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I don't understand how infrastructure could be the key component; it seems like a commodity in this era. Is advanced computing a requirement to build humanoid robots? The robots themselves likely aren't packing anything more high-spec than a gaming PC, and those parts don't need to be domestically sourced.
http://archive.today/oSYEZ
Exactly, it doesnt mean that the CEO is submitting themselves to whatever consequences internet users deem appropriate.
Command+Ctrl+Q will also lock the screen.
Depending on the resale value of what the debt is for (homes mainly) maintaining your leverage ratio can work out great for you. Mortgages are the only way most people are able to invest with leverage and the source of a lot of generational wealth.
What, by giving the standard SI definitions of units so that people can see that the things you're saying are different are actually the same? You have a funny idea of what's muddy and what's clear.
Every time I think I am getting good at Rust, the core team adds a new keyword to send me back to square one.

(All right, i don't actually know if this is old or new. But you get my point?
When I have a full team of people with 1080p webcams and a solid connection I can notice the quality. Most of the time not everyone fulfills those requirements and the orchestrator system has to make do
It can start out as a business and then get acquired by a bigger business like Stripe, paypel, business, mercury. Either by purchasing the company whole, or by contracting to implement the feature on their systems.
How it is different then (genuine question)? If you are stakeholder you have direct or indirect control.
You can add more restrictions like only people who are still employed can have shares (not sure what English term for this type of ownership).
Or enforce business to always give shares to employees.
Still doesn’t explain how large company will start if it needs large capital.

I know it’s probably covered already but I never got deep into topic.
I am on Intel TGL currently and can't wait for Strix Halo next year. That is truly something else, it's nothing we have seen in notebooks before iGPU wise.
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I think the exact point they’re trying to make is that a humanoid robot can pick up one shift exactly where a human left off. No custom robotics, no workplace changes, etc.

This is huge for the industry. Smarter Every Day visited a frisbee factory and they had automated a bunch of things. However, every automation point was extremely protected (fenced off) so that a bumbling human couldn’t walk somewhere and get a limb ripped off. If I remember correctly they joked that it was OSHA or something, which it turned out to be.
I've never once seen solar being called "woke energy", is that a thing?

Either way, everyone's realigning now that Elon is MAGA, solar and EVs are out, they're MAGA now. Now it's all about degrowth and going back to our roots, there is no energy that is clean now.
I remember seeing somewhere an analysis that layoffs do not improve medium or long-term stock performance for companies performing layoffs. But if layoffs are coordinated sector-wide they can have a big impact on employee compensation in the sector by creating a reserve army of unemployed.
Can you elaborate what you mean by that? The grid is a battery on a scale of one household connecting to this infinite supply or infinite sink of electricity, but on a wider scale (and physical world as opposed to accounting) , you generate energy during the day and someone else needs to generate it at night, so it's in no way a battery.
> FWIW if you're copying text on Android, you can tap the clipboard popup to edit the clipboard item before pasting it elsewhere.

I never noticed that after 13 years of Android. I checked that now and I could not find a way to do it. Samsung's keyboard has a way to look at the clipboard but I could not edit them. Swiftkey does not. Maybe Google's keyboard? It's not on my phone. I looked at a couple of videos but they don't look anywhere like my phone. Not a feature to invest much time on it. If I have to edit the clipboard and I can't do it where I want to paste it, I open an editor and paste it there.
Oh, wow. You are in for a treat.

The only downside is that your computer will no longer double as a space heater :p
The difference is that memory safety of any kind (including leaking everything) in C/C++ requires discipline, whereas in Rust the compiler is what prevents it. And yes, leaking is not part of that guarantee, because leaks cannot cause corruption or undefined behavior.

With that said, while Rust does not guarantee it, it does have much better automatic memory cleanup compared to C++, because every value has only one owner, and the owner automatically drops/destructs it at the end of its scope.

Getting leaks is possible to do with things like Box::leak, or ref-count cycles, but in practice it tends to be explicit, rather than the programmer forgetting to do something.
> Memory interface width of modern CPUs is 64-bit (DDR4) and 32+32 (DDR5).

Sure, per channel. PCs have 2x64 bit or 4x32 bit memory channels.

Not sure I get your point, yes PCs have 64 bit cache lines and apple uses 128. I wouldn't expect any noticeable difference because of this. Generally cache miss is sent to a single memory channel and result in a wait of 50-100ns, then you get 4 or 8 bytes per cycle at whatever memory clock speed you have. So apple gets twice the bytes per cache line miss, but the value of those extra bytes is low in most cases.

Other bigger differences is that apple has a larger page size (16KB vs 4KB) and arm supports a looser memory model, which makes it easier to reach a large fraction of peak memory bandwidth.

