued, "but it's got your name, address, and phone number engraved on the bottom of it."

Fuck! I did put that on there over a decade prior, and I completely forgot. That certainly was convenient for future-me.

Anyhow, it took a couple of days for them to finish their bureaucratic paperwork dance, and then I had my bike (that I didn't even know I was missing) back. Thanks, in large part, to having some identifying features.
Strictly, it's a Greek word meaning "seat" (καθέδρα), although it was borrowed into Latin with what I believe is a more restricted meaning. There is also a Latin word meaning "seat" (sedes) which is also used to refer to the seat of a bishop (an episcopal see)!
Dometic used to have small absorption fridges. (I had one in a tiny house, and it was totally silent.) Not sure if they do nowadays. (Peltier effect fridges have taken up some of the steam these days, but I'm pretty sure those have constant-running fans.) I think Dometic is still big in the sailboat community, which is another good place to investigate.

Most propane fridges are absorption style. I don't know if they're up to code for running inside a house, but they'd probably be fine on a porch or in a garage.

Check out Lehman's (https://www.lehmans.com/category/gas-refrigerators-freezers) for a lot of alternative technology.

Otherwise, google for 'propane refrigerator' or 'gas refrigerator or 'absorption refrigerator.'

If you really want to get creative, and enjoy processing food, there's lots of fridge-free ways to preserve food, depending on the climate you live in. It's also a fun area to research and experiment with.

Oh, one more thing -- chest freezers can be converted to chest fridges with a simple thermostat-switch. As most cheap chest freezers are manual-defrost style, they tend to run their compressor less, and for whatever reason, aren't as noisy as standing fridges. I personally still wouldn't want one in my main living quarters, but as they tend to be pretty cheap to buy, it might be something to try.
I’ve been lurking & following your project for months in the Graphics Programming discord as I work on my own hobby Vulkan engine. It’s been inspiring seeing all the progress you’ve made. I especially admire your willingness to ask questions & share your work-in-progress so openly. Keep up the great work
sometimes in the messy real world, things go wrong even when the tests are green.
It is not their residence. They broke in and just moved in.

Kicking out people who are trespassing is how you have a safe and lawful society. Allowing private citizens to do whatever they feel like to innocent people is mafia like behavior.
The image itself links to https://gamemath.com/book/intro.html by the way.
Hehe, related to this, someone created a "book4" dataset and put it on torrent websites. I don't think it's being used in any major LLMs, but the future "piracy" community intersection with AI is going to be exciting.

Watching the cyberpunk world that all of my favorite literature predicted slowly come to our world is fun indeed.
Not surprisingly, they already have these backup plans. The potential for RCS jet failure was known ahead of time and was determined to not be a flight safety concern.

There’s a bunch of info about it here: https://spaceflightnow.com/2024/05/24/nasa-says-boeings-star...
Salisbury Cathedral (highest medieval spire surviving in the UK, at 404 feet!) was built on a floodplain close to the river, with shallow foundations only four feet deep. But the prior cathedral had been on a hilltop with much strife over access to water, and at least that would not be a problem at the new cathedral.

https://salisburycathedral.wordpress.com/the-spire/ is a glorious essay on the architecture of that spire.
The reports while it was happening suggested that they were almost down to no redundancies for the thrusters. Which would have been bad enough to disallow the capsule to approach the ISS. They managed to get enough thrusters working to still dock, but it seems that this was rather close.

So even though it worked in the end, I would assume that this is still a quite serious incident and will require some examination.

Also it seems that these problems are not well understood, which is not the kind of problem you want to have on manned spacecraft:

> Some notes from the post-docking news conference on Starliner: Engineers found a fourth helium leak after capture. The thruster issues were similar to those observed on OFT-2, and are still not fully understood.

https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/1798827111454827003
It was her Bay of Pigs. Literally
That's because we have a well established sense of a boundary between your home and the rest of the world. Your home is private property.

We basically threw that away in computing in exchange for ease of use.
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