skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With TMobile when I upgraded they gave me 1000$ incentive in 24 month increments.

So yes they do offer "cheaper phone prices" but of course you are locked to their expensive plan for years.
System memory isn't that fast, either. Even with DDR5-8400, the fastest memory you can get right now, you're only looking at a memory transfer speed of 67.2 GB/s, barely faster than the PCI-E bus. So even if you could store that entire 70B model in RAM, you're still getting just under 1 token/sec, and that's assuming your CPU doesn't become a bottleneck.

Your best bet would likely be a laptop that has integrated system RAM with VRAM, but I don't think any of those offer enough RAM to store an entire 70B model. A 7B parameter model would work fine, but you could do those on a consumer-grade GPU anyways.
Guess they never really tried it.
sociopathy isn't intelligence. Power is what enables these abuses.
I think this becomes less the case as good design and aesthetics become table stakes.
There should be a shortcut through our legal bureaucracy to punish obvious BS like this. The amount of time wasted to evaluate such stupid claims is surely huge.
"Carpet bombing" is perhaps a hyperbolic term, but widespread application of DDT in the southeastern US was, in fact, a central component of the effort.

https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/100616/cdc_100616_DS1.pdf
> pretty sure you mean ng/mL

Re-read your own comment.

> Insufficiency is also relevant and should be avoided if possible

Sure. But that isn't relevant to the clinical question of reducing hospitalisation. About 40% of the American population is deficient to some degree; if we assume half are deficient to your threshold, that explains why vaccines are the most effective method: 40% (flu vaccine efficacy) of 100% (total population) is more than even 100% (assuming 100% efficacy of Vitamin D in preventing ILI hospitalisation, which is of course nonsense) of 20%.

> supplementation does work - I have blood tests to prove it

Nobody debates this. I take vitamin D.

> it's probably a good idea for a very large fraction of the HN audience

It's a good idea to talk to a doctor about it. Vitamin D is a hormone. Self administering large doses of hormones isn't good broad-spectrum advice.
Nice! You can check my source code and create your implementation!

https://github.com/thiagosf/webcrypto-private-messages
> It then set the name of a channel to the results (either 1-person-in-upl or X-people-in-upl), which others could check.

I'm not suggesting you don't do this, but you /could/ setup a speaker to play the classic remix of Steve Ballmer's "developers! developers!" whenever there are >=2 people in the room. On April 1st, of course.
Verizon offer the exact same thing. They just unlock phones after 60 days (in fairness they have to, but still, they seem to be doing just fine)
Some people actually voted them into office as a joke and they turned out to be a bunch of racists with some really awful views and were overall absolute shite politicians. Who could have imagined?
While the public television may suck, it still pays for the only real Independent news coverage in Germany. No matter what you think of the ARD or ZDF and their management boards, the work of the Deutschlandfunk and regional broadcasters is outstanding and a pillar of a free democracy.

I hate having to pay for distribution licenses for soccer games, but if that ensures continued support for high-quality journalism, so be it.
The only thing I would say against this is that sometimes that kind of curiosity can help the business itself as well. For example imagine a situation similar to the post except that it's someone's job to manually write the equivalent of "Please do not write below the line" on every letter. Sometimes little tasks like that can waste time for years before someone finally asks 'do we actually need to be doing this?'

I do realise that is not the case in the post, where it's probably even simpler to print the same message on every letter vs. only on some. And your point is of course well made in general.
I worked for a fully remote company, and even though they did not have any physical offices to even have us come into, they refused to change in the contract where they reserved the right to have you work in a traditional office if they desired. They still are 100% remote to this day
An annoying but rather valid quip by Bjarne Stroustrup is that "there are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about, and the ones nobody uses." D has, statistically, not been attactive enough for people to switch to it from C++. Perhaps this is unfortuante... ? I wouldn't mind a link to an argument in favor of switching to (today's) D from (today's) C++.
Do not fall for this snake-oil scam garbage from Perplexity. You are better off with TradingView.
Verizon does but over 36 months.
Yes, you could stop it at the point of demand. I remember AZ implemented eVerify or some such, don’t know what effect or loopholes it had. In Texas:

Whenever Texas politicians threaten to pass laws that would make it harder for businesses to employ undocumented workers, phones in the Capitol start ringing. Stuck with the need to show their base that they’re cracking down on migrants, politicians, including Abbott, have instead found a middle ground: They keep up their bombast regarding the border, but they avoid stringing any razor wire between undocumented immigrants and jobs in the state’s interior.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/border-crisis-tex...
If you really want someone interested in software development to run away, hand them books like this one.
I should have mentioned that the catch points are on one long bar that goes atop the booster. They are not simply attached to the sides of the booster. Booster shell flexing does not affect the catch points at all.
I couldn't explain better, thank you !
No system is 100% the question is are we good enough. As a white male I haven't seen many problems - but also because I'm in the group least likely to see one.
As a quant myself, we don't try to predict the market, at least not the way that people normally talk about predicting, and we certainly don't move the market in our favor.

