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> solar, improved batteries

>> Neither of those sounded as sexy (i.e hyped) to me a nuclear fusion and quantum computers.

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For me as a high level application developer, I liked C but felt that it needed a rational module system, generics and structural types. The addition of methods on structs would be nice too (no need for inheritance).

The only reason I thought about it is because I have been trying (and failing) to contribute to open source Linux projects - which are practically all written in C and the C++ projects are impossible to read.
>>Who cares!?

Serious devs care.

I was once at a software conference where Bjarne Stroustrup was givnig some presentations, and in the after-session questions, I thought I'd ask about something that had been bugging me about software design in general — I'd found myself spending what I thought might be excessive time to designing naming systems for the projects I worked on, and I wondered what he thought about spending time on naming conventions.

With no hesitation, he said "Not at all, naming is very important", and very useful to get right up front, even for solo projects, as good clear naming helps speed the entire building and maintenance.

So, yes, both "acquire" and "take_ownership" are relatively synonymous, but one will clearly be better and more consistent with the other in the context of your naming system. And this will matter to at least some serious devs.

(But YMMV; if you have tried it a couple times and found it doesn't help you a bit, then you probably shouldn't spend more time on it)
Huh? Everyone is liable, to some degree, legally and morally for what they post. It's just that in practice it's hard to enforce.

Whether that falls under US jurisdiction, another country if they're outside, both, etc... for the case of youtube hasn't been settled yet. Though it seems very likely to be trending towards that direction.
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Not at all! Your common as milk Philips and ViewSonic 19-21” could do that easily!
Why not? One nasty class of bugs can make any project entirely unusable. In business it's all it takes to make me use your competitor over you.

As a dev you need to not fall into the trap of lumping users problems and faults off onto your own scale of what is or isn't important. This will ruin your business. You as the dev/on the inner circle have bias to what you think is or isn't important. If you disregard something as small but your users are like yea it's small but it's a major problem that makes the platform unusable your gonna drop users quicker than you can blink all the while asking yourself why?

Dangerous position, be wary of judging your clients problems importance on your own scale. Matrix will fail with that attitude. You won't focus on what your consumers want.
>Current society is predicated upon exponential growth

Is it though? There is no law in economics that I’m aware of that bars steady state. Exponential growth seems to be nothing more that a (possibly shortsighted) preference
brainfuck, APL
> I find it a category error to ask reason for a why do one thing over another. Our animal nature gives us motivation which we use reason to help.

Of course, but your animal nature causes you to guess, no? Try overriding that instinct and see if you can come up with something else...
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Awesome, thanks! Hacking on something in this space atm ;D
I agree with all of these; not necessarily in order of importance, but yet, these are factors.

I am at once astonished how useful LLM can be at its best, and how horrifyingly dangerous it can be if/when overused by those who don't understand its limitations.
As entrepreneurs, business owners and marketing pros what strategies can we learn from the massive marketing effort for the Barbie movie?
Waiting for V to hit 1.0. It is going to be a game changer once everything is up and running at its best.
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Fun article. Would be interesting to see any benchmarks folks have on a variety of devices and computer sizes. I'd expect most developer machines to be quite beefy compared to, say, my kids Chromebooks. Those are still far stronger than anything I grew up with, of course. In ways that make any intuition I have basically worthless on performance.
Also that CRT was probably 21" max, and weighed 20% of the human looking at it.
LLMs are a mirror. People that feed in behavior examples like these will get their text completion back mirroring their input. This is how LLM work. This doesn't mean the LLM are "toxic". This just shows the people obsessing over toxicity what they're obsessed with.
Mixed resolution can look great on X11 if you do it with super-sampling, especially if you're able to do it via integer downscaling.
This is where a method for distribution like basic income comes in as a companion to capitalism / AI.
The ≠ prettification of != threw me for a second. I was like, "Does Zig use special characters for operators"?
There's no admission that he's correct there at all. The existence of one bad faith actor doesn't make everyone a bad faith actor.
There are already papers on it, and there is 2-bit quant in llama.cpp.

But it seems to be past the point of diminishing returns, where you mind as well use a model with fewer parameters... For now.

