skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The five-year estimate is based solely on hibernation writes, which is a very conservative figure. In reality, most users will use closer to 2% of the TBW for hibernation, not 33%.

For those with heavy I/O workloads, they likely have higher-grade or larger SSDs with a higher TBW rating.

Additionally, TBW isn’t a hard limit and can often be exceeded, with some drives lasting beyond 200%.

For most users, TBW won’t be an issue, and other components are more likely to fail before the drive wears out.
If we don't need to capture it to orbit, but just avoid hitting the Earth, centimeters might be enough. The trick is to be able to do it way in advance.

Besides, why LEO? Even GSO is 11 times closer than the Moon.
He also forged qualifications and references.

The case is also linked to the larger system of patronage and state capture that existed under Zuma, where if you paid the right people who back then were in the ANC, plenty of doors would open up.

Cyril Ramaphosa began a cleanup of the ANC, but it's still a work in progress AND Zuma and his patronage network have created their own party that is undercutting the ANC's vote share (at least the private sector forced the ANC-DA-IFP coalition).

It's a stunning reversal for a country that 15 years ago was on track to become a developed country.

South Africa in the late 2000s to 2011 was at the same distance from becoming a World Bank High Income country that Serbia and China are at today in the late 2010s and early 2020s, and South African companies like Naspers (Reddit, Tencent, VK, StackOverflow, Udemy, OLX), MTN Group (major telco player in MENA), ShopRite (major retailer across Africa which is basically a Walmart or Lidl-lite), and Vodacom (major telco and formerly satellite player in MENA and Asia) were on track to becoming major players globally.
The article doesn't mention the Dancing Raisins TV commercial for California raisins — when I first saw it in 1986 I almost fell off the couch laughing. (But as Heinlein's Manny O'Kelly-Davis put it, it's a funny-once.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM2OK_JaJ9I
> Ideological grounds are a great reason to risk exposure to multiple assets. Musk should use any power at his disposal to resist government censorship.

Like he does on Turkey and China?

Cool story bro.
I missed the railroads, steel industries, chip manufacturers, iphones, etc. that were looted from those people?

BTW, studies of the bones of pre-Columbian Indians shows they worked hard and suffered from periodic famines, as well as a lot of violence.
> It wasn't, the book publishers were clearly preparing the lawsuit for years before the NEL.

Even if that were true, they could have still been waiting for something like NEL to start the process, if nothing else to get the narrative on their side.

I don't know, I don't work for a book company.
It is up to the criminals to decide if they will comply with the law, if they do not, the law has consequences, this is very simple and straightforward, same as in US, you do not comply with a legal order, you suffer the consequences, the company is not complying with our contry law ? it should not operate in brazil
Why doesn't the USA just buy out all of Intel's debt, let them start fresh? Call it a Silicon Era War Bond, in reverse.
Depends how you set it up. Mostly people doing this properly would build their own images in a CI environment under their control. At least that's how I do it.

The reason docker containers are absolutely everywhere is that it's a convenient way to ship software that skirts around the notion that most Linux distributions are spaghetti balls of needless complexity with distribution and version specific crap that you need to deal with.

Back in the day I had to package up my software as an rpm to give it to our ops department who would then use stuff like puppet to update our servers. I also got exposed to a bit of puppet in the process. Not a thing anymore. Docker is vastly easier to deal with.

From a security point of view the most secure way to run docker containers is some kind of immutable OS that only runs containers that is probably neither Red Hat or Debian based because having package managers on an immutable OS is kind of redundant. Which is more or less what most cloud providers do to power their various docker capable services. And of course the OS is typically running on a vm inside another OS that probably also is immutable.

Docker removed the need for having people customize their servers in any way. Or even having people around with skills to do things like that.

Being container focused also changes the security problem from protecting the OS from the container to protecting the container from the OS. You don't want the OS compromised and doing things it shouldn't be doing that might compromise the one thing it is supposed to be doing: running your docker containers. Literally the only valuable thing it contains is that container.

