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amypetrik8··on Waymo Was on a Roll in San Francisco. Then One of Its Cars Killed a Cat
yes but what is worth more to the sanfranciscon 400000 mostly non-sanfranciscan hu-man deaths, or 1 outrageous death of a beloved san francisco cat

It is of course such an emotional vs rational argument, so extreme, so ridiculous, what can you do but grab a picket sign and say to ban all cars and combustion engines for the sake of poor kit kat. A very easy sell since combustion engines are already viewed as the devil

amypetrik8··on HipKittens: Fast and furious AMD kernels
What you really want to buy is a Ming Mecca chip. Original model came out around 2003, but they've been iterating. These things are bigger than AMD or nvidia silicon, actually even much larger than a gigantic Cerebras wafer, typically 500-900 million USD in price. As you could guess, Ming Mecca is not broadly publicized, historically used for NSA crypto cracking although now adapted to AI and used for data crunching from gathered messages. More recently all those gathered messages have been used for training strategic /tactical intelligence developments to oversee and deploy resources optimally via a cluster of, at least last I heard, 18 Ming Mecca v7 chips
amypetrik8··on Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux
I mean dude said he's doing multitaskign stuff --in-- teams and it's slow.

To me memory latency being whatever, 30% higher, ought not to explain the issue here, in part because that's a priori assuming all is memory-bandwidth-limited vs say network limited or CPU limited far as the bottleneck

What makes more sense to me is the software is "slow and clunky" that is maybe a global mutex, maybe poor multithreading sync making it effectively single threaded, with a sprinkling of particularly slow algorithms or syscalls that are realized as a frozen GUI, or as we call such cases, Microsoft standard

amypetrik8··on Messing with scraper bots
> They aren’t parsing those PHP files, they are using their existence for fingerprinting — they are trying to determine the existence of known vulnerabilities.

So would the natural strategy then be to flag some vulnerability of interest? Either one typically requiring more manual effort (waste their time), or one that is easily automated so as to trap a bot in a honeybot i.e. "you got in, what do next? oh upload all your kit and show how you work? sure" see: the cuckoos egg

amypetrik8··on The Nature of the Beast: Charles Le Brun's Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)
I find some of the grotesque and unsettling imagery reminscent of famous japamanga "berserk" e.g.

https://berserk.fandom.com/wiki/Wyald

amypetrik8··on AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering
exactly, the brain - what a concept! over here you have broca's area, there, wernicke, then Bowman's crest, sector 19, and undiscovered country.

if you put the brain in the shape of a tube you'd have a really long err, well, let's say it's not a good idea to do that. the brain gives me goosepimples, my brain too

amypetrik8··on Manganese is Lyme disease's double-edge sword
as for lyme disease - doxycycline works well

anon's herbals have SOME clinical evidence generally : https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2956313/

It's important to demarcate flavors of medicine at play here:

- MD "allopathic medicine" this is what we all consider normal medicine. They have hardcore requirements for clinical evidence.

- ND "naturopathic medicine" is a fully government licensed form of medicine (in certain places such as pacific northwest). They generally have less hardcore requirements for evidence, but do use evidence nonetheless, sometimes pre-clinical. All this recent interest in "senolytics"... a lot of what exists such as quercetin or fisetin, those are herbals, the ND's domain. And these have preclinical evidence against cancer. SOME are pretty cool and scientific people, of course, some are crazy hippie dippies what with the mushrooms and the healing crystals

- leeches "humoral medicine". This is an ancient and non-empirical form of medicine based on primarily the works of Roman physician Galen but bears similarities to medicines in other nations like China - "hot" and "cold" disease states vs hot & cold food, four humors, one of which is blood. If the disease is "too much humoral blood" the treatment is then the leech to lower that blood. This is very much distinct from the ND (at least I hope)

amypetrik8··on Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy
>Why has OpenAI collected and stored 20 million conversations (including "deleted chats")

To train the AI further. Obviously. Simple as.

amypetrik8··on US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites
I agree - a good example is bridges and bridge tolls. Maybe a lot of people in NYC have crossed the verrazano bridge. "see, most of us have crossed it, I don't see why taxes shouldn't pay for it". The counterexample would be the trucking company, that once taxes pay for it and not tolls, runs convoys of tractor trailers up and down the bridge, rapidly accelerating wear & tear - had they paid on a toll basis they'd be paying their fare share vs someone who crossed in one time 8 years ago.
amypetrik8··on AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is
Exactly, you're on the hook to profit-max for the next quarterly earnings report. If that may negatively impact subsequent quarters, not your problems, that's to be resolved when profit-maxing those quarters
amypetrik8··on Ask HN: How would you set up a child’s first Linux computer?
My daughter also had the same - she was really keen on DTP-like things and DTP programs. Well, not just DTP programs, she liked ZTP and MTP tier programs -- she didn't like TTP programs per se, but quasi TTP was more her speed
amypetrik8··on I Want You to Understand Chicago
hola amigos, ca habla un americano el citizeno --- que? no hablo ingles.
amypetrik8··on The Art of Atari (2016)
>Have you played Atari today?

I don't know about Atari, but I'm willing to say we've all played ARTari today

amypetrik8··on Show HN: Yourshoesmells.com – Find the most smelly boulder gym
> Password being 3-20 characters makes me nervous.

You're kinder than me, having a login and password to place a vote seems like a dark pattern to me.

amypetrik8··on How the Mayans were able to accurately predict solar eclipses for centuries
I was just in Silver Spring MD, just outside of Washington, DC, and I noticed that all those kids moved from Guatamala to DC! The American dream! All the kids in Silver Spring spoke Kaqchikel, one of the Mayan languages, at home. We need more Kaqchikel-speaking children in the Silver Spring area to add to diversity, so that it's not just a primarily Spanish-speaking-only area, but a Spanish-and-Kaqchikel speaking area.
amypetrik8··on Powell – unlike the dotcom boom, AI spending isn't a bubble
investors dry up, prompted by a scandal (or not)

or someone figures out how to do AI at 1/100000th the CPU/memory on the edge

a company or two collapses

all the other companies now back way off

now the bubble is popped

AI returns 5-15 year later

amypetrik8··on S.A.R.C.A.S.M: Slightly Annoying Rubik's Cube Automatic Solving Machine
yes, in python either 1) "import doom" or 2) "from rubik import cube"
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