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> This is kinda intractable. It's tough for someone without housing to be a productive member of society. It's tough for an addict to get or maintain housing. It's tough to get sober. It's tough^2 to get sober on the streets.

That's why we need locked mandatory rehabs. That don't give any choice to addicts.

> If our goal is to encourage sobriety, I don't think the solution is locking people up.

I don't care at all what people smoke, and I don't think that a sober society should be a goal (FWIW, I'm a teetotaler).

It's the particular drugs that are problematic. You just can't live in a society if you're on fentanyl+meth. They are even worse than opium or heroin.

> "Physical" withdrawals are short and relatively easy to deal with, it's the other baggage that needs to be dealt with.

Sigh. No. Fentanyl is worse than heroin for withdrawals. Even medically assisted withdrawals are deeply uncomfortable.

But that's far from the worst part, fentanyl (especially when used with meth) rewires the brain, so normal activities just stop being pleasurable and/or even trigger the drug craving. And it can take years to return to normal. That's why the success rate for fentanyl/meth treatment is something around 5%.

Substitution therapy (suboxone/methadone) is also not particularly effective. Canada even tried to give addicts medical-grade prescription opioids ("Safer Opioid Supply" program in BC), and addicts were selling them on the streets to get money to buy fentanyl.

It's really, really bleak.
> Because Tesla and Musk bad... or something of the sort.

No, spec bad. Protocol unknown. Poof

edit:
> This is the way it goes here in HN for anything related to Musk.

Nobody mentioned Musk ... Except you.
I'm a little less grizzled, but I'm so glad I never have to deal with shuffling around broken hardware anymore, much less diagnosing the most inane, obscure bugs due to the hardware slowly crapping out. I've lost so much sleep to shit hardware and unstable, untrustworthy colos. APIs and automation rather than cage monkeys, IPMI, expect and crossed fingers. The Cloud is my church and I've seen the light, hallelujah.
As a tween, living in the idyllic shadow of high-tension transmission lines, I would frolic in the warm summer rain with warbling gay frogs, sampling a bowl of thick, delicious paint chips, and sipping fluoridated water from a tall glass with a little pink umbrella, and see how I turned out!
> elect

Pakistan is and has always been run by the army. It sounds bad, but in 2024, radical populists such as Imran Khan sound even worse.

One option is to twist their arm into good economic policy using loans. Wold Bank has already attempted this and failed.

The other option is to intervene. Pakistan has nukes. You can't intervene.
Assuming Windows games, developed for Windows, keep runing in Proton and Microsoft doesn't come up with specific Windows API requirements not possible in Proton, like plugging into Pluton that is now a requirement for upcoming PCs.
We are seriously considering moving downwards from a dedicated server to some kind of BYOD/co-location.

1) Our server is at least 5 years old but you are still paying a high monthly charge. We have probably paid back 5 times its cost already (I know this includes power/air-con etc)

2) Even a recent quote for another 256GB RAM was quoted at $1200 install and $300 PER MONTH!

3) We find that the support are not quite good enough for anything other than the basics. We had a network performance issue that we insisted was something in their infra and they denied it, it was only after I used Wireshark to prove the problem that they finally found it. YMMV of course.

4) We run some test Hypervisors and then only support Windows + Hyper-V (or VMWare on their "cloud"). I don't mind Windows except the monthly Windows updates are very slow and tedious and require VMs to be shutdown.

5) We are getting performance issues because ultimately, each Hypervisor has one disk (might be RAID1) and 10 VMs all writing to it, this seems to have affected throughput, particularly on build agents which write a lot of stuff to disk.

On the plus side:

1) We get 24 hour support for major outages, whether caused by them or us. They obviously can't fix anything we have broken but we at least have someone to call if the network seems to have gone down, for example.

2) We can have additional equipment run up reasonably quickly without having to purchase it or go to site.

If we move to co-location, we can probably get an amazing server with 4 disks and 1024GB RAM for less than $10K, run Xen or Proxmox on it and get much better performance, although whether they would charge much less is the question. I don't know how many co-loc providers want people with only 1 or 2 servers, I guess they prefer the big corps who want to move 10 racks worth of stuff there.
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I’m not labeling it, Hezbollah isn’t part of the Lebanese state it’s a non state actor.

If it would be it would be different but it also means that the Lebanese state would be directly liable for its actions.
More like Valve will eventually get its OS/2 moment.
Out of curiosity, what degree of quantization are you applying to these 70B models?
Cool, but hardly it was cheaper than just buying iPhone 16 Pro 1TB storage option.
Internet speeds and prices are all over the place in the US. I pay $60 per month for 1Gb synchronous fiber (which really performs at 1.2 synchronous, yay me) at my house and $60 per month for 500/30 cable internet at my rental. Two different areas three postal codes apart with different vendors, prices, and products (even when the vendor is available in both).

