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It's interesting to note that even in Rust, there exists a Forth compiler, as depicted in these resources [1]. Its usage remains somewhat unclear to me [2], but its existence has been previously discussed here [3]. It boasts a robust implementation and, while it isn't a REPL Forth VM, it stands as an impressive VM implementation.

I've been contemplating - given that FORTH is a VM - if there's a need for a compact and efficient system capable of managing streaming data, it could be the optimal choice for exceptional performance, close to the bare metal. There's no need to contend with the operating system. Isn't this essentially what FPGA’s do, but on standard CPUs? I envision it as a specialized system, minus the requirement to create every driver for all the hardware you'd need to interface with.

[1] https://docs.rs/rust-forth-compiler/latest/src/rust_forth_co...

[2] https://docs.rs/fortraith/latest/fortraith/

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23501474
should really use apl instead of forth.
You take the risk of not catching RDS (or network) quirks in staging, but that’s a trade-off
I saw one yesterday in skagit valley
So it is more like a "sweetener for the coffee".

Not, "adding caffeine kick to a cola". On a side note, is that even possible, wouldnt all the CO2 fly away, assuming you poured cold coffee? Im considering trying it, suspect this might be quite terrible.
A notable difference being in Canada you can import vehicles at 15 years old rather than 25. There is a decent flipping trade in Vancouver to import JDM vehicles while they are Canadian eligible but not US, hang on to them for a while, then sell them south once the 25 years are up.
Australian government defends proposed misinformation laws
Better a tortured job that puts food on the table than none at all.
Big shared fleets of cars seems like a great idea until you end up with the one with the backseat covered in day old vomit… in July
Neat project. I tend to believe things like this will be more useful 50-100 years post-collapse though. And it seems to me the post-apocalyptic computer niche will be more likely filled by the vast quantities of RPis left in junk drawers rather than the dozen or so computers that will have been prepped with something like this.
Enterprises Are Not Going to Miss the Fourth Wave of AI
And he's removed all the updates where he said the collapse was happening and then turned out to be wrong.

He's basically just another doomsday cultist.
Strange premise but cool project. I think during a civilizational collapse and after there will be plenty of computers we could run plain old Linux and windows on.
Note that the complex is now Bell Works and quite busy now. There are a number of tech companies there and importantly Nokia Bell Labs relocated from Crawford Hill to Bell Works ~2-3 years ago (this is also the reason why there is talk about dismantling the Horn Antenna, which is on the Crawford Hill site, which IIRC was sold recently).
That is interesting take.

But I still don’t understand how come people feel like it is worth to spend time writing comment on something they don’t have time to read through.
The only PC ever shipped with BeOS preinstalled
My first programming languages were x86 assembly and Forth. My Dad was into Forth, and I learned programming from him. I wrote several x86 Forth systems for DOS as a teenager, culminating in a somewhat-polished ANS compatible one I called "Third": https://github.com/benhoyt/third -- it's kind of amazing being able to have a fully bootstrapped Forth compiler (including an assembler) in a couple thousand lines of code.

Just the other day I transcribed an old article I had co-written for the Forth Dimensions magazine. I still like the ideas in Forth, but the stack manipulation quickly gets tedious and is very hard to read. Just look at the code examples in https://benhoyt.com/writings/forth-lookup-tables/ -- especially Search-Table. Yikes! Yes, naming things is hard, but apparently not naming them is even harder.
Also the 6800, with its famous HCF (Halt and Catch Fire) instruction:

> With the advent of the MC6800 (introduced in 1974), a design flaw was discovered by programmers. Due to incomplete opcode decoding, two illegal opcodes, 0x9D and 0xDD, will cause the program counter on the processor to increment endlessly, which locks the processor until reset. Those codes have been unofficially named HCF. During the design process of the MC6802, engineers originally planned to remove this instruction, but kept it as-is for testing purposes. As a result, HCF was officially recognized as a real instruction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(computing...
Mostly because we prioritize other things over actually getting stuff built for a reasonable budget.
I don't understand how software engineers can avoid using these new LLM's. My productivity jump was amazing and the times I realized I was stuck in some problem reduced a lot.
This is like TempleOS but for collapsists
Google Robocat
Cars and trucks 25 years ago had 200HP+ engines with much smaller bodies.
This OS runs on garbage electronic, you would not suspect, that they have a CPU in the first place.

Debian needs a little bit more.
After civilizational collapse you won't need computers, you'll need bows, arrows and basic agricultural tools that don't require motors. Forget about electricity or anything requiring it, that will be the least of your problems. Assuming there is still sunlight enough to keep photosynthesis running. If not, you may want to find some place high.

