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We went from no start ups to leading innovator in less than a week.

Well done lads, well done!
By definition creating a new technology is difficult. Most of the startups YC funds are based on small variations to proven technologies. At the point they’ve been funded, you’re not doing fundamental research.
You can sign macOS executables without macOS hardware
Did you watch that video you recommended? Might need a rewatch.

1. My diesel, like most now is a turbo. Pumping losses are not relevant.

2. 30% lower combustion temp relates to that level of efficiency loss

3. The EGR is open A LOT to keep NOx down from a modern diesel.

3. The COMBO of PCV and all the soot from EGR is the exact problem. The oil from PCV wouldn’t coke in the intake tract without the soot, its oil mist. You pop open an engine with PCV and no EGR and the intake tracts are a little oily. Open a diesel with EGR and you see what it looks like in that video.

Regarding electric, what’s the range of the available electric tow vehicle that costs 50k and can tow 18,000 lbs with 10% of that on the rear axle? -inf because it doesn’t exist.

I had an electric car, I’m all for it for single vehicle travel. For actual towing, like I use my truck for, it’s going to take a step change in battery capacity. I would welcome a heavy hybrid in the style of modern trains, I’ll spend more than I make up in fuel economy to purchase it.
That's the only way I know of. You tell some code for a game, and if you enter it you get some small rewards. That's how some streamers get a bit of pay.

Of course, the issue is that communities (and AI slop) will just coalesce the codes into one place, often without credit. I'm guessing this still helps affiliates, but it loses the advantage of more traffic.
Horizon Forbidden West was ported from PS to PC. Decima is an engine from Sony’s first-party studio, so it's understandable that their development process would lean more towards PS's internal architecture rather than the more common GPUs on the market. Of course, even general-purpose engines can perform better on PS5, AMD, or NV. But, for these engines, they have less information about how customers will use the engines, so there's less infomation can be used to optimize. On the other side, customers using these engines often don’t have enough experience optimizing sufficiently for each platform. None of this is absolute, but I think this logic is reasonable.

For game developers using these engines, if they take optimization seriously, they typically make adjustments to lighting, LOD, loading, and model details or shaders on console platforms to achieve a similar visual effect while meeting the targeted performance goals. This is why you usually get better performance on a console at the same price point compared to a PC, aside from the subsidies provided by Sony.
But why should VC money be limited to Internet technologies?
Yeah there’s no need to do that. Cooperative autonomous vehicles would make congestion near zero. In fact it would be like a self assembling train in all directions. The value of the train goes down dramatically when you factor commuting to and from the stations if you can eliminate human drivers. Vehicles would be high speed and capable of essentially congestion free transit by using basic graduate level control theory. I don’t think China built them something particularly useful in 10 years.
The original sin of Amazon has always been how it treats its warehouse staff. There is just no way you can isolate that to one part of your org. Eventually some sociopath will see what they can get away with and decide to apply the same principles to everyone.
With the # in parens being success rate, the timing makes little sense to me.

A TCP connection with 10% loss will work and transfer (it's gonna suck) and be very very very slow but their TCP 10% loss example is faster somehow?

TCP being reliable will just get slower with loss until it eventually can't transmit any successful packets within some TCP timeout (or some application-level timeout).

Even a 50% packet loss connection will work, within some definitions of the word "work" and also this brings up the biggest missing point in that chart: this all depends heavily on latency.

50% loss on a connection with 1ms latency is much more tolerable than 1% loss on a connection with 1000ms latency and will transfer faster (caveats around algorithms and other things apply, but this is directionally correct).

A real chart for this would be a graph where X is the % of packet loss and Y is the latency amount with distinct lines per protocol (really one line per defined protocol configuration, eg tcp cubic w/nagle vs without and with/without some device doing RED in the middle or different RED configurations, etc, many parameters to test here).

If this sounds negative, it's not, I think the research around effective high-latency protocols is very interesting and important. I was thinking recently (probably due to all the SpaceX news) about what the internet will look like for people on the moon or on mars. The current internet will just not work for them at all. We will require very creative solutions to make a useful open internet connections which isn't locked down to Apple/Facebook/Google/X/Netflix/etc.
You can't really be blamed though, the language in the paper does seem to state what you originally said. Might be a matter of taste but I don't think it's quite accurate.

The prior work they referenced actually did account for finite precision cases and why they didn't think it was useful to prove the result with those premises.

In this work they simply argued from their own perspective why finite precision made more sense.

The whole sub-field is kinda messy and I get quoted differing results all the time.

