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I've been using Guix for about the last year and a half at this point (and is coincidentally most of what I post about on this site) and Guix certainly has its ups and downs. Most notably, for me, Guix is leagues slower than Nix it seems, since I use both on my system with Guix as the main distro. Also, just generally less packages and the ones that are present are out of date. However, the architecture of Guix means it can be extremely easy to bump versions of packages as long as dependencies or build options haven't changed too drastically. You will inevitably need to run your own channel on top of your system to actually house these version bumps (before you upstream them!) and packages that you package yourself (again, try to upstream if applicable!). I'd say that about 30-40% of my packages have been modified by me in some way or another, whether it be a complete rewrite of the definition, build option modifications, or just a simple version bump while we wait for it to appear in the upstream repo (more "core" packages, like bluez and those type, get updated less often since that triggers a rebuild of all packages that may depend on it). It definitely isn't for the faint of heart, but I find it rewarding.

Some exciting changes are upcoming too, like the addition of being able to boot from UKIs rather than being stuck with GRUB, which probably won't happen for a bit still, however I think this ties into the broader "issue" with Guix.

The community is small, which is definitely a result of it (just like Nix) being more complex than the average distro that people do not want to deal with, compounded by the fact that it uses even less standard utilities to build the system (like not using systemd as a service manager in lieu of shepherd). I feel a lot of the pain points that Guix has can be addressed just by having more eyes and hands on the project. If anyone has more specific questions on using Guix I'd be more than happy to give my view.
> "Is useful to me" is subjective.

Value is subjective.

Allegedly a barrel of WTI crude is worth $76 today. I can go look up that price, and theoretically lots of people out there would trade at that price. If someone just dropped off a barrel of oil to my driveway, I wouldn't agree it is worth $76. It has no usefulness to me. I'd have to work (labor!) to move it off my lot someplace else. I'd have to find someone willing to take it and they'll probably want to buy it at a discount. Chances are, the value of a barrel of crude at my house is negative, not positive $76. Why is it worth negative to me while its worth $76 to others? Simple, its usefulness to those people. Those people buying it at $76 have the connections to trade it to the refiners. Those refiners have the knowledge and tools to turn it into other things more people find useful. And finally, I'll find use from it and buy something made or protected by the plastics or use the energy from the gasoline or diesel they get from it.

But how can that be? You're suggesting value isn't something subjective!

Lead me places buddy. Tell me your definition of value then. Explain to me how value isn't something subjective.

> You're assuming your questions are even answerable in the context you're providing.

Most would see it as a very simple answer. A baker wants $1 for him baking a loaf of bread. Would you pay him the same, more, or less today for his baking labor a week ago compared to the labor he just did five minutes ago? This shouldn't be a challenging question, most probably know which loaf they want.
CGI is a simple interface. It's simple to implement and simple to use. As a result, it's much less prone to break than most modern web architectures IMHO.

It does leave some performance on the table, which was addressed by things like mod_perl or FastCGI (incl. PHP-FPM). There's also the middle ground solution of mod_cgid, which has a specialized daemon fork the CGI process instead (presumably the specialized daemon has a much smaller memory image than the full server).
Sorry, I mean HTTP/2 multiplexing
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Looks interesting, does Rove also provide support for issuing TLS certificates for container services? I am also working on something similar, but it will be running on Kubernetes clusters.
I think rules is more accurate. Censorship makes me think that you can post something that is within the rules, but if it doesn't fit the agenda it's removed. To me they are different.

I run communities and we have rules. We don't do censorship though.
> Why not?
The 'original' part is more important than the 'beautiful' part - which should have been more clear in my writing. This argument also triggers the question "is true originality even possible" but I think the difference for LLMs at the moment is their incapability of building non-obvious analogies. I've yet to be inspired something written by an AI and I don't think simply overfitting a model with all human generated data is enough for that. As I also mentioned in the blog, I would be happily proven in future.

