skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nobody needs a kind of AI that consumes that much energy.

Rather: nobody needs to spend that much on current quality AI.

Say for the sake of argument that the accelerationists are correct about the timescale for future capabilities (I hope they're wrong in the short term, but run with it):

If we had an AI that could drive robots — cars, androids, surgical machines, industrial equipment — at least as well as any human, but the compute meant that it took 10 kW to do so, at electricity prices of $0.1/kWh that AI is cost-competitive with $1/h human labour.

If that happens and there's enough compute but not enough energy, energy prices rise to match human wages (so at least a factor of ten for this arbitrary example).

To avoid energy price rises, and for current economic output, that would require the USA to have about 170 million (workforce) * 10 kW = 1.7 TW ≈ 3.9 times current US electrical production.

(For the avoidance of doubt, 10 kW is a completely made up number with no real justification beyond it being simultaneously a relatively small number for an isolated valuable industrial device while also much more than a human brain).

> A better justification for more nuclear energy is to electrify transportation and residential heating/cooling while navigating the climate catastrophe, don't you think?

Not really, the reason for nuclear rather than renewables is more about the relative cost compared to time-shifting power generation with storage, and (most*) transportation already needs storage.

Heating and cooling is likewise, with good insulation, something that can work fine as time-shifting — the apartment I own back in the UK has storage heaters, everywhere I've lived (outside university) has/had hot water tanks.

The other reason for nuclear reactors is so you can maintain a nuclear arsenal, which sadly seems to be the only way for nations to stop other nuclear powers from messing with them.

* trains and trams can get rail/overhead line power, but cars, aircraft can't do that; trucks can be adapted that way, but only to reduce storage not eliminate it and even then it's just experimental**; shipping technically can use nuclear but ports don't want to accept such vessels and nobody wants pirates stealing nuclear reactors

** Literally the only example I've encountered, quick google suggests it's still only in testing: https://youtu.be/_3P_S7pL7Yg?si=IWKWIVAKbjHD0eL2
Is Verisign a monopoly? Does it matter?
Neuroscientists identify a mechanism behind drug-induced cognitive deficits
> Running hydro, biogas (e.g. in Denmark) and offshore wind (UK, Spain, France, Italy) can definitely fulfill renewable base load demand.

What is renewable base load demand?
I'd dispute that Germany and Japan are neo-colonys of the US. Where are the colonial governors?
No there shouldn’t, because then e.g. charities providing help to seriously ill cancer patients won’t be able to employ anyone.

Edit: I’m not against charities doing this where it makes sense. I wouldn’t want it to be more red tape they had to struggle with though.
> I hope the current engineers leave a better note for the engineers of the next century.

I don't like what you are saying. A more poetic note is not "better". You think it is, and that certainly can be your value but you are not the one fixing the light house.

It is perfectly fine if all they did is to just write down who they were and what they were doing. They don't owe you some poetic inspiring letter just because they were in a place you associate with poetry. And certainly it wouldn't be "better" in an objective sense.

In fact it would be less true if that is not the feeling they had. If they were sitting there thinking "need more grease so this bearing doesn't seize up" but wrote "Beacon stands steadfast,/ Waves crash 'gainst its ageless stone—/ A hymn to the stars." That would be worse, because it would be inauthentic.
Eh, if lower contrast is an issue, make the background or glass tint darker, and the foreground content lighter, or viceversa. Good contrast is a challenge with any design element, regardless if it's using a solid color or this glass effect.

Things happening in the background being distracting and disorienting is also very subjective. You can lower the translucency of the glass just as you would lower the opacity of a solid color.

My point is that your criticism is far from being objectively true. There are ways of integrating this design element without running into those issues. The screenshot from the Forza game looks fine, for example, and having seen it in action, the background is not distracting. And what you gain is a more interesting and visually pleasing UI than if you were using a solid background. This may be more important in a video game, but it can also be done tastefully in OS and web design.
Jesus christ. Someone's getting fucking piledrived... six times!

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you...
Of course it is not. I see more clients moving back to it or moving to it for the first time. People, rightfully so imho, are starting to hate nextjs (and react is getting a bit of that). It is so much easier to get something running without errors in the logs, for years at a time, and without weird frontend bugs with laravel than it is with nextjs/react. And people are starting to see that; usually after having multiple projects in nextjs over the years, teams changed and disappeared and then someone redeploys, nothing works and there we are.
And thus now they are responsible for all content published there.
If you have a middle box in the way fiddling with your traffic then bypassing it is just a policy matter. Companies don’t put these things inline for fun, they do it because they want to block traffic.

Allowing bypassing it breaks their policy.

