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Version control was virtually unknown outside UNIX systems, though, and, in lieu of it, mainframe/PC/Mac developers resorted to barbaric practices which included file tree renaming (v2, v1_John_is_an_idiot), countless zip files with similarly meaningful names with snapshots of entire projects and stuff like that. Then commercial version control systems started popping up, and they were very expensive, usually buggy af, and had no feature parity across themselves, i.e. knowledge of each was not portable.

Whereas nearly every UNIX installation included version control systems for free (SCCS in AT&T UNIX SVR1-4, RCS in BSD UNIX or both) that worked exactly the same everywhere.
You wouldn't believe the amount of crap I take whenever I introduce very basic version control at the various 3 to 6 man shops I find work at these days.

I'm 100% sure that once I left that the devs went back to remote server crash and burn FTP development...they couldn't be bothered with the "hassle" and unneeded headaches of git.
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No, I mean that if you start with "you won't land on any given rational" and sum that up to mean "you land on any rationals", that argument also seems to prove that you can't ever land on any irrationals either, so as an intuitive argument it doesn't really point toward why you'll always land on an irrational and not a rational.

("You'll never land on Pi because the odds of picking out the infinitely many digits is zero"- repeat that for every irrational, and naively sum that up, and it looks like you'll never land on an irrational either, which is not true.)
I read elsewhere it would take something like 100x the amount of fuel to move it up to a stable orbit. Maybe people are defining things differently, but bringing it down, just logically, has to be way easier with gravity and atmospheric drag helping.
Taiwan did have secret nuclear weapons program in the 70s or 80s, with cover from their nascent nuclear power facilities. When the US caught wind they forced Taiwan to shut the program down. I'm not sure if China knew about it at the time, but I imagine these days it would be impossible to keep it secret from China--too many spies.
I wonder if you could make a combo with power delivery and signal via a wire+fibre spool — eliminating the battery. Then have intermediate drones holding up the strand to extend the range…
Someone should create an immutable article hub repository. They can call it pubark.
Modern drives only access one platter at a time, except for the handful of dual-actuator drives that split the stack of platters in two and can simultaneously access one platter from the top half of the stack and one platter from the bottom half of the stack.

The limiting factor is the fact that positioning the head on platter one to access track N does not guarantee that the heads on the other 8 platters are positioned over track N on their respective platters.
For low speed writes -- e.g. trying to download things over the internet say and then save them off, but not for trying to backup multi terabyte data to it.

If they increased the size to 4TB say, to make it easier to import data to it, it might be worth it. But if it takes several days to write 32GB of data to it, it's not really gonna be worth it to most people.

I've wondered why WD/Seagate don't invest in a consumer solution where drives are literally just plug and play together and give you raid without the hassle of a raid controller or software. Eg. An 8TB drive connected to an 8TB drive is a mirrored raid. SMR drives would serve as "cold storage". Once written to, would never be rewritten again.
I expected to win if I reach "Brrr".

If I press space, bills move very fast.
The person answering apparently never saw the ijkl or ijkm controls for games (which were popular on the Apple ][ since (a) the Apple ][ didn’t have arrow keys beyond left and right and the rarely seen joystick for the Apple ][ was kind of janky since it was a pair of analog inputs rather than the essentially arrow-key replacements typical of most joysticks of that era). I don’t know that I ever saw jkl;, although I’m sure it existed.
Interesting, thanks.

Let me reframe the question - assume it's not only 100x GPUs, but all the performance bottlenecks you've mentioned are also solved or accelerated x100.

What kind of improvement would we observe, given the current state of the models and knowledge ?
More like gardenbot
I used this for a project recently:

https://fomantic-ui.com/
Sure but it's just as dismissive. At least my response included more reasoning in addition to the crappy Internet trope.
> I also wonder - is the compute the main limiting factor today ?

So much of this is a blackbox that you have to wing it for lots of things and try stuff. The more compute you have, the more YOLO runs you can do.

For example, the research team I work with has about 1/20th the compute that a Google researcher has. This gives them a massive advantage because they can afford to train lots of random ideas and see what kind of advantage they get. We have to be much, much more measured and predict our outcomes better.
A lot of "why TF would anyone you do this?" questions can be answered with variations like this. Borrowing from economics, the discount rate defines how much more valuable something is RIGHT NOW vs at some point in the future. If the system is down and we're losing money by the minute until it is up; if the company will be broke next week unless we make customer X happy; if you have to get to the airport in 2 hours - it is completely rational to make the quick fix. The costs of not doing so outweigh the costs of doing it again properly.