And it indeed matters how you build and manage those.
Rise of DIY Pirated Medicine
There is a iOS app that acts as a client to specifically connect to code-server instances. It removes the chrome from the web browser and makes things like copy/paste easier. IIRC, it was much more pleasant than the PWA version (but it’s been a while since I meaningfully used it).

Serveditor is the one I’m thinking of. Not sure if it is still around or not. There were paid plans for them to host your backend, or it was free if you had your own server.
A bit off-topic, but why do people still use the GIF format? The "example-hn.gif" is 8.5MB, for 45 seconds of pretty stuttery video. I converted it to a similar looking VP9 video, and it was only 1.5MB, and with AV1 I got it down to 550KB with basically lossless quality.
I'm not obsessed with your credentials, I can just tell you haven't read much of the literature.
There are some wild takes in the comments here that seem to imply it’s all just a whim of some random judge. But that’s not what happened at all, and I recommend that anyone interested in having a more informed opinion on the matter read about it somewhere other than on X (because of the obvious bias).

A somewhat simplified timeline of events (in mt understanding of the events) is:

The judge ordered the temporary ban of a few accounts during the investigation of the riots in the National Congress after the last election.
The accounts were banned, but Musk ordered them to be unbanned.
A fine was then stipulated for each day the accounts remained active.
The fines kept accumulating, and Musk stated that X would neither pay the fees nor ban the accounts.
The judge called the legal representative to give explanations.
The order was again ignored.
The judge threatened the legal representative with arrest.
X closed all offices and dismissed all personnel in Brazil.
The judge warned that having a legal representative in the country is a legal requirement and gave a few days for a new one to be appointed.
No representative was appointed, and X was banned in the country.
The judge argued that X and SpaceX are under the same monetary umbrella and blocked the accounts of SpaceX in Brazil to pay the fines.
A supreme court committee voted and said the judge’s orders on blocking X were legal.
There is still debate about whether SpaceX can be held accountable for X’s fines.
SE Linux - A tool conceived by the NSA to discourage users from hardening their systems.
It’s part of Reaganomics. Buybacks weren’t explicitly illegal beforehand though, it just wasn’t clear when they would count as stock price manipulation.
Taken that most of the Earth surface is empty uninhabited lands and oceans -- no biggie. Most probably.
Thanks for the hint, a usage based model looks way more attractive to me right now.
Just make an LLM spit out a Metallic song, that will fix that.
> remember that TSMC is built entirely on the back of ASML;

Probably a few people east of the Netherlands have noticed and are doing something about it.
Yeah, it has a lot to do with selfishness. More housing means more people means you have a lower property value for you home in the area. Further, it means your vote becomes less powerful as the poors that live in the high rise have the same voting power as you do in your single family home.
I see that you mention Microsoft’s GraphRAG. My understanding is that a key part of their approach is hierarchical agglomeration of graph clusters to be able to answer wide questions from the graph. Is that in the works?
Part of the problem is what is available. If you're a Japanese or a Taiwanese, that detached single family home with a massive garden around it is simply not an option, so you don't feel worst off than anyone else by living in a small house or in a high rise.

Other advantage is that keeping cities very dense and preventing urban sprawl means everyone has access to nature quickly, through public transports.
>"We’ve identified a new mountain to climb that’s a bit different from what I was working on previously. We’re not trying to go down the same path faster. If you do something different, then it becomes possible for you to do something special."

Doesn't really imply let's just do more LLMs.
Wow I really like my keyboard
Nor I, I actually live in a country where Amazon mostly does not work. It's how most, if not all major publications talk about Amazon. I see it as part of a narrative of "oh no, anyway", and an attempt to ensure apathy to the whole situation. It's absolutely not an attempt to get us to think critically about how, and from where we consume. If the narrative that Amazon is abusive to their staff, _but we're not going to do anything about it_ like we are told, then we won't think further into other major problems in our western supply chain.
> Musk only owns 40% of SpaceX so he's not the majority shareholder.

