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In 20 years a fiction writer will be able to upload their work to something and generate a movie.

It won't be Hollywood quality. It'll either look like animation or early mixed CGI/live action stuff with "wooden" performances, etc., but it will let them see their work acted out which will be super cool.

Obviously the pro version of this with detailed editing and incorporating real human actors for the starring roles will be what's used to make a lot of real film and TV serious content.
Fitting. Enron and crypto go together.
As far as I understand, this pipes your data to a local llm via ollama. No data sent to "some corporation".
> That allows the overhead due to refresh to be reduced by a half or a quarter which does improve benchmark results.

Does this increase susceptibility to rowhammer?
Problem is that this way, grid electricity will be out soon because people will only be consuming it when there is no sun - and that's not enough for utilities to break even, so they are going to go bankrupt.
Why do you think gaming community survey would be more relevant than Intel/AMD earning reports in which they unambiguously, for the most part, lay out the earnings per CPU type?
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Albert-László Barabás, a physicist, created a network map that can predict an artist's future success based on their early network connections. His work outlines two key "laws of success":

- Performance drives success, but when performance can’t be measured, networks drive success. This highlights the importance of networks when objective measures of quality are difficult to establish.

- Performance is bounded, but success is unbounded. This indicates that small differences in quality can lead to large disparities in success due to the amplifying power of social networks

Barabási's model can predict an artist's career success with surprising accuracy based on the venues of their first five exhibitions. This model underscores the importance of early connections and the venues where an artist exhibits their work, which can significantly influence their long-term success4.
The 1940s were long ago, and recent times have been terrible for Jaguar. First sold to Ford and mismanaged, then hastily offloaded at a loss to Tata in 2008, and floundering even worse ever since. Seems to me that they're now considered a mid-tier brand, probably somewhere below BMW.
It worked so well for RadioShack!

https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/22/22849943/radioshack-defi...
Exactly, copyright was never meant to be a retirement plan or to act as wellfare for orphans.
> For the last 400 years, pathologists on every country had filleted and put, lets say tens thousands of human brains and human guts under the microscope. One of them has systematically a microbiome, easy to see. The other don't, except when is diseased or rotten. The sample token here is huge, maybe millions.

Is that really the case? By my understanding of the article, we find plenty of bacteria whenever we look at human brain samples. The problem is that it's very hard to tell if that bacteria was already present in the brain, or if it got in through the process of cutting the brain open (especially by contamination with other tissues), or if it was indeed present before the procedure, but only because the individual was very old or had a disease.
I'm usually a rule follower, but this is a rule that I choose not to follow. I have a couple of reasons:

- I've spent effort on this, and I want the repository to work in future. I want to be able to clone it and run all the code without having to fetch the input once more, even if the site is unavailable. (I actually do this while benchmarking new hardware).

- I don't think it actually hurts the creator in any way, in my opinion. Here's an example: At least 660 people have uploaded inputs from 2022 (https://github.com/search?q=%22closest+beacon+is+at+x%22+pat...). These files have been up for 2 years. Exactly what injury has the creator suffered because of this? Are there people out there thinking "nah, it's too much effort to log into adventofcode.com, I'll just trawl GitHub repos for inputs and figure out what I'm supposed to do from there"? Obviously not.

So I have a compelling interest, and the creator hasn't articulated a good reason to avoid it. If he's able to articulate a good reason, then I'm willing to reassess my stance on this. He has my sympathy and full support if someone creates a lookalike site with the same puzzles and inputs but different CSS and without ads. That would be messed up. The potential injury is clear - he'd be losing users to the lookalike.

This is a subject of some controversy in the AOC community, but nothing I've read in those threads so far has been compelling. Anti-storage arguments usually just come down to "he's asking nicely so please comply". To which I politely respond that I don't accede to every polite request that comes my way.
True, it's not as cheap but significantly faster with the same approx power usage
I feel like there's nuance here that a lot of people don't mention.

There are the actual puzzles that have been minified beyond recognition, and one has to work backwards to figure out what clearer code the author started from. I don't think anyone likes this code, but it gets written by people who are more used to writing code than reading it.