The way we sliced up space for utilities (lots of legal shared monopolies/guided capitalism) and their desire to build the last mile in their area leads to many different prices and products within a walkable distance. Before that 500/30 service showed up the best we had was unreliable 200/15 from another provider.
Not OP, but I also am in the same boat as him, and my logic is:

1. AI accelerating inequality does not mean that it won't have it's benefits

2. Being anti-AI will not stop it from happening. For better or for worse this train has left the station

3. I don't think that this will happen on the timescale that people talk about (not even sure if it will happen in our lifetimes). I don't mean it in the way I'll be dead so not my problem so much as that I think society will have a lot more time to adapt then the CEOs of the major AI labs like to claim.

It's along the same lines of being a nuclear energy engineer, and thinking that nuclear bombs accelerate war and suffering. You can dream and plan and hope for a future with unlimited clean energy, but still realize the injustice brought about by nuclear weapons.

You can have noble goals and do good with the tools at your disposal, and still recognize the harm that those tools have upon society. It can even be a source of motivation to leverage the tools to their fullest potential, to make their benefit worth all of the cost.
Be a business owner and pay $50k to have dinner with them in order to ask them to. Or run as a candidate just to get the voters talking about your idea so your opponent has to appear to consider it.
Apple developed the x86 translation layer for its own OS, not a third party OS.
People who play phone games wont convert to playing desktop games. My mother-in-law has spent untold amounts of money on candy crush, on her iPhone, has a 10 year old windows desktop and talks shit about her daughter playing videogames games from time to time. If you've got some data saying the correlation is very high, alright. But I don't believe it is.

Also, where is Apple's responsibility in all this? Steam this, Steam that. Apple changes arch, doesn't support vulkan and removes 32-bit support and then it's Steam's job to chase Apple? EA, Ubisoft, CD Project, Epic and Actiblizzard all also have store fronts and don't care to support mac. They could all be asleep behind the wheel, true. Or it could be that Apple makes it too annoying to support a platform that would barely yield any sales.

If Steam, a tiny company in comparison, and Codeweavers, also an tiny company in comparison, can get games to run on Proton+Linux then I'm pretty sure that Apple, with a little help from their trillion dollars, can manage something. But they also don't care cause Steam wont give 30%, which is Steam's fault of course.
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Thanks, I didn't know any this. I'll look into it more.

But I'm still just confused by the decisions being made over at Apple. I understand hand holding those who don't know much but they do realize that the reason their device is so common among engineers is because it's not too dissimilar from Linux, right? Why attack power users? What's being gained? That's what I don't get.
> I've actually started exploring other sane places of community gathering like Reddit

What sane subreddits have you found?
The militants in Warsaw were part of the free state of Poland.

If you are willing to make Hezbollah part of the Lebanese state we can talk.
For a long time eating many small meals throughout the day was advised to keep your metabolism high. Looks like that was completely counterproductive…

Now the advice is to limit eating to an 8 hour range of the day, and possibly fast for a whole day occasionally to decrease your insulin resistance.
If I feed your reply to an llm will it be able to tell me what you’re talking about?

/edit I think it did alright…
I don’t know, look out the window?

The reality is, people there are trying as hard as they can to survive, and it’s shitty and hard, largely due to sociopolitical factors + economic factors which interrelate with their identity.

So good luck changing that without it getting much worse.

For a US comparison, check out the gun control and abortion ‘debate’.
This is an interesting point to get into but the article is light on detail.

The water claim is from an academic paper, I found slightly more detail in another article: “In a paper due to be published later this year, Ren’s team estimates ChatGPT gulps up 500 milliliters of water (close to what’s in a 16-ounce water bottle) every time you ask it a series of between 5 to 50 prompts or questions. The range varies depending on where its servers are located and the season. The estimate includes indirect water usage that the companies don’t measure — such as to cool power plants that supply the data centers with electricity.”

These estimates are partly based on this data: “In its latest environmental report, Microsoft disclosed that its global water consumption spiked 34% from 2021 to 2022 (to nearly 1.7 billion gallons, or more than 2,500 Olympic-sized swimming pools), a sharp increase compared to previous years that outside researchers tie to its AI research.”
If your servers are working fine then chances are you're ISP just isn't using this setup. Some do, some don't.
Try `ipconfig getsummary en0`. It's instant on my machine and dumps plenty of info about the current state of the connection, including the SSID and BSSID.
I am not talking about Valve....
> The blog seems to indicate it is using LoRA. So we should remove the backward param pass from the equation above. Backward param only applies to adaptor weights

Backward pass still runs on the non adapter weights. But yeah 10 TFlops/GPU specially on tiny sequence size is very bad compared to what you can get on Nvidia. And I believe the difference would be even higher with large sequence length.
What does 25/25 mean here? Gbps feels high for the home, but Mbps feels insanely expensive at that rate. (And also I didn't know they did fiber that slow, it's really only available in 1 Gbps and sometimes 500 Mbps here)
This. So many times this has been the cause of the problem. First time someone pointed this out I was amazed at the amount of lint I pulled out and even more amazed that the port was - with some jiggling - able to function at all with all that crap in it.
Yes they do, put requirements on steam like any console vendor.
They definitely wouldn't stop operating in Iran and miss that sweet ad money
Cruelty costs extra
My intentionally inflammatory take: containers are for people who don't know how to write portable software that doesn't depend on random details of their environment they've let leak in.