However, I don't see any relationship between Apple and PCs as far as DIMMS. Both Apple and PCs can (and do) solder dram chips directly to the motherboard, normally on thin/light laptops. The big difference between Apple and PC is that apple supports 128, 256, and 512 bit wide memory on laptops and 1024 bit on the studio (a bit bigger than most SFFs). To get more than 128 bits with a PC that means no laptops, no SFFs, generally large workstations with Xeon, Threadrippers, or Epyc with substantial airflow and power requirements
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In a lot of places, your local electric utility is nudging you towards Time-of-Use rates to encourage exactly this.
Training is not practical. For inference they're pretty great though, especially if you go up in the specs and add a bunch of memory.
I think its tough to argue that getting laid off is a net-benefit for your career most of the time.
Have you considered that not everyone shares your opinion and that this could explain the difference between reality and your expectations.
^3D work - Maya, Blender, etc. Probably would be best on a Studio or workstation if/when those are available again.
I think that says more about Spotify than your phone.
I think this is confirmed by the fact software vendors are still not taking advantage of ARM chips maximum performance.

Where this might shift is as we start using more applications that are powered by locally running LLMs.
Which ones in particular? I have an M2 air with 8GB, and doing some RAG development locally would be fantastic. I tried running Ollama with llama3.2 and it predictably bombed.
It's the "external user" use case, and a case of the over-complicators gloves... instead of changing the 9v battery in that box every "$N" years, put a QR code up that gives you the regular pin pad thing and then triggers HA in the back end. (that's why I suggested "IFTTT" integration).

Obviously there's 100's of easier ways to manage things which is why I haven't done anything on it yet. It just seemed like an adjacent use-case worth sharing to the creator.

I'm not wiring up a "doorbell" to my back garage, but popping an "approve/deny" thing that eventually hits an API endpoint or IFTTT integration (with geo-location?) isn't that far off from what he has and is an entirely different value-prop of utility.
> The reason it stood out was that he was flying himself to the meeting, so why did he ship the package separately if it was so important?

It wasn't an iPhone you can just stick in your pocket. The thing weighed almost 150 lbs and looked something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800

I wouldn't want to be seen in an airport with the 3 other people you'd need carrying that thing around.
Yeah, they could have got the guy who did DiZ's voice in Kingdom Hearts after Lee died.

This kind of reminds me of how Long John Baldry's music career was extended long after his 2005 death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnyGSl3K-IE
Playing with them locally? Yes, of course it's a niche hobby. The people doing stuff with them that's not either playing with them or developing not just an "AI" product, but a specific sort of AI product, are just using ChatGPT or some other prepackaged thing that either doesn't run locally, or does, but is sized to fit on ordinary hardware.

< 1% of all engagement with a category thing is niche/hobby, yes.
Yes, and in that case the car has to yield to the pedestrian, if the pedestrian has the right of way. It's really very simple, and in every basic driving test.
For me faster refresh rate is noticeable on phone or ipad where you scroll all the time. On a laptop you don't have that much smooth scrolling. For me it's a non issue on laptop, not even once I wished it had faster refresh. While I always notice when switching between Pro and non Pro iPad.
> uBlock Origin - which have massive usage

I'm guessing there are legal risk issues with this.
While ad blocking flies under the radar as a mom/pop operation with guerilla marketing the offended parties turn a blind eye.
Make it a feature of a "corporate" product, and they'll sue.
The current-gen Apple TV is already overpowered for what it does, and extremely nice to use. I can think of very few changes I would like to see, and most of them are purely software.
It's also due to technical and economic reasons. Tiny reactors require highly enriched fuel and have worse neutron economy and thermal efficiency. You can't use the same low-enriched fuel in a tiny reactor that you can in a typical (hundreds of megawatts or larger) commercial power reactor.

In a big commercial power reactor, fuel costs are tiny relative to the total system costs. If you used a tiny reactor like the Kilopower [1] to power a single home, the cost of the highly enriched fuel alone (upward of $50,000 per kilogram, 28 kg in a unit) would be orders of magnitude more expensive than grid-supplied electricity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilopower
I don't know how many HN folk are familiar with the Altair 8800 and how primitive the basic machine was. No keyboard or display - just a box with a control panel with blinken lights and binary toggle switches to enter data.

The basic machine didn't even have a boot ROM, or an operating system, so you would enter your boot code one byte at a time by using those toggle switches. A common add-on device to boot from would be a paper tape reader - e.g. with Microsoft BASIC on it.

Here's a video of someone entering boot code.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zbtNImG2NE
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/356/
That sounds like the beginning of a story that ends with an RCE.
And MW wasn't even the unit used in the source, the SAPVIA Solar PV Dashboard[1], which shows Megawatt Peak. MWp is a unit that refers to the theoretical maximum power output of a solar PV system (e.g. under ideal conditions.)

