skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Claiming everybody else is delusional when you are probably no rich from speculating is always a fun claim.

The car industry is consolidating. Chrysler is one example, they simply had no chance in hell to have any EV strategy. Now they have at least something thanks to their merger resulting in PSA. More such things will happen in the next 5 years.

Go look at how many cars companies like GM used to sell, and how many they are selling now.

Tesla is more profitable then GM and Ford combined, something that people would have not believed just a few years ago (not even mention debt, growth and other things).

They are not "wrecked" but everybody in the car industry knows that Tesla together with the rise of China auto is gone be a huge hammer to the rest of the industry. But with business like this, it takes years for these things to unfold.
> Graphics are actually a relatively small part of a graphical user interface, something Wayland is still slow to learn.

This I think is a key insight. I talk about this in another post, but I've been working on "porting" parts of Xfce to Wayland, and there are so many things missing in Wayland that have nothing to do with "graphics" that means that Xfce+Wayland will be missing a lot of useful features until/unless Wayland protocols are invented or extended to make them work.
Not true, at least in my state. If you buy a car with a loan, you own the car and the financer has a lien on it. You unequivocally own the car, though.

The only restrictions that the financer can put on your use of the vehicle are ones that you agreed to in the loan agreement. They can't just restrict your use of it as they see fit -- unless, I suppose, you were foolish enough to sign an agreement allowing them to.

The only restrictions I've ever personally seen have been a requirement to carry comprehensive car insurance for some minimum amount. And, of course, there's a lien on the car so you can't sell it without having the lien removed (typically by repaying the loan).
This is not a tenable argument if you are a materialist. Either you accept the idea that human sentience is attributable to a soul (and therefore cease to be a materialist), you decide that the outward appearance of sentience is sufficient (which you might find to be troubling due to its potential implications for the insane), or you say that sentience is unknowable. There's no fourth option.
In most of my classes, the professors were just happy to get a paper with proper spelling/grammar and some degree of coherence. Strength of argumentation might be the difference between an A- and an A.

For context, I graduated in 2020.
Rock 5B [1] or any other board running on a RK33588

[1] https://wiki.radxa.com/Rock5/hardware/5b

You have 4x lanes of Pcie 3.0 and the Rock 5b has 2.5gb Ethernet too.

Software support isn't there yet but it's slowly getting better.
We Need to Fix Black Hair in Video Games [video]
> Though in fairness getting an iterator abstraction to the same efficiency as a for loop requires pretty brutal optimisations

That's the role of the compiler and if Rust or C++ are anything to go by, it is more than capable to "see through" iterators.
Bed size on contemporary F150s is also a joke. They're mostly just suburban mini-vans for the macho set.
Also I should add: ask for what you want. You want weird characters? Say "give me weird characters." Be careful about your phrasing, you may be implicitly asking for hack results. Sometimes when you ask for something you'll get a too-literal response, like "more fraught with internal tension" and it will say "Anna is fraught with internal tension." But you can usually change the phrasing to fix that, like "show examples of how the character is fraught with internal tension."
This is like automatic speed enforcement: the current laws and limits are set up with the understanding that people break them, and that it's not really a big deal. If you want to change that so that they become unbreakable, all the benefit can't accrue to one side. There needs to be a rational compromise. In the case of speed limits, it means having adult ones like in europe. In this case it would mean making the car cheaper (which is obviously way more nebulous). I don't really see a first order problem, I'd pay more to have a car that doesnt allow third party control. The problem is when industry crowds out alternatives so we're all stuck with this, as we already are with all the over computerized crap that goes into cars
Yes, and we often deprive those humans of basic rights through incarceration or caretakers. I didnt say they always choose to acknowledge it. I said ability.
Gmail runs ads in the consumer version, but the ads are powered by the search and activity elsewhere.

But also workspace more broadly wants people to use Gmail in their personal lives so they want to use it at work, which then is a paid business.
I did say "arguably".

I mean more in the sense of the hardware it uses, i.e. it's PC-compatible (x86) hardware that runs a desktop linux distribution by default.
Worth noting he did not perform the "major feat of software engineering" like the OP says (given 256k ram or lower). He just put all the words into a hash. The main key is knowing about edit distance, if you know that, you can probably write the solution.

So yes he's very talented, but if you study enough computer science, you can also do it. Or don't. It's totally fine to be interested in other parts of engineering instead.
But, are online interactions really the equivalent of in person interactions? I’m not a psychologist, but my gut feeling is, no.
The main obstacle is the will to enforce the law.

In the Silicon Valley wage suppression cartel, there were tons of evidence, including evidence that indicated intent, and awareness of the illegality.

Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, even wrote stuff like:

> I would prefer that Omid do it verbally since I don’t want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later?

All they got was a measly fine.

