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> Here in Michigan we have been trying to find a use for sugar beet waste for over forty years. Nothing has ever really caught on.

Seems like it caught on in road deicer? I remember seeing ice melt sold with it up in ontario: https://modernfarmer.com/2022/01/beet-juice-deicer/
A fascinating article but I'm not entirely clear on what is being measured. What are tSNE 1 and 2?
The computations are easily parallelized, sure, but the data feeding those computations isn't easily partitioned. Every parallel render node needs as much memory as a lone render node would, and GPUs typically have nowhere near enough for the highest of high end productions. Last I heard they were putting around 128GB to 256GB of RAM in their machines and that was a few years ago.
During deployment, the pipeline connects to the Vault, dumps relevant secrets in a .env file that it pushes to production systems that the application then reads from.
Seems koan-ish:

What is the movement of a stone standing still?

What is the rolling rock that goes nowhere?
Berlusconi is a perfect precursor to this type of character. But I'd say Conte and the Five Star Movement is far more populist and part of a global wave than Bunga-Bunga was.
Also changes eye shape over time, causing vision issues, etc.. Longer you're up there the more starts to go wrong. We were built to fight off gravity. I think its worth considering that it may be fundamentally impossible for humans to reproduce/gestate babies/live entire lifetimes/generations in low gravity conditions.
These cars are not meant to be owned. They're part of a fleet.

They are driverless and specifically L4 autonomous, which is the best autonomy you can get right now. The vehicles that can operate without any help doesn't exist. You'll be waiting for a long time if that's your expectation.
> could still cut it to a factor 1/1000 stars

I’m a multicellular rare Earther. We’ve had on the order of 10^40 cells, ever [1]. Symbiogenesis occurred, from what we can tell, once [2]. (For comparison, there are 10^11 stars in the Milky Way [3] and 10^24 in the observable universe [4].)

We might be able to argue that factor should be cut, since any late symbiogeneses would be outcompeted into oblivion. But that still, optimistically, puts us in the realm of the Milky Way’s star count.

[1] https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(23)...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiogenesis

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way

[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe#Matter_a...
It’s interesting that night light exposure is so important, but the much brighter day light seems to have almost no effect.
I'm using a single 4090 which nvidia-smi says is consuming 450W while hashing at 21GHps. Let's round that up to 667W for incidentals and to account for power supply inefficiency.

Running this for 1.5 hours would consume 1KWh of energy, and compute 1.134e14 hashes (or 2^46.7 if you prefer).

Assuming SHA-256 hashes are essentially normally distributed, that means that finding a hash with 13 leading hex zeroes should be a 1-in-(16^13) aka 1-in-(2^52) odds.

This gives 2^(52-46.7) or 39.7KWh on average to generate a single 13-zero hash, and ~16x that (635KWh) for a 14-zero hash. I got very lucky finding a 14-zero hash quickly, vastly earlier than average expectation, so my energy usage is quite a bit lower than that.
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I'm pretty sure there is a ssh plugin for vscode, I have used it in the past and just lets you browse files like they are local.
> it was never portable

Thank you for pointing this out.
An NPU is like a specialized GPU, it's just raw compute power you could use for anything, and many mobile devices have had an NPU like unit for many years at this point.
This is the news that many people have been waiting for and we do have more exciting updates coming. There is another team on the system now doing testing. We have a list of 22 people currently waiting.
Please re-read my comment as it already addressed what you're talking about and shows the opposite to your claim. (I've just re-read what I wrote and think it's clear, but maybe I'm missing that the way I wrote something is only clear to me so feel free to ask if any of it doesn't seem to make sense.)

The stats in it differentiate between those two types of homelessness, and says that US is actually better than UK when counting "some Barista who is technically not on a lease but lives at her boyfriends house", however drastically worse for "bona-fide homeless on the street" (the official term for which is "unsheltered").
Are there no freeways inside the geofence? Someone in the thread mentions that they will be adding freeways soon, so I understand it can't do those now.
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> I find it difficult to believe Wikileaks would have hesitated a nanosecond to hang any trump out to dry given the opportunity.

And yet they did have leaks about the RNC that weren't released. Why?

I mean, dirt on Trump isn't hard to come by - are you claiming that not once has anyone sent Wikileaks negative information on him or his campaign, and that's the only reason we haven't seen any?

> I think you wanted Wikileaks to suppress the information there and they didn’t.

To be unequivocally clear - The DNC is corrupt to its very soul. Whatever you or I think of Bernie Sanders, the way they handled the whole Sanders/Clinton situation is despicable and vile and an insult to the members of the party they purport to lead. And the fact that Debbie Wasserman-Schulz was running the Clinton campaign, effectively, less than 24 hours after being finally forced out of DNC leadership, to me just demonstrates that those theories were accurate.