> _if_ you split the process up appropriately
I believe this pre-requisite is very important. LLMs so are terrible at planning and splitting a complex task into simpler steps. This might be natural limitation of `next token prediction`. For complex planning, each step should be the result of both the previous and speculative future steps. We try to tackle this by dividing a plan into two: a macro and a micro plan but still a lot to improve there.

p.s. thanks! aider is awesome too!
To add: in Europe there is a large percentage of sugar coming from beets, which wouldn't be used for food otherwise.
I've had dreams that were significant. One time I had a nightmare and it became "sentient" and the nightmare started to talk to me and hurt me. I started to meditate and the nightmare couldn't hurt me anymore. I felt pain as it was scarring me all over, but I didn't feel suffering. I woke up realizing that meditation is my safe space.

A month ago, I got a dream where I saw my wife and she passed me a note saying "I love you." I woke up and I realized that even my subconscious mind believed that she loved me. A lovely thing to realize.

To be fair, most dreams don't mean anything to me.
thats not what’s necessary at all

non profit salaries of board members can be extremely high, the aggregate reporting on this is poor despite the public filings, as the filings say the same things in wildly different ways

I think the weirdest meme in the non profit world is how many act poor, or actually are undercompensated, but the answer to why is “its a non profit soo….” as opposed to “the board chooses to underpay me soo…”

additionally, many things can be done with assets. even if a non profit does not directly buy a board member’s investments, it can use its funds to pump that investment. for example, buy 2 houses on the board member’s block at inflated prices, so the board member can sell their own house at a huge profit. can do the same with anything especially illiquid things like art with small float. can do it with small stocks that are easy to pump too. can do it with crypto that wont be scrutinized for pumping. as long as the transactions aren't directly to the restricted party it meets all regulations.
> No matter how fast Searle is, he won't be able to come up with a beautiful and original Chinese poem that has the creative spark special to humans.

This analogy seems flawed to me. Searle is in an empty room but LLMs are not. They are constantly learning from user inputs and data is continuously being made more available for LLM ingestion. I still don't think that an LLM will completely replace humans at pure creativity but I don't see why it can't come close. Especially since we're only 2 years in to this craze.
I see that the last commit was 2 years ago. Do you know any other alternatives?
Reminds me of net neutrality. This will make it harder for upcoming companies to compete, since it will be more expensive to migrate to or from them.
The message these recruiters are sending is that people should be jumping ship more regularly so they are not caught up in a layoff. Soon they will wonder why people are churning so much.
The Physicist Who Split Light Using an Electric Field [video]
What does Versa Director do? Is it widely used?
After Iran Steals Sensitive Israeli Data, Israel Tries to Censor Telegram
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> groundwater pollution for example

It is well below the water table

> risk of explosion

According to the article it is "self limiting" so that risk is very small, and an explosion a mile underground is a lot less threatening than an explosion in a facility on the surface. A mile of rock is going to provide a lot more protection than any amount of concrete and steel.

> potentially causing further natural events such as earthquakes

From what I can tell (see for example https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/can-nuclear-explosions-cause-earth...), underground nuclear weapons tests, which have larger explosions than this could possibly create have a rather limited risk for earthquakes.

I'm not a seismologist, but I think the risk there is less than the risk of an explosion in a reactor on the surface.

> digging isn't cheap

No. But it might be cheaper than building a large facility above-ground that meets all the necessary safety regulations for a nuclear reactor. And probably produces less carbon emissions in the process as well.
Can they explain flat rotation curves out to a million light years though?

https://tritonstation.com/2024/06/18/rotation-curves-still-f...
> You had literal students design chips that outperformed industry cores that took huge teams and huge investment

