skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, maybe. But people still speak Mayan today and they've retained the legends and stories which are depicted on the iconography and actually written in the script, that's how we were able to decipher and read it.

I don't mean to sound like a cultural darwinist, but Athens and the library of Alexandria were razed to the ground and yet we still have Plato today because everybody who got their hands on his writings decided to read, translate, and disseminate it--there was no reason for the Romans to preserve his philosophy, no reason for the Arabian and Persian peoples either, and yet here we are today with complete versions of these texts translated into myriad languages over thousands of years, whereas other cultural properties, perhaps even from civilizations far larger, have simply disappeared, like the Egyptian materials for over a thousand years.

I don't think its wise to be too excited about these potential discoveries, because the reason why these cities can even be recognized and named as such by peoples (namely, us) living and analyzing them hundreds or thousands of years later is because of certain shared psychological and therefore social contexts. They may manifest in different forms, but the parallel developments of civilization across time, in different places, in completely separate contexts, is only on account of the shared, basic psychology of all humans, and in the end there will never be a remarkable difference between the kinds of texts produced by a predominantly agrarian society in the Ancient near-east, like the Egyptians, and a predominantly agrarian society in Mesoamerica.

In any kind of scientific endeavour it is never a good idea to be over-confident, nevertheless I think I have to claim that at this point in time anthropologists have developed a pretty good map of how human civilizations develop, from the totemic cults of tribal cultures to the cosmopolitan sprawls of modern urban centers: no matter where you look or what you examine, material cultures appear to progress in a basically similar manner. And, as I said above, there is no sense in trying to "recover" a lost culture, Mayan or otherwise; those cultures are still alive and well today--cultures never die, they just change, all we can do is create a map of those changes, we can never actually go back and fully understand how a people lived and experienced the world and how they expressed that experience in literature and philosophy, since our interpretation of that data will always be tainted by modern experience. But the map, and the contact with the Other, in the form of a "lost" culture, can show us that our modern experience is not the end all be all of the world, there will always be something in these cultures that escapes modern understanding, and I think that in that encounter something fruitful can be born, and therein lies the value of these sorts of investigations.
There is a difference between creating a wafer with more chips on it than scaling up production of said wafers to be profitable. Think of it like producing cars. Many people can make cars, and on a small production scale. It's an entirely different ballgame for mass production.
I mostly agree that we are divas and that 2023 is a wake up call.

I agree that tech stack churn is a big problem, although I feel that it's a sign of immaturity of the industry and domain themselves rather than an issue with individual developers. Much of our job is to find more efficient/robust ways to fix issues, progressively compressing the job of N people into something that can be done by o(N) people. That means that we are trained and selected to spot inefficiencies and take them personally. That also means taking new technologies for a drive.

I'm sure that there are better ways to do this than trying them in production, but as long as we operate in an industry that cannot differentiate between self-training-for-next-job, research, industrial prototype and industrial product, we won't be able to fix this problem.

I hope that, as the industry matures, this dust will settle a bit. Perhaps one aspect of this will involve letting developers take a few paid weeks once in a while to work on prototypes with whichever technology they want, as a form of self-training. Another will be making companies actually liable for the damage they cause when they try and pass early prototypes as products.

As for diversity, I tend to disagree. In my experience as both a dev, tech lead and sometimes CTO, diversity is not just a political choice, it is also practically useful, for the same reason nepotism and consanguinity are bad. Diversity is what saves you from blind spots (aka "acquired stupidity"). Diversity is also what lets you hire brilliant people who have been overlooked by other companies.
I'm using Postmark, the best to me. I'm using it since almost 10 years now.
There are other python implementations like pypy which includes a JIT (Just In Time compiler). There are other jit which can run with official python (cpython) like numba (not all code can be optimized, but if you only need optimize your hot code path).

You can use a superset language of python called cython that generate C code. It can be used to generate C bindings or fast python (for cpython) modules implemented in a python like code.

You can use a really fast language like C, Rust, C++,... create python wrappers with cython, swig, Boost.python, cffi,... and use python like glue code.

Python is not a fast languages as others, but there are tricks to make fast programs.
Do Covid-19 vaccine mandates still make sense?
A guess based on the stereotyped users suggest the web (browser) usage would be: medium, high, very low respectively.
It's a pretty big risk to make any kind of conclusions off of shared images like this, not knowing what the earlier prompts were, including any possible jailbreaks or "role plays".
Nothing I said implies intellectual work should be free, unless you have a skewed idea of what selling your services or a product means
Bing Chat tells user to ask god about Temple OS settings
I write a clone of the unix cmp utility.

