skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's too costly to build high speed rail in many parts of the world (California for instance). It's not because high speed rail isn't a viable solution, it's regulation.

The article you posted from sciencedirect supports this. The study points primarily to a changing complex regulation landscape as a primary driver of costs. Meanwhile, France is in an excellent position in the EU in terms of energy in large part because it stuck with nuclear instead of attempting unsuccessfully to transfer to wind and solar like some of it's neighbors (who now burn lignite to meet energy demands).

Solar panels, for instance, are mostly made in places where actual costs of construction are externalized to the environment and workers with depressed wages. Nuclear plants need to be built and decommissioned in the same place - places that are often actively hostile with complex regulation meant to curtail nuclear specifically for the sake of non-proliferation. SMRs help sidestep a portion of this hostile regulation but there are countless reactor designs that are possible that we can't even begin to explore until regulation is made reasonable.
> the dual Epyc workstation recipe that was popularized recently

Anyone have a link to this one?
I didn't say it was rigged, I said it wasn't fair.
Relatively, as in a Mac or a Lexus will depreciate slower than other computers/cars.
>ivp6-only connectivity is going to be flaky

That explains why cellular ISP are progressively adopting 464XLAT, a IPv6-only technology. /s
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VW makes an excellent 2.0L TDI that would be a good fit. It would take up about half a rack. You could integrate a fuel cell (say 5 gallons) so that it can function when it is detached from the fuel delivery fans.

If you don't want to worry about piping diesel around your server farm, we could go with compressed air and use air turbines with generators on them. Clean and efficient energy transmission without wires!
+1 for Strix Halo. It's probably the best mobile CPU out there for AI stuff that isn't Apple silicon. Of course, the Snapdragon chips are supposed to be able to perform well in AI, but I'm not sure how well you'd get along with Linux on those.
Then the OP should have said that, not with the language they used which was textbook FUD content. Your argument at the end actually points to language in the linked article that shows we souls probably be weary while we read it, which is an improvement over the OP.
While they are still in stock, 13" M2 Macbook Air w/16GB RAM and 256GB SSD are only $799 at Best Buy & Amazon right now.
> The stop in sharing data was “due to funding constraints that have caused the Department to turn off the underlying network”

What is the actual recurring cost of broadcasting this data? The sensor and network infrastructure are presumably already established.
Going from an X1 Carbon to a MBP felt like stepping 10 years into the future. The seamless lid close, battery life, operating temp, build quality and performance were all _huge_ upgrades.

I held out on Mac for 20 yrs, no idea what I was thinking.
I agree it's mainly entertainment, but it also affects a lot of people "involved" in campaigns who aren't "running" them - mainly people donating their money or time.
Why is the Macbook not an option? They are the best at making laptop hardware, and to my knowledge you can run what you like on it. Mac OS is good, but I also like Fedora's Atomic distros, such as Bluefin-dx.
I'm actually wondering the opposite.

If 90% of printers in the EU are manufactured by foreign companies that's more in line with their consumer-friendly regulations targeting US tech companies, than if there's a local printer monopoly benefiting from outrageous ink prices.
I’ve heard Americans talking about 2nd amendment or something.
Did DeepSeek learn how to name their models from OpenAI.
I imagine it's a mix between (A) trying to people just doing text-searches for things to vote/flag (B) spite.

That said, I do be feelin' plenty spiteful myself.
> Libertarians and social liberals, sure.

Why would libertarians or social liberals choose Trump over Biden in your opinion? And support of Russia over Ukraine? If Trump was increasing pressure on both, you could argue that he's not picking favorites. But he's actively making life easier for Russia and harder for Ukraine.

Do you believe Trump and his circle will not do anything in their power to turn his presidency into an authoritarian regime?

Do you believe a Trump authoritarian regime with the power of the US military at its disposal will choose non-expansionism even considering Trump's remarks about Greenland, Canada, Mexico?
As long as you do the math on the trade off of added safety vs added availability and pick the best option in every specific case you can apply the technique consistently to every situation without issue.
I have a Thinkpad P1 Gen 4i with a RTX 3080 16GB running Debian. I run ollama and it works quite well.
Something worth noting:

CPUs have no non-volatile memory -- microcode fully resets when the power is cycled. So, in a sensible world, the impact of this bug would be limited to people temporarily compromising systems on which they already had CPL0 (kernel) access. This would break (possibly very severely and maybe even unpatchably) SEV, and maybe it would break TPM-based security if it persisted across a soft reboot, but would not do much else of consequence.

