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> On the topic, I subscribe to Grey's law "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice" so I see idiots as malicious. In the very best case, idiots in positions of power are malicious for accepting the position and thus preventing someone more competent from getting it. It really doesn't matter what their intent is. Deep down, stupid people know that they're stupid but they let their emotions get in the way, same emotions which prevent them from getting smarter.

I think you have things backwards. Being dumb is the default. It takes ability and effort and help to get smarter. Animals and children are dumber than us. Do you think they realize it?

Perversely many who are dumb are trapped thinking they are not dumb:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effec...

A dumb person (like a dumb child or animal) are what they are one should not attribute malice. Better to try to see things from their point of view and perhaps help them be smarter. This is what I try to do.

Your other remarks are 100% just the point above was sticking out hence my comment.
Terence Tao has well over 50K citations. Maybe one can argue that he’s gaming the system because he alone can decide what problems are deemed to be interesting by the broader community, but he can’t help that.
do you work with any women or 100% men?
As who wrote so many lines of Lua and even made a type checker for that at work... I think you need to explain which part of Lua do you miss. 'Cause many aspects of Lua come from being strictly embedded, which precluded many otherwise valid and better options.
What? There are more embedded devices than ever running C/C++ code today. All OSes, System utils etc. are still done in C/C++. All higher level performance oriented frameworks/libraries in any domain (eg. AI/ML) are implemented in C/C++ and then a interface to them are given through wrappers in other languages. Also C is the common "lingua-franca" across languages.

C is still in the top five in the TIOBE index today.
So they sued others into folding. But superbabies did not.

Was it overconfidence, or a a gigantic blunder in not doing their diligence ? (by the DC legal dept team)
It is never too late to write your own C/C++ command-line utilities
School is a local matter, I want tonhave a feedback mechanism of “taking my business elsewhere” in education.

If private school offers more competitive product with better teacher, I want it. There is not much sense to force people to pay for local school and pay for private school.

And there is a way to opt out of federal taxes: just move out and change tax residence
The X4 is not bad at all. It took them a while to get there but they did it.
>an article titled "A British Super Hero" in a 1918 newspaper

trademark does not work like patents, prior art is not a thing. The question is whether anyone else uses the mark in trade, exchanging money for goods/services. Usage outside of that context does not matter.

you get diluted and lose your trademark when the public uses the term generically in trade, in your line of business, and not in reference to your product, not just because they use the term.

for example, the automobile Mercury Comet is named after two generic things, a Greek god and an space body. So what, they are used in trade for particular automobiles.

Comet is also the name of a cleaning product. The two are not in the same line of business, so they don't get confused, and there is no conflict, but you can't start selling another Comet cleaner, or Comet car.

While there is no prior art, there is prior use, in trade. But in that case, the trademark belongs to the prior user, not to the world at large. If the prior user stops using it, like Aunt Jemima is no longer used for pancake syrup, then the term becomes free for anybody to use for pancake syrup. (I'll bet that company still uses that name for some pancake syrup product, like for institutional use, so they can stop anybody else from using it.)
> Unfortunately, benefit to society seems to very rarely be the goal anymore.

If it ever was. Most of these businesses are still owned by the same people--the Sam Altmans, the Brins and Pages, the Elon Musks, the Steve Huffmans--who started out with the "not in it for the money" and "do no evil" rhetoric, and now their actions show that all that was just a lie from the start.
Yes, the powers that be have ignored the issue of nuclear materials sitting on site at power plants for decades, I’m not sure it’s a good idea to make 5 or 10 times more of the stuff at other sites and trust that the actual knowledgeable experts, who haven’t done shit for decades, will figure out a solution by the time it’s bigger issue.

We should decrease our power usage as a whole planet, and reduce dependence on technology that has outsized biological risks, like nuclear and plastics, rather than rushing into some future that will only enrich the already wealthy.
True, but I thought Intel might start using more channels to make that metric look less unbalanced in Apple's favour. Especially now that they are putting RAM on package.
There’s usually more suitable algorithms for picture collaborations.

Text is hard because it’s a list of characters, and when items are inserted and deleted the operations change the index of all subsequent elements.

Usually, editing a digital whiteboard is much simpler.
> that I don't know what to do with it if it works.

After you get it up and running you can just ask it what to do with it.
I was curious about your point that we only have ~20 years supply. The article you linked doesn’t really defend that estimate, I think it’s actually pointing out that’s the absolute floor of our supply.

It mentions estimates of undiscovered uranium and also multiple pathways to extend that estimate if there was demand to improve the technology or increase our supply. It sounds like realistically we could find the material for powering all of our energy using fission if we had the demand to do so.
But hey, at least you can reserve your 1.7 billion in batteries with only a $1,000 deposit!

