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I work as a sysadmin at an academic HPC center, and some projects we support use AI for real causes like marine life and water health, and other ecosystem related work. These are production systems which provide real benefits and returns to humanity, and tries to secure our and other species future and on this planet.

When compared to these projects, an LLM is just a shiny toy which can do many tasks with worse quality, with no guarantee of correctness and with much higher energy usage.

Other numbers I gave is fresh from our data center, about the systems I work with directly.

You can dismiss all my comment just because I call a big, energy wasting NN a toy, but nothing I say on this comment is wrong, and I’m reporting them from the trenches directly.

> DC colocating near new and existing plants along with large inflows of investment into generators.

You can get tons of servers in six weeks, install them in two days, and get them running in a day, tops (for us it’s shorter).

If you can get your generators manufactured and delivered to your location in a year, you’re lucky.
FUCK YOU FOR CENSORING MY COMMENTS. YOU CAN STICK IT UP YOUR ARSES.
Shout out to my mum Dr Cindy Engel author of Wild Health: How Animals Keep Themselves Well And What We Can Learn From Them
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Maybe I am just from a different culture, but the thought of betting my professional future on someone who is currently going through the most unstable phase of his life seems very strange to me.

I also have a hard time believing that someone who has zero professional relationships can even have the kind networks valuable for a startup. If his connections aren't professional, what are they. Romantic? Familiar? Friendships?
Everything at some layer has to run over datagrams, since that's what IP is.

This is literally the point of the article: if you want to create a protocol over raw datagrams, you have to implement a lot of things that are very hard to get right, so you should just use QUIC instead, which does them for you.
Yeah, the error message I posted is rendered into the DOM by the web framework.
Note that this is not necessarily a great thing to overuse. Also note that the article is 10 years old.

Relying on such upgrades sort of introduces a dark and fuzzy part of the API. Go’s http pkg is a notorious one, with how a http.ResponseWriter can also be a Flusher and Hijacker and I don’t know what else. If you in your middleware want to wrap it, you need to implement those interfaces as well, or the functionality is lost. But they’re not part of the “visible” API, they’re type assertions buried deep in the standard library, good luck with that. For this reason Go 1.20 introduced the http.ResponseController.
I’ve read this exact factoid at least a few hundred times. I’m mostly just amazed that it continues to surprise people.
"Coffee is mostly terrible in Italy"

say what?
Count data points in each quartile. You can do that for any sortable data, independent of distribution.
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Perhaps add an "Ask HN" in the title?
Exactly. It's like saying hands are for making things rather than for carrying things.
One amusing way to put this is that LLMs energy requirements arent self-contained, since they use the energy of the human prompter to both prompt and verify the output.

Reminds me of a similar argument about correctly pricing renewable power: since it isnt always-on (etc.) it requires a variety of alternative systems to augment it which aren't priced in. Ie., converting entirely to renewables isnt possible at the advertised price.

In this sense, we cannot "convert entirely to LLMs" for our tasks, since there's still vast amounts of labour in prompt/verify/use/etc.
Didn't consider this for many reasons:

1. Most importantly, we didn’t have the talent internally to do that. Running the biz requires a set of generalist biz skills and the company was comprised of specialists. They could tell me about issues in their domain but business requires skills across many domains. And running a biz of this size in a location as challenging as Nasik/Sinnar requires someone being the top dog as decision by consensus wouldn't work (rarely does).

2. Capital availability / accessibility - The team just wouldn't have had it. Indian credit and debt markets would not be available.

3. Non-traditional structure would have required a lot of education - Even if capital was somehow available (0% chance), this would have been an exercise in 'herding cats' and wasn't something I had time for. I was running a business here in the USA plus had a wife and 2 young kids. My work hours were already insane just operating the businesses. I was optimizing for a simple, clean deal for many reasons and a co-op would have been an amount of 'brain damage' I wasn't game for especially given factors above.

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Finally, I'll say that I don't think this would have been feasible in India at the scale and location we were at for one other intangible and cultural reason.

And that is because the employee to owner mentality transition would be non-trivial to impossible. The gulf is just too big. The reality is that reimagining yourself as a founder or owner requires a different mindset. There is no 'leaving the office' especially at the scale of Atlas (small/mid-sized). You're always on call to some extent and all problems seek you out (or you have to go find them). This is not the kind of responsibility and weight most people want at the end of the day.
The point is the high temperature superconducting magnets. Creating a tokamak plasma is not novel.
> but really what you should compare is todays AMD cpus with the Apple cpu from 2022, since they are on the same architecture

There only seems to be comparisons between laptop CPUs which are quiet limited.
macOS does this too; if you trigger Siri while your fans are spun up, it’ll temporarily spin them down to hear you more clearly.
The vector db comparison is written so much like an advertisement that I cannot possibly take it seriously.