> The content of the emails was the problem not Wikileaks for publishing truth.

Yes.

The other problem is Wikileaks sitting on OTHER email contents and choosing NOT to publish them AND communicating with political candidates on what they'd like to see leaked and not, and when.
What did you find awful about the Surface Laptop (3rd generation)?

I believe this one is considered the "7th Edition".
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https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/17/russia-forecast-to-grow-fast....
It's pretty amazing how almost any computer will work with 16GB of memory and a fast SSD. So I'm not surprised that they are getting higher points.
One missed opportunity from the game streaming bubble would be a 20-or-so player game where one big machine draws everything for everybody and streams it.
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It's not that simple. It's not the ICC's role to investigate and prosecute every single instance of a possible war crime, as that would be impractical and beyond the means of even a massive staff. Instead, what they're looking for are cases of larger scale and sustained abuses, especially at the direction of senior leadership.

Also importantly, the ICC is a 'court of last resort' meaning it complements existing national judicial systems rather than replacing them. So in cases like the Brereton Report there's no need for the ICC to step in because the Australian judiciary is already handling the situation adequately. It's not a court in the traditional national sense.

Afghanistan for instance requested deferrals in the ICC's investigation of actions on its territory, with the ICC resuming the investigation only in 2022 after determining that the Afghan judiciary was neither pursuing its own investigations nor interested in requesting an extension of the deferral.

The ICC's jurisdiction is also dependent on various factors such as whether the alleged crimes happened either on the territory of a state party or were committed by or against one, and that's not always the case. For instance it only has jurisdiction over actions committed after 1 May 2003 in Afghanistan, as that was when Afghanistan became a formal state party to the ICC Treaty.
I suspect and hope that you're not such a person in real life as you give the impression here of being.

- Mainstream media of all political alignments have reported on CIA black sites.

- The Red Cross has investigated CIA black sites and delivered reports to the White House on them.

- The Council of Europe has investigated CIA black sites:

"A June 2006 report from the Council of Europe estimated 100 people had been kidnapped by the CIA on EU territory (with the cooperation of Council of Europe members), and rendered to other countries, often after having transited through secret detention centres ("black sites") used by the CIA, some located in Europe."

- The European Parliament officially criticized (after a vote) the European nations (including Seden) who:

"...have been relinquishing control over their airspace and airports by turning a blind eye or admitting flights operated by the CIA which, on some occasions, were being used for illegal transportation of detainees"

This is not some "conspiracy nut" stuff. This stuff has been widely known for decades and reported everywhere. If you didn't know about it, you haven't read the news. You can look into it on Wikipedia if you want, of all places: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_black_sites
AMD tries to compete in hardware with Intel’s CPUs and Nvidia’s GPUs. They have to slack somewhere, and software seems to be where. It isn’t any surprise that they can’t keep up on every front, but it does mean they can freely bring in partners whose core competency is software and work with them without any caveats.

Not sure why they haven’t managed to execute on that yet, but the partners must be pretty motivated now, right? I’m sure they don’t love doing business at Nvidia’s leisure.
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I agree they need to work on their software but I also think that the availability as well as massive expense of the H100, AMD can undercut Nvidia and build a developer ecosystem if they wanted to. I think they need to hit the consumer market pretty hard and get all the local llama people hacking up the software and drivers to make things work. A cheaper large VRAM consumer card would go a long ways to getting a developer ecosystem behind them.
You should try staying in a yurt. No corners at all, felt like I was back in the womb. (I imagine)
> a whitepaper from VMware that said the opposite

Did it say why?
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Looks great, however it is much easier to work with just files, rather than key rings stored somewhere third party.
Pricing is strictly NDA. AMD does not give it out.
Google is currently within the last month suffering from an appearance of being juvenile; and I would not be surprised if it’s causing concern that something is wrong with their mindset.

The last example of this was the Marc Rebillet performance at Google I/O. The mother of all cringe.

If it was just one employee having fun - whatever! Who cares! My point should be taken in context with the rest of Google’s juvenile image problems, even as they play with fire.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wwk1QIDswcQ&pp=ygUVTWFyYyBSZWJ...

Edit: Also, for those still not following me on the profile image, it’s because it’s kink: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40791195
If an attacker can read other processes' envs you've pretty much lost as they're

1. Inside your process which means they can see the decrypted values.

2. Root which means they can get into your process to see the decrypted values.

I'm not sure if your average dev has a threat model that assumes in memory scrambling let alone leaked env vars. After all we're talking about the standard way to do it being populating a file with the decrypted secrets and just leaving it there. All the security is already kernel security.

I'm honestly not sure who dotenvx is aimed at.

- No one security conscious is going to be cool just making the cyphertext available publicly or even internally.

