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> Despite the strong complaints, the article isn't that bad and does have some merits.

I will likewise critique your critique:

Instead of creating a new thread you post directly to the author who responded to an unrelated message. Since the author is obviously responding to criticisms, why did you feel the need to expand a thread with a non-related article quotation you took issue with rather than start your own? It seems to me you wanted to ensure that the author read what you wrote because you felt it was particularly important for him to see it. I don't agree.

The article is about finishing projects instead of starting new ones -- it is not about when to cut losses. The two topics may seem related but I argue that they are not.

The type of person to leave an unfinished project on the table because it isn't 'good enough' is the person for whom the author is writing. It is not the type of person who can't let a project go despite the damage that project is causing to other things or despite the project being a lost cause.

Example:

The person who makes a bet 'if I risk X in exchange for A% of success happening and I lose, I can live with that, but I couldn't live with not trying' is not the person who makes a bet 'I lost X, which I couldn't afford to lose, but if I risk everything I have left or go into debt, then I can make back what I lost and be whole again'. One is an entrepreneur and the other is a gambling addict. The same type of difference exists in the two cases you present.

Your final sentence seems to be a half-assed acknowledgment that you found value in the work, but you are unable to give praise so the complements you use are negated put-downs (not bad, despite complaints, is not meritless). I think that this form of praise is worthless and makes you look petty. Stop doing it.
That's correct, it's the memory scope that I expect to be device-scoped. GPUs tend not to have execution barriers in the shader language beyond workgroup scope; generally the next coarser granularity for synchronization is a separate dispatch. However, single-pass prefix sum algorithms, including decoupled look-back, can function just fine with device-scoped memory barriers, and do not require execution barriers with coarser scope than workgroup.
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Hey, thanks for writing it up! Like I said, I was looking for exactly this a few months ago, and between the explanation and the code it was a big help.
i like pointfree very much. thank you.
ROCm still doesn't support consumer GPUs; that means people building random things (as opposed to more serious work things) won't be using their stack, so none of the innovation will be there.

It may be possible to use it with consumer GPUs anyway, but many won't try because it's not officially supported.

https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/latest/release/gpu_os_support.h...
https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus
Ah, you are probably right. I was thinking of the incident a few weeks back where the fire suppression took out multiple AZs, but that was actually GCP.
I have tried VSCode many times, but I find the performance of the notebook UI to be terrible. It seems to be popular, so maybe it's just me.

In any case, jupyterlab + jupyter-lsp gets most of the benefits for me.
Don't worry, the banks figured out how to solve this problem decades ago, they're called CBOs: https://thebusinessprofessor.com/en_US/investments-trading-f...

Basically, you take a bunch of junk, package it up, and like magic, it's investment grade.
It may be reasonable and rational but it makes for very boring reading.
He never explains what happens, but The Road stuck with me because IMO it depicted how fragile everything we have is and the hellscape we would be inviting if civilization were to collapse.

Since he wrote it this has been done to death by numerous writers (including comic books), but at the time it felt fresh, and I vividly remember wanting to curl into a ball on my bed in horror at some of the depictions in the book, not just because they were horrible, but because I thought: "Yup. That's what would happen alright."
i don't see where in his code this is done. possibly me being stupid.
Can someone point me to structures/algorithms to use for text editor which could support files of unlimited lengths (including lines of unlimited length) without loading those fully in the buffer?

I miss that editor so much, that I'm considering to write one some day, but I have no idea how to do so. I can invent things myself, but I guess those things were invented already back in the days computers were different.
Almost certainly not. Raspberry pi economics only work since they used a cheap of the shelf CPU. For the first few gens, I highly doubt anything below $200 will make any sense given the unit profit margins they will need.
I've had a lot of fun with this project, but want to be clear that the actual "replicate the ZX81 using discrete 74xx logic (like the ZX80) instead of the ULA chip" PCB design is the work of Mahjongg2 who has shared their work here:

https://github.com/mahjongg2/ZX81plus38

https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=254492

https://revspace.nl/ZX81plus38_simple_to_build_ZX-81_clone
Anybody, just give something to read or look at that is not reddit,but had new mildly interesting content often. I'll remove Reddit and never look back...
That's because the government is a monopoly on buying those services from the service providers (Don't get me wrong I am fully in support). If there is less than Monopoly control by the government price controls don't work.
Reddit also largely offers a uniform browsing experience, single starting point, and single log in. The comment tree can be easier to have side conversations in and although subreddit names sometimes fall in this trap, hobby forums had/have all kinds of whacky names which make discovery hard. Reddit primarily lacks the in comment photo display of old style forums.
Re: building a bird… I didn’t come up with the analogy and if we all want to stop talking about building birds I would be the first to agree.