And if you are going to do something like this then you really should make it entirely self hosting and forget about networking and communities and such because by the time you need it those will all be gone and the best you'll be able to do is sneakernet. I hope your USB sticks will be EMP proof... papertape?
There's still a huge amount of regulation before those trucks get onto the road. Just trying to import a bag of parts and then reassembling in the US while claiming it's a kit car is the oldest trick in the book. It's an instant trip to the crusher every time.
Curious, if you were to drive one into Oregon, what would happen?
Translation: "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"

It's obvious that this is damage control from OpenAI whenever their snake-oil product regularly starts malfunctioning and hallucinating. They have to bring up more excuses to plug the holes leaking from their black-box AI model.

The fact is, people are beginning to learn their limitations, guardrails, etc and are not blindly trusting whatever these LLMs are outputting as they are known to produce nonsense which they have to always check for.
They take their sunglasses off when talking to people. It's more polite.
> As far as I can tell that idea was just synthesized by podcasters and internet commenters.

I don't use Twitter so can't confirm, but what I've heard in the news is that the OceanGate lawyer tweeted some vague, borderline conspiratorial stuff about not getting proper cooperation from the Coast Guard. I think the commentary people you refer to then boosted and expounded upon that idea.

ETA: Partial confirmation here https://nypost.com/2023/06/20/oceangate-adviser-rips-us-gove...

The statements quoted here don't match the description "vague and borderline conspiratorial," but they could be misinterpreted that way, and maybe there were others.
I'm too used to see the bar at the right that shows who is winning. Perhaps you can add it.
This isn't really relevant, but I dislike the term "citizen scientists."

It seems to imply that those working within formal institutions are normally the only ones capable of "doing science," and that it is somehow abnormal to consider mere civilians as even minor participants in the scientific process.

Of course, there is no precise line between science and just gaining everyday knowledge through observation or experimentation, something all of us do, to a greater or lesser extent, all the time. So it makes little sense to see "scientists" and "citizens" as two sharply distinct groups.
I stopped using it because of this reason.

I was search medical journals and asking it a specific questions. I kept getting safe answers and responses to ensure I consult my medical professional. Quickly went back to Google.
Mercury is the closest planet (on average)
I think what I was trying to convey was you can always undergo the scram action on a nuclear reactor to halt it. The problem with this is in some cases, this mean restarting the reactor costs more than the value of the electricity it will generate before refueling.
I love the ideas behind this. I think too many people are more than happy to jump on the bandwagon du jour without spending a moment to consider how much of the world can't, for some reason or another, participate.

Running NetBSD without languages like Go and Rust clearly shows that compiling and running portable software is perfectly doable. If the Internet should collapse, just having a drive with a full set of NetBSD sources plus all the tarballs downloaded for source compiles in pkgsrc would make it possible to re-bootstrap dozens of targets. That's not possible when we treat the world as a fast amd64 with many gigabytes of RAM.

I'd love to see how far Dusk OS can go.
Immediately useful how exactly?
Milan Kundera’s Last Joke
TempleOS is at the rocket science level compared to this.

But a 32 bit FORTH implementation may well have embedded uses in the present (though, in some circles building something like this is more like a rite of passage and anybody able to use it properly is likely able to re-implement it, possibly better).
>> Pop culture is certainly full of films and novels and TV series that gleefully break this rule, but some of the best aliens are the ones we only catch glimpses of, who exist only partially, only in darkness, only in fleeting, frightening peeks.

And then there's the Alien xenomorph, whom we do get to see. Oh yes, sir-ee.
To me it's not about management or whatever, it's about profit sharing.

If my productivity will eventually turn into profit that I can get by some bonus or rewards sharing, I will figure out so many ways to boost my productivity instead of waiting for a group of MBAs to figure out how to do the optimal KPI on me.

HR: What's your dream about your job here?

Me: My dream is to earn enough so I do not need work here(by the way, most likely that means the company will also be successful)
Piaggio porter / daihatsu hijet

https://www.olx.pl/d/oferta/piaggio-porter-2009r-1-3-16v-pfa...
youtube have such a great pull for people like me where I somehow pick up a lot more from people talking than just reading. I find even how they deliver quite engaging
> I then used Alexa from another room…

…

> maybe it was decided it was too dangerous of a product.