There is also the incredibly clear, straight-forward code that could have come from any other language. If you manage a sane production Haskell codebase, you'll have a lot of this.

In between those two, there is clear code but which you wouldn't find in any other language. This is code that uses well-known Haskell idioms that anyone who works with a lot of Haskell code will recognise, but which look like puzzles to someone who has not worked with a lot of Haskell. These are things like

guard (age person >= 18) $> beer

to return Just beer to someone of age, but Nothing to someone underage;

Uuid.fromWords <$> getRandom <*> getRandom <*> getRandom <*> getRandom

to return a randomly generated UUID;

maybe (compute_fresh seed) pure cached_value

to use a cached value if it exists, computing it from scratch if it did not; or

traverse_ $ \elem -> do
error "stub"

to create a function that loops through a collection and executes a side effect for each element.

These look like nonsense to people not familiar with the idioms, but they appear frequently enough that they are no longer puzzles.
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ProtonMail's encryption is PGP, and it's difficult to get PGP right. The whole signing party thing doesn't scale. If it can't be done right, then it's just a hype at best.
+1 on the "reading other high quality code" part to improve your craft.

Getting your own work critiqued is unmatched, but reading what others did is the next best thing.
It clearly says the reference images are ai generated.
The vast majority of Chinese students do not plan on migrating to the UK. They usually do it so they can complete a Masters in 1 year instead of the 2 years required by Chinese universities. Having an international degree also holds weight in the domestic job market.
I second this, most programmers seem to be fixated on the idea that all code should show at every moment how data types and their values are being passed and tossed around, and they simply ignore or refuse to realise that you can omit it and think in terms of functions fitting the slots.
It shows what happens when grid prices rise too high.

There is a lot of good cheap tech to help provide baseline home power, especially when neighborhoods set up micro grids.
> Unfortunately it seems you either have to run "dune build watch", or you can build and run, but not both as there is some locking happening.

This is annoying, yes, but for some use cases you can use `dune exec --watch`, which builds and restarts the executable.
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I would guess the plan for the larger companies is to sell a whole suite of products around the VMware: management, ops, auditing etc, plus take very good care of their niche requirements so moving becomes a much more expensive proposition
The force of a rocket engine can be measured in pounds.

And pressure in PSI and torque in foot-lbs because pounds are a unit of weight (i.e. force) not mass.
This for me sums up the library ecosystem and the type of folks who like using Haskell as a hobby. When I write production code, I aim to be as clear showing a good working design that's easy to understand (reading the issue/PR descriptions if necessary). The code style is chosen to maximize human comprehension. What I'm not doing is playing a game of one-upmanship with (virtual) others.

The only parts I'm really interested in optimizing are the bits that matter: factoring, naming, datastructures, algorithms, queries (for database), and minimizing abstractions that don't pay their weight.

I spent some time using F# out of curiosity of both it and OCaml and found that it was very easy to use with the exception of (mutable) arrays.
There’s only one government that Facebook/Meta really has to obey, and that’s the one that can show up at Zucc’s houses with the CIA. The other ones are mostly optional.
I'm taking a 9 month sabbatical next year so I can learn to enjoy coding again. It's not coding that bugs me, it's all the BS you have to deal with modern management practices that makes it unbearable.

I did management a few times and didn't like it. Keep in mind that no matter what you do, if you're in a corporate environment, that's still going to be a problem.
I think this is just a ratcheting cvt with more parts added to obfuscate the design, it seems to only go one way.
Eh. We all have our origin stories.

Turned out that I didn't really feel like working with companies that require HN handles, and they didn't feel like working with past-their-prime engineers, so it's all good.

I stuck around, and folks generally seem to feel I'm a decent member, here. A few curmudgeons don't like me, but, when you're "on the spectrum," you get pretty used to folks not liking you, for no discernible reason. I've found that being true to myself, means that it doesn't really matter, all that much. I've had really dangerous people not like me, IRL, so this joint is Amateur Hour.

I try to be a decent member here, and not bring darkness (I'm quite capable of it). Some folks think that makes me "stuffy," or "snobby."