(spoiler) I use zig SIMD features to make it faster than GNU cmp.
I think this idea would be more credible if we had evidence that the earliest organisms were quite complex, with sophisticated metabolic pathways. That would be highly unlikely to evolve in a single step. As it is, it seems like early life on Earth developed from extremely simple roots. That doesn't exclude panspermia, but it means IMHO we have no compelling evidence for it and that even if it's true the organism that seeded Earth was probably very primitive.
No, you can't trust it. It will certainly write bugs, and the code will have other issues. Usually too subtle for you to see at first glance, like off-by-one errors, or uncovered edge cases.
If I search my emails:
"EC2 has detected degradation of the underlying hardware hosting your Amazon EC2 instance"

It's just something you have to do yourself with Hetzner.
Colloquial English doesn't make as strict of a distinction as mathematical usage does. It doesn't introduce any ambiguity here.
Surely GPT could write a program to count pairs of words that share at least one letter, right? Maybe GPT-5 will be able write and run programs on the fly to answer questions like this.
Russian and Ukrainian are my mother languages so, feel free to contact me if you want some practice. Just put my nickname, add @gmail.com and tell me that you are willing to practice your language in exchange of helping me to practice some English.
>But we were incredibly lucky that IT is the most amazing productivity cheat code humanity has come up with so far, so that all this BS was accepted as the cost of doing business.

Aren't you seeing it backwards? Other professions should have the same "luxuries", in a humane working world. Instead people are treated like cattle.

IT being an "amazing productivity" boost, means those "divas" you describe just get small part of the value they create, especially since a heck of a lot of the rest ends as unprecedented profit levels...

Under a capitalistic labour market theory, employees are not and can't be "overpaid" (and surely not for decades on end). They are paid exactly what they are worth, as price is based on supply and demand equilibrium.

Under a marxist labour market theory employees still can't be overpaid if the company makes a profit on top of what it would re-invest in itself (infrastructure, etc.).

So, under neither theory workers can be overpaid under any normal circumstances.

At worst, under capitalism there can be a higher market rate that gets adjusted to a lower one, but at each point in time none of those was "overpaid", it was the best the market knew to set. The higher rate was appropriate supply-and-demand-wise for when it was applied (and it might raise again as IT companies compete for developers, and so on).

Let's not forget the "US/Europe needs X millions more developers" reports churned out every few months...
California has very generous unemployment benefits. I also strongly doubt any former YC-employee will have a very hard time finding a next job.
Yeah this is my take too. I generally appreciate and support Mozilla, but this time I feel like they're on the wrong side. If I can use a webapp that persists a file to my filesystem, it means I can have a local backup without having to make an account for a site.
So the differences:

https://docs.exaloop.io/codon/general/differences

So more limited types (integers) and more type checking and collections have to have one kind of thing in them.

There are other python compilers though, like https://github.com/Nuitka/Nuitka

I wonder really what the advantages/disadvantages of these are?
FYI, your CV link doesn't show anything
GPT-4 is on average better than humans, and within the top 10% on many tasks. Almost all the issues you mentioned are being addressed. It's good enough to be admitted in many colleges. To paraphrase Greg Brockman - "it's not perfect, but neither are you".

One interesting trick you can do with LLMs is to require an ensemble of solutions sampled at higher temperature, and choose the most consistent answer. This boosts the model by a huge margin and provides confidence scores. So I see it improving by external means.
Then it's also worthless to say that consciousness arise from physics.

We don't know if physics is the fundamental substrate of being, and given Agrippa's trillemma we can't know.
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The semiconductor industry is only tangentially or partially a tech company. They're producing physical goods that require complex physical manufacturing processes. The means of production are expensive, complex, and require significant expertise to operate once set up. The whole thing involves multiple levels of complex engineering challenges. Even if you wanted to make a small handful of chips, you'd still have to go through all that.

Most modern tech companies are software companies. To them, the means of production are a commodity server in a rack. It might be an expensive server, but that's actually dependent on scale. It might even be a personal computer on a desk, or a smartphone in a pocket. Further, while creating software is highly technical, duplicating it is probably the most trivial computing operation that exists. Not that distribution is trivial (although it certainly can be) just that if you have one copy of software or data, you have enough software or data for 8 billion people.
> I wanted to do graphics, not just math.

Much of CG is basically an exercise in linear algebra.
Well, he probably is an Smalltalk evangelist but I don't see this as something bad.

"The secret weapon" I think makes reference to Paul Graham's essay Beating the average: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html and he probably thinks that Smalltalk gives the same kind of "unfair advantage" as Lisp did in Paul Graham's article.