But I can’t help by think about all of the whacky ideas like antigravity vital forces that biologists contrived to explain how birds could fly and that it took Bernoulli and the rigorous study of those principles that led to the airfoil… which is how birds actually soar through the air.

BTW, what the fuck happened to these forums in the last few years? It seems like most people base their opinions on how opposite they are to Sam Altman and Elon Musk’s as opposed to any geeky principles of discovery. I highly doubt that most of y’all would have been ardent supporters of generative grammar five years ago… but slap the word LLM on something and boy howdy!

It’s kind of nice, I learn quite a bit defending good ideas. All y’all get is fake internet points.

I fully understand any and all
downvotes! Have fun!
Agreed - good.

Huffman / Reddit Inc. have misread this repeatedly. Just saw he's reportedly assured staff it will "blow over" and "hasn't hurt revenue".

Wrong move.

Completely avoidable PR disaster, and until the ego(s) driving all of this step back, they'll just keep making the situation worse.

I will be extending my blackout on the site indefinitely.

Just one of the dumbest PR / corporate comms debacles I've seen. Almost as though the Reddit execs saw what Twitter is doing and said "hold my beer".
The interest-price spiral nobody ever talks about.
I’ve read a bunch of his books and The Road is the only one I know of that actually ends with a glimmer of hope.
That’s true I might be biased by hanging with women who hang with gay men. It is also true that women perpetuate these dumb stereotypes of masculinity as well.

The kicker for me is how these dynamics ruin the ability for men and women to become friends. Like you say, these wouldn’t be issues in a platonic relationship. But this cloud of expectation looms over any straight-platonic friendship between men and women. How the relationship would have to change if it became romantic.

Makes me glad I’m gay.
I love this article and the premise. Further similar reading/watching in some of my favorite Zack Freedman videos!

- "Here's What's Preventing You From Finishing Projects": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1j93RnIxEo
- "How to Finish Your Weekend Projects in One Weekend": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72a85tWOJVY

"Finishing" more projects (even if that means changing the scope and announcing it "finished") has been amazing for my internal willingness to start new projects or tell friends about them. I have much less anxiety that I'll leave another half-finished project sitting around with lost motivation.
One more thing: no kids/empty nest! :-)
That's because the debate and popular press around all this discussion in Australia (and elsewhere) is a populist/political cluster fuck and has almost nothing to do with economics.

Reserve bank doesn't want to talk about its roll in credit/ monetary expansion during the pandemic, gov doesn't want to talk about its policies to do the same and not wanting to address inflation through taxation or fiscal policy, business wants to pretend its not self interested and profit seeking, consumers don't want to admit that they might actually have to make some price-elastic decisions or change behaviours based on how much things cost, and everyone wants to pretend that we weren't responsible for fucking up housing over the last 20 years of policy or that there will be real repercussions from the boomers aging out.

So instead we get economic discussion that looks more like the multiple spider-man pointing meme.
In light of the LLM break throughs in the last couple of years, I've been returning his speculative essay about the source of symbolic thought every few months: https://nautil.us/the-kekul-problem-236574/
My original, self-assembled a lifetime ago, ZX-81 sits on a shelf next to me as I update insane fleets of processing power on AWS. If I can get past the sentimentality of preserving it, the joy of dropping this keyboard on it might just get me to bring it back to life.
I thought there was some recent shift on making IAM multi-region?
I highly doubt Apple knowingly is selling stolen goods.

Seems like a process problem for Apple regarding trade ins. Clearly they got a trade in for something, refurbed it, and somewhere along the way it got marked as stolen. I assume Apple should have access to the same database carriers have to confirm whether something is on the IMEI blacklist.
The «air» is here an allegory for «large language corpus». It is self-evidently true that as we move backwards through history we eventually pass the first language utterance for any given definition of language or utterance. From here on out, the «air» is indeed «thin». There are still other things, but no «air» (i.e. «language corpora»).
Based off the C-suites I've encountered in my life, that is the last thing that will happen.
had a ton of trouble getting jupyterlab to target an arbitrary virtualenv
They recently determined that brain processing occurs in waves through the whole brain, and not simply located to specific areas. When you find out that octopi and similar creatures have "brains" spread through their limbs, it makes the psychedelic colour changing creatures' colourful waves make more sense.

My theory, at least, is that the chemical and electrical property of brain waves trigger their colour changes, which result in them having the same visual patterns. If correct, this is why they visually pulse faster when they feel threatened or are preparing to react to something.

If you compare the article about how the brain processes thought in waves, to the colour cycling of these deep sea creatures, they are remarkably similar.
How is it a Beatles song without George's involvement, or indeed support? There's no reason to believe he would have changed his mind.
What is the poison pill with Julia for you?
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Not that I don't believe you, but my personal experience dealing with outfits (as a customer) that have been acquired by PE firms is that they have ruined the thing they acquired approximately 100% of the time.
Reddit is already complaining about being unprofitable, having to actually pay moderators to do the work community members are doing for free would make their situation even worse.