At least what my firm does, is we look at the current state of the market at any given time point, and test whether the current state of the market satisfies our model of an efficient market. If it does, then there's no action to take, if it doesn't then we determine what kind of violation is present and jump in to close the gap.

So a very trivial example would be to take two ETFs, like QQQ and TQQQ. As a simplification a model of an efficient market would have at any moment in the day the change in price of TQQQ = 3x the change in price of QQQ.

We then observe the actual state of the market and if the actual change in price of TQQQ matches our model, then there's nothing to do. If it doesn't, then either TQQQ is under priced or it's overpriced or QQQ is underpriced or it's overpriced (or our model is just wrong or some outlier). Depending out what the condition is we buy x dollars worth of TQQQ and sell 3x worth of QQQ or do the opposite.

There's no real prediction here, we simply have a model of what an efficient market looks like, we scan the market for violations of that model, and then we perform an action to bring the market back to an efficient state.

The model I presented above is incredibly simple and just for illustrative purposes, but in a nutshell, that's our job. We have literally hundreds of models for an efficient market and for every model we have algos that test whether the market satisfies our model, and when the market deviates from our model the algo produces a signal which other algos act.
Ok, you’re talking about perfect intervals, not perfect pitch. “Perfect pitch” doesn’t make sense in context and so I was having a hard time figuring out what you were getting at. This is not pedantry. I’m not trying to make a point here, I just didn’t understand what you meant.

> The "perfect" in "perfect pitch" glosses over the messy reality of temperaments.

Yeah. So do all the other terms like minor, major, diminished, augmented, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, consonant, dissonant, etc. All of those terms gloss over the messy reality of temperaments.

The tuning system (including temperaments) are, in fact, what establish the possible relationships between these interval names and the actual pitch ratios. For example, a just major third is 5:4, a pythagorean major third is 81:64, and an equal temperament major third is ∛2:1.

> Or to explain further, providing a synopsis of tonal harmony in response to my comment is another of the sort of things I find anthropologically interesting.

I’m happy to answer questions but I don’t like feeling like I’m being treated as an anthropological curiosity.

If I’m providing more detail than you expect, then chalk it up to a property of Hacker News, which is full of pedants. Sometimes my comments here are damn verbose, just to get ahead of the pedants.
I guess it makes sense if you have not paid off the phone, but after you paid off the phone and own it, its yours, and should be able to use it with any carrier.

But I dont see how its good for users, locked phones only help the business.
It depends how you define "mass extinction."

That aside, ask yourself why so many people are aghast at the idea that humanity isn't causing a mass extinction. Is it really because they love nature? Does ranting about how awful humanity is help?

Anyway, if you really want to conserve nature, you should be positive. Some conservation efforts have succeeded. Focus on those and build on them; don't spend time ranting about how awful humanity is. I'm not saying you're doing that, but it is common to see.
predator-prey
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6ihrGNGesfI

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33509164
No one? the EU seems to have done well with all of their member states opening boarders to theirs neighboring members.
41 Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. 42 But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents.

43 Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. 44 They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.”
> claiming that locking phones to a carrier's network makes it possible to provide cheaper handsets to consumers

And somehow an iPhone today isn't cheaper than when it first came out and there was no subsidy from Cingular.
That's cool, thanks for sharing it.
I think "crappy" implies an older, maybe even pre-web 2.0 design. This suggests the site has already been around for a long time, specifically before all the surveillance capitalism and general enshittification trends started. If they didn't update their design since then, that would give some hope that the site still runs more or less unchanged since back then.

This is how I'd explain the impression of trustworthiness. But of course this is only an impression and doesn't tell you anything about how the site actually operates.
Scalene: A high-performance, high-precision CPU, GPU, memory profiler for Python
Isn’t that the only way? I’m pretty sure the human hosts are a vital step in the Plasmodium lifecycle.
I buy prepaid specifically so that I can own my own unlocked phone and be able to do what I want with it without thinking about the carrier. Price isn't the issue, ownership is.
Shrug. Some people see the world as a zero-sum game (i.e., "I win only if everybody else loses").
That actually makes some sense and (I assume) you can let the service lapse and keep the phone if you don't have the money right now?

It seems in both cases T-Mobile is making a bet that you'll continue to use their service in one form or another. Is there a reason if it was unlocked you would immediately switch?
Thought experiments that fray the fabric of space-time
'twas a brain fart
Why Does This Building by the Subway Need 193 Parking Spots? (Yes, 193.)
I'm a fan of the large discounts I get from the carrier. If I have to be locked to the carrier for the duration of the agreement for that discount, then that's fine with me.