> Shared slack channel if problems arise? There you go. You wanna learn more? Sure, here are the resources. Workshops? Possible.

> wins by far [...] most importantly community plus the company values.

Like, talking about "You can pay the company for workshops" and "company values" just makes it feel so much like an unsubtle paid-for ad I can't take it seriously.

All the actual details around the vectorDB (for example a single actual performance number, a clear description of the size of dataset or problem) is missing, making this all feel like a very handwavy comparison, and the final conclusion is just so strong, and worded in such a strange way, it feels disingenuous.

I have no way to know if this post is actually genuine, not a piece of stealth advertising, but it hits so many alarm bells in my head that I can't help but ignore its conclusions about every database.
Beautiful analogy! Human intelligence is an extreme on the spectrum of animal intelligence, and evolution by natural selection is the law of nature that made it happen.
> Pizza Is depicted in a few frescos in Pompeii

Nope [1]. (I’ve seen it. This is the view of on-site historians.)

> and is also mentioned in Virigl's Aeneid

Indirectly, as trenchers [2].

[1] https://www.npr.org/2023/06/28/1184724633/pizza-a-wall-paint...

[2] https://publish.illinois.edu/litlanglibrary/2020/07/23/the-a...
I have an example for you that poses an ethical question.

I frequent a KFC, in the 15 years I've been going there the staff count has halved. In the last year they have installed automated ordering machines which for me is great I can use it. For some people they don't like the added complexity ( they aren't as technologically savvy) and prefer ordering in person. However instead of 3 people working at a teller there is now only 1. AI in a few years could likely entirely replace that last person and a place that previously employed 15 unskilled labourers will employ at most 1 or two, per shift.

Those people didn't get UBI, they didn't get the opportunity to reskill, they lost their jobs. That is at this point 7-8 families who no longer have a breadwinner.

Do you think the price I pay for my chicken has decreased in those years? I know for a fact profit margins have increased however.

On a side note. No I no longer support that franchise and rather support a local business who employes actual humans.

We are headed for a dystopia where the gap between the rich and the poor increases. I won't lose my job to AI. However if even 50% of the population does it's still an issue. And government moves extremely slowly, the likely hood that taxes or UBI disincentives the dystopia before it happens is very low. AI can be a game changer, however look at the world you live in and tell me which game it will be changing.
if foo is a method then

`foo + bar` and `foo+bar` are `foo()+bar`, but `foo +bar` is `foo(+bar)`

ternary ? : also has some interesting whitespace dependent mixups with symbols, but I cannot remember what. I think that parser has many gotchas like that, but they are really really rare to bite you, because ruby's magic follows human intuition as much as possible.
Because the coffee you get at Starbucks is not the kind of coffee you can find at a typical bar and that we use to drink for breakfast or after lunch. It's a completely different market.

McDonald's doesn't have a local equivalent (it used to exist, and they got bought up by McDonald's[0]) so it doesn't have the same local (and better) competition that Domino's has, especially on a dish Italian people feel strongly about.

So basically, three completely different situations.

[0] https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burghy
Because the RPM of a fan is not a 100% reliable indicator of its loudness. Sometimes a lower speed can even be louder than a higher one, because of certain resonances...
I had one of these. Somehow got it on clearance at Circuit City when it was being EOL'd. I must have hit that window just right, because I got it for something like $450?

Managed to sell it about five years back for $200, and someone picked it up from my house and carried it out of my basement. It was a win all around. They got an amazing display for their old consoles, and despite my fondness for the same, I just wanted to be rid of the thing because I was prepping to move and wanted to rid the house of CRTs.
The company is a bit predatory in that they typically employ editors from poorer countries, so her difficulty was more making enough from it than meeting the quota - but the quota was strict enough that you would very quickly lose the position if you kept missing it. I think the situation before ChatGPT was that they employed people who worked very long hours to not earn very much. Apparently turnover was quite high.
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LAN can be oversubscribed too, even if your switches have sufficient capacity you can have short packet bursts that fill up the queues. You cannot assume reliable delivery.
If you do that in your paper, you better write next to the graph that you did that.
Yes, but it'd be cheap, and you could increase the amount of fuel to compensate, and fuel is also cheap.

Plywood would also allow much higher production rates, whereas this is clearly fiddly work with people stuffing prepregs into moulds.
Thing is, Google, Microsoft and Apple are the adversaries.
One of the biggest barriers to rebasing these days is that GitHub's UX for pull requests doesn't keep track of comments across a rebase-and-force-push. Frustrating for those of us who prefer this style
Choreology is an established discipline. There's no reason to
re-invent it without improving on it. Some people might do it
professionally. A big budget musical production typically will employ
a choreologist to make notes during the rehearsals. Members of the
company can ask for reminders about their parts, which the
choreologist not only will have written down but will be a good enough
dancer to demonstrate.

https://www.britannica.com/art/labanotation
> Legacy x86 support

... is slowly dissapearing. Even on Windows 10 is very hard to run Win32 programs from Win95, Win98 era.
As a user, it does feel like a search engine that contains an almost accurate snapshot of many potential results.
My weekend project turned into a 3 year journey
Hey HN,

I'm a developer and I started 3 years ago, a simple app as a weekend project. But this project took on proportions that I did not expect in my life.
If you’ve ever had a side project spiral out of control, you might enjoy reading about my journey.
Would love to hear your stories too!