These data accord with the article's thesis, but it doesn't inspire confidence that units were conflated. They're not the same thing as megawatts, they don't measure energy, etc.

[1] https://sapvia.co.za/dataportal/dataportal-public
I think the real learning here is that the company is still around even though they are sort of not in the popular zeitgeist at all anymore and there are so many other tools that does what they do.
On the other side, as someone doing a lot of work in the GenAI space, I'm simultaneously amazed that I can run Flux [dev] on my laptop and use local LLMs for a variety of tasks, while also wishing that I had more RAM and more processing power, despite having a top of the line M3 max MBP.

But it is wild that two years ago running any sort of useful genAI stuff on a MBP was more-or-less a theoretical curiosity, and already today you can easily run models that would have exceeded SotA 2 years ago.

Somewhat ironically, I got into the "AI" space a complete skeptic, but thinking it would be fun to play with nonetheless. After 2 years of daily work with this models I'm starting to be increasingly convinced they are going to become increasingly disruptive. No AGI, but it will certainly reduce a lot of labor and enable things that we're really feasible before. Best of all, it's clear a lot of this work will be doable from a laptop!
> The new idea is having 512 bit wide memory instead of PC limitation of 128 bit wide.

It's not really a new idea, just unusual in computers. The custom SOCs that AMD makes for Playstation and Xbox have wide (up to 384-bit) unified memory buses, very similar to what Apple is doing, with the main distinction being Apples use of low-power LPDDR instead of the faster but power hungrier GDDR used in the consoles.
Perhaps the better lesson is that tying your self-worth to your corporate employment is a really, really bad idea.

I realize that's difficult in today's performative world, where an quick perusal of LinkedIn shows loads of people that are "passionate" about banking compliance or insurance claims or whatever. Many companies have also have fostered this false idea that companies are a "family". That is always false. The best companies are more like a team, and when things start to go south, sometimes people on that team are cut.

Ironically, I think the professions where people really are passionate and see it as a "dream job" (think professional sports teams, actors, musicians, artists, etc.) generally have a much healthier view of their employment in the first place because they realize how tenuous it is to begin with. Point being, if you're considering suicide if you lose your job, you should be in therapy long, long before it gets to that point.

One final note: before I get the pushback of "that's all nice to say until you have no income and are living on the streets!", let's get real for a moment. First, I have a ton of sympathy for people who are laid off - it sucks and can be very destabilizing. But lets also get real - people were laid off from Dropbox with a very generous severance package and they are in a highly paid industry to begin with. None of these people are going to starve, and nearly all of them will be able to eventually find employment (if perhaps not at the same exact high salary as Dropbox). Any mental health issues folks have after getting laid off is nearly always the result of tying one's self-worth to one's job, and that's the link that should be broken.
File transfer costs on a typical provider will absolutely eat away at any money you could save through CPU or memory efficiency gains, I think. If you move to a different provider (like others have mentioned) to fix this then you'll often get good CPU and memory to go with it so the whole calculus changes. Those two resources are often the cheapest in the whole stack, for better and worse. You'll save $20 by using a smaller droplet but still pay $80 for outgoing traffic and another $30 for disk storage, and those are the costs that increase the fastest. The design of the existing Fediverse means that they just use a lot of bandwidth and storage. I think it would be a wash at the end of the day.
Yes, it's justified on the same economic basis as pricefixing, and unionization with coordinated strikes if you interchange the parties.
Just flag the yelly comments, replying to them mostly makes things worse.
https://archive.is/2BirC

Sometimes I wish HN didn't change the link to the canonical URL, as the link I posted was viewable without login.
I did, and found that it's supposed to apply to early stage startups. Dropbox isn't an early stage startup anymore. At what point will investors have to be content with lower returns that are still in double digits and better than the vast majority of companies?
https://www.target.com/p/oxo-silicone-spatula/-/A-80221533 Here you go. Replace it with this one.
The lack of Wifi7 is a real bummer for me. I was hoping to ditch the 2.5Gbe dongle and just use WiFi.
The only reason I'd want to upgrade my M1 Pro MBP is because I kind of need more RAM and storage. The fact that I'm even considering a new laptop just for things that before could have been a trivial upgrade is quite illuminating.
CPUs access GPU memory via MMIO (though usually only a small portion), and GPUs can in principle access main memory via DMA. Meaning, both can share an address space and access each other’s memory. However, that wouldn’t be called Unified Memory, because it’s still mediated by an external bus (PCIe) and thus relatively slower.
An equally strong argument can be made that WW2 never actually ended. My opinion is that all of these distinctions are fairly arbitrary. We think of history as a sequence of discrete events, but that's just compartmentalizing in order to make things easier to understand, and it's a distortion of reality.
Just such a shame they're launching with the old Kaleido 3 tech available for some years now rather than the modern true color ACEP displays.
Because that reduces the value transferred to shareholders.
If they were smart and had their own relays it would also make them more likely to be selected proportional to how many other relays they took out. Looking at the number of relays and "bandwidth advertised" graphs on metrics.torproject.org it doesn't look like they've made much of a difference but it's interesting nonetheless.