I mean unless they would keep those discounts without being locked, but I don't ever see that happening.

How about just offering it both ways. Discounts if you are OK being locked to the service for the duration, or no/lesser discount to be able to leave the service early. That way everyone is happy?

I mean, you can already just forgo the rest of the discount and get unlocked whenever you want, so I don't really see the problem I guess.
Xiaomi successfully "tapes out" China's first 3nm smartphone chip
Clang emits a warning if you ask it to vectorize a loop and it can't; you can then promote that to an error. But even if the loop vectorizes, that doesn't mean that it vectorizes in the optimal way - my understanding is that pros write their loops with intrinsics specifying the operations they want for this reason.

https://godbolt.org/#z:OYLghAFBqd5QCxAYwPYBMCmBRdBLAF1QCcAaP...
Peltiers are never an alternative to radiant cooling. They do not get rid of heat, they pump it from one side to another (if you apply power) or resist its flow (if you extract power -- this is what RTGs do). You still have to get rid of the heat when it reaches the other side of the Peltier.
Hi author,

I think you've written an excellent article, and also that you would be well served by ignoring the comments on it.

Some people here feel you've called them entitled. I think you made a useful nuanced point about how engineering looks to others, but the people who feel insulted don't see it that way and some of them are going to be quite harsh about it.

Those who interpret your article as an attack are not going to be swayed, so I'm just here to say you have my respect if you choose to disengage.
Because it was posted on the internet, where new and exciting forms of pedantry are invented every day.
> If you have enough funding, Malaria is preventable

Malaria is also dependent on a non-human vector. That means you can target it without requiring peoples' co-operation. Contrast that with e.g. polio where you have to convince people to get vaccinated.
Wasn’t there a Simpson episode when Lisa was a cigarette sponsor and used her position to tell people not to smoke? They were able to fire her because Homer wrote “ok” in the ‘do not write below this line’ section of the application form. I do wonder if in theory a form could be invalidated for that reason if they really, really wanted to.
Massive numbers of people suddenly showing up in your town is a real problem:

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/08/1211632902/major-cities-are-s...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2023/08/09/nyc-ma...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/denver-struggles-cope-4...

Climate refugees are coming and it's a problem:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/10/world/climate-global-displace...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/23/magazine/clim...

https://www.wired.com/story/migration-climate-environment-re...
As much as I like Dijkstra and this particular article of his (it is an assigned reading in my "Software Engineering" class), developing any large scale software that we have today starting from formal methods is just a fantasy.

I understand the importance of learning formal methods (discrete math, logic, algorithms, etc.), but they are not nearly enough to help someone get started with a software project and succeed at it.

So, if not "software engineering", then what should we teach to a student who is going to be thrown into the software world as it exists in its current form?
> So if an automated decision happens, and the reviewer looks for a second at it, and says, good enough, that will be OK according to GDPR. Don't see what GDPR solves here.

The assumption is that a human review the conditions that led the automated system to make that decision.

I think it would be trivial to argue in court that rubberstamping some scalar value that a deep neural net or whatever spit out does not pass that bar. It's still the automated system's decision, the human is just parroting it.

Note that it's easier for the FAANGs to argue such a review has happened because they have massive amounts of heterogenous data where there's bound to be something that would be sufficient to argue with (like having posted something that offended someone).

But a single score? I'd say almost impossible to argue. One would have to demonstrate that the system is near-perfect, and virtually never makes mistakes.
If they hadn't abused this feature, they wouldn't be in this situation. I can totally understand carrier-locking a phone until the loan is paid off. But that's not what they used it for and now they're suffering hilarious regulatory attention.

tsk tsk. I almost feel bad for them.
The author of the page is not the submitter (me). Not sure who you're addressing here.
Right, so if SpaceX meant that they had an error of only .5cm maybe they meant that the error on the booster rotation angle was small enough to produce only a .5cm error at the catch points. Since they weren't specific, it's hard to know what they meant.

The booster rotation angle error and the catch point placement error were much too small to detect with the naked eye on the published videos. Every other measure of accuracy was clearly within tolerances -- and also hard to discern with the naked eye.