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> War is the result of humans fighting over the metaphorical petri dish of land, resources, and also power.

People do all of that in modern economies without resorting to physically eliminating each other.

To get millions of individuals to coordinate over long times, mobilizing massive resources etc. in order to exterminate other millions (to grab their resources, subjugated them or whatever) is not "natural" or biological in any sense.

War is a cultural adaptation that worked for aeons because it did not threaten the survival of the species. In a technologically advanced civilization this is no longer assured. Vannevar Bush was simply a century or so ahead of his time. In the arc of human history this is just a blip.
You can see them in the latest Everyday Astronaut vid of the Starship factory https://youtu.be/aFqjoCbZ4ik?t=73
And when did McLaren Mercedes use a CVT gearbox? My Google-Fu didn't turn up anything.

Also McLaren Mercedes is a different team than Mercedes.
I assume the stories mentioned in the title are here: https://neuviemeporte.github.io/category/f15-se2
Aside from the points others have made that the congestion charge introduced by the mayor of the large urban area of London which covers the whole of central London[1] doesn't really have anything to do with the City of London boundaries or administration, I don't think "it's not well known in America" justifies the use of "secret"

The jurisdictions of San Mateo and Santa Clara aren't particularly well known in the UK but I'd still think any journalist referring to them as "secret" was being ludicrously hyperbolic...

[1]an area with approximately 17x the population of the City of London, and I suspect the ULEZ emissions charge which now covers all 9 million London residents also gets dragged into the US debate...
In my understanding, they could at least have fought for this not to get into the W3C spec, but they did not object, according to the blog. This is one the kind of stuff that endanger free internet, which mozilla is supposed to fight for.
Looking at the GitHub, the code downloads aircraft movements to avoid false alerts.
Genuinely curious who upvoted this and why. The title is clickbait, the writing is long and rambling and it seems to me like the author doesn't have a profound understand of the concepts either, all just to recommend Qdrant as a vector database.
It is often a search engine without ads.
By far most nuisance for me has been that Linux distros that ship with wheel GID different than it's BSD side 0 (zero). Debian hasn't been shipping with wheel group by default, but Red Hat and many its descendants it's GID 10.

The macOS and BSD's don't ship with root group, Linuxen either doesn't ship with wheel group or it's GID mismatch what's on BSD side.

The difference will cause issues and system tools misbehaving. Bit different if NAS is BSD based and using NFSv4 or newer, since user and group mapping is based names and not any more ID values they were earlier. But NFS GID mapping does not work properly whichever NFS is used, it's just different kind of misbehaving.

This can be fixed linux (debian etc, missing), add "wheel:x:0:" line /etc/group, right after root group. And with Red Hat based changing that GID 10 to 0.

Of course then /etc/idmap.conf the usual "
[Mapping]

Nobody-User = nobody
Nobody-Group = nogroup

[Translation]
Method = nsswitch
"

Is worth checking also.

The rationale adding secondary GID 0 "wheel" after first original root GID 0 is that, if you check how std nix tools work, when those look up by name they will use GID what's set there, and when they look up by GID they quit looking after they find matching first value that was found.

Therefore above solution works both ways, and your NFS shares from BSD's always shows correct value and correct group name that matches the value. I think I've learned this workaround about 30 years back now.
> or write a cron job that resets a managed setting to a more palatable one every time the corporate security team enforces a value.

You write as if those are things one should feel guilty for. I proudly admit that I have done such things.

In my experience, whenever this happens, whenever the user goes above and beyond to do such things, the security team should revisit their values rather than the other way around.

Never ever it happens. Feedback is given. Stupid policies remain. At best you get some acknowledgement that they also realize it is stupid but it is what it is. As the tone of your post shows, the security guy thinks they are bestowed a divine power to restrict without fully understanding the trade-offs. That puts the user in an adversarial position with the security team. Stallman's philosophy ultimately sides with the user.
You’re just wrong. I live in NYC right next to the congestion zone and it would affect me greatly. I also have lived temporarily in London with a car. They’re very much similar plans.

You clearly don’t like the NYC one which is fine, but that wasn’t the topic.

As for the NYC one it’s a fee for using a car, not a tax on residents. Those are two different things.

