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Nim rocks and the ecosystem has made some great strides lately. I highly recommend checking it out

One awesome project is https://github.com/jmgomez/NimForUE
Indeed, and to illustrate the point: He Jiankui infamously created two CRISPR babies in 2018 and for it he was fired and imprisoned. Such regulations and public outcry are the only thing holding us back from Gattaca.
These types of distros are currently suitable for users who are either very advanced OR non-technical (who’s needs are completely filled by an app store).
> This applies to constitutional law only. Any state or municipality can legislate more specific requirements for policing if they choose, because that’s how federalism works.

When it comes to restricting police powers, they actually cannot. That was a key determination in Scalia's majority opinion in Castle Rock v. Gonzalez.

People are always shocked by this, because it goes against how they understand the legal system to work. And they're right to be surprised, because it is a truly incomprehensible ruling when you pick it apart. But it's right there in the text of the ruling. And it has been treated as binding precedent and applied as such by lower courts in the years since.
He's the former POTUS and defacto leader of the Republican party, commanding the majority of support from the Republicans, and receives pledges of fealty and defense from elected Republicans at all levels of government. Trump is the definition of a political insider.
Can you imagine if software engineers were only paid for coding, and any other time we used to prepare for that task or deploy the code was unpaid? There would be buildings on fire in SF! For truckers, though, if you're not driving you're not being paid. So dumb.
Or you can just do everything in conda and maintain compatibility forever.
I'm running into this with increasing frequency, particularly people coming from Amazon. For example, they know nothing about something like Kafka because they've been using some Amazonified version of something similar instead. They of course we'll never be able to match what they used to make and it would be more risk than I want to take to have them use us as a stepping stone while they try to get back to that level.
Would you be OK with an AI government that caters to those objectives?
So you're saying OpenAI should collect more personal data?
We are talking about the cookie warnings.
*reeks
What was your solution?
I still am getting a better value than I would at AWS.. and in my view, those are currently the only two games in town.
So I re-read what you have said back there as a confirmation. What I see is that you keep saying that human can understand, but AI can't, no matter how hard AI tries. Then you purpose that AI will fake the answer, etc, this shows that AI do not understand.

Me interacting with ChatGPT, what I saw is that the AI system clearly understand to a certain extent that with a rough instruction, it can write absolutely accurate scientific research code. And my expertise is so narrow that if you google the topic, the only material you can find is my blog. And why I can tell ChatGPT understand stuff, is that without my rough instruction, ChatGPT can only write totally wrong non-executable and unoptimized code. Clearly ChatGPT isn't copy and paste the training set, and is able to understand what is what, even cleverer than most undergraduate human (because not even average student can understand such instruction and write that code in one pass).

My rough instruction (example):

write me a python code to compute the interaction between two elements. AB = I, BC=J, DE=L, and you know the rest. Remind that you can use c2=a2+b2 to speed up.

ChatGPT just naild it. Automatically extrapolating the function with its physics knowledge basis.

So I basically don't know what you are talking about "AI do not understand xxx". What you are assuming, has no ground.
The cynic in me sees this turning out kind of like precision scheduled railroading, where truckers will either be on call 24/7 for doing the last mile of driving or they'll be in the truck but not getting paid while the AI is driving and will have to take over at the last mile and only get paid for that segment.
How? How do you get immutability from SELinux policies (specifically without crafting detailed policies for everything running in the entire userland--at which point you're just begging for a distro, right?)?

Honestly, if you really want something immutable and distro-agnostic, you probably want something like btrfs snapshots; however, converting the root filesystem to btrfs is probably a pain, and there will be some initial configuration to prepare some cloud-init, ignition, etc before you take your initial snapshot and you'll also probably want to configure some "boot from snapshot" type functionality, at which point it would be pretty nice to have all of this packaged up in a distro so each user doesn't have to figure all of that out every time.
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Lithium ion batteries are not a single technology and are not static. There are periodic changes that improve the batteries in various dimensions. They are constantly evolving. At the same time, it is perfectly feasible for EVs to switch to alternate chemistries a construction methods. Individual vehicles might not switch but a manufacturer could switch their product line to start using sodium or sulphur or whatever new chemistry comes along.

This Ars story talks about the ongoing improvements to battery tech…
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/eternally-five-years...
> It matters a lot to me because the whole point of commenting here (or anywhere) is to talk to other humans, not just to talk to myself.

That's fair, but one of my points was that even prior to ChatGPT the ability existed for you to be "sucked into" a relationship with another under false pretenses. LLMs might make it easier to put this sort of thing on "autopilot", but if what you seek is a guarantee of talking to other humans then I don't see how, in a post-LLM-world, that can't be done. I have no doubt that online forums and communities will come up with methods to "prove" that people are "real" (though I fear this will hurt anonymity online a bit more), but also try going out and meeting people in the real world more.