According to some studies, Smalltalk seems to be very productive: https://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/main/2022/07/need-productivi...

http://www.ifpug.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IYSM.-Thirty...
Fire was OVH? Or different incident?
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That's just the compute though, not including bandwidth or disks. These come with effectively the equivalent of ~$3k worth of AWS data transfer and vastly more SSD storage.
I love this, but I thought that the sprinkles need to be the same length in order for the calculation to work? Looking at the image in the article, the length of the sprinkles seem to vary with some being just dots and the others are of a similar length. I wonder if it would work if you discounted those smaller dot sprinkles?
"Thou shalt not... elevator... buttons may not be... oh whatever, just put something in there about adultery."
> I have been working in the industry since 20 years and i have not a single bad word to loose about Hetzner.

I use them, and I've been very happy with both pricing, reliability and the service.

Only possible bad thing to say about them: their static IP's aren't always "clean": I had a couple of instances where the IP I was allocated was blacklisted and it took some back and forth with their customer service to fix the problem (got a new IP).

But other than that quality / price ratio is way higher than GCP, AWS and their ilk.

I also use OVH, they're pretty decent as well, in the same ballpark as Hetzner.
I can’t tell if a lot of programmers fear losing their jobs because, deep down, they don’t have much confidence in their skills and value, or if they actually want to get replaced by a supercharged autocomplete.

Just a year ago HN was full of existential dread over no code/low code tools. How many jobs did those cost?

Going farther back in history it was outsourcing that would put programmers on the street.

I can remember way back when we got told that software building blocks would just snap together like Legos, making software development child’s play.

Why do we tech professionals keep predicting some new thing (or old thing getting a second wind) will make us obsolete? It’s like a mass case of imposter syndrome.

You can see in the headlines what actually threatens developer careers: bad management and greed. Look at the approx 150,000 people laid off in tech since last year and tell me how many lost their jobs because of a chatbot. Or no code tools. Zero.

Read David Graeber’s book Bullshit Jobs. If you recognize what you do in his descriptions, you have reason to worry.
Damn, this strikes a chord without having a remotely similar experience. Thanks for sharing :)
Which fire? Are you not confusing with OVH SGB2 fire in 2021?
How would you fix that?
Another MQTT vs Kafka. It's been re-iterated many times that MQTT and Kafka solve different problems.
Right but AWS gets to make that choice, you have no idea whether they consider a failing fan as "degradation".
https://whatdoesthiscodedo.com/g/5b205f1

> The function adds the specified item to the end of the linked list, while ensuring thread safety using atomic operations. The function first increments the count of items in the list, then uses an atomic exchange operation to add the new item to the end of the list.

I'm positively surprised it was able to figure this out, especially after I intentionally removed the comments and changed the function name.

That said, this also shows its limits as it completely ignores the atomic memory barriers. Those are the really tricky part that you'd need an explainer for…

[source, in case anyone wonders: https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/blob/master/lib/atomlist.c]
It wasn't proposed as a immediate replacement of the current world model though.

This is like saying those new car manufacturers shouldn't bother because they'll never make then as fast and at high scale as the already established ?
I’m happy the financial system didn’t collapse, but I hate this spin by the Biden administration that this wasn’t a bailout. Yes, SIVB owners got wiped out, so it wasn’t a bailout for them, but, as far as I know, the owners of other banks that are insolvent based on the market value of their holdings had all of their equity saved by the new Fed lending program. So I fail to see how that’s not a bailout for all the other banks.
Which means nothing unless the defaults are restrictive.

What are the default browser quota restrictions on install?
I think the performance argument is huge as there are a lot of factors at play here.

For one, people generally underestimate the performance cost of their choices. And that reaches from app code, to their db and their infrastructure.

We’re talking orders of magnitude of compounding effects. Big constant factors that can dominate the calculation. Big multipliers on top.

Horizontal scaling with all its dollar cost, limitations, complexity, maintenance cost and gotchas becomes a fix on top of something that shouldn’t be a problem in the first place.
Did I hit a nerve of yours? Maybe you see a little too much of yourself in my comment? If you think that the risk of getting technology catastrophically wrong is more than a passing philosophical diversion to your "thousands", when we've all heard "move fast and break things" ad nauseum, maybe you should be examining your DK blind spots instead of accusing someone else of the same.

Also, is "libertarian techbro" a slur now? Or are you just resentful that I compared faith in progress to faith in a deity?
I get VP communication diarrhea of the pen :D

In our hearts, we are all high school children.
Yep. I’ve built one and am selling it at a premium. It’s called Vercel.
> If Disney trains an AI good enough to just generate a good story then I think that everyone who fed training data into that model should get a piece of the revenue.

So, if Disney decides to incorporate a sailing boat in ther stories, does that mean that anyone who has been making sailing what it is in our culture (i.e. anyone ever been on a boat, built a boat, talked about boats etc) should get a cut? If not, why not?
Nickelback, the prequel to Brokeback that nobody asked for.
What a strange comment.