But we do not live in a sensible world. The entire UEFI and Secure Boot ecosystem is a complete dumpster fire in which the CPU, via mechanisms that are so baroque that they should have been disposed of in, well, the baroque era, enforces its own firmware security instead of delegating to an independent coprocessor. So the actual impact is that getting CPL0 access to an unpatched system [0] will allow a complete compromise of the system flash, which will almost certainly allow a permanent, irreversible compromise of that system, including persistent installation of malicious microcode that will pretend to be patched. Maybe a really nice Verified Boot (or whatever AMD calls its version) implementation would make this harder. Maybe not.

(Okay, it's not irreversible if someone physically rewrites the flash using external hardware. Good luck.)

[0] For this purpose, "unpatched" means running un-fixed microcode at the time at which CPL0 access is gained.
That won't fix Windows compatibility or the stupid keyboard layout (i.e. control/option/command instead of the normal control/meta/alt).
Define "livable". A suburban detached home is far more expensive than a single-room-occupancy hotel room. And yet people lived in the latter for a large portion of US history, often with roommates. Some still do.

It would be great if everyone could be wealthy enough to buy all their necessities and never worry about money, but that's a pipe dream.
You’re wrong, which is why you’re being downvoted. A decent intro to the topic on the anarchist side is Chomsky’s On Anarchism
> - Fossil automatically stages changed files for the next commit - which is a nice time-saver in 99% of cases where I do want to commit all of my changes, but is a slight inconvenience for the 1% of cases where I want to split the changes into separate commits. Easy enough to do, though, via e.g. 'fossil ci -m "first change" foo.txt bar.txt && fossil ci -m "everything else"'.

That'd be a deal breaker for me. Git's staging area is such a breath of fresh air compared to the old way (that fossil is doing), that it's one of the biggest reasons for me to switch to it. It's completely freeing to not have to worry about things being accidentally added to commits that I didn't want to have.
>If the State Department spends a crazy sum maintaining the air quality app, questioning that expense is fair and pretending otherwise only undermines scientific credibility

How does spending and the debate around what what is justified have anything to do with scientific credibility?
I second @jamesliudotcc's suggestion (ASUS ROG Flow Z13). One of the key differentiators vs other laptops is the 128GB unified RAM which runs at 8000 MT/s, which should be excellent for LLMs - I'm not aware of any laptop that can do better, in this form-factor and this level of portability.

Specs aside, this machine can also run Linux well [1], which makes it worth buying, IMO. And if it can run Linux well, then using it for development should be a breeze.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8_hSzuJlSU
Writing a simple JSX to HTML renderer (2023)
> Based on that you'd expect The Economist to be center right but when people try to compare it with other news sources it is usually rated left-of-center [1] which seems odd to me.

The Economist is almost the archetype of economic center-rightism, but IIRC it tends not to fall even slightly on the right-wing side of social/cultural issues (trans rights excepted, which I’ve seen suggested is largely connected to one particular member of the editorial board), which is pretty unsurprising because right-wing social policy is a state-imposed inefficiency to the pure economic neoliberal. In societies where moderately right stances on social issues are common even on the economic left, when you try to construct a single social/economic left-right axis, I can see this making The Economist seem center-left on that composite axis.
OP said Windows support is a requirement. Also, Macs have that stupid control/option/command keyboard layout thing.
I've had less such issues with CDK, versus raw cloudformation, or terraform, but it can still happen.
Or, the not-so-secret third option, a disgruntled State Dept bureaucrat made a choice.
He won the popular vote in 2016 in States like Wisconsin that for months said he was 10-15% behind in the polls. It’s my interpretation that those polls were wrong but the majority of the media didn’t care. They just wanted to push a narrative that supporting Trump was a fringe minority in those States, rather than the true majority that it was.
The US can still be a leader, I think. I'm curious as to if this is the time for a YC-funded startup to take the reins for a lot of the programs and policies being cut. As geohot showed unequivocally yesterday, who else is better to lead than the technical minds of the 21st century!
Anyone got a rough estimate of the cost of this setup?

I’m guessing it’s under 10k.

I also didn’t see tokens per second numbers.
You also need to consider Fica (social security and medicare) and state and local taxes. Personally, my partner and I made about $470k last year and (filing MFJ) our combined rate will end up being about 28% ($80k federal tax, $30k CA state tax, $20k fica).

Which IMO should be higher! But also I'd want that to include universal healthcare (my employer and I pay combined about $20k/year or another 4% between premiums and deductible+copays) and generally a better social safety net.
> with a vanishingly small fraction of flops and a small fraction of memory bandwidth

Is it though?

Wikipedia says [1] an M3 Max can do 14 TFLOPS of FP32, so an M3 Ultra ought to do 28 TFLOPS. nVidia claims [2] a Blackwell GPU does 80 TFLOPs of FP32. So M3 Ultra is 1/3 the speed of a Blackwell.