That’s almost certainly what happened. If you give people the ability to do something insane like turning on their microwave without being in the same room as it, somebody is going to be foolish enough to actually attempt that — regardless of how pointlessly dangerous that is or how infinitesimal the amount of time or convenience that the ability to do so might create.
Tim Berners-Lee’s new internet
I’m adding that to my list of corporate tech paradoxes

It joins:
- Innovation departments being built the least innovative departments you’ll ever meet
- HR departments being the worst at dealing with people
What ads? Didn't seen any ads when visiting the page. Are you browsing the web without uBlock Origin by any chance?
People say they will pay for news. The translation is that will be dragged kicking and screaming into paying $100 per year for all they can eat news rather than the thousands it would actually cost.
I worked there for two years. It's quite beautiful now, a bunch of companies, and has a Montessori, an escape room, golf simulator, and a food court.
The six week cycle with down time in between chunks can be very effective. The crux is to make sure those blocks are properly scoped to make the best use of everyone's time.

This reminds me of the excellent book 'Shape up' by the team from Basecamp. They also champion upfront 'scoping' to make best use of those six weeks. Highly inspirational book for technically mature organizations.
Website is unreadable on mobile.
> On YouTube, I follow about 120 different YouTube channels... regularly, every week. On Twitch, I watch some other channels. In my Inbox I get about 25 newsletters per day, and on Feedly, I follow about 100 more sources, regularly.

Holy crap. How do you have any time for anything else?

I sub to 3 YouTube channels, never watch twitch, avoid email newsletters like the plague, and still don’t have time in my day to keep up with it all. Especially while I have actual work to get done.

Used to rely on Reddit for sip-of-the-firehose news acquisition, but they screwed that up. Now it’s mostly HN, and even here I miss tons of things.
"This could be immediately useful for them."

That's the thing: there are already many hackers and makers working on all kinds of ways to reuse old electronic. If they cannot really use this now - who can after a collaps?
Even if they did, having sold the power for less than it cost would've stimulated investment in the economy that can pay for that now.
Well are they actually weak vs a pickup? I'd love a Kei car if I can pay 10k to survive a crash against mass monsters out there.
I don't remember news papers being a status symbol exactly, what I remember is that it was rare for a household to have more than one subscription. Multiple magazines, sure, but not newspapers. I remember categorizing my friend's parents by their choices. "This is a National Post household" or Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail.
If assembling your own car in the US was as easy as assembling a gun, we'd all be assembling cars on our sixteenth birthday.

We have the right to own a gun, but in most of the US owning a car is a necessity. There is some route available in most states but it's incredibly cumbersome compared to something like making your own gun.
I've already commented about it in the past, so I guess I won't worry about outing myself again: Aventure.2 looks sexy enough for me!
TIL not only that this is an idea that's out there, but it's a genre (multiple flavors). Neat.
So an OS that’s lets user operate very close to metal/driver level? I still can’t imagine what the os will look like vs regular Linux
Phind co-founder here. We released an update on Friday that should’ve fixed many of the quality issues with the pair programmer. Have you tried using it since?

We’re also adding ways to view all the external links in pair programmer. And we’re keeping the old “basic search” mode, so you can keep using it if you wish.
>So how long will it be until we will be able to download something of this quality onto a future-gen Raspberry Pi which can do some AI processing, where we make an HTTP call and it starts speaking through the audio out in a perfect voice without relying on the cloud?

5 years? It's probably possible roughly whenever the larger Whisper models can run on it. Probably the next Raspberry Pi, running quantized or optimized versions of some audio model.

It may be almost possible right now if you tried really realy hard, and you used a small model fine-tuned on a single voice, instead of something larger and more general purpose that can do any voice. I think whisper-tiny works on a Pi on real time, right? And that's not leveraging the GPU on the Pi. (https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/discussions/166)

Edit: looks like medium is 30x slower on the Pi than tiny model, so I may have been overly optimistic. I didn't realize Whisper tiny was that much faster than medium.

This method works pretty well with Tortoise, letting you use the super fast Tortoise quality settings but get quality similar to the larger models. Fine-tuning the whole thing on just one voice removes a lot of the cool capabilities of course. With Tortoise, that would still be way too slow for a Pi but potentially that same strategy could work with faster models like SoundStorm.

In terms of quality there's still a lot of room to go with long term coherence, like long audio segments. When a real person reads an audiobook the words at the top the page have a pretty big impact on how many words at the bottom the page are read. And there can be some impact at any distance, page 10 to page 300. When you try audiobooks on super high end TTS models and listen carefully you really notice the mismatch. It's like the reader recorded the paragraphs out of order, or a video game voice lines where you can tell the actors recorded all the lines separately, and were not reacting to each other's performance.

