skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you might be able to abuse an ArenaAllocator wrapping a FixedBufferAllocator. I haven't tested it, but IIRC, Zig's ArenaAllocator deallocates in reverse order once it's reset (it uses a singly linked list to keep track of allocations, so that's the natural way to do deallocation), so it might play nicely with the underlying FixedBufferAllocator's requirements.

If this is correct, it's likely an undocumented implementation detail, so probably not something you should rely on always being the case.
In my opinion, they should rip off the bandaid and conduct one big round of layoffs.

While I understand that gradual layoffs are less risky and easier for the organization to absorb, it seems short-sighted.

Delaying the inevitable will only cause more pain and damage in the long term.
How much did that run you? That looks awesome and i'd buy one right now if someone made this or made it easy for me to make it
Then CS should force the price to $0 and let their shareholders vent fury on regulators

Once again, it makes sense for CS to let this go scorched-earth
I don't interpret results of Chinchilla et al. as there are fundamental limits to what LLMs can do. From the Chinchilla paper's abstract:

"we find that for compute-optimal training, the model size and the number of training tokens should be scaled equally"

> GPT4 hallucinations

My interpretation is that we are just seeing Dunning-Kruger. We are at the overconfidence stage, but quickly descending into the Valley of Despair ("I am an AI and can't..."). My reading of the report is that hallucinations are already reduced a lot.

> is inherently not factually grounded

Aren't we all just symbol manipulation machines? Isn't truth just created by assigning symbols? Is there more value in experiencing an apple falling on your head than reading on an apple falling onto Newton's head?

> If LLMs of this size can’t come close to stockfish which can run on my 10 year old CPU, how much knowledge is all this compute really encoding?

If we assume that GPT-4 is maybe a bit bigger than GTP-3 then it clocks in at around 1000 GB = 1 TB. A large chess data base is something like 5GB, but I would assume that training maybe keeps a fraction of that, maybe 100 MB to encode chess moves. I think it is quite an achievement to that GPT-4 can play at all, but by reading moves from textfiles online.
My go to glue is almost always a 2 part fast set epoxy. It has better shear strength than SG, and it's better for filling in gaps. Almost everything I've used SG for has been a disappointment. It might be useful for a cosmetic fix, but anything that has a load/force on it works better with epoxy.

As a bonus, you can buy decent sized tubes and use them for many months. SG tubes are basically disposable once opened, since they'll be useless when they glue themselves shut or crust up.
It seems like you start out by disagreeing and then just give a summary of why you don't need an IDE.
An Intel NUC is not much more than the top tier Raspberry Pi, once you get a case and stuff it needs, but is orders of magnitude faster. I got one and installed Linux Mint on it. It's a much, much better system than the Raspberry Pi 4 I have.
> a YouTube video, AKA the least-efficient mode of conveying information that human beings have ever devised

Amen to that; OTOH HN highlights the ruthless time-efficiency (and jump-around-a-bility) of text.
Tell ChatGPT it's a product manager overseeing engineers and providing executive summaries. Create a system that feeds executive emails inquiring about project statuses into ChatGPT and emails the developers asking for updates. Developers reply with jargon-heavy details about tickets for next milestone, ChatGPT writes an executive summary that eliminates jargon and sends to executives.

Not the full job, but it can probably be built right now.
My point is "It's inevitable that {scifi_scenario}" always sounds kinda plausible but doesnt necessarily means anything.
It probably already does that. It probably goes even further.

Intel CPUs since the Core uarch have a stack engine. This basically does the addition or subtraction of the stack pointer in a special piece of hardware straight after the decode stage. It can also do this multiple times per clock. The result after decode is that each PUSH/POP/PUSHQ/POPQ will decode down to a single uop. Combined with multiple decoding pipes and a superscaler load/store unit the CPU basically packs a stream of PUSH(Q)/POP(Q) instructions into a tight little ball of uops which are executed at lightning speed. On Alder Lake for instance it can do 3 loads and 4 stores per clock.

This is also faster than putting an instruction like PUSHA/POPA through a uarch decoder so nobody uses those instructions anymore. They're not even available in the x64 ISA. As shown, modern CPUs are so good at decoding a stream of individual PUSH(Q)/POP(Q) instructions there's literally no point.
This! And tbh, compared with the "bad manager type" (Dilbert type) that won't feel worse :D
You are correct. Some domain knowledge is needed if you want to get the correct dependencies.

They can be changed without affecting the exercises so it's not set on stone. So you could try to make a lesson for the initial topics and try to adjust the dependencies as you go along.

But the best way is to get help from someone who knows them.
I mean, having a sense of self-worth is a need! I think you're taking "all your needs" more narrowly than necessary.

Being fed and sheltered for free isn't sufficient to provide for all of a person's needs.
Nope, I am pointing out that 100% renewables is far harder than claimed, that criticism has been suppressed, and providing refs to back up my points.

