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> Every time an API changes, whether by a little or a lot, the FF team has about 2 months to deal with it. You think that's going to happen?

Yes? That doesn't sound that hard. Browser release on a tighter cadence than that. And it's just starting off at 2 months.

> There's just a squad of engineers sitting around doing nothing at all times, waiting for the next emergency to drop?

Uh... no? They would be normal FF engineers who would sometimes get a release ticket that says they need to update to a new API...

> The amount of resources moz would need to allocate to this project (which has little purpose given alternatives) would be prohibitive.

Totally disagree. This sounds like something engineers could take as a chore.
Somehow, it doesn't matter. Like the fact that the author shared non-repudiable identification information with the site also didn't matter and he was classified as a robot anyway.
"Return to office."
Is this a "product" that one could install and use or a model that one should expect an OEM to integrate into a product before programmers can use it? I'm asking because I don't see any links that would help me figure out how to try it out.
For `for-range` loops, it looks the benefits of this change are more than the drawbacks.

For `for ...; ...; ...` loops, personally, I think the conclusion is the inverse.

One breaking case:

func main() {
defer println()
for counter, i := 0, 0; i < 3; i++ {
defer func() {
counter++
print(counter)
}()
}
}

It will print 111 when the change is made.

More surprising cases: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/60078#issuecomment-15443...
The AI Doomsday Bible Is a Book About the Atomic Bomb
They would just change the acquition details to avoid changing the owner and giving the account credentials over instead.
Hopefully in 2380 uncontacted people will still live in North Sentinel Island. and some other places.
I kind of think that everything is pretty much inevitably fucked once it becomes tacitly accepted that all politicians are liars.
Who is everyone? There are proportionally very few coders in the world and even fewer making their own sites compared to non coders.
>> It is an alternative to the built in macOS automatic mode which only switches when the user steps away from the computer.

Huh? Setting a schedule/location for nightshift and setting the dark mode setting to auto will always change instantly. If you use a launcher or spotlight then a simple one line applescript can change the setting as well. (tell application "System Events" to tell appearance preferences to set dark mode to not dark mode).
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I’ve noticed a shift in tone of late on this site from “let’s invent the future” to “let’s shame the wealthy wasters of the world”.

So let’s say that we have a private jet tax that is some scalable amount to make people stop flying private.

1) commercial flights typically are not as direct as a private flight can be since small regional airports can accommodate small jets and not commercial ones. So if you were to fly into Houston you could fly to the side of town you wanted instead of the north(iah) or central (hou) part of town. That saves upwards of an hour of driving afterwards.

2) does this fix our carbon problem? Unfortunately no.

3) even electric cars are 40-50 years away from going away. There is nowhere near the same amount of charging infrastructure in the US to support mass adoption.

The only real way to get adoption of cleaner technologies is to make them better than their carbon generating alternatives in most if not every way. I’m all for getting off of fossil fuels. I’m personally looking for opportunities to push forward better and cleaner energy technologies.
Articles like these are just journalistic dunks on the rich. Of course we have to mention Kim K who is the epitome of a wasteful vapid human being who flys around going from lunch to party on her jet. Of 8 billion people there are 1000 who ride planes too much.
Never mind that many countries still burn coal for electricity we need to stop these rich folks!!!
Kubernetes Exposed: One YAML Away from Disaster
No degree here, but I spend a lot of time doing sound design and love low frequencies and I agree completely. Those bass notes just cut through the mix and are so delightfully zingy. It's so much easier to hear the pitch on them. It's an amazing sounding instrument.
Huh? In network tab in Chrome devtools, there are fetches for dataset.csv - the url is https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/32i0b/1/dataset.csv which downloads the dataset.
The way Kafka works, it naturally buffers & coalesces messages even before they get to the brokers, so yes, of course the messages are being coalesced.

There is no problem with "just" running a Kafka cluster in each AZ and only replicating data between AZs until it's time to pull it all together. It's just that when presented with a distributed system and AZs, engineers (and in fairness the business requirements) are more than likely to go with a multi-AZ solution. Same goes for regions. So the vast majority of Kafka clusters are multi-AZ but probably shouldn't be, and Kafka gets the bill for that, even though it shouldn't.

The Kafka protocol doesn't really preserve order-of-operation within a Kafka partition. It preserves the order of operations within a producer-partition pair (and even then, only if you configure it a certain way). The standard implementation does this by preserving the order-of-broker-receipt-of-messages from producers, but from an external system's vantage point, it really only means that (if configured the right way) messages with any given key, from any given producer, will be preserved in the order they are received.
Ask HN: What will the world look like when generative AI reaches equilibrium?
I wonder how we will communicate in the future. Will it be via outlines only? Is there even a point to craft long written emails or essays?
Every paper and comment I've seen that claims "GPT-4 can't reason" is either an example of bad prompting, bad/vague english, or taking advantage of the limitations of tokenization (like asking GPT-4 how many letters there are in some word).