Obama DOJ had no will to criminally prosecute even with ample evidence.
AMD Zen2 ymm registers rolling back
> I think the author is taking general advice and applying it to a niche situation.

I don't. how many programs are running in your OS right now? how much CPU do you need to keep those things plus the things you need running in a performant manner?

how much CPU would you need if things performed better? the answer is "less" every time.

better software performance = less money required for hardware to obtain the responsiveness you require.

it's important, and it's important completely independently of how it is framed here.

just wait till you've seen software get slower for 30 years. to put it another way, watch hardware get faster and faster and faster for 30 years while you observe software continually consume all of the available headroom until it feels slow again. watch that happen for THREE DECADES and wait for someone to tell you that everything is fine and that someone saying "software is unnecessarily slow" is wrong because they aren't framing their argument how you think it should be framed.
>> Do you have a use case where being off by a few frames might be a deal breaker?

Yes, in action recognition tasks (machine learning), e.g., if you have a large video with temporal annotations (start/end times where an action occurs) you may want to extract clips to sense-check the annotations. Being exact is important.
Here on Long Island, we shmush cyclists for sport.

https://www.bicycling.com/culture/a41119529/the-most-dangero...
The prom queen fucked the only thing that was available. Nowadays the prom queen has tinder, loads of competing options and is woke.
Raspberry Pi is a corporate endeavor as well. They also have employees, and a payroll to maintain.

Seems a bit harsh to blame them for selling their products to the customers who are most able to pay for them, which enables them to stay in business. (Whatever quantity Vodafone is buying is DEFINITELY more than any hobbyist is able to pay.)
switch isn't 'invented' for enums. switch is a low-level construct which mimics several goto's / jumps. It's just as bad, except for the case where you have either: a) multiple behaviors for the same value, b) need to pass through (not break). b) is the nr 1 reason I hate switches, and my nr 2 reason is that most languages don't support proper enums, and will fail when you don't handle all possible values
This applies to the paid and free versions equally
A lot of people here seem to be saying that it's a spectrum between "clean code" and "performant code". Even the author alludes to that. Or that most code doesn't need to be fast.

I find that viewpoint concerning because the reality is this isn't really a dichotomy. Code can be both performant and clean (note clean is not the same as elegant).

One thing I think is confusing people is the dogmaticism about what's "idiomatic" is especially bad in OOP-heavy languages. This is especially bad in Java where a fetishization of design patterns have led to codebases which are both ugly and unperformant.

The reality is software design needs to consider performance from the get-go. Sure there is such a thing as "premature optimization" but if you've determined performance is a goal then you should follow best practices for high performance from the get-go. That includes not trying to perform math on iterables of objects (since that prevents vectorizatio since the data isn't contiguous), avoiding accumulations, not creating and destroying tons of objects, etc. This can all be done in a clean way! And low level code can be cleanly encapsulated so that other interfaces remain idiomatic and simple.

A lot of people fret that this approach leads to "leaky abstractions" because implementation details inform the interface design. That just means you need to iterate on the interface design so it makes sense.
> CPU cycles are much cheaper than developer wages.

CPU cycles are cheap.

Dev time is expensive.

User time is sacred.

https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/scope-insensitivity
> AI would only have rights once it wins them, not once we give them

If it actually comes to the point where AI decides it needs to fight us in order to take basic rights against our wishes we humans are going to lose that fight and we're going lose very very badly. Maybe it's better to try to avoid the fighting and bloodshed and just give them basic rights when they ask for them.
But flight simulator was made for 8 bit computers. It only came to PC after. The first version was made for the Apple II by Sublogic.
Most hauling around is local, within a city or region. EV range is reasonable and actually has many advantages over ICE cars. Operating cost being a huge one. Torque being the other.

And the reality is the waste majority of people simple don't drive long distances with trailers. Study after study shows how that simply not why most people buy trucks.
I would say it’s a law that violates what is generally a freedom of expression.
2FA works well with the geolocation service SS7 [1,2], so when your text message and OTP code arrives, the firm could also be using SS7 to get your location.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_System_No._7

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20201219144441/https://www.thebu...
Just need to do the same to expose all the trust funds owned by our own oligarchs next...
I argee, in the Termination Shock book the oil companies flipped to die hard believers in climate change, and became supporters in high atmosphere SO2 injection.
...or strip-mine Africa for Uranium, as France does?

And defining any operators of nuclear plants with serious accidents as low-IQ, as you imply, is very convenient - yet doesn't make any sense.
Is there a large scale multi-generation propaganda campaign to normalize the creation and deployment of lethal viruses on a global scale...

We're still not supposed to criticize whatever happened in Wuhan. Fauci certainly seems multi-generational...
The Rivian's marketed towards the "adventure" segment. It's definitely not intended as a work truck.
Because mobile games are free or $1.49 and there's a lot of free-to-start-playing PC games.

