skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Now we can run Xonotic at over 800 FPS, which is faster than macOS on the same hardware (M2 MacBook Air) at around 600*! This proves that open source reverse engineered GPU drivers really have the power to beat Apple’s drivers in real-world scenarios!

> Not only that, our driver passes 100% of the dEQP-GLES2 and dEQP-EGL conformance tests, which is better OpenGL conformance than macOS for that version. But we’re not stopping there of course, with full GLES 3.0 and 3.1 support well underway thanks to Alyssa’s tireless efforts!

That's very impressive work. Congrats to Asahi and Alyssa.
In addition to the economic problems the other comments point out, a low fertility rate is indicative of large cultural problems. People are evolutionarily programmed to want kids, whatever the reason that people have stopped is, it probably isn't a happy one.
Why do I have a Blog?
Yes, but the text version is "not required to be implemented by conforming implementations". The wrong tradeoff, in my opinion.
Everyone’s not like you Linus.

/s
The best way to learn is to build something for someone else. When someone else sets the requirements you have to engage in real problem solving and research the best tech to solve the problem. This keeps you from following just the easiest path as well as exposes you too new ideas.

You can do this at work, for a local non profit, for your friend's weird startup idea, ...
I suppose it depends on what you mean by "original" though, eh?

Are you familiar with the "cut up" technique? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-up_technique It could be considered a mechanical original thought generator?

From Information Theory we have the result that the unpredictability of a message is a measure of it's information content. Right now we are concentrating on making systems that generate predictable results (the novelty is not just that they can generate realistic "thought", but also that they can do it "to spec", which is another way of saying that we can predict some of the aspects of the output of the machines: it looks like they understand us and are providing salient responses.

So it's not that computers can or cannot make original thought, it's that we have to decide what parts of the outputs are original: it's an observer-dependent variable, so to speak? What do you think?
The stock price is down 2.5% today. The investors didn't like it for some reason.
$ cat ~/.config/openai/completions.json ~/.local/bin/completions
{
"model": "text-davinci-003",
"max_tokens": 1024
}
#!/bin/sh
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${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/openai/completions.json |
curl --silent https://api.openai.com/v1/completions \
--header "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" --data-binary @- |
jq -r '.choices[].text'
French company iWeech has been making AI-powered e-bikes for a while: https://iweech.com/en/

And they're actually pretty good, even without the AI part.

It's not hard to change gears and assistance level without AI. However, people riding these bikes have reported really good battery performance. The AI stuff automatically optimizes for that, especially when the battery is getting low.

I'm still a little bit skeptical, though. Living in a city with steep streets everywhere, I constantly have to anticipate, and be ready to start with the right gear/assistance after a stop.

Without a camera, I don't see how AI could do that. At best, it will quickly switch gear after realizing that the previous setting was off. Not so great to ride in a busy city.
> you will not kill someone if you ride after a night drinking;

It actually depends, but chances are better.

> do not have to worry about car maintenance, parking tickets or theft;

Isn't bicycle theft wider than car theft in Europe? Bycicle is easier to steal and easier to sell to black market resellers.
I haven't read that book yet, but if I understand correctly his reasoning for the "space buoy" hypothesis is that Oumuamua's velocity was quite close to the Local Standard of Rest. Is that accurate? At least, that's the reasoning he claims in his "Six Strange Facts About`Oumuamua" article: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08832

In his book, does he address the counterargument (https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.01910) that such a velocity is entirely in line with expected parameters, being within the predicted distribution of values for intestellar objects detected by asteroid surveys, which was published months before Oumuamua was even discovered (https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.02237) ?
of course it depends on your worksite, but oakland, hayward, fremont, and the coast are all substantially cheaper.
> The first RISC-V single-board computer

> from ASUS

The "from ASUS" part is pretty important to that headline IMHO...
You got it. He beat the bet on the rise in price by orders of magnitude. He is mattress king.
This has always been my pet theory. The supposedly alien craft are laid out to intimidate and or misdirect foreign opposition. These could be actual craft our totally fabricated illusions. For me this felt the most plausible. As with everyone else speculating here, I have no practical way to test this hypothesis.

As a disclaimer, I am aware that seemingly implausible things happen regularly and that this pattern of analysis would fail under those scenarios.
There IS a law (Section 1983), which stood whole for almost a century, before the Supreme Court largely gutted by inventing this legal principal out of thin air.
As a web dev I am as excited at the idea of going there as I am by their website. What a fun website, it's just a happy site. The site just looks fun.
>I don't think that is going to be the case, more people today believe outright lies than just a few years ago.