Containers are a great testing tool. When running your CI pipeline, absolutely, run it in a container environment that looks as close as possible to production. That will help shake out those non-portable, environment-leaking things that do end up in your software sometimes.

And for production itself, sure, run things in containers for isolation, ease of bin-packing, sort of as a poor-man's virtual machine. (Some security benefits, but not as many as some people believe.)

The funny thing is that people who advocate container use in order to duplicate the runtime environment always end up reluctant to update the runtime environment itself. Because then you just have the same problem again: you're using containers because you don't want to have to care about portability and environment leakage... so then you end up with something that doesn't work right when you do more than trivial upgrades to your runtime environment.

When I first started doing backend work ~15 years ago, I came from a background writing desktop and embedded software. I thought backend was some mysterious, mystical thing, but of course it turned out not to be. In some ways backend development is easier than desktop development, where your software has to run well in every random environment imaginable. And when a user reports an issue, you sometimes have to work to duplicate their environment as closely as possible in order to reproduce it. But backend apps mostly run in the same environment all the time, and it's an environment you have access to for debugging. (Certainly backend dev comes with its own new challenges; it's not easier on all axes.)
Like other stores, put them into the contract.
Yes, the article says “engagements are still not allowed under blocks”. Then again, interaction in the general sense can still happen (you can always take a screenshot and post that).
I can see how that might be true: can you cite an example location?
Valve, the store owner, not Valve the game studio.
What I find truly amazing here: an IEEE article where you can just click on the PDF button and actually read the article without hitting you head into a paywall.
The epoxy below the original chip would require a lot more heating to remove than soldering in a plain chip.
Did I miss something, don't they own the Steam Store, SteamDeck and dictate the rules what gets sold there?
They should have had an "ignore" feature from the start, as well as block. They can post all the vile they want, I just don't want to read it.

But IME, the kind of people I want to block are the exact kinds of people that would go through all that effort to keep trying to cause drama.
To be fair, not _just_ in tech. :)
The blocked person can obviously create a new account and bypass that block to some degree, but as other have mentioned it will prevent them from reposting on their main account
> "It's a shame where we live in a world with nutrient-limited degraded ecosystems and also nutrient-rich waste streams. We'd like to see those things come together a little bit,"

Saw a talk about circular economies once. One of the things that stuck in my mind was, "If mankind has any chance of a permanent occupation of earth, the current meaning of the word 'waste' will have to fade away."
> And remember than your phones can be turned into servers

I wouldn't turn a cell phone into a server without also disabling the wireless chipsets somehow. Knowing that some unknown number of people working for your phone manufacturer, your wireless carrier, and Google or Apple have privileged access, including the the ability to remote into your phone at any time and add/delete/modify files and install software, without any notice or even indication to you that something has been done isn't the kind of security/privacy I'd want on a server.
Carpentopod, a 12-legged walking wooden table that can serve drinks or snacks
I don't want to speak for the author but I recently bought the book and he told me he will be updating it. I look forward to it as well.
Considering how Pakistan has been a military dictatorship with a foil of an ostensibly elected government ever since its formation, this is least credible explanation of three situation yet somehow this what you came up with
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I think you mean symmetric fiber
Matt has no reason to step down. He will explain where the monetary claim is coming from - probably the development time promised and not delivered, or the use of the trademark - and then you have two competing narratives. One by the Foss software maker, one by a big enterprise. Why would a relevant part believe wp engine? And even if, how would that harm internal automattic structures in a way that he loses control?

Also, I see no way how this going forward even in front of courts could end up with wp engine replacing WordPress.com.
> You must have missed the part where it says that it's an M1 Mac.

That's certainly one possibility.

> They don't have NVRAM you could clear.

`nvram -p` still works fine on Apple Silicon — though I'm pretty sure it's only modifiable by the kernel these days — but, I haven't had a Mac that needed that wiped for years and years, so I missed that this is all the system image's problem on Apple Silicon now — thanks!

> Once deleted, good luck getting your system working again.