I would like to see one - just ONE example - of a well-defined logical puzzle of that most english speakers can get right but GPT-4 consistently fails on, even if you prompt it to think through the problem step-by-step. Any takers?
I have never been in a situation where my private messages could have been read by my employer. This is because I have always used the provided channels for work-related communication. There is no expectation of privacy in those channels so I do not conduct personal business there.
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We've created a very large scale Voxel engine (essentially at the top limit for what you can do with COTs CPU / GPU in a single instance).

We're looking at a game application - as this straddles the gulf between GIS & Simulation and looking at representative simulation.

We'd love to get your feedback - and hear your questions.

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Any performance metrics?
All the rich folk who fly about on private jets should stop talking about climate change. If you can assure me that, then they can continue to fly.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-private-jets-car...
Yep, exactly. The implementation - and more importantly, the contract - are much more dependable. For better and worse Rust is a language that leans all-in on abstraction, going to great lengths to make those as safe and scalable as possible, and if you aren't using them you're going to have a harder time than you need to
In your analogy, the husband has a fiduciary responsibility to keep beating his wife. It's kind of a bad analogy.

If the situation was that the husband was obligated to beat his wife, forcing him to pay for a referee to control how hard he beat his wife would be a good thing.

Obviously it would be better if he just stopped beating his wife, but the guys in suits upstairs would be pretty upset about that... So let's limit the beatings in the meantime
Could this also run quantized models like llama.cpp?
God im old
That won’t stop her from being a billionaire. She could have ownership of a company that would make her net worth orders of magnitude higher than any earnings cap.

You cannot put a cap on a company’s worth, because it’s a guess.

They can decide to nationalise those companies as well, but then she could take her skills to another country. Then that country loses all of her earnings for sure.

The other way to stop her from being filthy rich would be to make people stop liking her books. Which at this point one should ask how much damage one is willing to do to stop a person from being rich.
If by "GMB" you mean "Google My Business", I sort of doubt it, because One is a consumer, end-user product, for individuals and families.

I am sure that if you subscribe to Google Workspaces for Business/Enterprise that they will be responsive in that regard.
Try to find a place that actually teaches commission sales. As in once hired they send you out somewhere for two weeks or more of training.

The skills they teach have been very helpful in getting better pay than co-workers and early promotions. You may have to apply the skills for a few weeks or months with actual customers. The deep end is car sales. 12hr days and the bottom sales person gets fired.

Second option would be trying to find somewhere that will apply for you to get a security clearance. High job security and a good bonus pay on top versus without it.
Top-down style of AI capability denial. You got an abstract idea, like "next token prediction" and that's all you need to know. Doesn't matter what the AI does, it has no chance to prove it reasons.

Why not look at what the model does, maybe in all those tensors there are reasoning principles encoded.
PyPI Requires 2FA for New User Registrations
Looks promising - I’m a fan of the general pattern of taking dev tool inventions from big companies (in this case Google) and bringing them to developers everywhere.
Python will also do something like that, specifically it snips out repeated lines in self-recursive calls: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/71010

>>> a()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "<stdin>", line 3, in a
File "<stdin>", line 3, in a
File "<stdin>", line 3, in a
[Previous line repeated 894 more times]
File "<stdin>", line 2, in a
File "<stdin>", line 2, in b
File "<stdin>", line 2, in c
File "<stdin>", line 2, in c
File "<stdin>", line 2, in c
[Previous line repeated 97 more times]
RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded

Sadly it's not smart enough to handle indirect recursion, so in those cases you get a thousand lines of garbage.
Tell her to brush up her skills to go beyond just VueJS and get some React, Ember, Angular, Node, and Express. If she doesn't just limit herself to one, she stands a better chance of being seen over the competition.

She might also fair well to post on Craigslist or other sites offering to redesign/develop websites in Vue.js.
Biden talks about Papa Johns pizza during an interview (deepfake)
Used ChatGPT to generate the script lol.
The idea of relying on cracks / security flaws to get basic freedom causes me great anxiety. Sure, it can be cracked. It shouldn't have to be because it shouldn't exist to begin with.

Meanwhile, arms race being what it will, the freedom gained will be short-lived and can't be relied-upon.
Mainly, that one city or state doing it will likely cause an influx of sicker people. You can't require a visa to come to, say, Austin TX, and "only to residents who've lived here longer than x" would raise equal protection constitutional issues.