Vastly fewer people believe in outright lies now than a couple of decades ago. Fringe theories of all kinds used to be commonly accepted, much more than they are now. Religiously motivated homophobia is a good example. And I’d claim that making it easier to spread falsehoods made it so, by training people to be less naive.
First Meta, now Amazon. Both Jassy and Zuckerberg said it was a "difficult decision". It wasn't. US has inhumane labor laws. Labor laws should change in a way that all US workers laid off by a company should get 3 months salary indemnification and 6 months Insurance coverage. That way companies will think twice going in their "hiring sprees".
Managers usually over staff because it’s an easy lever available to them to cover their ass. If the project fails or is late, a simple criticism is, “Why didn’t you scale up the team?” They can avoid this criticism and shift the focus to externalities such as shifting requirements, late dependencies, etc.
I can agree that change has made many people unhappy, possibly even most. What I can't agree with is the general suggestion that a forced return to an idealized past would correct that. Partly there's the 'forced' aspect which others here have reacted against. But primarily I think it's also unworkable - you can't just argue that people should change how they form families, if their social economic reality prevents them from living like that. I am also skeptical about the implication that we as a society should want larger families - population growth may be slowing in the developed world, but given our outsized ecological footprint, that seems like at worst a mixed blessing.
Investopedia:

"In finance, secular is a descriptive word used to refer to market activities that occur over the long term."

This appears to derive from sense 6 of the adjectival form from dicationary.com:

"going on from age to age; continuing through long ages."
Vancouver suburb inundated with unwanted Uber Eats deliveries
I'm pretty sure the entire economy is a pyramid scheme for the same reason. We've gotten ourselves into a situation where growth is a necessity.
You may be mistaking socialism for social welfare?
I was going for the invention of fortran, I just did the math very incorrectly
So does Copenhagen. That's why you can't choose between them.
That's a better word for it perhaps, if you see the act in a negative light.

Even then, doesn't forgery entail presenting the work as if it were an original? It's not quite the same if I make a copy of something where 'originality' doesn't apply and it is a 1:1 duplicate. Maybe NFTs will fix this ;)
This feels like burning reputation to increase awareness

There is a lot of interesting philosophy around Bitcoin as a solution to the existing economic system but increasing total volume of awareness doesn't make sense if reduces the signal:noise ratio.

Especially as the "noise" is exactly the type of gambling speculation that this bet is representative of.
(This is down so I can’t read it)

It has been amusing to watch the initial rampage about “Silicon Valley tech libertarians” turn into… confused silence, now that we don’t have anyone to yell at about all these other banks failing.

I did see a video of a senator yelling at Powell that he’s a big meanie destroying people’s jobs, so maybe it will be him.
> Walking: 5 km/h * 70kg => 875 (although this is a very slow estimate for a walker)

In the context of this thread (a walker who’s drunk), I don’t think it’s very slow.

Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferred_walking_speed:

“The preferred walking speed is the speed at which humans or animals choose to walk. Many people tend to walk at about 1.42 metres per second (5.1 km/h; 3.2 mph; 4.7 ft/s).”

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S209575641...:

“The results show teenagers walk at an average speed of 1.45 m/s, young adults walk at an average speed of 1.55 m/s, middle age pedestrians walk at a speed of 1.45 m/s, older pedestrians walk at speed of 1.09 m/s, and elderly or physically disabled pedestrians walk at a speed of 1.04 m/s.”

5km/hour is about 1.4m/s; the fastest of these speeds is 5.6 km/hour.
I'm reminded of a situation some years ago when a Florida Highway Patrol officer pulled over a Miami police officer for speeding in Florida. The Miami officer was fired, but FHP officer was harassed by other police officers.

https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/miami-police-fire-cop-pul...

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fl-sb-jane-watts-...
Modern markets are obviously legal abstractions.

The tech labor market would not exist as it does today without substantial very specific regulations of various parties' behavior; e.g., stopping me from:

1. copying my employer's codebase, or

2. exfiltrating my employer's customer and pricing lists, or

3. holding two jobs at competing companies at the same time, or

4. shorting my employer's stock then actively sabotaging the company.

To say nothing of the even more basic stuff like squatting in my employer's office or even just using force to take what I want from the company or its executives/sharholders, for example.

Labor markets can't exist without lots of strong legal guardrails, and in the case of tech those property rights and contractual obligations are highly fictional and extremely unnatural. Intellectual property, non-competes, non-disclosures, securities regulations on insider trading, laws about industrial espionage and sabotage, the list goes on. All of it highly fictional and unnatural.

Modern markets are, definitionally, just a dynamical process playing out that is governed by an enormous collection of state-backed rules. Nothing like what you might consider a "natural" market, such as early civilized man bartering at the bazaar.

The amount of propaganda/brainwashing required to believe that something like a modern equity or labor market is a naturally occurring phenomenon... oof.
This article is weirdly written. Unlike most news article they refer to the plaintiff throughout as 'James', his given name rather than 'King' his surname. The author also capitalizes 'High Court' when referring to the Supreme Court, which is not correct and had me checking to make sure this was in the US.