- Someone scrambling in-memory secrets isn't using dotenv to begin with, is using SecretsManager and the like, and probably doesn't want to change those to now go through the filesystem. You now get less auditing because all those secrets are bundled and you now only know "they accessed the decryption key."

- And someone using dotenv for secrets doesn't have a threat-model where this meaningfully improves security.
This quote is taken from the following interview:

https://thequietus.com/interviews/carla-bley-interview/

Another quote: "Sun Ra and I did get along from that point on."
>> They really don't, at least not in the case of index fund investors like Vanguard and BlackRock. Have you ever read about their operations? They run a very lean ship.

> The only reason you're able to invest in index funds with 0.005% fees is because they have essentially nobody on staff, at least compared with the number of companies they invest in. They definitely can't do the kind of investigation and policing you're talking about without radically changing their pricing

I think this is exactly what needs to happen. Why should passive
investing pay off? The vast amount of 401k money that has poured into the
stocks behind the S&P 500 with no strings attached has incentivized a lot
of bad behavior and made just about every US citizen with a retierment
account complicit. Bad corporate behavior _should_ hurt the bottom line
of the owners; it _should_ cost more to invest; investors (all of us)
_should_ worry about whether a mutual fund is protecting their investment
by divesting from companies that engage in criminal recklessness; our
government _should_ disincorporate companies that put lives at risk,
especially when those companies are major defense contractors.
In the US, the Right to Freedom of the Press has NOTHING to do with "journalists" and everything to do with the freedom for ANYONE to write, publish, and distribute whatever they'd like.

If I as a US citizen didn't sign a contract agreeing not to publish something and if that something isn't libelous, I should be free to publish it.
I agree with your sentiment but not your specific number. The leap from uni- to multi-cellular life might be a "great filter" in Fermi-paradox parlance.

But I think it would need to be more like one in a million or one in a billion. I think even one civilization becoming a slow interstellar (less than 0.1C ships for their) civilization could colonize the galaxy in less than a million years.

Consider what we could do if we could get a slow ship to Alpha Centauri in some absurd time like 1000 years and actually settle there. Maybe we try ever If us here on Earth and Sol could only do that once every thousand years and then if each colony could too. We would only be doubling the amount of stars we inhabit every thousand years. Presuming this slow pace we would also be adding 5~10 light years to our civilization in that time too. But in a million years that 5k to 10 light years would be a sphere with diameter about 10% to 20% the diameter of the galaxy. Allow those jumps to be 50ly and we could get a whole Milky Way galaxy in that time.

That is all predicated on very slow stuff, no FTL, slow ships or project taking massive time. And since the dinosaurs died we had 65 such time periods and another 300 while the dinosaurs lived...

And I could go on for hours about this stuff. But my point is that if unicellular life is common and there is a single great filter and that is the jump to multicellular life then the odds of that event dictate how often we would see other civilizations. A 1 in 1000 we would see civilizations all over the place. We would certainly be withing radio range of at least a few. So it would need to be much worse odds.
Interstellar Low Ways is one of my favorite Jazz albums of all time. Scratch that. It's one of my favorite _albums_ of all time. It's another one that won't scare you away if you're not used to listening to free jazz, and it's just epic from start to finish.
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I believe it’s a chapter in Monroe’s What If where I’ve seen this before. If I remember correctly, the area (0.1 square mm in your example) is the same as the cross sectional area of a tube 20 miles long containing your one gallon of gas.

Edit, link:

=> https://what-if.xkcd.com/11
Given the number of people who need the compute but are only accessing it via APIs like HuggingFace's transformers library, which supports these chips, I don't really think that CUDA support is absolutely essential.

Most kernels are super quick to rewrite, and higher level abstractions like PyTorch and JAX make dealing with CUDA a pretty rare experience for most people making use of large clusters and small installs. And if you have the money to build a big cluster, you can probably also hire the engineers to port your framework to the right AMD library.

The world has changed a lot!

The bigger challenge is that if you are starting up, why in the world would you give yourself the additional challenge of going off the beaten path? Its not just CUDA but the whole infrastructure of clusters and networking that really gives NVIDIA an edge, in addition to knowing that they are going to stick around in the market, whereas AMD might leave it tomorrow.
Aerodynamics is one thing, complete lack of crash safety is another. Aside from the RV's built on truck and van chassis, these things explode into a million bits in a head on collision. The vehicle's crumple zone is your face.
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> If you use a hand-made cloth bag made from cotton that was hand-grown in a garden using only renewable energy, it's expensive because you have a higher number of man-hours spent on it - and those man-hours are actually generating orders of magnitude more negative externalities for the simple fact of keeping those workers alive.