(This is the same reason the ACA had the individual mandate, and why said mandate's striking down is likely to result in the ACA's failure or needing significant amending soon.)
> most languages suffer from this

Specifically, I think, any language with closures where the loop variable exists in a scope enclosing all loop iterations with a value that is updated each iteration rather than a fresh variable in a scope local to each loop iteration has this problem.

In Ruby this wouldn't affect idiomatic looping methods like #each, but would seem likely to affect the less-idiomatic for loop, which is built on #each but has the control variable in the surrounding scope. (Not 100% certain how it desugars though.)
> Whats the security implication of leaking the root hash?

That you can try to crack the hash off-line with something like hashcat.

For a random, salted, 22 character password (roughly log2(62^22)~130 bits of entropy, no rainbow tables because of the salt) - it might not be game over.

On the other hand - if you can make an educated guess at the password - it's now trivial to check a few million variations without having to try to log in.

As other's mentioned - reading arbitrary memory is probably worse (eg keyboard buffer, getting the plaintext password if a user logs in...).
> I'm definitely interested in how the communities build up to support this long term

From a North Texas perspective, the communities were already built up. The first integrated circuit was made in North Texas. DFW has some of the highest number of fabs per square mile, tons of small producers around along with some of the big behemoths.

North Texas has been a pretty big semiconductor manufacturer since semiconductor manufacturing has been a thing.

For a historical context of the history of the community of semiconductors in North Texas, JFK was shot on his way going to give a speech at what would become UT Dallas, a school whose entire history is focused on semiconductors.
What are the best ways of reaching out the early adopters?

Got an idea I want to validate
I posted this earlier but got no reply here on Hackernews. Not sure if I should just pick a name and do a soft launch on Product Hunt to see if people even like this idea?

Ask HN: Coding request between departments, potential startup idea?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37046357

Like with the early adopters platform, people of all sorts could go there and "back" ideas that haven't yet been implemented yet. Great name would be like "EarlyBird.com". People are early birds in that process so to say.

>You have to go to them, not vice versa. Talk to them and solve their problems, rinse and repeat.

Where do I even find them?
I was impressed enough by replit's 2.7B model that I'm convinced it's doable. I have a 4090 and consider that the "max expected card for a consumer to own".

Also exllama doesn't support non-llama models and the creator doesn't seem interested in adding support for wizardcoder/etc. Because of this, using the alternatives are prohibitively slow to use a quantized 16B model on a 4090 (if the exllama author reads this _please_ add support for other model types!).

3B models with refact are pretty snappy with Refact, about as fast as github copilot. The other benefit is more context space, which will be a limiting factor for 16B models.

tl;dr - I think we need ~3B models if we want any chance of consumer hardware to reasonably run coding models akin to github copilot with decent context length. And I think it's doable.
I think it's a reasonable first pass at implementing generic functions.

I'd love to see Map/Filter/Reduce, but starting with the simplest set of generic functions and getting people comfortable with them is probably a good idea.

Go idiomatically is very imperative and introducing a new programming style at the same time as introducing generics might be too much change at once.

I'd also like to see an option and a result type at some point so we can stop doing nil checks all over the place.
Guess who owns the companies that bought the governments that subsidize coal production for the last century and a half? These hand wavy arguments about scale ignore the fact that the superrich and their ability to capture governance and policy are the whole problem. Put a real carbon tax on their consumption and they will not "reflect on their choices" but could become more supportive of energy policies that don't doom their customers and themselves.
Also anecdotally, I use Firefox and I haven't noticed an uptick in the amount of CAPTCHAs I need to solve. I don't even see the "connection secure" page.

Could it have something to do with that ticket extension I'm using (Privacy Pass, looks like it's called)? I don't know if it does anything.
> Is demand for electronics finally dropping?

Unfortunately, it is likely to be limited to flash storage. The $/GB value has fallen to historic lows for all manner of solid-state storage devices.
Until we learn that this monitoring app has itself been acquired. /s
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I see lots of challenges on Firefox, but I attribute this to my use of container tabs. Is this a reasonable expectation?
I did an 80 short stories by 80 different authors post a while back. I've been meaning to get it up to 100.

https://bitmason.blogspot.com/2020/10/80-authors-80-science-...
This is continuing the trend of cloud pricing driving system designs more than the underlying hardware. AWS overcharges for inter-AZ traffic between EC2 instances, but undercharges for inter-AZ traffic between EC2 instances and S3.

It makes perfect sense to design this way, and as your blog post mentions, people have made similar realizations for columnar databases, and map-reduce frameworks.
I think we'll spend a lot less time communicating digitally because the unencrypted digital space will be so polluted with deepfakes and lies, it won't be usable anymore.
To be honest, you’d better buy GitHub co-pilot and enjoy the productivity boost at a cheap price.
Trying to download/install/setup/use StableCode is worth it only if you want to learn all those steps as well. If what you care is the final result, just buy an existing service.
Yep. I've been WF free since the mid-late 90's. They've been at this as long as I've been using a bank (1980).