I'm pro anything low carbon. I love wind and solar and hydro and nuclear. These no-nuclear people are trying to get us to tie a hand behind our backs for no reason in the midst of a climate crisis. Energy generation choices are not a zero sum game.

Lots of antinuclear people mistakenly believe that pro-nuclear people are also anti-wind or anti-solar when in fact we are usually just anti-fossil and biofuel.
I do a lot of technical due diligence for companies in a bunch of different contexts (private equity pre-acquisition, post acquisition, management change over, etc). I have found that tech debt is highly correlated to the business goals and tech organization structure, and has to be evaluated in those contexts.

Startups you want to see with fairly high tech debt. Tech debt there is a very often a sign of shipped code that is meeting some customer need. You do need to watch out for insane tech debt that may be hard to undo later on (running everything in an ancient proprietary language for example).

Startups with low tech debt often are devs navel gazing without a lot of revenue coming in. This is surprisingly true almost all the time.

Very large companies will tend to have a mashup of all kinds of technology that is never fully untangled. A very large Corp with little tech debt is exceptionally rare. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it is the rule.

Mid sized corps and late stage startups seem to be the sweet spot. Fairly low tech debt systems that is providing high value is still possible. This is where you have enough maturity to know what “good” looks like, and enough developers, momentum and budget to implement the vision.
> up 1.5x - 15x over

I wish! I still often find out my team members don’t know basic text/Unix tools. Heck one guy took our list of enums in a JSON file and wrote on his keyboard by hand each of them into a class. It took me maybe a minute in Sublime Text when he wasted at least a day
Unconventional Fantasy Heists
> recommended booting off SSD which is demonstrably specious advice

Booting the Pi 4 off a quality USB-connected SSD to address stability and performance concerns is really good - and normally not controversial - advice. You're betraying a lack of familiarity with the subject matter here. The Raspberry Pi people provide a whole forum where people can discuss this, and other, stuff and educate one another.

https://forums.raspberrypi.com/
It is the same old story of incremental progress in increasing a worker's productivity. Like how much more work a farmer can do with a tractor than with an oxen and plow.
Interesting thing was this video was broadcast the day before (the then pseudonymous) Bob Lazar's story was first published on the same station.

At the end of this video the host telegraphs it, "Tomorrow: a scientist who says he worked on flying saucers."
Would not the prices of their office buildings/leases be worth this alone, given they will be all in major financial hubs? Do they actually have any liquidity?
You make it sound like he's a serial killer when he just does what everyone with a homestead does.
This is so true. We waste so much time now because of the separation of these roles which must inevitably come together in the real codebase where the rubber meets the road.

Software is of lower quality today and requires far more do-overs than it used to. As someone who liked working closely with customers and making decisions in all these areas (for their benefit), it has made the entire career far more of a slog than it used to be.

Also, I find these endless internal cyclical conversations to be much more draining than actually writing code. Looping over and over with planners and ideas folks isn't energizing like actually writing the product is.
What part of the "Dozen 'stable' coin fails in the past years" lesson are you having difficulties with?
There can never be a "stable" offer in this space. the stability comes from "free to print money" organisations and the only acceptable such organisations are governments (not ideal, certainly not 100% stable but the only viable one). Everything that still contributes to keep up the speculation hype value of these cryptocurrencies (and a wallet by a wellknown players does contribute to it) is a net negative.
That’s equally vacuous. In what way is it beneficial?
But I need 32 GB for my JetBrains IDE…
From the screenshots, I gather that if you purchase cryptocurrency via Edge, coinbase or MoonPay will pay Microsoft an affiliate fee. Well, it's a kind of advertising, isn't it?
> The new boost to Rolls-Royce’s research pot follows a previous $303,495 (£249,000) study funded by the U.K. Space Agency in 2022

Wish them all the best, really. But I'm really curious what the study actually provided/concluded in terms of the stated goal of using the money to research the development of such a reactor. Because unless the British are so much more efficient than the EU for example, this kind of money just bought a short conversation with McKinsey.

P.S. I think it bought a press release [0].

[0] https://www.rolls-royce.com/media/our-stories/discover/2023/...
Camouflage works better on things that aren’t moving. And it wouldn’t stop infrared, laser designators, or radar.

The best camouflage from the ground is to fly low and have a color scheme that is difficult to read against the sky. Gray works well.
AIs don't provide food, housing, or safety. They don't farm, build houses, or police the streets
> Everyone is so quick to argue that no machine could possible do their job

There's a big difference between "No machine could do my job" and "ChatGPT can't do my job."

Most people are saying the latter. Most people are right about that.

I fully believe that there will be some time in the future when we can create programs powerful enough to convert clear enough natural language of business requirements into code. There may even come a time when we can create fully sapient, sentient machine intelligences, smart enough to work alongside us, though that I'm a bit more skeptical about.

