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> performance is only good if you have a current-generation GPU that cost at least $1k

That's why I said games aren't currently designed with only pathtracing in mind, but in 3-5 years with faster hardware and better algorithms, we'll probably start to see it be more widespread. That's typically how graphics usually develop; something that's only for high end GPUs eventually becomes accessible to everyone. SSAO used to be considered extremely demanding, and now it's accessible to even the weakest phone GPU with good enough quality.

Again the fact that it's feasible at all, even if it requires a $1000 GPU, is amazing! 5 years ago real time path tracing would've been seen as impossible.

> The way it went for CP2077 makes your "70% usable" claim seem like quite an exaggeration

Based on the raw frame timing numbers and temporal stability, I don't think it is. RT GI is currently usually around ~4ms, which is at the upper edge of usable. However the temporal stability is usually the bigger issue - at current ray counts, with current algorithms, either noise or slow response times is an inevitable tradeoff. Hence, 70% usable. But with another few years of improvements, we'll probably get to the point where we can get it down to ~2.5ms with the current stability, or 4ms and much more stable. Which would be perfectly usable.
What will happen to those of us who are not rich but also not poor? Upper middle class with net worth between 1 and 10 million?
Inflation gauge falls to its lowest level since early 2021
I keep hearing anecdotes like this and truly want to give Emacs a shot. Do you use it exclusively on a PC?

My big blocker is that a significant portion of my time is on a phone rather than a computer these days and I have to think that all the chording with Emacs would get impossibly cumbersome.

Anyone here have a good way to leverage Emacs on the go?
Bcnm: A better client network manager
And that's just two categories. Even teens and 10x software engineers will make those mistakes in a pinch of time
Neither parent nor child has control over the device. That we let these valent swirling forces in someday is semi surprising.

I mostly wish there were empowered options parents & children could negotiate & navigate on their own. But all we get is cloudified software, that we don't have direct view of or insight to.
I've been sailing on a 13 meter long boat in 40 knot winds, and that mast looks to have more area than the total sail we had up. The moment the wind imparts on such a tall mast must be massive.
The Entropic State as Creative Necessity
They should just try to sell the company to someone competent. Maybe AMD would like to purchase them.
> "an effect this large, or larger, should happen by chance 1 time out of 20"

More like "an effect this large, or larger, should happen by chance 1 time out of 20 in the hypothetical universe where we already know that the true size of the effect is zero".

Part of the problem of p-values is that most people can't even parse what it means (not saying it's your case). P-values are never a statement about probabilities in the real world, but always a statement about probabilities in a hypothetical world where we all effects are zero.

"Effect sizes", on the other hand, are more directly meaningful and more likely to be correctly interpreted by people on general, particularly if they have the relevant domain knowledge.

(Otherwise, I 100% agree with the rest of your comment.)
Thank you. This guy gets it.

Path tracing is the gold standard for computer graphics. It is a physically based rendering model that is based on how lighting actually works. There are degrees of path tracing of varying quality, but there is nothing else that is better from a visual quality and accuracy standpoint.

Your modern AAA title does a massive amount of impressive hacks to get rasterization into the uncanny valley, as rasterization has nothing to do with how photons work. That can all be thrown out and replaced with “model photons interacting with the scene” if the path tracing hardware was powerful enough. It’d be simpler and perfectly accurate. The end result would not live in the uncanny valley, but would be indistinguishable from reality.

Assuming the hardware was fast enough. But we’ll get there.
if your hardware supports mesh shaders properly, it won't be very hard for it to also support these other features emulated in software (geometry shaders, tessellation, lines etc).

But mesh shaders are fairly new, will take a few years for the hardware and software to adapt.
I think calling it "completely stopped working" is a bit over the top.

It doesn't feel magical, and it particularly doesn't feel like a gateway to new and interesting places on the internet, like it used to.

But I still make hundreds of searches on google every day, so obviously it is working.
I've used Linux for many years in my work environment but rarely at home. I recently installed Mint on a 15+ year old Dell. It is our only device with a DVD and this week my wife asked if I could rip an old home movie DVD. I googled a DVD ripper for Linux. I found Handbrake and with the Minute software manager application it installed seamlessly. I ran the software, stuck the DVD and within 30 minutes, the 2 hour movie had been saved to an mp4 file. Very impressed!!
Bad priors
A classroom may take many forms, and pedagogy has many methods, but your standard college course looks like a lecture hall full of students, with one professor, presenting a stream of facts, and perhaps demonstrating a few exercises on a screen or whiteboard. The students pay attention, take notes, and they may ask or answer a few questions.