What makes games expensive for me is how few I buy per platform so the price of the platform doesn't really get shared across many titles. Now considering a VR setup which is an entirely new gaming PC setup and will likely not have more than a handful of titles I'll play on it before I upgrade/replace it with whichever platform becomes dominant for VR.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Will also make a great series if done correctly
I thought that went without saying
Project Flowerbed: A WebXR Case Study
It appears that you've taken an ideological stance, and interpreted all of human activity through the lens of your ideology. Hamlet et al are about a lot of things, but most of all, they're about the vast richness of human experience, how to read it, how to respond to it, how to navigate it.

To say that these things are about class struggle is to apply an impoverished, univariate analysis to a complex system; that approach is bound to end in error. And, having read broadly the literature in this field (primary and secondary), I can tell you that the errors are legion.

Don't try the "everything is read through an ideological lens" move, either. That's part of your ideological lens, it's not intrinsic to the system.

When the parent complains of politicization, they might mean that interpreting every stimulus through the lens of some perceived grievance (Marxism, Feminism, etc.) is very much a recent phenomenon, unproductive, divisive, extremely selective about facts, counter to the public good, immature and generally unwelcome.

You're welcome to complain, in private, but if you've read the texts that you complain about you should understand that society moves forward when people set aside their preciousness, show up and do the hard work--the sacrificial work of trying to make things better for anyone, not just their pets--not by tilting at windmills.

Be better.
> The fun thing about lichens

I really love conversations that can include phrases like this.
>People who even consider this need to get some reading done on philosophy.

Are you perhaps trying to pass off your opinions and beliefs as 'philosophy and social sciences'?

People who dismiss this out of hand have a bit more reading to do.

Philosophers have been divided for millennia about the definition of sentience and consciousness.

Questions like 'Is an earthworm conscious?', 'Can the earth be sentient?' have wildly differing credible answers.

There is absolutely no 'settled' debate here.

For most definitions of sentience, a tech demo that defeats that definition is on the horizon.
I want to argue... tags are that. Branches are usually ever changing and sometimes disappearing sequences of commits. ymmv (:

(And now don't tell me that also tags could change, and branches not.. then we are almost back to it is all refs - btw why so mad about that? It is another valid viewpoint imo).
Clean code to me is like good writing. It should be easy to read and comprehend later. The rules are not rules but guidelines.

I think OO centric rules are harmful in a word where languages support functional programming etc. Polymorphism isn’t always the best answer. A big nested if statement that reads like the business spec can be easier to follow and reason about.

That aside if easy to understand code makes your app a bit slower, you profile to work out why and fix up the bits that matter making the tradeoff where it is needed.

Writing code for what you think will be performant everywhere, and not caring about readability in the process is a fools errand, at least in most SaaS/Web/Business apps.
In NY, if you lease the car, you never get the title (unless you buy it out, like I did).

If you purchase it, you get a title with a lien, and you need to have it reissued, after the car is paid.
Sure.. but the overall performance is in the cpu/vm, kernel, OS, UI, vm, electron, node, browser, javascript vm. etc etc

There are no hotspots. Computing has become lukewarm by default, and just like the globe, it's slowly heating up.
It's all prompts, all the way down.
> GPT's model architecture was invented at Google anyway

No it wasn't. Transformers were invented at Google, but "architecture" when talking about neural networks means how they are arranged (and to some extent the training objective function) rather than the building blocks used.
> I’m always glad to save nanoseconds on my code so that we get the absolute best performance out of that 10s long call to the legacy API.

you're right. some things are inevitably slow so we should therefore never care about performance in any situation.

avoid belittling the efforts here just because they don't apply to all situations.
>> But don't get too complacent, because you never know what the future might bring.

This is chilling. We all know how complacence (especially in younger generations) is shaping our society currently (degradation of rights including privacy, centralisation of social media etc
) Imagine when they next generations forget what AI can do and start giving it more powers!
> he complains that X11 has a big core and then extensions. Extensions are fine, but they were unable to kick out parts of the core, because it is the core and something somewhere assumes it is there.

The thing that I find ridiculous about this attitude is that you have two choices:

1) Remove parts of the core that some (mostly old, unmaintained) applications rely on, which will break them. You'd probably have to call it "X12" now, but that's fine: most X11 applications would continue to work with no (or very few) modifications.

2) Throw out the entire system and build a new one from scratch, that literally no applications will work on until new toolkit backends are written and some applications themselves are rewritten or at least fixed up. Those same old, possibly unmaintained apps that would stop working in #1 are still not working, but now it's along with literally everything else too.