Honestly, if this is what you're worried about those few miles/km's wont matter.
Saving a file is easily implementable without a Filesystem access API. See https://draw.io/ as an example.
Man that's a lot of facial hair one place.
What Lennar did in BVHP ought to be criminal. Treasure Island (also an ex-military Superfund site) is a mess of radioactive waste on its way to becoming luxury condos as well. Oh well, it will be a fun cancer cluster in a couple decades.

AMD, Intel, Fairchild, IBM, HP, Nat Semi, Raytheon, Teledyne, Westinghouse, and LLNL all gifted the Bay Area with Superfund sites with most concentrated in Santa Clara county. Even stuff that doesn't rise to the level of a Superfund site can still be far too polluted to develop (e.g. Brisbane).
They correctly used split—adjusted figures. The nominal share price in 2007 was in the hundreds (28x the figure they cited).
My uncle's job was to clean elevators using TCE and died at about 25yo from this.
Been using hetzner in Europe for about a decade now. Every year or so look to change into another server and you get better hardware or cheaper prices. Their machines are tough, never had hardware troubles.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/08/toppling-sadda...

> “Now, when I go past that statue, I feel pain and shame,” said Kadhim al-Jabouri in 2016. “I ask myself”: Why did I topple that statue?” He regretted the fall of Saddam’s regime. What came after, in his opinion, was a disaster: “Saddam has gone, but in his place we now have one thousand Saddams.” Kadhim even wanted the statue back. “I’d like to put it back up, to rebuild it,” he said. “But I’m afraid I’d be killed.”
Based on my two decade experience in the field ranging being part of the team that was building super computers to one that was moving amazon.com to aws, there are many dimensions that you need to consider for computational workloads.

The primary deciding factor is always security. You simply cannot use any small vendor because of the physical security (or the lack thereof). Unless of course you do not care about security. If a red team can just waltz into you DC and connect directly to your infra is it game over for some businesses. You can easily do this with most vendors.

The secondary deciding factor is networking. Most traditional co-los have very limited understanding of networking. A CCIE or two can make a real difference. Unfortunately those guys usually work some bigger companies.

The third deciding factor air conditioning and electricity considerations. Worst case you are facing an OVH situation. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/opinions/ovhclouds-dat....

(It is really funny, because I have warned them that their AC/cooling solution is not sufficient, and they explained to me that I am wrong. I was not aware of the rest (wooden elements, electricity fuckups, etc.)

"""During the year, an article in VO News by Clever Technologies claimed there were flaws in the power design of the site, for instance that the neighboring SBG4 facility was not independent, drawing power from the same circuit as SBG2. It's clear that the site had multiple generations, and among its work after the fire, OVHcloud reported digging a new power connection between the facilities.""")

The fourth would be probably pricing. TCO is one consideration, after you made sure that the minimum requirements are met, but only after.

So based on the needs somebody can choose wisely, based on the ___business requirements___. For example, running an airline vs running a complex simulations have very different requirements.
Nope, the vinlys were very old (antique?) and he said he was doing it to preserve them.
> Ethereum won't be the main execution layer for most transactions.

Then there's no need for Ethereum.

I mean, knock yourself out, and build your tower of Babel where every next layer is an increasingly complex patchwork of workarounds, but don't pretend that this is somehow good, great, fats, amazing, better than grilled cheese etc.
You can have the most special sauce in the world but if you're hiding it in the closet because you fear that it will hurt sales of your classic sauce then don't be surprised with what will happen (also known as Innovators Dilemma)
- No multithreading
- Not popular
- Requires graphics interaction
well, imagine you're selling your merchandise on a marketplace, but then some other company comes around, takes your product design, and then sells a product very similar to yours, at a slightly lower price. even if they get a slightly lower margin of profit due to undercutting, they still capture that profit, while you get nothing.

and then, imagine if a company arrives that offers a product, let's just say, imagery. artwork. at a low low price of 'free'. not just "free copying of existing artwork", but complete "professional creation". for free. it's real hard to compete with 'free'. you may have been selling your artwork for some price, but when a 'free' alternative comes around, what do you do? how do you solve for that "challenge" on the market? tough shit. and also, since it's 'free', it's also 'whatever price they want to set', so they can undercut you at any price point, because they can just make up any price point. capturing customers, capturing profit, while you just get displaced in the market. good luck trying to explain to people that "creating pieces of art should be paid for" and that "you" "should be paid. people can just get art for free! or, at a low low price that undercuts you.

see a problem that arises here? this is what those annoying art people have been trying to argue about.
There was no software to use back then and therefore no way to escape the math.

I'd argue that if you still don't at least understand a bit of the math today, it's still very limiting in spite of the progress the tools have made.
You've described many malicious things they could do, but none of it is really money laundering. And if your goal was money laundering, I'd assume you'd want to make that business look as clean as possible, not a VPN we can all agree appears shady as hell.