Calling that "a vanishingly small fraction" seems like a bit of an exaggeration.

I mean, by that metric, a single Blackwell GPU only has "a vanishingly small fraction" of the memory of an M3 Ultra. And the M3 Ultra is only burning "a vanishingly small fraction" of a Blackwell's electrical power.

nVidia likes throwing around numbers like "20 petaFLOPs" for FP4, but that's not real floating point... it's just 1990's-vintage uLaw/aLaw integer math.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_silicon#Comparison_of_M-...

[2] https://resources.nvidia.com/en-us-blackwell-architecture/da...

Edit: Further, most (all?) of the TFLOPs numbers you see on nVidia datasheets for "Tensor FLOPs" have a little asterisk next to them saying they are "effective" TFLOPs using the sparsity feature, where half the elements of the matrix multiplication are zeroed.
Does it cause problems on mobile or something?
Although some of the earlier adopters of IPv6 are the biggest ISPs, as their networks are so big that IPv6 actually simplifies their network management. In the US, Comcast was an early adopter and globally the mobile networks have been as well.
Now we just need a model that can actually code
I think I had volunteered to do something similar to this - let me check
> Communism implies anarchism

How so?

Communism, as a state, requires rules. By that virtue, it’s not anarchy.

Communism as the utopian ideal I suppose could be considered anarchy, but in reality that would never happen, so IMO not really worth discussing.
There is always an exception that proves the rule.
Win32 already had a stock progress bar control in 1999, though. ~
I've been repeatedly abused for big parts of my life, and I have a CPTSD diagnosis from it.

It's not just paying too much, it's one of the world's most valuable mega-corporations asking you to pay too much. If it were a boutique shop I wouldn't call it abusive. It's a combination of the bad behavior and the exercise of raw power that makes it so.
That whole “freedom TO” vs “freedom FROM” is a meaningless word play. Every “freedom TO” can be reworded to a “freedom FROM” and vice verse.

The only meaningful difference is to use “TO” and “FROM” to illustrate 2 abstract types of “freedoms”. The absence of external constraints and the ability to make choices. Two concepts that are very intertwined. Some times discrete, but most of the time intertwined. You can’t assign left or right to either one.
99.999% of businesses are child friendly. One comes along that states an opinion and offers a child-free option and the sky is falling.
Marked as children in the same way they do today. I am assuming parental caring here. Don’t knowingly allow children into your bar. If a parent marks an account as a child during its creation, they are segregated. YouTube has YouTube kids. It’s not a requirement, but they try to make a safer environment for those who aren’t mature enough or able to handle the risk of full YouTube. It’s not perfect right? But I like that direction.
Most PHD’s make less than high income knowledge workers and software developers, don’t they?
They really are on a mission to destroy anything remotely positive that the government does, aren’t they.
I don't see your point. The work at Apple is mysterious and important.
The sense I got is that it could be overlooked as an anomaly. The second time he was elected, and the actions he has taken since, have absolutely ended all that. The Allies are truly incensed, the US's reputation won't recover for decades.
> In particular, cars travelling at greater speeds are normally more spread out than slower cars, so that over a given stretch of road there are likely to be more cars in the slower lane

How many cars pass a sign over an hour-long period?

It should be equal to speed (miles/hour) X density (cars/mile) (say that speed and density are constant over the hour)

So more cars in the fast lane will pass that sign than cars in the slow lane will over the hour if speed (fast) / speed (slow) > density (slow) / density (fast)
I’ve been right and have been downvoted too ;)

But I’m not an expert on this topic.

How is anarchy not the extreme libertarian position?
SEV attestation does delegate to the PSP, no? I think it _might_ be reasonable to attest that upgraded microcode is both present and valid using SEV, without the risk of malicious microcode blinding the attestation, but I’m not positive yet - need to think on it a bit more.
The optimised release binary isn't the issue - it's the many GB of build artifacts produced along the way if you have a lot of dependencies. You can accumulate hundreds of GB in target/ over time working on large projects.
It's also a fun stop for Australians that like gun ranges with automatic weapons but can't or won't get a gun licence at home. Australia doesn't jail them for gunpowder residue on their hands when they return though.

That said, I have less sympathy for Jochen Sengpiehl here, he's reportedly the chief marketing bigwig responsible for

Volkswagen has apologized for posting a racist video promoting its new Golf 8 [ ..that..] showed an outsized white hand pushing a black man away from a parked VW Golf, before flicking him into a restaurant called Petit Colon, which translates from French as the Little Colonist or Little Settler.

Nazi founded car company does what! now?

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/21/business/volkswagen-racis...