Whatever creams your Twinkie. I'm actually a pretty decent person, and it's probably worth it, to get to know me. I won't make you rich, but I'm also no threat to anyone (and have no desire to be). I believe in helping folks, and trying to keep humanity first and foremost. HN handles are people, not NPCs (for the most part -Ed.), and I try to keep that in mind, when I post, here.
What does that have to do with rockets? The main resources you need for spaceflight are intellectual capacity and engineering skills. Plus a government that allows it to happen. Besides the US, China and Russia, the 4th place for number of launches in 2023 is shared by India and New Zealand. The latter can hardly be described as imperialist by any measure. All you need is a single company like Rocket Lab. It could easily happen in other places too, under the right circumstances.

Prior to losing WW2 for example Germany dominated the space and they were latecomers in imperialism with very little control over anything outside their own territory. In fact getting pushed around by more powerful colonial nations, and the economic sanctions that were put on them, were the main reason leading to the fascist takeover and ultimately the war.
> What's the point of doing that

A sale isn't free. It requires time, headcount, and engineering+PM resources.

At Broadcom size, you want to maximize sales to F1000 customers (the kind that can and will shell 7-8 figures in TCV) as that gives you the most bang for your buck from a SalesOps perspective.

A major issue with VMWare was their sales team would chase logos at the expense of an optimal sale, so their account teams would give extreme discounts (70-80%) at barely above the margin in order to close deals.
According to the article, foreign students can be charged as much as the university wants. They're paying for it, bringing boatloads of money to the UK to rent, eat, study, and sometimes later work there

At least that's how it works in the Netherlands where I've looked into it, and that's with subdidies available for EU students who often don't stay here and don't contribute to taxes later. Source, in Dutch but the graphic near the top is a good summary, where the lower bars are "costs" (kosten) and the higher bars "benefits" (baten): https://www.cpb.nl/de-economische-effecten-van-international...
This is a solvable issue, when you look at how fast battery storage prices are falling.
IME the earlier a company is in their lifecycle the more the team matters than the idea. So, choosing founders seems The Right Way
Yes, probably a feedback loop. There is lots of research showing modern food is engineered for high "food reward value" which overcomes our satiety mechanisms, and is essentially addictive (e.g. https://www.stephanguyenet.com/thehungrybrain/). Not to say that modern processed food isn't also quite unhealthy - with mental health implications, I suspect it is the food reward aspect itself that is mostly responsible for what you are talking about.

This I think has simply caused food to essentially replace alcohol as the default way to escape painful emotions- whereas the men traumatized in the big wars of the 20th century often became regular binge drinkers afterwards, I think food has largely replaced that.
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Sure, it's a gamble.

But if Broadcom increases price 10-fold and loses half the customers by revenue over the next couple of years, that reflects in their bonus and they can then move on.

The customers might have a plan to move off vmware by 2027, but continue to pay the money until then. Come the 2027 renewal the execs that made the massive bonuses for increasing revenue have left and then when the company says they aren't renewing it's the next generation dealing with the problems, and then they just reach for the three-envelopes.

This really is on the companies that choose a single supplier. If you had two providers, then shifting doesn't take a 3 year program, it's just a policy change to prefer Provider B rather than Provider A.
To not fall under ,what is criticized by some people here, as making an ad for a competitor - but big parts of it are very similar to a project im working on for multiple years now, i not gonne name or link the project i gonne mention.

While my project is not meant to be specifically used with LLMs, what i build (or am building) is a system which has no specific defined sequence, but is rather a composition of "actions" of which each of them has a specific defined requirement in form of a data structure that is necessary to execute the "action". I build it in a way to be self supervising without one single task scheduling mechanism to enable people to write data driven applications.

Its nice to see that im not the only one (ye i didnt expect that to be the case dont worry im not elon-musk crazy) that tries to go such a way.

While i build it for completly different use cases (when i started LLM weren't such a big thing as they are now) its definatly a cool and creative way to use such an architecture.

Gl hf :) and thumbs up
Even still, exchange rates aren't a fixed value globally at any given time. You should record the rate with the transaction because the rate could be different from your log of exchange rates for any number of different reasons.
I'd rather have cities make rental contracts public record to bring some parity to the information landscape.
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"You may find a solution in Haskell. But often you’ll discover too many solutions, you won’t know which one to choose."