It really becomes a problem when the same short term calculation becomes the standard - you can quickly rack up costs that future you or future company will never pay down.
You can provide definitions for irrational numbers, but they'll be expressed in terms of infinite serieses (what the hell is the plural form of series?).

So, if ever you try to expand them, you'll need to truncate at some point.

There will however, be situations where you can perform operations directly on the serieses, and in those cases (but not the ones requiring expansion and truncation) you'll be able to perform the operations losslessly.

Of course, no one would ever bother with that - even NASA truncates pi to 3.141592653589793 (https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2016/3/16/how-many-decimal...).

(And anyway, the distance from any irrational number to the 'nearest' rational is always infinitessimal, so it's generally a moot point unless you're doing calculus.)
What if these coils were fabricated into a strip of silicon, using semiconductor fabbing technology?

And I suppose you could use (a stack of) piezo motors on both ends to move the strip in x and in z.
Hot and cold mediums. TV is hotter than novels, colder mediums require more effortful cognition. A novel is more of a blank slate that you project your own experience on, thereby making it more meaningful for you. A TV show has already been pre-processed by casting agents and actors and set designers, so it's less personal to you and hence less meaningful.
I am looking forward to consumer / producer grade Tensor Processing Units and holding off on a desktop / server purchase until we maybe see something like this.

With inference tasks it'd be nice to have something not as performance heavy and instead like 24gb vram or more.

I know there are tricks in CUDA to allow access to system ram as a proxy but limited success in duplicating this across various setups.
This is exactly what I've done -- Caps Lock is another control. I find I don't use it much for typical keybinds, but very heavily use it in games.
> Overall, I wish the drive vendors would expose some API to directly manage the SMR/CMR areas via software, just like the FLASH memory chips do.

They do, on drive models that are sold to the customers large enough to have the resources to re-write their storage stack to handle zoned block devices. The drives sold at retail will continue to pretend to be ordinary random-access block devices for the sake of backwards compatibility.
That's a bit like using a steam hammer to crack a nut.

A much simpler way of thinking about it is:

What is the chance that if I pick an infinite number of random natural numbers between 0 and 9 that all of them are 0?

You're missing the repeating fractions but it gets the flavor of what's actually happening across much better than a Lebesgue integral.
A 100 years from now, someone is going to write an article about the insanity of today's advertising models that is going to be immediately obvious to anyone from that era, while we, much like the feudal vassals, are unable to see it, having experienced no alternative.
The obvious counterpoint to this argument is what happened in Hong Kong. A diplomatic resolution seems unlikely to have a net-positive outcome for Taiwan under the current CCP regime.
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Economic might comes down to productive capacity. Unfortunately most of the US’s “productivity” has transitioned the so-called services sector. Which is nice and all until you can’t produce strategically necessary resources.

Ultimately speaking the US dollar’s reserve status rests on the US economy’s productive capacity. Chinese dollar denominated exports are what’s propping up the dollar. Their accumulation of treasuries is merely a necessary consequence of the necessary accounting operations to dollar denominate those exports.
Sets of measure 0 that are not empty or are even infinite are indeed mind-bending when first encountered. But a set of cardinality 1 may be fun, too.

Take a real-valued stochastic processbS, and an arbitrary time t. The process generates a value, v = S(t).

Since the width of the range from v to v is zero, the probability that S generates this number is also zero.

We can replace it with a physical stochastic process. Say, take the voltage in your electric socket. It fluctuates randomly around the nominal value. At every moment there is some voltage in the socket, and the probability to encounter this voltage is zero. It looks like the impossible is actually happening at every moment!

This is, of course, thevprobability being a chance to encounter a given value. If we pick a value first, and then start sampling our stochastic process, there's zero probability that we're going to encounter our (infinitely precise) number, no matter how long we'd try.

(A physical voltmeter has a finite resolution, say, 0.10 V, so it's going to show you a predetermined voltage pretty often. But it would be a rounded approximation of the unpredictable real value.)
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I'm guilty of something like that. At my very first job I used OpenBSD to manage the corporate firewall and proxy. 6 months later quit to attend college, and I have no idea what they did to that box lol.
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Not a huge erlang person but I think the idea is that redundancy and robustness is managed by the BEAM process on each host, so that layer is much higher in the stack. Compared with k8s where it’s like okay die if something goes wrong and the container orchestrator makes you a whole new chroot as if you just rebooted.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Open Source Farming Robot - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27628101 - June 2021 (227 comments)

FarmBot Genesis XL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19002022 - Jan 2019 (1 comment)
IDK. I've certainly "binged" on reading an engrossing novel straight through. I don't get the same engagement watching TV. I've binged on TV for maybe 4 hours at a time then I just get to feeling like a completely lazy slob. I've spent 12+ hours on a book more than once.
Mercurial lost because it had the wrong mindshare. It was the Betamax of version control and while it had a lot of positives, it never gained the critical mass to overcome VHS.
NK is not stupid enough to launch a land war on SK, they know they'd get their asses handed to them. This is unfortunately not necessarily true for PRC vs Taiwan.
Escape from Tarkov is exceptional and was not possible 10-20 years ago
How many Farmbots would I need to feed 2 adults and 2 children year round? What challenges might I run into?

