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Sure but the nice thing about a named pipe is that you can, but don't have to get file descriptor (through inheritance or fd passing). Instead you can e.g. put the path to it into an environment variable. Sometimes that's wanted sometimes not shrug.
I seem to recall that Intel was talking about the same kind of split. Maybe the Intel child company and AMDs would merge, or maybe they'll stay separate and the parents will merge?
> Thomas de Waal, a Caucasus specialist at Carnegie Europe, believes it’s a mistake to see any kind of close friendship with Russia. “It’s a business relationship - there’s no diplomatic relationship. Things are going on behind the scenes but they’re more afraid of Russia than wanting to join Russia.”

I presume this is because Georgians know that modern Russian leadership will never let them "join" in a way that isn't a buffer/puppet state or national erasure into second-class citizens.
One thing that seems to be a trend recently is replacing a lot of text explanations of things with little pictograms. I understand this is usually some combination of needing to fit them onto the game board + avoiding needing to translate more things (and if you're lucky there's a lookup table of text descriptions somewhere in the manual) but they're usually completely incomprehensible to me.
It seems like instead of a "silent majority doing intensive calculations" what you're really saying is "I don't think of slower speeds as a performance loss, I don't pay attention to that, I don't care about slower speeds, my data is small and my programs run almost instantly".

If someone says "this isn't really high performance" and you say "I don't personally care, my stuff is small and doesn't take long time to run" that isn't a coherent reply.
Teixcalaan earned two Hugos for Weller in short order; of course people have heard of it.

However, it shouldn't be surprising that it's little known to the type of crowd that Murderbot Diaries is likely to appeal to...perhaps even more so when audiobook is the preferred consumption format for such short novellas as many commenters here have expressed.
If the nvidia driver has a bug, can one workload access data of another running on the physical machine?

E.g. it came up in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41672168
Azure/AWS is cloud/B2B, AAPL/FB are B2C consumer goods/services. Different customers, different industries. There is some overlap, but moat is in other places.

AMD/NVIDIA are in same business as Intel and have same pool of customers.
I was inspired to make this after seeing the "markwhen" project on the HN front page.

I did a first iteration using markwhen but found it was not exactly what I wanted. I didn't really want the page to allow interactive editing, and the default zoom level was not really suitable for such a large time range. (Plus I couldn't work out how to input dates before 0 AD).

So I got Cursor to write me some custom tooling instead, using a format that is approximately markwhen-compatible https://github.com/jes/timeline/blob/master/timeline.mw
The average 1st world citizen didn't comprehend how expanding networks meant centralizing power in even fewer hands.

We still dont see it yet today. Not fully
> the best case scenario for Intel

That's the best exit case for the shareholders. It's the worst case for Intel's employees, customers and partners.

> would probably co-sign on it for national security concerns

This is equally laughable and detestable at this point in history. My personal security is not impacted by this at all. Weapons manufacturers honestly should not have a seat at this discussion.

> overriding the fact that it creates an absolute monopoly on x86 processors.

Yet this isn't a problem for "national security?" This is why I find these sentiments completely ridiculous fabianesque nonsense.
Tagentially, I've been working on how to best to explain Destiny raid mechanics to new players.

Background: Destiny 2 is a co-op multiplayer FPS, and its pinnacle activity is 6-player raids, which requires players to combine fast-paced FPS gunplay, split-second reaction to mechanics, and coordination and communication with other players. This can be a daunting and overwhelming challenge for players new to the raid, even if they already are experienced in FPS gameplay.

Challenge: explain to a player, familiar with Destiny gameplay but new to the raid, the mechanics of an "encounter" in 5-15 minutes, live. It must be as concise as possible so as not to confuse or overwhelm them, and not stretch the patience of the other players already familiar with the encounter.

Too often I've see players start from the immediate aspects, working forwards towards the later/broader aspects of the encounter, but I find that in the firehose of information, by the time the explanation is complete, the player has forgotten the first, immediately important details: "wait, tell me again what am I supposed to shoot first?"

So the approach I've been experimenting with is to work backwards from the goal of the encounter, so as to finish with the most immediate, tactically important information, so it's freshest in their memory. I don't yet have enough data points to conclude whether this is a better approach ;)

In any case, I'm just barely wading into the immense topic that people have spent decades, careers, and PhDs on: teaching, but it is fascinating the breadth of choices one has in how to approach an explanation.

(I also play a fair bit of board games, and learning a new board game is the primary obstacle of adoption, so I really appreciate the OP author's points)
Who is John Galt?

When AI agents replace search engines this will be even bigger problem. May be you'd need aggregator of competing agents, like 1 chinese, 1 western and compare their results.
> I’m sure the kids in the 2000s could just play games on the bus.

I certainly played gameboy in the car, until I inevitably got carsick and had to vomit somewhere. Pokemon vs nausea was a tough tradeoff.
Bluesky keeps growing, and so do its problems
It irks me so many physicists/cosmologists jump from the mathematical GR singularity at the center of a BH to "matter there has infinite density." That's highly unlikely, it's probably quark plasma.
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I think this all can be boiled down to to a true axiom of modern power:

"Expand the network at all cost, and increase its engagement."