On a more serious topic, they seem to have their economics backwards a bit when it comes to battery prices. They say "And efforts to scale batteries on an artificial timetable drive up prices." this is a strange argument. While it's true that many people trying to buy batteries drives up the price, this isn't really a bad thing per se, since it will presumably by driven back into improvements in the production chain.
I guess we’re fucked then. I don’t think this article provided any solutions.
Its going to be interesting.

They don't really have to follow the path of Google/Meta/Twitter etc which hardly had any customers/companies subscribing or paying for their services in the early years. That kind of sowed the seeds of turning them into Adtech companies.

Plus most people forget the collection of personal data started happening cause Google/FB/Youtube search was quite crappy without Context. As info exploded finding stuff got harder. Personal data collection was the answer. That accumulating personal data pile played a big role in making these companies very attractive to the Ad industry and the large corps behind them.

Open AI feels slightly different in that it has real revenue flowing in. For a wide range of subjects, it doesn't need as much personal info about the customer, to provide high quality answers. So more like Netflix in the early years. Paying customers. Good product.

Only diff is Netflix targets people's entertainment budgets, which is a small bucket of piss compared to Global GDP. Total addressable market for OpenAI meanwhile is looking really massive. It feels like it will be a long while before they hit some subscriber revenue upper limit and have to rely on Ads.
They're usually filled with something with a lower glycemic index than the surrounding rice. You can also mitigate some of the glycemic response effect of the onigiri by cooking the rice with vinegar and chilling the cooked rice (or packaged onigiri) overnight to increase the starch's resistance.
Im not familiar with this cases specifics, but AWS also has an approach of virtualizing actual hardware interfaces (like nvme/pcie) to the host through dedicated hardware/firmware. I wouldnt be surprised if their solution was to map physical devices (partitions of) as a “hardware” device on the host and pass it directly through to the fire cracker instances. Especially if they can isolate multiple firecracker/lambda instances of a customer to a single physical device.
Ya seems obvious tbh.
Nuclear fission is a solution.
And I would argue that this very quickly becomes a race to the bottom, where the viewing of mass produced trash accelerates because "that's what people want to watch" becomes "we'll flood the market with cheap mass produced bullshit" which immediately becomes "people love watching bullshit and our stats say so!"

I also don't believe for a single second, based on their past records, that Sony, or LG, or whoever, are actually properly anonymising this data
Oh, bummer, do we have to go back to that one coal power plant that powers the whole earth?
That's a really freaking neat trick. Thanks!
Mojo is completely unrelated, created by Chris Lattner and his team at Modular AI.
Is it worth having psuedo production services that get chaosed monkeyed into another dimension at a random time and pager alerts on them.

Effectively: a drill!
This is not a thoughtful piece. It has no place on the front page here. It appears to be an anti-solar piece but gives exactly zero insight or color to whether solar is useful (yes), economical (very yes), or grid compatible (definitely).

It also gives zero insight on whether grid storage, including chemical batteries, pumped hydro, or other is useful (yes), or economical (yes).

And caring about Elon Musk's opinion is foolish in the first place.
Even if you still be the fiction of the vaccine saving lives. It was the life of an obese 80 year old with 3 other comorbidities ... for a few months.

The lockdowns resulted in inflation, and caused a lot more poverty and deaths worldwide since. And retarded the normal development of many children.

And we still don't know what kind of long term damage the vaccine caused.
My friend that trusted the science, and took every booster, only stopped when she got myocarditis.
In the log replication example, after healing the partition the uncommitted log changes in the minority group are rolled back and the leader's log is used.

However it's not clear how that log is transmitted. Until this point only heartbeats via append entry were discussed, so it's not clear if the followers pull that information from the leader somehow via a different mechanism, or whether it's the leader's responsibility to detect followers that are left behind and replay everything. That would seem rather error prone and a lot of coordination effort. So how's it actually done?
The Red light at night "failure" [1] is a bit suspect: The car was already in the intersection but was blocked by the stopped car in front of it. When the car in front of it started moving, it moved too, which is the legal and correct thing to do as it was already in the intersection.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9FDT_-dLRk
The early ones likely weren’t up to their quality standards. Then at some point they may have decided to hold it for the X redesign.

The main issue with cell phone standards appears to be power. Apple doesn’t like using radios that use up so much power the user has to turn them on and off to manage things the way early 4G or 5G android phones were set up. They seem to prefer to wait until a lower power version is available that they can leave on all the time without significant issue.
Pedant alert. Learning curve is skill/time.

> with an exceptionally shallow learning curve

I'm used to long learning time to incorrectly described as steep, but I haven't seen shallow used as short.

Time to officially deprecate steep and shallow, and use short and long instead.
> This is a bad take.