Edit: Also, your original point stands, obviously. Sorry for nitpicking on your post, but I also just thought people should know more about the nuances of this stuff.
Not developer program revenue. At every turn where they have a choice, Apple does the same thing: sell devices increasingly locked to their own ecosystem, and sell it as a feature to protect folks. This strategy works really well: they actually have folks arguing that giving all Apple users fewer choices is a feature.

They have been ratcheting down on freedom in OS X (and then MacOS) since 2011 or so when I stopped using Apple for personal use. The introduction of the Mac App Store, subsequent lackluster performance, and introduction of scary warnings about running unsigned code in MacOS tell most all of the story. This latest update is just another step in that direction, making running unsigned code that much more difficult. The obvious endgame is to raise the next generation of Mac users to only use the Mac App Store for software, effectively replicating the golden goose that the iOS App Store has proven to be.
I usually read or sleep on the commute because I can take the train. It never really bothered me much because I like to sleep and read. Are all these negative comments about the commuting because you have to drive to work?
I suppose I can imagine that there's C level pressure from their relationship with a mayor of, idk, Palo Alto for a headquarters, or a new build in Austin, but couldn't that also be offset by pressure from smaller governments in areas that are looking to do "digital nomad" revitalization?

Various aspects of the Taiwan government, including the national level, are engaging in big digital nomad pushes. Small counties like Taidong in particular have been actively exploring revitalization through incentive programs, exploratory "hacker house" type events, and engaging with NGOs in the field to advise on how they can get more digital nomads into their county.
These sorts of codes are not really the thing you want for RAID-N. They work best with coding groups of thousands of packets or more.

For adding redundant blocks to a read-mostly/only file (e.g. to correct for sector errors) they could be useful indeed. as that's a case where you might have a few dozen correction packets protecting millions. I'd really like to see some FS develop support for file protection because on SSDs I'm seeing a LOT more random sector failures that disk failures.

RS codes are optimal for erasures so you really only want to use something else where there are so many packets in the group that RS code performance would be poor... or where a rateless code would be useful.
Rebel bridge in real :)
Right. It’s an accurate quote but that doesn’t mean it’s an accurate analysis.

Not only did they not seem to understand the possibilities in front of them, their chips were not well positioned at all to win. They were too hot and too power-hungry because Intel didn’t care much about efficiency at the time.

They were taking the “shrink a big chip” path. Apple, using ARM from Samsung then their own
, ended up taking the “grow a little chip” path.

Which is a little bit ironic because Intel made their fortune on the “little” desktop processor that grew up to take over all the servers from main frames and the “big boy“ server chips like the SPARC and Alpha.

They became the big boys and history started repeating.
Let’s start with Larry’s office.
How Did the First Cells Arise? With a Little Rain, Study Finds.
This is the geopolitics of scale that West is playing against at the moment which easily showcases the intent behind “unrestrained” immigration that is taking place in certain parts of the world. Make no mistake, it’s all planned.

Simply put: you need to throw many many bodies at the problem to even have a shot at keeping up with China. Collectively, the West is way behind in this regard.
Who do you think is going to replace the workers that leave due to forced RTO?
> Besides, is YouTube any worse in this regard than what came before it? Substance-free reality TV predates YouTube.

I extend the same criticisms towards traditional television as well.

They're both just symptoms of the advertising problem. Advertisers are the enablers of this stuff. They'll back any content that draws attention, and the ones which draw the most are memes, controversy, generally negative value slop. People endlessly scrolling apps with infinite content being fed instant gratification with product offerings in between. Algorithms that actively push them towards controversy and hate because it maximizes "engagement".
> Only if the data is available in iCloud and it is stored in files and it is not encrypted.

Health data is available in there, just to go after your example. iPhone backups are also available in there.

At no point am I being asked anything else beyond my Apple ID, password, and two-step approval on another device (such as the Mac) to set up a new iPhone and download all my data.

Thus the outcome is that the Mac indeed has everything it needs to get access to all your iCloud data. In fact, reverse-engineering how to get it directly is unnecessary work - instead, just reverse-engineer enough to capture the Apple ID password (or prompt to it - given there's still no way for the user to tell a real system dialog from one drawn by malware) and approve the 2FA prompt, get an actual, real iPhone and sign into the person's account and then extract all the data from there (via screenshots if necessary).
They could have AMD provide a compatibility layer for the GPU (although this might be a bad idea), but implementing an AMD compatibility layer on Intel/NV clearly seems like an even worse idea.
But at least you might be able to run the already compiled shaders in compatibility mode?
K = Kilometrage? Kilometers-per-liter?
> They almost all use off-the-shelf middleware and game engines that are built to support all of the platforms. The companies that do go through that effort tend to have very notable releases.
Which is why we are seeing return to office right now.
It's like Mckenzie Wark's argument in Gamer Theory that no matter what civ you play in Civilization, the win condition is alway becoming America.
https://www.futureofthebook.org/gamertheory/index.html@p=102...
https://archive.ph/OZuY0
There was no backwards compatibility between the PS3 and PS4 whatsoever (except for PS Plus allowing cloud-based game streaming of some PS3 titles), and Sony survived that as well.