This went from a little flippant red book to a credo that has now changed elections and democracy as well as culture and view of the human self.

At the time it was radical idealism and today its something different, but its worth seeing and truly understanding.
I have a serious problem with calling everything social media and (more importantly) how it spells doom for this that and the other

If you want to criticize specific companies - yeah. But I literally do not understand what people are talking about when employing the usual "Social media was a mistake" type stuff
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Everything except pederasty seems political, that one seems iffy
The problem is people having devices monitor different metrics of their body without the knowledge to know what to do about what they see.

As mentioned in the article, wearables monitoring heart rate variability do quite a good job of telling people ahead of time that your body might be trying to fight something. During covid devices monitoring HRV would spike before people started to present with the symptoms of COVID-19.

Monitoring every aspect of your body and going to the hospital at any sign of "out of baseline" metrics is silly. There will always be a group of people that get a "high heart rate" notification and think its an emergency, or start to make generalised diagnosis of issues.
Kelly et al took similar approach to trading. The idea was that human traders looked at charts on the screen and “intuitively” made trading decisions.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3756587
FP5 owner here. IIRC, this is a guarantee for security updates at least, yes. There was some promise on how many major android updates they guarantee I think, but I forgot the details. I also wonder if and how far the promised minimum will be exceeded.

That said, I am just glad Fairphones are usually relatively well covered by open source versions of android and other operating systems. Even if I may need another phone for banking apps and all that annoying stuff in 2030 or so, I can at least safely re-use it for other purposes. My "old" Android is now nothing more than an offline mp3 player, which is kinda sad.
Indeed, see the word that I started my comment with. But the point I am making was not referenced in the discussion.

In fact, I think the main point of the linked article is actually not that silk was being used at all in the bronze age by the Yangtze River civilization, but that the silk is being used for sacrificial purposes, but the title on HN does not reflect that.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk loses bid to get $56B pay package reinstated
Website Shows How Much Google's AI Can Glean from Your Photos
Aidan Irwin — AI lol. Not sure the writer twigged that.
I remember my junior high maths well enough, allowing division by zero is an essential step in proving that 1 == 2, which we _definitely_ don't want.
Similar journey here.

I think I’ve become some variety of techno-determinist pessimist. We are what technology lets us be, including when it comes to ethics and government. And major inventions aren’t guaranteed to push the space of the possible in the right direction—but neither can we avoid these changes, as effectively sounding the alarm early enough to matter, while also correctly calling which are bad and how they’re bad, is too hard to practically happen.

Freedom’s a fleeting gift of circumstance, and the world is a machine none of us control and that’s often bad and sometimes destroys important things, I guess is where I’m at now. I’d definite press a button to permanent un-invent the Internet, if someone put it in front of me.
Reminds me of the good place show.
> No. You are just dealing with bad code. There are highly performant web apps written in React.

cool maybe I'll see one one day

> React gives you many tools to skip unnecessary work and reduce latency, such as shouldComponentUpdate, and assigning keys to elements in a collection

but do people use these outside of demos

I have an high end CPU with 32GB of RAM and almost every single website I use gives me a worse experience than I got 20 years ago

> if one writes bad frontend code, well the cost is diffuse and many don't notice it.

exactly, and that's why we are where we are today - surrounded on all sides by websites covered in glue, because bad experience has been completely normalised, all for what? Some abstract notion of developer convenience that results in almost every case in a significantly worse experience by almost any metric.
That was Aaron Sorkin’s story in The Social Network, but it seems to have been a fiction. Steven Levy’s history of the company is much more detailed (and Levy is trying to be faithful to the historical record, unlike Sorkin) – and it argues that there’s no evidence for this Sorkin story about Zuckerberg‘s motive.
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> The CEO of a public company is a glorified cheerleader.

It can be. You've just noticed the fact that for publicly traded companies where the value of the stock exceeds the total value of the assets you actually get to put that difference on your books into categories like "Good will" or "Consumer confidence."

For companies struggling to create genuine year over year value this is a currently validated mechanism for faking it. The majority of companies do not need to do this. That companies operating in monopolized sectors often have to do it is what really should be scrutinized.
These days, for F# I'd use a task builder loop with System.Threading.Channels and TaskCompletionSource, rather than the MailboxProcessor.

Same thing, really; you could recreate the MailboxProcessor API with those in just a few lines.
Pure existential dread. There is a force out there that can eat our solar system as if though it’s a cracker.

This universe is bizarre af, it shouldn’t even exist and us too but somehow it does.
I've encountered this problem a number of times. It's one of a short list of things that will ensure I won't eat there again. I can fix something being under-salted, I can't fix something being over-salted.
This introduced more questions than answers when Dead Milkmen entered the scene.
https://archive.is/kNodA
Don't put your work out in public if you want it to be excluded from training. Because the moment another person sees/hears it, they just trained their brain on it.
Not to mention, the only reason you've been able to create the _work_ is because you've trained your brain for years on others work.