To me, the worst part is that "Watchdog Cyber Defense," Spamhaus, Shadowserver, or some wannabe extortion artist like UCEPROTECT can submit millions of automated reports that hosts are de facto required to listen to lest their IP space be blacklisted.
Yeah I don't think you're still present in the conversation while taking a photo and listening to or reading an explanation of what you're looking at. You might think it's less interruptive than pulling out a phone, but your attention is on the smart glasses. People think they can multi task too. I can see when someone just zones out during a conversation and they don't even realize it. I'm gonna be annoyed when I see you looking at the shit coming out of your glasses.
I think most of that difference is going to be the huge increase in performance core count between the base chip and the Max (from 4 to 12). The RAM certainly doesn't hurt though!
>The second link main claim seems to be contradicted by their Figure 12 left panel which shows ~0 correlation between model-predicted and actual truth.

The claim in the abstract is:

"""We first show that larger models are well-calibrated on diverse multiple choice and true/false questions when they are provided in the right format.

Next, we investigate whether models can be trained to
predict "P(IK)", the probability that "I know" the answer to a question, without reference
to any particular proposed answer. Models perform well at predicting P(IK) and partially
generalize across tasks, though they struggle with calibration of P(IK) on new tasks."""

The plot is much denser in the origin and top right. How is that 0 correlation ? Depending on the number of their held-out test set, that could be pretty strong correlation even.

And how does that contradict the claims they've made, especially on calibration (Fig 13 down) ?
It is, I was copy-pasting from someone else and didn't notice.
So the standard solution is:

1- Notify client of failed payment
2- Activate a grace period
3- Notify of grace period.
4- Cut service after grace period.
5- Reinstate account after user corrects payment data.
6- Make sure there are no system bugs in the reinstatement.

In my personal preference, I like the system very much. It is the responsibility of the client to keep payment methods up to date, I don't think chasing a client to fix their credit issues is appropriate. But definitely not treating them like criminals and allowing them to fix the issue is due.

Going after this lost revenue is going after bad clients in a sense. Barring expired cards, usually what happens is that the client has low liquidity, high debt, or is spread too thin across multiple accounts, and is unlikely to have a high LTV.

Can say as a user that paid 12$ subscriptions on a month to month basis and was regularly late to the point of waiting until service is cut to move money around to pay it. Don't chase me, let me fix it, if at all, it's ok.
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Happened a lot earlier than 11.
It's wild the way the mass and power requirements have effectively made the rest of computers daughterboards to GPUs.
On a LG tv you can disable this with buying a ‘service remote’ from amazon and acces a special menu. ( look for TPC or GSR settings ). I don’t know about samsung though.
I think we should accept that there is room for science and then there is room for philosophy. For instance, I find it doubtful that the answer to the question "is racism okay?" involves the reasoning "empirically, there [are|aren't] factors of intelligence/behavior/ability that denote one race from another". We can't discover facts out of thin air or from orthogonal facts, and it only serves to delude us by not acknowledging that. Before good and bad, harm and benefit, something isn't science, by definition, if it crumbles under reproduction or basic skepticism. Moral discussions, including whether this alternate culture of thinking about science is good or not, are intertwined but separate.
Ask HN: Months Long Interview Process
I am looking for a new position right now. I have a few open "processes" that are 2 months+ old and I still don't get any offer/rejection. This is a bit exhausting at this point, are all those job adds/process just for appearances? Is a company really interested in hiring someone if it cannot decide after 2 month+ long process and 7+ meetings.

This is nothing new and was also described in this article: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240402-return-of-never-ending-job-interviews

Can you give me some advice, please? How much time should I give the company, e.g. 3 months? Can I assume that if they cannot decide after 3 months the job ad is just fake?
System memory DRAM never is, but sometimes DRAM is technically included on CPU dies as a cache

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDRAM
It doesn't seem like a denial to me, more of a deflection. From that article:

> He added the number is not known, adding that the $7 trillion came from a report with an anonymous source. “You can always find some anonymous source to say something, I guess,” he added.
Many do, yes. And I’d suspect that’s true for those the parent commenter works with in particular.
Good intro to KM survival stats. I appreciate the author highlighting the limitations of KM due to non-parametric results because of discrete/binned data, such as "number of machines that failed per month".

IMHO it's well worth also knowing about parametric results using continuous data, especially if you're involved in tech products, because tech product telemetry can often provide individual timestamps, such as "this specific phone worked at $timestamp and didn't work after".

A good place to start for the continuous approach is with the Weibull distribution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weibull_distribution