The judge's order says otherwise (https://noticias-stf-wp-prd.s3.sa-east-1.amazonaws.com/wp-co... page 35):

"O grupo econômico de fato liderado por ELON MUSK, com atuação em território nacional, engloba entre outras empresas a X BRASIL INTERNET LTDA, a STARLINK BRAZIL SERVIÇOS DE INTERNET e a STARLINK BRAZIL HOLDING LTDA, diretamente ligadas à SPACE EXPLORATION HOLDINGS, LLC, cujo controle acionário é de ELON MUSK, que detém 50,5% de suas ações, sendo que 78,7% das ações com direito a voto lhe pertencem, conforme demonstrado no comunicado da Federals Comunications Comission, obtido no endereço eletrônico [...]"

Though it's possible that the judge and you are looking at different companies; you might be looking at the USA company, while the judge might be looking at a separate holding company which is the parent of the Brazilian companies.
"On Debian the users have to set everything up.” — this sentiment is directly parallel to how BSDs see themselves as providing a whole consistent operating system, Linux meanwhile just wants to ship a kernel."

Linux is just an OS kernel. If you want a consistent OS, use RHEL, Ubuntu, Fedora, Android or something else.
some criminals which were condened by a failled coup in 1/8/2022 and where in house arrest , most like the ones which was condened in US for the 1/6/2020 trump coup, so, they are condened criminals
War or genocide is just an end, not some perpetual state of affairs. The negative effects of diversity can be seen everywhere, and in places where it’s not seen there is no real diversity— as in the seemingly distinguishing traits of the parties are significantly overridden by commonalities.
>> I'm often confused if they are on the phone or not.

Yeah cause there’s long pauses I guess.

I get the impression they’re talking to their wives.

Maybe just talking to family/buddies.

Perhaps these long running low intensity conversations are what Amazon wants to stamp out.
I agree that boycotting Amazon is not the answer, but government action might be. And government action only happens if the politicians think enough of their constituency thinks something is a problem.
Really wish one of the billionaires would fund a publishing house that worked off a very different model than the Copyright Protection Scheme that the current majors used. Something that would allow authors to capture upsides, publishers to recoup, and information to spread freely.

Patronage? Large Advances + Subscriptions?

Something besides what we have now. Writing a 200 - 300 page book takes fair bit of effort and time that is not directly compensated, hence advances and the upside of royalties.
Yes, they did. Anything else? Is your car a Soviet made car? How about your clothes? Computers? Furniture? Books? Anything in your dwelling?

Back in the heyday(!) of the USSR, tourists would routinely fill their luggage with blue jeans to sell on the black market there.
A lot of these regulations are regulation on speed not noise. I expect some governments will be amenable to changing their speed restrictions to decibel restrictions (which Boom claims they can comply with).

If not, there's always trans-oceanic flights.
I agree but I also think it’s even worse than you explained because it’s always the bottom tier that gets squeezed the most. So if Amazon was, by some miracle, to get financially hit by people shopping elsewhere, those delivery drivers would still see the blunt end of further cost savings.
Very much not a surprise. I think the Internet Archive is providing an invaluable service to humanity in preserving works that would otherwise be lost to time. it is one of the crown jewels of the Internet, doing a job that nobody else is willing to do. But at the same time I know the courts side with publishers pretty much every time and copyright law being such as it is they're totally screwed. The only real question is how many trillions dollars will the judgment be. Preserving history is at odds with the profit motive, and lawmakers care a lot more about the latter than the former.
My Onyx BOOX has at best a background comparable to very dirty newsprint.

I find myself reading with the frontlight on under most indoors circumstances, unless I'm in direct sunlight. With the frontlight, it's fine. Text may be somewhat more washed out, but that bothers me less than a darkish background.

Under sunlight the contrast is actually about perfect, as white paper tends to be too blindingly bright.

