The night bus service only runs the nights "before" Saturday and Sunday[1]. It's a small university city with 300k population (600k greater metropolitan area).
> It's a small university city with 300k population
Made me smile, I'm from outside a city we used to call "big city" when I was growing up, it had ~110K population and is the 9th largest in the country or something :P Anyways, that city still has night service, so not sure why a city with three times the population wouldn't, especially if it's a university city.
As one of the only people running a Mac Studio M3 Ultra with 512 GB of RAM on the network, I can tell you at sustained 100% GPU utilization I am measuring 250 watts max (at the power outlet). My solar panels are easily producing this. The power calculation goes away once you connect a solar panel. You can get a 400 watt solar panel on Amazon for $300.
> You can get a 400 watt solar panel on Amazon for $300.
Too expensive. It's probably producing 200 watts average for 8 hours a day. That's 1600 watt hours, which is about $1.60 at PG&E prices. That would take 187 days to recoup the cost of just the panel.
If you include installation costs and "what PG&E steals if you wire it to the same grid" it's probably more like 4x that, which is too long.
Tell me when we can have 400 watt solar panels for $50. Stupid capitalism literally forces solar panel prices to make it unprofitable.
People should never have to take out loans for solar. Solar should be subsidized and forced by the government to be so cheap that it repays for its cost within a month. Then we're talking. Most things I buy to save money, I expect them to repay within a month. Maybe 2 months max.
I'm not "worried" about that cost, I would rather just pay PG&E electricity if the solar panel cost $300.
Just pointing out why capitalism + solar is a failure. Capitalism reprices the good thing to be equally expensive to the bad thing, so that nobody buys the good thing anymore.
Same. I installed Forgejo two months ago when Github wouldn't let me create agent accounts. It's been awesome. Any time I want a new feature I open my agent on the server and tell it to add the feature to Forgejo. Took all of 15 minutes for it to add a working Show/Hide "Viewed" files on the PR reviews.
I am going to say this for all the people thinking like this. This attitude will get you nowhere in life. It historically never has and in the future it never will.
Better than those who just want to burn the system down with no real plan for what comes next, and unable to comprehend the inevitable bloodshed of the 'glorious revolution' that they crave.
You think you are describing the Bolsheviks, but your description is equally fitting for those who want to abolish human labor without providing people alternative ways to make a living.
And no, hand waving about "UBI" doesn't count unless they start actually doing the politics required to implement UBI.
There's a lot of bloodshed going on under the status quo. Why do you think people are 'unable to comprehend' it? Maybe they just want to reallocate it and aren't especially sympathetic to those who who have avoided it up to now.
Do you comprehend the scale of the inevitable bloodshed that maintaining the status quo is bound to lead to? You don't do so any better than those you're chastising.
Most of them fried their brains with stimulants long ago. Thankfully for them, they no longer have to think. An LLM does it for them.
But it’s just the same idiots were rabidly cheering the latest JavaScript framework a decade ago, NFT’s and all manors or ridiculous things anyone with 2 working brain cells saw transparently though.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but I think this is actually good advice. It's great to be a free-thinker and question things, but I do think there is some (monetary) value in just not asking too many questions, but optimizing to be the best at whatever you're doing.
Edit: to give an example, I probably would have done better in school had I spent less time questioning the education system and more time just accepting it and trying to get good grades.
Yeah, succeed in the system, fuck everybody else. If the system is making the world a worse place, all the better, you can take advantage since you’re in the system. All that until you find yourself spat out by the system and get to experience what you’ve been part of with no recourse.
Historical data is never a guarantee of future performance. The downside of your attitude is that you can’t really point at the right thing to do, so then you invest your time and effort on the same things, when it could be the case that the rules of the game have changed.
I don’t see the comment as necessarily defeatist. If anything, it’s an invitation to rethink what might work instead, and whether there are things worth lobbying for/against beyond what can be solved at the individual level.
> I am going to say this for all the people thinking like this. This attitude will get you nowhere in life. It historically never has and in the future it never will.
I'm picturing a 12th century French feudal lord saying these words to some of his serfs complaining from a lack of firewood.
And your retort (and this report) are doom and gloom. Humans are remarkably good at adapting and have adapted through far worse conditions than economic systems. The negative net is easy and very popular today but positivity is just as possible. It’s all about how you read data and there’s a lot of room for interpretation. If you’ve fallen for the doom that’s on you but calling something with so much historical precedence as hope for humanity ‘an easily dismissed hot take’ doesn’t make you look very bright.
>And your retort (and this report) are doom and gloom. Dinosaurs are remarkably good at adapting and have adapted through far worse conditions than _______, hell, they were around 99 million years longer than humans.
Species go extinct all the time, most species go though all kinds of things before then, so there is nearly zero correlation between surviving something bad in the past and surviving something else bad in the future.
Modern humanity is not anti-fragile any longer like we were in the past.
The articles argument is fine, but it takes as an axiom that AI is better right now at much cognitive work. I haven't found that to be true in the tasks I've looked at.
It's certainly cheaper and faster, so there's potential for it to unlock more demand but I'm sceptical that current models will replace a large fraction of knowledge work.
I was just thinking about this project the other day. Seems we have a whole lot of unused compute (and now GPU). I wish someone would create a meaningful project like this to distribute AI training or something. Imagine underfunded AI researchers being able to distribute work to idle machines like SETI@home did.
All SVGs should be properly sanitized going into a backend and out of it and when rendered on a page.
Do you allow SVGs to be uploaded anywhere on your site? This is a PSA that you're probably at risk unless you can find the few hundred lines of code doing the sanitization.
Note to Ruby on Rails developers, your active storage uploaded SVGs are not sanitized by default.
It would be better if they were sanitized by design and could not contain scripts and CSS. For interactive pictures, one could simply use HTML with inline SVG and scripts.
Notably, the sanitization option is risky because one sanitizer's definition of "safe" might not actually be "safe" for all clients and usages.
Plus as soon as you start sanitizing data entered by users, you risk accidentally sanitizing out legitimate customer data (Say you are making a DropBox-like fileshare and a customer's workflow relies on embedding scripts in an SVG file to e.g. make interactive self-contained graphics. Maybe not a great idea, but that is for the customer to decide, and a sanitization script would lose user data. Consider for example that GitHub does not sanitize JavaScript out of HTML files in git repositories.)
This is huge. A lot of these are the underpinnings of modern computer science optimizations. The ACM programming competitions in college are some of my fondest memories!
> A lot of these are the underpinnings of modern computer science optimizations.
Note that older articles have already been open access for a while now:
> April 7, 2022
> ACM has opened the articles published during the first 50 years of its publishing program. These articles, published between 1951 and the end of 2000, are now open and freely available to view and download via the ACM Digital Library.
In a concurrent environment, I wonder if the overhead of wrapping every API call with a synchronized would make this significantly slower than using ConcurrentHashMap.
Thanks. This is actually one of the topics I really want to tackle next.
If we just wrap every API call with synchronized, I'd expect heavy contention (some adaptive spinning and then OS-level park/unpark), so it'll likely bottleneck pretty quickly.
Doing something closer to ConcurrentHashMap (locking per bin rather than globally) could mitigate that.
For the open-addressing table itself, I'm also considering adding lightweight locking at the group level (e.g., a small spinlock per group) so reads stay cheap and writes only lock a narrow region along the probe path.
I think that's a great idea! I just checked one of my larger projects and it 55% ConcurrentHashMap and 45% HashMap so I'd personally benefit from this plan.
