LeanderK

This is very far removed from my experience growing up. How do kids even get to school? Can't they walk, cycle or take the bus (I assume that must be possible but they still have to get to the bus stop)?

My first experience of being able to do something on my own was walking to school. It's always the same way, so it must be possible, right? I think I must have been 6-7 years old?

I am not in the US. The original post is not even about the US?

Shocking. Is this really true? I grew up with my bicycle, which gave me the freedom to spend the summer holidays how I wanted. Visit friends, and when I got a little bit older cycle with them to a lake, a public swimming pool, get ice cream, play football etc. until the sun came down and I had to come home. Of course, I wasn't allowed to do things alone only with a group of known friends, they knew who I am spending time with and which friend I am visiting. And never to strange places only the familiar ones nearby.

My gf grew up in the city and grew up in her local neighbourhood and her local friends. The parks, playground and also the nearby ice-cream if its hot and sunny :)

Do they sit in their home playing video games all day or what?

but the threat of drivers mostly depends on the neighbourhood. The more walkable it is the less of a threat drivers are, right?

> “go outside and play, come back for dinner”

why is this impractical?

EDIT: I'm getting downvoted but I am seriously not sure. I don't have kids right now but its part of how I intend to raise them when I get them.

can you expand? Who got 1bn of funding?

this is the most astonishing thing I have read in a long time and I am CS not electrical engineering, so I have no idea what these drawings mean. I speak german, but I hope something works to translate this easily, as it is absolutely crazy. I did not know something like this was possible back then.

It is astonishing how advanced the world was back then...if it wasn't for this use though

Strange. I never had any problem with nvidia GPUs, but I only ever used data center GPU like the V100 (and don't set them up myself). There's a lot of things that go wrong, at least my nvidia GPU always works.

I didn't see that, too bad!

I tried to use it with my linux laptop but it didn't work. It assumes you're in the same wifi and that the usual broadcasting works, right? This is not what airdrop does.

Airdrop is fast and works by physical proximity. You don't need to be in the same wifi, just near each other. That's what makes it so useful, otherwise I could just use a cloud solutions as I usually have internet access when I'm in a wifi.

to be fair, it's possible that I also experience this from time to time. Since it's an old laptop, sometimes things are slow and I have to wait a bit for intelligence to initialise and cache results. But generally, especially if I close most other programs, it feels reasonably snappy and I don't have the displaying issue.

I currently use an old macbook from 2014. Everything is slow and I can't have too many applications open at once. But vscode is still one of the snappier ones and I don't see those keystrokes issues.

Of course you can always go less powerful but at one point you just can't use all more complex editors. It's not an electron issue.

> Stiftung Warentest

does something like this exist outside of germany? Having a Stiftung Warentest subscription always strikes me particularly german.

A bit offtopic, but I really like bauhaus-style cantilever chairs but I always had problems with robots wanting to climb them and then getting stuck/being super loud, same with drying racks. Is this still a problem? I thought maybe those vision/lidar robots can avoid climbing the tubes.

same in berlin. Someone blew up repeatedly the same speed measuring tower for cars on a somewhat major road (https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/news/berlin-charlottenburg-e...)

I am also anti-car, not anti-car everywhere but they just don't belong in cities.

lol, this is so stupid. Don't they realise that people usually develop locally and train on a server? You don't need a super beefy GPUs to do it, so you buy nvidia. So people are used to nvidia, debug and fix bugs etc. It's not a very smart decision, looks like the decision makers have no idea what's going on.

> Apple's restricting its use to only Apple-approved models is frankly irksome.

I thought you could run arbitrary networks via CoreML, there's just limited precision and maybe not every operation available?

> One thing Nvidia are much better at is supporting the whole stack - while I doubt many people are actually running much ML on 8gb mid-low end cards, it seems a hook for sales if people "could" do that, and a starting point for personal experimentation. I know multiple people who buy low end Nvidia GPUs because they "might" experiment with CUDA some time in the future.

but this is very important. Many develop locally before sending it to a cluster, especially if you only have limited credits available.

I don't think you will need something coda-compatible. Apple has relatively solid pytorch support without copying CUDA, but PyTorch+ROCm is still not working on windows (and I think there's no ROCm support for the consumer GPUs from AMD).

I think Apple proves that it is possible, and possible relatively quickly.

flying is also not ecologically sustainable. We need alternatives, even if we can't eliminate long distance flights, to reach zero emissions quickly.

still feels like magic and it's 2023. I am regularly surprised it just works

i think battery tech can be a real differentiator

but nobel prizes are usually for basic research a long time ago and the battery-electric automotive revolution is relatively recent development, where applied research and bringing new batteries to market is more important

finally some battery innovation from europe. Makes one hopeful that we will continue to play a role in the battery energy/automotive space in the future.

do you know if the LLM was fine-tuned in any way to the sparsity & quantisation? Or did it just work out of the box?

it's been 10 years but I had great success running internet into the basement this way. Wifi was terrible down there (router was in the upper floor) and there wasn't an existing ethernet cable going down. Of course it wasn't perfect but it was trivial to set up and worked.

> concerned that their kids will develop bad thought patterns.

lol. Is this for real? This is an adult in a democracy who needs to develop their own opinions about politics. This is so weird...

The idea that belonging to another mainstream political group is bad and prohibited for your child is just not ok at all.

I finished my masters quite recently and this has not been my experience, although I'm german. I wonder if you have real experience or if it's just what you've read/heard?

Because if you've ever taken any social science/philosophy seminars, they don't do anything else then arguing. Arguing about texts, arguing about each others opinions etc. Also arguing against the professors opinion.

I don't agree at all about the indoctrination part.

The idea to keep politics and higher education separate is laughable. You either create engineers without ANY exposure to social issues or you have politics in higher ed. Having political opinions is not doing science but trying to find scientific evidence is.

After the experience during covid, I think that dress-codes also serve also a social function besides the purely aesthetic/vibe. You communicate to the door that you paid attention and know what's going on and how to behave. It's not perfect but we really can't do better I think. These nightclubs are a safe-space for many to express themselves and it is important to keep it that way.

> And who likes to file bugs in Bugzilla?

Not only has it been years since I last have heard of bugzilla, I also really resented it! Moving to a modern infrastructure really improves accessibility for developers. For example, GHC (Haskell Compiler) moved to gitlab a few years ago and while previously it was really hard for me to understand the development process nowdays I can follow pull requests and tickets of features I am interested in without any problem. Previously the system was really complicated and, if I remember correctly, Phabricator, mailing list etc. based. Off putting as a newcomer.

during the final stages of covid you could only buy tickets beforehand and therefore there wasn't really a hard door to get though. It sucked and destroyed really any unique character. For example, usually sissy is more colourful, more festival-like, easy going but being there during the last civid-stages it sometimes felt like an after-work event. With young professionals who look like they are being spat out of co-working spaces, wearing chinos and all.

I used to resent the door policies but after this experience (it really destroyed the atmosphere!), I am glad they exist.