Will this eventually also become a problem with Rust?
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It all comes down to knowing the FP vocabulary. Most of FP languages share the names of the most widely used functions, and if you're well versed in Haskell you'll have 80/20 ratio of understanding them all, where the 20% part would be language-specific libraries that expand and build upon the 80% of the FP vocabulary.
They then make their product good and convice your customers they are good enough for less. They don't eken have to be better, just go enough.
So, I saw this link and immediately thought, "I bet the discussion will be about how we should use N100s, instead." I wasn't disappointed. Even on dedicated Pi forums, you see that happening.

I guess I understand this point of view if you were trying to use Pis to experiment with Kubernetes or something. You'd have built your own (desktop) PC or a personal server rack for that kind of thing, years ago. But for the vast majority of typical uses (Home Assistant, VPNs, etc.) a Pi is going to be way more than you need. It will sit there and silently and reliably run, for years at a time, powered by a USB cable. I know mine have.

Why would I consider replacing those with a bigger box, fan noise and a power brick? Maybe I'm missing something?
Nobody got fired for buying IBM/Microsoft/Cisco/VMWare

Inertia, both in a company and in the industry, is a major reason.
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Idk. I don't want to try digging and pissing off the local MPS.

I think the insurgency is largely dead, but the Central Highlands remains very poor and smuggling+corruption are sustained issues.
I think this is the reason why I feel so much nostalgia for the sort of 2012-era vectorflourish sort of aesthetic. Look at the first Google image result for "Zune" for an example[1]. Gradient-type stenciling with references to the organic world and a sort of optimism implied overall (the same sort that proponents of Frutiger Aero talk about but this is not quite the same thing, I think it's somewhat flatter but not ultra-flat like everything is now).

This aesthetic represents to me the dead tech-optimist future we were promised but never got. It's a "ghost future." Mark Fisher had a lot of interesting writing about this phenomenon as applied to music, termed hauntology[2]. It's about how some genres/labels of music (like Ghost Box) were characterized as a misremembered past that was perceived as more rosy than in reality.

I suspect but cannot be certain that "vectorflourish" aesthetics like those and/or simple but not condescendingly dumbed-down ones like Bootstrap 1.0 will experience a resurgence in the coming decade, the same as the "Windows XP" aesthetic of ten years prior had a while ago, in the name of reclaiming such a lost future. With today's CSS I imagine it would be much easier to recreate such an aesthetic than in the past when mostly you had to use Photoshop to create all the raster assets.

[1] https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61hOqru2AWS.jpg

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauntology?wprov=sfla1
I love F#, but haven't used it in a few years.

"more automagical v3+ stuff"

What is going on with this? Any examples?
> You can't have RAM sync between hosts.

That's what FT is for, if the primary VM instance dies or becomes unresponsive, you failover to the mirror instance.
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Vmware is better by our performance tests. Still is better but not 10x the price better.
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I really like his reply to https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/08/14/so-the-department-of-.... "Sure, I'll fill in your form. However you'll need to pay me money." I wonder what the chances are that they ever did.
The government exists to protect all basic human rights of its citizens, including their right to free speech and self expression. Copyright is a severe violation of those rights that is only allowed for a very specific purpose of encouraging more creation.
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>So, the places that need it most will be able to get it for cheap.

It's still about a dollar a day, which is a lot of money for the most needy.
Same experience as an employee really. Want to work for a healthy company? Join a private one. It is of course no guarantee and there are exceptions as well, but there certainly seems to be a trend.
A lot of people knows it very well. I wouldn't consider it for personal use but I didn't have a lot of issue managing vsphere clusters when I was still into it.

Also it is not about the VMs only but the whole ecosystem. Last time I worked for a company where we considered moving out of vmware, the main issue was not migrating to a new VM management solution but having to migrate to a new VM hypervisors + migrating to a new backup solution supporting the new hypervisor. This while still maintaining original backup solution until retention runs out or we migrate and test all old backup with long retention. Or we had to decide on maintaining several backup systems in parallel which would increase the cost of backups.

It is not just about migrating VMs.