There was another scheme in a paper where the "sparse" majority of the model was highly quantized, while the "dense" part was left in FP16, with good results.
The US Supreme Court has already said no, see the case of LinkedIn vs. HiQ.

https://www.fbm.com/publications/what-recent-rulings-in-hiq-...
Ask HN: Why don't public institutions join the Fediverse?
What prevents public funded organizations such as the BBC, NPR, or public universities from hosting their own Fediverse flavored instance?

Why couldn't user submitted content be public domain, or CC licensed?

Why couldn't companies sponsor these instances (DDoS protection from Cloudflare, etc?) Why couldn't costs be kept to a minimum by limiting to text only format, or rate limiting posts, etc?
I agree on the aesthetic quality of the entire site.

Given the amount of detail included in the post, I was surprised that the author didn't mention that the primitives used in the d attribute for the <path> element allow one to synthesise most of the other SVG elements ... or did I just miss that somewhere?
Not sure if I parse your argument right, but there's lot of cases when one would care how wide specific integer type is. Especially in the code that works with data in bulk (as in millions/billions of data objects), where not wasting bits really pays off.
I just purchased 2 of the 6Ks and I am keeping both. AMA.

I do not understand the complaints about pixel density. The display is 223 ppi, which is the same or slightly higher than Apple displays. I am using them in a dual display configuration with an M1 Macbook Pro via TB4 and a Windows PC with an RTX 4090 via DisplayPort. The KVM feature makes switching back and forth a breeze. I am using 175% scaling (in Windows) and I don't think 8K with 1:2 scaling would give suitably sized OS components for me, so it would be fractional scaling either way.

The startup time doesn't matter in practice because they still wake up from sleep instantaneously.

The mini-DP IN port would be inconvenient but Club3D makes a bi-directional adapter that makes it regular DisplayPort for about $20.

I am fine with the camera defaulting to ON for Windows Hello to work in my 2 computer setup.

My only serious complaint is the piss poor speakers and the fabric covering them.

I would also prefer a glossy display, but in practice I just don't find it makes any difference. I arrange my office for no reflections anyhow, which results in an equivalent experience. Additionally, the Dell 6K has excellent blacks. It has much better blacks than any IPS panel I have used.
Seems super useful for steam games
You're conflating two separate things. Yes, society can collapse multiple times. Yes, there can be innumerable resource-driven collapses. These are given.

What I'm referring to is the literal running out of the necessary resources to progress modern society in the same way that we have up until now. This is also a given. Take oil for example, and think of the vast amounts of plastic we rely on, which we currently have no equivalent alternative.

Of course, this is only relevant to modern society. This is not to say that humans cannot exist in a pre-modern society. It just won't be pleasant.
You read 90 a year. I’ve read 75 a year while going to school or working full time. So it’s possible to read more, and for more than 10 years.

(However I might lose my mind if I did that. Even at 75 I started to feel like I was wasting my life with over consumptions.)
You are exaggerating. but there is definitely more to find. some of the largest mines are just like the first place they started digging without any modern exploration techniques. Mostly doesn't matter. humans will run out at some point of critical materials.
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A major credit card company (whose cards are usually green) used to bug me with surveys asking what else they could do to make me happier. My answer: Get more merchants to accept your card.

How about cash back?
No, cash back means I paid too much in the first place.

How about free movie tickets once a year?
Won't make me use my card more.

How about free access to airport lounges (as long as you pay an extra $500 a year)?
No.

Then what can we do?

Improve.

Your card's.

Acceptance.

Hmmm. How about a free credit checkup?

Aaaand this is why I no longer respond to surveys: There's often one blindingly obvious thing a company can do to improve customer satisfaction, and coincidentally it's usually the thing the company least wants to do. So survey responses that tell them "Do the obvious thing" just get ignored.
What? I never proposed that dichotomy and don't believe in it. You did and you're tripping over it a bit. You can just discard that model and engage with the substance of the topic, you know!
Distributed systems is a very broad research topic nowadays, so it might make sense to check conferences covering a narrower topic, e.g. Cloud computing. Google Scholar might give some useful results for more specific search terms.