As amazing as .5cm accuracy sounds, if SpaceX meant catch point placement error, then it's quite as impressive because that only implies everything was within tolerance _and_ only the booster rotation angle error need have been impressively near-zero measure. That's... still amazing, honestly. If you can get the booster rotation angle error near zero then you can get the other errors way down too.
It was you originally who came to pick a fight, not me.
I used Castro for 5 years and loved it. But when it had the ownership meltdown I switched back to iCatcher. It’s quirky, but easy to set up an Inbox and Downloaded queue which is the Castro USP. I haven’t missed Castro and can’t say the news entices me back.
Guess all the "Automattic security team" is busy looking for vulnerabilities in competing products.
We love work trials at Foxglove
This is a good way for Ars to generate clicks and a more honest headline probably wouldn't move the needle much, but it's worth being clear for HN that the objection here is not that locked phones are good for consumers, but that the subsidization deals locked phones enable are.
It’s a real drag. We need to step up competence, not fight a war. Viewing China as an enemy vs a strategic competitor leads to bad policy. Like it is killing ASML right now…
> an ill-defined problem

The problem is unauthorized border crossings. What about that is ill defined?
Murdoch's news sue Perplexity AI for allegedly engaging in 'massive freeriding'
Did NSA steal them?
> I think < 10 cm accuracy is achievable

If you don't know how precise GPS receivers can get with dead reckoning techniques, this demo of someone "drawing" onto a map of their driveway using a GPS receiver is very impressive: https://youtu.be/3tQjIHFcJVg?t=245

It looks like they're getting measurements that are only a few inches away of the module's real position, although of course the conditions seem favorable with an unobstructed sky and consistent alignment.

The module they use is a ZED-F9P by u-blox. I've used ~$50 u-blox GPS modules in DIY electronic projects before since they're often the brand you'll get when buying GPS modules, but this particular type with dead reckoning is much more expensive. Sparkfun has it for $275 for example: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/16481.
Valve is so important to the PC platform that I believe there’s a significant portion of the gaming community that genuinely worries about Gabe's eventual demise.
What it's like to rappel into the solar system's largest canyon
Does that work for just major thirds? They’re only 14 cents away from equal temperament, and I would think that the frets would be too close together, if you moved them into place for just major thirds.
Ecological surveillance...
> How would you propose to respond to detections, if the cameras all worked?

Facial-recognition scan plus rudimentary SIGINT to identify any e.g. cell phones or devices broadcasting a MAC address. I don't like it, less because of what it means at the border and more in that it requires, for step two, doing the same surveillance across the country. But it's not unsolveable. We just don't particularly have consensus it should be solved.
Here I thought they were accidentally or intentionally referring to:

https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Drazi

But now I noticed the spelling difference :/.
The final solution does not depend on object (people) detection. In fact by the end of the article he has totally eliminated the camera
Ars has gone down the ragebait rabbit hole, which is perfectly rational, though they do it with technical stories, which people don't expect so much baiting.

Basically the carriers are making the standard libertarian argument, which makes sense. If you block locking, you already know what happens: we already know cell phone prices unlocked. The cell carriers are in essence capital providers and they know how to collect money from their customers.
Should I call people “cryptoantisemites” instead, when they dance on that thin line between “trying to be unbiased” and “calling to wipe Israel and its inhabitants from the map”, never actually uttering the latter aloud?
I mean, it is similar in spirit to a LOTO (lockout / tagout) lock, no? Except without the who to contact bits, perhaps.

"Don't turn this knob. But if you really need to, talk to this person first."

And that little bit of process is perhaps what keeps many industries safe.
I understand that is what they meant, but it is not what they wrote. They should have qualified the statement as you did, with the conditions that yield a runtime error. Even if they generalized those conditions that would have been fine.

for example:

or tries to access a library that it is unable to for some reason without handling the resulting error.
Fancy a fuck? Fancy a fight? My tree! My tree!
Screenshot of the source code: https://x.com/StopAntisemites/status/1848445010708205758

Hardcoded; only Palestine and Israel.
Because it's government. People in government jobs often sit around half the day doing nothing because they have so much spare time. Case in point: me, right now.
> I've been slowly gathering sources and information in the hopes of maybe writing a book about the Lisp Machines

I would love to hear more about this. I have a friend whose mother-in-law was involved in a startup that was selling software for LISP Machines back in the day. She's told me a little about it but I am seeing if I can get more info.

Would you be willing to keep me in the loop if you ever do get around to writing a book? Email is: accounts5 [at] [HN username, minus g].com
The physics computer lab in Chamberlin Hall at UW in the 90's was a secret treasure trove of idle NeXTstation Turbo machines in an almost always empty room cooled to near refrigeration temperatures. I used to light up at least half of that room to run distributed simulations. There's probably still a 30 year old key to that lab in a junk drawer somewhere.

Eventually I realized that it just made sense to suck it up and get my own hardware, as it was either going to be esoteric "workstation" hardware with a fifth of the horsepower of a Pentium 75 or it was going to be in a room like the UPL jammed with CRT's and the smell of warm Josta.

How do students operate these days? Unless one is interacting with hardware, I'd be very tempted to stay in "fits on a laptop" space or slide to "screw it, cloud instances" scale. Anyone with contact in the last 5 years have a sense of how labs are being used now?