This style of energy accounting makes no sense to me. Humans are going to use up resources and create pollution, regardless of what their specific source of income happens to be. More artisanal cotton bags means less of something else, in some broad sense, but that says nothing about the environmental accounting of the other side of the margin. The ratio of workers making luxury goods vs. mass producing cheaper substitutes for those goods will have little to no bearing on how many humans happen to exist, birth rates are clearly dominated by other factors.
Keys in the env file will ultimately be loaded as environmental variables, so it's just adding a convenience layer.
They're is no end to a cycle. I'm not suggesting you go and check current skirt trends, but I guess it might be useful.
>> We can't possibly hope to run the kinds of models that run on 192GB of VRAM at home.

I'm looking to build a mini-ITX system with 256GB of RAM for my next build. DDR5 spec can support that in 2 modules, but nobody makes them yet. No need for a GPU, I'm looking to the AMD APUs which are getting into the 50TOPs range. But yes, RAM seems to be the limiting factor. I'm a little surprised the memory companies aren't pushing harder for consumers to have that capacity.
the reason why we’re running mac’s is the software not the hardware though, and microsoft’s software is going downhill while macOS is on the up and up.
For sure. They're similar to butterfly wings. It's easy to lose or break discs. Our kids loved touching them while we were building, and we'd constantly have to replace discs that fell off.
Really? Which group did that land belong too before it was occupied by semitic pretenders?
> edit: I mean they had to remove Solitaire and Minesweeper to save space...

Don't worry, you can still install Minesweeper from the official store ... with ads and play-to-win microtransactions. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40647278
Now that AI has crapped all over the internet, I use books more.
https://stratechery.com/2024/an-interview-with-amd-ceo-lisa-...

"One of the things that you mentioned earlier on software, very, very clear on how do we make that transition super easy for developers, and one of the great things about our acquisition of Xilinx is we acquired a phenomenal team of 5,000 people that included a tremendous software talent that is right now working on making AMD AI as easy to use as possible."
Problem is it’s pretty low value. Better than dumping it down the drain, but barely. Better than salt for surrounding plants/waterways, but the salt spreaders don’t pay that cost.
Not sure how I missed the timing in that Wikipedia note, thanks
>I’m going to save this as a case study for if anyone dares suggest relying on Google for something.

I don't get it, the code is going into maintenance mode. It's still usable and forkable, isn't it? Is Google obligated to pay people to work on it forever?
> What are they expecting to be different about samples from the moon's far side to those previously collected?

Different bragging rights.
How does any of that have anything to do with hardware repairability scores.

For that matter, how could they possibly push an update that breaks said repairability? It's not like a software upgrade can fuse the battery door to the bottom of the laptop.
IIRC he did the more complicated stuff at home so he wouldn't be disturbed. But he also worked from the office. A healthy split!
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> (Similarly, I didn't care much for the claim that Iraq had chemical weapons that could reach Iran, what with them sharing a border and thus a water rocket filled with chlorine gas would have filled this description).

The evidence that Iraq had chemical weapons and used them against Iranian forces is extensively documented. The Wikipedia page has a list of good resources. [0]

However, that programme was dismantled as a result of international inspections and pressure after the 1991 Gulf War, and it was not restarted by 2003 as claimed by the US government as part of their justification for the invasion that year. US troops did find a number of chemical weapons elements, but all it seemed dated from the previous programme.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War#Iraq's_u...
Reading through the article - the source data is 1,500 people. Not insignificant, but reading between the lines at some the criticism outlined - it may be the case that those 1,500 people were chosen selectively in a way that could bias the conclusions (maybe unintentionally).

I would love to get data on where my brain is at! I myself have no gender (like how some people just don't have a religion). I have a sex, and an orientation... just no gender.

But yeah, more data is needed to take this study seriously (reproducibility for one).
I thought it was sarcastic.
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A few searches for charter flights from England to Australia give figures roughly around this amount.
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Solar PV linked to battery storage is the obvious energy source for a moonbase. All reactors require coolant circulation and water is going to be among the most valuable commodities on the moon, not something you want to circulate through a reactor (where you inevitably get tritium formation, making the water unsuitable for other uses).

Maybe you could use helium or liquid sodium metal as the primary coolant, but then you still need to generate electricty via secondary water coolant loop that runs a steam-powered turbine. Really not plausible on the moon.
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Material design isn't used as part of Android spec?
Nicer in that it has a good HMI. Anandtech has a nice review: https://www.anandtech.com/show/18944/usbc-power-metering-wit...
+1 for the Steelcase Leap V2, look for a used one, brand new prices are ridiculous. Lots of office spaces sell these off for cheap.
I've heard this argument before and totally agree that single use plastics are a tiny fraction of the total problem. But as a Canadian I like that the law forced me to think about my consumption habits, as well as it helped create conversation topics with other people.