Credit Unions FTW!
Also one of my favorites: "The Things", the story of John Carpenters "The Thing", from the perspective of the superorganism itself: The Thing

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/
Imagine visiting a locale because an AI told you that it was LGBTQ friendly only to end up in jail because it was a hallucination.
My view is that the role of government helps regulate maximizing value for society as a hole (wherein externalities are not reflected in private market transactions), which requires coordinating some form of collective action.

The guiding principle of these decisions should be to redirect the value from a disproportionate harm to society toward ameliorating those harms. So infact the contribution to climate change from a private jet far outweighs that of a commercial jet. That is because few people are inducing great harm, rather than that carbon being more efficiently used across more people. So in exchange for inducing [x] amount of carbon, society gains nearly nothing from a private jet flight where as commercial moves vastly more people.

Indeed there are also ethical considerations of using a private jet when there is a more efficient alternative (commercial), that could be taxed as a 'vice'.

Lastly one day there may be a point where we need to ban these type of emissions wholesale rather than look at an efficiency basis.(Example: no amount of heroin is useful to society), but for carbon that conversation has not yet entered mainstream political discussions. (A hard cap on emissions would make flying only available to the very rich). Therefore it is both practical and just to tax private jet carbon.

An observation: from interning at a firm adjacent to private aviation I noticed that there appears no upper bound the demand for private aviation. Even in the scenario where a tax does not change demand for private jet miles, it will at the very least provide funding for ameliorating the harms to society from the marginal production of carbon emissions.
Yes, maybe. In this case, it would be a very actionable alert.
I really hate to say it but their app and web interface are way better than my local credit union (who I also have an account with).

That convenience sucks to give up out of principle but it's long overdue in my case.
Seems very limited for an IDE. Only certain web frameworks permitted for now, python and go support is still not there, and Flutter is the only choice for cross-platform apps. Android and iOS simulators aren't built in yet either.

Given the blog title and the blog itself, I was expecting a bit more and something less piecemeal rather than what is actually presented here which is an online IDE mixed with google AI.
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> Public transportation systems all over the country currently have huge budget gaps because ridership keeps going down.

COVID and remote work did this. Might be less of a concern for a captive tourist audience. A line to the airport and 4-5 big intersections or attractions could be pretty effective.
All the government needs to do to get HN on board with criminalizing encrypted communications is to implicate a bank. Bear in-mind, the SEC didn't find any actual criminal activity here. The banks just failed to retain the conversations that took place by their employees via encrypted channels (a necessary feature of encrypted communication).
VW is using renewables for building it's EVs.
Yes, I would think a framework that cares about performance would include optimizations that are too difficult or tedious to perform by hand. It should be faster than vanilla js.
It wasn't even done for the sake of art, it was for the sake of ML and the careers of the researchers and engineers working on them.

It's less understandable than people dismantling centuries-old monuments built by ancient kingdoms and republics that they could no longer relate to, like the Parthenon or the Pyramids, for masonry, this art and these artists formed the basis for the culture they were immersed in.

The biggest shifts propelled by us millenials with the aid of technology have been... getting billions of people addicted to social media engagement, and making robots do creative work rather than humans. Hopefully, history will judge us harshly.
Does anyone know what type of workloads this effects the performance of the most? Is this specialty-type of workloads or are general webserver/database/coding/compiling/gaming/desktop usages effected?
You're conflating a downside of using Chrome and the reason they think Cloudflare blocked them.
>I'm kind of concerned about the concept of "bad at prompting".

I have met many people in my life that are terrible at asking questions, so it does have some conceptual reality. But this is also why analogy is so powerful for people. It takes the way a person thinks about $A and applies parts of it to $B so they can more easily wrap their mind around it.

Has anyone written a paper about testing and expressing the power of analogy in LLMs?
Net income for Q2 of 2023 was reported as (this is Wells Fargo...) $4,938,000,000 so $549,000,000 is a little over 10%.

https://www08.wellsfargomedia.com/assets/pdf/about/investor-...
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I guess "modifying their device’s network settings" is already covered under whatever permissions we had to give it to perform the original task of switching on/off dark mode? That's a bummer. Would be nice if app permissions were more granular if that's the case.
I did a small Automator action that just switches dark mode on my computer, and I activate it with the cmd-alt-shift-P hotkey; it’s truly convenient and there’s no need for a third-party :)
The Egg is by Andy Weir who also wrote the Martian, Artemis, and Project Hail Mary. I recommend the first and third of these, Artemis is just okay in my opinion.