That doesn't mean that what we have today can do this. I can believe that there are certain things that ChatGPT and its brethren can do well enough to streamline away a few jobs, but for many reasons, I don't think that will be widespread.

What all of this does mean is that we need to be pushing for political and economic changes to ensure that, when and if the full (or at least much greater) automation does happen, the human beings whose jobs disappear will be taken care of. We need to stop the fruits of automation going entirely to the already-wealthy, and instead make it so people are no longer required to dedicate their lives to toil just to be allowed to survive on this planet.
Nicholas Humphrey's Beautiful Theory of Mind
Kyc wouldn't have changed the ftx meltdown
I fail to understand why they don't pick a number like 90%. Enough to prevent financial ruin of depositors, but also set to encourage some measure of risk evaluation by depositors.
Which is really weird because they clearly CAN do it for mobile phones with Android, so why hasn’t that trickled down to laptops?
There is an important missing detail. The Swedes agreed to interview Assange about the rape allegations in London but the British Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) put pressure on the Swedes not to. The CPS deleted the emails they sent to the Swedes and we only know of their existence because of a FOI request on the Swedish side. Why were the supposedly politically independent CPS so keen to get Assange extradited to Sweden? FWIW, the CPS was led at the time by Keir Starmer, current leader of the opposition.
The investor in question brought that up right after saying "absolutely not." The problem is: he said "absolutely not."
Thanks for sharing, I remember seeing this site a while ago and forgot to bookmark it.
I'm against giving money to charities in principal as the money is often wasted, used inefficiently and, in some cases, enables people to continue to make bad choices in life.

However, I do donate to a small charity in the UK that provides beds for children living in relative poverty. https://zarach.org

Firstly, the money goes directly to help improve a child's life in a clear and visible way, regardless of whatever else his/her parent/s are spending their money on.

Secondly, it's a very small charity with only a couple of paid employees who are necessary for the organization to function and are not just a job creation scheme, for want of a better description.

/relative poverty as opposed to real poverty elsewhere in the world.
If I had to guess, it would be Gatekeeper and SIP. These technologies can really get in your way if you’re used to having full access to your own machine.
> CA was originally invented for wound closure in the military.

Looks like that's not accurate[1].

Although, to be fair, the military has been using it for would closure for quite a while.

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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanoacrylate
While a raspi is not a great dev env, maybe raspbian on a modern laptop is fantastic precisely because it has been developed for constrained envs.

I have to give this a try.
About $550 total. $400+shipping for the panel, $100+shipping for the Halbe frame with low reflection glass and a passepartout cut to size, $50 for the other bits.

There's a 10.3" panel for half the price. With an IKEA frame etc. you can probably do a slightly smaller $250 build.
I think the shear strength is the weakness. I break super glued corals off their ceramic plugs for my aquarium and you can almost always get a perfect break by using flush cutters to slide the coral off the plug instead of trying to pry it off or cut it.
Thanks for sharing, but bear in mind that this plugin sends data to Open AI.
I don't think there are specific issues. The problem is that with each release of macOS usability, reliability and performance regress. If you're interested in these things and not so much in "bling" and questionable new features, then you'd share probably Ken's "atrocious" opinion.

An example is the latest System Preferences. It's virtually unusable.
I'm saying the trend (IMHO) is not away from a full blown IDE and that smaller editors with plugins and LSP can fill the the role as well, including the resource consumption.

Vim can be very slow with a ton of plugins.
I tried superglue on _plastic_ sunglass temples once, and it just didn't stick.
That’s terrific, quite inspiring!

A couple of questions, if that is okay;
How much did all of it run you down in the end?
How do you recharge the battery? Did you consider adding a USB-C charge port somewhere?
How much does it cost you to use the ChatGPT-API?
I can definitely see writing games with natural language in the near future. Not everyone can do that of course, but they don't need to be programmers either, just people who are into the thing.
You couldn't make a decent living as a live musician well before Spotify came into existence.

Source: raised and largely surrounded by musicians who either complained to high heaven about the pay or did something else to supplement their income. Engineers were a particular target of vitriol which led to me becoming one.
They're working on the 200 programs that suddenly became economically viable to create because of the vastly decreased cost of making programs.

It takes drastically less programming effort to create programs than it did 50 years ago. Did that decrease demand for programmers? No, it drastically increased it.
Are these banking issues tied to the Russia-Ukraine Conflict?