It's funny, I've been an ultra tech savvy computer nerd since I was a little kid. I owe a lot to the Internet. I was working from home for 20 years before the pandemic, running my own business. Grocery delivery services have been a godsend for me, because I find grocery shopping to be one of the most stressful activities in life. But as I enter middle age I'm becoming less and less enthusiastic about tech and "online existence" in general. The number of things that I would miss if the Internet just went away entirely gets fewer and fewer every year. Working remotely and grocery delivery services are probably the only two things that I couldn't live without. Everything else ... meh. Maybe I'm just getting burned out on tech and hype trains ... but "talking to real people" is something I start to value doing offline more and more when social interaction is what I seek.
Everyone here is jumping to technical solutions... it's far easier to fix this on the business side: Drivers are paid per mile. There's an incentive to break the law. So... maybe start by outlawing a practice that incentivizes breaking the law and we wouldn't have these issues.
With the glaring exception of a lot of multiplayer games :(

Anti-cheat is a solvable problem here. Notably, Microsoft got Halo Infinite multiplayer (!) running flawlessly on the steam deck (which I assume means it'll work on a Linux desktop too!) But other big games still haven't bothered to add Linux support to their anti-cheat
I only recently discovered NixOS, and the first thing I did was install it on my workstation. I would say NixOS has a fantastic foundation/philosophy, with a lot of paper cuts, and relatively poor documentation. That being said, I don't see myself using anything else going forward, and hope to help address some of the pain points.
As a C programmer where the codebases I work on have never adopted any sort of style enforcement: sounds like a normal day to me.
Many NYPD officers own super cars and have unusually high salaries. They leech money off the communities they lord over. They are an organized gang of criminals.
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Probably the last blog I'll write end to end now that ChatGPT is out too.
> William Easterly.

Arguing from authority is nice and all (not), but the problem is not lack of technical expertise in decision makers (no one can reasonably expect a politician to understand modern AI tools), but rather about the decision making process itself.

There should be an established process by which such a dumb decision, with - in all likelihood - negative economic implications for the entire country, could be put to rest via a democratic process.
No, he started with “not nessesarily”. Words matter.
Looks like people have have not read the complaint so the TL;DR : is

> The authority said the company lacks a legal basis justifying "the mass collection and storage of personal data ... to 'train' the algorithms" of ChatGPT.

> ChatGPT also suffered a data breach and exposed users conversations and payment information of its users last week,

> It added OpenAI does not verify the age of users and exposes "minors to absolutely unsuitable answers compared to the their degree of development and self-awareness."

That's it.

Apart from the age verification I don't see major issues (though it wouldn't justify an outright ban)
Quickly scanning this seems like a Windows-only problem, yes?
I was complaining about the cookies banners in 2009, but ok people tend to conflate the two but it is not fair to lash out to people saying they don't like X with a simple rebuff that the thing is actually called Y. China makes the hardware, America writes the software and the EU makes the regulation, is a very common critique of technical people in the tech sector who lack political and economical power compared to the value they create.
Food in Europe > USA. Even the fast food.
Wow. You're totally correct. Thank you. I must have picked up the wrong fact a while ago.
Small town cops would literally get shot if they behaved the way NYPD officers behave towards citizens. Their accrual of power depends on being nice to the 30,000 people in the town. In turn, they get away with a lot of bad stuff.

The NYPD also needs to be nice to about 30,000 people to accrue power too, but that is wielded against a city of 40 million, with industrial scale.
It should let you trial without a credit card - let me know if thats not working!
> Often incorrect context, incredibly biased context

And as you learn more from different sources, you get better at identifying them.

> or just plain outdated

Which you can plainly see by looking at the date of publication. In the case of Stack Overflow, it is common that popular questions have newer answers which invalidate old ones and replace them at the top.

> People who blindly copy and paste and ship are always going to do that.

Yes, they will. You seem to agree that is bad. So wouldn’t it follow that it is also bad that the pool of people doing that is now increasing at a much larger rate?
The IBM logo was Paul Rand.
Unless it has something like the intentional self-latching of bitcoin mining, I do not see how it wouldn't rapidly drop in price.

And if the models can be built once and then distributed, then it will certainly leak at some point, even if just intentionally by a hostile actor.
* goes straight to the HN comments before reading TFA, to find out why this battery sucks *
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Yeah, Google Cloud Storage pricing increases were a meaningful (negative) change.

AWS and Azure storage costs are roughly the same at the list prices. Some SKU unit costs are a bit cheaper on Azure, but you could also probably realize the same difference through other means using slightly different AWS SKUs. Overall, they feel pretty comparable. (Disclaimer: I haven't run the full price comparison. This is only based on comparing the most common SKUs at list price)

But GCP now feels significantly higher in storage costs than both AWS and Azure. I mean significant more in the statistical sense -- the difference might be small for many use-cases, but it's very likely that GCP storage is more expensive for almost all users and all use-cases now.
This could also be this era's equivalent of:

- "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."