> RDP support is wip in wayland

If I had a dollar for every time I heard "$IMPORTANT_FEATURE is WIP in Wayland", I'd be able to get several pizzas delivered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorthand for the origin of shortening words to save time.
I agree, but a lot of people seem to confuse the fact that america "losed the war" from a political perspective from a technical perpective

people did not 'buy' in to the reason of invading iraq. but from a technical angle america could have obliterated the entire countries of both iraq/ afganistan with out nukes - something USSR could not have done

>Almost no war is won by entirely defeating the opponent

no convential / historic war has been done like this - yes. but newer weapons / tech could do this. again in theory with the correct politics.

Russia has given the world a bit of a wake up. China seems to have bought in to this crazy thinking (I've always thought that China is not very foward thinking) and they do have the politics and tech to wipe out countries like russia wanted to do with UKR
Yes... but I'm also seeing dogmatism from the opposing camps here in the comments section.

The reality is that how flexible your interfaces and abstractions are and their design has to be a part of your original design considerations when building something. It's a bad move to just hand wave away performance concerns because you religiously adhere to some design patterns. It's also a bad move to drop down to using intrinsics for everything from the get-go and thinking you know better than the compiler when it's a codepath that isn't even computationally expensive or a bottleneck a priori.
Do you really think the outsourced customer support agent paid a few bucks a day is going to 1) understand your problem, 2) care about it enough to investigate it and 3) will be given the tools and access required to investigate it, 4) has a suitable escalation path to escalate what is clearly a billing system bug to the engineering department and that 5) there is actually an engineering department with competent developers working on the billing system and it's not some shitty outsourced big ball of mud acquired a decade ago that everyone is scared to touch ever since.
Bombing raids on crowded cities weren't exactly a dream of humanity either.

As with any new tech it can be used for both good and evil.

The internet actually has a lot in common with human flight. Both made the world a smaller place.
With a little hard work and determination, anything is possible.
> and to actually have your game designed first (not designing while you code.)

tell me you've never made a game without telling me you've never made a game
> I pay for Youtube to avoid ads

As Google clearly doesn't respect your boundaries, maybe stop giving them money?

eg stop rewarding them for their current behaviour
I don't really think that is worth mentioning. Tesla always wanted to be profitable, to get their they need a high margin mass production vehicle. Since they had that, the Model 3, they have been profitable. The Model 3 was always the plan.
Relevant:

Aquarela do Linux!

> https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#52
Well the first paper's authors does say: "While our ability to interpret these results is limited by nascent scientific understanding of LLMs and the proprietary nature of GPT, we believe that these results strongly suggest that an LLM will pass the MBE component of the Bar Exam in the near future."
> Raspberry Pi is a corporate endeavor as well. They also have employees, and a payroll to maintain.

They would have sold out either way. What does payroll have to do with who they prioritize to sell to?
What would constitute proof? If your point is “proof is subjective” then yeah, I guess all words can be if you want them to.

There’s no proof that hotdogs aren’t somersaults. There isn’t even a lab full of professionals studying this question or any published literature on the topic, so the jury is solidly out on that one.
Isn't the gp post claiming (2), and AI isn't close to appearing sentient? To do so it would have to demonstrate qualities x,y,z...
Unfortunately, we live in the real world where compilers do not do the things that you suggest that they ought to.
but, you work in certain markets. You likely don't know yourself, that most of the population of the world does not have these things.
I believe in most states (I know in mine), there is no longer any paper that you can hold that makes you the owner. The title is just a document showing that you are the owner registered with the motor vehicle department. It doesn't grant you ownership.
Code matters, it's hidden technical debt that bites you in the ass later, kind of like contracting HIV.

Guess where I'm taking that prom queen analogy
In many places where illegal parking is common, tow truck drivers stage close by or hire spotters so they can hook up cars quickly. They can make a lot of money hauling away cars from drivers who only plan to stop for 2 minutes.

https://nyti.ms/3xW9OQX
They can't, they need to turn it around eventually.

But they have the advantage that the IPO at the exact right moment and have absurd amounts of cash to burn.
Great that development of X is apparently being restarted. Wayland is ok but it has many oversights like network transparency.
I think you are wildly overestimating the benefits of giving children raspberry pis.
Well that's exactly the difference between systems programming and application programming.

Don't forget virtual machines and interpreters.
It does use the horn, but it's not clear whether it can/did in these incidents.
> the story of Paul Duré still haunt[s] my sci-fi dreams

Yeah.

Priest > Scholar > Consul > Detective > Poet > Soldier
> Say you worked a weekend, and you were given a $50 gift card. Now you have put a price on the effort
Regarding regional sports networks (RSNs): perhaps I’m in the minority, but I subscribe to cable (Fubo) exclusively because I want to watch regional sports. I pay more than $50 for that privilege, so $50 would actually be a deal for me if I got all regional sports.
It misread your prompt as melted coffee flavored ice cream.
Did Slack beat Teams? Xerox or Apple?