If you own your own network then you don’t need to worry about middle boxes interfering with quic or http.
Didn’t think $400k/yr jobs were even an option in Florida. Maybe one of the few companies that moved to Miami over Covid I guess?

Makes more sense. You weren’t near any of the traditional tech cities. So, cost of living was always going to be low. Your mortgage is less than what it costs for a studio apartment in most tech centers.
Utah had a similar program once. Focused on housing first, but with support in other areas as well. It was largely successful, but complex and expensive. So they’ve since moved funding around and lost ground…

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2020/05/11/utah-was-onc...
> something no one will ever read?

No, they train the next LLM on it.
Amazon Kindle Colorsoft yellow stripe defect now has a culprit
No, but to state it has 0 positive effect is simply not true. Smarter, more knowledgeable people are much harder to manipulate via some trivial emotional tricks. Its not 100% shield, but sure as hell helps a lot. Look who is dying on russian's side in russian war - poor, remote and less educated part of russian society since they are so easy to manipulate - effectively considered disposable subhumans by russian leadershit.

Also, smarter folks understand that in hyper-complex structure like our global society, or on smaller nation scale, how good and freedom is something that's rare and practically unique for our current times, and should be protected at (almost) any cost since its loss may not be easily reversible for generations. Simpler folks care only about their own situation, bigger concepts are an afterthought at best.

Also, its much easier to spot manipulators and liars, typical populists these days really can't wrap their manipulation in some clever package that requires detailed analysis to unwrap, at least not most of them (and usually that's enough). When you can easily detect lies and twisting of truth you know who you deal with, you can assess both/multiple sides and weight on who is who much closer to actual truth.

Morality doesn't become some fancy foreign inconvenient concept but understanding how things that go around come around, always, and how only so you can build strong free society with bright future. And so on.
Collabora actually have made massive strides in getting LibreOffice onto the web.
In comparison, Denmark is currently at only 15% forest.

This is up from about 2% in the early 1800s, back when ships were built from wood, and firewood was used for heating. Funnily, the slow and steady build-up during those 200 years was partially motivated by the fact that when the British destroyed the fleet in 1807, there was simply not enough wood to build a new one.
There is reasonably strong evidence that writing actually evolved out of accounting. These early agricultural city-states needed to track the seasonal collection of harvests from the farmers, and continual distribution of food back to everyone.

What started as a ad-hoc system of tellies, eventually evolved into a fully-fledged writing system. And once the accountants had a functioning writing system, it would have been obviously useful, and moved into other parts of society. Tax records, laws, contracts, long-distance messages, recording history.

Art was probably one of the last places in society actually take advantage of this new writing technology.

Hunter-gatherer societies didn't develop writing because they didn't need accountants.
Source of high PFAS levels in Muskegon Lake foam unknown, researchers say
Jetbrain's CLion with the pico sdk. Yeah, that means C.
This is actually great.

If we can get only AIs to take meetings we can save a lot of work in offices.

Zoom has the same dream: https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/3/24168733/zoom-ceo-ai-clone...

Eventually we can also decouple scheduling meetings and reading summaries from humans. And then we can all spend time working instead of in meetings.

The robots can archive all their summaries, and have follow up meetings to track status of action points they invented. As long as they do not bother humans it will be a great boon to productivity.
You either have a box in the way intercepting traffic for policy reasons, in which case quic won’t help as it would be blocked for breaking policy, or you don’t have a box in the way, in which case quic has no benefits (in terms of middle boxes)
http://archive.today/Bn3Dz
>you can't solve poverty by simply giving out cash

Not directly, but it can solve some of the barriers people in challenging situations have.

e.g. someone has skills but can't pass interviews because they look like a hobo...there a bit of money for a haircut may help.

So I don't think we should drop the entire just because its not a comprehensive & complete solution
Uh no, WordPress is here to stay.
The things a mess though. It might be better to have some sort of freeze and then figure something to stop them repeating the process.
> I'm not arguing that what Kent did was right or wrong

You are actually arguing that it was right.

> The guy (Hocko) kept making mistake after mistake and Kent struggled to get him to do anything remotely net positive

That’s not really an excuse for abuse. This kind of comment is why we need a CoC committee in the first place. There is something deeply wrong when community members openly state that insulting other people is ok because they are not productive.

> You can't just fire them, so I understand the frustration here.

You can and should just ignore them. It is not mandatory to engage with people you disagree with and find unproductive especially on the internet where filtering them out is not that difficult.

Less extreme but also working is to just engage them less often. If you slow down the conversation, there is less space for them to annoy you.
Can you talk more about your use case? What data are you moving around all the time via serverless? Like you're actually egressing large amounts of embedded data in the serverless func itself?

