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I don't think that adding the feature is the issue here, but instead Google deciding it needs to push an order of magnitude more data and store it on your device. I can understand wanting to at least re-evaluate your use of a tool when that happens.

If you were to install Chrome fresh, what if it was a 4GB+ download from their website? I would at least pause. For reference, a regular offline installer is 140MB.

Sounds like you've jumped to conclusions without reading the whole thing, or are making a disingenuous connection between two very different concepts. Climate impacts (really just energy waste) and "legal" arguments are different parts of this article. The legal part centers around whether they have permission to install this model along with Chrome, and whether they are using deceptive practices related to the model.

"Article 5(3) of Directive 2002/58/EC (the ePrivacy Directive) prohibits the storing of information, or the gaining of access to information already stored, in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user, without the user's prior, freely-given, specific, informed, and unambiguous consent, except where strictly necessary for the provision of an information-society service explicitly requested by the user..."

That is not about climate.

The article goes on to say that there would not be a legal issue if Google simply asked, documented, not taken initial action without user approval, allow deletion, etc. Also not about climate.

What they do imply is that Google's being dishonest if they say that they are carbon neutral (as is often said in their Environmental, Social, and Governance reports) while imposing up to 250 GWh of power use on network providers and end users. I can see the concern.

I would prefer my library not buy SICP (at least the Scheme edition) since it's available for free online.

https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/b...

Sure, AI tools can do this. However, VS Code is the platform. Why aren't more people worried about running arbitrary VS Code extension that can do the same thing, AI or not?

The Steam Deck is an established product that was first released in February 2022. You may be thinking of the Steam Machine, which indeed does not have public pricing that I'm aware of.

After a few months of testing the waters, I just moved my gaming PC over to full-time Linux this weekend. Proton has really been revolutionary, as I haven't yet encountered something in my Steam library that won't work.

It's a serious requirements-gathering exercise. I would look inside your organization for HPC storage experts and ask them to sit down with you for an hour to walk through your users' typical workflows, expectations, and budget. If you need some names, send me an email.

Or just shell out for as much Weka as they can convince you that you need and call it a day.

There are several other systems I would recommend before TernFS for your environment. If you're looking at Lustre versus this in particular, Lustre has been through the wringer, and ANL/DOE has plenty of people who understand it enough to run it well and fix it when it breaks.

However, you are right. Your bandwidth needs don't really require Lustre.

there's no legitimate (non-crawling) reason for someone to request your site from an AWS resource

I used to run an X instance in the cloud that I would sometimes browse websites from. It sucked but it was also legitimate.

My only issue with OVH is that they wouldn't let me rent a VPS ($30/month?) without sending a copy of my government identification. I'm not willing to distribute copies of that without a good reason, so I ended up paying more elsewhere.

Thanks, you’re right, I was mistaken.

EDIT: This comment is wrong, see fsmv’s comment below. Leaving for posterity because I’m no coward!

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Undefined behavior only means that the spec leaves a particular situation undefined and that the compiler implementor can do whatever they want. Every compiler defines undefined behavior, whether it’s documented (or easy to qualify, or deterministic) or not.

It is in poor taste that gcc has had widely used, documented behaviors that are changing, especially in a point release.

What amenities would you recommend around that annual budget? Honest question, I’m finding the lounges to be less helpful these days.

From the toilet?

Time for this year’s play through!

Arm has been in supercomputers for a while.

Astra at Sandia Labs was the first Arm peta-scale supercomputer, and the first on the Top500. It debuted in 2018.

Fugaku is the fastest Arm supercomputer, taking the #1 spot on the Top500 in 2020. It is currently #4.

All NVIDIA Grace-Hopper systems will be Arm. There is one in the top 10 already, Alps at the Swiss CSCS, at #6. There are four more in the top 100.

Google’s AI tool says that 20-25% of the world’s population flies at least three times a year. Not a good source, but at least a surprising statistic if true.

Some hard data says that 12% of US flyers take 66% of flights [1]. Those are all likely very frequent fliers, and is much more than 1%.

1. https://www.businesstraveller.com/business-travel/2021/03/31...

Just as a data point, I saw a $9 dozen of eggs next to a $2.19 dozen of eggs at the grocery store today.

At the moment, yes. For a short while, it was very hard to find eggs for less than $5-6 a dozen due to a supply issue. Since then, some egg prices have fallen back to normal. Some egg producers, however, have decided that this new price is just fine for them, so you can still see that price on the shelf.

I have a system where I use a tmux-server config that has a different prefix (^O), status bar color (yellow), and location (top). I use that for my outer tmux session, then start default configs on other host systems. Works pretty well, I don’t have any complaints.

Perl is not quite as universally installed as you claim, especially in containers.

The system uses 30MW, but this job used a portion of it that would consume 2.6MW.

There isn't really a figure for how much compute time it takes to train this thing, but 8x H100s have 32PF of AI compute among them. This job had 2,100 (half precision[1]) PF-in-fugaku / 158,956 nodes-in-fugaku * 13,824 nodes-in-job = 182 PF-in-job, implying it can get the job done 5.6x faster, or a little over ten days at the most optimistic.

Electricity costs for these nodes for ten days looks fairly similar to the rental costs of 8xH100s for 60 days according to my research. Lambda labs seems to have very cheap instances for 8xH100, but AWS and its ilk are much higher. However, the comparison is a little weird, as Fugaku is also a few years old now, and the contemporary GPU at the time of its release was the A100 (1/13th of an H100). The next Fujitsu chip may well narrow the power/performance gap between itself and (say) Blackwell or whatever is current at the time.

[1] https://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/innovation/fugaku/speci...

Dispute the charge with Amex, like you probably should have done at first sign of trouble. You can do this even after paying the bill.

I’ve just come to realize from this article that human challenge trials are really a form of trolley problem [1]. Is it more ethical to “do nothing” and gather data from infections in the wild, where many people are potentially harmed, or do you “throw the switch” and infect a much smaller number deliberately to get high quality data?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem

Weekly emails are too frequent?

Tell that to Gap, who sometimes sends up to five spams per day.

Nine times out of ten it's an electric razor, but every once in a while, it's an AI Girlfriend. Of course it's company policy never to imply ownership in the event of an AI Girlfriend. Always use the indefinite article an AI Girlfriend, never your AI Girlfriend.

This has been a feature in the Wikipedia mobile app for some time. It’s a real gem, I’ve found out some really interesting things about landmarks I pass every day.

HN rules say: “… please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.”

Therefore, the title should be “gnuplot for numpy.”

If the GP wanted to hide it, it’s a pretty strange thing to explicitly unhide it.

105 errata (pretty small ones) in a 1000-page book. For highly technical work, I'd say that's not too bad. Looking at the errata for Vol I of TAOCP, there's a lot more for a much shorter work (600 pages).