Trying to milk 3rd-party developers with excessively high API fees while expecting the community to provide all the value for their site free of charge was a very short-sighted move.
I'm the parent. Take the key that decrypts the disk...overwite/dealloc/zero/forget the key...the disk is ready for it's next mission.
Either it's in the console ROM, in which case it's not a problem, or it's in the cartridge ROM, in which case I'd imagine it's just a matter of replacing the raster data with something else.
I think that OP talks on the logarithm scale. 100k vs 1M is a big difference in quality of content and discussion. 1M vs 10M is even more so.
What's next? Degrading the front page experience like a few years ago over I forgot what drama. I think ultimately this will blow over but I'm curious how far motivated actors can break/cripple the platform, at least in terms of valuation.
> Humans learn from the structure of the world -- not the structure of language.

You'd be surprised. Many researchers believe that "knowledge" is inseparable from language, and that language is not associative (labels for the world) but relational. For example, in Relational Frame Theory, human cognition is dependent on bidirectional "frames" that link concepts, and those frames are linguistic in nature. LLMs develop internal representations of those frames and relations, which is why they can tell you that a pool is bigger than a cup of water, and which one you would want to drink.

In short, there's no evidence that being in the world makes our knowledge any different from an LLM. The main advantages we have at the moment are sensory learnings (LLMs are not good at comparing smells and flavors) and the ability to continuously train our brains.
I said nothing "lowly" about women. I happen to have a very rewarding, honest and low stress relationship. It took me years to find anyone that I was willing to give my life to because, frankly, our culture nowadays is one where people want what they want but are willing only to give what they want to. This goes for both men and women. The give and take goes both ways, I self reflected for a long time and determined that I was willing to give of myself, and I expect the same from a partner, and people that have that insight are few and far between.
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Cold starts have been optional in lambda for several years now... You can pay to keep it warm. Even before that there were open source projects that poked the lambda on a schedule to keep them warm
I read all of his books and tbh the road is a minor work of him. a small book that is easy to enter into and tell a story to a lot of people.

blood meridian, sutree, the border trilogy are not that. they are work of art where words are crafted in ways that go beyond the pages. it is really the work of a master like very few writers ever did in history.
a small excerpt of blood meridian. with so many little words, ..

« And by and by they came to a place where the road was darkened in a deep wood and in this place the old man killed the traveler.
He killed him with a rock and he took his clothes and he took his watch and his money and he buried him in a shallow grave by the side of the road. Then he went home..
The harness maker lived until his son was grown and never did anyone harm again. As he lay dying he called the son to him and told him what he had done. And the son said that he forgave him if it was his to do so and the old man said that it was his to do so and then he died.
But the boy was not sorry for he was jealous of the dead man and before he went away he visited that place and cast away the rocks and dug up the bones and scattered them in the forest and then he went away. He went away to the west and he himself became a killer of men. »
NVIDIA is about to walk off with a trillion dollars because nobody at AMD “gets it”.

I think they "get it" OK. Whether or not they can formulate a viable strategy and execute it is one question, but they get the idea that "AI is important" and they know where they stand vis-a-vis NVIDIA.

This is another reason I'm willing to invest some time and money in working with AMD products for AI/ML. History has shown us their ability to go toe-to-toe with a seemingly unassailable industry titan before, and they came out in pretty good shape then.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2023/05/31/lisa-su-s...
Contra Marc Andreessen on AI
Idk, I feel like HBO (or any mainstream tele studio) might butcher it by trying to hamfistedly make it a revisionist Western along the lines of “White Man Bad” without catching the actual point about evil being inherent in everything. Thats undoubtedly a part of the reason as to why it hasn’t made it to screen yet - it’s not a story that fits nicely into the sort of Hollywood trope oriented storytelling that dominates mainstream TV.
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The rest of the (developed) world manages to operate by paying living wages and displaying and charging the final price.
US is the only one that needs to underpay staff (and charge 10 to 100 times more for health and education while we mention differences) and then DEMAND 20% tip and 15% service charge on top of random 10-20% taxes.
Just end the slavery mindset already and pay your people a living wage. If the business cannot afford that then it should not exist and new business that knows how to operate properly will take their place.
Amazon is using generative A.I. to summarize product reviews
Do you also propose to stop interfering in the market by providing massive government subsidies to the farmers? True market economy tend to run away and blow, big players tend to consolidate and form monopolies, the thing we have not is a very complicated compromise between free market, regulations and unspoken traditions. Please stop pretending that these things are obvious and easy.
See my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36314428 !
Interesting. I actually like Hemingway! For example, I consider "The Killers" a masterpiece: blunt, short, well-written, the dialogue is mundane but interesting, and nothing heroic happens. I don't know if I could stand a full novel in this style though.