Also you’re factually wrong, as the east/west side highways were exempted. So you very much could transit the area, or from the Brooklyn Bridge to upstate or the Battery Tunnel to Washington Heights, for example.
Simple, use a histogram.

The author's first histogram clearly shows most of the distribution lies in [20,100), then the [10,20) bin is empty but the [0,10) bin is quite full. Hence, that's not a single-mode distribution. It has two modes, one around [50,60) and the other in [0,10).
I often get caught out by this in France because I usually eat a late lunch in the UK and France is 1 hour ahead. You are cutting it fine if you start trying to find somewhere to eat at 1:30pm and by 2pm you’ve had it, game over. Suddenly the only option is Macdonalds and you know you’ve failed when you’re eating a lukewarm burger in a slightly seedy fast food restaurant; for some reason every time I’ve ended up in a Macdonalds in France it was pretty dirty.
Most of the papers she worked on were either translations or not written by a native speaker.
Is it? How?

You could include a lot of little bells far from the single mode, but that's reading a little too much into the literal meaning of "single mode" - a "bimodal" distribution isn't one where the two most common values are both modes. It's one where there are two distinct local maxima.

The tails to the left and right must asymptotically approach zero (or you don't have a smooth distribution, because you have discontinuities somewhere), and if there's just one local maximum, your curve will look like a bell.
Can even See this in Google trends:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
Posted article quality is not always very good here lately.

Clickholes get too many votes.
In fact, that's true for Python if you use a zipapp and no c extension: https://docs.python.org/3/library/zipapp.html

You can happily copy the zip of your scripts and all deps in the server.

You still do have to mind your versions, as always with python.
It says my domain "grepular.com" doesn't have dnssec. It does. It also says I don't use DKIM or DMARC. I do.
Where did you get the 20 Watt from?

My number is based on calorie usage
I see it quite differently, we don't have to be so creative, we need to get better at appreciating what already exists. Think about how far out most sea creatures really are, a bluebottle, a starfish for example...

Personally I think there is a bit of evidence in your comment that we don't really understand our minds or cognition very well.
That's not his mistake. He knows this, but repeatedly failed to convey this to others.

That's like the entire point of the post: they're hard to teach to others (they're unintuitive) and there are better (more intuitive) alternatives.

I dunno if I agree, but it's ironic that this thread started with a poster complaining about the author's bad intuition, while apparently managing to not have a good grasp of box plots themselves.
Isn't IBAN just the account identifier SEPA uses?

(The other identifier necessary to make SEPA transfers being the BIC = bank id.)
Do you remember where you read that? I'd love to read more.
I'm happy I never did that planned Vuetify rewrite of my Vue 2 app, dodged a bullet there.
Added an aarch version to the release ci
Plants generate tens of thousands of chemicals. I’d be interested in finding out if there are any other plants or plants in normal diet that have or don’t have “some anti-inflammatory or anti-bacterial” properties, possibly they all do
> would it be cool if Disney scraped DeviantArt and created merchandise, movies, etc. based on the art and characters of small creators?

You've more than flipped the script. You've introduced a global corporation as the "prompt author", feeding off the work of small creators. It's not a fair equivalence because suddenly the "prompt author" has major distribution partners, reach, budget and branding to propel their deception around the world.

Where exactly are all these plagiarising AI-gen artists anyway? Professional concept art involves highly intentional detail, themes and thinking. AI-gen renderings are more like rolling a dice and saying "cool! check this out!" It's not the same game.
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Even if you don't want to limit yourself to the stdlib, you can still use a zipapp : https://docs.python.org/3/library/zipapp.html
> and chooses a type of chart that has ONE peak (a box plot)

Huh? A box plot doesn't have any peaks. A box plot is a histogram subject to the constraint that every bar in the histogram is equally tall. There can never be more than zero peaks.
No, because the open source definition is more or less equivalent to the free software definition, and something not open source is therefore not free either.

Wrong.

Public domain software is necessarily open source provided you have the source code. If you don't, you don't have freedom either.

Wrong.

This is precisely the idiotic focus on source code I'm talking about.

Decompilers are even better now than they were in the 80s when people, even Stallman himself admits, would just disassemble and then modify software that way.

As long as you have the power to change the bytes that make up the software, and doing that is legal, that should be enough to qualify as free software. How it was made doesn't matter one bit (pun intended).
Yes. I am a paying member and thus I get the member newsletter where finances are disclosed and discussed. It’s a low-cost operation and we have enough reserves in the bank.
"You" is doing all the hard work. Apps should use reliable sessions and transport, almost all the time? No disagree. The exceptions are understood. But don't pretend the substrate is that reliable data stream. "We" have to construct it almost always. We do reliable for you, over UDP.

I don't do this stuff any more, but I worked on OSI transport and remote operations service mapped to UDP and other protocols back in the 80s