Like basically I wonder if there's a way to make the dataset itself more static and only use the serverless function to do some minimal processing on a chunk of it at a time. Maybe extracting the relevant code of that lib and putting it inside a cheaper serverless platform. They're typically best for frequent small operations instead of any heavy crunching. But it's not clear whether that even makes sense for your use case because I can't tell what you're trying to do with the limited info provided.
How are you using the GPU on the AMD 13? Is it GPT4All with Vulkan or something?

I have struggled to get the GPU detected/used.
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One important option seem to be entirely missing here: Start. A. Union.

It seems the real problem here is the power difference between people, combined with the powerful side not having a thick enough skin… or lacking the actual competence that we ought to expect of their position.

A competent leader will not be offended or feel threatened by a piece of feedback, however negative: either the feedback is crap and they'll calmly say "nope, trust me I know what I'm doing here", or the feedback has enough truth in it for them to say "oops, I'll do better next time", and then proceed to actually do better.

An incompetent leader however likely know they're incompetent, and they're less likely to meaningfully judge feedback. They're more likely to look for social validation, and more importantly secure their position. Any negative feedback threatens that position, and when that feedback comes from below, the solution is obvious: slap the peasant down, perhaps even fire them.

Often there's little you can do around those people. For instance, I once applied for a contracting gig that would involve cryptographic work. I was rejected because I was "more competent than the project lead". My guess is the hiring manager there knew that if they brought in someone more competent than the project lead, things would go bad. Quite the indictment of the project lead if you ask me.

My best project lead on the other hand had no problem being a worse programmer than the people under him (the tech lead for sure, and I probably). He worked on the parts he could, trusted us to do our thing, and I trusted him with telling me the priorities. Best gig of my entire career.
"Mips – processing cycles, computer power – had always been cheaper than bandwidth. The computers got cheaper by the week and the phone bills stayed high by the month." - The Star Fraction, 1995
Must be a long Sunday in FSB/GRU offices, no? Or did they move you to yet another military department?
Thanks.

> Foursquare and Overture places are like many geolocation-centric datasets: users aren’t supposed to ever see the raw data, either in a list or on the map. You have to filter by a confidence score. Otherwise, you’ll get tons of user-generated junk – pranks, mistakes, etc.. In the past, Foursquare would charge big bucks for the confidence scores as an upsell. If these scores aren’t part of the dataset, then no wonder the company feels comfortable releasing the data.
If you (a user) can demonstrate actual harm done to you from the Cambridge Analytica scandal then you can sue too. But you were already giving your data freely to Facebook to sell you targeted ads, so you’re going to have an uphill battle in how getting targeted political ads from Cambridge derived analysis harmed you. Not in a sense like “the wrong person got elected so I was theoretically harmed” because I doubt you can make that work in court. But if maybe your wife saw the ads and thought you were voting for someone she didn’t like, then divorced you and took half of the company you founded, then maybe your argument has a chance (if you could prove it).

On the other hand, there was a way to attribute loss in stock price that happened when the news of the scandal broke. Investors have a clearer path to arguing that they were harmed, even though they are not guaranteed to win the case.
A fair amount of the Docker Desktop use, on both mac and Windows, is driven by it's internal workarounds for brain-dead corporate VPNs.
I'm happy for you, I'm working on to get in a similar position.
I am pretty sure ordinary people will be amazed by this technology even after a thousand years.
They are pretty half arsed in terms of getting Russia to withdraw. Now if they blockaded Russia's oil exports that could bankrupt them but the whole policy from the start seems to be drip feed everything so Russia wins slowly.
For context, this is the blog post in question:

https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
Yes, prior to 8.0, tcl strings mapped to null-terminated C strings.

"Binary I/O. The new object system in Tcl 8.0 supports binary strings (internally, strings are counted in addition to being null terminated). There is a new "binary" command for inserting and extracting data to/from binary strings. Commands such as "puts", "gets", and "read" commands now operate correctly on binary data. There is a new variable tcl_platform(byteOrder) to identify the native byte order for the current host."
Here is the link to the full directory contents of uploaded images; including hi-res ~99MB versions.

https://eopro.esa.int/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/
> Everyone tries to cheat the system

No.

A lot of people say things like this, probably because they would (or do) cheat the system and they want to justify this as 'normal'.

However, studies show most people abide by rules, especially when systems are transparent and fair.

> When you create perverse incentives

Ending homelessness and poverty isn't perverse. It's necessary for a decent society.

And, it can be done. Finland ended homelessness rapidly, with a little political will and intelligence.
It was written by hand, in a rather poetic, inspiring, and exciting handwriting! At least, I find it so.