Everyone remember to thank our trans heroine Sophie Wilson (CBE).
Much of it was also made up. Much of it was just for show. Not to mention many things were censored that we now know were true. Is this acceptable to you? It certainly isn't to me.
Haha, thanks for catching. I use it to track when I swap one stock for another to remind me that I should probably just not do anything at all..
Show HN: Auto index your sitemap pages in search console
Ruby fits in here nicely then...
Specs on website updated, anywhere from 100-240V is fine
Sasse to keep $1M salary from UF until 2028
You can create groupings in nature. Biologists do it all the time for all animals. The groupings are by some measure arbitrary, yes, unless you mean to suggest that for example crows are in the same grouping as seagulls, and that even these groupings are invalid?
Things may have changed, but for awhile it was the cheapest way to buy stuff online in high-risk legal markets like precious metals if you wanted the transaction to clear in under 30 minutes. CC have high fees in high risk markets, wires are expensive for some customers, ACH takes 1+ days. Crypto clears quickly and can't be reversed so some sellers discounted it significantly against credit.
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Is it the solar neutrino noise floor, or distant supernova neutrino noise floor?

Maybe the justification for interstellar colonization will be so we can run a DM experiment on the near-relativistic ship during the trip. Boost those dark matter particles to some good fraction of c for easier detection.
I’m surprised how long these prompts are, I wonder at what point is the diminishing returns.
Modern Authentication on .NET in Practice: OpenID Connect, BFF and SPA
"A Mile Underground" is way below most ground water deposits. Most wells are less than 1000 feet deep. The world's deepest aquifer is less than 2 miles deep. You would not bury a nuclear reactor in such a place. Also, nature has multiple buried natural fission reactors just like this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reacto...

Essentially what is being proposed here is an artificial geothermal well. The cost of the drilling is offset by not having to pay for the construction of huge concrete buildings and disposal of secondary nuclear waste. Disposal of waste on-site would essentially be filling the well with concrete. You are killing two birds with one stone.

In addition, ground water is usually filtered through miles of sand, coal, and limestone. Well water is often radioactive and needs to be tested regularly because it has been filtered through uranium and thorium decay products. If such a reactor were to be breached, it's waste would not reach the surface unless it were placed in a mile deep spring that no one knew about somehow.

https://www.epa.gov/radtown/natural-radionuclides-private-we...

https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/departments-and-agencies/dph/d...
Open-source repo to run popular models on AWS via scalable APIs
The original founders realised the weakness of Siri and started a machine learning based assistent which they sold to Samsung. Apple could have taken the same route but didn't.
I'm riffing on bluestein, not defending lo_zamoyski — as far as I'm concerned, the invention of the web has made it far easier to go through the pockets of older cultures and discover what sorts of things they have that are worth taking a five-finger discount on.

(then again, I also find it worth learning how things are done in other countries, so I believe both the Durants' statement and your proposed riposte may be true at the same time)

[as for the truth: from a DBMS' WAL (the past) one may always reconstruct its tables, but for queries it's more convenient to always have them materialised (the present); does that make sense?]
Yes. It's not that the land is overloaded and cannot produce enough food. It can and it does. The constraints are not physical but cultural.
Delay slots were such a hack. ARM never needed them.
A statement like "IQ is heritable" is neither science nor pseudoscience, it's just a statement that is either true, false or e.g. 80% true with 20% determined by other factors.

Doing studies to prove or disprove it, like ones on separated twins referenced here in comments -- this is science.

Saying that this statement is false because it's racist -- this is pseudoscience.
Sure, and that's a choice that's useful to the industry. It doesn't change that the fundamental research is a necessary part of the drug development process, and that our taxes pay for because the industry won't and can't.
That’s already how Gaussian splats work.

They’re novelty of splattr (though I contest that they’re the first to do so) is that they need fewer images than usual.
Dogs have far less genetic diversity than humans since they have been selectively bread for thousands of years, leading in many cases to extreme hereditary issues: often there are breeds which have these problems as a part of their breeding. [0]

IQ also correlates strongly with economic and social class, which also correlates strongly with crime and happiness and probably also divorce. If you think, then, that race, as a determinate measure of IQ, is determinate of economic and social class, then you are actually a racist, plain and simple. But, you might not think that, I'm just trying to point this out to you.