- "Television won’t be able to hold on to any market [..] People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night."
Does Jordan Peterson helps?
Show HN: Ask questions to your tech stack documentation
The app uses Xata AI to query ChatGPT with context from the up-to-date docs. This provides more recent information and reduces hallucinations. It uses this high-level algorithm:

- Pass the question to ChatGPT and ask it to provide keywords
- Use the Xata search functionality to retrieve the most relevant docs
- Form a prompt using this context and the question and pass it to ChatGPT
- This blog post provides more details on the general approach

All the code is open source: https://github.com/xataio/ask-your-stack

The web-crawler can be found here: https://github.com/tsg/xata-crawler

I think this is similar to GitHub Copilot for Docs but I don't have access to it.
I don't really know, tbh. I've been at Snowflake shops for a long time now, but from a quick overview it looks like the serverless part is Athena, so like BQ in that sense (and SF also).

But given that Athena uses HiveQL for DDL I'm gonna stand by my original statement.
This topic is a joke, since when does Hacker News consist of posters who don't understand the concept of a Grand Jury?
Thanks for the suggestion! The quote indeed sounds promising. I was a bit disappointed by the episode though, because they don't really go into what exactly the learnings are. I guess that is to be expected from a podcast in which _each_ episode is about APL :D
Guess based on what? Soldiers are posting nuclear manuals to online flash card building tools. You think there'd be zero leaks about the existence of a GPT5 level thing? Let alone someone noticing that "hey, the NSA bought a lot of high end Nvidia GPUs lately, i wonder why".
Don't see why you are being downvoted, missing one common supported hardware has always been a big problem in the linux community, always chasing crazy combinations of drivers.

Of course if you control the hardware and software stacks, it's leads to a better experience and community can build on it.
A custom set up on top of Postgres and Timescaledb. Which worked excellent when being small but would have involved a DBA b/c of company growth.
California :)
Same here, the picture quality is quite mediocre. Also it does not use all the available real estate and could be a bit bigger.

Would definitely be a reason to upgrade to a V2 Deck even if the internals stay the same.
> meta knows that they are far far more popular in the population than politicians

Not sure where you live, but in Europe people are generally - with acknowledged caveats and exceptions - but generally speaking behind their governments. Politicians are indeed far more popular than Meta.
I generally just use this one: https://github.com/cornelk/hashmap

Mostly in that it also gives me lock free performance, which cleans up a lot of defers.
As others were mentioned, it sucks with the onboard keyboard, but I used it for a bit to type out my dissertation with a portable type-c keyboard and a 3rd party stand and it was great.
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It's a good tool as long as your queries are simple, and your graph isn't too large (which is probably the case 99% of the time). And if that allows you to have one less tool to deal with, go for it!

But I've tried to push it to its limits (using PostGIS, my nodes being land plots that were connected to each others — the biggest query used joins, lateral, recCTE, windows… you name it) and ran into many issues: can't branch out early, hard to optimize, no support for complex queries (writing anything beyond BFS and DFS is a pita). Yet, in the end I accepted the struggle (and the long queries) because it was so nice to work with my data directly where it was kept :)
I think they are making F# the successor but very slowly by evolving C#. I would also have preferred the direct path.
The letter-fetishists strike again, waging their dishonorable war on the visual arts (and our spare time).
We. Don't. Know. What. The. Charges. Are. Yet.
I only skimmed the article but we (UK) have our own nearly identical GDPR.

So Italy's concerns might also apply to us, and every EU nation with EU GDPR.

BUT let's not kid ourselves there is huge pressure to stop OpenAI from techphobes to pearl-clutching techphiles and of course ruthless rivals who want a breather to catchup.
Most New Yorkers didn’t vote for him in any real sense - he barely won a crowded Democratic primary in which the progressive vote split widely, and then in the general election the main vote was that he was better than the pretty far out there Republican candidate.
I guess because it is too hard to support two very complex and different UIs
Can you help me understand what exactly is so scary about ChatGPT? The only places where I see this hype/fear around ChatGPT is here on Hacker News. I've played around with it a bit and the magic wore off in less than 10 minutes. I asked it to generate code for a sudoku solver and the result it gave me was perfect. I then asked it to write code for a crossword puzzle generator and gave me a word search puzzle generator instead, where it simply shoved all the given words together at the bottom of the puzzle. These were just toy examples - I can't imagine ChatGPT is actually useful at work outside of generating very basic text snippits.