The reading lists for distributed systems university courses might also be interesting as well as this "awesome" link list on github:

https://github.com/theanalyst/awesome-distributed-systems
Yes, we just need to try harder. Maybe institute a special anti-alcohol secret police, or put people in prison for 25-life if they drink. The Rockerfeller laws were super great, we need more of that.

We could also provide incentives for people to stay inside and play around with their phones, that will encourage less drinking. Also, it seems like, when people get together, they often drink, so maybe we could make assembling in large groups illegal.

Finally, I've read that breathing exercises like left nostril breathing can induce altered states similar to drunkenness, and also that taking OTC pills like sleeping pills can cause inebriation. We should ban all psychoactive OTC pills and keep a close eye on people doing yoga.
Thanks! I referred to them as anchors.
Well to be fair he has to do it and has to say that. Otherwise he will be seeming to have missed the boat… but yes this AI stuff getting a bit out of hand now.
Mm. Interesting. I highly doubt Facebook has that amount of users and still growing. No genz is there so that's that. I'm millennial and I don't know anyone using Facebook. Instagram is used mainly for business and sharing photos is going down since fb ruined. TikTok is currently growing without any any sign of slowing down.

Now, how many of those fb accounts are truly active? My parents have FB but they don't use it since all our photos, etc... Are being shared through chat. Are they part of the 3B mau?
Does macOS support any scaling factors above 2x?
I guarantee you well over 50% of this website is American or lives currently in America. Twitter is also an American company so it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to connect the dots and understand that the commenter is referring to the US.
I could use one!
Can you name a modern society that doesn't aim to maintain positive economic growth year on year?
People are happy using DSC for a pixel perfect monitor? I'd never trust it for graphics work.
What does Starfish do? Their website makes vague references to "decentralized organizations", "focus on payments and banking". I cannot tell if this means it's all cryptocurrencies or what their work actually accomplishes.
At AWS we are expected to do our own dev-ops, even if you are at a larger project with with some dev-ops engineer, you still need to do your own dev ops for many things.

CDK with TypeScript is actually pretty nice to work with, I like the compiler errors, having some type system, and managing my infra via code. My issue is with other systems. In all honesty, our customers have better build tools than we do.
You missed make profit > than fine. Pay fine as cost of business. Continue on as normal with no change. Which is the standard modus operandi for businesses that give zero pucks. Bhp and Rio been doing it for decades. Breach enviro law, profit more than fine. Pay fine. Profit.
If it cannot be read without logging in, then it is inaccessible. That's a choice twitter gets to make, but to claim tweets are accessible because some people can read them is no different from posting links to a private facebook group and saying "you just need to be a member of that group".

That said, I was saying it is inaccessible because I am getting error messages trying to load it.
I agree, but we got LG's 16:18 DualUp monitors a year ago. Having a 43'' monitor in the middle and these two on the sides creates a better setup than it was than what was previously possible.
If you're spending five or six figures on a licence, paying Red Hat or SUSE on top is easy, and part of the cost. It makes no sense to try and run it on Debian.
Huidu seems just like how one would use AB testing in English. You roll out a change, see if it works. If not, roll it back. Otherwise, roll it out to the rest of the users.
>>Humans are likely to share when they don't know something

I try hard to not be snarky or sarcastic on HN; it doesn't contribute to positive, friendly, productive conversation... but come ON :->

Average human is unlikely to admit to themselves or others when they don't know something. We are famous for it. We love our opinions, and we conflate them as facts. It doesn't even imply malice or anything - have you ever asked for directions from somebody who doesn't know the answer? They'll still TRY :->. Even the smartest people around me will frequently present their ad-hoc opinions as facts. Heck, on HN alone, people will opine on matters of law and science and many things which are reasonably factual.

Don't get me wrong, LLM's hallucinating and being utterly unable to signal when they do is BAD; it makes them very different from most other software we've ever built; and it needs to be addressed; but as to this line of conversation specifically, it makes them (without any philosophical or "conscience of machine" implications) extremely human-like :-)

(similarly, not to say there aren't any humans who are humble and/or explicit about their limitations; but it's far, far from average)
Yeah, until I got enamored by 144Hz, I'd exclusively buy Dell monitors because of their great price/performance.
I remember reading part of a PhD thesis about the implications of “peak phosphate” more than a decade ago. (Not my area of expertise, but the guts of it weren’t particularly difficult to understand).