Will the Swiss start selling arms to the Ukraine to make up for this lost capital?
How was he running MacOS on RPIs? Emulation?
If programmers are truly displaced then we’ll have something like a StartupGPT where anyone can create a software business in days. Heck I’ll be a owner instead of a worker
You have to verify everything this thing proposes. It will be like having an apprentice or student that's always guessing the answer.
The US army used a miniature nuclear reactor to power Camp Century in Greenland in the 60s [1]. Obviously that base had some important differences to a moon base (like being surrounded by water ice and atmosphere) and technology has advanced a bit since then, but I wonder how much you would have to change the design to make it a viable moon base.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Century
i switched. I have the previous gen AMD powered (Ryzen 5700U) system 76 and the battery life is decent (6-7 hours).

I have one 4 year old system 76 notebook with the NVIDIA gpu and that thing when running the 3d graphics mode is terrible (<3 hours), but its a gaming laptop and a beast (well 4 years ago it was..). I have 2.5 TB of storage, huge memory. Its more of a portable desktop than a notebook.

I really like software development on Linux much better than mac. There are a few things I miss from the apple side, but generally its been great.
It was my machine that found the key in the very first RSA competition.
John Lear (1987) [video]
The example they give is someone from Denmark buying something in Spain, so I'm not sure where you've got the idea of it being an "in-country" rule from.
Meta pushed up pay for the whole industry. They also created the most important frameworks:

React and PyTorch.

For everyone hating on the company, they did more for software engineers than any other company. The most meritocratic and highly compensated
Server-Side A/B Testing on Deno Using the Fresh Framework and Pirsch Analytics
as someone said on here the other day, this is a bit over blown.

chatgpt only knows about the 'open source' world, it only understands one generic human as an audience, and it is absolutely atrocious with details.

it doesn't know how to deal with a bunch of obscure proprietary niche-domain one-off systems, lots of different human personalities and their communication styles, and it's attention to detail is pretty atrocious.

so it would be absolutely terrible as an employee in most workplaces.
When you are a billionaire you have a large cult of people validating everything you do, reinforcing the worst aspects of your personality.
Ah! Now I understand. And I agree with you.
That's odd - I'd prefer the opposite tradeoff. Apple hardware is excellent but for me their software design choices are usually the problem.

Even the much-lauded excellence in UX doesn't really hold up any more.

But at least you can close the lid on a Macbook, put it in your bag and be secure in the knowledge it won't decide to switch on and probably cause permanent heat damage to itself. (looking at you windows...)
From my perspective, a lot of "innovation", especially in the last few decades, is about removing the "friction" of dealing with a person. (and ignoring any "friction" that comes from technical difficulties, unless it reaches critical mass and/or social media virality.)
They’re laying off because Zuck is a horrible leader. He went all-in on metaverse that didn’t work out. They could’ve done so much more in AI/ML space with all the resources they had. Now they’re experiencing brain drain and no one wants to work for a guy with bad vision for the future.
In practical terms no - UBS is by far the largest Swiss bank followed at some distance now by Credit Suisse, and together they are on quick look larger by asset size then all other Swiss banks _combined_.
Once they write a CFObot version, and it can sit in every corporate meeting, is it really fair to say it needs to be directed? “Hey CFO bot what do you think.” “Hey CFO bot, speak out of turn and alert me if anything alarming happens or you have cause for concern.”

It’ll know how to behave as a cfo, what to look for, and what to reformulate back as responses.

It’ll come for pattern matching jobs first. How long until you can conduct an entire meeting with 5 variants, promoted with different purposes and tasks?
The reason for that is not the creation of new needs by regular people. It is the siphoning of nearly all the benefits of those productivity gains by the very wealthy, so that the rest of us are left fighting for scraps, and they can use that wealth to change the laws so they don't have to share it.

Never mind the fact that for them, the extra does nothing to change their lifestyle, and is essentially just a dollar-denominated high score, while for the rest of us, the smallest fraction of that wealth would be life-altering.
This is the right time for tech workers to finally unionize. Too long have we believed tales of exceptionalism and of evil union overlords in the way of meritocracy.

An injury to one is an injury to all.
I don’t care much for Facebook, but I miss the days when my Facebook feed is all my friends & family. I don’t mind ads here or there or if they have a paid model, I would pay that as well. It’s funny that our family’s main sharing is shared album on iphoto now.
There is a huge banner on backmarket's home page that explains exactly that.

Which tells me you have made the level zero of effort to get an answer to your question, and instead expected me to provide said effort.
That was my guess as well. And as a lifelong Mac user it makes me consider switching to Linux as well.

It’s just that I still need macOS for iOS dev right now, but that might change in coming months ...
Apple ecosystem is no longer software - only apps. It’s hard to do(code) normal things on the OS because of all of the fancy “security”
The latest system preferences are an improvement to me. It was a mess before and it’s still a mess but the app layout makes it easier to browse, and at least it’s consistent with iOS.
Med: Micro Emacs in D
Linux Workstation with a Mac laptop seems to best the best of both worlds. I even have a windows box for gaming.

I pick the right tool for the job and try not to apply ideology to tool choice.