You can bump the context windows, a minute, two minutes. That's gonna get you closer and probably good enough for some books. In the short term a human could simply adjust all the all the audio samples and manually tweak things to sound correct. So this will enable fan-created audiobooks where they take the time to get it right. But for fully automated books the mismatch drives me nuts. The performance is just soooo close for certain segments that when you get a tonal mismatch it hurts.
I searched the App Store and found this: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quick-notes-email-me/id1090744...
Apple won't allow it.
Hitachi had a good run of selling agnostic PCs. They exited the consumer PC market (Prius brand) in 2007.
Not even about improving bottom line. The costs of inference at scale are staggering for something like GPT-4. Inference costs rise exponentially with model size. Until everyone stops paying the Nvidia tax, there is no service based on a very large model like GPT-4 that can scale and be profitable. Beyond that, they are constrained by Azure’s GPU infrastructure as well.
On the X gate, the more relevant identity regarding X being its own inverse is X*X=I, the other one is true for all invertible matrices
Given how intrusive they usually behave, I'd expect the average consumer printer to phone home, too. The solution in both cases is privacy laws.
A lot of these issues should’ve been fixed in Friday’s update. Have you tried using it since?
There is a lot of survivorship bias in reporting. Buying companies and trying to make money at it is an incredibly competitive game to be in. Yeah, the winners make billions, but so does Lebron.
Possibly (6), depending on the nature of the duplication.
With the usual caveats (IANAL, etc), it would be fine. I think. So far as I know, most equipment-related regulations on cars follow the registration. Driving behavior, will be localized (e.g. double towing is still forbidden in Oregon even if you are titled and registered in California). I'm not aware of any Oregon regulation that says you can't drive a Kei car here, just that you won't be able to title & register it.
https://archive.is/LJ0HX
The fact that he publishes informative pieces at such a steady rate is remarkable as well. And the fact that he resisted to use the phrase "deep dive" in this particular one is indicative of a high level of discipline with his prose.
made me laugh. tyvm.

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> and they would still be safe (probably not true)

Why do you think it's not true? Just look at the existing statistics that includes old designs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_plant#/media/Fil...
Very low hardware requirements, so basic industrial control at the level where you'd otherwise use an Arduino or so but on scavenged hardware. Forth is ridiculously simple to get an implementation running.

https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth/blob/master/jonesfort...

Is a nice starting point. It's obviously not as compact as say 'Brainfuck' but it is far more versatile.
Hey regarding the first “problem” I’m the exact same.

If it’s someone new to me who doesn’t know me I’ll often slip it into conversation that I’m taking notes;

“So you’re saying that the xyz project is going to need abc? Ok cool, I’m just gonna add that to my notes here real quick” - I’ll do that early on a call.

Or I’ll read back the important points I took in a real obvious way.

I think I do this because it bothers the shit out of me if someone is obviously typing away on slack or whatever and not properly engaging in the meeting and I don’t wanna be seen as that guy
Why don't you just join a startup as engineer < 5?
Generative models around images are nothing new and have been around for a while already. But even today, if you really want creative control and expression, you need a designer that's good with Photoshop or Illustrator etc.

This is applicable to LLMs as well. You can get it to write plausible BS but if you really want a rooted in reality, well articulated write up about something, a human has to be taken onboard.

This equally extends to voice over. If you really want expressive and creative control to put some outstanding rendering of something, AI isn't going to cut it.
I also did this. I decided after a few false starts that I was simply never going to commit to use a todo system that someone else made, so I wrote my own.

The tree-of-tasks idea is great and exactly what I did.

I probably won’t ever release it since I’m under no delusions that I’m creating something novel, but I love seeing how others approach the problem and taking ideas to incorporate into my system.
well, obviously!

just the other day i logged into a MUD which presented me with an interactive world with a graphical map in color. the same MUD has a built-in http server so it can display the same information with the interactive and feature rich, yet compact telnet interface, as well as the round-trip heavy and verbose http/html interface.
You clearly didn't read what I wrote, because your options do not match the situation I wrote.

I mean you wrote two basically the same companies, while I clearly said "independent", and you wrote "Would you like to starve", i.e. these companies are telling him work for us or don't work at all, while I clearly wrote that the person giving the choice must NOT create the choice.

And in Sophie's Choice the camp Dr setup both options.

I have to ask: If you are going to ignore what people say to you, why do you even bother replying? If you just want to tell people your opinion post it as a top level comment, not a low effort reply.
>>> And the power having been sold and used at a price that did not fund those costs, they are well and truly screwed.
>I don't know where you read that, but that's nowhere in actual reasonable sources.

We know for a fact that France nationalized EDF last year and the debt is at currently 65 bn euros and growing. Since the company has been nationalized, the taxpayers are on the hook.

I wouldn't personally go so far as to say they're "screwed" but it's a documented economic fact that nuclear power in France has been sold at a loss, and still is.

Note that this debt is already real, whereas the cost of decommissioning and storing waste for hundreds of years is guesswork no matter which source you use. Operations in France are proven not to cover costs even before we get to that!