To me, McCarthy in the "The Road" was the boring kind of depressing.
I haven't read it myself, but I've seen many report that it was uplifting to them. Amid the utter horror and hopeless bleakness a parent does everything they can to protect their child.
What if Obama took home some top secret documents after he left office, left it lying around in a bathroom of his golf club with lax security where there's been reports of spies[1]?

Oh wait, this news story isn't true, it's been made up by the deep state (which Vox is a part of) to discredit the "greatest president of all time", right? Ah... it must be so easy to live in your reality!

[1] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/4/4/18295810/ma...
You are clearly feeling very righteous, but I think you should temper your righteousness. You might want to consider that while spez may not be the best human, he has had a commendable commitment to free speech. The Reddit platform has been protecting speaking truth to power, and in this case that power is himself. He has the power to shut down anti-spez content on reddit and for the most part has let his platform be leveraged against him.

Another executive won't matter because it's not the executives determining direction. It is the investors. It is the investors that want to destroy one of the last bastions of free speech on the internet. It is investors that don't want Reddit to be a platform for speaking truth to power because they are that power that truth would be spoken to.

When people write posts like this, they are missing the forest for the trees. It is the investors who are to blame. The investors benefit when spez gets blamed and not themselves.

I see no reason to think we would get a new CEO better than spez. I am not defending spez, I am not defending his edits of people's posts, but the fish rots from the top, and the investors are above the CEO. The investors are the party that deserves blame.
Forums were and are generally terrible. When you get a forum in a Google result, or for some topics where forums still are a major way to distribute information, usually you get a crowd of uninformed but confident people, paginated poorly, with a bunch of dead links. The worst is people who write or distribute code and use forum posts as a substitute for version control. That is still a thing in some niches.
"Rails at scale" is a funny title. Shopify had to rebuild the core parser. Github has a department dedicated to working off the bleeding edge of Rails (and has core Ruby and Rails maintainers on staff, Shopify probably does too). Both Shopify and Github spent literal engineering years upgrading Rails, and still for some reason think it's worthy of boasting about in engineering blog posts, despite the burnout, not-shipping-features, and turnover they suffered because of it.

If your company has enough engineering overhead and capacity to stop delivering features and try to fix your core language for a year, then you're in a different ballpark from most other tech companies. If you're NOT in that boat, then "Rails scaled for Github and Shopify" is not a message you should take home.
I don't use word, I use LibreOffice, so I save as odt.
In beginning of the game, the McDonalds logo only appears on a garbage can and if you run into it - you die. It's a positive message for health conscious parents.
Phind, the 2nd entry, is live and well.
The entire page on mobile is a wall of ads with text padded around it.
Tetris is a bit hilarious as the most successful communist software ever to be made. Which made figuring out how to procure the rights rather murky.
https://youtu.be/argpSxB1NQE#t=60m
but its people aren't allowed in? doesn't this prove reddit is not its people but rather a small group of moderators?
Also report it using IATA time zones (America/Los_Angeles) at least in addition (I'd argue instead of) those abbreviations which are completely unstandardized and not unique.
That's the risk they take, indeed. Also the risk for anyone who migrates as chances are the alternative is not profitable either. In the end, to sustain the offering party needs to be profitable or at least break even.
My point is that a lot of data in the real world is not normalized. Simple stuff like "branding" and "manufacturer." In a normalized world, you update the name of a product, and all units are magically updated. In a materialized world, they are what they were when they shipped. We may pencil over updates, but that has to be done on each "row," as it were.
You know, I'm beginning to think that Reddit really doesn't need to do anything. It might be best from a PR perspective to let these mods kill their subreddits. People will be chomping at the bit to start their own replacement subreddits.
But you also read it as referring to ZWJ sequences? So the author has picked a number that is actually below average and they've worded it as up to...?

Saying a ZWJ sequence can be "up to 5 bytes" is like saying "the current generation of Intel processors run at clock speeds of up to 2 GHz".

If they were referring to ZWJ sequences (I don't think they were; I think they were just misremembering the maximum encoded length of a codepoint) and they had said "up to 35 bytes", then I might agree with you. It's still not technically accurate, but it's a reasonable colloquial usage, like saying "human males can grow up to seven feet tall".
I don't remember I'm afraid. My dad ran a business making keyboards at the time and he was always bringing home keyboards he'd bought to examine.

When he was through examining them I got to play!
Do yourself a favor and read that prose out loud to yourself. It has amazing rhythm and flow! How he was able to do this for page after page is just astonishing.