My takeaway (though not the author’s) was that it’s way down the list of things to worry about.

Basically, the cost of phosphate is such a miniscule component of the cost of food that it would make essentially no difference if we had to mine lower-grade sources of it.

Higher prices might also reduce the amount wasted as runoff, which also would reduce the environmental damage caused by fertiliser use, something we’re going to have to take more seriously at some point.
> A wildcard cert on your load balancer will get you 99% of the value with 1% of the work.

The goal is not to make cert errors go away.

The goal is to establish secure connections between parties, with the smallest possible trust boundary and attack surface.
So you are saying that cultural attitudes overwhelm legal restrictions.

If people want to drink or smoke marijuana then legality does not matter very much and just pushes people into criminal activity.

So the idea that the only reason legal prohibition failed is that it didn't last long enough is refuted.

You want people to drink less, change attitudes, not the law.
What are the pros of using Guile instead of Racket? I've just started with scheme rather recently.

Or what kind of things do you do with it?
Because their IT/marketing isnt aware if it and there isn't (yet) a good business case? Why post updates on something mostly no one uses that takes effort to figure out.

But if Twitter truly goes down in flames after the "wait and see" window we are in now... Who knows?
I’ve found that the RLHF’d ChatGPT is way too submissive these days. I really do not enjoy asking for minor clarification and getting back “I apologize for the confusion…” followed by a completely and incorrectly revised reply.
Not sure about that. I've found them quite argumentative. Most of my encounters have been around either contentious social topics, to find out where their political biases lie, or I merely try to get them to compose songs or screenplays about my favorite characters and films. LLMs are quick to shut down when they don't wanna talk about something; some of them will in fact erase already-output text and pretend they didn't write it when shutting down the conversation.
You make fun and light of efforts to limit the effects on toxins on society, but I’m sure if you saw people dying as a result of alcoholic cirrhosis or the many diseases and incidents occurring from alcohol abuse you would change your mind if you are a reasonable person, about the current drinking culture.

But as people die these terrible deaths, you continue to make fun of the situation. Consider.
Terminator 2: a movie with a making of story to match
Pony, Factor, every descendent of APL.
I would assume "allocation primitives" is referring to the heap.
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C++ has all the things you "felt that C needed". So there must be something more that you dislike.
Downloaded, saw "Sign in to start your free trial", which turned me off immediately unfortunately. So I'm probably not the intended audience - I'd like to have a fast, reliable Mac UI to use with my OpenAI API key.

So far I've been using Machato (https://untimelyunicorn.gumroad.com/l/machato), which has the perfect feature set for me, but despite its claims of being a native app, is just infuriatingly slow. You can't at all scroll in the app while it's producing text, and switching between conversations feels worse than using Slack.

So the search continues. What makes it so hard to produce a responsive native app, that there are so few of them out there?
You think the virologists do not understand the risks?
And what are the biases of the risk professionals? What are their motives?
My experience is that HDR is rarely worth it on a computer monitor because OLED is so rare. FALD or other non-OLED HDR displays don't get near a decent OLED TV's HDR performance.
That’s cool, thanks for your work with this. I’m a regular user.

Was going to say that the John Carter Brown Library (leading research library for rare books, maps, and manuscripts about colonial Americas) uses Luna - they did last time I checked, but seemingly it changed? At any rate it worked well for the past decade or so: https://jcb.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet

Edit - looks like I got this mixed up with Luna Imaging which I assume is different
Not sure what you all mean by OOP to be honest. Is this a case of OOP actually meaning "good programming", then morphing into the most fashionable (and hopefully best) practices of the day?

It wouldn't be the first time… https://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/deaths-of-oop
Using the raw API with some system prompt engineering gets ChatGPT to behave very well, even deprogramming the RLHF a bit.
wtf? Who is this true for?