Per the 2021 post linked:

> the only way to recover it is to restore the whole firmware and software image in DFU mode

That's not "good luck" — that is, literally, the documented and expected next step, same as all the other Apple CPU devices, whether they're handheld or laptop or desktop: boot into DFU mode and factory reset it using another device.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/108900

I know the author of the original post is aware of how to do that, and I recognize that they have chosen not to do so. I'm really glad that they explore all this stuff in depth; I don't have a development device to muck around with like they do!
Even then isn't it irresponsible to avoid talk about progress from other labs vs the probability of winter? Either way you could get wiped out hard, investment wise and product/startup wise.
>If you don't want someone to point out your stupid takes don't make them in public.

It's usually the other way around for me. I'd rather not have every post about some game I like devolve into a culture war.
I have a lot of music on my phone. When I’m not in the US (I travel a lot), streaming music will eat up all of my data.
And to remember that UNIXes replaced by GNU/Linux could do static linking without problems.
We used to do that, once I figured out how to stop the rodents.

In the end our local council started collecting food waste which was a lot less hassle for us and we could include bones. We get to collect free compost once a year.
> The reality is, people there are trying as hard as they can to survive, and it’s shitty and hard, largely due to sociopolitical factors + economic factors which interrelate with their identity.

Repeatedly voting for the most corrupt politicians imaginable that mismanage a country into crisis, as the South African electorate does, is not "trying as hard as they can to survive". It's, in fact, doing everything possible to put make surviving more difficult.

> For a US comparison, check out the gun control and abortion ‘debate’.

I'm not really talking about the US, but if Paksitan and South Africa was even 1/10th as well governed as the US it would be awesome.
The research is largely already government-funded (US tax dollars funded or provided funding to every new pharmaceutical approved between 2010-2019, for example), it's just the patents and marketing and pricing and the profits that are private.
similar story for video games. common area being that both industries tend to have significant amount of passionate creators that would happy work this way.

however, do note that people in anime have a trade union unlike most game devs outside of Japan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Animation_Creators_As...).

maybe it starts to make more sense why the gaming arm of a16z wrote this. besides the overlap, there seems to be many things that work similarly between the two industries.
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And when those politicians are using industrialized propaganda and actively pushing everyone’s buttons in a way they can barely see straight, surely it’s the poor farmers fault?

That’s the sociopolitical side.

Why do you think Trump is a still a viable candidate (per the numbers)?

You can call them lazy idiots all you want, it doesn’t change what is happening.

When we can successfully pry the parasite that is what is going on with Trump from out ass, then we can be all high and mighty. Right now the only reason we aren’t literally in the same boat is momentum and capital.
It wouldn't. Give them jobs instead.
When I moved to Hawaii, that was my first time in small-town America and my first time living on an island.

It was impossible to be alone and everyone knows everything if you have any friend group. That bothered me, at first.

For the first… month… I felt like I had to be on my best, most generic, behavior. It made my think twice about hookups and which women to pursue. I distinctly remember being in the backseat of a car playing with glowsticks with a lady, and I was just like “nah.” and left. For superficial reasons along with not being that interested, but thinking about the social consequences more than I would in a big city. I would have made out at least otherwise.

But after that I went super polarizing and things got way more fun. More partying, more raunchiness, more visibly. Some of my other tech transplant friends had an issue, but the far more attractive people I wanted loved it.

and that's why I don’t think constant surveillance will have that specific outcome. Maybe less murder and assault? But people might define themselves and self segregate more greatly than before
I'm using apps deployed with Kamal behind cloudflare and I set up some Traefik things to enable Let's Encrypt certs so the connection from my server to Cloudflare is SSL secured.
What self-respecting conservative member of the population doesn't?
I am not an X user, I remember Elon making a lot of noise about bots, did Elon fixed the bot issues? Or all that noise was an attempt to get a discount.
Apply in what way? That John Mulaney could write a joke about it? He has literally dedicated his life to that skill. Of course he can.
I've read the first chapter and I like it a lot. I find myself way to often hiding business logic as in your first example. Also, showing how to use Java for DoP and combining it with other concepts like OOP encapsulation is very helpful IMO.

Now I'm waiting for two things:

1. Manning allowing me to grab it (forgot password email notifications seems to hang)

2. More chapters :-) ... no, really, just let it roll. Don't rush.
>This just gets rid of the friction.

that's the issue. Look at clickthrough rates and see how much one extra click can cut down on engagement. You want to de-escalate something, or at least try to.

> If I block someone I just don't want to interact with them, I still want them to see me and my friends have fun.

I agree they should have added an ignore feature as well as block. Different approaches for each individual.
Owning either of these makes is a subscription anyway. A guy in my building works for a Land Rover dealer and he says it's embarrassing. They're supposed to take you all over the earth but you'd never take them because they're always broken down. Buy a Ford or Toyota if you want to do any actual overlanding.
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