What they did was offer some old PS2 games for purchase, though, which allowed them to tap into that very large back catalog. I could see something like this happen for a hypothetical Intel PS6 as well (i.e. skipping PS5 backwards compatibility and tapping into the large catalog of PS4 and PS4/PS5 games).
I consider myself pretty competitive. I'm in a top 5 CS PhD program, have published several first author conference papers in top-tier conferences in my field, and I consider computer science to be a big part of my identity.

That being said, I feel that I have a pretty good grasp on "academic competitiveness" and can distinguish that from what I'm describing above (which I'm calling "computer science personality disorder"). It truly is a behavior that appears unique to our field and I feel that it drives a lot of smart, collaborative, and supportive people to leave.
I'm not sure I like the idea. I was thinking more about how great it would be to joint Whatsapp groups without having that spyware installed. But allowing Whatsapp users into Matrix chats would let Meta into these chats as well, which kind of (almost) defeats the purpose of not having Whatsapp installed in the first place.
Using CoT implicitly increases the depth of the circuit. But yes, poorly worded.
People have been wishcasting the end of dedicated GPUs for like 20 years now.

It's nice that they're slowly improving, that every Apple Silicon Mac has a half-decent integrated GPU, that ML upscaling is pretty good if you want "4K". But they really don't come close to an NVIDIA card at 200-400W.
Fortunately the baby is safe.
What’s the protocol actually?

All I can see are hardcoded ping/pong “meow” messages going over a hardcoded client and server.

But maybe the ping/pong is part of the protocol?

It’s not clear.

Anyway, this redundancy-based protocol doesn’t seem to take into account that too many packets over the network can be a cause of bad, “overloaded” network conditions.

Raptorq is a nice addition, though.
Is there any place building a factory is easy?
Sony has historically invested a lot into backwards compatibility, going as far as shipping the previous gen's GPU and/or CPU with the PS2, initial PS3 models, and the PS Vita.

PS3 compatibility on the PS4 was notably absent, though.
The obvious reason is that the best music ever produced happened to coincide with my own youth. Right?
Great answer. Denuvo and other heavy anti-piracy tools are also sometimes used for releases on PCs which can seriously impact performance.
I've been predicting a "Steam of mobile" for a while now, a place to curate for those console ports or 2008-2012 style premium mobile games. I'm baffled that it looks like Epic might beat Valve to such an endeavor. Seemed like such an obvious slam dunk (really just a matter of talking to like, 10-20 indie devs with games on mobile already like Stardew. Then the audience and other devs will follow), but I suppose Steam isn't exactly strap for cash to try.

I suppose in all fairness it was well deserved of Epic. Valve had no interest and Epic's 7+ year war with Apple and Google is probably a part of why no other player has tried this method. Hopefully these changes open the door for other vendors to break that monopoly.
I recently finished Francis Schaeffer's "How Should We Then Live?" and found his conclusions quite timely, considering the book is approaching its 50th anniversary. The latter half of the book specifically dwells on the effects of postmodernism on culture, especially the arts. Watching Rick Beato's criticism of modern music, I can't help but notice how eerily similar it is to Schaeffer's criticisms.

Personally, I've struggled to understand whether I'm suffering from nostalgia or if the era of good music is truly coming to an end. I wasn't able to afford college when I was younger, but I did have an opportunity to take a university level class on music appreciation later in my life. It's what still has me going to the symphony every year. Perhaps if such courses were more affordable/accessible, we might seem some improvements in this area?
IMO it's very costly to compare legroom and is often obscured and switched up. Also people might use 'legroom' to also mean more expansive things like shoulder width of their seat, and that is definately not something you can buy with economy plus. Seat width has shrunk several inches and is universally reduced on all airline by now. To get back to 18/19" seat width, you have to pay double or triple, which seems absurd for a 12% to 20% increase in width.
I would never have received the career support I did online. I’m so lucky I got into software engineering before remote work was a thing.