[0]https://www.instituteofcaninebiology.org/blog/inbreeding-of-...
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You nailed it - when the part comes out of the mold, it slides down a chute onto a conveyor belt. From here, the arms themselves change depending on the supplier (Kuka/Fanuc/Universal Robotics/Yaskawa...there are a lot of players in the space,) but they're all used to hold the part in the air so we can take images on all sides -- then the arm moves the part to its correct spot (good bin/bad bin)

for computing the grasping position -- your mileage may vary depending on which axis/face matters the most for an object (in an automotive part, you want to grasp the side that's not customer-facing because people care less about a scratch there) but it's a real challenge.

Luckily EtherCAT + protobuf's adoption has helped keep the comms integration low -- even a few years ago we'd need to make a weird hop from camera --> PLC --> arm but things are slowly getting easier
I'm not convinced we do "want" to say anything, though. The combinations of physical inputs (which mostly translate to hormones i imagine?) and data inputs seem to drive my behavior to such a degree that i question if i could really do anything else at any given moment.

The whole free will debate seems a bit out of scope (and out of my reach, hah), but nonetheless it feels interesting in the LLM context.

edit: Note that i don't necessarily think LLMs are there or even can be. We seem to technologically small to produce the complexity in ourselves. Nonetheless i'm always interested in how far reduced complexity can take us.
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Mensa is mostly just a club for people who are disproportionately cultural outsiders. A lot of them have the same interests that are harder to come across in regular day to day life.

It's not so much a circle jerk of "we are so smart" as it is a circle jerk of "no one else wants to play SET! with me".
The section Unlike height, no one knows what IQ is actually measuring, buried deep in the article, is really all that's needed. "Height" is a well-behaved non-changing property that is meaningful, "IQ" is none of these things. Some fun facts:

- The variation between IQ tests done by the same individual is significantly higher than almost any reasonable cross-group variation (men vs. woman, country A vs. country B, doctors vs. craftsmen, ...)

- The original IQ-test had to use a mathematical trick to cut off "growth of intelligence" at exactly 16 years old, which totally incidentally was the age where mandatory schooling ended for the relevant population.

- The famous "Termites" study which attempted to use IQ to predict the future upper crust of society by testing a large number of children failed to predict any Nobel price winners, but excluded two future Nobel winners (they were too dumb)

- IQ is totally unchangeable and static — nonetheless, you are forbidden from studying or practicing for IQ tests.

So to me, it's not particularly surprising that genetics disappoint in predicting IQ — given that they also fail at predicting other nonsensical and ever-chaning values such as whether I liked today's dinner..
They’re claiming…… tourism is the reason for increased demand? Seriously?
Oh yes, strongly agree. They should be taught in linear algebra really.
Although of course, we don't even need a custom element here, this already has a pure-CSS solution: https://jsbin.com/xuwicoquwo/edit?html,css,js,output
Or apparently even host things on them, while using cloudflare?
Ce n'est pas un Kafka: Kafka is a Protocol
Apache Kafka is an aging open source project. It's time to accept that Kafka's protocol is what matters. (https://materializedview.io/p/ce-nest-pas-un-kafka)
Train on copyrighted material

Claim fair use

Release model

Claim copyright

Infinite copyright!
Commodity money has been a thing in many times in history.
It sounds like geothermal without using the earth as the heat source. What benefits does this have over geothermal, which is proven and safe, and also ticks the 'non-nuclear' box which makes it considerably easier to convince a population to live next door to?
Gotta include the at-home stocks which is going to be harder/more variable to measure.

Though if you have diversity in your crop production, usually when one thing does badly, something else does better, especially if your country is big.