This is a bad start to a post on HN. Less confrontational would be better.

> Because even the craziest of crazies are actually doing the scientific method.

I can name several conspiracy theories off the bat which I've heard repeated by people who have not tested the theories. The vast majority of them, at best, found a video of someone on the internet with "dr" in the username. The percent of "jet fuel can't melt steel beams" folks who have actually personally tested whether steel can lose structural integrity at such temperatures, is absolutely minuscule.

> They are arguably better scientists than "trust the science" folks because at least they are getting out there and moving atoms to test shit.

Reading something on the internet is moving photons and electrons at best, but I can't speak to whether a given Parler thread which convinced someone of a given conspiracy was read inside or outside.
Not OP, but I'm from the Midwest, and around here guys has always (and seemingly will always) mean a non gender specific group of people. It's a shame that folks see it as a micro aggression these days, as we really aren't being offensive with it. It's just really, really hard to change the behavior when most of the Midwest (women included) are still perfectly fine referring to groups of people as guys.
Flowers can’t be eaten. They’re just for someone to look at. Heck most people probably don’t even look at them and buy it as a part of a ritual or formality. Does it mean the flower industry is of no benefit to society?

Most things we do are in the end just burning energy to create, move and destroy things in the process. The guys who benefit from ads buy salad from shops employing people. It’s arguable that anything that increases economic cycles is of at least some benefit to society. That’s the advantage of capitalism.
Okay then where are all the nuclear power plants being built right this minute today? Don’t give me like two examples, there was about 30GW of solar alone added last year, which is 10-15 plants a year for nuclear.
I'm trying to find more information about these 2 companies fingerprinting or hashing anything coming over HDMI. Do you have sources? I thought disconnecting my smart TV from internet to be enough to stop the transmission of any ACR data. My concern would be if they store any ACR data locally and queue it for data collection vs if they stream it.
> not fit to be called PCIe devices

They might be CNVi in M.2 form factor, with the rest of the "wifi card" inside the Intel SoC.

In CNVi, the network adapter's large and usually expensive functional blocks (MAC components, memory, processor and associated logic/firmware) are moved inside the CPU and chipset (Platform Controller Hub). Only the signal processor, analog and Radio frequency (RF) functions are left on an external upgradeable CRF (Companion RF) module which, as of 2019 comes in M.2 form factor.

Wifi7 has 3-D radar features for gestures, heartbeat, keystrokes and human activity recognition, which requires the NPU inside Intel SoC. The M.2 card is only a subset.
Yeah I really doubt the "can't get a prostitute" thing. And I really would recommend him to get one tbh. Not having had sex well into your 20s takes a toll on most guys' confidence and becomes something you look up to too much. Just doing it that way takes the pressure off and make you realise it's not the huge thing you thought it was. Been there and done that :)

IMO there's nothing bad about seeing one. People make sex out to be a bigger thing than it is. Most of the sex workers I know also enjoy the work.
On call means different things for different companies. We used to page for non-emergencies. But we eventually changed it to page for actual service outages or core metrics shitting the bed. If one of those two aren't happening, it waits until morning or Monday.

Or, maybe, if you're large enough... hire night shift people. I have friends who cut their teeth on night shift ops.

I have friends who work more on the sysadmin side of things, and on call for them just seems like extra work. They're glued to their laptops answering requests.
I always struggled and had to check library functions to do what I actually wanted, as they frequently didn't. That's partially why many Lua uses build their own standard libraries, and as a result the Lua user community is very fragmented.
GPGPU is instructive. It is not easy, but possible to write software for it. That's why it succeeded.
Nothing and nobody starts out original. We need copying to build a foundation of knowledge and understanding. Everything is a copy of something else, the only difference is how much is actually copied, and how obvious it is. Copying is how we learn. We can't introduce anything new until we're fluent in the language of our domain, and we do that through emulation.
Cultivated Disinterest in Professional Sports (2012)
The amazing thing about the nano texture is how it absolutely kills reflections compared to the normal option.

I agree there is a sharpness sacrifice to get there.
Surveillance capitalism continues to crush people's privacy, and I don't think the incentive to collect personal data will ever go away. Seriously someone needs to give the big middle finger to Samsung and LG because I want my dumb TVs back.
> I do not know if this is true in other states, but certain states have the ability for an individual to self-institute a gambling ban at all facilities in the state

In Michigan this is part of the Responsible Gaming program. You can opt out for certain lengths of time and they will not let you back for any reason. It's on a per-casino basis though, not some global list.

You can also get restricted if you ever claim to support that you need the money, have to pay bills, can't wait on the withdraw, etc.