All that aside, this is a grave miscarriage of justice.

I would advise anyone interested to read the 6th Court of Appeals decision https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/22a0219p-06.pd..., especially the dissent:

"The majority’s holding is a profound and frightening miscarriage of justice. That federal officers who refuse to identify themselves can spontaneously, and unprovoked, beat an
individual nearly to death and be entirely free from civil liability simply because the individual
chooses not to waste judicial resources on a frivolous appeal is not compatible with notions of an
ordered and civilized society. Because the majority follows outdated law and dismisses King’s
claims, I strongly dissent."
I'd argue that the salaries would be well-deserved if the police were in general better at their jobs, or at least weren't obviously abusive and corrupt in pretty much every jurisdiction.
Wish the SuperH stuff would have panned out, the open source stuff seems to be dead on the vine :(
The old Settings UI was nice, but it had a really bad scaling problem as more preferences were added, making it badly organized. I like the new one, better, though it did come into the world roughly and still needs work.

Mostly, though, I'm just happy that they're dog-fooding SwiftUI with it. I look forward to WWDC this year.
Explore Linux ELF objects through SQL
Covid pandemic's origins linked to raccoon dogs at Wuhan market
Or vice versa - when you only modify answer a bit ? I guess it would be derivative work ?
Works well when you don't have 3-4 months of snow and ice. This is probably my biggest gripe with the whole "change roads to bicycle paths" push that is happening in most big cities (emulating this and using it as a guiding example). That infrastructure is essentially useless for 1/3 of the year.
Random question I'll throw out into the ether because I've been mulling it over for the last month or so:

If you're 70% certain the UFOs were aliens, but know they won't "reveal themselves" or share any knowledge, or do anything useful for the next 10,000 years; should we care about them?
Well, if they get job at these better places, its great. For others(and there will be a lot), it may not be bad option.
You adopt the housing law of japan, which is set at the federal level and not the local level, where zoning is set in large regional areas, where if something is zoned for a 'high nuisance level' you can build anything of a lower nuisance level inside of those zones.

You don't need your neighbors permission to build, everything is basically by-right where you follow well a well defined housing code vs. needing special approval for every little thing. Just get out of the way and stop needing a license to do anything and you will see how quickly the market will sort it out in London. The people of London will decide THEMSELVES, what to demolish or not once given permission to do so, no central planning needed.

But it doesn't because the current system benefits those elites. Any time large amounts of special permission is needed to get anything done, creates the space for corruption in which a bureaucrat can benefit through bribes of one form or another.

What your basically acting like is acting like you can't exercise and eat right to lose weight while you have no mental issues, financial issues, health issues, disability or age issues blocking you from doing the basic things. London has the money, ability and ground where all this is possible. It's a form of learned helplessness in front of a system that has given you no way out.
Except that Alice here is the government, and in both scenarios Adam The Average Guy loses purchasing power, which is the whole point. The distinction here is purely nitpicking.
> in their final semester for an internship

Honest question here: what's the location and comp like?

Keep in mind some students will end up with 3 internships during their undergrads, and many will end up interning twice at the same place. Why should they jump ship to your company?

I recall a story someone told me a while ago. Software business that did local CoL/prevailing wages. Hired an intern one summer that was just running around in circles around the other, more senior devs. Useless to say they loved him and the next summer they tried to get him back, even offering a signing bonus for an internship (something they considered unheard of) but he was already at a large search engine company down in the Bay. You can guess the comp was probably already 3x what his previous job was offering. Of course, he wouldn't return.

There's a whole class of engineers were completely invisible to most companies, even if they are in the same "local market" [0][1] (Some use the term "dark matter devs" but I know it has another meaning [2]). These guys tend to fly under the radar quite a bit. If you are in a tier 2 market or company, your chances of attracting one are close to nil. Because they are extremely valuable, they don't interview a lot and tend to hop between companies where they know people (or get fast tracked internally).

FAANG companies have internship pipelines, with bonus for returning interns. These guys are off the market years before they even graduate.

[0] https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-sala...

[1] http://danluu.com/bimodal-compensation/

[2] https://www.hanselman.com/blog/dark-matter-developers-the-un...
>not sure why you are implying otherwise

i didn't imply anything, I literally asked, and more importantly, in a rhetorical sense as a lead-in to what I said after.

my comments in my opinion, like the film in your opinion, are not for everyone, only for people of superior taste.
This brings back so many memories. Most of them not good...

As a university student in 199mumble I had a side gig as the (freelance) technical writer for Amstrad Action - the magazine that pioneered covertapes, as explained in the article. The actual writing was easy and I could do it in my sleep: mostly answering readers' questions about printers, or reviewing the few applications still being released for the Amstrad CPC.