( according to https://www.campaignasia.com/article/volkswagen-china-cmo-de...)
Except AMD still has not figured out how to deliver on LLM acceleration on Linux.
The regions that Russia is after, has some vague historic link to Russia, had a high pro Russian population percentage or provided land connection to Crimea as well as water supply that was blocked by Ukraine. I do believe that there is a good chance Putin would be satisfied with the eastern oblasts. It would also be a lot more difficult holding western part of Ukraine as their population is much more anti-Russia. I don't know for certain, and it is speculation, but that's what I think.

I completely understand why Zelenskyy wants security guarantees. I would too in his place. I don't blame him for that at all - but I don't think it will happen and I would not want my country to provide any security guarantee for Ukraine. I personally would not go to war for Ukraine.
Maybe if there was a mainstream reason to connect home machines with their phones. Personal backup, game streaming, etc. im not in this camp of believing it but maybe!
They buy used.
Your figures for China's mix are meaningless because you don't bother to mention when you think "saturation" occurs. They are on track to build far more Nuclear than 2-3% of their current mix in the next 20 years - and this is as the world's top manufacturer of solar and wind products.
I guess it comes down to definitions again.

If you look at what people do for fun, they often create hierarchy and even central authority. They formally or informally elect a leader to their football team, who calls plays and helps with coordinating.

It's just that no one can really force anyone else to stay in that club.
That is the grant for the EPA software, not the network of embassies for adding embassy data to the EPA program.

I'm not sure what maintenance you mean there, but it surely is reminiscent of "I could code Twitter in a weekend."
This is a basically a tut-tutting conga line at this point.
VPNs are complicated and its rarely a case of one is better than another.

Tools for the job, should be our watchword ... phrase 8)

IPSEC is somewhat old school but very solid - if you can do opportunistic IPSEC via DNS etc it can be rather nifty. You can also use FRRRRRRRRRRRR to do it routed. IPSEC with BINAT can be used to avoid issues involving duplicate network addressing.

I default to IPSEC for site to site links.

OpenVPN is more TCP/IP related compared to IPSEC - that's very simplified. You can easily set an IP address for a client and other niceties.

OpenVPN is superb for massive client deployment. If you have a central CA and can deploy certs on all devices eg via MS AD CA then you can use a single config file for all clients, which is a doddle to deploy via GPO.

Tailscale is the new kid on the block. As with all new kids you need to examine what works for you and you could be one person or an entire multi national.

The real world is rather messy. For example your home/office/corp network will almost certainly have a MTU of 1500 bytes. When you hit the internets it gets really messy. Some British Telecom links (for example) will support mini jumbo frames and some won't and the real world continues to get more and more complicated.
I have exactly the opposite. I found it very difficult to get through the first half of season 1, but actually after that I found it more and more interesting.
It'd be cool if we could tag dang somehow and show that this is unfairly flagged. People who flag plain, factual, content like this should have their flagging ability demoted.
He needs to learn grit and how to ask for help. He needs to learn some things are hard and that he can’t always lean on his intelligence.

The best way to guarantee a gifted kid wastes a lot of their potential is to be in an environment that is too easy. It creates a devastating mental habit that won’t trigger until later in life, like college. Whenever they try to do something that doesn’t come easy, their brain will try to shut down out of a kind of frustration. They won’t know how to overpower it. It will cause depression, anxiety, shame and low self worth later on. Because the gifted kid will know they are wasting their potential, but blame themself for not being good enough to deal with it. It feels like being broken.

All of this is created by being rewarded for maxing out the rewards of a trivial environment. Someone needs to patiently and compassionately teach them to value overcoming appropriately sized challenges. To find and operate on the edge of their potential and ask for help to operate beyond those limits.

So yeah, grit and asking for help. Intelligence is mostly wasted without it.
It's a little more than a "rebrand". Here's a more nuanced explanation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17040293
As you can see from the media attached to the press release[1], the port is exposed through an opening below the rear seats it looks like. Based on the wording in the press release, seems like they assume the battery wouldn't start burning on its own and so any fire that got the battery burning already consumed the interior.

So this is not so much for saving your car, but rather not binding firefighters up for hours.

[1]: https://media.renaultgroup.com/fireman-access-an-exclusive-i...
I was about to correct you because this doesn't use PCIe for anything, and then I realized Arc was a GPU (and they support up to 8 per machine).

Any idea how many Arc's it takes to match an H100?
To be completely honest there is no reason for anything 2D on the web to run badly on any machine over 200 bucks released in the last 15 years.
> Wow. 900 applications down to 10 "SuperDay" participants down to 4 hires.

You’re almost 10 times more likely to be accepted to Stanford’s undergraduate program than to ever work as a hogger