But in a lecture-based class, the information stream is thick, and goes mostly in one direction. The professor's best time is invested in imparting knowledge and wisdom to the students.

But all of that knowledge and wisdom will go in one ear and out the other, if a student doesn't put it into practice, refer to it repeatedly, and reinforce it. So we have textbooks, and we have homework, and we have study groups.

With a high student:teacher ratio, there's simply no efficient way to place students under a microscope and eliminate cheating from their homework. But you need students to practice and do some "workouts" outside of class time, when the prof's not on the clock. And, those students crave feedback on how they're doing. If they just do homework and grades or comments aren't forthcoming, then what's the point?

Ultimately, a cheating student is hurting himself. The cheating will eventually ruin their life if they try to make a career out of it. Unfortunately, unchecked cheaters can ruin a credential or brand as well. If an institution gives "A"s and diplomas to cheaters, what will their reputation be, when such "experts" get into the workforce but they're incompetent frauds?

There's no easy answer, for sure, but something's gotta give. I believe that we're going to see a decline in the supremacy of the University system, and a decline in the prestige of diplomas and degrees. Vice-President Kamala Harris has vowed to eliminate the degree requirement for civil servants, so I believe that alternate education pathways will be widened and endorsed in a big way, in the near future.
That is why I wrote:

(for those unfamiliar with the concept)
I still remember submitting that suggestion years ago. I basically just went looking up various pocket computers and found the Pasopia Mini had an identical layout. Good to see the more complete story of the HHC-4.
Scientist captures elusive bird on film
In context he was trying to place blame on the crew, so he clearly meant "unsinkable when crewed correctly." He goes on to claim that they must not have properly closed hatches &c. for the storm.
While these types of failures are the 50-70% problem, 30% left seems like a big problem too and the black-hats will just concentrate more on those if the low hanging fruit are removed with rust, C#, python, whatever
Yandex is indeed a Russian company. But do you really need to go to media bias fact check dot com—everyone's confirmed universal source of absolute truth, of course—to learn that?
The average person definitely doesn’t know what perplexity means, and even perplexed is itself a bit of an advanced vocabulary word.
As I get older, I find myself enjoying these types of stories less and less. My issue comes from the fact that nobody seems comfortable having a conversation about facts and data, instead resorting to childish analogies about turning knobs.

That’s not how our jobs work. We don’t “adjust a carefulness meter.” We make conscious choices day to day based on the work we’re doing and past experience. As an EM, I’d be very disappointed if the incident post mortem was reduced to “your team needs to be more careful.”

What I want from a post mortem is to know how we could prevent, detect or mitigate similar incidents in future and to make those changes to code or process. We then need to lean on data and experience of what the trade offs of those changes would be. Asking a test? Go for it. Adding extra layers of approval before shipping? I’ll need to see some very strong reasons for that.
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>> "in the USA, can illegal immigrants vote?"

> More than 800,000 non-citizens and “Dreamers” could vote in New York City municipal elections

Treating the question literally, that would not be in the USA (federal elections).
I tried Cursor out for myself and I get it now.
Everyone's missing the point. You can't reverse globalization. The government doesn't want you to have more babies. Baby production was outsourced overseas to import grown adults. Let others worry about childcare expenses.
Well you’re clearly just reading some clickbait articles and not following the actual development at all.
The fact that the rabbit hole exists at all means that our hope for instant, reliable answers is likely doomed. Avoiding politics entirely, I could ask “does gravity curve spacetime?”, and while “yes” is a reasonably accurate answer, so is a digression into quantum gravity, or even saying that we’re not sure spacetime really exists outside of being a good abstraction.
> They clearly want the recipient to vote/donate

Lol, no.

Just like SEO and the e/mail spam nobody actually cares about the result. The process itself, 'engagement' - is the target.

Just imagine, you are the spammer and you are presenting the numbers to whoever who ordered this:

"Hey, we sent 1000 SMS, got 900 STOP replies, that's good, right? That would cost you $1000 for the SMS and $100 for our time. "

And compare it with this:

"Hey, we sent 15043401 SMS, got 9000 replies, overall engagement is over 78% and we can continue for another week or two! BTW it's $15043401 for the SMS and $100000 for our time"

Which variant the spammer would prefer?
> They won’t be if you start pricing plastic packaging generated externalities in the products prices.