When COVID first hit, I did an estimate of how much food I had on hand (without even intentionally trying to stockpile) and I figure I could live 6-8 months without leaving.
I am working on an open-source self hosted alternative to railway.app, render, vercel. I know there are several similar platforms as alternative to these providers but the platform I am working on will be purely running on Kubernetes clusters, no ssh to VPS and use of docker-compose or docker-swarm.
Probably not much harder, but you wouldn't get the same massive jump in quality that you get going from 1 image to 2. NeRF/Gaussian Splatting in general is what you're describing, but from the looks of it, this just does it in a single forward pass rather than optimising the gaussian/network weights.
> this is a maintenance nightmare!

Yeah, it's a pain to maintain, but it is damn secure.
Many are missing the cultural aspect. This isn't all about the government protecting the price. There is a second order issue. If the price dropped, Japanese farmers would react by reducing costs, by bringing in new tech and consolidating small farms into larger agri-businesses. Japan wants avoid the cultural changes that would bring to rural areas, areas that many believe to be the heart of Japanese culture.
If you're ever in Zürich, be sure to visit the Lindt and Sprungli chocolate museum. Book ahead for tickets. It's got the entire history of how it was turned from something more like coffee into a dessert over the course of a series of process improvements, many of which were patented by names you hear regularly today in the Swiss chocolate industry and beyond (Nestlé, Lindt, Cailler, Sprungli).
there's an ocp 3.0 mezzanine, so no need to remove a card and you'd get 200gbps, unless I've missed something about needing to remove a card to access it. But yeah stacking these or racking them seems less than ideal.
13 years of engineering failure.
Back after a nearly 8 year hiatus; I did a proper double-take yesterday evening when I saw a new video pop up in my feed!

The video-essays on Buster Keaton and Edgar Wright are absolutely essential viewing for anyone who considers themselves even a passing fan of Comedy.

I'd also highly recommend 'The Bad Sleep Well (1960) - The Geometry of a Scene' and 'Akira Kurosawa - Composing Movement' as hugely insightful pieces that will equip you with a whole new appreciation for cinematography and composition.
No, in fact I'm not. But nobody is going to go around saying that a crow is a seagull, you know it when you see it. Its because we ourselves are not seagulls or crows. We are not dogs, we are not animals, except in one specific way. And since you, yes you yourself, are part of the thing you are commenting on (race), there is no way to "purify" your assessment of the thing since your own personal history, which you cannot even be fully aware of, factors into your sectioning of the world.
The difference between Chewbacca and a cute anime character has more to do with a visit to the salon than any underlying body architecture.
HS2 is more about NIMBYs and inefficiency than actual technical issues.
So glad to see that the comments so far seems to factor in the credibility level of nypost's assertions.

Did a quick google and found examples such as this:
https://www.comparably.com/companies/nvidia/work-life-balanc...

Doesn't look that bad from an "Asian work culture" perspective.

Is Nvidia more functionally organized or BU organized. From your experience, are functionally organized highly performing companies' meetings generally more passionate, while BU organized highly performing companies' meetings generally more political?
3kW under your desk... no need to turn on the heat in the winter!
Many people are telling me the second one is weird. They come up to me and say, “Sir, that thing they’re doing, the things they’re saying, are the weirdest things we’ve ever heard!” And I agree with them. And let me tell you, we’re going to do something about it.
People are weird. I gave up reasoning with them. "No amount of persistence and practice will let me dunk on Shaq, but high IQ people get dunked on all the time" should be a winner vs people who think genetics determine everything, but neo-eugenicists just don't want to hear it. They have an unreasonable faith in genes.
> The best lens for future performance of large models is uncertainty.
100% agree. I think to better way to phrase my argument there would be to reject the notion that LLMs are destined to get exponentially smarter (twitter fallacy). This is not to say I believe they are not going to get any smarter in the future. We simply don't know and building a company/product on the expectation of another Moore's Law is dangerous.