Edit: Found a link to yield analysis https://farm.bot/pages/yield It appears the answer is however many Farmbots cover 549 square meters
Taiwan has obviously been watching the Hong Kong integration closely. Had it gone much better, Taiwan would have probably agreed to something similar. Frankly I think they were actually expecting much worse.

An EU-style arrangement seems ideal in the medium term. It lets Taiwan have a positive long-term influence on Chinese politics, while preventing HK-style crackdowns in the other direction.
In the AI era, is this as true?
If I assume you mean LLM like models similar to chatgpt that is pretty debated in the community. Several years ago many people in ML community believed we were at plateau and that throwing more compute/money would not give significant improvements. Well then LLMs did much better than expected as they scaled up and continue to iterate now on various benchmarks.

So are we now at performance plateau? I know people at openai like places that think AGI is likely in next 3-5 years and is mostly scaling up context/performance/a few other key bets away. I know others who think that is unlikely in next few decades.

My personal view is I would expect 100x speed up to make ML used even more broadly and to allow more companies outside big players to have there own foundation models tuned for their use cases or other specialized domain models outside language modeling. Even now I still see tabular datasets (recommender systems, pricing models, etc) as most common to work in industry jobs. As for impact 100x compute will have for leading models like openai/anthropic I honestly have little confidence what will happen.

The rest of this is very speculative and not sure of, but my personal gut is we still need other algorithmic improvements like better ways to represent storing memory that models can later query/search for, but honestly part of that is just math/cs background in me not wanting everything to end up being hardware problem. Other part is I’m doubtful human like intelligence is so compute expensive and we can’t find more cost efficient ways for models to learn but maybe our nervous system is just much faster at parallel computation?
"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances [...] They're too common to be interesting."

"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Man, I remember my Gilfoyle. We had an employee who would do one off programs for anyone with a use case - but ours wiped his computer before giving it back, so frequently we'd get tickets for software we'd never heard of that was somehow mission critical, and we'd have a few days to spin up a new version on the spot.

Probably some of the most fun I've ever had writing software was making Gilfoyle-2s.
The US could also secretly transport tactical nuclear weapons to Taiwanese airbases, then announce that Taiwan was now protected under a similar nuclear guarantee to Europe.

Any invasion triggers release of the devices into Taiwanese operational control.
Yes, so you invent CVS, not git.
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The site speaks to that: https://ewritable.com/when-will-the-ratta-supernote-a5-x2-be... . In brief, Ratta is open on Reddit, but I don't think anyone has much faith that they'll meet their latest estimate, so we're all just guessing.
As someone who grew up roughly orthodox Jewish I am feeling super angry at your casual translation without context.
If you read all their paper, they use a mix of them
An exact comparison is undecidable. You can only say if the numbers sufficiently differ. This is equivalent to saying that x > 0 + ε or x < 0 - ε, where ε > 0. If you represent numbers in binary, ε = 2^(-n), where n is the maximum number of bits you allocate to represent a number. Obviously you have n < ∞ in any finite machine.
I have a Seagate 8Tb SMR drive that I use for movie rips from my Blu-rays. In Australia "format shifting" is allowed if you keep the original format.

Linear writing and reading of 30Gb files is a great use case for it.

Edit: Actually I think we now have an equivalent of the DMCA so breaking the encryption on the Blu-ray would be infringing that. Oh well.
That's something not surprising, given JG and Ruoming's Google stint.

Google is going to dominate LLM ushered AI era. Google has been AI first since 2016, they just don't have the opening. Sam, as inapt at engineering, just has no idea how to navigate the delicate biz & eng competitions.
> I guess my point is I'd like for these to offer a model with or without cellular. More options is always better.

I think that shopping for a PC vs. a Mac shows that this isn't always true. (Or, at least, it didn't used to be; now, or the last time I shopped, the confusing variety of options on the Apple store is, while still well short of PC levels, way less controlled then what they used to offer.)

Of course there are prices, and plenty of people don't like the Apple "you'll like what we tell you" way, but plenty of people do, so I don't think you can make any uniform statement.
And multihost is included out of the box, you don't really need to do anything special.
> simply a foil for China

You say that like it's a bad thing...