As a senior engineer, I benefit from remote work. But it’s sad to see those informal lunches replaced with Zoom “coffee.”
I don’t understand what your point is. To express gratitude? That tech workers have privilege? How far are you willing to go down that path? Should we be grateful that we have running water, 24 hour electricity and don’t suffer from constant hunger, because a depressingly large percentage of the worlds population does?

The world has many problems and we have to deal with them and with our own. The people that are in this forum are incredibly privileged. I don’t think it helps any kind of argument to keep bringing it up though.
The DMA is about preventing gatekeepers from using arbitrary restrictions to prevent competition. It does not try to predict and anticipate every possible example nor solution.

The existence of competitor would by itself be enough proof to the fact that Apple is not restricting competition. But for such a competitor to exist, they would require enough assurance that the business will be viable and they won't get sued out of existence.

Apple either publishing the protocol or at the very least publishing an official licensing agreement allowing anyone to reverse-engineer and reimplement said protocol would achieve this.
> China leads or is on par with global leaders in commercial nuclear power and electric vehicles and batteries. It lags behind for now in other key sectors, including robotics, biopharmaceuticals, chemicals, and AI. But it is making rapid progress.

I'm not sure why this is relevant. They're still behind in the primary sectors that Y-Combinator invests in: software.

Certainly China is catching up and it would be naive to sleep on them, but it is magnitudes easier to catch up than it is to lead (e.g. it is magnitudes easier to learn calculus than to invent it). It is hard to make serious predictions without understanding how to lead in certain niches and a broad overview of the economy will not tell us too much about specific sectors. There's plenty of niches that Europe leads the US (and China) in too. But the conversation is all pretty complicated. And success in one sector or niche does not seem to be a strong predictor of innovation in others. Similarly success in catching up does not seem to be a strong predictor of ability to lead. This is all related to the Middle Income trap and China has probably come out the other side but it's not clear yet and this is all very fuzzy.

FWIW, I want to see more competition on the global scale. Everyone benefits if there is healthy competition. Though this can also lead to war if things get too competitive. But if our main method of "war" is "making shit better and cheaper so everyone buys from us" then bring it on! (Maybe we can get a "war" where countries flaunt their impressiveness by bringing about post scarcity. I'm certain that that country and leader will be remembered all throughout history as one who set forth an entirely new paradigm of human civilization. AND this is /reasonably/ feasible, though no easy task)
takes one to know one; i have actual ADHD. having a doctor’s note does not alter the facts of the situation.

as for “libertarian”: principle vs practice. think of the Christians. local businessman has the Gospels on his lips, has the checkbook wide-open for the church, but when that secretary is looking sweet and juicy…
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> If no one cared what other people thought, why are we even talking on here.

We hate ourselves and have nothing better to do?

> Also, how would you apply your logic to the school shooter question?

I wouldn’t pat yourself on the back quite so hard for finding this attempt at a clever gotcha. I thought by ignoring it you’d get the message that it wasn’t as good as you thought it was.

But nevertheless, I would say that they were successful in reaching their goals but that I find their goals and actions abhorrent. I don’t feel the need to add that final qualification to MrBeast’s goals and actions.
The $130m in tax and penalties are likely puny compared to the value of the equity the original donors could have gotten.

I think if Elon can convert his donations into equity, he wouldn’t have sued.
Yes please improve surf forecasting!
As someone who has spent the last 50 years encountering the song "Yummy Yummy, Yummy (I've Got Love in My Tummy)", which charted at #4 in the US in 1968 and has regrettably never really gone away, I'm hard-pressed to think of literally any song I've heard that's worse.

No, I haven't convinced you? 1969 #1 hit "Sugar, Sugar" by the Archies.

1969. The Beatles. The Stones. Jimi. Aretha. Otis. Leonard Cohen. The Kinks.

No. Turn on the radio. Yummy, Yummy Yummy I've Got Love in My Tummy. When you get to my age, and you hear that damned song for the thousandth time, you just want to give up. No amount of Katy Perry or Justin Bieber or whoever is going to be worse. Ever.
> Isn’t this a good thing since compute and be scaled so that the LLM can do generations of human thinking in a much shorter amount of time?

But it can't. There isn't enough planet.

> The major assumption here is that transformers can indeed solve every problem humans can.

No, the major assumptions are (a) that ChatGPT can, and (b) that we can reduce the resource requirements by many orders of magnitude. The former assumption is highly-dubious, and the latter is plainly false.

Transformers are capable of representing any algorithm, if they're allowed to be large enough and run large enough. That doesn't give them any special algorithm-finding ability, and finding the correct algorithms is the hard part of the problem!