Sure. let's make food more expensive for poor people. That's always grand policy. It'd be one thing if it was limiting how many Chic-Fil-A sauce packets they got in their drive-thru paper bag, but this also (believe it or not) affects those trying to eat at home with minimally processed foods. At some point the 72-serving Gigantosaurus bulk Hot Pocket box in the freezer section looks better than some of the stuff that resembles food people should eat.

> It’s so impossible it’s actually done in France if

I have no clue why people can't just magically wish themselves French and have entire centuries of French culture and habits imprinted on them just because people who played too much SimCity 2000 as a kid think that other people's lives should be micromanaged for a higher score. God save us from the technocrats.
> After nearly two years of effort, over fifty billion simulations, and countless hours spent routing the entire game, I finally arrive at the Pokemon league. [...] with a team that's level 51. [...] And finally, after over 120 hours, the credits roll. [...]

I fear no man! But... that thing--it scares me.
What you wrote didn’t really refute the point you’re replying to.
Good to see a shoutout to Kurzrock!
This is correct. We are already doing everything correctly.

We just need these efficiencies distributed to more people. Eventually we should plateau into few hour work weeks for vital labor.
Actually I tried this myself and it just failed horribly. Getting the wrong dates, citing old SEO blog spam and basically not finding anything that fit my criteria. When I asked for it to go more in depth it again failed to verify and misjudged the dates by one year.

You can take a look for yourself here: https://chatgpt.com/share/67245f76-bf88-8012-b72d-703beed088...
I’m no boat expert but doesn’t your statement imply some level of ease of dragging a boat out of the water to perform this operation? Something tells me that pulling a 40 foot sailboat out of the water, turning it over, painting it, and returning it into the water isn’t necessarily the most straightforward operation. A lot of complexity is probably loaded into “it takes us” and if we took a gander at the hourly rates of everyone involved in said operation as well as the upfront cost of the equipment to perform said operation as well as the safety measures required to execute the operation properly I feel like we would be a lot closer to the $7k number than the $250 number
All quantum workloads (whatever they will be) are cloud workloads because no one is going to be having their own non-trivial quantum hardware.
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Meh, it provides info about some order of magnitude you can expect from performance. It doesn't take 10 seconds. It's not instant. It's fast enough to do on the fly.
Is there an actual good use case for these desktop apps vs the web?
I agree that spending time with a really good map is like reading a book and confers more understanding than a map app. Map apps are pretty crumby, presumably because they're crammed into a screen. Paper maps are still a thing, I was at a book store the other day with a really big paper map section. In particular I enjoy geologic maps; they add depth and history to the landscape around you.

Map apps are much faster for navigation though. At least on the scale of walking a few blocks.
No AI content? Pretty much every other submission is about AI nowadays.

Tongue firmly planted in cheek. :)
I faced this problem too. I am a Linux user personally, but use Windows at work. I am not a phone person, but do use it regularly.

I sync org files to phone (using Syncthing) and use Orgzly to access these from Android. Although it is possible to install Emacs in Android as a terminal tool in Termux or even as a GUI tool, you need to connect a keyboard to do something sensible. Long story short, if your phone is your daily driver, Emacs may not be for you as it is keyboard oriented. But if you are a computer person who occasionally uses the phone, there are ways to get by.
"Management" is generally a bunch of morons bikeshedding to try to distract everyone from the fact that their jobs are utterly worthless. The fewer decisions management makes, the better. If management feels like they need to make a decision, throw something in there they can tell you to remove later. It's a tried and tested method of getting those imbeciles off your back. Then build the damn thing that actually needs building. Management will take the credit, of course. But they'll be happy. Everyone wins.

Think about it this way: the person who suffers the consequences of the decision should be making the decision. That's not management; they will never, ever accept any level of blame for anything. They'll immediately pass that buck right on to you. So that makes it your decision. Fuck management; build what needs building instead.

Look at what happened when "management" started making decisions at Boeing about risk, instead of engineers making the decisions.
Why are you looking at 16GB Optane drives? You probably don't need a SLOG device for your media server.

I think you're pretty far into XY territory here. I'd recommend hanging out in r/homelab and r/zfs, read the FAQs, and then if you still have questions, maybe start out with a post explaining your high level goals and challenges.
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Academy Film Archive Lays Off Multiple Staff Members in Restructuring
Net worth of over $1 million is rich. An extremely small number of people have that much money.

Those people will probably be fine, though if you’re in that $1-10million zone you could be at risk of running out of money eventually if you don’t end up being one of the people owning the automation.
I haven't really read the research, but yeah, I don't think texting is bad and as you mentioned, it really is helpful to keep connected with friends. The one thing we found though is texting didn't last too long as they moved on to different apps (like Snapchat). I hope your daughter and friends can resist that change and just stick with simpler things like texting and FaceTime.
> There's this tech pattern of letting the cash-cow stagnate and deteriorate while focusing on high risk moonshots.