My tablet has several layers: capacitive touch, Wacom, and frontlight, all of which probably contribute to the lower contrast.

Mind: I'm addressing your "bad contrast" question. I find the trade-offs reasonable, and for reading ebooks (as opposed to Web browsing or other app use), the frontlight battery consumption is quite reasonable.

If I'm just using the device casually (e.g., listening to podcasts or checking something quickly) it's fine to use w/o the frontlight, but for immersive reading I'll either have a strong reading light, frontlight, or head for a convenient sunbeam.
I imagine Sudan was the same before the famine and bloody civil wars started.
Most so called fundamental constants appear in the relationships between physical quantities only as a consequence of choosing arbitrary units.

It is possible to eliminate almost all fundamental constants by choosing so-called natural units for the base physical quantities, for instance the elementary charge as the unit of electric charge.

For all fundamental constants that can be eliminated by choosing natural units it makes no sense to discuss about changes of them.

Nevertheless, even when a natural system of units is used, there remain 2 fundamental constants (plus a few other fundamental constants that are used only in certain parts of quantum field theory).

The 2 important fundamental constants that cannot be eliminated are the Newtonian constant of gravitation, which is a measure of the intensity of the gravitational interaction, and a second fundamental constant that is a measure of the intensity of the electromagnetic interaction, which is frequently expressed as the so-called constant of the fine structure.

The meaning of the constant of the fine structure is that it is the ratio between the speed of light in vacuum and the speed of a charged particle with unit charge, like an electron, that rotates around another charged particle with unit charge, which is much heavier, like a nucleus, in the state with the lowest possible energy, i.e. like the ground state of a hydrogen atom, but where the nucleus would have infinite mass. The speed of the rotating particle is a measure of the strength of the electromagnetic interaction between two elementary charges.

So the only fundamental constants for which there could be a evolution in time are those that characterize the strengths of the electromagnetic interaction and of the gravitational interaction (and also the fundamental constants that characterize the strengths of the nuclear strong interactions and nuclear weak interactions).

The values of these fundamental constants that characterize the strengths of the different kinds of interactions determine the structure of the Universe, where the quarks are bound into nucleons, the nucleons are bound into nuclei, the nuclei are bound into atoms, the atoms are bound into molecules, the molecules are bound into solid or fluid bodies, which are bound by gravitation into big celestial bodies, then into stellar systems, then into galaxies, then into groups of galaxies.

Any changes in the strengths of the fundamental interactions would lead to dramatic changes in the structure of matter, which are not seen even in the distant galaxies.

So any changes in time of the true fundamental constants are very unlikely, while changes in the constants that appear as a consequence of choosing arbitrary units are not possible (because such fundamental constants are fixed by conventions, e.g. by saying that the speed of light in vacuum is 299,792,458 m/s).
This is why in my system I have more specific, falsifiable metrics: freshness, confidence, etc. which come together to create a fitness score at the surface-level, while still exposing individual metrics in the API.
As you see in sibling replies, in many industries where a given hand writable concept has intellectual property value readily assessed in the millions to billions, and/or the deliverable itself may be in written or sketch form, it's quite often true that:

(a) employees aren't allowed to have/use their own paper notebooks in the first place

(b) if they do, then, yes, the notebooks don't leave unless Security reviews (if removal is even allowed)

However, any number of such traditional approaches stop working when remote work is a thing.

Technologies are needed if a firm wishes to retain the same level of awareness of what's happening to its IP while allowing employee flexibility (which, hopefully, firms are learning they should strive to allow).
I think that wasn't just a urban myth, like AFIK (and that could be wrong) it did happen but only rarely and only under certain conditions etc.
Read the Docs: 10 years of sustainable open source
“If libraries were invented today they would be illegal”
> A transformer can perform any computation it likes in a forward pass

No it can't.

A transformer has a fixed number of layers - call it N. It performs N sequential steps of computation to derive it's output.