These luddites need to lose really hard for society to progress.
That was about drivers and in 2012. At the time Linux was not interesting for them as clients. But now with AI, Nvidia has open source drivers.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Transitions-OSS-KMD
Neat, thanks for sharing! Glad to know we're in good company here.
Show HN: Open-sourced (road) traffic counting application
I was developing/selling this application under Roadometry, but sales are getting slow and I'd prefer to make it available for free.

This is a desktop Windows application which can be used for counting road traffic.

https://roadometry.com
https://www.youtube.com/@roadometry2011

The application uses Multiple Hypothesis Tracking (MHT) combined with Darknet Yolo.

I trained the network myself. I have a tool-chain for building a video-based training set including associations, but it's quite complex to use. I never ended up training a network to perform association, but I think a combined detector/associator network is the next step.
https://archive.is/jhMBD

https://archive.today/jhMBD

https://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archi...
Yes it will.

(I work at Modal.)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufactu...

a DDG search of "$most_popular_git_hosting_site $the_os_you_want product keys" offers some answers.

I managed to use DISM to in-place upgrade a Windows 7 install to Win10. The standard way to upgrade (using the setup GUI) failed, and the command failed at first but out of the logs I managed to figure out what patches I had to install to allow the DISM upgrade to succeed.
Yep! This is something we have internal tests for haha, you have good instincts that it can be tricky. Here's an example of using that for multi-GPU training https://modal.com/docs/examples/llm-finetuning
This is, in some sense, calculus. Look at 0z, which is 0/0, which calculus treats with l'hopitals rule. Another way of looking at it is to say that 0 is dt, then z is 1/dt. Clearly we can have different 0s, so we might name another dx, then take dx/dt, which is an arbitrary derivative.
Do I understand right, that it's summing ~2 million spherical harmonic terms, and the optimization is that that's accomplished in ~200 ms (per test point?)? Does this force field feed into something like a Runge-Kutta solver for predicting orbits? (I don't know much about orbital mechanics).
Unfortunately rights to the x86_64 license expire on the event of transfer of either company to a new owner.
Where does the article define what "medical grade" honey is, or where a layman would get it?

EDIT - it was right there: "Wounds were treated with L‐Mesitran ointment (provided by Triticum, Maastricht, the Netherlands)[, a] honey‐based wound care product [which] contains 48% medical grade honey."

So, plain honey may not be nearly as much help as one would think from the cover.

"Triticum is more potent than Manuka‐based Medihoney" - ie. Triticum cream is effective, but there are many active ingredients in that cream. Maybe the honey helps.

There are other burn / wound creams on the market once you are buying a specialized cream. How does this compare?
Preach. I gave up hoping on Intel after getting burned. I feel sorry for the good talent there and I hope they find a home somewhere better.
I've been meaning to give something APL-ish a shot, but I don't see how such languages can be justified in a non-academic engineering environment. I doubt any company would like to limit themselves to hiring programmers who are capable of maintaining such code.
Correct - it's not an iPhone.

It's the Facebook Phone!

(probably)
> I need a how-to right now and all I get is an explanation.

This isn't a reasonable expectation. Your current state of documentation may be very different from some-other-software's current state of documentation. There may (or may not) be commonalities across those states, but assuming the most conservative situation leaves you with no commonality and the author's only option is to write the explanation for you. From there, you have to think about what transformations you need to apply to your current state to get it to the desired state.

Contrast this with game rulebooks. There is a clear commonality: situations where none of the players know any of the rules. Therefore, the rulebook can easily be written assuming no knowledge of the current rules of the game. Players that know the rules of the game can either a) go make everyone coffee and avoid polluting the learning phase with information that stretches the patience of the folks reading the rulebook; or b) claim to the players that don't know the rules that the rulebook is useless and they can do a much better job explaining all the nuances much better than the person that designed the game.
On Linux rlwrap is used to get the REPL working. Is possible to get the REPL working under PowerShell in a Windows box too?
It feels like everyone re-implement the same application, searching text in language x.y.z has been done a million times, search speed in not a problem so what differenciate this solution with the dozen+ mature ones.

The speed looks great but isn't everything else already fast enough?
China doesn't care. They are banned from buying western AI HW or making their own AI HW at TSMC/Samsung. They are pouring hundreds of billions to the semiconductor ecosystem.

Huawei is trying to make establish domestic Ascend/MindSpore ecosystem, but they are limited by the SMIC process (~7nm). Amount of defects is allegedly rather high, but they are the only "official" game in town (other than smuggled NVIDIA cards or outsourced datacenters in Middle East).
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This is covered by the article. A board game might take 4 people and 2 hours to play. If your three friends didn't have fun with a board game the first time, they probably won't want to play again, and so you won't be able to play again either. Therefore there is a strong drive among boardgamers to play the "full" game the first time, because there might not be a second time.

It also adds extra difficulty to design a game that even has a simple version that is fun to play. Take your Texas Hold'em example, imagine it takes 2 hours to play one game. If you start with a version that has all cards face-up and no betting, people would conclude that Texas Hold'em is a supremely boring game, and wouldn't bother to try the full Texas Hold'em experience!