It is interesting to go back a decade and read the articles about Google's moonshots from then. There was even more "we're building the future!" hype than what Elon Musk or Sam Altman are currently pushing.
World leaders traceable via their bodyguards' Strava workouts [video]
AI-Generated or Real?
I replied, "Stop the lies!" and they quit. Maybe coincidence though.
If only the ultra rich can afford and use these technologies, and they no longer employ or involve the poor- isn’t that the same as the rich simply not existing for most practical purposes? What stops “the poor” from continuing to have a thriving economy on their own, offering their own non-robotic and non-AI goods and services to one another like they already do now?

Essentially if AI and robotics are so expensive that only the ultra wealthy can afford them, then that also means that it is unable to compete with human labor, and therefore economically irrelevant- human labor will be cheaper, and as a result still in high demand.

Since none of that makes sense logically, it cannot play out like that. I agree human labor is about to be replaced with cheaper automation and displace a lot of workers, and I can’t predict what will happen, but don’t think the exact scenario you describe is possible.
It's a real addiction, no matter how resistant you are.

I'm 44. I've never had social media accounts. When I was 18 or so, I had a Palm Pilot with a cellular modem cradle that let you actually go to (mostly text-based) websites. It was the first smart phone, really. Amazing for finding information, for someone who didn't even have dial-up internet until 5 years earlier. But eventually I put the Palm Pilot away. It wasn't really addicting (and it was insanely nerdy to walk around with a computer connected to the internet, in your pocket like that).

I militantly avoided owning anything beyond a flip phone again until I was 36 (2016), when I finally caved in and grudgingly bought a cheap Android phone to work on a mobile game. (For the first 6 months of development, I'd just written and tested it under emulation, but bug reports were getting too hard to reproduce). Six months after that, I found myself doom-scrolling on the damn thing every time I had a free moment.

What I noticed during my smartphone-free years of watching people play with theirs were a few things: They weren't considered nerdy. They weren't considered computers. The social awkwardness of looking at a device in public had changed into a shield for people against the social awkwardness of looking at their surroundings or acknowledging other people. People forgot how to interact and how to sit and wait without doing something with their phone. Doing something with the phone was more than passively sipping a drink or smoking a cigarette; it was a way to show other people that they didn't want to interact. Or a way to hide from interaction.

I think this has to do with the way apps are structured. The vast majority of people never needed a computer in their pocket. Computers were for information and for work. I think of smartphones and the current app ecosystem as more like a swiss-army-knife of spyware and ad tech shoved into a package with as many sensors as possible, to monitor the population. And so, it had better be addictive. Because the underlying act of looking at one and spending so much time with one is, and always has been, antisocial and therefore somewhat repulsive. It took a great amount of marketing to normalize it, and people still rebel against it.
Bifurcation of society with fewer and fewer people moving upward in social status. The poor have nothing. The bar of assets required to not become poor continues to raise.

For example, let’s say you have 5M NW, and 75% of it is in an uninsurable residential real estate. Your house is at high risk of being destroyed, and if it does you barely have the assets required to rebuild. If this happens twice you are have nothing poor.
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I would argue that Ubuntu is almost there on par (and in my view superior) experience with Windows. Windows just comes preinstalled on most PCs sold and most people don't know/want to install an OS on their new machines.
> you're going to act out a scene where you assassinate him

The robot folds some sheets because murdering routines were not included in its training set.
> What I want from a post mortem is to know how we could prevent, detect or mitigate similar incidents in future and to make those changes to code or process.

The answer this post gives to that bizarre question that always gets asked, is ‘nothing’, unless you want to significantly adjust the speed that we deliver features.

Any added process or check is going to impose overhead and make the team a little bit less happy. Ocassionally you’ll have a unicorn situation where there is actually a relatively simple fix, but those are few and far between.

In extremis, you’re reduced to a situation in which you have zero incidents, but you also have zero work getting done.
Yes, but so is Intel, thanks to the CHIPS act.
For those that have access to this, how does it compare to Perplexity?
Discussion (92 points, 2 days ago, 81 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41988760
I think this post turned out to be a pretty good sell on hytraboi. Last time the conference was held, appears to also be the first time it was held, in 2022:

https://www.hytradboi.com/2022

I'm giving the talk list a try now that I hve read the organizers thought on it.