But I also put together the covertapes. And that was _hard_.

The main drawback is that I was very lucky if I got a master tape of the game. Mostly I just got a standard retail copy. That meant it invariably had copy-protection on of some sort... and I'd have to decrypt that to make a new master for Future Publishing to send to their duplicators (Ablex Audio Video). Fortunately I knew a couple of the best "crackers" working on the CPC, and I wasn't entirely a slouch myself, but even then it was a bunch of unnecessary effort.

As AA neared its end, the editorial team gave me a bit extra to not only produce the cover tape, but to commission the software on it as well. Occasionally I'd turn up a winner. A friend of a friend at university turned out to know the author of Chuckie Egg, the all-time classic 8-bit platform game, so I got that pretty easily. (Without copy protection!) That was a good moment. But often it'd just be some less than impressive game from the late 80s that hadn't sold particularly well first time round.

And as the article alludes, there were inevitably bugs. Finding out, after 10,000 copies of a tape have been duplicated, that it won't work properly on one of the three models of CPC... that wasn't a great moment. Ah well. We printed a bugfix in the next issue. Tapes were sufficiently unreliable that I suspect half the users just thought there was a loading error anyway.
Most councils bave residents only parking bays for this exact reason. I live in zone 1 and the permit costs somewhere between 150-200 GBP per year.
It doesn't define you. It does define how well you can provide food for your family and a roof over your head. I have been completely dead broke but I'm single and live very frugally with a roommate. I'm less worried about AI taking all our jobs and more worried about the turmoil as it takes the "good ones" first. Great if you are a capital owner saving on head count, not great if you are a worker.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230320171036/https://fedguy.co...
There's the Nintendo Switch which does get ports.
I think we shouldn't underestimate the leaps that have been made in R&D just to improve VR in the past years.

Companies invested billions in tackling all those fundamental technology limitations (reduce motion-to-photon latency, higher refresh-rates, global refresh, lower pixel-persistence,...).

The dilemma is, that in VR everything "sucks" until you achieve presence (the feeling of really being somewhere else) or at least full immersion.

So how do you fund all this development? By releasing iterative products which sadly harm the wide adoption more than they help, because "it still sucks".

At best, VR drove mass-production of necessary technology in other industries (i.e. adoption of >60Hz displays, high-resolution sensors, eye-tracking, OLED, immersive audio,...), which ultimately helps the next entrant to create a more-affordable AR/VR-device.

At the very least, it created IP that this "somebody sometime" will then have to license.
I doubt it will be possible to create a new VR-device without the patents of Sony, Microsoft or Samsung.

How much this helps to really innovate is another question, arguably it means Apple is the only new entrant large enough to cross-license and still disrupt...
>But I think it's far more likely that it's all part of a government disinformation campaign,

I think it, for the last few years, is 10,000% to secure more funding for the space force. Get people worked up about an issue = more moneys for my sweet budget. I don't think there is a grand conspiracy outside of that.
> It turns out most Chinese tour operators throughout SE Asia run a completely vertical business, wherein they own all touchpoints their guests interact with (e.g. the restaurants, the bus company, the gift shops, etc.). Further, these are all staffed by immigrant Chinese. This results in all tourism profits being captured by Chinese nationals and businesses (and being exported back home as remittances) while burdening local infrastructure. Locals hate this.

I heard the exact same complaint in Italy. Chinese tourist groups come to Venice, annoy all the locals by dropping trash on the floor, but only buy their souvenirs at Chinese-owned gift shops. And they sleep on the Chinese-owned cruise ship.
It's also a way to prompt engineer/hack your stuff too keep in mind
I followed your arguments, and frankly you continue to be more right over time. We happened to get lucky that Python and Data Science and then by extension AIML aligned because that really did carry Python over the 2-3 chasm.

There should be a book in the style of the Mythical Man Month about discontinuous tech stack transitions (Python 2 to 3). Or ecosystem splitting issues (Phobos/Tango), or Package Management (C++).

I don't view your engineering mindset as pessimism, I view it as realist. My take is that engineering is 80% failure mitigation, but if we don't do solid failure analysis we will only get lucky 1/5 the time. I think this is why we see so many software projects fail.

Backporting Python3 features to Python2 would have made the transition go faster for everyone. You are on a hike with a bunch of scouts, huge range of gear and physical and emotional ability, you don't bitch at the fast ones to go slower, you don't bitch at the slow ones to go faster, you redistribute the load, and if the fast ones are still fast, you give them enough supplies to start setting up camp ahead of the rest of the group.
It's "fundamental CS," sure, if what you mean by that is: only a very small number of the people who actually design, implement, build, optimize, and debug databases know anything about it at all, have read the foundational texts, use the terminology of relational algebra, or contribute papers or research in the field.