I asked a group 10 friends, none of who work in tech, about what they think about ChatGPT and then consensus is that it's a slightly better Google in certain situations. None of them are worried that it's going to put them out of work, take over the world, or violate their privacy. I have to agree with them. I think all this AI stuff is way overhyped, just like all the other fads that came before: VR, crypto, drone delivery, CRISPR, autonomous vehicles, metaverse, etc.
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They make enough profits in a quarter to outspend OpenAI for years. They don't need to penny pinch cloud (which was their only promising bet out of ads) to do anything in the AI race. This is just a leadership failure of not knowing what they want to do. Like bet on cloud or bet on AI, bet the company on search for all it's worth, but atleast sit and decide what businesses Google wants to be in.
I have come to the same conclusion. The comparison to past startups relying on the Twitter api is spot on. The startups that will succeed in the AI age will be the ones that build foundational technology in that space.
thank you. i really appreciate that clarification. it's always nice to learn new things.
My problem is with the first step: the existence of a super intelligent AI. Why are we sure it can exist? And why we are we so sure GPT-x is the path there. To human level intelligence sure, but it's not obvious to me that it will enable superhuman AI
I don't know much about the American trucking industry but it seems like this problem is similar in the UK. Except often times, particularly in the South of England the businesses often don't have room for waiting trucks so expect drivers to turn up exactly on schedule with little leeway before and even less after their scheduled deliver slot. This can result in trucks effectively driving in circles to try to arrive at the correct time.

If I was a owner of a trucking company I would be livid at the waste of employee, expensive capital asset (the truck), and fuel. I would definitely be tracking this behaviour from clients and factor that into quotes and contracts.
> What we have now is a tool that is able to generate text-based content that is indistinguishable from that written by an 8th grader.

To be fair, this 8th grader passed the bar exam..
Whoever wrote this is a native German speaker.
This is way too much jargon and not enough background to be useful for someone who isn't already an experienced RF engineer. I've dabbled in basic electronics and I understand maybe 5% of what is being said.

One thing that strikes me is it looks like the test load seems to be just a resistor, and the input is a sine wave. Real practical IC's (especially CPU's) have variable loads that switch at unpredictable times, is a constant resistance and frequency really a good model of that?

Also it says the "DC bias problem" is "a trap for new designers", but instead of explaining what the DC bias problem is and how to solve it, it instead jumps immediately into talking about an experiment with a "bias tee RF+DC", where you have to set the frequency has "to be a decade below the SRF to avoid the effects of the resonance". I don't know what any of those words mean, or under what kind of circumstances I should avoid "class II" ceramic capacitors (whatever class II is).

OP is talking about vector network analyzers, spectrum analyzers and tracking generators. What is that equipment, how does it work, how expensive is it? What does it tell you about capacitor placement that you wouldn't be able to find by, say, setting an ordinary, run-of-the-mill oscilloscope to measure voltage on your microcontroller's power pin, then programming the microcontroller to wake from a deep sleep power state, max out its clock frequency and pump as much current into its GPIO's as the datasheet allows, and checking the voltage doesn't drop below the microcontroller's rated input?
When I was making these things in the late 90s that is exactly why the drivers loved them. And my software had an audit trail anyway (as required by the big green book).

A fun game I used to play was 'how many log books do you have'. Lowest was 1, the guy was following the rules as best he could. Highest was 6, 1 for himself, 1 for his boss, and 1 for the cops. Not sure what the other 3 were for (he could not explain them).
Oh I see. I wonder if he will be allowed to settle, as Hillary Clinton's team did for "intentionally obscuring their payments through Perkins Coie and failing to publicly disclose the true purpose of those payments" with the Steele Dossier. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/31/hillary-clin...
:( you’re right, I didn’t know. Well there goes that option since I’m guessing they only recommend amazon-owned stores then?
Pierre Levy tweeted that Yann LeCun signed the letter and this was one of the earlier tweets that gained traction.

The tweet where Yann denies that he signed the letter: https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1640910484030255109. You can see a screenshot in the replies of the originally deleted tweet.
I'm no expert here, but I absolutely guarantee that nobody there decided "the growth period for GCP is over."

All of the big cloud providers are still seeing 20-40% growth annually, and there's still a huge pile of not-yet-on-cloud customers to fight over. Are things doubling annually? No. But there's still a lot of growth left. The bad financial results from Google last quarter were that its cloud revenue growth dropped down to just 32% year-over-year. AWS's last update was a "disappointing" 20% revenue growth (on their $80 billion revenue). Nobody's giving up on growth anytime soon.
Title is intentionally misleading even if it's technically accurate (given that "many" has no technical meaning).
Did you miss the Murdaugh murders in South Carolina? Might want to review that the murderer's family was in charge of basically the entire justice system in a wide swath of that state. For the last 100 years.