I made a mistake once, while upset at some promo conditions not being clear, that I was "counting" on it. I meant I was counting on using it to gamble more (lmao) but they thought I meant for bills and ended up having to go through a special process to get my account back.
If it makes you feel better, I have worked with lots of diverse groups and everyone understood guys as a gender neutral term. I think people are a lot meaner and nitpicky online than in real life
It was a dreaded feature of one job I had way back when, supporting a server for static trading data (counterparty info, and other stuff) for sites in London, Hong Kong and New York. We all hated it, until one day one of the guys "lost" the support laptop on the Tube. We then did a bit of scripting and fiddling with permissions so that the guys in HK and NY could fix all common problems by "turn it off and turn it on again" magic.

Bye-bye support trauma.
Erroneous Assessment of Hospital Treatment & Consequences for Medical Practice
If you do not know a problem is a problem why search for a solution?

If you do not know a product / service exists why would you search for it?

If "search" is your answer what do you suppose advertisers are doing? Are they not searching for customers?

Advertising is an expensive search with many externalities on society. These externalities are wasteful hence the search for a better way to do it. Google / Facebook / ... I think are funded by solving this problem.
This isn’t some flowers that actual humans enjoy, it’s fucking spying and it’s ad industry bullshit. Don’t try and put lipstick on a pig.
Oh duh, thanks. I somehow did not see your link when I originally posted.
It's insane the amount of bullshit people will pille up to defend a man who, even if he was innocent on this case, was clearly a criminal with antecedents and no sign of working on a better life.

Even if he was innocent in this particular case, society just got rid of problematic and disruptive individual that clearly had no will to behave in society.

In any way you put it, it's actually a very positive outcome for everyone but yet we get all this nonsense.
And let's be real, the chance he was actually innocent is so slim it's a complete waste of time trying to do that.

If we were talking about an upstanding citizen with a good life and a lot to lose, yes, it would smell fishy and would need a lot of consideration/better evidence; but this is not the case at all, even if there was a mistake it is a rather small mistake everything considered.
I don't think this takes into account the reality of huge megacorps with tons of development teams situated globally who are constantly changing the codebase.

Incidents happen as code changes. Even once you fix it, the changing nature of the code can introduce more issues
The question really isn't "why not use fission", it's "why should fusion not be more expensive than fission"? Since fission is losing because it's too expensive, any other advantage of fusion over fission means little if it's even more expensive.
I moved to the US about a decade ago, but I feel like microbreweries were pretty rare in the UK during the 90's and 00's, I only really came across a couple living in Manchester at the time (a couple more have opened since) while there are several within a couple miles of me in San Francisco.

Most real ale in Britain was brewed in traditional breweries that had been going for a century or more that had either escaped being rolled into one of the majors or revived one of the old breweries abandoned by them, like Black Sheep in the old Lightfoot's Brewery.

By contrast the UK microbreweries often seemed more influenced by the US craft beer style which developed from home brewing since their traditional breweries were all shut down during prohibition.
There have been rumors of the MacBook Pros moving to OLED for a few years now.

Seems unlikely they’d redesign with something worse than the iPad Pro.

I wonder if they’re waiting for yield issues on larger panels or if it’s just pure cost at the moment.
Sure, I guess that's possible.

All I see is a tool that guesses where to aggregate a fixup commits when I can't be bothered to view and think about that myself.
fx looks a lot like jless: https://jless.io/
Aw shucks, better luck next time. I bet each of you hackers possess exactly the humanist, ethics focused, inclusive, science based, data driven solution "we" need to fix this problem. If only it wasn't for those bad people who made this bad system turning all the good people into bad people!
the goal posts moved?!
I suppose for the vast majority of software engineers working on online / SaaS type products or ones that silo a lot of customer data, this is true.

Always has is a bold assertion. I've worked for companies which produced consumer level software on an annual cycle that was pressed to physical CDs, and there was not even a concept of on-call. Bugs that got reported went from customer support, to QC to corroborate, and finally triaged out to the R&D department where they would be fixed within normal work hours.

This idea of 100% 24/7 on-call to fight fires in an industry where the vast majority of engineers are working for insurance companies, social media, e-commerce, etc. This ain't life and death people, let's get some perspective.
Yeah, but people who grow or sell flowers are not on the same level as the very very good engineers who develop these dystopian systems. The people in the advertising industry who make these systems could absolutely do more good for society in a different field.
reviving an old throwaway:

the last two years have been incredibly depressing in the space of dedicated hardware for doing high performance computing tasks.

all the air has been sucked out of the room because the world can’t get enough of generating more text that no one has any meaningful use for besides hyping up their product whose primary focus is how it “leverages AI”.

and in the midst of all of this, I’m seeing these same technologies dramatically accelerate problems in short fiction, science fiction and fantasy, and education.

it will be absurdly bleak if the grotesque reality we’re creating destroys the things that made go into science & engineering in the first place…