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EDIT: And while I'm under no illusions about the realpolitik, it's also true that China is a communist dictatorship; Taiwan is not.
> Then at that point, you naturally go look if there’s a better way.

That might be true now but it wasn’t always. Plenty of shops didn’t have any version control at all. And the build was whatever came off your local dev box. And “local dev box” wasn’t even a term…
> your program has UB it's broken and it doesn't matter if it currently happen to work correct under a specific compiler version, it's also fully your fault

Except that compiler writers essentially decide what's UB. Which is a conflict of interest.

And they add UB, making previously non-UB code fall under UB. Would you call such code buggy?
> The hair trick can be used both by good guys and by bad guys.

Duh.

Are you implying the existense of opsec-techniques that are only usably by "good guys"...?
Zelensky has been requesting peace since the beginning of the war -- Russia returns to Ukraine'# internationally recognized borders, and the war's over.

And last I checked, the manpower shortage should be addressed in 2026, after Ukraine finally lowered their draft age earlier the year.
> However, we find no evidence of reshoring or friend-shoring

I have no real horse in the race about export controls with China or elsewhere, but some notes: timelines matter here — rebuilding industrial capacity is .. not fast. Especially in the US today, much more safety-conscious, labor-rights oriented, etc, than when much of our on-shore industry got build in WW2 era.

To my mind, especially with US political cycles providing a fair amount of policy whiplash, it’s too early to see what total impact these rules have had — let’s check in on these numbers in 20 years. If export controls continued unabated over that period, I imagine we’ll have seen a fair amount of on-shoring of former supply chains.
This has always been true though. Consider, if the US is a friend worth depending on why do its closest allies UK, Israel and France still maintain nuclear weapons at great expense?

In Europe the fact that the US dragged its feet entering WWII is still within living memory. Asian countries perhaps are still to learn this lesson.
This article's headline made me lose some trust in the WSJ

Most of Murdoch's media have been designated as 'Entertainment, and not obliged to be truthful'.(Florida ruling: early 1990s)

If you're expecting the truth from Murdoch's rags, I have a lovely new bridge to sell you.
Either I have become paranoid or this feels LLM generated
Taiwan is a legit democracy. Elections. Rule of law. Freedom.

PRC is not.

I suppose Taiwan could be a “special administrative region.” But that doesn’t offer many guarantees, does it?
1-to-10, how ready for prime time is it?? (10=production ready)
How does an “EU” style arrangement make sense between two countries, one of which is extremely large the other extremely small?
My guess is that it was caused by a bad autocorrection.
Sourceforge was complete garbage though. I hated, hated when projects were hosted on it. It was slow, full of ads, impossible to find what you need to download..

GitHub is to sourceforge what Facebook was to MySpace. MySpace was first but it was buggy as hell.
Wasn’t NEXT one of the original HTML tags?
Europe dragged their feet in both ww as well. No one wants war.
I would say Saturday. California Saturdays are someone else's Sundays. Weekends have that chill creativity vibe contrasting with the more serious Who Is Hiring vibes you get on a Monday.
Apart from self-persuasion that you’re doing something esoteric, it’s just looking at your mirror image with a relaxed gaze (as in looking far away-ish) but focused around some fixed point. You can replace a mirror with a buddy. Distance 0.3-1m face to face, depending on your comfort zone. Few minutes, but may appear sooner. Multiple phases, you can get stuck in one face but then suddenly go further. Once you see a new face, you can carefully examine it, but try not to disrupt this semi-trance by quick movements.

Esoterics-wise you should feel like you’re pulled “back” in your skull (not visually). The further you go back, the more ancient incarnation you see. The limit is your first ever appearance. Great mages have thousands of faces, some of them non-human, extinct races. If you don’t see anything, you were just born, cough loser.

Upd: just tested it with my phone screen turned off. Whew… same emotions as 20 years ago. Black tint definitely adds to the effect, and it’s quick!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41150581
If you spend like a regular white collar worker you don't need to work that many years before you can retire.
How has your experience been? Maybe you should give them a testimonial here, it's the least they deserve since it's serve you well (assumingly). Also, please consider giving us your perspective from a long-term user, I think you bring a unique perspective to the table!!! HTR is an oasis in this global desert of manual digitization. I did a relatively extensive search for projects a year ago, I don't remember seeing Xournal at all or maybe the old development date threw me off.
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We have thousands of years of examples of two “blood kin” groups attacking each other. In addition to this is the fact that not all peoples with roots in present day PRC are Chinese. Tibet is a region of PRC that is not Chinese, for example.
This plan worked out so well last time it was tried in Cuba :)
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I think Radio Shack had Tandy and Tandy made computers and leather working products. Does anyone know more about this?
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