The bottle likely helped preserve the paper and the writing. In addition, I'd guess that they used good quality paper, because Iron Gall ink - which was in vogue at the time the letter was written - is fairly corrosive and can eat through paper.

Addendum: I also find the bland (under)statement of their work comforting and inspiring.
I have a Framework 13 that I bought last year in November with the Ryzen 7840u processor.

Initially, my experience with it was good, Fedora Linux was working well and everything.

One day, after coming back home, I've noticed that the power button was completely stuck. Apparently, the device somehow it so hard that the input cover was bent so much... [1] The laptop was in a backpack with its own case, I wasn't expecting it to break so much quickly. Anyway, I opened the laptop to at least fix the power button, but then I have decided to contact support, since they might know better how to solve it. After turning it on without using the power button, I put the input cover back on and.. The screen BROKE. It was working just before doing it!

Support finally decided that they wouldn't replace any part of the device. In the end, I had to spend 400 euros in parts to fix everything because of that.

I also had shipping issues because of FedEx getting my address wrong (for THREE times), and things like uneven touchpad [2] and gaps between brand new input and bottom cover [3], I didn't report any of them because interacting with the support because it was just a waste of time with their repetitive template answers (and FedEx with their non-service).

Additionally, in the last months I have been having issues with the amdgpu driver (apparently, it sucks hard on newer APUs), making the desktop either start lagging so much or crashing so often (it goes back to the login screen) that it becomes unusable. Rebooting the devices fixes it for some hours, so no fix for now.

The laptop works much better with Windows, but I have bought it specially for the intent of using Linux, since they even advertised official support! otherwise, I would have bought something else.

In the end, all of these things became so unbearable that I have decided to replace the Framework with a MacBook Pro M4. I never wanted one, but the laptop market nowadays is so bad that you can't trust manufacturers that the Linux support will be good, and MacOS is the only alternative that works for me.

Regarding the Framework, I really want to like them, the concept behind repairability and modularity is awesome, but at least for now they are just an experimental company that you can't trust if you do real work.
I hope others who bought one had a better experience than I did.

[1] https://files.catbox.moe/mt5p0p.jpg

[2] https://files.catbox.moe/ivh5dy.jpg

[3] https://files.catbox.moe/vcmehr.jpg
I hate PHP as a language. However as an Infra guy, it is very performant and easy to scale. Laravel is also an incredible framework.
Release Process Sucks
> Salary can include tasks like this

So lets say that it just magically happens that when YOU are on call, stuff breaks all the time but when its your coworkers it doesn’t. You are all paid the same, does it seem fair to you now?

Unless it’s written in paper where a salaried worker will be getting X extra per hour you are just working for free. The definition of a salaried worker in the US is having 40hrs of total work time averaged throughout a year.
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Sometimes it's pushed by programs interested in changing the statistics in the most direct way possible - giving people a bus ticket. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/... also "greyhound therapy" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_homeless_relocation_pr...
Imagine if someone built a huge, impressive thing, and a whole load of people tried to avoid paying to see it and claim they had some moral right to do so.
In HUD you don’t want to occlude the background since that’s the main area a user is interacting.
yes terrible idea for the users, great for VCs
Excellent publication record is the baseline. Every serious candidate has it. But if you are not a superstar, research merits alone are not enough. There are enough excellent candidates that universities often use checklists to filter the number of applications to a more manageable level. Why bother considering excellent researchers without teaching experience, when there is no shortage of candidates with similar research merits and some experience?
>A competent leader will not be offended or feel threatened by a piece of feedback

Replace 'competent' with 'perfect'. Most people are very easily offended or threatened by negative feedback. One can argue that they shouldn't be, ideally, but I don't think you can really say that anyone who's not maximally receptive to negative feedback is incompetent.
… and nobody cares. React really lost the mindset leadership already, usage is next
Downloading the big ones is so slow even over a semi-decent connection, it feels like getting certain lowres images in 1995 over a modem :-) What a blast from the past!

https://eopro.esa.int/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PHI_Visible...
Hi, I downvoted this remark because the only thing it added to the discussion was to display that you've not read anything about the subject (in which case you would known that cash transfers and similar help in many situations do in fact reduce poverty, homelessness, and the negative effects thereof, see the many links elsewhere in this thread.)

It can also be read as suggesting that homeless people are like animals and that their homelessness is only of their own making, which is not only wrong but also quite... let's just call it weird.
Ironic chatgpt's summary of the article

https://chatgpt.com/share/6743194c-ae00-8001-af3c-0915007579...
You are missing what is missing. Their source code does not fill in the missing pieces.