If a computation requires > N steps, then a transformer most certainly can not perform it in a forward pass.

FYI, "attention is all you need" has the implicit context of "if all you want to build is a language model". Attention is not all you need if what you actually want to build is a cognitive architecture.
I don’t disagree that it’s non-trivial, but we’re comparing this to conciousness, intelligence, even life. Personally I think it’s apples and an orange grove, but I guess we’ll get our answer eventually. Pretty sure we’re on the path to take transformers to their limit, wherever that may be
I do think LLMs have their place in search and I think the Kagi approach feels a lot better than Googles'. Kagi doesn't inject LLM results anywhere, but they've been making LLMs accessible in their search interface for a long while - this being the most evolved version of that effort. I am not totally sold on everything they are doing but I hate their integration of LLMs the least.
Laws agains this kind of workplace environments seem best long term.

Still, with the source being one “we were told” I guess we’re not sure if this is this official; this could be a manager’s threat or someone’s inaccurate understanding of what the camera is actually monitoring.

Ventriloquism, face masks or humming in the meantime then. Or quitting, like the author of the linked post - perhaps best for now.
It's not clear from the post how to access this new assistant. The search page has no such option (not a paying user). When I run a search, I only see an LLM based summary of the results similar to Google's.

Update: I see now that they say it's not available for free users. Need to pay $25/month. Not sure why, they can offer it for free users with the cheaper models like they do now to generate a "quick answer". I'm not going to pay to try it out.
Lots of counties do precisely that, and for exactly that reason. And, as others have noted, it's likely to reduce the talking-on-cellphone, which studies have shown is just as distracting and likely to cause an accident hands-free as holding the phone.
> Whereas on Telegram, I'm having fun

I guess I fail to see the need for having fun in a messaging app. Signal covers all my major requirements, Telegram, while fun, does not.
One thing I seldom see discussed is how if you're attracting the best and brightest it is leaving the original country poor. These places invest in their children hoping that they'll start businesses and then all that investment just ends up going to those countries that are already the richest.

I certainly don't blame anyone for wanting to move to improve their situation (I did it too!) but I wonder if developing countries would have caught up to the West decades ago if this brain drain wasn't going on.
Did you completely gloss over the very next statement wherein I admonished Musk's circumstantial and inconsistent ideology/attitude towards censorship?
This seems to me like the apotheosis of Jef Raskin's Humane Interface - super cool!
What part of moving your mouth leads to distracted driving? Talking with other people, especially on the phone, is not in any way a significant cause of distraction.
There's a quarry in the Chicago area, quite close to the city and visible from the interstate, that's over 100 yards deep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton_Quarry#/media/File:Th.... Digging such a deep hole isn't ridiculous at all. Also, as the video shows, landfills usually rise a significant height above the surrounding land (and are converted into a hilly park when finished).
What are these standard design principals?
I think it's reasonable to require "no talking on phones" and I'd even go so far as to say "no listening to music" when you're driving a large commercial truck on the public roads.

If you think this is strict, have a look at what UPS requires of its drivers. They have very specific rules for how to do everything related to delivering packages and operating the vehicles. And not that I've specifically focused on it, but I can't recall ever hearing music playing in a UPS truck.
It's been 6 years since I've been there. I'm sure they've made developments since then.

I also think these comments along the lines of "what about X" are unhelpfully reductivist/dismissive. The whole point is that it's a research project. If you can think of a better way to make ephemeral room-sized computing work - cool, let's try that! Just because it worked some way when I was there in 2018 or some way in the video doesn't mean that's the end vision for how it will always be.

This isn't a product. It's a vision for the future.
Uhm, Holland is here and there below sea level but the rivers aren't. Escher probably could have drawn a map where this could happen, but in reality we still need the rivers to be higher than the sea.

edit: canals and baby rivers are lower indeed, they are pumped out and locked
For users of both, how does this compare to searchGPT, in terms of results quality and quantity?